Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
A serious Word for Voters.

Until the men in the West who cast The
ballots, elect Presidents and Congressman
and support the Government with entir,
truth remarks the Chicago Press, get wis
enough to see that they are kept in a state o
commercial yassalage to the South, solely tha
the shareholders may have a wider market
for cotton and a reduced price of cheap for
eign fnery, there is little hope that tt
growers of wheat and corn will receive ade-
quate remuneration for their labor, nor that
the country will be exempt from those
periodical revulsions in finance and trade,
which, particularly in the new States, have
such disastrous effects. What the country
wants is home market, employment for all
our labor, and greater diversifeation OF
pursuits; and there is no way in which these
may be obtained, except by clearing out the
White House and the halls of Congress, and
putting men therein who are not wholly sub
servient to the slaveholding interest which
has e0Rirellsd ths GovsFament n AZ is
hrannliaa sa.3ie..a4ia4a l.f sl.A ta-:ar >.
try, the cotton goods and woOlen goods worn
by all classes, the hardware and cutlery of
which so much are used, might be produced
in the country by our miners and artisans,
would give an impetus to our prosperity
which years of bad legislation would not
check and in the end, the very men for
whose interest our Northern mines, mills and
workshops are shut up, would buy the ar
ticles which are now imported at a rate much
below the prices now paid. But as long as
3 we continue to send wheat abroad to feed
men who are engaged, at low wages, to
manufacture goods for this markets. long
as we pay in cost of transportation of bush
el Of corn to Liverpool, full half of the value
Of that corn, and bring back goods therefor
upon which the average freight charges are
less than one per cent. of their cost, the COM
Try must expect to be poor and in debt, and
farmers must look for low prices. Theflrm-
er bears the burden of commerce, and what
ever the railroads, canals, steamboats, and
ships earn in the carrying of his products,
comes out of his pocket by the cutting down
of the prices received by him at his own door.
The tax is indirect, but no farmer escapes il.
The subject of manufacturing is theidaily
talk in Cleveland, as in other cities of the
West and yet the superior advantages pos
sessed are comparatively unoccupied. We
continue to make nothing, and buy every
thing. The sheep Of Ohio whiten the hills
Cleveland is the great wool mart of the
West and yet every yard Of woOlens worn
or sold here is imported. The facilities for
the iron manufacture and the products of iron
here are unsurpassed, but the business is
hardly commenced. We believe with the
Press, that a tariff of duties which, without
preventing impOrtatiOns of foreign goods,
would give existing manufacturing establish
ments chance to live, and encourage men to
engage in new enterprises would, if main
iaiaed only ten years, change and diversity
III our industrial pursuits, open new and
profitable markets for the farmer, and ma
ierialIy cheaper to them everything that
hey are forced to buy. Such a tariff was
passed by the Republicans Of the House at the
ast session Of Congress, but the controlling
Slave and Democratic power in the Senate
lenied the blessing to the people of the free
Worth and West.
These facts should be borne in mind by
oters, who have a right to demand a divis-
On with the South Of the benefits that lagis-
alton may confer. The men and the parties
hat are committed in advance to all that
lsvery may demand touching the industrial
ights and interests of free labor, are unworthy
f the support at the baIIo-boxes of free la
'orers themselves. If they would escape
rom a yassalage such as is boasted by a can
idate for Vice President who proclaims in
ne face OF working men that a Oapital should ]
Wn LABOR, they must b their votes secure
be vacant territories for the occunotion Of Z
rec labor and free men, and not negIact M :
means by which that labor may be made re-
nuneratiFe. 7
ARABIAN HORsEs.-GoY. Seward has re-
eived notice of the shipment of three Ara
ian Horses Zone stallion and two mares) by ,
Aysleb Beg Tararulsky, of Beyrout, who pre-
ented them to him for the purpose of intro
ucing the pure Arabian breed into this coun-
nIngan i n I