Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-09
from Gs National -Iatelli9eEeer. THE FALL ELECTIONS.

tions, are decidedly favorable to our adVer- sarieS. These results, our readers will bear us witness, are what We anticipated many weeks ago, and we are not therefore disap- pointed in them. They are in the natural order of things, and might have been pre- dicted by any attentive observer of the signs of the times with as much certainty as an eclipse in the heavens may be calculated by one who is skilled in astronomy. So far from it's being any marvel that the Whigs have suffered all the late elections to be won by their opponents, the wonder would have been had the event of those elections been other than it is.
 It is needless here to bring in review the political incidents of the last seven or eight months, which have brought about this state 1 of things. Our readers are sufficiently fa- ed HARRISON, though it rather disheartened some of those who had been drawn to the Whig standard by their personal preference 1 for him, could not have discouraged the l Whig party so as to lead to its defeat, had not his death been followed by the dissen- sion between Congress and the Executive, which came to head, at the close of the late session of Congress, just in time to shed it's disastrous influence upon the pending elec- tions. The extravagant joy of the Locofoco party, upon the disclosure of that discord, was the significant and prophetic symptom of the series of reveTses which has since at- tended the Whig party at the polls.
 1 Yes, the Whig party has-to use figure borrowed from the Turf-been distanced by an antagonist, whom, less than year ago, on the National course, it had beaten with the greatest ease. The same thing has hap. 1 pened on the turf, before now, to the noblest animals. It is but few days ago, indeed, since Boston, the fleetest horse of his day, was actually distanced on the Camden course by a competitor who would, few weeks before, have been no match for him. Boslon's being beaten-if good judges are to be belleved-and the defeat of the Whig par ty, are to be accounted for on precisely the same principle. The hIgh-mettled racer was tasked too severely: He had done his some respite from labor. Disappointed in this just expectation, his temper was soured It was not that Boston could not easily have done at Camden what he had so recently before accomplished Elsewhere; but his high spirit revolted at what he considered illus age in being over-Worked. and he refused Co run So too, is the defeat of the Whig party l in the late elections attributable, not to it's want of power, nor even to any considerable reduction of it's actual below its former strength, but to its loss of temper, and consc- quent indifference to success or defeat.
 Let not our friends droop, however, nor our adversaries exult, upon the occasion of results which, properly considered, afford no ground for despondency on the one side or jubiation on the other. Under the influ- ence of the same causes, could not but have happened, sooner or later, what has come to pass; and it is surely much more suspicious to the continued success of the principles which triumphed at the last National Elec- ton, that it should have happened thus ear ly than that itshould have been postponed till the next; year, when more important elections are to be held, upon which disgust and apnthy, such as has been lately evinced by the Whig party, would have exerted an influence fatal to it's future ascendancy.
 That influence has now spent it's force up- on the Whig phalanx with no worse effect than wavering in it's ranks, which indi- catcs surprise, and some want of confidence, along with ve.ied spirit, rather than any change of mind or want of resolution. The reaction is to come. That it ,ciH come, we have entire confidence. With means of in- formation surpassed by few, we are satisfied that the great mass of the Wings, in all parts of the country, unshaken and unchanged by any thing that has happened, will rally to the rescue, and, when the signal is given for the elections of the next year, bear them. selves as gallantly, and sustain their cause as gloriously, as when, just one year ago, they proved to their opponents that the strength was theirs, and the will only was wanting to insure to them the victory.
 I'he Whig Party.-Discouraging as the prospects of the Whig party may appear, under recent defeats, no party ever present. cd spectacle more worthy of respect, or had more cause of qualification at the stand which it's members have taken, with such unanimity, in favor of principle against pow CT. Whilst Gen. Jackson was in office, he abandoned, one after another, every great principle under which he was elected and yet the bulk of the party which supported him-the Loco Focos-udhered to him like leeches through all his changes, justified ev- cry violation of duty, hurraed at every as- sault on the Constitution, would have abol- ished the Senate itself, because it dared to rebuke his exercise of kingly authority, and doubtless would have held him blameless if he had actually marched into that chamber and cut off the ears of his enemies, as he once threatened to do. He closed his re- markabe career by appointing hs success sor, and his obsequious followers ratified his choice. He had power, he had patronage; he had spells to dispense, and he had prom iSed, through his organ, to reward his friends and punish his enemies. Therefore his friends stuck to him. They coveted the spells more than they valued the welfare of the country.
 But look now at the remarkable contrast between all this and the conduct of the Whig party. MT. Tyler is in the same office, plac- ed there by the Wings, having the same pow CT. patronage and spells to dispense. He disappoints the expectations of his friends TVoS fnIx lx>f fh.Ar 1v,s0 Ao