| Presidents | 11 out of 16 | |
| Judges of the Supreme Court | 17 out of 28 | |
| Attorneys General | 14 out of 19 | |
| Presidents of the Senate | 61 out of 77 | |
| Speakers of the House | 21 out of 33 | |
| Foreign Ministers | 80 out of 134 |
As a matter of general interest, and as showing that, while there have been but 11 non-slaveholders directly before the people as candidates for the Presidency, there have been at least 16 slaveholders who were willing to serve their country in the capacity of chief magistrate, the following table may be here introduced:—
RESULT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1796 TO 1856.
| Year. | Name of Candidate. | Elect’l vote. | ||
| 1796 | { | John Adams | 71 | |
| Thomas Jefferson | 68 | |||
| 1800 | { | Thomas Jefferson | 73 | |
| John Adams | 64 | |||
| 1804 | { | Thomas Jefferson | 162 | |
| Charles C. Pinckney | 14 | |||
| 1808 | { | James Madison | 128 | |
| Charles C. Pinckney | 45 | |||
| 1812 | { | James Madison | 122 | |
| De Witt Clinton | 89 | |||
| 1816 | { | James Monroe | 183 | |
| Rufus King | 34 | |||
| 1820 | { | James Monroe | 218 | |
| No opposition but one vote | ||||
| 1824 | { { | Andrew Jackson[7] | 99 | |
| John Q. Adams | 84 | |||
| W. H. Crawford | 41 | |||
| Henry Clay | 37 | |||
| 1828 | { | Andrew Jackson | 178 | |
| John Q. Adams | 83 | |||
| 1832 | { { | Andrew Jackson | 219 | |
| Henry Clay | 49 | |||
| John Floyd | 11 | |||
| William Wirt | 7 | |||
| 1836 | ||||
| { | Martin Van Buren | 170 | ||
| William H. Harrison | 73 | |||
| Hugh L. White | 26 | |||
| { | Willie P. Mangum | 11 | ||
| Daniel Webster | 14 | |||
| 1840 | { | William H. Harrison | 234 | |
| Martin Van Buren | 60 | |||
| 1844 | { | James K. Polk | 170 | |
| Henry Clay | 105 | |||
| 1848 | { | Zachary Taylor | 163 | |
| Lewis Cass | 127 | |||
| 1852 | { | Franklin Pierce | 254 | |
| General Winfield Scott | 42 | |||
| 1856 | { | James Buchanan | 174 | |
| John C. Fremont | 114 | |||
| Millard Fillmore | 8 |
AID FOR KANSAS.
As a sort of accompaniment to tables, 50, 51, 52 and 53, we will here introduce a few items which will more fully illustrate the liberality of Freedom and the niggardliness of Slavery.
From an editorial article that appeared in the Richmond (Va.,) Dispatch, in July, 1856, bewailing the close-fistedness of slavery, we make the following extract:—
“Gerrit Smith, the Abolitionist, has just pledged himself to give $1,500 a month for the next twelve months to aid in establishing Freedom in Kansas. He gave, but a short time since, at the Kansas relief meeting in Albany, $3,000. Prior to that, he had sent about $1,000 to the Boston Emigrant Committee. Out of his own funds, he subsequently equipped a Madison county company, of one hundred picked men, and paid their expenses to Kansas. At Syracuse he subscribed $10,000 for Abolition purposes, so that his entire contributions amount to at least $40,000.”