{"id":2654,"date":"2008-11-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/congress-gives-thanksgiving-official-stamp.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:28:00","slug":"congress-gives-thanksgiving-official-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"Congress Gives Thanksgiving Official Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There was a lot to be grateful for, in 1782. With the help of France (who loved us because they hated England … the enemy of my enemy is my friend), we won. We beat the unbeatable nation and stood isolated by oceans and united in our determination to gut it out here in the wilderness, and make it work.<\/p>\n

So the Congress took up the pen and made an official day of Thanksgiving to God. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is weary prose to read, but very interesting. Also, this was not a proclamation for a standing National Holiday, but a one-off, that had to be repeated each year. <\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

Therefore the United 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; particularly the harmony of the public Councils, which is so necessary to the success of the public cause; the perfect union and good understanding which has hitherto subsisted between them and their Allies, notwithstanding the artful and unwearied attempts of the common enemy to divide them; the success of the arms of the United States, and those of their Allies, and the acknowledgment of their independence by another European power, whose friendship and commerce must be of great and lasting advantage to these States:—–<\/p>\n

Do hereby recommend 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-eight 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 to their gratitude to GOD for his goodness, by a cheerful obedience of 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.
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Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of October, AD 1782.<\/p>\n

JOHN HANSON, PresidentCharles Thomson, Secretary<\/span>
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