White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-08-05
More Of Berlin Hill Fres.LOv.-rs
Letter Of q Suicide-Foul Blasrhne

More Of Berlin Hill Free-Loys-r
Letter Of Suicide-FOul BlasubsnNs
We have before us a copy of The A
of Freedom. paper edited and pubI;.hss
at the Berlin Heights Free Love Jn,,;.a
ton, near Sandusky, an association
which we have made some mention Is,.
tofore. It is devoted to the death ~ :"
of the members, named Charles L.,, Tue
who died by his own hand, a su;c;J.;
fanatic, and contains not only a letter I.s
by the suicide, but several addresses Viii ~
were delivered over his body bv ~
brethren in the society. The sheet rosI
with the foulest blasphemy ever put :;
print, scarcely 1.-THE of which do - y
dare lay before our readers. Notb;"
will so well su6stantiate what we b,rs
said in regard to them, however, as tba;;
own words, and TINS out of their nss
mouths do we condemn them. The III
lowing is a portion of the letter leIt \.
the suicide:
was the only child of an ill.m,,.,
pair. They were orthodox, though M,
very strict they were what was cans5
good. respectable folks" Neither ~
them were uncommonly developed in an
direction. They "loved each other fra:
first to last, - mother tells me. 1t NM,
have been very Mind love! Three wear,
after their marriage / was born--a nm,
little thing with an angular brain. n,
in the eyes of my parents was, Of cOur,s
a little angel, a young God.
After working at printing nearly yea,
an uncle came and took mother and I
with him to Michigan. We staiI tbe-e
a while, and then moved to another placa
and then to another, and finally to low,
where we lived three years. At nearlv
every place we came | got smployneD,
in printing Office.
/ became Free Lover while in low,
through the Medium Of Nichols MoaigL
Then through the Social Rerolut;onia I
heard of Berlin. I came to Berlin al
found it was my home l had expected
the same.
When I was miserably existing in N,
world. and looking to Berlin, l thought,
"In Berlin Twill be happy there viii
find brave, and loving, and free men and
women, and will be happy" And |
have found the Berlin Socialists as brav,
and free as expected. but I have discoy.
cred no earthly, outside conditions can
make me happy. / exiled myself from
the world, to save myself; I cannot ),
Sured and now, at last, IIeop info oJlr-
ion :
And none of you will say did wrong.
You will say, ''it is we'll" Yes, on the
contrary, it would be wrong for me to
stay here. burden 70 myself and al
those around me. am Of no account.
Let me die, die, die.
There are but few Of you bat viii BE-
surprised at my final act; you thought
was happy. tried to appear happy;
did not want to cause others unhappineSs.
| kept my misery inside; at times how
it burned Once one Of You said to me.
"You look as though You was in pain"
I turned it OF as though nothing was the
matter with me but there was something
the matter with me; was in pain. There
Arrays ,ras " something the matter With
me-" t..t.
And here / unite my protest against
and utter Dsy curse upon marriage And
I eHrSe religion : find I easSe God, de
Father monster
And say to you, seriously. from the
depths Of my sympathizing heart: DOnOt
bring children into existence to suffer =
II you cannot parent q healthy. happy
chill--if you do not know you can do
this, refrain--0h, refrain
Most of you viii only think of me as
having ''passed on" to a happier sphere;
but see no existence beyond, and think
know what death will be to me-andI
the "grcat fate Of silence" which
The Universe has in store for its abnormal
child a! 1 die as ! have lived-alOue!
Farewell !
"TbsFe was silence deep a. death.
And the boldsst hsld his BREATH