Kentucky Gazette

	Federal	Democratic
In Washington city. 14	5
Meigs,	10	1
Gallia,	4	1
Lawrence,	3	0
Athens,	7	2

From the Washington Globe.
OFFICE HOLDERS.

Mr Van Buren is generally called by the opposition papers, the candidate for the Office-Holders. We have repeatedly stated, that a large majority of the office-holders are opposed to his election. It is in the power of the Jackson republican presses in the several sections of the country effectually to establish this fact, and put down the falsehood of the unprincipled opposition. Below is an extract from an Ohio paper, which shows what is the relative number of office-holders on each side in five counties in that State. We could only wish further, that the editor would put them down by name, challenging contradiction, and that other editors throughout the Union would take the same course.

From the Marietta (Ohio) Democrat, of 24th August last.

OFFICE-HOLDERS!!!--Perhaps in no part of this State, have the opposition tried harder to impress upon the people that every opposition man who held an office under the administration was turned out, than in this congressional district. For nearly eight years past, they have never ceased applying the term "office-holders" to the friends of Gen. Jackson, and that they were seeking to prostrate every man who differed from them in opinion. Now, let us, for a moment, see how the office-holders "in this district stand affected" towards the administration and Mr Van Buren. In Washington there are nineteen Post-masters fourteen of whom are decidedly opposition. In Meigs county there are eleven offices, ten of which are filled by opposition postmasters. In Gallia, among the five offices, Gen Jackson never had but one supporter, and in Lawrence, where there are three offices, he has none at all. In Athens county, out of nine postmasters seven are bitterly opposed to the present administration. According to our estimate, and we have taken considerable pains in collecting the information, the politics of the postmasters in the five counties, stand thus:

THIRTY-EIGHT opposition, and but NINE Jackson postmasters in the five counties, and that too, under an administration, which the opposition say, PROSCRIBES EVERY MAN WHO IS OPPOSED TO General Jackson in Politics. Every man, set down on the federal side of our list, is now a partisan of the Petticoat Hero, and goes all lengths against Mr Van Buren. Yet we would not complain of all this, did we not know that many of them, use THEIR OFFICES TO EMBARRASS THE HEAD OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT--TO PREVENT THE CIRCULATION OF DEMOCRATIC PAPERS, AND TO ELECTIONEER AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. Throughout the state, the proportion of the OFFICE-HOLDERS, arrayed against us in the coming contest, we believe to be much greater than in this district.

Now, we ask the Postmaster General, and the country, whether the support these postmasters openly give to a party which they know is constantly traducing the administration as ferociously proscriptive, is any evidence of their moral honesty or worthiness for public trust? If they were honest men, would they not correct the falsehoods of their party, or abandon its cause!