New-York tribune., 1877-09-03

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Philadelphia has had the honor and satisfac-
ton of Witnessing gathering of Governors
and to-day we shah have them with us Ill New
York. We besptak for them hospltable recep-
ton. and all those attentions to which, as di5-
tinguished guests, they are entitled. Ihey
NAV find that in some minor matters we are
not entirely behind the City Of Brothery Love I;
and unless their capacity for sightseeing has
been exhausted there, we may be able to main
tain the interest of their progress. we admit
however. in advance, the difficulty which they
will encounter of responding TO our addresses
in a way which shall be at once compliment
tary and fresh. They may repeat themselves,
and say of rs what rhey have already said OF
Philadelphians, but we frankly admit that 1t
viii not be within the power of human nature
to say much more. The speeches which they
made at the banquet in the Continental
Hotel on Thursday evening last, though they
did not contain much information, were
full of mbamty and fragrant with well-bred
compliance. Governor after Governor declared
PENNSYLVANIA to be "a great industrial State "
and Philadelphia its worthy metropolis In
deed, these facts seem To have been so
thoroughly accepted as utterly beyond dispute,
that Gov Hartranit feeling that mOdesty under
such circumstances would be mere afcctatlon,
began the speech-making by asserting Phila-
dephia to be "the most representative city OF
"the United States; the first city in industrial
"interests in this country, and the second in the
world" If good William Penn could revisit
the world, it would mitigate the pain with which
he would read Macaulay's History, to find ont
4. 4 u l,,l l-t,.t al
the charmingly sweet things which he would say
in turn of the Governors, would send thrills OF
satisfaction through each gubeInat0Iial frame.
Considerations like these, bring Us sense
of the real value of courtesy and good feeling
in public affairs. PHILADELPHIA may not be
Athens and Rome, Palmyra and Nincveh, Per-
scpolis and Carthage, Paris and London
rolled into one, but if its citizens think IT, and
the citizens of other States even the Governors
thereof. are willing to say IT, the effect upon
the whole national mind of the country can
not fail to be soothing. Albeit we have not
been accustomed to consider NcwIOIk as a
part Of philadelphia, it is unquestonably so,
if we regard the whole republic as one body
polite. We are therefore a sbarer in the mag
niicence of the "industTial interests" " As Coy.
Dung OF ONO observer, We d!t Hdt!bI!, anu
even the smallest village, thousands OF miles
from the Schuyikil, may catch few beams ot
the glory which irradiate its waters. The
presence of so many Governors must have con
yinced the most sceptcal OF Philadclphlans
that there are other States and other metro
potan settlements, to which the returning
magistrates will carry intelligence of wonder
ful sights and full-hauded hospitality. Far
away Nebraska, distant Iowa, comparatively
near Ncw-Jcrscy, and by no means compara-
lively near ColoIadO-all the CCmmonwcalths
represented upon this auspicious occasion will
feel a new pride in our Federal greatness, and
a deeper affection for its individual elements.
Are we not all members of one magnificent
family Does f PlUribus Unum mean moth
ing? And even if good dinner naturally
evokos little scntimentalty. is not the Union
Itself based upon sentiment as strong at
least as paper Constitutions and as vital as
Congressional cnactmcnts2