Excerpt from Great Speech of the Hon. George Mifflin Dallas: Upon the Leading Topics of the Day, Delivered at Pittsburgh, Pa;, With a Brief Biographical Sketch, &C., &C
George Mifflin Dallas was born in the City of Philadelphia, on the 10th of July, 1792; is now nearly 56 years of age} has never resided out of Philadelphia, except when abroad in a public capacity; married in 1816, and has seven children and three grand-children. His only son is a practitioner at the Bar.
His father, Alexander James Dallas, was the distinguished Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under President Madison. He derived the name of Mifflin from his godfather, Governor Thomas Mifflin, so conspicuous in the Revolutionary war, and so long pre-eminently popular with the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
He was educated. at a school in Germantown kept by Mr. Ely, at another by Mr. Hobson, at another by Mr. Andrews a Greek and Latin scholar, at the Friends" School in Fourth street, at the University of Pennsylvania, and finally, after more than three years of study, he graduated with the highest honors at Princeton College in 1810. He prepared himself for the Bar in the office of his father, the late Alexander James Dallas, and was admitted to its practice in May, 1813, just after entering a volunteer company, and before he left the United States as Private Secretary to Albert Gallatin, on the mission which closed with the treaty of Ghent.
He made his first appearance as an active Democratic politician in the year 1815, siding enthusiastically with the Jefferson and Madison school ardently vindicating the war and its advocates, and unsparingly condemning the Hartford Convention and factious Federalism. He fearlessly encountered, as a prompt speaker and writer, the speeches, letters, and resolutions, which the leading Federalists in almost every county of the State were then pouring out against "Jim Madison and his War" and which they continued to pour out, until a rectified and indignant popular opinion silenced them. He was remarkable in his political exertions, for invariably addressing himself to the Democrats of the interior of Pennsylvania, seeming to regardthe city as incurably hostile to his principles.
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