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Thanksgiving Proclamation 1900

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Happy Thanksgiving Week!

In the spirit of being thankful and spending time with family this week we will be sharing a couple fo the Thanksgiving Proclamations that have been put out by various American Presidents.

Today’s proclamation is from 1900 from the desk of President McKinley. So why chose this one? This was an interesting time for the United States. After defeating Spain in the last war we now had a bit of an overseas empire and was on our way to being a player on the world stage. Even as we prospered there were still issues. In the year before this proclamation a massive hurricane wiped out Galveston, Texas and that is not an exaggeration. We have seen a number of hurricanes this year. The Gulf Coast is still rebuilding and our friends and family in Puerto Rico will be recovering for years. Galveston rebuilt and so will Houston, San Juan, and everywhere else effected. Our thoughts are with all of you.

The Proclamation

 

                                    William McKinley

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
It has pleased Almighty God to bring our nation in safety and honor through another year. The works of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest. Our country through all its extent has been blessed with abundant harvests. Labor and the great industries of the people have prospered beyond all precedent. Our commerce has spread over the world. Our power and influence in the cause of freedom and enlightenment have extended over distant seas and lands. The lives of our official representatives and many of our people in China have been marvelously preserved. We have been generally exempt from pestilence and other great calamities; and even the tragic visitation which overwhelmed the city of Galveston made evident the sentiments of sympathy and Christian charity by virtue of which we are one united people.

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th of November next, to be observed by all the people of the United States, at home or abroad, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Him who holds the nations in the hollow of His hand. I recommend that they gather in their several places of worship and devoutly give Him thanks for the prosperity wherewith He has endowed us, for seed-time and harvest, for the valor, devotion and humanity of our armies and navies, and for all His benefits to us as individuals and as a nation; and that they humbly pray for the continuance of His Divine favor, for concord and amity with other nations, and for righteousness and peace in all our ways.

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 29th day of October, A.D. 1900, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

By the President:

JOHN HAY,

Secretary of State.