The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-27

though one OF great importance, requires imam
cial abilities of high order, which are more
frequently found in the North than in the
South, and affords little opportunity for iniu.
encing general politics, or the questions spring
ing out of Slavery. We need not therefore be
surprised to learn that Northern men have been
allowed to discharge its duties some forty-eight
years out of sixty-seven, as follows:
Sept IL, 1889, A. Hamilton, Ne,o York.
Feb. 3, 1895, o. Wolcott, Connecticut.
Dec. 81, 1900, s. Dexter, Massachusetts.
May IA, 1901, A. Gallstin, Pennsylvania.
Feb. 9, 1914, G. W. Campbell, Tennessee.
Oct. 6, 1914, A. j. Dallas, Pennsylvania.
Oct. %, 1916, w. Fl. Crawford, Georgia.
March 6, 1929, s. ID. Ingham, Pennsylvania.
Aug. 8, 1881, L. McLane, Dela,care.
May %, 1888, W. j. Duane, Pennsylvania.
Sept %, 1888, Roger B. fancy, Maryland.
June u, 1894, L. Woodbury., NeD Hampshire.
March 5, l841, Thomas Ewing, Ohio.
Sept l3, I84l, w. Forward, Pennsylvania.
March 3, l843, j. G.. Spencer, New York.
June Is, 1874, G. M. Bib, Kentucky.
March S, l845, R. j. Walker, Mississippi.
March 7, l849, w. M. Meredith, PENNSYLVANIA.
June 20, 1850, Thomas Corwin, Ohio
March 5, l843, James Guthrie, Kentucky.
Secretaries Of War and the Navy
The Shareholders have graciously shared
these offices with free State men, on terms of
equality-only since March 9Th, l84l, period
of nearly sixteen years, they 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 l949. Considering
that nearly all the shipping belongs to the free
States, which also supply the seamen, it does
seem remarkable that Shareholders should have
monopolized for the last sixteen years the con-
troll of the Navy.
Secretaries of War.
Sept. II, 1889, Henry Knox, Massachusetts.
Jan. 2, 1895, 7. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Jan. II, 1876, j. McHenry, Maryland.
May Z, 1900, j. Marshall, Virginia.
May l3, 1900, S. Dexter, Massachusetts.
Feb. 8, 1901, R. Griswold, Connecticut.
March s, 1901, H. Dearborn, Massachusetts.
March Z, 1902, W. Eustis, Massachusetts.
Jan. IS, 1913, j. Armstrong, Ne,o York.
Sept q, 1914, James Monroe, Virginia.
March 3, 1915, w. III. Crawford, Georoia.
April Z, 1917, G. Graham, Virginia.
March s, 1917, j. Shelby, Kentucky.
Oct. 8, 1917, j. c. Calhoun, South Carolina.
March Z, 1926, j. Barbour, Virginia
May Is, 1928, P. B. Porter, Pennsylvania.
March 9, 1929, j. 81. Eaton, Ten nessee.
Aug. l, 1881, Lewis Cass, Ohio.
March 3, 1887, B. F. Butler, New York.
March 7, 1887, j. r. Poinsett, South Carolina.
March 5, l94l, James Bell, Tennessee.
Sept Is, l84l, John Mclean, Ohio.
Oct. II, l84l, j. c. Spencer, Neao York.
March 8, ls43, J. w. Porter Psnnsylvania.
Feb. Is, 1874, w. Wilkins, Pennsylvania.
March 5, 1845 William L. Marcy, Ne,o York.
March 7, l849, G. w. Crawford, Georgia.
July 20, 1850, f. Bates, Missouri
Aug. Is, 1850, c. NJ Conrad, Louisiana.
March 5, 1861 j. c. Dobbin, North Carolina.
Secretaries of the Navy.
May 3, 1898, G. Cabot, Massachusetts.
May q, 1898, B. Stoddart Massachusetts.
July Is, 1901, r. Smith, Maryland.
May 3, 1906, j. Crowninshied, Mass.
March Z, 1909, p. Hamilton, South Carolina.
Jan. II, 1913, w. Jones, Pennsylvania.
Dec. II, 1914, B. w. Crownnshield, Mass.
