 | New York (State). Governor - 1886 - 348 페이지
...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.... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1886 - 654 페이지
...might be demanded. His well-remembered order while a member of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet, — "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," — will secure him a page in history when all his other services and sayings are forgotten, and richly... | |
 | Ellis Henry Roberts - 1887 - 426 페이지
...treasury, and electrified the country by an order to the lieutenant of a revenue cutter at New Orleans : " If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." Appointed a major general of volunteers in May, 1861, he was entrusted with important duties in the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1887 - 506 페이지
...and proposed to turn the vessel over to the Confederates, whereupon Secretary Dix sent this despatch: "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot !" THE CONSPIRACY. appalled over the treachery at Washington and through the South. A sentiment so... | |
 | Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel - 1887 - 784 페이지
...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." — EDITORS. "50 AIIBIVAL OF THE SEVENTH NEW YORK AT ANNAPOLIS,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1888 - 668 페이지
...three months, in the Cabinet of President Buchanan, during which time he issued the famous order : " If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot !" He was made major-general of volunteers in May, 1861 ; commanded at Fortress Monroe in 1862, and... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 페이지
...the Cabinet of Buchanan, sent to the commander of a threatened revenue cutter the famous despatch: "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot! " Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, also a strong Union man, took the office of Secretary of War, made vacant... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1888 - 664 페이지
...rang throughout the nation, saying to an officer of the revenue service at New Orleans, "Jfany one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot /" That utterance was hailed by the loyal people of the land with hope and joy as a sure prophecy of... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 848 페이지
...cutter, tell. Lieut. Caldwcll 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." At the l>eginning of the civil war he took an active part in the formation of the Union defence committee,... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1888 - 694 페이지
...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." When, three days afterward, at a cabinet meeting, the... | |
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If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. 
