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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