Note 62 — Chapter II · A SURVEY OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN 1787

“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.