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For the Record

  From the Thanksgiving proclamation of George Washington (1789):

 Whereas both Houses of Congress have ... requested me to recom-
mend to the people of the United States a day of public
thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with
grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, espe-
cially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a
form of government for their safety and happiness;

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty-
sixth day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these
States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is
the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that
will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto him our
sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the
people of this country, previous to their becoming a nation; for
the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions
of His providence in the course and conclusion of late war; for
the great degree of tranquility, union and plenty, which we have
since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we
have been enabled to establish Constitutions of government for
our safety and happiness and particularly the national one now
lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which
we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing
useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various
favors, which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite ... and beseech Him ... to enable
us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our
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