It would be an unwarrantable liberty for us to change a word or a letter in his, and the changes I have made in mine, you perceive, are verbal only, and very few in number.

I wish the reprint to be precisely as the copies I send, without any comment whatever." The enterprise proved a success beyond the most sanguine expectations.
A Columbus firm undertook the publication, itself assuming all pecuniary risk.

Three large editions were sold directly to the public, without any aid from or any purchase by the committee--the third edition containing the announcement that up to that date, June 16, 1860, thirty thousand copies had already been circulated.[2] -- -------- [1] Partly printed in Hollister, "Life of Colfax," p.146.We are indebted to Mrs.Colfax for the full manuscript text of this and other valuable letters which we have used.
[2] The preface to this third edition contains a letter from Douglas, alleging that injustice had been done him because, "the original reports as published in the 'Chicago Times,' although intended to be fair and just, were necessarily imperfect, and in some respects erroneous"; charging at the same time that Lincoln's speeches had been revised, corrected, and improved.[A] To this the publishers replied: "The speeches of Mr.Lincoln were never 'revised, corrected, or improved' in the sense you use those words.

Remarks by the crowd which were not responded to, and the reporters' insertions of 'cheers,' 'great applause,' and so forth, which received no answer or comment from the speaker, were by our direction omitted, as well from Mr.
Lincoln's speeches as yours, as we thought their perpetuation in book form would be in bad taste, and were in no manner pertinent to, or a part of, the speech."[B] And the publishers add a list of their corrections.
[A] Douglas to Follet, Foster & Co., June 9, 1860.

Debates, third edition, preface.
[B] Follet, Foster & Co.