New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-22
WHAT THE SOUTH THINKS.

Il cannot reasonably be thought that the Philadel-
mia prescription was one too difficult for the ffater
mixers South Of the Wigwam to swallow. They did
not for that matter, need to swallow II; all that was
necessary was to make an appearance OF swallowing.
The bait was sugar.cOa,ed Take il, aud the Presi.
dent is yours for good or evil" said the managers OF
the great puppet-booth set up in Philadelphia. The
strings were pulled aceordiugly the dose was taken,
and all the Convention, from Maine TO Texas,
wen. for joy. The dose could not have been
at all bitter or (whateyer the delegate from
Massachusetts might have done) Gov. Orr from soutl
Carolina would have spurned it in the name OF an un-
purged, nauseated, and very bilious people There
was no debate over 1.-THE medicine OF the resolutions
and the address was taken withou, moments sL.k-
ing in a speech by either Copperhead or Rebel. 1t
was considered Just the prescription, if any preSerp-
ton was necessary; but Messrs Randall, Doclittle,
Cowan, and the rest Of the political faculty well
knew that the patient had TO be kept quiet the dose
would be a failure. SO the bOsterOus sick
man of the South petted in the OF the bread
and-butter nurses and quoted with the sugarpum of
the Presidents favor The prescription was read and
approyed; the Northern members gulped down the
potion as they would have done any other; aud to all
ntents and purposes the resolves were summarily
and satisfactorily put away. But fany one is eredulous
enough to believe that the prescription of the doccrin
tpe White House taken in good faith by the people
Of the South through their authorized AID ssrmjs'
stoned representatives he is cheriShing wOefu delu
sion. What with gongs and drums and "Chinese
thunder" the medieine-man at the White House failed
in his last prescription as in all others, if it was ever
his intention to work healhful reconstruction. Tie
medicine, like all else in the Presidents druegery,
was used as an external tonic, and no more. But the
South was reinvigorated with Johnsonism, and is no
doubt as good Rebel as ever.
We have only to take up the journals Of tho Re
bellion TO show that there is no meaning in the yco-
phanoy of the Wgwam other than that as long as
Mr.. Johnson chooses TO use the soutb, with
all its evil theories again made decent and
practical, SO long the South intends 10 use
the President for its own aims of msrule. The
hypocrisy is performed under protest, and the
protest is sweeping We doubt if there is a single
ournal, which claims TO speak for those who took
part in the Rebellion, that unshirkingly and un.
shrinkingy indorses the platform OF the Convention
in the whole scope Of meaning that its makers pro.
fessed to impart to it. The Richmond papers condemn
the Cowan resolves with spirit and tone OF uDanimty
best shown, upon the whole, in the following from
The Dispatch:
n so the address that the people Of be South
are responsible for the war; that tue rebeion
that they disposed 10 owdge cupabiy and contr
ton that Federal Government acted sedeeDse and
under tho Constitution &C. what the people Of the
south DO not believe feel 20 he true and what therefore,
they have no thought OF admitting
That is to say, in short that there is nothing what
ever in the resolves to which he South can subscribe
except the inevitable and inconsroverblo facts that
first tho war is ended, ard the South beaten; %,
that it is impractcable. and therefore impossible to