CLEVELAND, GROVER, President . Document signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard ("T.F. Bayard"), a broadsheet "Proclamation by the President of the United States," Washington, D.C., 25 October 1887. 2 pages, folio, 325 x 208 mm. (12 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.), integral blank leaf, small brown spot in signature area, not affecting text or signatures, quarter red morocco slipcase, gilt spine . CLEVELAND'S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION An unusual and very rare calligraphic broadsheet lithographically presenting Cleveland's Thanksgiving proclamation in the clear upright hand of unknown calligrapher. Cleveland, in the second year of his first term, proclaims that, since God's mercy and grace "have followed the American people during all the days of the past year," and "He has protected us from war and pestilence and from every national calamity," so that "every path of honest toil has led to comfort and contentment," Thursday, 24 November is hereby set apart and designated "as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by all the people of the land," during which "all secular work and employment shall be suspended" so that Americans may "assemble in their accustomed places of worship, and with prayer and songs of praise, give thanks to our Heavenly Father...."
CLEVELAND, GROVER, President . Document signed ("Grover Cleveland") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard ("T.F. Bayard"), a broadsheet "Proclamation by the President of the United States," Washington, D.C., 25 October 1887. 2 pages, folio, 325 x 208 mm. (12 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.), integral blank leaf, small brown spot in signature area, not affecting text or signatures, quarter red morocco slipcase, gilt spine . CLEVELAND'S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION An unusual and very rare calligraphic broadsheet lithographically presenting Cleveland's Thanksgiving proclamation in the clear upright hand of unknown calligrapher. Cleveland, in the second year of his first term, proclaims that, since God's mercy and grace "have followed the American people during all the days of the past year," and "He has protected us from war and pestilence and from every national calamity," so that "every path of honest toil has led to comfort and contentment," Thursday, 24 November is hereby set apart and designated "as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by all the people of the land," during which "all secular work and employment shall be suspended" so that Americans may "assemble in their accustomed places of worship, and with prayer and songs of praise, give thanks to our Heavenly Father...."
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