The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-12-08
From the New York Tribune.I
The Laureate Of the Ladies.

while it has been very prolific Of elocution,
with platform Tullias and Exc Tulliolas
in abundance, has had no Tyrtea. This
deficiency even now is only so far sup
piled that it has found Tyrt@us who
strikes his wild harpin defense of the sex,
clad, not in bardic robes, but in most in
dubitable pantaloons. This singer resides
in Emerson Village, Iowa Mills County.
His name is Stephen Kelley He does
not recite his verses in public, but he has
filed them with the Clerk of the District
Court of the United States, under some
confused notion that he was thereby So
curing a copyright for the same. Fiff j..
cents he also inclosed as a fee, promisnbe bed
magnanimously to send more if requireh his
The Clerk couldn't grant copyright, an
so he handed the production to the d inv
Moines Register. And now we have coHun,
to it at last. the
The Poem appears to be a sort of Di bsc.
Sh oioiU ouU In rhv,,o. %U 90 sorn"tines dis
disdains it; sometimes he writes in Il
school of the celebrated Walt Within the
and emts his poetry in unmitigated pro- hvo q
and then he rushes into rhymed numbei
like Gray; but there is a regular choir eS-
after the Greek fashion. His orthog A
ply is independent not to say licentiobcd
which leads him to Epell bondage" vii IA
an "i" and "wretches" without wv '1o'
But we shall best do justice to this sindcd'
larly original writer by few specmFin-
of his work. He begins as follows rho
Como all yo oppressed and Fave daughtcrlcs,
Arise from thy bonlge and thy opprcssors Inn
Head from his Shoulders CleavG
The chaine which her have bourn the down p
In dependency to man ltLo
They have discovered by mlghtcy hand 'he
The oppressors yoke has been from thy neck Svc-
And thy over ruling powers Re
Shall from Thy heayeing brehSt be llltGd "a
You can tell those Selfish retches which ol
Gales themselves men al
That II you'd ware n Greclan Bend W
You can unCeath your Sword ms
And your rights malntaine and defend ~.
Then comes "thc Chorus" g
CHORUS. 49,.
Weeping sad and mournfully '''
1mplOrng but in VHnc IN
Yet praying when the Alabama question is ~ -.
The Woman will their rights oblaino ma
This wild wall, sounding like tlon
sough of sou -wester, is repeated at III, -,
quent intervals, and has an indescribablJ y
melancholy effect Mr.. Kelley will
mounted sternly upon feminine injuripd
calling upon the sex to "buckle on its acd
NOR and to 'parolise. the usurper, whei :,
rs BELTS the subject, he will suddent'
sink into the pathos of "Weepings sad ara
mourntully lmploring but in vaine; aDst
our readers will see that the effect is ebn
actly like one of those musical passage,
in which Miss pounds the keys merciles" =,
ly for twenty bars or so, and then difo
AWAY almost to silencc-which is thoughe
to be the perfection fpiano-forte playilko
in the boardingschools. nj
But the Bard of Iowa Mills is for n y
halfway measures. lie remembers thfd
there have heretofore been, now AM
then, Female Soldiers He proposes ho
organize a corps of Amazons who are Y
do actual physical battle for the Right 4
Suffrage The weapon is to be that whiPd
has always been the Woman's weapon]
TIE BABYl Here are the despairing tai
tics;
Tito gnne your unevcrslo sufcrlgo lr
4 war you have to wage
Let one and ull OF you hand und heaft
Place your child upon your Breast
Use II M II shield
Buckle ON your urmor and hasten to the b0tlle
And when tho blood thirsty foe such lnoscnk k
with YOU dos see Il
panOlised he Will be Y
And while lac h gaping at you h
With dislnny aud surprise
Elevate your iron and shoot him between III
Eyes,
We have no doubt that there will be
great deal Of weeping sad and mourniul
ly' il the fight is to be fought in that folc
lorn-hope fashion, but the crying will BIZ
mostly by The Baby ~ poor, innocent
creature lie will hardly know what u
make of it. We have heard of asking ioE
bread and getting stone, but what is thai
10 shTicking for the maternal fount" and
finding Il oorsclet of cold iron, We prof
test against this new device of war. wa
confess that we should undoubtedly bI
--iparolised by The Baby multiplied by TclI
Thousand. We should stop our ears, anC
run from that field more ignominiously
than lIoratius Flaoeus is said to have ruIE
from the field Of Philippi-though we
shave never believed u word Of that absurd
story. lie who has been put to retreat by
the howls Of single nursery, might well
turn his back upon the Young Guard
p which Mr.. Kelley proposes to organize,
especially MS he adds the fendish sugges-
tion;
And ifyou get them once on the run
PeTtalle you Of the wRrliKc fun
Rush uppOn them with whOOps and ycls
Aud right there and then the bloody ordeal you
quells
In this great debate, the chief and du-
bious question has been; "What shall
we do with the BabyY Mr.. X. shows
how il can be made useful but we can
not regard his proposition ~ benevolent.
In the Second Part of his Ode, Mr., Kel-
ley is more practical He advises Wo-
man ito break off all ties with those self
ish men, LET them roame their way
alone--let them lye in THERE bed of soli-
tude like statue" and their lofty pride
will at your feet fall" 1t seems to US
probable that this last Is non ScqItw il
the Fair is to become the i'erocious Sex,
We are bothered 10 know whether Ste
phen is lyric poet or rather a great ~
tirist in disguise
BooKs.--Many readers judge of the
power of book by Che shock
Il gives their feelings-as some say