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Federal Office Holders

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
May
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The foliowirig s 8 Jist of the officers at Washington, nnd in diplomatic 8tations,where lie compensolon s bv salary, tvitli the amount fmoney paid to them accorc'inv to law. - F'bis list was communicated to the Globe, by sorne office seeker, with the design of i ntr the injtistice done to eome of the States. We have divided the list into free and slave States una foreign : FREE STATES.The writer in the Globe points wiih indig nalion to Ibe fuct that several of the Slaies nre entirely overlopked onionp this mullitude ofemployres ofllie Govcrmenl. Bol our read crs will observo thit there M a grraíer dis proporüon bctwecn tlie slave nnd free Stoies. Thé elavc Slnlcs have th eo-fifths of the offices, nnd about the same proportion of pay. Maryland ond Virginia come in for a Inrge ehore of thee favors. Bnt tlie e will bo found to be a fnr rreatcr disproportion among thosennder ofikers and clerks who nre appointed lo fill pincps not enumiralcd above.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News