The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-06
For the Ohio StGr
The WING Platform.
BY DAVID D. BENTON.

For the Ohio Star.
The WING Platform.
BY DAVID D. BENTON.
Well, Whigsl in defiance of growing ado,
Your "AIasters' have ordered Platform for you:
They stoutly refused, in the wear iS-
They decreed it now. Done ordered by Fate
Don't shrug up your shoulders and wiggle and whine,
and grumble, and call it the South's knotty pine:
For better or worse, your General is theae;
So take it though sneared with barrelof tar!
Besides, there's your enemies over the way,
Now ieUeted with them you can have fairer play:
Much resembling their your Platform arranged;
For the sake of patent plank or two changed.
If any deny it, and fiutter, and pout
Then if this picture dosent silence all doubt
FIRST PLANK.
We honor the people dear tractable souls
Well trust their intelligence, till after the polls
Bat still they shall crouch and boodhounds be gibed
Wear the Shareholders collar thus duly Inscribed
'tYo are hereby commanded. when needfnl your aid
To chase like dog for slaves that have strayed
(What miserable plank, It's the worst made y
SECOND PLANK.
Our National Government ought to abide 5--
Constitutional powers, expressed or implied;
Bat then if the interest of iSlarery require,
Our good Constitution wen trample in mire,
Those rights, therein granted, shall meet denial,
That will crush down your conscience and guaranteed trial
eve defy it SO pour all the wrath of your vial.
THIRD PLANK.
The Union should be duly watched and insured
TIE Palladium where Freedom is fully secured;
More especially however the Union should stand,
As the bulwark of Slavery; and this command.
Break this Plank would the Union then crunble like sand
FOURTH PLANK
Our mission requires no intriguing or force
To propagate Freedom beyond our own shores;
But to teach by example, the wondrous success,
OF hunting for slaves that our statues oppress
Toteach moderation by taskng them sore,
And Iashin their backs till they clotted with gore,
To teach justice by offering slave catchers bribe
For returning their prey the slave-hoding tribe.
"a Plank so outrageous words can describe :!
FIFTH PLANE.
Since by the good people is Government made.
By them should just measures and laws be obeyed;
Bat still if some loafers without their consent,
Some law-nakng traitors enaetments invent
Quite unconstitutional, covered with shame!
They should yield their obedience precisely the
CA Plank that would sanctify Infamous 6iameD
SIXTH PLANK.
All cases should equal encouragement share
To give their industry patronage fair:
But stH the poor slaves, whose unrecompensed toll
Tils nearly one half of national soil
We will patrouize them with ,cruelests gripes
And feed them with hominy bondage and stripes.
This Plank yields tobacco, light up your ppes.)
SEVENTH PLANK. s- 49,
To finish the Platform, promise to frowrs
And hush agitation, and smother it down,
S IL we will enforce, to the furtherest extent,
T Sc Fugitive Law. though the Union be rent;
And therefore the slave VIII gladly
That their Masters NAV hoard all the riches they
70 the Platform, just seei what rotten concenY
There see your broad Platform how splendid and ne
Aboltonists wings! do not muttef and whine;
| Come, right about face, and fall into line. -at
| Behold there General, now ready to drill;
Like him scramble with hearty good will.
With one SO experienced we drill not in vain;
Meanwhile will feast as for victory we train
! Swig republican SOUP with the Lemnian's spoon,
First stewed from the beef of the old faHel coon!
Whereby politicians may pamper themselves
| Till plump the shadoars of air. fattened efresi
| When the glorious day of the battle shall come,
We will roar Y ankee Doodle with the fife and the drum
With popguns of wit and squirtguns of slander
We will charge the foe and shed of "dander'
And rout from the battle field epery old "gaadsrs'
When triumph shall brave warfare and tolls
We viii bless the dear people and feast the spois
/ Come. join us! come all and partake of the fun;
/ Our fabric is safe. We will toast with a gum s-
| The Platform, may it furnish all voters with rooml
Nine guns! boom boom! boom boom boom! boom
- boom boom boom!
! Whew! Birthstone and smother! Has Etna fit?
/ Or we right over the bottoness pit?
Good bye, fellow citizens! am for going;
Don't poster with your pleading and blowing;
Don't talk of your tariffs, and harbors, and dimes,
Should Patriots for these fondle viainous crimes,
And set example unworty the brave,
By teaching the world how to hunt for slave2
Let your answer be guided by Libertys light;
Then will your response favor Freedom and Right,
And truthfully teach every nation and tribe,
/ That Freedom divine hath no faint of a bribe
| Hath beauties to win them, but none to decoy
And hands that give glory and kindness and JOY!