Slave Slate And Free State Presidents?

VVhen Mr PolkV term shnll have ?sired, it Will Ie 60 years since the office of President wns fille.d, and 47 ycars 11 months i.f thnt rime wil] i bflVa bepn fil!ed by n slaveholder, or men froin the slavehol ling Stnle.', and b,it 12 years nnd 1 m.mtl) by non-slavehnJdis, er n;tr, fromthe frcfi St.-iK-j. Fiie times have lavehoMfiN been re-eleried t that ofi'p- - non-slavehnLJers, never ! A very large m-ijority nf the higUer civil nmi militaiy o(Ti -crs of the governmen', has eer been hel i bv gentlemen belonaing to the slnveholdirg Stales. No less tliaii 36 years of ihe Presidecy e ben given to t!:e South, - ave to Virginia alone! To (he Western slave States, 12 earsofihR Presidency have been assigned ; and 12 years to the frpe States of the Nnrth.wliüe bui one month has the Presideniial Chair been filled by a citizen of the f ree Wrst t In 1S-10, the freeStnies pollrd 1,70(5,. 378 votes flr Presideriti.il election,whi!e the Snuih, exclu-ive of South Carolina, wh se elpc'ors were chosen hv She LeisInture of tliat Sta!-, polled but 693,115 votes, or but a trifle more than one ihird ns manyas the fres Siates. PennsyUania, OJiio and Indiana polled 677.138 vote=, being wiihin less than 15.000 of as many votes as the entire soulh cast, and vet wilh the exception o( Gen. Harrj. loft'a ot-.e ii'onth, neither of them ever -ind a President n the person of one of heir citizeng, and expecting the present ficó President, I think they never had a Vke President. New York and Pennyhnniapoüed, in 1840, 726.03o votes, md New York has had the Presidencv 4