The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-11-29
MOST THANKFUL
NATION IN
THE WORLD.
And the Different Things for Which
the Presidents Have Given Thanks
IRON Washington TO President
Mckinley.
Let us give thanksl'

Let us give thanks"
The Pilgrims of that day, standing
upon Plymouth Rock. little thought
that those same words would bound
through the generations and be echoed
In the centuries to come.
They little thought those devout and
unworldly Pilgrims, that other nations
besides the English would find their
way to the newly discovered shores
and. glad for blessings, say let us
give thanks with YOU
Let MS give thanks is the watch
word of the Thanksgiving OF to-day
From feeling Of sentiment. II has be-
come national institution, perhaps the
strongest of all natio nj institutions
IL was not until i7s9 when the coi-
onies had developed into a Hourlshing
little republic, with George Washing
ton as It's head that Thanksgiving was
offieially recommended to be set aside
as n day Of fasting and prayer.
THE FIRST PROCLAMATION.
On October 3. 1888. Washington Issued
proclamation that, on the goth of the
following November all places of bust
ness should be closed and that the
whole nation should unite in rendering
to that great and glorious Being our
sincere and humble thanks for His
kind care and protection of the people
of this country previous TO their be-
coming n nation for the signal and
manifold mercies and the favorable In
terposition 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 govern
ment. for our safety and happiness and
in general, for all the great fayors
M wn,oh u1 he has been pleased to confer
President John Adams thought that
the safety and prosperity of nations
ultimately and essentially depend upon
the protection and blessing of Almighty
God and the national acknowledgment
of this truth.
During his first term as President
there was a great deal of trouble among
the nations across the water, and his
first Thanksgiving proclamation showed
that what he was most thankful for
was that the calamities which afflict-
ed foreign nations visited Lot the
United States, and. further, that its
people were exempt from boring wars.
enjoying great degree OF internal
tranquility"
A short while before there had been
formed In certain counties in Penn
sylvania combinations to defeat the ex-
ecution of the laws laying duties upon
spirits distilled within the United
States and these were the source of
much annoyance to the government.
and in the close of his proclamati tons
recommending that the 9th day of May,
President Adams requested the people
to be especially grateful "for the con-
tinuation of Internal tranquility by the
suppression Of n recent insurrection
which so wantonly threatened the
happy course of our public affairs"
1898, be observed as THANKSGIVING.
President Madison felt that the bles-
sings for which the American people
should be thankful were many and
varied. but he was particularly CRATE
full because God had blessed the Unit
ed States with a political constitution
founded on the Will and authority OF
each citizen unbounded security, not
only to his person and property, but TO
those sacred rights OF conscience SO
essential to his present happiness and
so dear to his future success"
THANKFUL FOR PEACE.
On March 4, 1914. President Madison
issued what was perhaps the most i'm
portant proclamation OF his admins
tration. 1t was just after the treaty
Of peace between the United States
and England had been signed at Client
and In appointing the second Thursday
In April to be observed as Thanksgiving
he requested tho people of America 10
be specially thankful to Almighty God
for His great goodness manifested In
restoring them peace"
We have no more records of Thanks
giving proclamationa of Presidents I'M
III the time OF Lincoln In 1862. when he
appointed no particular day. but re-
qussted that tho people of the United
States should, on their next weekly