Comments on: The True Reason for Thanksgiving http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/ Exposing Obama's Radical Agenda Since 2008 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:14:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thomas http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2711 thomas Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:19:39 +0000 http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2711 And we have the BIGGEST TURKEY of all......BHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we have the BIGGEST TURKEY of all……BHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Runner45 http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2710 Runner45 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:44:39 +0000 http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2710 Good research Bruce. Good research Bruce.

]]> By: Bruce Johnson http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2709 Bruce Johnson Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:15:00 +0000 http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2709 I like the closing quote, but am frustrated at being able to find out for sure its TRUE provenance. Edward Sandford Martin did not, in fact, invent it., nor can I find any evidence he ever even quoted it. The mistaken attribution appears to come from someone misreading a 1912 anthology which reprinted Thanksgiving reflections by Martin (from his essay "Times and Deeds") immediately after an ANONYMOUS pre-1876 piece called "A Thanksgiving Sermon" which was kicked off with this now well-known quote (but may well not have originated it). Here is a link to the GoogleBooks version of the book ( *The days and deeds: reader and speaker * by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson), where you can see from the Table of Contents that these are two SEPARATE pieces, and from looking at them in context can see why someone so easily missed that they weren't all one piece. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xtURAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA71&sig=Wz6oqmOq3gfN63rBiMQQgLzU51g#v=onepage&q=&f=false" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=xtURAAAAIAAJ&amp...</a> (Specfiically, "Anonymous" appears in the TOC, but not after the actual piece.. and the piece from Martin happens to begin at the very top of the next page, under the header "Thanksgiving Thoughts", which may have appeared to someone as a page header, not the title to a new article.) So now I STILL want to know who the pre-1876 author was who came up with this statement. (The mention of "by statute" doesn't help fix the earliest date as much as I'd like. Technically, the NATIONAL establishment of the holiday began with the 1863 proclamation by Lincoln, - not precisely a "statute" but might still be what the author intended. OR it may refer to the practice of STATES, esp. in New England, of establishing annual Thanksgiving observances... all of which began in the first half of the 19th century.) Any ideas? I like the closing quote, but am frustrated at being able to find out for sure its TRUE provenance. Edward Sandford Martin did not, in fact, invent it., nor can I find any evidence he ever even quoted it. The mistaken attribution appears to come from someone misreading a 1912 anthology which reprinted Thanksgiving reflections by Martin (from his essay "Times and Deeds") immediately after an ANONYMOUS pre-1876 piece called "A Thanksgiving Sermon" which was kicked off with this now well-known quote (but may well not have originated it).

Here is a link to the GoogleBooks version of the book ( *The days and deeds: reader and speaker * by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson), where you can see from the Table of Contents that these are two SEPARATE pieces, and from looking at them in context can see why someone so easily missed that they weren't all one piece.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xtURAAAAIAAJ&amp…

(Specfiically, "Anonymous" appears in the TOC, but not after the actual piece.. and the piece from Martin happens to begin at the very top of the next page, under the header "Thanksgiving Thoughts", which may have appeared to someone as a page header, not the title to a new article.)

So now I STILL want to know who the pre-1876 author was who came up with this statement. (The mention of "by statute" doesn't help fix the earliest date as much as I'd like. Technically, the NATIONAL establishment of the holiday began with the 1863 proclamation by Lincoln, – not precisely a "statute" but might still be what the author intended. OR it may refer to the practice of STATES, esp. in New England, of establishing annual Thanksgiving observances… all of which began in the first half of the 19th century.) Any ideas?

]]> By: Terah http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2708 Terah Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:44:49 +0000 http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2708 Thank you! Thank you!

]]> By: frank http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2707 frank Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:59:56 +0000 http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/11/26/the-true-reason-for-thanksgiving/#comment-2707 The first Thanksgiving celebrated the first public failure and demise of "socialism" in Jamestown where 50% of the population starved to death. The following year private property and the free market according to Biblical principles produced abundance. The first Thanksgiving was the Biblical "Feast of Harvests", the Pilgrims were religious fanatics. They knew where thier "bounty" came from. We have since forgotten that. The first Thanksgiving celebrated the first public failure and demise of "socialism" in Jamestown where 50% of the population starved to death. The following year private property and the free market according to
Biblical principles produced abundance. The first Thanksgiving was the Biblical "Feast of Harvests", the Pilgrims were religious fanatics. They knew where thier "bounty" came from. We have since forgotten that.

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