Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-08
Pugnacious "Reformers n
EO. c. WHITING.
 Commissioner.

1he FTee-houers Refuse to leave Berlin Heigzts
 We published day or two ago statement from an Ohio paper, to the effect that the peace able citizens ot Berlin Heights proposed to get rid ot the free-love community in that place. by purchasing their property at fair valua. ton. The offer has been made, but the offen- sive people won't go. Mrs Cora Barry, editor of that blasphemous sheet, the "Age of Free. dom," gives vent to the feelings of the free lovers in the following independent style:
 " Born in Berlin, consider myself natural ized;' feel have the privileges of native American,' and erpect to rensain here. Think ing as must on all subjects; acting as my high est convictions mpel me on all occasions: advo- eating such faith and such life as is good to me always, l expect still to remain. R5ectinq aU reHg'ous dognas; reput'ating aH arbitrary nsar- faage bonds; bel'eu'ng 'n TO gouernnsent save tue eue' -acting haaos cf aN beind, / shaN utter pay a'ought as 4 am nsoued, and shaH utter H here. Scornlng that purity manufactured by legal force; desplsng that virtue based only on the opinion of the world; the truth I feel shall not be stl1ed In my soul anywhere on Gods earth.
 Advocat'ng sublimest trueness to the Christ Wathan, my life shall alone answer to the man. dates of my own being; and whatever place another may apportion me, it must pass un- needed, while my soul alone listens to the deep voices of the Infinite coming to me from the bleeding heart of Humanity-the aching pulses ol my myrad sisters, whose anguished prayer, as Of old, Is, What shall we do to be saved?' and oh! from the million innocent, and unmask ed chlld-souls who are only born to a heritage Of sin; all bidding me cry aloud and spare not the deep truths so clearly shown me.
 Holding all days alike holy, would do only good and beautiful deeds at any tine and the Bible Sabbath or Christian Sunday, like every day of my life, shall be devoted to whatever of work. or study, or music, or preaching or danc- lng my own judgment gays will be most pro- ductlve Of health to my body and soul; and Mis shaH do in Berlin as / haue atloays done.- David danced before the Lord'--I believe it quite as innocent as any act of his life; and danc- 'ng bet'oeen the hours cf intellectual end re7qious exercises on Sunday or any other day, aoiN De partof aN Whole and consistent worship.
 Seeing clearly that woman, as we'll as man, has the natural right to the fullest action of ali the faculties and passions of the soul, that she must be self-owned and self-whole; that her womanhood and her maternal relations should be sacredly held in her own hands, bid her netp HeISeIi-ueVer DerOme a SaVe-peVer yield to the mercenary obligations of the mar rlage bond-but accept alone the truest life up- yelling Tn her own soul letting wise loving ness be ever the only parent that shall give her child; and despite threats, despite churches and priesthood, despite the bowling of the rab ble and the unlawful prosecutions of legalized power despite msrepresentations, and calumnv, and abuse, and villfcation, this truth will 1 proclaim from my native hill-tops, and send it reverberating through the valleys where my childhood wandered. 1 shall still sit among the orchard blooms that draped my cradle; they shall give their fragrance to my life, and shroud my grave with the rose-h hued mantle; and vet that life shall be lived unfettered--that grave shall be no towards tomb The scented slopes where my childhood's winged hours went by, are still to give their sweetness and their sun shine to my rper years; and the mothers love, and the fathers smile are still to be mine for the faith that they have in their child; and vet more for the supremer faith in truth; and ever shall my pen go on in its work, ever shall ut. ter thls thought of freedom, ever shall live the life that feel most true, and ever must it be where my own soul chooseth its resting spot and its home."