SECRETARIES OF THE INTERIOR.
Appointed--
March 7, 1849, T. Ewing, Ohio.
July 20, 1850, J. A. Pearce, Maryland.
Aug. 15, 1850, T. M. T. McKennon, Pennsylvania.
Sept. 12, 1850, A. H. H. Stuart, Virginia.
March 5, 1853, R. McClelland, Michigan.
Appointed
Sept. 26, 1789, E. Randolph, Virginia.
June 27, 1794, W. Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 10, 1795, C. Lee, Virginia.
Feb. 20, 1801, T. Parsons, Massachusetts.
March 5, 1800, L. Lincoln, Massachusetts.
March 2, 1805, R. Smith, Maryland.
Dec. 23, 1805, J. Breckinridge, Kentucky.
Jan. 20, 1807, C. A. Rodney, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 11, 1811, W. Pinkney, Maryland.
Feb. 10, 1814, R. Rush, Pennsylvania.
Nov. 13, 1817, W. Wirt, Virginia.
March 9, 1829, J. McPherson Berrien, Georgia.
July 20, 1831, Roger B. Taney, Maryland.
Nov. 15, 1833, B. F. Butler, New York.
July 7, 1838, F. Grundy, Tennessee.
Jan. 10, 1840, H. D. Gilpin, Pennsylvania.
March 5, 1841, J. J. Crittenden, Kentucky.
Sept. 13, 1841, H. S. Legare, South Carolina.
July 1, 1843, John Nelson, Maryland.
March 5, 1845, J. Y. Mason, Virginia.
Oct. 17, 1846, N. Clifford, Maine.
June 21, 1848, Isaac Toucey, Connecticut.
March 7, 1849, R. Johnson, Maryland.
July 20, 1850, J. J. Crittenden, Kentucky.
March 5, 1853, C. Cushing, Massachusetts.
The post of Secretary of the Treasury, although one of great importance, requires financial abilities of a high order, which are more frequently found in the North than in the South, and affords little opportunity for influencing general politics, or the questions springing out of Slavery. We need not therefore be surprised to learn that Northern men have been allowed to discharge its drties some forty-eight years out of sixty-seven, as follows:
-ppointed
Sept. 11, 1789, A. Hamilton, New York.
Feb. 3, 1795, 0. Wolcott, Connecticut.
Dec. 31, 1800, S. Dexter, Massachusetts.
May 14, 1801, A. Gallatin, Pennsylvania.
Feb. 9, 1814, G. W. Campbell, Tennessee.
Get. 6, 1814, A. J. Dallas, Pennsylvvania.
Oct. 22, 1816, W. H. Crawford, Georgia.
March 7, 1825, R. Rush, Pennsylvania.
March 6, 1829, S. D. Ingham, Pennsylvania.
Aug. 8, 1831, L. McLane, Delaware.
May 29, 1833, W. J. Duane, Pennsylvania.
Sept. 23, 1833, Roger B. Taney, Maryland.
June 27, 1834, L. Woodbury, New Hampshire.
March 5, 1841, Thomas Ewing, Ohio.
Sept. 13, 1841, W. Forward, Pennsylvania.
March 3, 1843, J. C. Spencer, New York.
June 15, 1844, G. M. Bibb, Kentucky.
March 5, 1845, R. J. Walker, Mississippi.
March 7, 1849, W. M. Meredith, Pennsylvania.
June 20, 1850, Thomas Corwin, Ohio.
March 5, 1843, James Guthrie, Kentucky.
SECRETARIES OF WAR AND THE NAVY.
The Slaveholders, since March 8th, 1841, a period of nearly sixteen years, have taken almost exclusive supervision of the Navy, Northern men having occupied the Secretaryship only two
years. Nor has any Northern man been Secretary of War since 1849. Considering that nearly all the shipping belongs to the free States, which also supply the seamen, it does seem remarkable that Slaveholders should have monopolized for the last sixteen years the control of the Navy.
Appointed
Sept. 12, 1789, Henry Knox, Massachusetts.
