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

United States.
~ Two or three weeks ago we pub.
lished paragraph, copied from cotempo.
rary, stating TINT Jim Lane, the leader of the
abolition forces in Kansas, was one of the
forty.fo Northern Democrats that voted for
the Kansas Bill. This statement was con.
tradcted by some of our democratic friends,
and we were censured as incorporating the
record. We promptly stated that If Il was
shown the paragraph was wrong, we would
make the correction. We waited week on
the gentleman who called our attention to
the matter, but MS he failed to come up with
the "documents" we concluded to look into
them ourself, and we find in the Congres.
sionai Globe, vol. %, part LIST, page Q, that
Jim Lane was member of Congress from
Indiana when the Kansas Nebraska bill pass.
ed, and by reference to p'ge 1854, part ., it
will be seen he did vote for the Kansas Ne.
bra bill. II stands that way upon the record,
and unless that record is false, the state.
mcnt in the paragraph alluded to is correct.
There was no "Joseph II. Lane" in the Con.
gress that passed the Kansas Nebraska bill.
as commended by our democratic friends We
know That among the democratic leaders of
'his county, there are some smart men-cun.
ming, foxy old fellows, who can tell hawk
from handsnw tho dnrk.si night that ever
oiowed-and some of them are great men,
too-but they arc neither smart or pr.at
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. It 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. II they haven't
the "documents,' we will take pleasure in
showing these to them-we have them NIL
from the formation of the government down
10 The close of the recent session of Con.
gress. And If we are led into misstaienents
OF matters OF fact, we will cheerluIly make
the corrections whenever the proofs are nd.
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, deccitfulness and fraud, to the men who
are laborng to pull down and destroy what
the great and good of other times built nm
and commended us to cherish and perpetuate.
tB- We have but little space to waste nm.
on the Cleveland Banner in regard to its mis-.
representations about fusion" In two in.
stances it made the charge, and tauntinply
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 forperv
and that there were American electoral tickets |
in both these States. REGULARLY nominated and !
by the friends of MIR. Fillmore,
and that the Fremont folks had tickets of
their own, made up Of entirely different cleo
tors and we might have shown that n ma
jority of the gentlemen who composed the
last were, less than twelve months apo. pro.
mlnent 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 prohigate papers of
its party, whines 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. or couise not-no one expected the
Banner to take any thing back-it would not
be democratic to 60 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
recognized practice of the leaders, they would
ut once disown and discard it. There has
been no fusion on Electoral tickets; and that
was the charge. Before the nomination of
either Buchanan or Fremont, State ticket
was nominated in Indiana by a convention
called the peoples Convention" it was
brought out by the people generally opposed
% the Administration, and il contains the
names of some candidates who are favorable
% 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
o endorse it, by rejecting a resolution to
nat effect. Whether there has been fu.
ion 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
redit for any assertions they make until
hey do justice in acknowledging the frauds
md Misrepresentation of which they have
'een already convicted.
There is only one escape for the Banner
must either publish the article from the
Patriot and the New Albany Tribune, or rest
lnder the odlum 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, a prominent member
" Mr.. *illmore's cabinet, has declared for
fremont. He gives as his reason for desert.
ng MIR. Fillmore. that he does not stand the
,host OF chance-that the fight is between
fremont and Buchanan. He therefore goes