The Litchfield County Post

POLITICAL.
From the New York Daily Advertiser

The result of the Louisiana state election, which has been published, is both mortifying and discouraging to the partisans of General Jackson. It is true they endeavored to provide a retreat from the field of discomfiture, by declaring beforehand that the loss of this election would furnish no evidence of the real feelings of the state—other circumstances might operate in favor of the administration party, and their candidates might receive a majority of the votes, though the general state of public opinion was in fact with the Jackson party. The true meaning of this was, that if the majority of votes should be in favour of the administration, it was no proof of their popularity, or of Gen. Jackson's unpopularity; but if it should prove that Jackson's friends had the majority, then it would be decisive evidence that the state was for him. We are not disposed to cavil with them on this subject. As long as the fact is, that the majority of the people of that state are in favour of the administration, and against Jackson, we are perfectly willing that his partisans should labor to prove, metaphysically, that the evidence is the other way.

There are several things connected with this election, worthy of serious consideration. No longer ago than last winter, the legislature of Louisiana sent a formal official invitation to Gen. Jackson to visit New Orleans on the 8th of January, and join with the citizens in celebrating his own glory on that memorable anniversary. The invitation was given and accepted beyond a question, with immediate reference to the influence it might have on the approaching presidential election. There is no doubt that both he and his friends flattered themselves with the idea, that his presence would, as it did on some former occasion, silence all opposition and leave him the full and undisputed master of the ground. The party made the most of the scheme all over the union; and from this city a delegation of the most distinguished statesmen were sent all the way to New Orleans, to puff the incense of servile adulation into his open nostrils. The fete took place; and the party insisted upon it that it went off in the highest style of splendor and magnificence. It is true this was denied by multitudes of persons who were present: but as they were all grumbling administration men their testimony, though corroborated by strong circumstances, was not worthy of credit, as the elections would show thereafter. It is now manifest who told the truth. The election has been held; the Jacksonites have been beaten. It might have been otherwise, if the hero had once more proclaimed martial law, and have suspended the Habeas Corpus. For some reason or other, this was not done, though 'necessity,' the plea which has commonly been used in the justification of his outrages, existed as strongly in this as in any previous instance.

In the next place, it will be borne in mind, that Gen. Jackson's chief claims to the presidency rest altogether on his exploits in the defence of New Orleans. There is no pretence of his possessing any other quality than military talents: and there is no instance of the exercise of those talents beside this, that they consider in the least degree, entitling him to the chief magistracy. Nobody thinks of holding up his extraordinary capacity for butchering Indians, or his extreme propensity for broils, duels, &c. as furnishing evidence of his fitness for the greatest honor of the nation. Now if the defence of New Orleans, was, in itself, so meritorious as to give a man decisive claims to the office of president, they would be the very people to know it; & it would be strange if they did not acknowledge it. Yet they were not willing to trust the country in such sacrilegious hands. And who can blame them? They understand this matter better than all the rest of the United States put together. Men cannot be driven to be grateful against the evidence of their experience.

The question then occurs, whether the nation at large are called upon to pay Gen. Jackson a higher price for his services at New Orleans, than the people of that city have declared is due to him? Such a course of conduct would be not only absurd but ridiculous. They have settled the question, in a case in which they cannot be mistaken; every fact passed under their immediate observation: they feel every benefit of the services rendered: and they know all that took place, which is calculated to assist the mind in coming to a correct conclusion. That conclusion they have drawn—and it would be strange, indeed, if the nation would not fully acquiesce to it.