 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 734 pages
...unhappy a contingency. lie has, therefore, directed me verbally to give you such instructions. You arc carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly...tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason you arc not, without evident and imminent necessity, to take up any position which could be construed into... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 732 pages
...proper that you shall be prepared with instructions to meet so unhappy a contingency. He has, therefore, directed me verbally to give you such instructions. You are carefully to avoid every act wbich would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason you are not, without evident... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1916 - 444 pages
...inspected the fort on December 11, instructions from the War Department which were, in part, as follows : You are carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly...position which could be construed into the assumption of n hostile attitude. But you are to hold possession of the forts in this harbor, and if attacked you... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...unhappy a contingency. He has, therefore, directed me verbally to give you such instructions. Is60. WR You are carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly tend to provoke aggression, and for that reason yon are not, without evident and imminent necessity, to take up any position which could be construed... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 492 pages
...whatever to doubt Trescott's statement — is branded by it as a known untruth. The major was forbidden, " without evident and imminent necessity, to take up...into the assumption of a hostile attitude ; " but he was expressly authorized to place his troops in the fort which, in his judgment, it was best to... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1892 - 488 pages
...whatever to doubt Trescott's statement — is branded by it as a known untruth. The major was forbidden, " without evident and imminent necessity, to take up...into the assumption of a hostile attitude ; " but he was expressly authorized to place his troops in the fort which, in his judgment, it was best to... | |
 | John William Burgess - United States - 1901 - 390 pages
...an order to Major Anderson, in command of the forts in Charleston Harbor, of the following tenor : "You are carefully to avoid every act which would...tend to provoke aggression ; and, for that reason, yon are not, without evident and immediate necessity, to take up any position which could be construed... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 674 pages
...especially referring to any change of position of the garrison of Fort Moultrie : — " You are to carefully avoid every act which would needlessly tend to provoke...construed into the assumption of a hostile attitude." These instructions were given Dec. 11. The Carolina authorities were entirely satisfied with the assurances... | |
 | Ripley Hitchcock - Battles - 1909 - 464 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....necessity to take up any position which could be construed in the assumption of a hostile attitude. But you are to hold possession of the forts in the harbor,... | |
 | Military Historical Society of Massachusetts - Atlantic States - 1912 - 642 pages
...Buell, Assistant Adjutant General, to verbally give the following instructions : to wit — Anderson was carefully to avoid every act which would needlessly tend to provoke aggression and that he might not needlessly provoke aggression, he was not to take up any position which could be... | |
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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... 
