The Arkansas banner., 1844-06-19


 ration of 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 selection of Governor Shultze, the candidate of the Democratic party.
 But while unanimity, followed by success, thus attended the course of his political asso- ciates in the State, the elements of division among the Democracy of the Union began to be apparent in regard to the individual who
 was to succeed Mr. Monroe. Early personal associations, as well as just appreciation oi
 his distinguished taleA. had led Mr. Dallas to unite with a large fQHapn of his political
 friends in Pennsylyaniafh desire that the
 vote of that State should be given to NIT.
 Calhoun; and the success with which that
 statesman had conducted the administration
 of the War Department for the eight previous
 years seemed to give certa 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 of the Republican party through out the Union expressed 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- liandy augmented the glory of his country in the field of battle, Mr. Dallas, with senti- 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 the Democratic party should name General Jackson for the Presidential chair. In every measure that resulted from this determination, Mir. Dallas bore prominent part; the elo- quent address in which the Democratic con- venton of the State presented their reasons for the course they had adopted, is generally understood to have proceeded 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 State, 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 to Mr. Adams, the succeeding four years only con- tributed to create the yet stronger concentra- ton of public opinion in favor of General Jackson; and when he obtained, i'll 1928, the suffrages of fifteen States, the majority ln Pennsylvania had been increased beyond fifty thousand It was during the interval, that MT. Dallas received from the people of his native city an honorable mark of their confi- dence by an election to the mayoralty; an office which for many years past has, ln con sequence of the usual ascendency of the Fed eral party, been seldom bestowed upon person of his political opinions. On the election of General Jackson, he was selected by him as the chief representative of the Executive Government of the Union ill the same city, by being appointed to the office of District Attorney of the United Shtes.- To the same post his father had been ap pointed by Mr. Jefferson, through the whole of whose administration he continued to fill 1t, and from that office MT. Madison called him to the head of the Treasury. His son occupied the post for much shorter period, but in the two years during which he dis charged its duties, several cases N public interest and considerable magniude.gave full scope to his abilities, and contributed their share to his reputation as a professional man, which each year continued to augment.
 At length, in the year 1884, vacancy having occurred in the representation from Pennsylvana in the Senate of the United States, the Legislature selected Mir. Dallas to fill that honorable post. Thus, in entering for the first time legislative body, he found himself in the highest and most important assembly that exists under the provisions of +Io Az, fold was given to his talents as Q statesman and orator. Having at the bar of Philadelphia few equals in forensic eloquence, and being perhaps without rival, certainly without superior, at home, on any occasion oi public and especially political discussion, he was now required to match himself with men trained by exercise as well as possessed of distinguished ability, in a scene which for bade the logical precision of court, and yet could scarcely call forth or permit the ani- mated current of spontaneous Reclamation, so often successfully indulged in the lesserassem- blages of his fellow-citiZens. His speeches in the Senate of the United States, through out the period that he remained there, were heard with attention that gave evidence of his complete success. Those that have been more carefully reported, display on variety of topics, striking political views; and they abound with passages of animated eloquence. The most interesting subject of general dis cussion, was that which made the winters of 1892 and 1893 more memorable in our legis- lative history than any period since the war with England. The principles on which revision of the tariff of duties was to be made, gave rise, in the former session, to warm and long debates, which, in the following one, | led to those those that involved the serious question of right of one of the States to nulily law making such revision on prin- ciples that it might regard as contrary to the provisions of the constitution. On both oc- casions, MT. Dallas took part in these debates On the former, after an eloquent picture of the situation and resources of the United States, he touched with powerful, but friendly spl- ,.,f xxsNt t.ta nn-