The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-28

eious yacksoO naen, from addressing llae Legislature on this subject, Gov. Gile has fnally taken tue bit between his teeth, and disdained the fnrthsr control Of self appointed advisers. On yesterday, he submitted message to the Legislature, denouncing the Tariff in the bitteres, termS--pronouncing it system of plunde, ceiling upon, the Legislature to resist and going bOw-shot beyond former pre- ccdents. He does not, if we understand rightly, designate the mode of resistance. There are, however, but two modes-re- taliation, or diSSolntion of the Union.
 Mr. Gordon and Mr. Harvie advocated the reference of the message and docu- mentS, {the proceedings of the South Car olina and Georgia Legislatures on the same subiect,) to Select Committee. This was opposed by Mir. White, of Rock bridge, and by Mir. Hunter, who moved its reference to ths Congress Of the United St0teS. It was referred to a Select Committep, of whom Mr. Gordon is Chairman.
 We may calculate upon an additional weeks prolongation of the session, ,and the expenditure of some or $8OOO, to de- clare, over again, what is not true in the ] first place-that the Tariff is unconstitu- tional-which, if it was true, was declared the last session, and the session before. If any man can see utility in this course, he has sharper optics than we pretend to- Perhaps, however, the northwest of Vir- ginia, Pennsylvania, and New-york, may be enlightened by this measure, as to the true views and feelings of the Jackson par ty. Ifthey, who conceive their prosperity identified with the Tariff, continue to sup- port Jackson, after this unequivocal proof of the feelings of the great body of his supp porters towards their favorite policy, the more fools they-that is all we have to say. Erecutios Departnesnt, February 8, 1928. Sir:-In compliance with the Resolu- tions of the respective Legislatures of s. Carolina and Georgia, I now do myself the honor of laying before ;he General As sembly, the proceedings of each of the Le- gislatures of these States, upon the subject of the Tariff, Internal Improvements, and the American Colonization Society.
 Whilst I sincerely lament the unwise. unjust, and ill-fated measures, which have given rise to these proceedings, I fully concur in the principles and doctrines therein asserted, ,and demonstrated, as we'll as in their anticipation of the fatal conse- quences to the union of these states, in the event of. the perseverance in the depreca- ted measures on the part of the General Government. Believing that a just spirit of inquiry is just awakened by the pressure of ntolerable burthens, especially upon the great staple productions of agriculture, and above all,upon the production ofwheat; and that the time is now arrived when every American citizen ought to be informed of the true character and destructive opera tions of those unauthorized measures, as well as in regard to their unjust and op- pressive sectional bearings, as in regard to
 their destructive influence upon the great principle of American liberty, secured to the American people in written Constitu- tions, take pleasure in submitting those vitally interesting subjects to the General Assembly and therefore most respect fully ask for their most profound conside- ration.
 Feeling the highest qualification from the conviction that the General Assembly, under every emergency, will ever be found equal to the highest destinies which may devolve upon it, through the solemn requi- sitions and injunctions of our fundamental laws ; and particularly so, when placed by them as senti els to guard the rights and liberties of the Virginia People, and ofthe corporate rights of the state of Virginia, I shall refrain from recommending to the General Assembly, at this time, the adop- ton of any specific measure, which may think imperiously called for, to meet and subdue the alarming crisis. Besides, am conscious, that the great body of the peo- pie of Virginia have just and full conf- dence on their General Assembly, and ex- pect every member to doshis duty in the worst of times. This conviction furnishes an additional motive with me, for relying with confidence upon such measures as the General Assembly, in its exclusive judg- ment, may think proper to adopt upon the momentous occasion.
 l cannot avoid observing, however, that it must be subject of the highest grati6- cation to every citizen within the sections of country now laboring under the unau- thorized expressions of the General Gov ernment, to know that the Local Authori- ! v