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Memoirs of John Adams DIX
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Historical SummaryDix began his career as a young army officer in the War of 1812. Later he entered polities and became a member of the Albany Regency. For four years he held a seat in the United States Senate as a Democrat. When Buchanan’s cabinet broke up in January, 1861, Dix became secretary of the treasury as a Union Democrat, and he sent this memorable telegram for the benefit of the captain of a revenue cutter who refused to obey his orders. When the war broke out, Dix accepted a major-general’s commission and did good service.—For Dix, see Morgan Dix, Memoirs of J. A. Dix.—Bibliography as in No. 63 above.
"If Any One Attempts to Haul Down the American Flag" (1861)
BY SECRETARY JOHN ADAMS DIX
Treasury Department, January 29, 1861.
TELL Lieutenant Caldwell to arrest Captain Breshwood, assume command of the cutter, and obey the order I gave through you. If Captain Breshwood, after arrest, undertakes to interfere with the command of the cutter, tell Lieutenant Caldwell to consider him as a mutineer, and treat him accordingly. If any one attempts to haul clown the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Morgan Dix, (New York, 1883), I, 371.
Chicago: John Adams Dix, Memoirs of John Adams DIX, ed. Morgan DIX in American History Told by Contemporaries, ed. Albert Bushnell Hart (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903), Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PIHF3TJ8JHWGMF5.
MLA: Dix, John Adams. Memoirs of John Adams DIX, edited by Morgan DIX, Vol. I, in American History Told by Contemporaries, edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Vol. 4, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PIHF3TJ8JHWGMF5.
Harvard: Dix, JA, Memoirs of John Adams DIX, ed. . cited in 1903, American History Told by Contemporaries, ed. , The Macmillan Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=PIHF3TJ8JHWGMF5.
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