The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-09-12
ANOTHER RIG LIE NAILED.

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Some four weeks ago, the Cleveland Ban
ner charged that the friends of Fillmore and
Fremont were fusing in the Free States and
running the same Electoral Tickets. Know
ing il to be base and malicious fabrication,
downright and impudent falsehoOd, with no
foundation but lying paragraph from the
dirty columns Of the Pennsylranidn-the
paper of John w. Forney, man who, for a
pecuniary consideration, tried to suborn n
poor drunken actor to swear away the repu-
tation of yirtuous woman, and fit mouth
piece Of Locofocoism-we at once gave the
charge flat contradiction, and showed that
no such fusion had taken place in Pennsylva-
MIA or anywhere else, and that none could or
would take place. Whereupon the Banner
backed down very gently, but without the
grace and honesty to acknowledge that il had
been led into error by the foul and lying
sheets, the leading articles of which are week.
ly copied into its columns and sent out to
deceive and mislead the honest democrats of
lower East Tennessee, some of whom, no
doubt, look to it for reliable information.
But. notwithstanding we convicted it Of
downright and gross Misrepresentation and
compelled it to stake water" in regard to fu-
sion in the Northern States, in its last issue
this same veracious sheet parades another
and more villainous misrepresentation, charg-
ing that in Indiana the Freesoilers and Fill
more men had fused and nominated the same
set of Electors. II not only makes the charge
but publishes the names on the American
Electoral ticket, with Fillmore and Doneson
at their head; and right below it publishes the
same identical set o! Electors, with the names
of Fremont and Dayton ut their head-pre.
tending to copy the first from the New AL
bany Qndiana) Tribune, Fillmore paper;
and the last from the Huntington Qndiana)
Gazette, n Fremont paper" The Banner
does this, and exutingly exclaims: "There
is the proof. MIR. Wins! How do you like it?'
and continues:
"Does the editor of the Post want any
more proof! We have sustained the asser-
ton we made, BY Fillmore paper, which
ought to be good evidence with the Post
There is one of two things certain, the editor
of the Post is wofully ignorant of what is
going on north, or he is trying to lead nstray
the public mind. Which is it?"
Now, sir, mark how plain tale shall put
you down. This gross perversion of the
facts, this wicked Misrepresentation, you
found in the Nashville Union, and ifyou had
told your readers where il come from, we
should not have taken the trouble to contra.
diet the fasehood, as no one in East Tennes-
see gives credence to any thing that finds its
way to the public through that reckless and
mendacous sheet. As soon as the article
appeared in the Union, the editor of the Pa
triot enclosed copy of it 10 the editor of the
New Albany Tribune, requesting statement
Of the facts. The reply of the editor Of the
Tribune appears in the Patriot of the 9th, in
which he pronounces the whole thing
gross falsehood, without the shadow of foun-
da.ion in truth. He says:
1--WE do not know when we have seen so
many falsehoods brought into so small COM
pass and SO evidently manufactured out of
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"In the first place, there is no such paper
as the Huntington Gazette published in In
diana, that we haves ny knowledge Of. There
is paper publishedln that town under the
name Of the Indiana Herald-and the only
paper published there. II has the names Of
Fremont and Dayton at the head Of its col
umns, but it has not, nor never had, the
Electoral ticket fshd up for the occasion, by
this Tennessee edtot" 80
And to cnch the base lie, he publishes the
American ticket and the Black Republican
ticket, both of which we copy below.
Here is the American ticket, nominated by
the American CONVENTION in July last:
s.y For President,
WILLARD FILLMORE.
For Vice President, -HIIt
ANDREW JACKSON DONELSON. b.
Electors for the State at Large:
George G. Dunn, Of Lawrence county.