A PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States of America:
From year to year we have been accustomed to pause in our daily
pursuits and set apart a time to offer our thanks to Almighty God for
the special blessings He has vouchsafed to us, with our prayers for a
continuance thereof.
We have at this time equal reason to be thankful for His continued
protection and for the many material blessings which His bounty has
bestowed.
In addition to these favors accorded to us as individuals, we have
especial occasion to express our hearty thanks to Almighty God that by
His providence and guidance our Government, established a century ago,
has been enabled to fulfill the purpose of its founders in offering an
asylum to the people of every race, securing civil and religious liberty
to all within its borders, and meting out to every individual alike
justice and equality before the law.
It is, moreover, especially our duty to offer our humble prayers to the
Father of All Mercies for a continuance of His divine favor to us as a
nation and as individuals. By reason of all these considerations, I,
Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do recommend to the
people of the United States to devote the 30th day of November next to
the expression of their thanks and prayers to Almighty God, and, laying
aside their daily avocations and all secular occupations, to assemble in
their respective places of worship and observe such day as a day of
thanksgiving and rest.
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 26th day of October, A.D. 1876,
and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred
and first.
U.S. GRANT
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