Certainly there was no occasion for purposely making the omission since the Book of Mormon is equally defensible with the Davidson statement in the record as evidence, or excluded. And as evidence that the omission was not intentional, on the part of Mormon writers, attention is called to the fact that in the _Times and Seasons_ copy of the article from the _Quincy Whig,_ (1840) both the above question and answer are published, (Vol. I, 47). It is also published accurately in "Thompson's Evidence of the Book of Mormon," (1841); also in "The Origin of the Spaulding Story," by B. Winchester (1840) p. 17. In Mr. Taylor's work--so severely criticised by Mr. Schroeder, the question and answer stand as follows: _"Ques._ Is what that letter contains true? _Ans._ There are some things that I told him." Mr. Schroeder calls this a "lying perversion." If this were the only variation in the document, as quoted by Elder Taylor, there might be justifiable suspicion that the change was purposely made and was intended to lessen the force of the answer; but, as throughout the version of the _Whig_ article published in the "Three Nights' Discussion"--held in France--there are quite a number of variations--and none of them contribute advantage to the pro-Mormon side of the controversy--there can be no other conclusion, than either that some inaccurate version of the _Quincy, Whig_ article had fallen into the hands of President Taylor while in France, and he printed from that imperfect version; or, it may be, that the _Quincy Whig_ article had been published in French, and Elder Taylor's published account of it in his "discussion" was a translation of the French version back into the English. While I am aware that this view is based on conjecture merely, yet if the _Whig_ article as published in the _Times and Seasons_ be compared with Elder Taylor's version in the "Three Night's Discussion," the difference that exists between the two versions would not be greater than in two versions so produced. And the character of the variations warrant the conjecture. For example, take these passages: _Quincy Whig_. Ques. Have you read the Book of Mormon? Ans. I have read some of it. Taylor's version. Ques. Have you read the Book of Mormon? Ans. I have read a little of it. _Quincy Whig_. Ques. Is what is written in the letter true? Ans. In the main it is. Taylor's version. Ques. Is what that letter contains true? Ans. There are some things that I told him. _Quincy Whig_. Ques. Does the manuscript and the Book of Mormon agree? Ans. I think some of the names agree. Ques. Are you certain that some of the names agree? Ans. I am not. Taylor's version. Ques. Is there any similarity between Mr. Spaulding's manuscript and the Book of Mormon? Ans. Not any, with the exception of some names, something similar the one to the other.