The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-28
From the National Intelligencer.

Signs of the Times.-If it were not for an unshaken confidence in the re urning good sense of the great body of the American peo- pie, we should view with painful anxiety, fl not serious alarm, the entire recklessness of consequences which appears to direct the movements of certain political leaders who now ride on the whirlwind if they do not d- rect the storm.
 We asserted, during the last summer, what we had good authority for stating, that mea- sures equivalent to a dissolution of the Union were the common topic of conversations in a certain private circle at Richmond, and this too amongst individuals from whose age and experience precepts of moderation and patr. otism should be expected instead of sugges- tions which beft rather madmen than states men. This as in duty bound, was, at the time stoutly denied by the Richmond Enqui- Ter. But, now, what do we see gravely a. vowed by the Governor of Viginia, in an off cial communication to the legislature of that if it mean any thing more than mere buster can look, asthe Richmond Whig justly says, to but two things-REsIsTANCE of the laws, or a DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION. This al formative, presented in the Message of the Governor which we publish to-day,is howev- CT only the second edition of the Message to the legislature of the last Winter on the same subject.
 To what lengths may not men be carried by personal hate and party violence! Where will they stop? Will they stop at all Is there no limit to their violence! Is nothing to be sacred from. their fury The excite ment which now sweeps over the country as a desolating tornado menaces the overthrow ofevery thing which gives value nd life to our institutions and there are me-. so in(uri- ated byparty rage as to seem willing to rend the very Union asunder if ii oppose a barri- CT to their mad career. Are this violence and strife-this agitation of society-this jeopardy of social order and government-the necessary concomitants of freedom and republican lnsti- tutions Or are they fruits of an unholy am bition-of in6amed passions seeking grati6- cation not SD much in the elevation of men, however worthy as in the prostration of Oth- CT men, against whom, from the caucus den, the cry of prescription has gone forth
 As for the consequences of all this excite ment, we have never-laling reliance upon that experimenting Providence, which has, thus far. ruled the destinies of thls country, and placed it on the elevated ground which il now occupies amongthe nations of the earth. Armed with this faith, we have no doub: ol the success Of the cause of CIVIL LIBERTY. & which we know, in reference to Gov. GUILE's doctrines, to be the cause of THE COUNTRY, against fanaticism, almost without example in history.
 From ths Richmond Whig, ofFe69.
 Monsieur IOns0n come again !--We had supposed, after the experience of the utter ineficacy of such proceedings, to intim. idate other states---after the expenss the two last Legislatures put the the state to, in the debate of MT. Dromgoole's ano MT. Giles resolutions,--above all, when having twice already, wilhin two years declared her opinions upon the Tariff, i could not be necessary for Virginia thirt time to announce them-that this sessor of the Legislature would have passed qui etly to iss conclusion, without repetition of what has been so often declared. h this we were mistaken. Restrained, fo some time past, with great difficulty, (i rumor may be credited,) by the more judi