The power of the press must be invoked.

It was our chief if not our only weapon.

Seated at the same table each of us indited a leading editorial for his paper, to be wired to its destination and printed next morning, striking D.Davis at a prearranged and varying angle.

Copies of these were made for Halstead, who having with the rest of us read and compared the different scrolls indited one of his own in general commentation and review for Cincinnati consumption.

In next day's Commercial, blazing under vivid headlines, these leading editorials, dated "Chicago" and "New York," "Springfield, Mass.," and "Louisville, Ky.," appeared with the explaining line "The Tribune of to-morrow morning will say--" "The Courier-Journal--and the Republican--will say to-morrow morning--" Wondrous consensus of public opinion! The Davis boom went down before it.