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 National politics were now becoming interesting. Mr. Dallas was an admirer of the distinguished author of the war of 1812, john C. Calhoun, and only yielded this preference tb the suddenly started, but irresistible claims of Andrew Jackson, for the Presidency. At a celebrated and overflowing town meeting, held for the City and County of Philadelphia, at which a Republican patriot presided, he secured the unanimity of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania, by striking the fiag of the emi nent Statesman of South Carolina for the first office, and impressively nominating him for the Vice Presidency, and by hoisting the banner of the Hero of New Orleans; this remarkable movement, done with the knowledge and assent of Mr. Calhoun, was hailed throughout the State and Union with acclamation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.