Evening journal., 1901-11-27

CaSlOn was une arrival OF HnlpS from
England they could not forget, bring
ing over stout Governor Winthrop and
500 fellow immigrants. Again In Feb
ruary. 1881. the Massachusetts Bay
people held thanksgiving for the ar
rival of the good ship Ambrose. from
England, loaded with provisions and
supplies, for which they had sore need
The American Puritans retained q
keen interest i'm the fortunes OF their
fellow non-conformists all over Europe
On June 8. 1852. the General Court Of
Massachusetts ordered a public thanks
giving for Gods mercy 10 the Pro-
tesant churches OF Germany and The
Palatinate
On June 19. 1888. another formal
thanksgiving took place In the Bay
Colony. and the observance was re-
peated ON October l6 OF the same year
for "bountlful harvests."
The destruction OF the peQuods by
John Mason and his men. and their
Narragansett allies. furnished, cause
for genuine Thanksgiving in the Massa-
chusetts colony In June. 1887
During the years from 1883 TO 1862
the records OF Massachusetts shows
seven public thangsgivings In other
colonies OF New England the observ-
lance steadily gained ground The set
ting apart of the same day for general
observance, however, did not come till
later years
Each colony gave thanks "all by
itself whenever the earth was unusu-
lally fruitful when the savage enemies
of the settlers had been summarily
luuelled, or when ships came safely TO
anchor in New England havens. bring
ing supplies and other immigrants and
good news from friends and kin "at
home" in Britain.
The first formal thanksgiving fesu-
val in the colony OF New Amsterdam
was proclaimed by the Dutch Governor
l<ieft i'm 1914. Another followed In the
next year Then there seems to have
been no more until Peter Stuyvesant.
in 1856, ordered a great thanksgiving
Festival in honor OF the annexation q
the Swedish territories ON the Della
ware TO the domains Of the Dutch In
America.
In 1855 and 1860 the English Cover
nors OF the colony OF New York issued
formal thanksgiving prOclamatioms
During the Revolution The Congress
adopted the customs Of recommending
a national thanksgiving This is the
first naturalization of the day Bln
after 1884 Congress seems To have
dropped the custom.
Il In this year. after the British lion
had been soundly whipped, the whols
nation held a general thanksgiving fOl
+ the peace that seemed such q blessing
after the years of struggle and war
and President Washington In 1889 pro
claimed a national thanksgiving foi
the adoption Of the Constitution tha'
made Of the loosely bound confedea
, tion OF Jealous States a united nation.
In 1895 he proclaimed another on th'
occasion OF the Quelling of the threat
5 lening insurrectiOn that broke out II
! Pennsylvania and Virginia because O
! the passage Of a law by Congress i'm
I posing a tax on distilled spirits
In 1916, after peace had been woi
, in our second war with Great Britain
] the president. acting in accorlanc
with tho accommodation OF Congress
proclaimed a national thanksgiving
This was in the MONTH of April
Ia -Sl7 the governor of New Yofl
e ISSUED the first formal tlhanksgivrl
ilTroclamation for the Empire State. Il
a the various States the holding o
] srocia! thanksgiving services ~ mos
2 of the churches was customary abuu
! Tho first OF November But until th
b lciyil war II was I'm New Engilnd tina
the observance of the day had IL
p stronghold
y Each year the governors Of eli m
b New England States issued 'orma
l. thanksgiving proclamations The de
y scendants of the Puritans who ha
10 frOwned ON the Observance of th
y christian festival, made Thanksgivin
l. Day the great feast OF the year ns WEI
g as a day of general religious observ
t. anoe in churches and houses alike.
II The Southeast, the home of tn
s Cavalier, was slow 10 adopt the Puri
tan Thanksgiving. But the custol
II gradually extended southwark as
r lpermeated the national life, and d
p 1858. a little more than two years be
n fore the war broke out, eight Of III
st Southern States observed the day,
VI accordance with the recommendation
r lof their governors.
el President Lincoln during tine civ
Is war inaugurated the custom of regula
annual Presidential thanksgiving pro'
l. llamations. Twice also he officially prs
1t lclaimed the national observance of th
lrlannual thanksgiving festival who's
4 Institution we owe to the sturdy Pw
L itan This was in 1868 and 1864.
ID Since that time the regular obser7
d ance OF the day has been national. I'll
Presidents proclamation of tlhanlQ
y lgiving is a never failing event of ti
le year The governors Of the States 10
g low the same practice. The last Thur
ot day Of November mas been fixed as u
le day by common usage
TX The people of New England al
he prone to cain that nowhere else
r the day observed so fully as In the
"a own section OF the country. But Il
ID West and the Middle States, and ev,
r. the Southeast, have come to make
: one of the great events Of the year
. is the day when the old homestead
. again tenated and kinship ties a
drawn closer at the hearthstone feal
Is and when family rejoicings go hal
lfr, hond rtsffh davouf 1-noopuiFfon Of n