Jan. 2, 1795, T. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Jan. 27, 1796, J. McHenry, Maryland.
May 7, 1800, J. Marshall, Virginia.
May 13, 1800, S. Dexter, Massachusetts.
Feb. 3, 1801, R. Griswold, Connecticut.
March 5, 1801, H. Dearborn, Massachusetts.
March 7, 1802, W. Eustis, Massachusetts.
Jan. 13, 1813, J. Armstrong, New York.
Sept. 27, 1814, James Monroe, Virginia.
March 3, 1815, W. H. Crawford, Georgia.
April 7, 1817, G. Graham, Virginia.
March 5, 1817, J. Shelby, Kentucky.
Oct. 8, 1817, J. C. Calhoun, South Carolina.
March 7, 1825, J. Barbour, Virginia.
May 26, 1828, P. B. Porter, Pennsylvania.
March 9, 1829, J. H. Eaton, Tennessee.
Aug. 1, 1831, Lewis Cass, Ohio.
March 3, 1837, B. F. Butler, New York.
March 7, 1837, J. R. Poinsett, South Carolina.
March 5, 1841, James Bell, Tennessee.
Appointed
May 3, 1798, G. Cabot, Massachusetts.
May 21, 1798, B. Stoddart, Massachusetts.
July 15, 1801, R. Smith, Maryland.
May 3, 1805, J. Crowninshield, Massachusetts.
March 7, 1809, P. Hamilton, South Carolina.
Jan. 12, 1813, W. Jones, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 17, 1814, B. W. Crowninshield, Massachusetts.
Nov. 9, 1818, Smith Thompson, New York.
Sept. 1, 1823, John Rogers, Massachusetts.
Sept. 16, 1823, S. L. Southard, New Jersey.
March 9, 1819, John Branch, North Carolina.
May 23, 1831, L. Woodbury, New Hampshire.
June 30, 1834, M. Dickerson, New Jersey.
June 20, 1838, J. K. Paulding, New York.
March 5, 1841, G. F. Badger, North Carolina.
Sept. 13, 1841, A. P. Upshur, Virginia.
July 24, 1843, D. Henshaw, Massachusetts.
Feb. 12, 1844, T. W. Gilmer, Virginia.
March 14, 1844, James Y. Mason, Virginia.
March 10, 1845, G. Bancroft, Massachusetts.
Sept. 9, 1846, James Y. Mason, Virginia.
March 7, 1849, W. B. Preston, Virginia.
July 20, 1850, W. A. Graham, N. Carolina.
July 22, 1852, J. P. Kennedy, Maryland.
March 3, 1853, J. C. Dobbin, N. Carolina.
Presidency.-Southern men and Slaveholders, 48 vears 3 months; Northern men, 23 years 9 months.
Pro. Tem. Presidency of the Senate.-Since 1809, held by Southern men and Slaveholders, except for three or four sessions by Northern men.
Speakership of the House.-Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty-three years, Northern men, twenty-five.
Supreme Court.-A majority of the Judges, including Chief Justice, Southern men and Slaveholders.
Secretaryship of State.-Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty years, Northern, twenty-seven.
Attorney Generalship.-Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty-two years, Northern men, twenty-five.
War and Nary.-Secretaryship of the Navy, Southern men and Slaveholders, the last sixteen years, with an interval of two years.
WILLIAM HENRY HURLBUT, of South Carolina, a gentleman of enviable literary attainments, and one from whom we may expect a continuation of good service in the eminently holy crusade now going on against slavery and the devil, furnished not long since, to the Edinburgh Review, in the course of a long and highly interesting article, the following summary of oligarchal usurpations-showing that shaveholders have occupied the principal posts of the Government nearly two-thirds of the time :
As a matter of general interest, and as showing that, while there have been but 11 non-slaveholders directly be fore the people as candidates for the Presidency, there have been at least 16 slaveholders who were willing to serve their country in the capacity of chief magistrate, the following table may be here introduced :
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