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November 3, 1885
The Democratic Leader
Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming
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On November 2, 1885, President Grover Cleveland issued a proclamation from Washington setting November 26 as a national day of Thanksgiving and prayer, thanking God for peace, prosperity, and protection amid global turmoil. Headline also notes his trip to Buffalo to vote Democratic.
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A PROCLAMATION.
The President Sets a Day For Thanksgiving,
And Goes to Buffalo to Vote
Democratic.
A Pair of Swordsmen Who Fight Ferociously.
Proclamation for Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-The following proclamation was issued by the president of the United States:
A PROCLAMATION.
The American people have always abundant cause to be thankful to Almighty God whose watchful care and guiding hand has been manifested in every stage of their national life, guiding and protecting them in time of peace and safety, and leading them in the hour of darkness and danger.
It is fitting and proper that the nation thus favored should on one day in every year, for that purpose especially appointed, publicly acknowledge the goodness of God, and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts.
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States of America, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday the 26th day of November, instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land on that day. Let all secular business be suspended, and let the people assemble in the usual places of worship, and with prayer and songs of praise devoutly testify their gratitude to the giver of every good and perfect gift and for all that He has done for us in the year that has passed-for our preservation as a united nation and for our deliverance from the danger of political convulsion; for the blessings of peace and for our safety and quiet, while wars and rumors of wars have agitated and affected the other nations of the earth; for our security against the scourge of pestilence, which, in other lands, has claimed its dead by thousands, and filled the streets with mourners; for plenteous crops, which reward the labor of the husbandman and increase our nation's wealth, and for the contentment throughout our borders which follows in the train of prosperity and abundance; and let there also be on the day thus set apart, a reunion of the families thus sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations, and let the intercourse of friends with pleasant reminiscences renew the ties of affection and strengthen the bonds of kindly feeling, and let us by no means forget, while we give thanks and enjoy the comforts which have crowned our lives, that truly grateful hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and that kind and thoughtful remembrance of the poor will double the pleasures of our condition and render our praise and thanksgiving more acceptable in the sight of the Lord.
Done at the city of Washington this second day of November, one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the president:
T. F. BAYARD,
Secretary of State.
The President Sets a Day For Thanksgiving,
And Goes to Buffalo to Vote
Democratic.
A Pair of Swordsmen Who Fight Ferociously.
Proclamation for Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-The following proclamation was issued by the president of the United States:
A PROCLAMATION.
The American people have always abundant cause to be thankful to Almighty God whose watchful care and guiding hand has been manifested in every stage of their national life, guiding and protecting them in time of peace and safety, and leading them in the hour of darkness and danger.
It is fitting and proper that the nation thus favored should on one day in every year, for that purpose especially appointed, publicly acknowledge the goodness of God, and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts.
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States of America, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday the 26th day of November, instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land on that day. Let all secular business be suspended, and let the people assemble in the usual places of worship, and with prayer and songs of praise devoutly testify their gratitude to the giver of every good and perfect gift and for all that He has done for us in the year that has passed-for our preservation as a united nation and for our deliverance from the danger of political convulsion; for the blessings of peace and for our safety and quiet, while wars and rumors of wars have agitated and affected the other nations of the earth; for our security against the scourge of pestilence, which, in other lands, has claimed its dead by thousands, and filled the streets with mourners; for plenteous crops, which reward the labor of the husbandman and increase our nation's wealth, and for the contentment throughout our borders which follows in the train of prosperity and abundance; and let there also be on the day thus set apart, a reunion of the families thus sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations, and let the intercourse of friends with pleasant reminiscences renew the ties of affection and strengthen the bonds of kindly feeling, and let us by no means forget, while we give thanks and enjoy the comforts which have crowned our lives, that truly grateful hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and that kind and thoughtful remembrance of the poor will double the pleasures of our condition and render our praise and thanksgiving more acceptable in the sight of the Lord.
Done at the city of Washington this second day of November, one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the president:
T. F. BAYARD,
Secretary of State.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Celebration
What keywords are associated?
Thanksgiving Proclamation
Grover Cleveland
Public Prayer
National Holiday
1885 Thanksgiving
What entities or persons were involved?
Grover Cleveland
T. F. Bayard
Where did it happen?
Washington
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Washington
Event Date
November 2, 1885
Key Persons
Grover Cleveland
T. F. Bayard
Event Details
President Grover Cleveland issues a proclamation designating Thursday, November 26, 1885, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, calling for suspension of secular business, assembly in places of worship, gratitude for national blessings, family reunions, and charity.