The Rhode Island Republican

Removals.--The Clay papers have made a great outcry about removals since the present administration came into power. By a tabular statement in the Washington Globe, we are enabled to state the actual extent to which this power had been exercised at Washington. It appears there were 333 individuals holding office at Washington, at the will of the President when Gen. Jackson came into office. Of these 243 were opposed to his administration, and 90 in favor of it. Since then there have been 44 removals, 11 resignations, 14 deaths, and one discontinuance. Some of the vacancies have been supplied with persons friendly, and some with persons unfriendly to the President. At present there are 187 persons holding their office at Washington at the will of the President who are opposed to him politically, and 146 who are friendly to him, politically. Hence it will be seen that while under the former administration, the democracy of the country held but 90 out of the 333 offices at the seat of Government--and that under the present administration, the democracy have only 146 out of 333. And yet the outcry against the President! the charge of proscription, &c. Nothing short of giving them all the offices in the country will ever satisfy the aristocracy--that is plain. They think all the offices belong by birthright to the 'gentlemen,' as they call themselves--and that the vulgar people have no sort of right to any thing in that way.--When General Jackson came into power he found nearly all the offices every where, State and National, in the hands of the aristocrats--they had silently been proscribing the people, the democracy of the country for years--and had worked all but a little remnant out. He commenced a reform in that matter, for which the people will thank him.--He turned the worthless out--he dismissed Watkins and his coadjutors--and he broke down the principle of patrician succession. This is his offence--that having been elected by the people, he has remembered the people.--Trenton Emp.