Printed DS as president, one page both sides, 8 x 13, October 31, 1908. A proclamation appointing “a day of prayer and of thanksgiving to God.” In part: “Year by year this Nation grows in strength and worldly power. During the century and a quarter that has elapsed since our entry into the circle of independent peoples we have grown and prospered in material things to a degree never known before, and not now known in any other country. The thirteen colonies which straggled along the seacoast of the Atlantic and were hemmed-in but a few miles west of tidewater by the Indian haunted wilderness, have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen.... For the very reason that in material well-being we have thus abounded, we owe it to the Almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things..... Let us therefore as a people set our faces resolutely against evil, and with broad charity, with kindliness and good-will toward all men, but with unflinching determination to smite down wrong, strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and private life.... I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 26th day of November, next, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work, and, in their homes or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength to do order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future....” Three horizontal folds, a very subtle hint of soiling, and small rusty paperclip stain and crease to upper left corner, otherwise fine condition. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
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