February 2019 - The Libertarian Labyrinth

Stephen Pearl Andrews in the Journal of the American Temperance Union (1837–1838)

February 28, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

With nerves unstrung by that horrent nightmare, which had replunged me into the cruel vortex of nineteenth century antagonism and brutality, I cast around for some method of restoring my usual equanimity. An excursion into the country would, it appeared to me, serve the double purpose of acting as a nervous sedative, and of enabling me to realize something of the conditions of rural life in this year 2000 A. D. […]

Jeff W. Hayes, “Pleiades Club” (1917)

February 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lewis Masquerier, “Temperance” (1835/1877)

February 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lewis Masquerier, “Temperance,” Boston Investigator 5 no. 26 (September 18, 1835): 4. Lewis Masquerier, “Temperance Exhortation,” Sociology (New York: Lewis Masquerier, 1877): 184–186.