March 4, 1817 } James Monroe, _Virginia_. " 3, 1825 } March 4, 1825 } John Q. Adams, _Massachusetts_. " 3, 1829 } March 4, 1829 } Andrew Jackson, _Tennessee_. " 3, 1837 } March 4, 1837 } Martin Van Buren, _New York_. " 3, 1841 } March 4, 1841 } William H. Harrison, _Ohio_. " 3, 1845 } March 4, 1845 } James K. Polk, _Tennessee_. " 3, 1849 } March 4, 1849 } Zachary Taylor, _Louisiana_. " 3, 1853 } March 4, 1853 } Franklin Pierce, _New Hampshire_. " 3, 1857 } March 4, 1857 } James Buchanan, _Pennsylvania_. " 3, 1861 } At the close of the term for which Mr. Buchanan is elected, it will have been seventy-two years since the organization of the present Government. In that period, there have been eighteen elections for President, the candidates chosen in twelve of them being Southern men and slaveholders, in six of them Northern men and non-slaveholders. No Northern man has ever been re-elected, but five Southern men have been thus honored. Gen. Harrison, of Ohio, died one month after his inauguration. Gen. Taylor, of Louisiana, about four months after his inauguration. In the former case, John Tyler, of Virginia, became acting President, in the latter, Millard Fillmore, of New York. Of the seventy-two years, closing with Mr. Buchanan's term, should he live it out, Southern men and slaveholders have occupied the Presidential chair forty-eight years and three months, or a little more than two-thirds of the time. THE SUPREME COURT. The judicial districts are organized so as to give five judges to the slave States, and four to the free, although the population, wealth, and business of the latter are far in advance of those of the former. The arrangement affords, however, an excuse for constituting the Supreme Court, with a majority of judges from the slaveholding States. MEMBERS. Chief Justice--R. B. Taney, _Maryland_. Associate Justice--J. M. Wayne, _Georgia_. " " John Catron, _Tennessee_. " " P. V. Daniel, _Virginia_. " " John A. Campbell, _Alabama_. " " John McLean, _Ohio_. " " S. Nelson, _New York_. " " R. C. Grier, _Pennsylvania_. " " B. R. Curtis, _Massachusetts_. Reporter--B. C. Howard, _Maryland_. Clerk--W. T. Carroll, _D. C._ SECRETARIES OF STATE. The highest office in the Cabinet is that of Secretary of State, who has under his charge the foreign relations of the country. Since the year 1789, there have been twenty-two appointments to the office--fourteen from slave States, eight from free. Or, counting by years, the post has been filled by Southern men and slaveholders very nearly forty years out of sixty-seven, as follows: Appointed.