Whitman was involved in many political parties in his lifetime. Every time his current party changed their views from stopping slavery, Whitman would drop that party and move on. Whitman looked at people who were pro-slavery, and could not understand why they believed that way. Whitman not only took offense to citizens that were pro- slavery, but also took offense to presidents that did nothing to stop the spreading of it. He did however support President Lincoln in almost all of the same views. Whitman was against slavery, but he was not an abolitionist. Whitman could not stand the idea of abolitionism. He believed abolitionists were trying to disintegrate the bond of unity between the North and the South (Klammer). Whitman thought of slavery
