Liberty Chronicles, Ep. 45: The Canada Conspiracy
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2018-03-13

Abram D. Smith is a forgotten figure in American history. Smith was born in either Lowville or Cambridge, upstate New York, in 1811, just before the post-war boom years of rapid social and economic change. As a young man, he experienced and contributed to a wave of nationalistic romanticism, enraptured with the wonders of American republicanism and democracy.  He was in these regards fairly unremarkable, and yet in September 1838, probably in some Ohio forest, surrounded by blazing torchlight, a circle of revolutionary conspirators called the Brother Hunters elected Abram D. Smith—Mr. Average American—to be President of the Republic of Canada. 

Further Readings/References:
“Abram D. Smith: Nullification,” on Classics of Liberty https://www.libertarianism.org/media/classics-liberty/abram-d-smith-re-booth-part-1

Link: 
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/liberty-chronicles/canada-conspiracy
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