[pinkandgreenmom]

I homeschool my 7th grader and got to learn real American History and civics along side of him (as opposed to the “social studies” of my public school days). I am moved to tears whenever I see things like this, and realize what huge sacrifices the Founding Fathers made for this nation. And then I think of all the harm that some want to do to our country and pray we can stop it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Freepers!

[Yosemitest]

You beat me to it ...
Here's some more background information to go with it.

LS, to Thomas Mifflin, CSmH;
LS, to John Sullivan, MB;
LS, to George Walton, NcD: George Walton Papers;
LB, DLC:GW; Df, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters.

There are minor changes in wording in the letters.

1. On 25 Sept. Elias Boudinot introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution
“That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States, to request that he would 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 Constitution of government for their safety and happiness.”
The House was not unanimous in its determination to give thanks.
Aedanus Burke of South Carolina objected that he
“did not like this mimicking of European customs, where they made a mere mockery of thanksgivings.”
Thomas Tudor Tucker
“thought the House had no business to interfere in a matter which did not concern them.
Why should the President direct the people to do what, perhaps, they have no mind to do ?
They may not be inclined to return thanks for a Constitution until they have experienced that it promotes their safety and happiness.
We do not yet know but they may have reason to be dissatisfied with the effects it has already produced;
but whether this be so or not, it is a business with which Congress have nothing to do;
it is a religious matter, and, as such, is proscribed to us.
If a day of thanksgiving must take place, let it be done by the authority of the several States”
(Annals of Congress, 1st Cong., 1st sess., 949–50).
Citing biblical precedents and resolutions of the Continental Congress, the proponents of a Thanksgiving celebration prevailed,
and the House appointed a committee consisting of Elias Boudinot, Roger Sherman, and Peter Silvester to approach GW.
The Senate agreed to the resolution on 26 Sept. and appointed William Samuel Johnson and Ralph Izard to the joint committee.
On 28 Sept. the Senate committee reported that they had laid the resolution before the president (DHFC, 1:192, 197, 3:232, 238).
GW issued the proclamation on 3 Oct., designating a day of prayer and thanksgiving.
See his Proclamation, this date.

Whatever reservations may have been held by some public officials, the day was widely celebrated throughout the nation.
The Virginia assembly, for example, resolved on 19 Nov. that the chaplain
“to this House, be accordingly requested to perform divine service,
and to preach a sermon in the Capitol, before the General Assembly, suitable to the importance and solemnity of the occasion, on the said 26th day of November” (Journal of the House of Delegates, 1789, 70).
Most newspapers printed the proclamation and announced plans for public functions in honor of the day.
Many churches celebrated the occasions by soliciting donations for the poor.
Tobias Lear wrote to John Rodgers, pastor of the two Presbyterian churches in New York City, on 28 Nov., that
“by direction of the President of the United States
I have the pleasure to send you twenty five dollars to be applied towards releiving the poor of the Presbyterian Churches.
“A paragraph in the papers mentioned that a contribution would be made for that purpose on Thanksgiving day;
as no opportunity offered of doing it at that time,
and not knowing into whose hands the money should be lodged which might be given afterwards—
The President of the United States has directed me to send it to you,
requesting that you will be so good as to put it into the way of answering the charitable purpose for which it is intended” (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters).

I also recommend The True Story of Thanksgiving by Rush, along with all the Related Links he attached to that article.

[tflabo]

George Washington and the Founders—a far better and wiser breed of godly leaders than the current crock of foolish drecks shuffling the halls of Crapital Hill in the District of Cesspool. Happy Thanksgiving and MAGA however America needs to collectively acknowledge the Almighty once again.

[central_va]

1789 was a good year. There was no income tax and President George signed the Tariff Act. 120 years of prosperity ensued.

[NonValueAdded]

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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:

“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."
Can we???

[broken_arrow1]

Americans were once thankful for their blessings to be a sovereign nation. The left has erased all of that...

The one thing I am most thankful for...

I am still thankful that HILLARY didn’t WIN!

[Uncle Sam 911]

Some district judge somewhere would ban this now for using God too much.

[jimfr]

I think it is interesting that God never told the Isrealites to fast, only to feast.
In the New Testament, Jesus only says when you fast , as if “I know you will do it even though you were never told - so do it this way when you do”

[mairdie]

Publication of Washington's Proclamation in "The Independent Gazetteer," Monday, November 2, 1789

[daniel1212]

Thanks for posting this, which I was going to do myself but found yo beat me to it!

But don't forget two others ones:

Congressional Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, November 1, 1777 — Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of;...

It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart Thursday, the 18th day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise; that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor; and that together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance ;...may render them fit instruments, under the providence of Almighty God...to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his nurturing hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. (http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=3847)

Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1782 — It being the indispensable duty of all nations, not only to offer up their supplications to Almighty God, the giver of all good, for His gracious assistance in a time of distress, but also in a solemn and public manner, to give Him praise for His goodness in general, and especially for great and signal interpositions of His Providence in their behalf; therefore, the Unites States in Congress assembled, taking into their consideration the many instances of Divine goodness to these States in the course of the important conflict, in which they have been so long engaged, - the present happy and promising state of public affairs, and the events of the war in the course of the year now drawing to a close;..

Do hereby recommend it to the inhabitants of these States in general, to observe and request the several states to interpose their authority, in appointing and commanding the observation of THURSDAY the TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER next as a day of SOLEMN THANKSGIVING to GOD for all His mercies; and they do further recommend to all ranks to testify their gratitude to God for His goodness by a cheerful obedience to His laws and by promoting, each in his station, and by his influence, the practice of true and undefiled religion, which is the great foundation of public prosperity and national happiness.

Done in Congress at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of October, in the year of our LORD, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and of our Sovereignty and Independence, the seventh. (http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=17944)

More quotes, by God's grace

[Biggirl]

Rush Limbaugh yesterday talked about the George Washington Thanksgiving Day proclamation.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for posting this.

George Washington was such a good and wise man.

Happy Thanksgiving.