William Lloyd Garrison’s View on Voting

Subject: William Lloyd Garrison’s View on Voting Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:43 pm

A view by the author/researcher/collector, Horace Seldon

William Lloyd Garrison’s View on Voting Liberator

Abolitionists often disagreed about the efficacy of using the vote to achieve their goals. To believe in voting was an implicit assumption that one could trust the political process and the politicians who guide it. Those who doubted that process often refused to participate in Political Parties. It is important to keep in mind the distinctions between political action through or independent from Parties.

In this brief article I want to counter an assumption about Garrison which I too often find in historical reviews of his life. That he chose not to be a “Party” person, has too easily led to forgetting or overlooking his record of clear, constant political involvements. Even the most charitable critiques of Garrison’s life too often imply that he was not involved politically.

In another essay in this series I have enlisted examples to show Garrison’s constant political involvement aside from Political Parties. His political involvement included attendance at legislative hearings, calls for petitioning legislators, newspaper comments directed to/at politicians, assessments in the Liberator of the effectiveness of specific politicians, public comments on political questions, all examples of Garrison’s political action. In spite of this full record of activity, it has been much too easy for some historians to imply that because Garrison was not a “Party” person, he was not active politically.

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William Lloyd Garrison’s View on Voting

William Lloyd Garrison’s View on Voting

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