New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-05
ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI.
AN ANCIENT PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.


now 1T WAS FoUNDKD-QUALfFICATIoNs FOR
MrMBRRsHIP-Irs PRrxcIpLEs
The celebration Of Independence Day has
always peculiarly the duty OF the Society of the
Cincinnati ard indeed II 10 the oaly organisation which
has constantly aud regularly performed such duty since
the institution OF Order By the officers Of the Cont
mental Line of the Revolution in May 1888. before the
disbandment Of the American Array. Accordingly to-
day each Of the existing State societies OF tho Cncin-
natl will meet and aftsrward the members In zach Will
dine together. according TO custom adopted In 1884
Comparatively few people know Of the history Of ths
association, and even lately encyclopedia has been
published by American house 10 which 10 gravely
stated that tho Society Of the Cincinnati 10 extinct
When the prsmin aries Of peace had been signed and
officially announced tho representatives OF the Amer"
can officers assembled In their environments on the
Hudson 10 Nav. 1888. aud promulgated the objects OF
their insututon ~ follows:
II having psassa the supreme ooysrn:. Of the Uni,
o. ' q c sg ,e Of
sSSs &C. s..sspS them FREE independent
& T ns on e
as S Ts .ud a sSsS SsvS
under the - % ~ sS .a s..
s 90 s'S'n sss
css,, pS.s. 70 snaure GO on1 ssey hs ondOr
Of their eldest m,s pcstey and n i9s 81 tne
It's Supporters aod nenbers. .ru ...,
s en- ',S ss Of s. % Ronsn ac+us
tqpssnasa. and Ssias r..oi2ed sis example
10 ns ssfS the
A general society was constituted to meet tri-
enny and consist Of the general officers and nve dele
gates State society. There were then only
thirteen States the United States that there were
only thirteen State societies The society. however,
sdeeply i'm pressed with sense OF tho generous assis
ance this country has received from France and de-
srSus Of parpetuang tho friendships which have been
formed and happily subsisted between the officers Of
the allied officers Ia the prosecution OF the war; adj
United all tho French officers not below the rank
Of colonel who had served in America. and also
all the French Gag officers and such as had commanded
cooperating ships Of war on the American coast during
tns ms S of
who constituted into Fourteenth State Society,
Revolution separated the members aud exea or gull
Al the preliminary meetings of the American officers
society should rest, Msjor-Ssner.l Baron yOa
S Gsas Of '''0 III. in:ti'uscu. Hi: E1.sencv
ARCHAEOLOGICAL and held the ofcs during lie Major
General Henry Knox. OF Massachusetts. became secre-
ana n Ss
sOc,ete. John suyan became prssiaent
secretary At war. in Massachusetts Major General
III ESSs' IL
5...a in Ne; sss.I..,
Arthur ST. Clair, in Pennsylvania; surgeon
Jam smaiiwood. IN Maryland; Maio,-Gensra Horato
Gates in Virginia; Jstaro sumner. IN
sonth Carolina: Brevet Msor- General Lachlan McTn-
tosh in Georgia; and vice-Adnlr.i Count dEsta'ng:
n st class in France Louis XVI became the patrsn OF
order F.scs and no sS va taa
latter which President General Warrington was APP
order sS for Of Sa
coveted distinction eagerly sought after ana applied
Among those thus admitted In France an hereditary
member was Lieutenant Fre.encs, Baron DC ksin OF
Nral Baron de Kalb mortaly wounded while leading the
Maryland Line in the battle of Camden: A monument
yelled at Annapolis in August.
After the Revolution large nnmSSr Of Tea USs
see and to the territory northwest ,, Oh t tn
their precautionary services and as tho facilities OF
getting from place to place were then few severA OF the
those hersdtarly entitled GAINED mem ership IN ex-
istiDg State societies IN 1884. In Difference to the
society would became race OF hereditary paricians
aud uobes. an effort Was made to abolish hereditary
but the state societies retd.ed as whoe 10
ameni the institution. Seven state sociou-s sun
Eew-Jersey. Penn-yivanla MARYLAND and s"uth caro-
lima Samuel Crocker Cobb president OF ths Mtssa-
Tathane Greene is president OF the Rhode Island state
eoceiy, which Will meet according TO : ate IA" IN inc
ton Flsh Is president o, the Ne.yorS State society
which Will meet at pslnSnieos 1his sy wcS win
meet In Freehold. william A irviae is
president OF tho Pennsylvania STATE So
ocieiy. which will meet IN Philadelphia
Ex Governor James NJ. Mciane United states MIN
jser TO France president Of the Mary state So
clety which will meet I'm Baltimore. The late General
NiIiuot q. De Ssutsure was president OF tho s0un
Carolina state Society which Will meet Today IN
Charleston and he presided over by the Rev. Dr.
Charles Cotesworth Pnckney vice presioent Inc 1Ol
loving are the present general officers: President
General Hamilton Fish. OF York, vice-presdent
general Dr. William Armstrong Irvine, OF Pennsvva-
MAJ sccretsry general Asa BIRD Gardi
u. Rhode Island; assistant-secre, ary-
general Richard IRVINE Manning, ef Mary and; treas
orcr-general John Schuyler or New York assistant
treasurer general. DR.. Herman Burgp. OF NewJersev
The trienRlal meeting OF the General Socely was
held In Princeton N j., IN May, 1884. and the mex VIII
be held In 1887 In Newport Asa curious Illustration Oh
bers OF the General Society and ST. tie Society of New
Jersey the close OF the last trennal meeting aned
together day that PresideDt-General wash
ington and the General Society dlned together one
hundred years before Its present membership
Includes plany historic names and many
VINO have become eminent in their couniry's service.
Few left who hold their hereditary memberships "a
sons Of original menbers Among these may be mem
Ito ed Hamilton Fish, whose father Major and Brevet
Nicholas Fish, gallant oHicer
highly esteemed by Wash gton. The society has al
WAYS and intensely national ana pa
troc and politics has never been allowed 70 lntrude IN
is meetings Its institution has eDuncisted prncipes
for IL the respect OF the community
Although membership 10 unavoidably limited 10 the
during the Revolution with honor for At least three
years constant and numerous applications are mace
by those seek avoid this plain requirement. anu
treat yiligance has exercised in this particular.
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