Nov. 9, 1918, Smith Thompson, Neto York.
Sept. l, 1928, John Rogers, Massachusetts.
Sept. l6, 1923, S. l.. Southland, Ney Jersey.
March 9, 1919, John Branch, North Carolina.
May %, 1881, L. Woodbury., Ne,c Hampshire.
June 80, 1884, NJ. Dickerson, Ne,o Jersey
June 20, 1888, j. K. Paulding, Ne,v York.
March 5, 184l, G. f. Badger, North Carolina.
Sept. l3, l84l, A. p. Upshur, Virginia.
July "a, 1843, ID. Henshaw, Massachusetts.
Feb. II, 1874, 7. W. Glmer, Virginia.
March Ia, 1874, James Y. Mason, Virqiaia.
March 10, l845, G. Bancroft, Massachusetts.
Sept. 9, 1916, James Y. Mason. Virginia.
March 7, lS49, W. B. Preston, Virginia.
July 20, 1850, W. A. Graham, N. Carolina.
July %, 1852, J. P. Kennedy Maryland.
March 3, 1853, j. c. Dobbin, N. Carolina.
POstmasters General.
Appoinsd--
Sept. 26, 1889, s. Osgood, Massachusetts.
Aug. II, 1871, 7. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Feb. %, 1895, j. Habersham, Georgia.
Nov. 49, 1901, G. Granger, Connecticut.
March II, 1914, r. j. Meigs, Ohio.
June %, 1928, John Mclean, Ohio.
March 9, 1929, w. T. Barry, Kentucky.
May l, 1885, A. Kendall, Kentucky.
May Is, 1910, j. M. Niles, Connecticut.
March 6, l84l, F. Granger, Ne,o York.
Sept. IL, l84l, c. A. Wicklffe, Kentucky.
March 5, l845, c. Johnson, Tennessee.
March I, l849, j. Collamer, Vermont.
July 20, 1885, N. X. Hall, Neu York.
Aug. 81, 1852, s. ID. Hubbard, Connecticut.
March s, 1853, j. Campbell, Pennsylvania.
Sectionalism does not seem to have had
much to do with this Department, or with that
of the Interior, created in lS48-49.
Secretaries of the Interior
March I, lS49, T. Ewing, Ohio.
July 20, 1850, J. A. Pearce, Maryland.
Aug. Is, 1850, T. NJ. T. McKennon, Penn.
Sept IL, 1850, A. H. II. Stuart, Virginia.
March 8, 1853, r. McClelland, Michigan.
Attorney Generals
Sept. 26, 1889, E. Randolph, Virginia.
June u, 1894, w. Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 10, 1895, c. Lee, Trginia.
Feb. 20, 1901, T. Parsons, Massachusetts.
March 5, 1900, l.. Lincoln, Massachusetts.
March 2, 1905, R. Smith, maryland.
Dec. %, 1905, J. Breckenridge, Kentucky.
Jan. 20, 1907, G. A. Rodney, Pennsylvania.
Dec. ii, 1871, w. Pinkney, Maryland.
Feb. 10, 1914, r. Rush, Pennsylvania.
Nov. l3, 1917, W. Writ, VIginia.
March 9, 1929, J. Mcpherson Berrien, Ga.
July 20, 1881, Roger B. fancy, Maryland.
Nov. Is, 1888, B. F. Butler, Nec York.
July 7, 1888, f. Grundy, Tennessee.
Jan. 10, l840 Fl. d. Gilpin, Pennsylvania.
March 5, l84l, j. j. Crittenden, Kentucky.
Sept. Is, l84l, II. s. Legare, South Carolina.
July /, lS43, John Nelson, Maryland.
March 5, l845, J. Y. Mason, Virginia.
Oct. H., 1916, N. Clifford, Maine.
June FL, lS4s, Isaac Toucey, Connecticut.
March 7, l849, R. johnson, Maryland.
July 20, 1850, j. j. Crittenden, Kentucku.
March 5, 1853, c. Cushing, Massachusetts.
The Attorney General is the confidential ad.
wiser of the President and Heads of Depart-
ments, on points of law. The treason trials at
Christiana, Pennsylvania, were set on foot under
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