The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-19
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM FOR 1860.


A PROCLAMATION.
To motley Democratic host
Throughout this mighty nation,
Alive or dead, fish, flesh or ghost,
Come. hear our proclamation
From North to South, from East to West,
Hards. Soft-shells and Old Liners,
Roll up your sleeves and do yorlr best,
Come, pitch in for the l" shinors ~
Our platform built for '56,
Wethen so safely trusted,
Has got into an awful fix,
Split up, gin out, and busted"
Our carefully adjusted plank
(They were extremely rotten,)
Like Herod's flesh bred worms and stank,
MAY it soon be forgottenD
You know We snugly placed inside,
Along with Uncle Jimmy,
Where we intended he should hide
The gentleman from Guinea;"
But he was butted of the boards,
His wooily head revealing
No more the mistifyng words
The " true intent" concealing.
SPECIFICATIONS.
The timbcrs must be staunch and strong.
or Louisiana Hfe-oak,
Or from some craft, low, black and long,
That brings in coiOred livestock;
The weather-boarding must DO green
Buckeye or northern bass-wood,
$50 that the framework can't be SEEM
Or some material as good.
Our platform must be high enough
To place our man inside it;
So that when aimed at, he can slough"
Or duck his head and hide 1t.
Tho northside must be planked up tight,
To keep out curious peppers;
The south side open to the light.
With simply stnds and sleepers.
1t must be equal in each side,
Cnbe-an elevation,
SO, when lean-to Is supplied
In case Of annexation,
Twill be an emb lem where we view,
With exultaticn hearty,
All Africa annexed unto
The Democratic party.
We need some bars and straps to hold
The shaky thing together;
The treasury will furnish gold;
Our consciences, the leather;
Or. il too scarce, we'll in its stead
Use eBrooks-and-Sumner "gutta;'
Old Liners heads will furnish "lead,'
And Douslasites the putty"
The front must be we'll painted black,
thought else will b" save the nation,")
With some faint stripes upon the back
or hostile legislation;' -
And through the middle must be drawn
A sign OF Heavens election,
That no free labor shall be done
Within the Southern section.
As to the infant states we go,
And carry those who love US,
A canopy Of sUmbre hue
Shall be spread out before US.
To show the Constitution bears
Our country's chieiest glories,
And we our fancy-colored dears,s
To al the Territories.
We want plank on which TO stand
when talking Of protection,
That be shifted end for end
To favor either section;
Another which we can q blow"
The great Pacific railway.
But when the thing IS made to go.
Turns out A humbug mail-way!
THE PAY
II the contractor can with skill
Unelualed set the triggers,
He can have contracts at his Will,
And pay at hi, own figures.
And when the treasury Is bare
OF precious salves and oiutments,
There will remain some rich and rare
Executive appointments.
BIT there's no danger Of a lack
OF luscious pap and gravy,
For We h ave yet some fat Jobs back
For furnishing the navy.
They who have had hand in here,
With stolen cash are ely;
And II we hold another year,
Wen have another Toucey.
CORRECTIONS.
But there one thing that We forgot
In the speculation,
Though !uuUt less many folks have not,
ThTuuAhUut this plundered natIun-
In one back corner near the floor,
The briller must remember.
Our man will wait a little door
t. cav! out, i'll Nuvember.