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NEWS FLASH * V2XC74 * 11.23.1996 * ISSN 1074-245X
(c)1996 by Conservative Consensus. Copying information below.
NATIONAL DAY OF THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
GEORGE WASHINGTON
OCTOBER 3RD, 1789
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for
his benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor...
NOW, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty-
sixth day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these
United States...
THAT we then may all unite unto him our sincere and humble thanks
for His kind care and protection of the people of this country
previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold
mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the
course and conclusion of the late war;
FOR the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we
have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in
which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of
government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the
national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious
liberty with which we are blessed...
AND also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our
prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations,
and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions,
to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to
perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually,
to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by
constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional
laws, discretely and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect
and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have
shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government,
peace, and concord, to promote the knowledge and practice of the
true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them
and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of
temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3rd of October,
A.D. 1789. -- George Washington
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ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY: Thanksgiving day in the United States
commemorates the harvest of Plymouth Colony in 1621, following a
winter of great hardship. Colonists and neighboring Indians
shared the first feast.
A national day of thanks was proclaimed by George Washington for
November 26, 1789 (text above). Lincoln revived the custom in
1863.
IN 1941 Congress passed a joint resolution setting the holiday on
the fourth Thursday in November.
John Quincy Adams, writing some years after Washington's first
proclamation, said:
Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my
generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make
good use of it.
Happy Thanksgiving from Conservative Consensus.
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