The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-09-26

| w VI tuiCC ncChS uRO We puN-
lished paragraph, copied from a cotempo-
rary, stating TINT Jim Lane, the leader of the
abolition forces in Kansas, was one Of the
forty.four Northern Democrats thatvoted for
the Kansas Bill. This statement was con-
tradicted by some of our democratic friends,
and we were censured as disappearing the
record. We promptly stated that if il was
shown the paragraph was wrong, we would
make the correction. We waited a week on
the gentleman who called our attention to
the matter, but as he failed to come up with
the documents" we concluded to look into
them ourself, and we find in the Congress
sional Globe, vol. 2S, part LIST, page 2, that
Jim Lane was member of Congress from
Indiana when the Kansas Nebraska bill pass
ed, and by reference to page 1854, part 9, it
will be seen he did vote for the Kansas.Ne-
bra bill. 1t stands that way upon the record,
and unless that record is false, the state
ment in the paragraph alluded to is correct
There was no "Joseph Fl. Lane" in the Con.
gress that passed the Kansas Nebraska bill,
as contended by our democratic friends. We
know that among the democratic leaders of
this county, there are some smart men--cun-
ming, foxy old fellows, who can tell hawk
from handsaw the darkest night that ever
blowed-and some of them are great men,
too-but they are neither smart or great
enough to head off the post" and we will
trouble them to BE- little more particular in
future, and inquire into the facts before they
question the correctness of statements that
appear in our columns. II wont do for them
to rely on the democratic papers, for they
have been convicted of lying so often that
they are not entitled to credit even when they
do accidentally tell the truth. If they haven't
the documents" we will take pleasure in
showing these to them-we have them all,
from the formation of the government down
TO the close Of the recent session of Con-
gress. And if we are led into misstatements
of matters of fact, we will cheerfully make
the corrections whenever the proofs are adj
duced. The cause we advocate is founded
in patriotism and right, and looks to n resto.
ration of the government to the wise and
wholesome policy Of our fathers. Truth
alone is all.sufiicient for this and we leave
the weapons of falsehood and misrepresenta.
ton, deceitfulness and fraud, to the men who
are laboring to pull down and destroy what
the great and good of other times built up
and commended us TO cherish and perpetuate.
gBr We have but little space to waste up
on the Cleveland Banner in regard to its mis-.
representations about fusion" In two in
stances it made the charge, and tauntingly
threw them at this paper and asked us to
explain the matter to our readers The
charges were that Fillmore and Fremont's
friends had fused and were running the same
Electoral tickets in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
The first we proved to be wholly untrue, and
the last wholesale fabrication and forgery,
and that there were American electoral tickets
in both these States regularly nominated and
supported by the friends of Mr.. Fillmore
and that the Fremont folks had tickets of
their own, made up of entirely different eec-
tors, and we might have shown that a ma
jority of the gentlemen who composed the |
last were, less than twelve months ago, pro-
mnent members of the democratic party
The Banner, thus convicted, exposed. and |
branded, instead Of honestly acknowledging
that it had been imposed upon by the Union
and American and other profigate papers of
its party, whnes and complains, wants to
know what it has done to draw down our
says there is fusion on the |
State ticket and that it shan't take any thing
back. OF course not-no one expected the |
Banner to take any thing back-it would not
be democratic to Go so. The doctrine that
"a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth"
is cardinal with its party leaders, and if the
Banner were to depart from this general and
practice Of the leaders, they would
at once disown and discard it. There has
been no fusion on Electoral tickets; and that
was the charge Before the nomination of
either Buchanan OF Fremont a State ticket
was nominated in Indiana by convention
called the peoples Conventions" it was
brought out by the people generally opposed
10 the Administration, and it contains the
names of some candidates who are favorable
10 Mr.. Fillmore. The Black Republican State
Convention may have endorsed this ticket
we are not informed on that point; but the
Fillmore State Convention expressly refused
10 endorse it, by rejecting resolution to
nat effect. Whether there has been fu-
ZION anywhere on State tickets, We are not
advised. But as the democratic papers mis-
represented about the Electoral tickets, it is
air TO infer that they are lying about the
State tickets. At least they are unworthy of
credit for any assertions they make until
hey do justice in acknowledging the frauds
md misrepresentation of which they have
been already convicted.
There is only one escape for the Banner
t must either publish the article from the
Patriot and the New Albany Tribune, or rest
inder the odium of having given publicity to
wholesale fraud and Misrepresentation, and
'efused to make the correction when the
acts were spread before it.
Tom Corwin, of Ohio, prominent member
IT MIR. Fillmore's cabinet, has declared for
fremont. lie gives as his reason for desert