 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...that you should be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. He has, therefore, directed me. verbally, to give you such instructions....aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take np any position which conld be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude... | |
 | Thomas C. Faulkner - Secession - 1861 - 126 pages
...attempt by violence to obtain possession of the public works, or interfere with their occupancy. '' You are carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly...aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude;... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...every <(ct which would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason yon are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitnde ; bnt you are to lujd pottenion of the/aril in the harbor, and if attackrd, you an la defend... | |
 | South Carolina. Convention - Constitutions - 1862 - 894 pages
...that you should be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. Ue has, therefore, directed me, verbally, to give you. such instructions....necessity, to take up any position which could be con. ptrued into the assumption of a hostile attitude ; but you are to hold possession of the forts... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...proper that you should be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. He has therefore directed me, verbally, to give you such instructions....aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude... | |
 | South Carolina. Convention - Constitutions - 1862 - 874 pages
...that you should be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. He has, therefore, directed me, verbally, to give you such instructions....to provoke aggression ; and, for that reason, you are*ot, without evident and imminent necessity, to take up any position which could be con. strued... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...he deems it proper that you should be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. "You are carefully to avoid every act which would...aggression ; and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1862 - 910 pages
...attempted •while the matter was under discussion. He issued orders to Major Anderson, directing him not to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude — but to hold possession of the forts in the harbour, and if attacked to defend himself to the last extremity.... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...directed me, verbally, to give you snch instrnctions. " Yon are carefully to avoid every act which wonld needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitnde... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 796 pages
...that you should be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. He has, therefore, directed me, verbally, to give you such instructions:...aggression, and for that reason, you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude... | |
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You are carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason you are not, without necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude... 
