 | Morgan Dix - 1883 - 478 trang
...sent a telegram to the Treasury agent at New Orleans, containing the remarkable words, "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." This message was drawn up by General Dix, in his own handwriting, on a sheet of note-paper, and signed... | |
 | 1883 - 474 trang
...sent a telegram to the Treasury agent at New Orleans, containing the remarkable words, "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." This message was drawn up by General Dix, in his own handwriting, on a sheet of note-paper, and signed... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 700 trang
...people, when, in the gloom of that depressing winter, he telegraphed South his peremptory words, " If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." Thus reconstructed, the Cabinet as a whole was one of recognized power, — marked by high personal... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - 1884 - 622 trang
...cutter, tell Lieutenant. Caldwell to consider him as a mutineer and treat him accordingly. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. "JOHN A. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury." The captured office chairs used by Jeff. Davis, in Richmond,... | |
 | Reunion Society of Vermont Officers - 1906 - 412 trang
...civilization, and in doing that no precept should have more force than the early despatch of Gen. Dix : "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." No relinquishment of sovereignty can be tolerated, and the opprobrium of all patriots should follow... | |
 | 1885 - 810 trang
...were offered to treat him as a mutineer, and then closed his despatch with the words, " It any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." The sentence has become mémorable in the annals of those trying dayy. The resolution and loyalty of... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1890 - 478 trang
...of that feeling which makes the heart thrill responsively to the immortal telegram of Secretary Dix, "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." If Kansas would be a leader in the life of the nation she must lead in the line of the most intense... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1886 - 348 trang
...distinguished predecessors, he who uttered the famous sentiment and issued the familiar order: " If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot ! " Your State may well be proud of being the birthplace of both Daniel Webster and Gen. John A. Dix.... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1884 - 670 trang
...accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. 53. Let no guilty man escape. 54. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. 55. What would yon do if you were in our place. 56. To your tried valor and patriotism the country... | |
 | josephine pollard edwin forbes - 1886 - 242 trang
...tel-e-graph, and he sent back an or-der for the ar-rest of Breshwood, in which were these words: "IF AN-Y ONE AT-TEMPTS TO HAUL DOWN THE A-MER-I-CAN FLAG, SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT;" and ev-er since they have seemed a part of the A-mer-i-can flag, wov-en in with the red, white, and... | |
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If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. 
