The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-08-12
More of Berlin Hill Free.Loye-.Thc Letter
of Suicide-.EOuI BIasphemy,


" We have before us copy of The Ag,
OF Freedom, a paper edited and publish
cd at the Berlin lights Free Love Insti
tuition, near Sandusky, an association o
which we have made some mention here
tofore 1t is devoted to the death of one
Of the members, named Charlas Latcha
who died by his own hand, suicidal
fanatic. and contains not only a letter
left by the suicide, but several addresses
which were delivered over his BODY nv
the brethren in the society. The sheet
reeks with the foulest blasphemv ever
put in print, scarcely 1.-THE of which do
we dare lay before our readers. Moth
ing will so we'll substantiate what we
have said in regard to them, however. as
their own words, and thus out of their
own mouth do we condemn them. The
following is portion of the letter left bv
the suicide
'a"l was the only child of an ill-mated
pair. They were orthodox, tho not very
strict; they were what were called good
respectable folks Neither of them were
pncommonly developed in any direction.
9Taey loved each other from first to last
mother tells me. 1t must have been a
very blind love! Three years after their
marriage | was born-a puny little thing
with an angular brain. But in the eyes
OF my parents / was of course, little
angel, q young God.
After working at printing nearly a
year, an uncle came and took mother and
/ with him to Michigan. We staid there
awhile, and then moved to another place,
and then to another, and finally to Iowa,
where we lived three years. At nearly
every place | came | got employment in
printing office.
became Free-lover while in Iowa
through the medium of Nichols MoatAty.
Then through the Social Reyolatiouist |
heard of Berlin. | came to Berlin and
found 1t was my home; | had expected
the same.
When | was miserably existing in
the world, and looking to Berlin, l thot',
In Berlin, | will be happy; there will
find brave, and loving, and free men and
women. and ] will be happy And
have found the Berlin Socialists as brave
and free as | expected, but / have dis
covered no earthly, outside conditions
can make me happy. l exiled myself
from the world, to save myself; but I
cannot be soredf and now, at last, I Leap
into 0blicion
And none of you will say did wrong.
You will say, 1t is WELL Yes, on the
contrary, it would be wrong for me to
stay here, burden to myself and those
around me. | am Of no account. Let
me die, die, die.
"There are but few of you but will be
surprised at my final act !; you thought
was happy. tried to appear happy. l
did not want TO cause others unhappiness.
| kept my misery inside; at times how
it burnedl Once, one of you said to me,
H With hiso me as though you was in
pa Sbcen maled it off as though moth
lIt- .avs3 matter with me-; but
th. lething the matter with me
| TIssI-A There Arrays uas some
thing the matter with me-
And here | unite my protest against
and utter my curse upon marrsagei And
I curse religion! And curse God. the
Fatier.n0xstey Z M
"And | say to you, seriously, from the
depths of my sympathizing heart: Do !
lot bring children into existence to suffer |,
f you cannot parent healthy, happy :
'hild--if you do not know you can do /
bis, refrain-oh refrain! !
Most of you will only think of me as o
aving passed on to happier sphere s
ut | see no existence beyond and think l.