The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-30
Mr.. BUoHAyAN,s RECEPTION Ar HONE.

Mr. Buchanan received with strong manifestations Of
respect on his p from Phadelpha % Lancaster Sat
urday last Upon arriving the latter place which is his
home the enthusiasm was intense On The arrival of the
procession at the square he received by DR. Muh
lenbarg chairman Of the committee OF reception who adj
dressed him a follows;
Mr BUCHANAN Representing your friends Of the city and
county Of Lancaster irrespective Of party salute you upon
your safe return 10 home and country after absence OF
several years engaged in arduous official duties and anA-
ons cares Tor your eount interests We are pleased 70
you return with your accustomed yigor unmpaired.
Even time has passed gently your brows evidently
serving you for future use and higher purposes.
The revolutionary has years since passed away.
How few Of the statesmen Of the second warhat OF 1879
remanl Cen Jackson and John Quincy Adams, Calhoun
and Crawford Webster and Clay are gone The veterans
Cass and Benton and Pennsylvania distinguished
sous Buchanan and Dallas remain point out the path OF
duty and honor 10 impatient Young America. Men of
sound principles and pure motyesmen Of experience who
have been tried at home and abroadare wanting TO adj
wise and counsel and often TO restrain the eccentric
tons Of young vigorous and exeible people You have
returned in good season, at important period of your
eounrys history when your ripe Judgment and conserve
tive couuels may be required At the North and South
and at the far West dark clouds rest upon the ho
zon indicative of storm From the broad Atlantic
are heard the low murmus accumulated power jealous
Of the rapid growth of this western repubic this home Of
the afflicted and oppressed Of all nations Great skill and
eonsummate prudence win be required TO conduct the
sci Of State through the shoals and dangerous rapids which
threaten distractions,
But we trust that Providence, which has heretofore
carefully watched this favored land of ultimate dcs
tiny win supply the best adapted TO the necessities Of
the times and circumstance who, having inscribed upon
their pure banner the constitution and the Unon will
in this and with this battlecry alone march to
glorious victory. May God grant these resutsl again
bid you heartily welcome home.
Mr. Buchanan replied in very brief but feeling aud
eloquent He referred the OF his boy hood
aud mature age being associated most closely
with everything concerning the interest and prosperity OF
Pennsylvania and her people lie had been honored with
hf,tm yiff F4y0r ha
praised the most that which convinced him that ne bad
been unmndfu Of the obligations winch he owed to
his State and country.
He spoke of the high estimation in which people
were held abroad a vigorous and powerful nation and
attributed all this prosperity to the love the people had for
that blessed constitution which preserves the union OF the
independent sovereign States of the couederacy.
In the warmest and most atectonae terms he thanked
them for the overwhelming kindness manifested for his safe
return to his long wshed-ior home.
Mr.. Muhenburg then introduced Ben amn Rush, esq to
the meeting, chairman of the committee which had es
corted Mr.. Buchanan from Philadelphia.
Mr.. Rush said As the organ of the Philade pha commit
tee appointed by the people of Philadelphia to escort their
distinguished fellow-czen Mr. Buchanan to the region
his home and that of his old friends and neghbor
he had just said with much eoqueuce and feeling be
need hardly say how much pleasure it afforded them 10
appear slch occasion before so large and euthus
astic aseublage of their eow-czens of Lancaster
county We have enjoyed the pleasure Of having Mr.
Buchanan among 10 Philadelphia for day; and II
great pleasure 1t had already he said been his
agreeable duty Parkesburgh behalf of the Philadel
phia committee in passing over their distinguished fellow
citizen those who united to him by tie
the ties of homeo express the high qualification the peo
Pile of Philadelphia had derived from his visit and cspe-
eally in the opportunity so many Of them had had in
meeting him face face and welcoming him back 10 his
native land after the distinguished service he had rendered
bis country in the high duties he had ably and
fully discharged in a foreign land [Applauso
The welcome thus extended by the people of Philadel
phia TO and your distinguished fellowcitizen
cordial and heartfelt it without discrimination
embraced well said by another individuals Of all
modes of industry, AND of varied political opinions it
comprehended all pursuit. all Interest," II was spon-
expression Of sentiment the part of the people of
great metropolis, who felt that il than
act of simple justice to faithful public servant long alb
in the foreign service Of be country greet him
bis with cordial approval OF his public conduct
and extend to him cordial personal welcome This II
his duty say TO the large and enthusiastic assenbage
he saw before him. [Cheersl
But it was equally his duty to say that there one
exception to this universal manifestation OF feeling. On
such occasion this he could not pass il in ST.
lence The majority in the councils of Philadelphia rep
resentng-he ought rather to cay miSrepresentng-for
the time being the city government Of Philadelphia with
ttleness that unworthy of them and for which they
are condemned loud cheering had refused to their
suents the of the Hall OF Independence for the pur
pose Of extending Mr. Buchanan those courtese for
which that edhce had been used again and again under
circumstances far less emitting it 10 be appropriated
IL his duty, 10 the Of the people OF Philadelphia
whom the majority Of the councils OF Philadelphia did mol
represent ia that unwGrranbe act TO denounee and he
did here publicly and emphaticay denounce their
duct Loud applause He specially charged TO de-
it and be should be recrean to his duty If he did
not do So Continued applause II would reCoil upon
the councils They would be speedily and Indignantly
buked by the great constituency whom they had thus dis
honord-who, at the approaching municipal election in
May, would burl them from power OF this he would
assure the people Of Lancaster. Continued applause
What made the conduct Of the councils the remark
able and the objectionable the fact that II was
scarcely month since the hall had been placed at the
public disposal 10 receive eminent citizen OF MassaChn
setts Mr. Everett now, like Ar Buchanan, In private life
his predecessor IN the mission his in the
great executive department Of the government the
though he accorded all honor 70 his high public Guar
and services certainly not citizen Of Penpsy
yania the other most distinguished and cherished
son and citizen Of great Common eslh, loud
cheers from which he had been absent for several years
the performance Of the highest public duties which be bad
discharged with signal ability and success Great ap
plausc Once he would say that the conduct Of The
councils deserved the motiudgnant Reproduction and such
be happy 10 fud the universal sentiment
The press Of PHILADELPHIA had already denounced IT, The
people would very soon administer the whitening rebuke
Of their scornful dsplcasurc. Co1tnued applause
An alusou bad been made by the excellent chairman Of
the meetiLg lDr. Muhenbprg) to ancestor Of my
whose associated with that great charter Of
berties the Declaration Of Independence Cheers lie
hoped ii would not be thought unseemly 10 him. in
ne1ion with the aluon just made by another say that
The portrait Of that ancestor and those most Of the other
gner connected with that great event In history
surrounded the walls Of that ball. consecaed in the hearts
Of the American people [Cheers Could the who !
In l776 placed their TO that great instrument which
made % a free nation suddenly Gecome conscious now
that Ia the year lsj6-that is say, in less than single
century-An attempt would be made from actous motives
by in power close the door OF that hall against
pure and upright citizen who bad been forty years the
public service great applause and whose whole public
life had been devoted 70 the principles Of the Declaration
Of Independence and in uphodng the CONSTITUTION and
the UNioS, the seeds Of which they planted chcersl