The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-21
Ernn the Louisville Journal.

From the Louisville Journal.
GEN. LANE AND HIS NEwBURG SPEEcH.-We
publish, below, letter from twenty-five res
pectable citizens of Newburg, Ia, confirming
substantially the statement of the three gentle
men who wrote to us from that town few
weeks ago in relation to the charges OF false
hood made BY Gen. Lane against Gen. Taylor
i'll speech at that place. Unquesiionably the
writer's of the letter in our paper oil to-day
state the whole affair with scrupuous correct
ness. Undoubtedly Gen. Lane in his speech
charged Gen. Taylor with willful mlS-state-
ments, as he has done, according 10 several Lo-
cofoco papers of Indiana, in his subsequent
speeches, and as he has done in his printed ad-
dress ''to the public" The three gentlemen
who first wrote us from New burg probably
spoke rather carelessly and loosely in saying
that Gen. Lane "denounded Gen. Taylor as
liar, Gen. L.. having used no such outrageous
terms III charging his old commander with d
violation of the truth. The statement of those
gentlemen was however correct in substance.
When Gen. Lane called at our Office, and,
with the apparent frankness of a soldier and ID
gentleman, assured us, as he had previously as
sured the editors of the Democrat, that he not
only had not denounced Gen. Taylor as liar
but that he considered him utterly :'incapable
OF falsehood," we unht stalingly gaveful cred
it TO his assurances. IL we had known, whilst
he was making these assurances, that he had
unequivocaly charged Gen. Taylor in his
speeches with making false statements, know
ing them TO be false, and, that he W ould 90 right
back TO Indiana and make the same charge in
other speeches, and that he would, in less than
one week, repeat it in every variety Of form in
d written address to the public, we should have
scorned him, even with all his Iaure Is upon his
brow, as one OF the very meanest OF mankind.
What the twenty-five signers OF the commu
nication in our paper of to-day state as 10 the
language used by Gen. Lane i'm relation to us
and our paper in his New burg speech is con-
irmed by another and much longer communi-
cation from highly respectable source. Lane
denounced our paper as mendacious and said
we had never told twenty truths in our lives,
and yet, after this blackguardism, he came in
to our office, and, by way of inducing us to
publish paragraI h suited to his purposes, pro-
fessed the most exalted regard for us, protested
that ne entertained greater admiration for the
Journal than for any other newspaper and ask
ed that his name should be entered upon. our
regular list of subscribers. We still believe
that Gen. Lane is brave soldier, but il is IN
deed mystery TO us how any one human being
can so strikingly combine the characters OF the
brave soldier and the sneaking hypocrite:
To the Editors of the Louisville Journal.
NEwBURG, September z, 1918.
GENTLEMEN: We, the Undersigned, Gil izens
OF Warrick county, heard the speech of Gen.
Lane, at Newburg, on the 9th of August last
We have also seen letter written from New
burg by :hree gentlemen in relation to that
speech. We have also seen an editorial in
your paper saying that Gen. Lane denied hav-
ing accused Gen. Taylor of falsehood, and that
he believes Gen. Taylor incapable of telling a
falsehood. And you say that you think the
three gentlemen must have misunderstood Gen.
Lanes remarks. Now we have no desire 10
become mixed up in a political dispute, but
this has, in some measure, become question
OF veraoity between the three gentlemen and
Gen. Lane, and having heard the speech we
deem 1t our duty TO say, that. in relation TO
this matter, the statement of the three gentle
men is substantially correct, for we distinctly
understood Gen. Lane to charge Gen. Taylor
with falsehood. We would make this further
statement in relation TO that speech: He said
that the Louisville Journal had stated that the
Mexican war was an unjust and unholy war,
and war against God, which was the leading
Wing paper of the West, and that Prentice
was the leading liar, and had never told TWEEN
truths in his life.