Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PROVIDENCE,
Nov. 11. The following proceedings were had by the society of the Cincinnati of this state, at their meeting in this town, on Thursday last, viz.

This Society, taking into their most serious consideration the situation of the United States, are convinced, that the present disturbances in the several parts of the federal government, and the depredations of savages upon their frontiers, are excited by the joint exertions of daring emissaries and disaffected citizens:

That the jealousies existing in the states tend to a subversion of their most essential liberties, and are dangerous to the national compact:--

Therefore the virtue, the firmness and the activity, of every class of people, are necessary to meet the impending evils:

Wherefore it is Resolved, nem. con.

1st. That as we have adventured our lives and fortunes to obtain sovereignty and independence, we pledge ourselves, in the most sacred manner, to defend and support them against foreign invasions and internal enemies.

2d. That therefore we will render our best services, whenever the cause of our country shall require them, consistently with those great principles which first inspired our general order.