The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-13

March 7, lS49, w. B. Preston, Virginia
July 20, 1850, w. A. Graham, NJ Carolina.
July 22, 1852, j. P. Kennedy, Maryland.
March 3, 1853, J. c. Dobbin, N. Carolina.
Postmasters General.
Appointed
Sept. &c, 1889, s. Osgood, Massachusetts,
Aug. IL, 1871, T. Pickering, Massachusetts.
Feb. 25, 1875, j. Habersham, Georgia.
Nov. %, 1901, G. Granger, Connecticut.
March II, 1914, R. j. Meigs, Ohio.
June Is, 1923, John Mclean, Ohio.
March 9, 1929, w. 7. Barry, Kentucky.
May L, 1885, A. Kendall, kentucky.
May ls, 1910, J. M. Niles, Connecticut
March 6, ls4l, F. Granger, New York.
Sept Ii, ls4l, C. A. WickHae, Kentucky.
March 5, lS45, C. johnson, Tennessee.
March 7, l849, ]. Collaner, Vermont.
July 20, 1850, N. K. Hall, Nec York.
Aug 81, 1852, s. D. Hubbard, Connecticut
March 5, 1853, j. Campbell, Pennsylvania.
Sectionalism does not seem to have hat
much to do with this Department, or with tha
of the Interior, created in l848-'49.
Secretaries Of the Interior.
Appointed
March 7, l849, 7. Ewing, Ohio.
July 20, 1850, j. A. Pearce, Maryland.
Aug. Is, 1850, T. NJ. T. McKsnnon, Penn.
Sept. II, 1850, A. H. n. Stuart, Virginia.
March S, 1853, R. McClelland, Michigan.
Attorney Generals.
Sept rs, 1889, E. Randolph, Virginia.
June q, 1894, W. Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Dec. 10, 1895, c. Lee, Virginia.
Feb. 20, 1901, T. Parsons, Massachusetts,.
March S, 1900, L. Lincoln, Massachusetts,.
March 2, 1905, R. Smith, Maryland.
Dec. %, 1905, ]. Breckenridge, Kentucky.
JAM 20, 1907, C. A. Rodney, Pennsylvania.
Dec. IL, 1911, w. Pinkney, Maryland.
Feb. 10, 1914, R. Rush, Pennsylvania.
Nov. l3, 1917, w. Writ, Virginia.
March 9, 1929, j. Mcpherson Berrien, Ga.
July 20, 1881, Roger B. fancy, Maryland.
Nov. Is, 1888, B. F. Butler, NeU York.
July Z, 1888, F. Grundy, Tennessee.
Jan. 10, 1910, H. d. Gilpin, Pennsylvania.
March s, ls4l, j. j. Crittenden, Kentucky.
Sept. ID, ls4l, 81. 8. Legare, South Carolina.
July l, ls43, John Nelson, Maryland
March 5, l845, j. Y. Mason, Virginia.
Oct. II, 1916, N. Clifford, Maine.
June 81, lS4S, Isaac Toucey, Connecticut.
March Z, l849, r. Johnson, Maryland.
July 20, 1850, j. j. Crittenden, Kentucky.
March 5, 1853, C. Cushing, Massachusetts,.
The Attorney General is the confidential ad
L. Nd HaaAo 0f
ments, on points of law. The treason trials at
Christiana, Pennsylvania, were set on foot under
advice, we presume, from the Attorney Gen
eral; and we all know what efforts Caleb Cush-
ing has made to give the color of law to the
Pro-Slavery aggressions of his party.
Observe, then, that this post has been filled
twenty-five years by Northern men, and forty.
two years by Southern men and Shareholders
out of sixtyseven years and among the North
ern men, it would puzzle one to find in the
who's South more thoroughly ProSlavery con-
structionists than Caleb Cushing and Isaac
Toucey.
Recapitulation.
Presidency-Southern men and Slavehold-
ers, AZ years 3 months; Northern men, %
years months.
Pro Tenn. Presidency Of the Senate. - Since
1909, held by Southern men and Shareholders,
except for three or four sessions by Northern
men.
Speakership Of the House.-Fillsd by South
ern men and Shareholders forty.three years,
Northern men, twenty-five.
Supreme Court.-A majority of the Judges,
including Chief Justice, Southern men and
Shareholders.
Secretaryship Of State.-Filled by Southern
men and Shareholders forty years, Northern,
twenty-seven.
attorney Generalship.-Filled by Southern
men and Shareholders forty years, Northern
men, twenty-five.
War and NaUy.-Secretaryship of the Navy,
Southern men and Shareholders, the last six
teen years, with an interval of two years.
In other respects, and in the other Depart
ment, Offices pretty equally distributed.
But, remember, under almost every Admin.
istration since 1929, the Northern men holding
Office have generally been abetting, or acquies-
cling in, a Pro-Slavery Policy-in other words,
members of the Party of Slavery, not that of
Freedom.
A stranger would naturally infer that sec.
ton which has mouopolized so disproportionate
a share of power in the Legislative, judicial, and
executive departments of the Federal Govern.
ment, must be greatly superior in population,
intelligence, and wealth. He will be surprised
to learn that precisely the reverse is the fact.
The white populations of what are called the
non-saveholding and slaveholding States were