Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-01-05

Hitherto the Woman Suffrage
Cause, while it has been very prolific
OF clocution, with platform Tullias
aud Exc Tulliolas in abundance, has
had no Tyrtea. This deficiency even
now is only so far supplied that it
has :eund Ty.tans who strikes his
wild harp in defense Of the sex, clad,
not in bardic rJbes. but in m ,st IN
lubitable pantalo0ns. THIS singer
resides in Emerson Village, Iowa
Mills County. His name is Stephen
Kelley. He does not reci,e hi. verses
in public, but he has til.dthem with the
Clerk OF the District Court Of the
United States, under soma confused
notion that be was thereby securing
a copyright for the same. Fifty cents
he also enclosed IS tee, promising
masnan;mously to send more If re-
qu,,ed. The Clerk could n't grant a
copyright, aud SO he handed the pro-
duction to The Des MONIES Register.
Aud now We have come to it at last.
The Poem appears 10 be sort OF
D.thyrambic Ole in Two Parts.
Sometimes Stephen employs rhyme !;
sometimes he disla rs It ; sometimes
he writes in the school -ot the celc-
tratcd Walt Whitman and emits his
poetry in unmitigated prose, and then
he rushes into rhymed NUMBERS, like
Gray but there is regular chorus
alter the Greek fashion. Ills orthog-
raphy is independent, not to say IL
centious which leads him to spell
bondage with an 81 aud wretch
es" without 4 W." Bnt we shall
best do justice TO this siugularly
original writer BY few specimens oi
his work. He begins as follows:
Come Gil ye oppressed and Eave daughters
Of liberty
Arise from ny bonise and .h, .rpres.ors
Head from his Sholders cieavs
The chaine which her hare boura the down
In despoudency to man
They have discovered BY . mighty hand
The oppressors yoke has besu from thy neck
uplihed
0u8ek xGVm Nuy 0S8vt0k VGVOD3 ~ tttt0
You can tell those Selfish vetehes which
Calles themselves men
RI { II you'd ware 0rselan Bend
You can unchsash your Sword
Aad your rights maintaine and defsod.
Then comes .the Chorus
cH0aCS.
wespine ~ and nournfally
YwwlN p1m1 hsne II vAino
ies prayiag when the Alabama question i
settled
.he Woman will aAsir rights obsaia
THIS wild vail, sounding ike the
souga 1t = sou '-wester. is repeated at
frequent intervals, aud has an indc.
scribe melancholy effect. Mr.. KEEL
ley will be mounted sternly upon
feminine injuries, calling upon the sex
10 "buclle on lis armor' and to
''parolise" the usurper, when, as BELTS
the subjects, he will suddenly sink
into the pathos OF Weeping sad aud
''mourntllly, Imploriug but IN vaine;
and Oar readers will sea that the ct.
fsct is exactly like one Of those mu-
sical passages in which Miss pounds
the keys msrcllcssly tor twenty bars
Or 90, and then dies away almost to
silence which 10 thought to bo the
PERFECTION OF piano forte playing IN
tho boarding schools.
But the Bard ot Iowa Mills u for
no halfway measures. He remem-
bers that there have heretofore been,
pow and then. Female Soldiers He
proposes to organize eorrs Of Amv-
lxons who are to do. actual physical
battle Tor the Right Of Suffrage. The
weapon il to be that which has al.
ways been Woman's weapon--Tnr
BASrl Here are the despairi4g tac-,
tics:
n 70 gala yeur assvsrsae snferies
A var yea have 70 wees
I.es one aad all Of yoa hand md heart
II il enRsgs
Place year ehill upon your Drssst
Use Il - shield
Buckle on your armor and hasten to tho
bassls 6sli