Civil, Diplomatic and Consular Agencies.
That most of the “spoils” of office, in these departments go to the slaveholders is well known. The following is the Diplomatic Agency of 1846.
Full Ministers. To Great Britain, Louis McLane; France, William R. King; Spain, Romulus M. Saunders; Turkey, Dabney S. Carr; Mexico, John Slidell; Brazil, Henry A. Wise;—all from slave States; and Russia, R. I. Ingersoll from Connecticut.
Charges. Austria, William A. Stiles; Holland, Auguste Davezac; Belgium, Thomas G. Glenson; The two Sicilies, William H. Polk; Sardinia, Robert Wickliffe; Portugal, Abraham Rencher; Venezuela, Benjamin G. Shields; Buenos Ayres, George Harris; Chili, William Crump, all from the slave states, and from the free States only Denmark, William W. Irwin; Sweden, H. W. Ellsworth; Central America, B. W. Bidlack; and Peru, A. G. Jewett.
Thus, of the seven full ministers six are from the slave States; and of the thirteen Charges, nine are from the same; and the four given to Northern men are among the most insignificant governments in the world. And this favoritism of the South has been the policy for years. The civil and consular agencies are dispensed with a like injustice to the free States. The following, prepared by Prof. Cleveland, gives the number of persons employed in 1845, in these several agencies, from a few States, with their salaries, and the number of free white inhabitants in the same.
| Free States. | Free Pop. | Persons | Salaries | Slave States | Free Pop. | Persons | Salaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York, | 2,378,890 | 37 | $ 63,250 | Virginia, | 740,968 | 114 | $200,395 |
| Pennsylvania, | 1,676,115 | 90 | 123,790 | Maryland, | 318,204 | 133 | 170,305 |
| Massachusetts, | 729,030 | 43 | 86,215 | Dist. Colum., | 30,657 | 99 | 77,455 |
| Ohio, | 1,502,122 | 6 | 4,400 | Kentucky, | 590,253 | 7 | 34,150 |