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ADDRESS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Connecticut Society of Cincinnati 
 
 ON THE 
 
 DEATH 
 
 OF 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON 
 
 By 
 BENJAMIN TALLMADGE. 
 
 Brooklyn, JV. Y. 
 Privately Printed 
 
 1885. 
 

 IN EXCHANGE 
 
 JUN 27 1"I2 
 
To the Members of the Connecticut 
 State Society of the Ci?icijinati. 
 
 Deeply impressed with a sense 
 of the irreparable loss which U - 
 nited America and the world have 
 sustained in the death of the- il- 
 lusti'ious Washington — by the 
 unanimous advice of the members 
 of the Cincinnati Society present, 
 I do hereby particularly recomend 
 to all the members of that be - 
 nevolent institution residing within 
 the State of Connecticut, that they 
 
 wear 
 
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 wear crape on their left arms, 
 especially on all public occasions, 
 until the next anniversary of our 
 Independence, as a token of re- 
 spect for the memory and virtues 
 of that Man, who, while livincr. 
 was the most beloved and now 
 dead, will be the most universally 
 lamented. If our country at large 
 unite in bemoaning- the loss of 
 this first of Patriots, and best of 
 Men, surely those who have fought 
 under his banners, shared in his 
 fatigues, and participated in his 
 glory, can never forget the Hero 
 of our late revolution, the able 
 advocate of our dignity and in - 
 dependence. and the illustrious 
 President General of our Society. 
 
 Benjamin 
 
4 
 Benjamin Tallmadge 
 President of the Cincinnati 
 Society, 
 
 State of Connecticut. 
 Litchfield, Dec. 30, 1799. 
 
 100 Cop es Printed 
 
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