Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-06-12
From the Democratic Banner, Feb. 1914.
GEORGE M. DALLAS.

Mr.. Dallas was born in The city OF Phil
adelphia on the 10Th ofJuly. 1892. He.i
n the elder son of Alexander J. Dallas, on
J, .ofthe most accomplished advocates an
I, distinguished statesman that have adorne
4 the legal profession oflhe United Sta,et
or sustained, in important posts Of publi
trust, the principles and policy of the Re
publican party. He received the rudi
ments of his education al school in GeE
manrown, and afterwards at the Friends
Academy in Philadelphia. At the age o
IA. be was entered 10 Princeton College
and continued there Until 1916, when h'
was graduated With the highest honoro o
his class. He delivered their paledictor,
address, which is still Remembered ahd .ad
verted TO in The college history as a. stri'
king example Of feeling, eloquence aud
Taste. Indeed, as a public speaker. he
gave early promise of That excellence
which has since been displayed in many
of the prominent situations TO which his
talents have elevated him; aud pub.
lisbed oralion, delivered when he was bu'
seventeen years of age, and preserved in
the Por. Folio, slrikipgly attesls the ma
turity Of bis powers.
On leaving college, NJ. Dallas commen-
ced the study of the law n the Office of his
father, al Philadelphia; and although, in
the intervals ofthat severe study, the more
attractive forms of literature and poetry
were not unlrequently cultivated, he yet
persevered with INCREASING application in
making himself thorough master Of the
grea, principles ofthe profession of which
he has since been so distinguished MEM
ber. He was admitted TO the bar in 1913.
Soon after The declralion of war with Eng.
land, he enrolled himself in a volunteer
corps; and when in ihe year 1918, Mr.. Gal
latin was appointed by President M Madison
a memberoflhe commission that repaired
10. 81. Petersburg, for the purpose Of neg
o,iating peace under the emperor Alex
ander he accompanied that Minister as bis
private and confidential secretary. During
residence of more than year in Europe
Mr.. Dallas had an opportunity of twisting
Russia, France, England, Holland, aud the
Netherlands.
:; In August, 1914, he returned TO the
United States, bearing The dispatches from
The American commissioners then holding
their sessions al 'heni, which announced
the prospects little favorable to a speedy
peace that are known TO have resulted from
the earlier confere..ses with The British
enyoys. On his sarrivaI he found his father
transferred from the bar Of Philadelpia to
The head of the Treasury Departments
post requiring, in tho complicated state Of
the fiuaoces, and amid the pressing exigen.
cies Of the war, all the resources of Judge
ment and talent for which he was now. des-
tined to display through a brillian, admin
istratiun of TWO years, under circumstances
and in manner thai secured for him YET
larger share of The applause and confidence
of the people oflhe United States. His
son remained with him for time at Wash
ing ton, 10 assist bin in the arduous duties
of the Treasury, and then returned to Phil
adel pha, to resume, or rather to COM
meuce tha actual practice OF his profession
an event thai W az almost Immediately fol
lowed by his marriage with an accomplish
ed lady, the daughter Of Mr.. Nicklin, an
eminent merchant Of that city.
In the year 1881, Mr.. Dallas was select
ed 10 Fill vacancy in the representation
from Pennsylvania, in The Senale of the
United States. On the sexpiralion Of his
term he retired from The Senase Of the u.
S. and was selected by Governor Wolf, as
Attorney General OF the State of Pennsyl-
vania.
The next most conspicuous event in
Mr.. Dallas political life was his appoint
menl by Mr.. Van. Buren,, Immediately
after his election, to the post of Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister PIenipoleniia
ry to Russia, where be remained till Oclo.
ber. 1889. Since Mr. Dallas return from
Russia be has devoted himself 10 tho prac-
tice Of bis profession.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The following declaration ofprinciplss,
presented by the Hon. B. F. Butler, Chair.
man of the Committee on Resolutions,
was unanimously adopted by the Balti.
more Convention.
Resolved, Fhat the American Demo.
tidCy PidCC tnCi tluot uol III inCtioUo o. ah'
bols, not in displays and appeals insulting
to the judgments and subversive Of the in:
,elfect Of The people, but ip aelear reliance
upon the intelligence of the patriotism
and the discriminating justice Of the Amer
lean masses. -, ~. =.
Resolved, That. we regard this as dis
tinclive feature ofour political creed, which
we are proud to maintain before the worlc
as the great moral element in a. form o
Government springins from, add uphele
by, the popular will, and we contrast i
with The creed and practice of Federalism
under whatever ename or form, which
seeks to palsy the will Of the constituent
and which conceives no imposture tot
1 monlrous for the popular credulity.
Resolved, therefore, Thai, entertaining
these views, the Democratic party Of lhi
Union, through their delegates assemblet
Ein-:a general Convention of the States
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