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The Society of the Cincinnati - Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America (Hardcover)
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The Society of the Cincinnati - Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America (Hardcover)
Series: European Studies in American History
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In 1783, the officers of the Continental Army created the Society
of the Cincinnati. This veterans' organization was founded in order
to preserve the memory of the revolutionary struggle and pursue the
officers' common interest in outstanding pay and pensions. Henry
Knox and Frederick Steuben were the society's chief organizers;
George Washington himself served as president. Soon, however, a
widely distributed pamphlet by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina
accused the Society of conspiracy. According to Burke, the Society
of the Cincinnati was nothing less than a hereditary nobility which
would subvert American republicanism into aristocracy. Soon, more
critics including John Adams and Elbridge Gerry joined the fray,
claiming among other things that the Society was a secret
government for the United States or a puppet of the French
monarchy. While these accusations were unjustified, they played an
important role in the difficult political debates of the 1780s,
including the efforts to revise the Articles of Confederation. This
books explores why a part of the revolutionary leadership accused
another of subversion in the "critical period," and how the
political culture of the times predisposed many leading Americans
to think of the Cincinnati as a conspiracy.
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