WHEREAS, it is important to call upon the American people to act concertedly and with determination to uphold the sacred principles of American Unity, upon which Our Bill of Rights is based and defend them from all attackers; and
WHEREAS, the State of Delaware, as the First to ratify the Constitution of the United States, also was among the early supporters of the first ten amendments to that Constitution which assured us of privileges not granted in many nations in the world ; and
WHEREAS, the Bill of Rights shall not be used as a means to distort and destroy the basic principles upon which the amendments were based ; and
WHEREAS, we must continue to protect the American Way of Life and Government and assure that it is not undermined by foreign propaganda, the idealogy of which is diametrically opposed to that of the United States of America :
NOW, THEREFORE, I, J. Caleb Boggs, Governor of the State of Delaware, following the example set in 1941 and 1946 by Joint House Resolutions in the Congress of the United States, do hereby proclaim that Tuesday, December 15, 1953, be observed in Delaware as
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, J. Caleb Boggs, Governor
to be hereunto affixed at Dover, this Eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one-hundred and seventy-eighth.