Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-29
From the New York Evening Post.

I. ff riVm thc INeW Ork Evening Post
Letter from Recent Convert TO Free Love.
~ ra,ly halnt minute of time, dear neighbor,
mrs kBaldwin, to devote to nobody, but do recon
I'd better Jest lot yon Know sometbin' about tb;a
here society OF Assocationers To. =
oinn Aiore begaL ~ I'd Ma sa Eenshonp; s,up;.a .aaI ~ y
take 1t agreeable. ] hadn't no time to mend en-,
| for Professor K----h had such a heap TO tell me
about the innard development and Of his spiritual
coalition with my spiritual wittals that sat good
| Bit longer than ! meant to, with him /; au' some
how or other he kctched hold Of my hand an said
he didt know when he'd been SO monstrously
drawed to anybody afore He hadn't nothin' To
say aein my husband he might be clever per-
son; but yet he felt convinced thnt my natur was
sich an elevated one, he rally believed my wants
/ had never been met ~ .
told him sure enough they hadn't but reck-
4 oned the reason was, we were too poor 70 go to
further expense In byin' things. But did con-
fees, IL there was a want had, il was fur new
! parlor carpet ourn was gtin SO dreadful shabby.
i The Professor gin mean wlunudge then, aud said
must excuse him. II he didn't feel disposed for jok
that moriu' no was suiferin most treminjousir
nard tortures cause he'd been misunderstood the
| day afore by person who wasn't great enough to
comprehend him. OF course | let on | under
stood him, and pretended I'd been jokin', but a..
terwards, when went to the meedn', found OFT
all about what 1t meant; and Tn real miserable,
neighbor Baldwin, to think I've been livin' these
sixteen years with Hiram Moses, and he's never yet
comprehendcd what my natur required.
| know my hull bein' amt called into play.
There's only one set of faculties agoin, an might
as well be Twin mummy as TO be mated with such
a noodle. Brother Be ses he's convinced me
and him has sch sympathy fur one another that
{ we must have played together when we was chill
dren in some other state of existence, an though
don't remember ever ben' in that state, yet
s'pose it's all just Brother BE Is very
spiritual SOUL an is Jest as developed he be-
Il Ne and him has sich beautiful attractions to one
another, that we don't think no more Of kssin'
than II we was two females lie sed needn't tell
Hiram, though, for il wasn't likely he'd understand
how our spirits met, an he one OF those con-
inon.place beings, who might 60 and kick up
rumpus about y Q kissin' another woman's hue
: band. @t
do declare it's too bad TO be forced into such
position az / am with Hiram but Dr. C---B ses
that's just the wey with him and his vic. She
haint no understandin' of the ideal beauty Of sch
friendships, and don't begin TO GIL up the measure
Of his souls yearnin' after perfection. Poor fel
low he's so often cast back upon himself that it
IL enough TO crush his too sensitive natur. The
meeiin's on Thursday night Is ell the comfort
have. There's been Professor K--h an S----m,
: Ct, and DR.. E--y, an Mr.. If----s that's
all situated just In the same uncomfortable way ~
their domestic relations, besides several females
that's studyin' medicine and 'natomy so hard that
they partake quite Of the natur Of skeletons. Their
souls is developed at the expense Of their poor fa
perishabe bodies
E-- D-----m don't think no more Of d.
sectn' dead bodies than she would Of cnttn' mp
. roast chicken but Hiram might Jest az well en-
ploy the poor thing for his rheumatic as not. She
looks as though she might handle a right gripin'
case pretty severe. Thore we sit the hull evcnin'
and jest discourse about the poor oppressed crctu
res that have 10 git therlivn at shoyellin snow,
A an handlin' wood am 30 on. IL would rally do
your very marrow bones good to see the bcnevo.
ence and charity that prevails; an how they
marks they don't want nobody TO do notbin that
don't agree with cni--an' I'm sure mendin stock.
los don't agrce with me.
Il An they tell sich lovely anecdotes about tho
people who 20 an git everything done as cheap
as they can, so as 10 cheat folks, and grind down
the poor And then, besides all this active good
meas an a strugglin' TO redeem their feler beins,
they have festival about onst year so as 20 hear
4 the remarks Of them as comes from the furrin
eiiies-such as Boston, and Pbilldelpha--about
the wickedness OF people in not payn' their work
men an Brother c. often draws tears from
the female members rcgardin the tramplin' down
Of their blessed privileges. He's loyal, an their
Amt one Of us females ugly or otherwise, bat
what he's willin' TO embrace In gospel love. H
do hope, neignbor Baldwin, that I'm as virtu-
Gus person as there is in the world but must
say can't see a bit Of harm in rclievin my full
sympathes in the buzzums OF them as are my spr-
itual partners-cause, watts the body any how9
'Taut no more than wet blanket throwd over
! the sperrit--a squenchn' the ycarnin alter that
soul communion that every wcll.deveoped person
feels. Mr. R. says I'm great soul" an
that sicf sentiments has inaugurated me more tan
gibly into his beet eins than any paltry takit on
: of what tho boer world calls "modesty.n Ses he
10 me, n standin' on the steps tother night,
. ,sWould we was in the blessed Philansteryl" NY
sperrit whispered, without Hiram, tho and