| Appointed— | ||
| Sept. 26, 1789, | E. Randolph, Virginia. | |
| June 27, 1794, | W. Bradford, Pennsylvania. | |
| Dec. 10, 1795, | C. Lee, Virginia. | |
| Feb. 20, 1801, | T. Parsons, Massachusetts. | |
| March 5, 1800, | L. Lincoln, Massachusetts. | |
| March 2, 1805, | R. Smith, Maryland. | |
| Dec. 23, 1805, | J. Breckinridge, Kentucky. | |
| Jan. 20, 1807, | C. A. Rodney, Pennsylvania. | |
| Dec. 11, 1811, | W. Pinkney, Maryland. | |
| Feb. 10, 1814, | R. Rush, Pennsylvania. | |
| Nov. 13, 1817, | W. Wirt, Virginia. | |
| March 9, 1829, | J. McPherson Berrien, Georgia. | |
| July 20, 1831, | Roger B. Taney, Maryland. | |
| Nov. 15, 1833, | B. F. Butler, New York. | |
| July 7, 1838, | F. Grundy, Tennessee. | |
| Jan. 10, 1840, | H. D. Gilpin, Pennsylvania. | |
| March 5, 1841, | J. J. Crittenden, Kentucky. | |
| Sept. 13, 1841, | H. S. Legare, South Carolina. | |
| July 1, 1843, | John Nelson, Maryland. | |
| March 5, 1845, | J. Y. Mason, Virginia. | |
| Oct. 17, 1846, | N. Clifford, Maine. | |
| June 21, 1848, | Isaac Toucey, Connecticut. | |
| March 7, 1849, | R. Johnson, Maryland. | |
| July 20, 1850, | J. J. Crittenden, Kentucky. | |
| March 5, 1853, | C. Cushing, Massachusetts. |
SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY.
The post of Secretary of the Treasury, although one of great importance, requires financial abilities of a high order, which are more frequently found in the North than in the South, and affords little opportunity for influencing general politics, or the questions springing 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:
| Appointed— | ||
| Sept. 11, 1789, | A. Hamilton, New York. | |
| Feb. 3, 1795, | O. Wolcott, Connecticut. | |
| Dec. 31, 1800, | S. Dexter, Massachusetts. | |
| May 14, 1801, | A. Gallatin, Pennsylvania. | |
| Feb. 9, 1814, | G. W. Campbell, Tennessee. | |
| Oct. 6, 1814, | A. J. Dallas, Pennsylvania. | |
| Oct. 22, 1816, | W. H. Crawford, Georgia. | |
| March 7, 1825, | R. Rush, Pennsylvania. | |
| March 6, 1829, | S. D. Ingham, Pennsylvania. | |
| Aug. 8, 1831, | L. McLane, Delaware. | |
| May 29, 1833, | W. J. Duane, Pennsylvania. | |
| Sept. 23, 1833, | Roger B. Taney, Maryland. | |
| June 27, 1834, | L. Woodbury, New Hampshire. | |
| March 5, 1841, | Thomas Ewing, Ohio. | |
| Sept. 13, 1841, | W. Forward, Pennsylvania. | |
| March 3, 1843, | J. C. Spencer, New York. | |
| June 15, 1844, | G. M. Bibb, Kentucky. | |
| March 5, 1845, | R. J. Walker, Mississippi. | |
| March 7, 1849, | W. M. Meredith, Pennsylvania. | |
| June 20, 1850, | Thomas Corwin, Ohio. | |
| March 5, 1843, | James Guthrie, Kentucky. |
SECRETARIES OF WAR AND THE NAVY.
The Slaveholders since March 8th, 1841, a period of nearly sixteen years, 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 1849. Considering that nearly all the shipping belongs to the free States, which also supply the seamen, it does seem remarkable that Slaveholders should have monopolized for the last sixteen years the control of the Navy.
SECRETARIES OF WAR.
| Appointed— | ||
| Sept. 12, 1789, | Henry Knox, Massachusetts. | |
| Jan. 2, 1795, | T. Pickering, Massachusetts. | |
| Jan. 27, 1796, | J. McHenry, Maryland. | |
| May 7, 1800, | J. Marshall, Virginia. | |
| May 13, 1800, | S. Dexter, Massachusetts. | |
| Feb. 3, 1801, | R. Griswold, Connecticut. | |
| March 5, 1801, | H. Dearborn, Massachusetts. | |
| March 7, 1802, | W. Eustis, Massachusetts. | |
| Jan. 13, 1813, | J. Armstrong, New York. | |
| Sept. 27, 1814, | James Monroe, Virginia. | |
| March 3, 1815, | W. H. Crawford, Georgia. | |
| April 7, 1817, | G. Graham, Virginia. | |
| March 5, 1817, | J. Shelby, Kentucky. | |
| Oct. 8, 1817, | J. C. Calhoun, South Carolina. | |
| March 7, 1825, | J. Barbour, Virginia. | |
| May 26, 1828, | P. B. Porter, Pennsylvania. | |
| March 9, 1829, | J. H. Eaton, Tennessee. | |
| Aug. 1, 1831, | Lewis Cass, Ohio. | |
| March 3, 1837, | B. F. Butler, New York. | |
| March 7, 1837, | J. R. Poinsett, South Carolina. | |
| March 5, 1841, | James Bell, Tennessee. | |
| Sept. 13, 1841, | John McLean, Ohio. | |
| Oct. 12, 1841, | J. C. Spencer, New York. | |
| March 8, 1843, | J. W. Porter, Pennsylvania. | |
| Feb. 15, 1844, | W. Wilkins, Pennsylvania. | |
| March 5, 1845, | William L. Marcy, New York. | |
| March 7, 1849, | G. W. Crawford, Georgia. | |
| July 20, 1850, | E. Bates, Missouri. | |
| Aug. 15, 1850, | C. M. Conrad, Louisiana. | |
| March 5, 1853, | Jefferson Davis, Mississippi. |