Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — The Presidency. [ARTICLE]

The Presidency.

Only nine of the thirty-eight States have furnished the country with Presidents. These States are the following, and the length of time the several States have held the office is also indicated: StT’ee. Yea’s. Virginia S 6 Massachusetts 8 Tennessee 16 New York. . 10l(j Ohio 4& Louisiana 1 New Hampshire.-. 4 Pennsylvania 4 Illinois 12 Total from 1789 to 1885 96 In the seventy-two years prior to the civil war the South possessed the Presidency for forty-nine years. The extraordinary contributions of Virginia to the Presidency were due, not at all to her location, but to the unusual relations of her strongmen to the Government during the period of the Revolution and the settlement of the constitution. Virginia has furnished no President since Monroe went out in 1824, unless we count the accidental service of John Tyler, whose selection as a Whig candidate for Vice President in 1840 was the result of an intrigue. Tennessee and Illinois stand next to Virginia. The sixteen ’years during which a Tennessee man has occupied the White House inthttde the eight years of Andrew Jackson, who would have been just as strong a candidate if he been born in Delaware or Rhode Island. They include also the four years of Andrew Johnson, who was not elected to the office of President. Of the two Presidents from Illinois, Lincoln was not nominated because he hailed from a State it was important to carry; and Grant, at the time of his candidacy, was regarded more as a citizen of the United States at large than as a son of Illinois.— Utica, Herald.