New-York tribune., 1879-08-28
1p1pTy WITHOUT 4 COUNTRY.

The history Of the most wretched man ever
conceived in the imagination OF the novelist
is told in the story of g Mln Without Il
Country" No nationality no land that ne
could call his own; no part of the human
family in whose achievements he could feel
pride; no flag and no home. But what Is the
Greenback party now but Il party without
a country If it has a hope, 1t Is that the
United States may meet disaster. Bad crops
here, prostratiOn of industry, closing OF shops
ana mills, multiplication Of tTamps, filling OF
noorhouses and iails, increase Of losses and OF
4nfferinc-theseare are the only arguments which can
help the eGreenbackparty. If these fail, the party
goes to the bad. 1t cannot shout for joy when
the credit of the United States improves, for
that is an argument for Sherman and the Re-
publicans. Ii cannot see with pleasure the
crowdiag of Outward-bOund steamers with the
rich products of our farms; that helps to fill
the Treasury and the banks, and to make re-
SUMPTION a success. Gold comes hither by the
millions, and the Greenback party shudders.
There is prosperity for the country, but death
to the party. Debts are paid, farmers for the
first time tread acres on which no mortgage
lies, men and women sleep for the first time
in homes they can call their own, and all this
brings despair to the heart of the Greenback
advocate, for his cOuntry's disgrace and misery
alone can save him from contempt
1t is d party without a country, and party
without future. No one sUppOses that the
elastic industry and enterprise of Americans
can long be kept down. Sooner or later there
must come again such grand prosperity as
this country has thrice enioyed-prosperity
10 OF a cd nm an ot hpT
land When good times come, the Greenback
party dies. Every breath of hope for the
country is to that unhappy party more deadly
than the blast of the sirOccO It's possibility
Of q future existence rests upon the failure of
American genius. energy, patience and man
hood-that is to say, 1t has no. right to hope
for future at all.
To such party as this young men IN this
country are even now asked to join them
selves. Fiimsy falsehoods are told them of
the suffering existing somewhere else when
they point to crowded barns and busy work
shops near at hand. Stories that school
boy should be able TO disprove. as to
abuse of the power of the Treasury for the
benefit of public creditors, are paraded before
them. Banks and bankers are attacked by
men who know that the country never yet has
seen any other banking system so good as
that which il now enjoys Wretched rhymes,
insulting to their intelligence as to their taste,
are sung in their hearing as the battle songs
of a party which would revel in the country's
misery, if only the country would be mlSer-
able. The grand prosperity which sends the
blood bounding with new swifthess and vigOr
through all the pulses of trade, means hope
to everybody else, but death to the Greenback
demagogse.
Where is the man who wants to tie himself
to a party that is doomed to die disgraceful
death7 This country is not going to ruin.
The splendid courage Of its people, tned for
many weary years has proved victorious.
Royal good faith, and the manhood and pluck
to make good every pledge, have placed this
country high on the roll of fame. The men
Of to-day greet each other with good cheer
because the nation has kept its faith, and
reached the solid rock Of specie payments.
The men of generations hereafter will look
back with pride TO the work and the triumph
of the Americans of to-day. But there is one
unhappy man-the Greenbacker. He is