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Posted by: mr5012u on 2004-11-22 04:18:31


Continental Congress 1782 Thanksgiving Proclamation

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
IN COMMITTEE of SAFETY,
EXETER, November 1, 1782.

ORDERED,

THAT the following Proclamation for a general THANKSGIVING on
the twenty-eighth day of November [instant?], received from the
honorable Continental Congress, be forthwith printed, and sent to
the several worshipping Assemblies in this State, to whom it is
recommended religiously to observe said day, and to abstain from
all servile labour thereon.

M. WEARE, President.

By the United States in Congress assembled.

PROCLAMATION.

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: 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:----- 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.

Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of October,
in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-two, and of our Sovereignty and Independence, the seventh.

JOHN HANSON, President.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.

David Harrison Levi David Levi Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved Copyright 2005 printed on 100% recycled paper

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