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Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
t is the duty of nations
as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess
their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine
repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced
in the Holy Scriptures
and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the LORD.
We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals,
are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear
that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment
inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people?
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved
these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power
as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us
in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined,
in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some
superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have
become too self-sufficient to, feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace,
too proud to pray to the God that made us.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that God 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 as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to
our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
--Abraham Lincoln - October 3, 1863
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