Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-15
MORNING

Citlzens.
FELIow CiTIEEN;-This Is a free country,
and every man, however humble, can vote
according 70 the dictates OF his own con
science, certainly in the State Of New York.
You need not be told that the Irish Union
Wide Awakes, during the Republican torch
light procession in this city, Sept llth, were
greeted with insult for daring thus to vindi-
cate their political preference.
Friends, why is itthat our becoming Repub-
licans so excites your hostility Let US rea-
son together and We will convince you that
were we 70 support Stephen A. Douglas, we
should act against our best interests, against
the rights of tree laboring white men, as well
Us against true Democracy. We have
changed our name but not our principles,
and we feel confident that Il you correctly
understood the principles Of the Democratic
party, as expounded by Douglas, aud OF the
Republican party, By Abraham Lincoln, you
would, with US, use every honorable means
70 secure the election Of The latter. Believ-
ing this, we will give you some Of the rea-
sous which have led US 10 abandon the Demo-
cratic party. Three questions are 10 be de-
cidcd by the American people on the 9Th OF
November next very different as to their i'm
portance to laboring men, yet neither OF them
so Insignificant as not 10 deserve a lair aud
candid consideration by every voter.
lst. The financial management Of the Na-
donal Government. Il is true we live in
land happy beyond all Others, and We do not
suffer greatly from taxationi yet almost
every imported article consumed Icy US, (as
,ea20 per cent, coffee 20 per cent, sugr 30
per ceut &C., is indirectly taxed to pay the
Jresent enormous expenses Of the Govern
uent; and if we will consihe er the matter,
We shall see that it Is quite material 10 every
aboring man, whether the annual expenses
If the General Government are huy million
Jr one hundred million OF dollars Tor ia e
sud the bur hen must iall upon the people
Now, in perfect peace, itcosts the sham De-
mOciacy one hundred million dollars Il year
20 rule US, so that every voter is indirectly
faxed $40 year to support the present cor
rupt Administration. There Is man cut
West who will govern US tar better for about
nslf that sum, who proposes to 1etrench, to
stop fraud and corruption, and to expel from
,ourt those who have thus shamelessly plum
lered the public treasury. Therefore we
shall vote for Abraham Lincoln.
2dly. The rights Of citizens born In fOI-
.igu lands. Who was il gave the death blow
o the American party, headed by Erastus
Brooks, the most intolerent bigot that lives
% disgrace this enlightened age and free
country. It was VIM. H. Seward and the Re.
| publican party. While We were voting
/ .gainst them almost IN solid body, the,
we're fighting disinterestediy { tr our rights
tgainst the combined forces OF the the pro-
scriptive American party and the sham De-
nucracy, under the lead of James Buchanan.
Jur votes defeated Frem7ut but we will no
longer vote for an empty name against that
party which has proved its honesty by de-
| ending our rights unfalteringly from the
irst moment of its existence. On the other
! land, how has the Democratic party treated
Us, who have been its mainstay for the last
1 eight years2 Wewill here only mention the
f4ctthat we are efectually excluded from emf
zrating to fifteen States OF this Union, not by
the proscriptive American party, but by the
abominable system Of negro slavery, upheld
and eulogised by the Democratic party both
North and South. The same party is doing
all in its power to exclude not only US, butall
white laboring freemen, from every foot of the
public Territories; for the Dred Scott De is
ion, which thst party sustains as supreme and
6nal, declares 4 at the Constitution carries
uegro slavery into every Territory Of the
United States; and if it does, then white la
porers are practically excluded, since free la
Dor cannot exist when 1t comes in competi-
ton with unpaid slave labor. But more Of
this matter in another place, We have
stood by the Democratic party in good re-
port andin evil report, and after al hat, when
| Brooks prOscriptive Americanism was breath
4 az out its last foul breath under the sterr
l. Of Seward Republicanism, sham Democ,
ues, tspped in, took the bleeding barlot by tht
ny D md up her gaping wounds, and bll
manu- % ted dame assume her tormer plac'
.,le tesu. ~ - 9iiticsl parties Of the country
ISta w ,-s;,o-s y - Ie Democracy, where now Il
rorr Lost LoostsJ snmi. y to bigory, intolerance
and k-lanternism RerH 1l9 sps0l-s' - IL
you have been dnning 10 our ca. 'Ot =. i'.a
six years, and then fuse with re- 7''('a,r' 80
| corpse, but know surely, We political S
| blers, that you cannot sell us TO be the 5,
wants Of Erastus Brooks Your conduct in
this matter shows conelusiveiy that you care
40 more for the rights of adopted citizens
han for the rights of the black bondmen Of
the South, except for our votes. You eau
sell the sOOty' Airicen, bat you cannot sell
white feenen,
Who know their rights, and knowing, dare
maintain. n p y
The Republican Party is the tfled friend
Of every laboring man, no matter what may
/ be his religious creed, no matter in what land
he may chance tohaFe been born, no matter
| in what disastrous battle bis rights may have
oeen cloven down, no matter from what un-
tOrtunats ancestry be may be a descendant
Therefore we shall vote for Abraham Lin
coin.
adly. There Is one more question before
the American people Of the greatest import.
ance to every laboring gman. Why is it thats
laboring man gets better wages here than in
he old countries Of Europe2 Because we
have fertile lands 10 be had almost for moth
ng, which drains of the surplus labor; fol
# the capitalists cut down our wages we can
.efuse to work and turn farmers No fact is
,etter established than that free labor cannot
1ompete with slave labor, that one or the
,ther must exclusively prevail. What white
can wishes to work side by side with anegrc
lave, even if be could gel fair compensa-
ion for his labor2 But where rich men can
,wn their laborers and get their work done
or nothing, will they hire freemen and pay
hem eight or len shllllngS per DAY IL Was
lever known since the world began. You
ave all, perhaps, heard no the sham Dem
cracy Of u southern city treated one Of oul
/ Jwn countrymen because be said, as every
enlightened man must say, that "it you'd b,
better for t0hits babOriHg men # there l0crs nc
'LaUes." They stripped of the clothes OF ar
American citizen, though an Irishman b.
oirtb, applied coat Vt tar and feathers II
their own bsrbarous style, and sent him naked
rom the borders Of the State. For what " ai
,ur countryman thus treated more ignomin
ously than felon, with the tacit approba
ION OF the sham Democracy North and tn,
ublic approval Of the S'me party South p
dis only crime was ultering truth as a.
nutable as the Golden Rule. The Dred Scot
decision says he Constitution carries slavery
nto all the Territories Of the United States
50 says the sham Democracy, and Dougla
l himself saws q NnroDerty in men must he r,ro