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What reason did Sarah Josepha Hale give to President Abraham Lincoln for promoting the establishment of a single national Thanksgiving holiday?

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Throughout his term, President Lincoln published many orders matching to this, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.
Sarah Hale prompt him to have the day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival. Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States.
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