1879 Thanksgiving Proclamation is one of the R B
Hayes Thanksgiving Proclamations made by Rutherford B Hayes.
1879 Thanksgiving Proclamation
A PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States of America:
At no recurrence of the season which the devout habit of a religious
people has made the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God and
humbly invoking His continued favor has the material prosperity enjoyed
by our whole country been more conspicuous, more manifold, or more
universal.
During the past year, also, unbroken peace with all foreign nations,
the general prevalence of domestic tranquility, the supremacy and
security of the great institutions of civil and religious freedom, have
gladdened the hearts of our people and confirmed their attachment to
their Government, which the wisdom and courage of their descendants have
so firmly maintained to be the habitation of liberty and justice to
successive generations.
Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States,
do appoint Thursday, the 27th day of November instant, as a day of
national thanksgiving and prayer; and I earnestly recommend that,
withdrawing themselves from secular cares and labors the people of the
United States do meet together on that day in their respective places of
worship, there to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for His mercies
and to devoutly beseech their continuance.
In witness 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 3d day of November, A.D. 1879, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
fourth.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
