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Give God Grateful Thanks for Our Founders, by Lawrence Reed – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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George Washington, kneeling in prayer.

By Lawrence Reed, The Stream, December 4, 2025

Lawrence W. Reed is President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty at the Foundation for Economic Education in Atlanta, Georgia. He blogs at www.lawrencewreed.com.

 

I wish I could go back in a time machine to that emotional moment at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783.

The date was December 4, 1783.

The place was an establishment at the corner of Broad and Pearl Streets in lower Manhattan, New York City, known to this very day as Fraunces Tavern.

The occasion was an assembly of officers of the Continental Army, soldiers whose remarkable sacrifices had produced a peace treaty three months earlier, ending the American Revolution.

General George Washington had commanded that army from its inception in June 1775. There at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783, tears streaming down his haggard face, he raised a glass and bade his men farewell with these words:

With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. …

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