The Athens Post

Two or three weeks ago we published a paragraph, copied from a contemporary, stating that Jim Lane, the leader of the abolition forces in Kansas, was one of the forty-four Northern Democrats that voted for the Kansas Bill. This statement was contradicted by some of our democratic friends, and we were censured as misrepresenting the record. We promptly stated that if it 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 Congressional Globe, vol. 28, part 1st, page 2, that Jim Lane was a member of Congress from Indiana when the Kansas Nebraska bill passed, and by reference to page 1254, part 2, it will be seen he did vote for the Kansas-Nebraska bill. It stands that way upon the record, and unless that record is false, the statement in the paragraph alluded to is correct. There was no "Joseph H. Lane" in the Congress 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—cunning, foxy old fellows, who can tell a hawk from a 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 a little more particular in future, and inquire into the facts before they question the correctness of statements that appear in our columns. It won't 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 Congress. And if we are led into misstatements of matters of fact, we will cheerfully make the corrections whenever the proofs are adduced. The cause we advocate is founded in patriotism and right, and looks to a restoration of the government to the wise and wholesome policy of our fathers. Truth alone is all-sufficient for this; and we leave the weapons of falsehood and misrepresentation, 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.