The national Republican., 1861-04-05
THE BORDER SLAVE STATES AND
THE PATRONAGE.

BURDEN OLA u olh AM
THE PATRONAGE.
Complaints are made, that the border slave
States have been overlooked in the distribu.
ton of public employments under the present
Administration.
These border slave States, looking to white
population alone, comprise numbers less than
one.third of the numbers of the free States.
Or, if the slave population be included, at the
constitutional estimate Of three-6fths, their
numbers little exceed one.third Of the mum.
bers of the free States.
Therefore, viewing the Gulf region as out
of the Union, as temporarily it is, the free
States are entitled, upon the principle Of geo.
graphical distribution, to three.fourths of the
national patronage in the division of offices Of
general and national character.
In forming his Cabinet, Mr.. Lincoln gave
two places out of seven, or something more
than one quarter, to the border slave States.
OF the twelve hundred Government clerk
ships in this city, it was stated and shown in
Congress not long since, by General Perry, of
Maine, that only four hundred were appointed
from the free States. When they get nine
hundred, they will get their numerical proper.
ton and, until then, it is they, and not the
plain.
The distribution of the general offices is not
yet completed; but when it is, we predict that
it will be so done as to respect and preserve
the rights and dignity Of the border slave
States.
OF the three new Territories, of which the
official organization devolved upon Mr.. Lin
coin, the Governorship Of the most important
Colorado was given to citizen of Missouri ;
and, taking all their officers together, the Dor.
der slave States have fully onefourth.
1t is said, in answer to all this, that going
back to the Cabinet, Messrs. Blair and Bates
are not Southern men. Those who say SO will
find themselves puzzled when they undertake
to define categoricaly what it takes to make a
man Southern man.
Mr.. Bates was born in Virginia, and has
spent his life in Missouri. Mr.. Blair was born
in Kentucky, his family being of Virginia
origin, and has never lived in free State, hsv,
ing always lived either in Missouri, in this Dis
trict, or in Maryland.
Those who make this point against Messrs,
Bates and Blair, really mean by it that nobody
can be Southern, who does not cherish the mod.
ern Democratic doctrine that the extension OF
slavery is the sole end for which the Govern.
ment was instituted, and that the Union itself
is to be held subordinate to that interest. The
men who make this objection to Messrs. Bates
and Blair, made the same objection to Henry
Clay.
Mr.. Bates lives in State, of which one
eighth only of the property assessed for taxa
ton consists of slaves And yet it is denied
that he is truly Missourian, not because any
body doubts his readiness to defend all the
rights of this oneeighth of the property of his
State, but because he is not ready to subordi
nate all other rights and all other interests to
that single one.
The truth is, little faction has so long AFRO.
gated to itself the right to speak and act as be-
ing "Me SoutA," that they have finally come to
the belief that there is nobody at the South ex.
| Scpt tucmoelFes.
Thus, to take familiar case, Henry Winter
Davis, of Maryland, is, in the estimation OF
those men, not Southern
Evidently, they intend by the word South"
not geographical section, but special politi.
cal interest. And as, in their sense of the word,
no Southern man is found in the Cabinet,
so, probably, the claims of the South" to other
places will be overlooked. But so long as the
real South" as it exists on the face of the
EARTH with all its great interests, is well taken
care Of, it matters little if this imaginary
South" of the Democratic politicians consist
ing exclusively of themselves, does happen tc
be neglected by President Lincoln in the dis
tribution of the public patronage.
The requisition of Governor Pettus, of Mis-
slsslppi for 800 volunteers, has been filed
The proclamation was issued on Friday, and
filed by Monday evening. President Dayi,