The Arkansas banner., 1844-06-19
From tac Democratic Repie,c, Eco, lsl4.
NEUItUE M. HAELE


 is the elder son of Alexander ]. Dallas, one of the most accomplished advocates and dis tinguished statesmen that have adorned the legal profession of the United States, or sus- tained, in important posts of public trust, the principles and policy of the Republican party. He received the rudiments of his education at school in Germantown, and afterwards at tie Friends Academy in Philadelphia. Al the age of IL, he was entered into Princeton College, and continued there until 1910, when he was graduated with the highest honors o his class. He delivered their valedictory ad- dress, which is still remembered and adverteC 10 Tn the college history as a striking example oi feeling, eloquence, and taste. Indeed, as public speaker, he gave carly promise of tha excellence which has since been displayed 1T many of the prominent situations to which his talents have elevated him; and published oration, delivered when he was but seven teen years of age, and preserved in the Port Folo, strikingly attests the maturity of hls powers.
 On leaving college, Mir. Dallas commenced the study of the law, in the office oi his la ther, at Philadelphia; and although, i'll the intervals of that severe study, the more at tractive forms of literature and poetry were not unfrequently cultivated, yet he persevered with unceasing application in making himself thorough master of the great principles of the profession of which he has since been so distinguished member. He was admitted to the bar in 1813 Soon after the decara- ton of war with England. he had enrolled himself in volunteer corps, and when, in the year 1913, Mr. Gallatin 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 ac- companied that minister as his private and confidential secretary. During residence of more than year i'll Europe, Mir. Dallas had an opportunity of visiting Russia, France, England, Holland, and the Netherlands While in Engand a family connection with Lord Byron brought him into frequent asso- ciaton with that great poet, who then, at twenty-five years of age, was receiving i'll London the general and enthusiastic admira- ton which the appearance of his two beau- tltul poems, the Giaour and the Bride of Abydos, could not fail to call forth. It was III consequence of remark of Mir. Dallas, upon the,,popularity ill America of Childe 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 ears 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 relative, the humane and eloquent jurlst who was then the chief justice of the court of common pleas, 1t was Mr. Dallas good for tune 10 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- fession yet more distinguished than it was in previous days. Romilly, whose benefcence flowed ill current so transparent, coplous, and strong; Brougham, with his far-reaching, inquisive, and undaunted utilitarianism, Mack intosh, who could wisely and kindly apply to the heated actions, and in the busy forums of men, the rules of conduct which he had deduced in the patient reflections of guile less life-these were men whose society, even transiently enjoyed by one much younger, could not fail to leave impressions equally permanent, useful, and gratifying.
 In August, 1914, Mr. Dallas returned to the United States, bearing the despatches from the American commissioners then holding their sessions at Ghent, which announced the prospects little favorable to a speedy peace that are known to have resulted from the earlier conferences with the British envoys. On his arrival, he found his father transferred from the bar of Philadelphia to the head of of the Treasury Departments post requir- ing, in the complicated state of the finances, and amid the pressing exigencies of the war, all the resources of judgment and talent for which he had been already distinguished, but which he was now destined to display through brilliant administration of two years, under circumstances and Tn manner that secured for him a yet larger share of the applause and confidence of the people of the United States. His son remained with him for a time at " Washington, to assist him in the ar duous duties of the Treasury, and then re- turned to Philadelphia, to resume, or rather to commence, the actual practice of his profess sion--an event that was almost immediately followed by his marriage with an accomplised lady, the daughter of Mr. NickIin, all eminent merchant of that city.
 The death of his father, which occurred shortly after he retired from the adminstra- ton of the Treasury Department, took from Mir. Dallas, in the outset of his career at the bar, not merely the benefit of professional assistance seldom equalled, but those kind and endearing associations which could have grown up only in intercourse with one whose genius was not more brilliant than his al1ec- tions were warm. Seli-dependent, however, he applied himself with the more ardor to the practice of the law and being appointed, in 1877, the deputy of the Attorney General in the city of Philadelphia, he soon gave evil dence of that skill in conducting criminal cases which has since always distinguished his occasional attention to that branch of his profession. When, in the following year, charges were introduced into the assembly of Pennsylvania against Governor Findlay, which resulted in a legislative investigation, Mir. Dallas acted as his counsel; and the firm ness and ability which he displayed through