New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-18
ing it, than acting as Lottery Commissioner
What difference does it make in the moral as
poct of a Lottery whether it be Of money or
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for the same. Fifty cents he also inciosed as
a fee, promising magnanmously to send more
if rcauired The Clerk couldn't grant copy
right, and 80 he handed the production To
The Des Moines Register. And now we nave
come to it at last.
The Poem appears to be sort OF Dithy-
rambic Ode in Two Parts Sometimes stephen
employs rhyme; sometimes he disdains II;
sometimes no writes in the school OF the ceie-
brated Walt Whitman and emits his poetry In
unmiticated prose, and then he PUSHES into
rhymed numbers, like Gray; but there Is q
regular chorus after the Greek fashion. Ills
photography is independent, not to say hcen-
tons, which leads him to spell bondage
with An "ir and "wrctches" without W."
But we shall best do justice to this singularly
original writer by few specimens OF his work
He begins as follows:
Come all We oppressed and Fave daughters OF loeHY
Arise from thy bOnige and thy oppreSsors
Head from his Shoulders cleaye
The chanc which her have bourn the down
In dependency TO man
They have discovered by mightey hand
The oppressors yoke has been from thy neck upfted
And thy over ruling powers
Shall from thy heayeing breast DO lifted
You can tell those Selfish retches which
Gales themselves men
That IL you'd ware a Greoian Bend
You can unchcath your sword
And Your rights maintaino and defend.
Then comes the Chorus"
CHORUS.
Weeping sad and mOurniuly
ImploIng but in yaine
Yet pray 1g when the Alabama question Is sctted
The Woman will their rights Obaine
This wild wall sounding like the sOugh of
Southwestern, is repeated at frequent intervals,
and has an indcscribably melancholy effect.
Mr.. Kelley will be mounted sternly upon
feminine injuries, calling upon the sex to
"buckle on its armorn and to "parolise" the
usurper, when, "a BELTS the subject, no VIII
suddenly sink into the patbos of Weeping sad
"and mournfully, Imploring but in yaine;' and
our readers will see that the effect is exactly
like one of those musical passages in which
Miss pounds the keys mercilessly for twenty
bars or so, and then dies away almost 10
silcnoe-whch is thought to be the perfection
of piano forte playing in the boarding schools.
But the Bard of Iowa Mills is for no half
way measures He remembers that there have
heretofore been, now and then, Female Sol
diers. He proposes 10 organize corps OF Am
azons who are to do actual physical battle for
the Right Of Suffrage. The weapon Is to be
that which has always been WOman's weapon
THE BABY! Here are the despairing tactics :;
II to gaiuo your uneversle suerige
A war you have TO wage
Let ono and all of you hand ana heart
In it ingage
Place your child upon your Breast
Use il u shield
Buckle on your arncr and hssten 10 the battle ned
And The blood thirsty foe such nosense With you
dos
Parolised H. will be
And while no is apng Mt you
with dismay aud surprise
Elevate sour iron and shoot him between the Eyes
We have no doubt that there will be q great
deal of weeping sad and mournfully" il the
fight is to be fought i'll that rn-hope
fashion, but the crying will be mostly by The
Baby-poor innocent creature. He will hardly
know what to make Of il. We have heard of
asking for bread and getting q stone, but what
il that to shrielGng for "the maternal fOunt'
and finding Il cOrselct of cold iron. We pro-
test against this new device of war. We con-
fcss that we should undoubtedly be "parO-
"lised' by The Baby multiplied by Ten
Thousand. We should stop our ears, and run
from that field more ANONYMOUSLY than
lloTa(iUs i ldcclS rs hillu 80 nave run lIOiH INC
field of Philippi-though we never believed n
word of that absurd story. He who has been
put 10 retreat by the hOwls of a single nur
scry, might well turn his back upon the Young
Guard which Mr.. Kelley proposes to organize,
especially as he adds the icndish suggestion:
And II Yen get them once on the run
fortake you Of the warlike fun
I.u.h upon them with whoops and yells
And right there and then the bloody ordeal Won quels
Cho,NS-weoping sad and mcurnfuy &c
In this great debate, the chief and dubious
question has been: "What shall we do
"with the Babyg" Mr.. X. shows how it
can be made useful; but we cannot regard
his proposition "a benevolent.
In the Second Part Of his Ode, Mr.. Kelley is
more practical. He advises Woman " to break
Z" off all Ties with those selfish men," "Let
" them roame their way alOne-let them lye
" in theire bed of solitude like statuc"-and
" their lofty pride will at your feet fall" 1t
seems TO us probable that this last is n non
sequitur, if the Fair is to become the Fero-
cious Sex. We are bothered to know whether
Stephen is lyric poet Or rather great
satirst in disguise.
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