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tpfkaw
wormyguy
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« on: February 23, 2011, 12:44:18 PM »
False dichotomy alert!
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tpfkaw
wormyguy
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 05:05:40 PM »
Quote from: Marshal Vyacheslav Jeremiahovich Dentov on February 23, 2011, 04:22:16 PM
First of all, there was no such thing as a "Libertarian" back those days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locofocos

History fail.
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tpfkaw
wormyguy
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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 05:18:50 PM »

I deliberately chose those three examples because they would be considered libertarians in a modern sense (especially Spooner); there were also plenty of people who might be considered "libertarians" in the context of the time (the Barnburners, Free Soilers, Bourbons etc.), as well as people who were not "libertarians" in the context of the time but would be now (Horace Greeley, for example).
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