The southern press., 1851-04-09
More Dissatisfaotion In Virgins.

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Another of the Virginia papers, the Southsidd
Denecrai, repudiates the resolutions Of repudia-
ton passed by the Legislature We extract the
entire article
"In reading the report Of the debate in the
Senate aud the resolutions substituted for Dir.
SCOTS by the Committee Of Thirteen, We are
pleased to find that the senator from the Dim
widiie district, dissented from the second of the
series and proposed an amendment. Ii will be
remembered that tho second resolution referred
to the notorious Compromise, as an adjustment
Of the grievances and complaints Of the South
We had supposed s1'i proposition was too
much for any Southern stomach, but il seems
the Legislature could swallow ii. In truth, no
thing s more fIuctuatng than public opinion.
Beyond question r.ae-ienfhs of the people Of
Virginia were opposed, out and out 10 the Com
promi q. But their representatives contracted
by solemn league and covenant, that they should
submit and more, made the people of Virginia
smack their lips, ~ il they had taken in some
thing pleasant to the palate. Public opinion, or
rather politicians are fiuctuating, as may be- seen
by comfaring the resolutions OF AT, with the
resolutions OF 81 But there were some men
in the legislature who could not 50 stutify them
selves as V prsno unce the Compromise salts
Among these was Dr. Thompson of Dinwiddie
lie moved the following substitute to the second
resolution OF the committee, and sustained 1t by
the remarks of which we give merely an out
line:
1.-The question being on the adoption Of the I'd
resolution, Mr.. Thompson offered the following
| amendment:
| Resolred. Tint in the absence of any authen-
| tic expression of opinion by the people of this
Commonwealth on the subject, this general as
sembly deem ii unwise to recommend the send
ing of delegates to the proposed southern Con
gress.
Mr. Thompson of Dinwiddle, said that he did
not intend TO discuss the unhappy TRAN of events
which had brought the country to its present
perilous condition. The time for discussion
had passed. His object was to define his posi-
ton. He stood now where he did in l846-'47,
and he had no authority to say that his corst'r
tuents occupied different position, upon the
vexed question between the North and South
from that then taken by the Legislature and sane
toned by the State. That he was not prepared
to give an expression of their wishes and senti-
ments upon the late compromise measures--and,
therefore, he would not do it by implication, be-
lieving the resolutions under consideration, for
which he proposed substitute to sanction them.
He had no authority to say the people Of his
district Were, or were not disposed, to meet
South Carolina in a Southern Congress; and,
in the absence of all information, he would leave
that matter entirely to the people. He concur
red in the spirit of the resolutions and if so
modified as to meet the views Of all parties,
which might be done, they would meet with the
appreciation of the Legislature, calm South Caro-
lima, and restore peace to the country for he did
not think we had reached the point Of disunion;
and forbearance had not yet ceased to be avirtue"
1t will be seen that Mr.. TbompGon's substi-
tute abandons the proposition that the Compro-
mise was just to the South. Mr.. Thompson ex-
presses his concurrence in the general spirit of
the resolutions, but objects to this particular
proposition. And we assert that in this he is
sustained by the unanimous opinion of those
who elected him to the Senate. If anybody
thinks the Doctor has misrepresented the senti-
ments of his constituents, let him undertake to
oppose the Doctor in the next election. That
is the best way of settling the question Lest
some INSCRIPTIONS opponent should charge the
Doctor with disu,,ion we call attention to his
positive denial of the accusation. "We have not
yet reached the point of disunion; forbearance
has not yet ceased TO be virtue"