New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-06
TIE a. P. lis.

- @"fS ACfl1S " SOOL uGdl Oi LIE A. I
, US of late, and have earnestly endeav
ored to find out whether they have a rea
existence, or are only the vain imagin
ings Of some distempered brain. w
acknowledge that the mysterious manner
in which we have been Intercepted by
certain individuals supposed to be thor.
oughly posted in all the intrigues and 20,
itical movements Of the day, as to the
movement of the A. P. us, and what we
know Of the secret order, fully aroused
our curiosity some time since ; but as we
had not succeeded in tracing a SOLITARY
member Of The mysterious order to his
hole, and had nothing but significant
nod or an ominous wink from some polit-
lcal. wiseacre to confirm the existence of
the order of the A. P. u, we were about
to conclude the stories in regard to the
organization were all CANNON, when the
Pjcdqune comes forward and. by gravelv
intimating that We have a secret political
organization in our midst, makes us fancy
that we see an A. P. u. in every man we
meet
The Pic now seriously tells its readers
that ''secfet political societies are con-
trary to the genius Of republican institu-
lions, and the Pic for once may be cor
rect; but its information should have been
given some time ago, and so acted upon
as to prevent the secret action Of all politi-
cal bodies There is good reason to be-
heve that secret political organizations
have existed in our midst for long time.
and through their existence the Pic NAV
have been constituted an organ of the
people. French protective unions, Irish
protective unions, Dutch protective unions,
African protective unions, and in fact all
kinds of unions have been deemed proper
but American protective unions. Now,
we certainly deprecate the necessity for
political protective unions in a country
governed by republican institutions, and
there is no good reason for having our
country cut up into as many political Or
carnations as there are nationalities upon
the face Of the earth. But if men born of
other nations will come here and after be- |
coming citizens of this free country will |
attempt to make interest by banding to-
gether as Frenchmen, Germans, Italians
Spaniards, Irishmen, Africans, ETC., it |
should not be thought strange if Ameri-
cans are driven to band together for like
purpose Of interest We hold, however,
that there is no necessity in this country
for men to act in this manner All should
be Americans, and by endeavoring to up
lold the honor, dignity and prosperity Of
he country, promote the welfare of all
classes of its people All citizens Of the
'epublic should be proud to be called
Americans, and although an honest differ
'nce of opinion may divide them in a po-
ltlcal contest, they should not forget that
hey are all in favor Of popular govern
nent Republicans and Democrats may
trive hard for the honors and ennoIuments
II office, but i'll their strife for the ascend
ncy they never should forget that they are
and deport themselves as intel
gent freemen, men worthy Of the bless
1gs Of well regulated freedom. The
'orthy men of all parties will dc this. It t
only the unworthy who strive to take !
Of the prejudices and passions /
men. The unworthy have no hesitation t
| arraying class against class or section I
5ainst section if they can make it work to
leir advantage. It is dangerous for men
climb successfully the political ladder in
is way, and it should not be encouraged.
is just as wrong, however, to attempt to =
hampton class as section in this coun- d
y, where the people have no established C
,spotism to combat We have expe- b
enced the bitter fruits of sectional war "
which the Picayuae was not a silent v
ectator In that contest most acri- Il
onious feeling was stirred up in the a
nth against all Americans who opposed a
e disruption Of the American Union, and 81
e very name of American was reyiled u
ID repudiated by the men who were striv- e1
g to pull down the proud fabric reared Il
Washington and his compeers. There w
only one thing that could induce us to o,
Tor an American Protective Union at tb
IS timeo and that would be to know that re