"I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out"

"Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids
conformity goes to the fourth remov'd.
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out. "

This line made me laugh and nod agreeing. He is saying conforming is for the truckle and invalids. Or the weak, or those that submit easily. Then goes to make sure he will do what he pleases, including wearing his hat indoors or outdoors. He is displaying that some things that society denotes is so absurd, like putting a rule on when to wear your hat.
I always say, "I do what i want" but not in a way that puts others at danger or risk but just to push the norm, live outside the box. Ill hang my pictures on my wall crooked  because it drives my roommate crazy and I just think it is hilarious that something like that makes her uneasy. Its just a picture, its crooked, i tell her its ok to venture into the unknown., go against the norm. And if something like wearing a hat indoors made people uncomfortable id be donning a hat when I walked through every door.
Whitman, is the perfect example of nonconformity. everything he did pushed the norm. I admire that about him. This line will forever be with me.

A happy hours commend; Specimen Days

Whitman is reminiscing in this entry. He takes out everything he has done and meshes it all together. I imagine him just surrounded by papers, writings and scraps looking at them all fondly knowing they make up the big picture. He realizes though he has so much representing certain times, that not every moment can be documented and later looked at.I like the last line of his entry,
 "Probably another point too, how we give long preparations for some object, planning and delving and fashioning, and then, when the actual hour for doing arrives, find ourselves still quite unprepared,"
All this memorabilia he is looking at gets him to one thought and another and in the end realizes that though we can plan and prepare for something, when the actual event comes up we can still be quite unprepared. 
Whitman's Song of myself seems to me like a lot of observations put togother in an eloquent wheel, when i read this line,
"May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed." 
I thought of Leaves of Grass. Not that it is not well planned or thoughtful but in the sense that it has a beautiful array of what life is or was to him. It's an example of what life  and own's thoughts should be like; spontaneous and wayward, fragmented but eloquent. You can look at all the fragmented pieces later. 

Wilmot Proviso

The Wilmot Proviso was an amendment put before the house of representatives in 1846. David Wilmot proposed the amended that non of the territory acquired in the Mexican war should be open to slavery. This was another factor that added to the animosity between north and south, regarding slavery and the new territory that was to be claimed. Whitman openly supported the Wilmot Proviso and the free soil movement in his editorials that he put out.
Whitman, would very much agree with this amendment. In his poem, Song of Myself, he talks about housing a run away slave, feeding and caring for him and sharing his home. Whitman held no shame in helping a slave and contributed to the slave's journey north into new territory where he could be free.