She made the case that a “National and fixed Union Festival” should occur on the last Thursday of November, annually, because the last Thursday of November was when George Washington had declared the first national Thanksgiving in 1789. 28, 1863 letter to Lincoln, Hale argued the other side. That’s one reason why Virginia Governor Henry Wise said he would not support this “theatrical national claptrap that is Thanksgiving.”īut, in a Sept. Jordan’s Church, State, and Race: The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750-1900. And some in the South saw Thanksgiving as “another manifestation of intrusive, New England moralism,” according to Ryan P. Some politicians thought the “day of public thanksgiving and prayer” declared by George Washington in 1789 violated the separation of church and state.
President Zachary Taylor said around 1849 that it was up to the states to decide when and whether to declare a Thanksgiving holiday in that period, such a holiday was often celebrated anywhere from September to December, depending on the place.
She also launched a letter-writing campaign to members of Congress, governors and Presidents. Rather, as a widow and mother of five children, she believed that a high-quality education was essential to preparing women for “the most important vocation on earth…that of the Christian mother in the nursery.” But she did not believe in women’s suffrage, nor did she believe that women could do all professions just as well as men. She even helped finance the all-female Vassar College, founded in 1861. TIME also characterized her as “a crusader urging the admission of women to the practice of medicine, more thorough female education, foreign missions,” while Fortune‘s columnist John Chamberlain wrote that “she was annoyed by the menial position of pre-Civil War women and proceeded to put the flattering term ‘domestic science’ into the language” in the magazine’s A History of American Business. In the magazine’s pages, Hale swore by the wrinkle-busting power of applying brown butcher paper soaked in apple vinegar to the forehead and described pigeons as “about the only bird in New England worth cooking.” The story of Thanksgiving is basically the story of the Pilgrims and their thankful community feast at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Under her leadership, the publication popularized white wedding dresses and Christmas trees, trends often credited to Britain’s Queen Victoria. Born on a New Hampshire farm in 1788, Hale was known as the “Lady Editor” of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a periodical founded by the “plump, benign” publisher Louis Godey and “y far the most phenomenally successful of any magazine issued before the Civil War,” as TIME put it in 1930.
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