| Appointed— | ||
| May 3, 1798, | G. Cabot, Massachusetts. | |
| May 21, 1798, | B. Stoddart, Massachusetts. | |
| July 15, 1801, | R. Smith, Maryland. | |
| May 3, 1805, | J. Crowninshield, Massachusetts. | |
| March 7, 1809, | P. Hamilton, South Carolina. | |
| Jan. 12, 1813, | W. Jones, Pennsylvania. | |
| Dec. 17, 1814, | B. W. Crowninshield, Massachusetts. | |
| Nov. 9, 1818, | Smith Thompson, New York. | |
| Sept. 1, 1823, | John Rogers, Massachusetts. | |
| Sept. 16, 1823, | S. L. Southard, New Jersey. | |
| March 9, 1829, | John Branch, North Carolina. | |
| May 23, 1831, | L. Woodbury, New Hampshire. | |
| June 30, 1834, | M. Dickerson, New Jersey. | |
| June 20, 1838, | J. K. Paulding, New York. | |
| March 5, 1841, | G. F. Badger, North Carolina. | |
| Sept. 13, 1841, | A. P. Upshur, Virginia. | |
| July 24, 1843, | D. Henshaw, Massachusetts. | |
| Feb. 12, 1844, | T. W. Gilmer, Virginia. | |
| March 14, 1844, | James Y. Mason, Virginia. | |
| March 10, 1845, | G. Bancroft, Massachusetts. | |
| Sept. 9, 1846, | James Y. Mason, Virginia. | |
| March 7, 1849, | W. B. Preston, Virginia. | |
| July 20, 1850, | W. A. Graham, N. Carolina. | |
| July 22, 1852, | J. P. Kennedy, Maryland. | |
| March 3, 1853, | J. C. Dobbin, N. Carolina. |
RECAPITULATION.
Presidency.—Southern men and Slaveholders, 48 years 3 months; Northern men, 23 years 9 months.
Pro. Tem. Presidency of the Senate.—Since 1809, held by Southern men and Slaveholders, except for three or four sessions by Northern men.
Speakership of the House.—Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty-three years, Northern men, twenty-five.
Supreme Court.—A majority of the Judges, including Chief Justice, Southern men and Slaveholders.
Secretaryship of State.—Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty years, Northern, twenty-seven.
Attorney Generalship.—Filled by Southern men and Slaveholders forty-two years, Northern men, twenty-five.
War and Navy.—Secretaryship of the Navy, Southern men and Slaveholders, the last sixteen years, with an interval of two years.
William Henry Hurlbut, of South Carolina, a gentleman of enviable literary attainments, and one from whom we may expect a continuation of good service in the eminently holy crusade now going on against slavery and the devil, furnished not long since, to the Edinburgh Review, in the course of a long and highly interesting article, the following summary of oligarchal usurpations—showing that slaveholders have occupied the principal posts of the Government nearly two-thirds of the time:—