Proclamation of Thanksgiving
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Proclamation for Thanksgiving, October 3. 1863
by Abraham Lincoln
The year that is drawing toward its close, has been filled with
blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties,
which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget
the source from which they come, others have been added,
which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate
and soften even the heart 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 invite and provoke
their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations,
order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed,
and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of
military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by
the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the field of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough,
the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of
our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of
the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly heretofore.
Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the wast
that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field;
and the country rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength
and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with
large increase of freedom.
No Human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out
these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God,
who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly,
reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by
the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every
part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those
who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe
the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise
to our benefit Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to
them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such
a singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence
for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to
His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners,
or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged,
and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal
the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and Union.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and caused
the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this day of October,
L.S. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty tree,
and of the Independence of the United States the eighty eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
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