An Anti-Federalist Prayer:
•deliver us, we pray thee, from
STANDING ARMIES, and CINCINNATI OFFICERS
•[if the Constitution is adopted]
The military profession will then be respectable...
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Rutland: Ordeal: p. 47

The Federalist-inclined but fair-minded Providence newspaper printed a prayer of deliverance:

     “ O Lord have mercy upon us . . . And deliver us, we pray they, from STANDING ARMIES, and CINCINNATI OFFICERS.”

Oswald’s newspaper printed what appeared to be damaging answers to the query, Who is to profit from Constitutional ratification?

“The military profession will then be respectable, and the Floridas may be conquered in a campaign -- The spoils of the West-Indies and South America may enrich the next generation of Cincinnati.”