The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-07-16
CAROLINA SPARTAN
Mr.. Dallas in England.

Mr.. Dallas, our minister in England, by
of the Royal Humane Society Of London,
and in reply to toast, detailed the follow
ing interesting incident:
Mr.. Dallas rose to return thanks for the
toast and the sentiments which accompanied
it, which, he said, were reciprocated through
cut his land. ii would be source of
great calamity IL two nations such as Great
Britain and the United States Of America
should ever again come into collision. 1t
was to be hoped that in the dccrees Of
Providence there was nothing of that sort
for the future. There was something, how
ever, appertaining closely TO himself that
he had to communicate. That to which
their honorable chairman had referred wa'
more of public, national, political, and
certainly highly interesting character. But
lie wished TO say few words on the subject
of their own association. and TO tell them u
little passage of simple, unaffected family
history, which might not be altogether un-
interesting to those who were thus assem-
bled that night. Hear, hear. Well, then,
he was placed under All obligation 10 the
Royal Humane Society about eighteen years
before he was born. Cheers and laughter.
He perceived in the paper which had
Just been placed before him that there had
been 1896 cases of rescue from death by
drowning effected through the agency of
that noble institution, or at the rate Of two
hundred per annum. Cheers. There was
probably not Il single individual connected
with the society who could be old enough
90 recollect the incident to which he was
about 10 refer; for, if any body could reco
lcci il, il would be the venerable gentleman
opposite him, aud he was sure that even his
age would fall few days short. He wished
to speak TO them Of the first man whom
their association rescued from death. 1t
was near the years 1774 aud l775, just
after the Humane Society had been inSti-
tuted. young man Of excellent educa-
ton, of large property, about seventeen
years of age, was walking with his servant
ON the banks Of the Thames; he came to its
brink, and the weather being unusually
warm, he soon ventured TO doif his clothes
and TO plunge into the river. He was n
gallant and excellent swimmer. He struck
out boldly aud Justify for the centre Of The
stream, but before he got there he was
seized with a violent cramp, aud, with one
shrek, he sunk Immediately. His servant,
distracted, ran towards some neghboring
building. At that very time, and for the
first time, the implements of the Royal llu.
mano Society-the graphing irons, the
drags, the boats-were accessible. These
were put into immediate requisition, and,
the alarm having been given, the young
man was taken from the water. Accord
ing TO the usage Of the time, he was rolled
upon the bridge and rescued, resuscitated,
aud restored by the agency of that iustitu-
ton. Cheers. That was in l774 or
ITS. He was then seventeen years of
age. Five years after that young man was
rescued he married, in the county Of DE
Won, and in the course Of few years he
went in search Of his palrimonial estates in
Jamaica, and found that they had been dis.
sipated by steward, into whose hands
they had been intrusted. lie went with
bis wife to the United States, where he ar
rived in 1903, just at the close Of the Re-
yolutionary war. That young man, thus
rescued from watery grave, applied him
self at once to the study Of the law. lie
rose in the profession. Lie became himself
at once the associate of Washington, of
Jefferson, of Madison. lie became himself
one OF the most conspicuous counsel Of tho
United States Of America, an admirable, if
not IN that country an unequaled writer,
and distinguished politician. lie at
length filled the Office Of Secretary of the
Treasury. Hear, hear. That young man.
that counsel, that author, who had been res.
cued by the Royal Humane Society, who
became the head Of numerous family,
whose descendants were now we'll known
throughout the United States of America
chat young man, he might say withoutany
feeling of vanity, that young man was his
own father. Tremendous cheering. lie
died some thirty years ago; and during his
life, he referred to tho Royal Humane So.
ciety as one founded on the nobIest princi
pies, and which was carried out with an
energy propoItioned TO its excellence.
Cheers. lie had heard of the merits of
the society from others, and had thought
that that little piece Of family history might
not be unpleasing to them. Loud cheers.
He hoped it might tend to encourage their
noble exertions, and to promote the useful.
ness Of so admirable an association. ICheers.
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