Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-07-23
More Of Berlin Kill Frse-Love-The Letter Of
guicide-Poul Blssphemy.

We have before Us a copy Of The -Hge Of
Freedom, a paper edited and published at the
Berlin flights Free Love Institution, near San
dusky, an association Of which we have made
some mention heretofore. Il is devoted to the
death Of one OF the members, named Charles
Latchs, who died by his own hand, a suicidal
fanatic, and contains not only a letter left BY
the suicide, but several addresses which were
delivered over bis body BY the brethren in the
society. TIE sheet reeks with the foulest bias
phemV ever put in print, scarcely a 1.-THE Of
which do we dare lay before our readers.
Nothing will so well substsntiate what we lave
said in regard to them, however, as their own
words, and thus out Of their own mouths do we
coddem them. The following is a portion Of
the letter left by the suicide
was the only child Of an ill-mated pair.
They were orthodox, though not very strict I;
fhsr ware what wee called % good respectable
folks" Neither Of them were uncOmmonly
developed in any direction. They loved each
other from the first 70 last" mOthtr tells ne.
Il must have been a very bltHd Lowell Three
years after their marriage | was boTn-a puny
little thing with an angular brain. But in the
eyes Of my parents | was, Of course, a little
angel young Cod
After working at printing nearly a year an
uncle came and took mother, and / went with
him to Michigan. We stsid there A while, and
then moved to another place, and then to an
other, and finally to Iowa, where we lived
three years. At nearly every place we came
/ got employment in a printing office.
/ became a Free-Lover while in Iowa
through the medium Of NickO's Monthly. Then
through the Social RerolafiORists | heard OF
Berlin. I came to Berlin and found 1t was my
home /; / had expected the same.
When l was missrably existing in the world,
and looking TO Berlin, | thought, /" in Berlin, /
will be happy; there will / End brave and low
ing men and women, and l will be happy
And have found the Berlin SOcialits as brave
and free as | expected, but / have discovered
no earthly outside conditions can make me hap
py. ! exiled myself from the world, to save my
self; bat ioaHrot be'saUedi and now, at last,
I lsgp into oblivion
And none Of you will say I dad wrong. You
will say, 4" it i~sstTue." Yes, OF the contrary,
it would be wrong for me to stay here, a bur
den to myself and those around ne. | an OF
no account. Let me Gle, die, die.
There are but few Of you but will be sur
pTised at my final act; you thought ! washap-
py. tried 10 appear happy. did not want
to cause others ~unbappiDess. kept my mis-
cry inside al times how il burnedl Once, one
Of You said 10 me, " You look as though you
was in pain" turned it of as though nothing
was the matter with ne but there was some
thing the matter with me; / was 10 pain.
There aluays Iras something the matter with
me.o
And here ] unite my protest against aud at
ter mg curse upon marriage! fad Icurse rdi-
giOn! .fnd 7 cETsc God, the Father monster!
And ! say to you, seriously, from the depths
Of my sympsthizing heart: Do not briHg chill
drsn into existence to suffer- If you cannot
parent a healthy, happy child-if you do not
know you can do this-refrain, oh, ~refraini
Most Of you will only think Of me as having
" passed ono to a happier sphere; but I see
no existence beyond, and think / know what
death will be to me-snd | welcome the great
fate Of silence" which the Universe has in
store for it's abnormal childi / die-as / ! have
liFed-alonei FAREWELL
"There was silence defp a. death,
And tbs boldest held his brrath,