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George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation
The Washington Times ^ | 11-25-15

Posted on 11/26/2015 5:54:04 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Issued at the request of Congress, Nov. 25 1789.

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of God...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: georgewashington; god; godsgravesglyphs; happythanksgiving; history; thanksgiving; thegeneral
Please read the rest of this remarkable proclamation by the Father of our country at the link and remember the values that this nation once unashameably honored.
1 posted on 11/26/2015 5:54:05 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; jemckay19; Pharmboy; Doctor Raoul; indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; ...

Read the words of our 1st Constitutional President on Thanksgiving, 1789, and think about the roots of this great nation.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this George Washington/Rev. War/Founding Father ping list.


2 posted on 11/26/2015 6:02:44 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Finally, someone gets it right.

Too many people (including academicians and historians) wrongfully attribute the Thanksgiving Proclamation to Lincoln.

I collect the Library of America series of American literature. When I received the volume of Washington’s writing, I was bothered that it didn’t include the proclamation.

I wrote to the editors expressing my delay over the omission and they quickly wrote back and very politely informed me that it was not in that volume because Lincoln had issued the proclamation.

I quickly wrote back and politely informed them that they were incorrect, that Washington had originally issued it and Lincoln re-issued it to help bring the country together after the Civil War (and I suppose, at least in part, after Sherman’s despotic and barbaric and divisive march through the South, which he would not have undertaken without approval from the president).


3 posted on 11/26/2015 6:04:02 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

delay = dismay


4 posted on 11/26/2015 6:04:41 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

One Nation under God.


5 posted on 11/26/2015 6:06:20 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Awgie

One Nation under God.


One Nation under God.


6 posted on 11/26/2015 6:06:56 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

We drove yesterday from north of Milwaukee to Kansas City, KS, listening to Sirius radio almost the whole way. While we listened to one of our favorite Miwaukee talk shows in the morning, w were please to listen to Charlie Sykes read both the Washington and the Lincoln proclamations and to note that Thanksgiving is the ONLY religious holiday which is also a civic holiday by Proclamation, making it unique among holidays.


7 posted on 11/26/2015 6:18:05 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Thank You for the ping truly amazing leader was George Washington.


8 posted on 11/26/2015 6:26:04 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
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Please add me to your list ~ Thanks & Happy Thanksgiving!

9 posted on 11/26/2015 6:30:11 AM PST by IwaCornDogs ("There Will Be Bamboozeling" ~ Nobama 08')
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I read Lincoln’s proclamation to the boys in my Trail Life USA troop on Monday.

Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and writer wrote several US Presidents over a 15 year period. All ignored her except Abraham Lincoln.

Mrs. Hale was asking for Thanksgiving to become a national day of remembrance, rather than regional.

Lincoln instructed William Seward to write a proclamation proclaiming the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving.

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,
Secretary of State

Mrs. Hale also wrote the children’s poem Mary Had a Little Lamb, was one of the founders of Vassar college and was part of the group that preserved Mt. Vernon for future generations to honor our founding President. Her magazine had 150,000 subscribers. Some o the recipes she published, like roast turkey persist today.

Personally, I like other ways to do turkeys. We had a big potluck with our troop a couple weeks ago. We fried two, smoked one and had two Trash Can Turkeys. (Look it up, they are great.) We’re frying today.


10 posted on 11/26/2015 6:35:15 AM PST by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: IwaCornDogs

You’re on and welcome.


11 posted on 11/26/2015 6:51:22 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

If I read this right, though, this was one thanksgiving. Typical in the old days. They could be any time and frequent or not, for one particular readon. Not an annual, periodic event. Also, there is no reference to pilgrims.

I believe Lincoln declared it permanently on an annual basis at a set time. Perhaps I remember wrong.

Point is, tg’s were very common in the old days, meant to thank God publicly for various favors at any given time.


12 posted on 11/26/2015 7:23:30 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Thanksgiving Proclamation

[New York, 3 October 1789]

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

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— and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be— That we may then all unite in rendering 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 which we experienced 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 the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

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, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease 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 third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go: Washington

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html


13 posted on 11/26/2015 5:19:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Thanks afraidfortherepublic.

14 posted on 11/26/2015 5:20:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Thanks afraidfortherepublic.


15 posted on 11/26/2015 7:58:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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