Friday, September 18, 2015

Resolutions of the Union Defence Committee of the City of New York

Resolved, That this Committee tender their warmest thanks to Hon. John A. Dix for the prompt, efficient, courteous, and patriotic discharge of his arduous duties as chairman of this Committee; that, while we deeply regret his resignation and the consequent loss of his counsels, we nevertheless rejoice ourselves, and congratulate the Government, that the services of Major-general Dix have been secured in the army for the defence of the integrity, the glory, and the liberties of our country.


Resolved, That in General Dix we recognize a patriot worthy of his patriot sires. That we desire to express our confidence in the eminent ability and fitness of General Dix to fill the high command to which he has been called, and that there will go with him to the field of conflict the pride, the hopes, the sympathies, and the prayers of every member of this Committee.

SOURCE: Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John Adams Dix, Volume 2, p. 16-7

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