The Hereditary Friendship of the Cincinnati

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Excerpt from The Hereditary Friendship of the Cincinnati: Address Delivered at the Banquet Given by the North Carolina, Society of the Cincinnati to the General Society of the Cincinnati at Asheville, North Carolina, May 10, 1917 This is not a thesis to be proved in this assemblage of brothers - such a procedure would be, indeed, a "useless and ridiculous excess, " for the spirit of our gathering exemplifies such a friendship. So my efforts must be devoted to a retrospective view of a traditional friendship, consecrated by the generous hearts of our founders, embodied in our Institution, and held indissolubly as a precious heritage in kindred hearts6, which have branched in the mighty space of our great land, but whose fibres stretch back to the common root of our country. And what more auspicious occasion for such contemplation could be imagined than this gathering, assembled at the behest of the friendship and generous hospitality of our brothers of the "Old North State, " a state whose evidence of earliest devotion to the very cause of our being is so proudly emblazoned on the beautiful flag of the "Land of the Long Leaf Pine?" To them and to the delegates of the various State Societies, our delegation extends the greetings of the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati. Your presence inevitably brings to mind the early association of the founders of the Society, for we recall that the strife of those years was shared by men of all sections of the country, in a spirit of friendship and cooperation. 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.