Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Amazingly Thanksgiving wasn’t made a national holiday until Lincoln included it along with his famous Gettysburg Address.
Washington, D>C> October, 1863
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the sours from which they come, others have been added, which are of extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heat which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to ignite and to provoke their aggression peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the law have been respected an obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies sand navies of the Union. Needful division of wealth and so strength for the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the border of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious marls, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increase, not with satang the \e waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in thaw consciousness of augmented strength and Vigo, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom’s
To be continued…
DR KARL WALLACE
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Amazingly Thanksgiving wasn’t made a national holiday until Lincoln included it along with his famous Gettysburg Address.
Washington, D>C> October, 1863
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the sours from which they come, others have been added, which are of extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heat which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to ignite and to provoke their aggression peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the law have been respected an obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies sand navies of the Union. Needful division of wealth and so strength for the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the border of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious marls, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increase, not with satang the \e waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in thaw consciousness of augmented strength and Vigo, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom’s
To be continued…
DR KARL WALLACE
TO READ MORE DR. WALLACE STORIES GO TO
karwallaceblog.blogspot.com
