he did not shift his ground, but that he brought forward his original
charge and the evidence to sustain it yet more fully, but precisely as he
originally made it. Then, in addition thereto, he brought in a new piece
of evidence. He shifted no ground. He brought no new piece of evidence
inconsistent with his former testimony; but he brought a new piece,
tending, as he thought, and as I think, to prove his proposition. To
illustrate: A man brings an accusation against another, and on trial the
man making the charge introduces A and B to prove the accusation. At a
second trial he introduces the same witnesses, who tell the same story as
before, and a third witness, who tells the same thing, and in addition
gives further testimony corroborative of the charge. So with Trumbull.
There was no shifting of ground, nor inconsistency of testimony between
the new piece of evidence and what he originally introduced.

But Judge Douglas says that he himself moved to strike out that last
provision of the bill, and that on his motion it was stricken out and a
substitute inserted. That I presume is the truth. I presume it is true
that that last proposition was stricken out by Judge Douglas. Trumbull
has not said it was not; Trumbull has himself said that it was so
stricken out. He says: "I am now speaking of the bill as Judge Douglas
reported it back. It was amended somewhat in the Senate before it passed,
but I am speaking of it as he brought it back." Now, when Judge Douglas
parades the fact that the provision was stricken out of the bill when it
came back, he asserts nothing contrary to what Trumbull alleges. Trumbull
has only said that he originally put it in, not that he did not strike it
out. Trumbull says it was not in the bill when it went to the committee.
When it came back it was in, and Judge Douglas said the alterations were
made by him in consultation with Toomb's. Trumbull alleges, therefore, as
his conclusion, that Judge Douglas put it in. Then, if Douglas wants to
contradict Trumbull and call him a liar, let him say he did not put it