Phenix Gazette

From the Albany Daily Advertiser.

NEW YORK POLITICS

The result of the late election will probably have the effect of rendering, if possible, the politics of New York still more inexplicable to persons abroad, who do not know the thousand ramifications by which power is now exercised here. But in the mean time we feel confident that the friends of correct principles have nothing to apprehend. The whirlwind which has been raised will pass away, and we mistake the temper of the people if it does not take with it some of those who have been instrumental in getting it up. The reflecting part of the community have not yet been roused to action. They will not sit by and tamely see the interests of the North prostrated to meet the views of aspiring men at the South, and their accomplices here.

But the result of the late contest is not disheartening to us at all, nor is it to any one who supports the cause we do, and will take the trouble to compare effects with causes. The friends of Gen. Jackson will ultimately find that as regards his prospects in this state they have exulted too soon. However much his brilliant military achievements may dazzle and blind some men to his defects as a statesman, yet we have too much confidence in the intelligence of the people to believe that they will make those achievements paramount to all other recommendations.

It is true that the friends of the General, by constantly preaching the doctrine of non committal, till on the very eve of the election, and the then sudden combination of men whose views had always been at war, and who had for many years violently opposed each other, have succeeded in obtaining an apparent triumph in some parts of the state. But the combination which has made this demonstration that extremes may happen to meet at a given time and a given point, is composed of such heterogeneous materials that it must inevitably fall to pieces.

But while the leaders of the combination were actively, but secretly, preparing for a campaign, calculated more for effect abroad than any permanent victory at home, the friends of the administration were not on the alert; and when the Jacksonian trumpet for battle was sounded, they found themselves not organised to meet the shock of the onset, because they did not expect the conflict. They relied upon the false professions of men from whom they had a right to expect better things, and they became dupes to a miserable political artifice.

But that game cannot be played a second time. The cloven foot has been exposed, and the bargains of demagogues will not be ratified by the independent yeomanry of the state.