1From George Washington to the Delegates of the State Societies of the Cincinnati, May 1790 (Washington Papers)
To the Delegates of the State Societies of the Cincinnati assembled at their triennial Meeting. Gentlemen Although it is easier for you to conceive, than for me to explain the pleasing sensations which have been excited in my breast, by your congratulations on my appointment to the head of this rising Republic: yet I must take the liberty to thank you sincerely for the polite manner in which...