Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-26
New York to Willard Fillmore.
THE CIVIC OVATION.
The PHILADELPHIA Committee, dc.

The reception given to Mr. Fillmore, on Tues.
day, was Of the most enthusiastic character, We
take from the Express the following report
Mr.. Fillmore was called upon by large number
OF strangers and citizens this morning, including
many of his old associates in Congress from this
andneighborng States, aud many distinguished and
official personages from home and abroad. Among
the members Of the present Congress we observed
Messrs Edwards and Haven, of New York, Eustis,
of Louisiana, and among the late members, Messrs,
Moore, of Pennsylvania, Randolph, of New Jersey,
and others. Also, Mr.. Hodge, of Philadelphia, late
Consul to Marseilles, Luther Bradish, Mayor Hall,
Of Brooklyn, Colonel Anderson and several officers
of the Army and Navy, who bear pleasant re-
membrance of Mr.. Fillmore's .urbanty. Several
committees have also been received. Delee atoms
are In town all along the Central Road from Albany
to Buffalo, and on the Erie Road from Piedmont
to Dunkirk, asking his acceptance of invitations to
stop by the way.
THE DELEGATION FROM PHILADELPHIA.
About hundred gentlemen from Philadelphia,
delegates authorized TO invite Mr. Fillmore to visit
Philadelphia, were received by him this morning
in the parlors of the st. Nicholas where the Hon.
Mr.. Moore, late member Of Congress- from that
city, thus addressed him:
SPEECH OF THE HON. MR.. MOORE.
Mr. Fillmore In behalf of this committee, from
your many warm and ardent friends In Phiadel-
phia, II is my sincere pleasure to extend to you
cordial welcome to your native soil, after years
absence in other lands, and also to extend to you
as cordial an invitation to visit Philadelphia, and
thus afford our citizens the opportunity of person
ally assuring you that this welcome does not con.
sst In the mere formal enunciation of that word
from my lips, but that in the honest, cordial and
sincere emotions of every true, patriotic heart in
Pennsylvania you are welcome, thrice welcome to
your native land, 1t has been, sir, with feelings
of a true national pride that we have noticed the
outpouring expressions of respect and esteem
which you have everywhere and from all classes
received during your sojourn and travels in other
lands and, when we connect those expressions
with the fact that you hold or occupy no political
or public station, and that therefore they were
given to the man, and not to position or power,
we could not repress the feelings of national pride
which those reflections enkindIed in our breasts,
and we recognise YOU therefore, not New
Yorker, not az a Pennsylvanian, but as the prop
erty of the whole country and IL is not as Phila-
delphians, but as Americans, IA citizens Of a com.
mon country, the great and glorious Union, that
we welcome you home and venture TO express the
hope that you win visit Philadelphia, and thus az
ford citizens an opportunity Of personally ten
dering to you welcome as honest, as cordial and
sincere as Philadelphians can and do feel, but
which /, in my imperfect language, can and have
but feebly expressed.
Mr. FILLMORE REPLY
Mr.. Chairman, this unexpected welcome from
the City Of our independence and Of the Consttu-
ton, calls forth feelings Of gratitude which have
not words to express. If there be any place out
side of my native State which respect more than
another, that place il Philadelphia. !, Its history
its sacred associations, all inspire me with respect
and admiration, and | look up to, i as the birth
place of our Liberty and our Laws, and az beng
the home Of the great and good man VINO De-
queatbed to us the Peace and Order, the Unity,
the blessings and the prosperity we all enjoy, and
when sse here to-day the number Of your dele
cation and know the Intelligence they represent
this kindness gives me pleasure have not the
power adequately TO express. You have, sir, In
your remarks, seen fit 10 allude TO my travels and
receptions in foreign countries.
II is true that from the crowned head 70 the
peasant, have received marked courtesy and at
tention; but do not attribute this to any merit
OF my own, but TO that power which elevated me
to the Office Of Chief Magistrate Of great and free
Republic. But often, sir, while have received
such Kindness abroad, must own that Thaye
heard, with the most painful soicitide, OF events
and scenes which have been Transporting at home