[59]. Farrand, Records, Vol. II, p. 114.
[60]. Ibid., Vol. II, p. 119.
[61]. Ibid., Vol. III, p. 43.
[62]. “A large majority of the officers of the army of the Revolution were in favor of the new Constitution. The Cincinnati were mostly among its warmest advocates; and as they were organized and were, many of them, of exalted private and public worth and could act in concert through all the states, their influence was foreseen and feared by its opponents.” Blair, The Virginia Convention of 1788, Vol. I, p. 36, note 41.
[63]. American Museum, Vol. I, p. 313. Other signers were C. Pettit, J. Ross, I. Hazlehurst, M. Lewis, T. Coxe, R. Wells, J. M. Nesbit, J. Nixon, J. Wilcocks, S. Howell, and C. Biddle.
[64]. State Papers: Finance, Vol. I, p. 9.
[65]. American State Papers: Finance, Vol. I, pp. 5 ff.
[66]. Carey, American Museum, Vol. IV, p. 348. See also Winsor, Memorial History of Boston, Vol. IV, p. 77.
[67]. For illustrative evidence that the protection of manufactures and shipping was being widely agitated previous to the adoption of the Constitution, and that an extensive consciousness of identity of interest was being developed among the individuals concerned, see the articles in The American Museum, Vol. I, on American Manufactures; Winsor, Memorial History of Boston, Vol. IV, Chap. III. See memorials in The American Museum, from Philadelphia mercantile interests (April 6, 1785), Vol. I, p. 313; from Boston merchants, ibid., Vol. I, p. 320. For the merchants’ movement in New York, see the Magazine of American History, April, 1893, pp. 324 ff.
[68]. Vol. I, p. 117.