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TRANSCRIPT
GLC 2437.26.112
William
Moultrie. Letter signed:
Charleston, to George Washington, 1790 July. 2 p.
Charleston
So. Carolina July 1790
[inserted
- different hand: Cincinnati]
Sir,
I
have the honor to transmit to you a Resolve of this States Society of the
Cincinnati enter’d into the 8th instant, expressing the Society’s
disapprobation of the conduct of the Secretary General in not sending forward in
proper time the notice required by the letter from the Chairman of their
standing Committee & addressd to him dated the 2nd March 1790.
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The
conduct of the Secretary General on this occasion carry’s with it such marks
of indignity and a want of respect to the Society, that they conceive themselves
fully justified in calling for an explanation and that reasons may be assigned
for a behaviour from which they feel an injury –
They
not only have been unrepresented in the last Triennial meeting, but they have
been precluded from having the general communication with their Bretheren which
the other State Societies have enjoy’d, & which is evidently calculated to
preserve the Bond of union & to support the harmony of the whole –
The
[2] application made by letter from the Chairman of the Standing Committee was
in consiquence of the directions which he had received – it was official –
and ought to have been particularly attended to as such – Nevertheless no
answer whatever was given to this Letter unless the enclosed copy of a letter
from the Secretary General directed to Major Genl Moultrie can be taken as one,
and which could not possibly answer any other end, than a continued mark of want
of attention and respect, the very date of it shew’d the impossibility of its
being useful in giving timely information. –
Thus
Sir in compliance with their desire I have given you, as President General, the
sence of the society upon the behaviour of the Secretary General on this
occasion –
I
have the honor to be –
Sir
Your Most Obedt. humbl. Servt.
Willm. Moultrie
George
Washington Esqre.
President General of
the Society of the
Cincinnati –
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