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"we Must Have Gentlemen For Officers

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
June
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

[liori. Henvy A. Wisé. This was the reason given by the Hon. II. A. Wise, in Congress for opposing a motionofMr. Buswell, to allow naval apprentices, whenfound rcorthj, to be ap pointed midshipmcn. "We must have gentlemen for officers." Gentlemen means slaveholders, of course. Sothinks slaveholder Polk, and so think the Subservient Senate. Congress have passec a bilí for cstablishing a ncw regiment o mounted riflemen, and all the officei's have been appointed. The Colonel is from Louisiana, the lieutenant colone from South Carolina, the major from Kentucky ; and seven of the ten captains are from the South - of course, you know Emandjpator.