Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-06-25
FnrE LOVE A. Brp,,v IJr,ou,s w,

Heights Erie county o., and published artic
les (both editorial and correspondence from
tho Cleveland Herald in regard thereto
1t is astonishing that there are people II
this enlightened age who will acknowledge
doctrines so monstrous and outrageous a,
these "Free. Lovers do. Lot those in thi.
vicinity who talk favorably of free love b
warned in time, Below we give IN article
from the Cleveland Herald
Bcriin Heights aud its Pestifcrous Brood
Names amount TO little, and it matters
nothing whether the debased colony, which
pollutes the fair fame of Berlin, call them
selves Free lovers or Socialists, so long n,
their deeds are stencil in tho nostrils o.
all decent men and women. An article
which appeared In tho PLAIN Dealer some
time since, written by a sympathizor with
il not participator in, the crimes Of the
Love Cure gang, denies our statement as
to the number Of FREQ Lovers at Berlin
and says:
"Thcrc arc in Berlin twelve males calling
themselves Socialists, three protesting and
nine disclaiming the doctrines of Froe
Love-"
The "A9e Of Freedom" the organ Of
this miserable sect takes exception to the
false statement of this, their apologist, and
denies its truth. It's editor says:
Coming from n less respectable source.
this statement might be left unnoticcd, with
the hundreds of Others, equally loose, that
arc floating about the country. l do not
say there may not be nine men in Berlin
who would acknowledge themselves Social
lists but not Free Lovers. Even our bitter.
est opponents have spoken well of Social
lists but not Free Lovers, and have averred
that they would have no objection to sim
pie FoURIERIsMl 1t has como to be n verv
easy thing to be Socialist at least in theo-
ry. What | wish to affirm is that thero
are more than three, or nine, or twelve inon
men in Berlin, who are ready at all times,
to avow their abiding faith in, and their
unconquernbe adherence to the doctrine of
Freedom for the Affections. There NAV be
towards in Berlin, but imagine they are
not real or professed Free Lovers. There
are Socialists here, whom our blindly zoal-
GUS opponents have classcd with us, while
giving the version of our doctrines and
habits which their own impure imagina-
tions had conjured mp; but these are not
Free Lovers except in tho sense of utter
toleration. In this sense. imagine that
Free Lovers are getting TO be quite a nu-
merous and respectable class
The Age is right in placing Socialists
and Free Lovers in the same category for it
is sheer tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum
with merely this difference
the former practice what they dare not
avow, whereas tho latter boast of their in
iquity. They are equally base, not equally
Tho honest truth is, this community
which instead of having n multitude of
names should be nameless, number from
thirty to fifty in the township Of Berlin; they
are constantly erecting buildings-fye or
six having boen put up within few weeks
and the occupants arc bccoining moro
md more bold. On three occasions Of late
nen and women have been seen in bathing
ogether, naked. On Sunday within four
weeks past two women and two men were
0 bathing, and third woman sitting on
he bank contemplating the scene. We
oppose part would call themselves Social
ITS and part Free Lovers; a very nice dis
nction. The Age Of Freedom, which |
romised to remove beyond the borders Of
'erlin, has returned to the village and es-
onced itself in the very midst of that COM
lunity. We cannot defilo our columns by |
uoting its vile advocacy of the freedom of
nan and woman from all restraint, but VIC
nil give an extract as showing its teachings
to the existence Of God. When this
xtract is read, no ono can wonder that the
espectable mothers in Berlin were goaded !
n to tho seizure and destruction of one
'suc Of that loathsome sheet.
In its last number it SAYS:
What horrible phantom, what soul
rushing superstition, is this idea of an
'yer-ruling, omnipresent, all powerful God
ever watching for opportunities "to show
lis authority" and torment with fear or
pain the miserable victims of his hateful
power. Bcliefin God is degrading, what
over the character ascribed to him. No
man can be truly MANLY who looks up" to
. "master" by whom "he lives, moves and
has being" How can l look up as a man
If | have not n RIGHT to be and do? If
hero is God, live and act by sufferance
enjoy whatever PRIVILEGES he sees fit to
,rant, but can claim no rights. Rights can
lot be conferred. They are immutablc and
annot be taken away. Then where is
our God? can stand up and look him
n the face, and affirm that have right
o "life liberty and happiness" wether it is
MS pleasure that shall enjoy them or not.
Il is perfectly plain, then, that his Godhood
Or my manhood must succumb! If l can
beat him at even one point, he is no God.
But if cana"make ease" once, can
thousand times--in the ease of every sim
gle right, and if maintain my manhood
in spite of him, so may every other human
being, and so the God is nowhero-utterly
routed.
The VoTE ADMITTING THE SquArTER
SENATORS OF ISDIANA.-The following is
The vote Of the Senate on Mr.. Trumbulrsl
a.. al.