The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-06-28
From tho Democratic Review, February, 1872.
DIoGRAPnIcAL SKETCH OF
GEORGE mHFE,.uN DALLAS.

hr. Dai.a5 was porn III the city OF Pin
ladclphia on the 10Th day of July, 1902
He is the elder son of Alexander ]. BAL
las, one of the most accomplished advo
Gates and distinguished statesmen tba
have adorned the legal profession of tho
United States, or sustained, in impQrlap
posis al public trust, the principles ans
policy of the republican party. He re
cciged the rudiments of his education at ;
school in Germantown, and afterwards a
the Friends Academy in Philadelphia.
At the age Of Ia, he was entered in
Princeton College, and continued there
until 1910, when he was graduated with
the highest honors of his class. He de-
llvorcd their valedlctory address, which is
still remembered and adverted TO in The
college history as striking example of
feeling, .eloqueuce, and taste. Indeed, as
3 public speaker, he gave early promise
oiihat excellence which has since been
displayed in many Ct the prominent stu-
aliens 10 which -his-1alsats have ef6vaJert
him; and published Grafton, delivered
when he was but seventeen years of age,
land preserved in the Port Folio, striking.
4 ly al'ests the maturity of his powers.
q On leaving college, Mr.. Dallas com
inenced the study of the law, in the of.
fec OF his father, at Philadelphia; and
although, in the intervals of that severe
study, the more attractive forms of liera-
lure and poetry were not nnfrequenty
cuFivaled, he yet pcrscvcred with unceas.
mslapplIcalon in making himself thor
'ough master of the great principles of The
j profession Of which lie has since been 50
distinguished member. He was admit
'ee TO the bar in 1913. Soon after the
declaration of war with England, he had
enrolled himself in - z ;Ts4iiit6ruer corps;
. 49, ~ y en, in the year 1913, Mr.. Gala
til was appointed by President Madison
member of the commission that repaired
TO st. Petersburg, for the purpose of me-
gothtingp peace under the meditation off
the Empetor Alexander, he accompanied
that minister as his private and confden-
tial secretary. During a residence of
more than year in Europe, Mr.. Dallas
had an opportunity of visiting Russia,
Frame, England, Holland, and the Meth
erlanls. While in England, a family
competed with Lord Byron brought him
into tequont association with thai great
poeta who then, at twenty-five years of
age, vas receiving in London the general
and enthusiastic admiration which the APP
pearace of his two beautiful poems,
the Giaour and the Bride Of Abydos,
could not fail TO call forth. Ii was in
consequence of a remark of Mr.. Dallas,
upon the popularity in America of Child
lialpld, and some of his previous poems,
hat nc declared in his journal that these
re the first things that ever sounded to
alSg like fame; and that popularity in
4 ~ - c,nFising country, caused tidings
s,deleaa,i rent from the ephemcral praises
tho e.a,fvd of fashion then buzzing
.,ne hm. Through another relative,
N He lie and eloquent jurist who was
Y SUE chief justice of the cour. of COM
"a oSlcas, it was Mr.. DaIlas's good for
\ 10 he thrown not unlrequently, into
n .ocidty Of some of those eminent law
NJ whp have, by the brilliancy of their
ss-otas, pnd devotion to philanthropy,
9madc tltiI profession yet more dislin.
gulshed than ii was in previous days
komllly, whose bcnefcencc flowed in
current 10 transparent, copious, and
strong; irougham, with his lar-reaching,
inqulsitive, and undaunted ulilitarianism
Mackintoih, who could wisely and kindly
ahpply tolhe heated actions, and in the
busy forums of men, the rules of conduct
which chad ded,red in the pa,ien, re-
Elections Of guiel,ss ife-those were
men whose society, even ,ransiently en-
joyed by one much younger, could no,
fail to leave impressions equally perma-
nent, useful, and gratifying.
In August, 1914, Mr.. Dallas returned
to the United States, bearing the des-
patches from the American commissions
'ers then holding Their sessions at Client,
which announced the prospects little IA
vorable to speedypeaco that are known
.sv Kegs .oL. 2pplala .,>-Ahe esrl;es, confer
70 have resulted from uTc-vrrrery -.,J - :,
ences with the British ENJOYS. On his
arrival, he found his father transferred
from the bar Of Philadelphia to the head
of the treasury departments post re-
curing, in the complicated state of the
finances, and amid the pressing exigen-
cies of the war, all the resources OF Judg-
ment and talent for which he had been al
ready distinguished, but which he was
now destined TO display through bril-
liant administration of two years, under
circumstances and in manner that secu-
red for him We, larger share of the ap-