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:-- 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