Excerpt from The Cincinnati in the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of the Government of the United States Under the Constitution The Cincinnati are particularly interested in the due observance of this Cen tenmial because the only political principle incorporated in their Institution found expression in the Constitution of the United States, and thenceforward the Order devoted itself to its domestic concerns. The history of the Cincinnati, however, shows how earnestly and potentially they strove to secure the formation and adoption of the Constitution, and when their President General had been inaugurated as President of the United States, they told him, in their congratulations on the following 4th of July, that the Constitution of the United States was what they had fought for in the Revolution. From 1783 to 1789, the Order of the Cincinnati was the only organization in the United States devoted to promoting and cherishing between the respective States that Union and National Honor, so essentially necessary to their happiness and to the future dignity of the American Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.