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to the fierce political conflicts which existed during the war with England. did moi nresent
 many questions that rallied party controyer-
 sles on national affairs; but the election ot
 Governor lleisterin Pennsylvania adbrouoht
 the Federal party into power in that State
 aitera long period of Democratic ascendancy
 and no one embarked with more zeal than
 MT. Dallas in endeavoring to effect the resto.
 ration ot the policy which he believed to be
 essential to a sound and just administration of the affairs of the Commonwealth These
 efforts resulted in the triumphant re- e-election oi Governor Shultze, the candidate of the Democratic party.
 But while unaninity, followed by success.
 thus attended the course of his political asso-
 eiates in the State, the elements of division among tue Democracy of the Union pecan
 to be apparent in regard to the individual who
 was to succeed Af. Monroe Early personal associations, as well as a just appreciation oi
 hls distinguished talents, had led Mr. Dallas
 to unite with large portion of his political
 friends in Pennsylvania in desire that the
 vote of that State should be given to Mir
 Calhoun; and the success with which that
 statesman had conducted the administration
 of the War Department for the eight previous
 years seemed to give a certain pledge, not
 withstanding his comparative youth, of the
 ability he would display in any Executive
 office to which the voice of his countrymen
 should call him. When, however, the gene
 ral sentiment ofthe Republican party through
 out the Union expressed a desire to confer
 on the venerable patriot who had so long
 and so faithfully maintained their principles
 In various posts of civil trust, and so bril-
 liantly augmented the glory of his country
 in the field of battle, Mir. Dallas, with sent- ments towards General Jackson in which the friends of MI. Calhoun in Pennsylvania at once participated, took the lead in suggesting that the younger candidate should be pre- sented to the American people for the second office, while the united and harmonious voice
 of the Democratic party should name General Jackson for the Presidential chair. In every measure thatresulted from this determination, Mr. Dallas bore a prominent part; the elo- quent address in which the Democratic con- vention of the State presented their reasons for the course they had adopted, Is generally understood to have poceeded from his pen :; and when, in November, 1891, the unusually large majority of more than thirty thousand Democratic votes showed the enthusiastic feeling Of the people of the Staie, there were few among them whose zeal had been more honorably and actively displayed than his i'll producing that gratifying result
 The choice of the House of Representa- tives having given the Presidency 10 Mr Adams, the succeeding four years only con tributed to create the yet stronger coneentra- lion of public opinion in favor of General Jackson; and when he obtained, in 1928, the sufrages of fifteen States, the majority in Pennsylvania had been increased beyond fifty thousand. 1t was during the interval, that Mr. Dallas received from the people of his native city all honorable mark of their conG- lence by an election to the mayoralty; an office which for many years past has, in con- sequence of the usual ascendency of.the Fed sral party, been seldom bestowed upon person of his political opinions. On the 9lection of General Jackson, he was selected oy him as the chief representative of the Executive Government of the Union in the anne city, by being appoointed to the office 1f District Attorney of the United Slates- To the same post his father had been ap- pointed by Mr. Jefferson, through the whole 1t whose administration he continued to fill [, and from that office Mir. Madison called Jim to the head of the Treasury. His son occupied the post for much shorter period, mt in the two years during which he dis harged its duties, several cases of public interest and considerable magnitude gave full cope to his abilities, and contributed their hare to his reputation as a professional man, which each year continued to augment
 At length, in the year 1854, 8 vacancy laving occurred in the representation from 'ennsylvania in the Senate of the United ,tates, the Legislature selected Mir Dallas to i'll that honorable post. Thus, in entering or the first time legislative body, he found limself in the highest and most important assembly that exists under the provisions of he Amemean Constitution. A new field was vas given to his talents as a statesman and orator. Having at the bar of Philadelphia CIV equals in forensic eloquence, and being perhaps without rival, certainly without a uperior, at home, on any occasion of public nd especially political discussion, he was low required to match himself with men rained by exercise as well as possessed of ability, in scene which for ,ade the logical precision of a court, and yeti ould scarcely call forth or permit the ami hated current of spontaneous Reclamation, so ,iten successfully yindulgedin in thelesserassem- lages of his fellow-citizens. His speeches Il the Senate of the United States, through ut the period that he remained there, were eard with attention that gave evidence off is complete success. Those that have been nore carefully reported, display on variety f topics, striking political views; and they bound with passages of animated eloquence. The most interesting subject of general dis ussion, was that which made the winters of 832 and 1883 more memorable in our legis- alive history than any period since the war gith England. The principles on which a eyision of the tariff of duties was to be made, ave rise, in the former session, 10 warm and ong debates, which, in the following one, ed to those those that involved the serious Iuest,9n of a right of one of the States to