 Fed up with the corruption of the Grant Administration, in 1872 Littlejohn joined the Liberal Republican Party and supported the candidacy of Horace Greeley for president in 1872, having set aside his previous legal issues with Greeley.He then became a Democrat, was a delegate to several Democratic state conventions, and was an ally of Samuel J. Tilden.He died in Oswego, and was buried at the Riverside Cemetery.