Shelby-Mcnairy County TN Archives News..... A   WOMEN'S   PROTEST November 10, 1868
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Bill BOGGESS william-boggess@webtv.net October 29, 2007, 2:47 am

Daily Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock November 10, 1868


(copy courtesy of B Holt, 09-14- 07, transcribed by wsb, 10-28-07.) 



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from the Memphis Appeal, Albert Pike (1808-1891) editor,
http://books.google.com/books?id=F5AOAAAAMAAJ... (search: "Albert Pike") 





      DAILY   ARKANSAS   GAZETTE 

Little Rock, Tuesday, Nov 10, 1868, Column B 







      A   WOMEN'S   PROTEST 

                ------ 

   by: Violet Lea, pen name of Fanny Green Borland. 

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   You took the verdict of the world, 



      That she who laughs with all alike, 



   Must flirt, forsooth ! -- and straightway hurled 



      Your gauntict down, and bade me strike ! 









   I am no chld, for chilish games, 



      And yet you fain would play with me ; 



   Nor thow I scorn on other dames 



      Who met you half-way, eagerly, 









   Nor do I hold myself unjust, 



      That thus I give you warning fair ;-- 



   I am a women-- strong, I trust, 



      To hold myself in purer stir. 









   And, as a women, quick to see 



      Where I My keep my garments clear; 



   Nor deem myself unwomanly, 



      To mark you first as insincere. 









   I love not intercourse that makes 



      Sweet words as spies for hidden gain, 



   To see one smile who wins the stakes, 



      and one who smiles to hide the pain. 









   I have no fears fo broken heat, 



      For mine doth calmly wait its kind ;-- 



   Yet I would hold myself apart, 



      And seek no shadow for my mind. 









   Somewhat is surely due youth, 



       Too genuine to underery ;-- 



   No smile tht has its birth is truth, 



      Can settle to a heartless lie. 











   Ah ! hold it kinder, brothers ! -- men ! -- 



      To take so much of us in trust !-- 



   How 'can' we show us 'real', when 



      'You' show your stronger selves 'unjust'? 











   You see I cannot play your games : 



      A 'women' looks for better things; 



   And higher still than 'Love' she aims, 



      When 'Falsehood' perches on Love's wings. 



November, 1867             VIOLET LEA 





   Additional Comments: 





FANNY (Fannie) GREEN BORLAND (1848AR-1879TN): Once a highly celebrated poetess and
'belle-of-the-ball' during reconstruction days. 



Fanny "Fannie" Green BORLAND was second born, September 1848 in "City of Roses",
Little Rock, to Solon BORLAND (1811VA-1864TX) and Mary Isabel MELBOURNE (1824LA-
1862AR), while her father served as a United States Senator, orphaned in Princeton,
Dallas county, Arkansas on New Years Day 1864 by death of her father near Houston,
Texas, married in 1869 at Little Rock home of Colonel & Mrs O C GRAY, birthed one
known son, lost husband in the Memphis 1878 yellow fever epidemic, died of yellow
fever morning of 23 August 1879 in sister's home, at "Bluff City", Memphis, burial
location unknown. 



Named Fanny Green (spelling in Solon's will), honoring Solon's aunt 

Fanny (Green) GODWIN born 1785, who along with her husband George GODWIN
(1878VA-1866VA) raised Solon, later his first born son Thomas, in Suffolk, Nansemond
County, Virginia. 



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