The Arkansas banner., 1844-06-26
from 4e Demoeratic Repie,D, Feb, ls44.
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of the most accomplished advocates and dis.
 tlngulshed statesmen that have adorned the
 legal profession of the United States, or sus.
 tanned, in important posts of public trust. the
 Princlples and policy of the Republican party
 lie received the rudiments of his education
 at school in Germantown, and aiterward.
 1.-the Friends Academy in Philadelphia. A
 the age of IA, he was entered into Princeton
 College, and continued there until 1910, wher
 he was graduated with the highest honors O
 llls class. He delivered their vaedictory ad-
 dress, which Is still remembered and advertec to Tn the college history as a striking example
 ol feeling, eloquence, and taste. Indeed. as 2
 public speaker, he gave early promise of tha
 excellence which has since been displayed ir
 many of the prominent situations to which
 h1s talents have elevated him; and a published
 oratlon, delivered when he was but seven
 teen years of age, and preserved in the Port
 tolo, strikingly attests the maturity of his
 powers,
 On leaving college, Mr. Dallas commenced
 the stud V of the law, in the office of his ia
 ther, at Philadelphia; and although, in the
 intervals of that severe study, the more at
 tractlve forms of literature and poetry were
 not unlrequently cultivated, yet he persevered
 with unceasing application in making himself
 a thorough master of the great principles of
 the profession of which he has since been so
 distinguished a member. He was admitted
 to the bar in 1913. Soon after the decara-
 ton of war with England, he had enrolled
 himself Tn volunteer corps; and when, in the year l8l3, Mr. Gallatn was appointed by President Madison member of the com mission that repaired to St. Petersburg for the purpose of negotiating peace under the mediation of the Emperor Alexander, he ae- companled that minister as his private and confidential secretary. During a residence of more than year in Europe, Mir Dallas had an opportunity of visiting Russia, France, England, Holland, and the Netherahds- While in England, a family connection with Lord Byron brought him into frequent asso- citation with that great poet, who then, at tWenty-fiVe years of age, was receiving in London the general and enthusiastic admiFa- ton which the appearance of his two beau tiful poems, the Giaour and the Bride of Abydos, could not fail to call forth. It was ii consequence of a remark of Nr. Dallas, upon the. popularity m America of Ghilde Ha- rold, and some Of his previous poems, that he declared in his journal that these were the first things that ever sounded to his eafs like fame; and that popularity in far and rising country, caused tidings very different from the ephemeral praises of the crowd Of fashion then buzzing around him. Through another 4la I1Ir iYriet was then the chief justice of the court of common pleas, it was Mr. Dallas good for tune to be thrown, not unfrequently, into the society of some of those eminent lawyers who have, by the brilliancy of their genius, and devotion to philanthropy, made their pro- lession yet more distinguished than it was in previous days. Romilly, whose beneticence flowed in a current so transparent, copious, md strong; Broueham, with his ar-reaehing, nfuisiye, and undannted utilitarianism; Mack ntosh, who could wisely and kindly apply Q the heated actions, and in the busy forums )f men, the rules of conduct which he had leduced in the patient reflections of a guile ess life-these were men whose society, even enjoyed by one much younger, ,ould not lail-to leave impressions equally useful, and gratifying.
 In August, 1874, Mr. Dallas returned to he United States, bearing the despatches from he American commissioners then holding heir sessions at Ghent, which announced the | prospects little favorable to a speedy peace hat are known to have resulted from the arlier conferences with the British enyoys. | )n his arrival, he found h:-i9ther transferred [ rom the bar of Philadelphia to ttIe head of If the Treasury Department-a post requlr- ng, in the complicated state of the finances, nd amid the pressing exigeneies of the war, Ii the resources of judgment and talent for which he had been already distinguished, but which he was now destined to display through .
 brilliant administration oftwo years, under [ and in a manner that secured [ or him yet larger share of the applause nd confidence of the people of the United tates. His son remained with him for me at Washington, to assist him ill the ar uous duties of the Treasury, and then re- urned to Philadelphia, to resume, or rather to ommence, the actual practice of his profes- ion-an event that was almost immediately ollowed by his marriage with an accomplised { ldy, the daughter of Mr. Nicklin, an eminent merchant of that city.
 The death of his father, which occurred ! hortly after he retired from the administra- ion of the Treasury Department, took from IT, Dallas, in the outset of his career at the . ar, not merely the benefit of professional seldom equalled, but those kind E nd endearing associations which could have -rown up only in intercourse with one whose enius was not more brilliant than his affec- ions were warm. Sell-dependent, however, e applied himself with the more ardorto the ,ractice of the law; and being appointed, in 8l7, the deputy of the Attorney General in he city of Philadelphia, he soon gave eYl- ence of that skill in conducting criminal ases which has since always distinguished is occasional attention to that branch of his rofession. When, in the following year, harges were introduced into the assembly f Pennsylvania against Governor Findlay, fhich resulted in legislative investigation, Ir. Dallas acted as his counsel; and the firm ess and ability which he displayed througli-