 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1886 - 642 pages
...services 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... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1885 - 1136 pages
...Secessionists. Whereupon the Secretary telegraphed to Jones to take possession of the revenue cutter, adding, " If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." This message never reached New Orleans, but it was made public, and received by the Northern people... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1884 - 670 pages
...surrender can be 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... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1886 - 348 pages
...my 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1886 - 562 pages
...Secessionists. Whereupon the Secretary telegraphed to Jones to take possession of the revenue cutter, adding, " If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him 011 the spot." This message never reached New Orleans, but it was made public, and received by the... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1890 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel - 1887 - 784 pages
...command of the 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,... | |
 | Ellis Henry Roberts - 1887 - 482 pages
...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... | |
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If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. 
