White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-29

Vice President, Dallas, Penn.
II President. Taylor l year La.
Vice President, Fillmore, NY.
18 President, Fillmore, NY.
10 President, Pierce, N. II.
Vice President, King, Ala.
20 President, Buchanan. Penn.
Vice President. Breckenridge, KY.
RECAPITULATIoE.
Virginia has bad the Presidency nine
times and the Vice Presidency twice. Her
niger breeding aristocrscy are hot after
the Presidency for the tenth time. and
have no less than FIVE candidates in the
field, viz Wise. Hunter, Floyd, Flour
noy and Bolts. New York has had the
Presidency tUics, aud the Vice Presidency
seven times, and each party, in that State.
is now pressing candidate upon the two
National parties. One would imagine
that Virginia and New York have had
about their full share of executive officers,
and that they ought to be satisfied at least
for few years to come. Massachusetts
has furnished two Presidents and three
Vice Presidents, Tennessee three Presi-
dents, Pennsylvania President and Vice
President, New Hampshire q President,
Louisiana ditto. Kentucky and South
Carolina each two Vice Presidents.
And the whole great West-ons third
of the Union in population. area. wealth
and commerce-has never had President
but four reeks-aboHt twenty years ago;
has never had a Vice President-not even
candidate But we pass to the Cabinet.
Western people may suppose that if
their section of the Union has been ig-
nored in the choices of Chief Magistrate,
they have been compensated by seats in
the Cabinet that if they have not fur
nished Presidents. they have at least had
advisers of Presidents. Let Us see. We
begin with Secretary of State. the highest
seat in the Cabinet:
There have been twenty three. OF this
number, the Western States have had one
Lewis Csss, by the grace of our veDer-
able President. j. B. Virginia has had
seven Secretaries of State, Massachusetts
has had five, and New York two. The
Southern States have filed the Office four
teen times the Eastern eight !; and the
Western one. .
The Postmaster General controls more
patronage than any other offer under the
President. There have been eighteen
Postmasters, and the West has had tsoo-
the last one, John Mclean, thirty SIR
years ago.
There have been twenty-six Attorney
Generals (; the South has had fifteen, the
East eleven, and the West none.
Secretaries of the Treasury. %. Of
which the East has furnished IL, the
South 8, and the West Ewing and
Corwin, of Ohio.
Secretaries of war, 81, of whom the
South has had 16, the East ID. and the
West 2-Cass. of Michigan, and Bates,
Of Missouri. who declined to serve.
Secretaries of the Navy, 26, Of which
the South had IL, the East 10. the West
none. During the last 20 years. the South
had filled the Office L. years, and the East
years, which is modest, seeing that the
North supplies all the ships and all the
seamen, and has ten times more seaport
property to protect in case of war.
The Seeretaryship Of the Interior is =
new Office, created few years ago, and
at this time is occupied by slave breed
err of Mississippi, called 7HONPsOn.-|
Thomas Ewing. of Ohio. held the Office
one year.
This review completes the " constitu-
tional advisers" Of the Executive. There
have been Isl Secretaries in the Cabinet
The West has had eight. and the South
and East one hundred and forty.thres.
There remains one Office not named,
which by some is considered next to the
Presidency in honor and Importance. viz:
the Speskership Of the House Of Repre-
sentstiyes. There have been. 26. Speakers