1870 Thanksgiving Proclamation is one of the U S
Grant Thanksgiving Proclamations made by Ulysses Grant.
1870 Thanksgiving Proclamation
A PROCLAMATION by the President of the United States of America:
Whereas it behooves a people sensible of their dependence on the
Almighty publicly and collectively to acknowledge their gratitude for
his favors and mercies and humbly to beseech for their continuance; and
Whereas the people of the United States during the year now about to
end have special cause to be thankful for general prosperity, abundant
harvests, exemption from pestilence, foreign war, and civil strife:
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the
United States, concurring in any similar recommendations from chief
magistrates of States, do hereby recommend to all citizens to meet in
their respective places of worship on Thursday the 24th day of November
next, there to give thanks for the bounty of God during the year about
to close and to supplicate for its continuance hereafter.
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 21st day of October, A.D. 1870,
and of the Independence of the United States of America the
ninety-fifth.
U.S. GRANT
