ve had a majority of the Presidents chosen from the South,
as well as the control and management of most of those chosen from
the North. We have had sixty years of Southern Presidents to their
twenty-four, thus controlling the executive department. So, of the
judges of the Supreme Court, we have had eighteen from the South and
but eleven from the North, although nearly four-fifths of the judicial
business has arisen in the free States, yet a majority of the court
has always been from the South. This we have acquired so as to guard
against any interpretation of the Constitution unfavorable to us. In
like manner we have been equally watchful to guard our interests in the
legislative branch of government. In choosing the presiding presidents
(pro tem.) of the Senate, we have had twenty-four to their eleven.
Speakers of the House we have had twenty-three, and they twelve. While
the majority of the representatives, from their greater population,
have always been from the North, yet we have so generally secured
the Speaker, because he, to a great extent, shapes and controls the
legislation of the country. Nor have we had less control in every other
department of the general government. Attorney-generals we have had
fourteen, while the North have had but five. Foreign ministers we have
had eighty-six, and they but fifty-four. While three-fourths of the
business which demands diplomatic agents abroad is clearly from the free
States, from their greater commercial interest, yet we have had the
principal embassies, so as to secure the world-markets for our cotton,
tobacco and sugar on the best possible terms. We have had a vast
majority of the higher offices of both army and navy, while a larger
proportion of the soldiers and sailors were drawn from the North.
Equally so of clerks, auditors and comptrollers filling the executive
department; the records show, for the last fifty years, that of the
three thousand thus employed, we have had more than two-thirds of the
same, while we have but one-third of the white population of the
Republic.

Again, look at another item, and one, be assured, in which we have a
great and vital interest; it is that of revenue, or means of supporting
government. From official documents we learn that a fraction over
three-fourths of the revenue collected for the support of the government
has uniformly been raised from the North.

Pause now while you can, gentlemen, and contemplate carefully and
candidly