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Proclamation of Thanksgiving 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 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 to 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 fields of peaceful industry to the national
defense, 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 than heretofore.
Population has steadily increased,
notwithstanding the waste 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 beneficent Father who dwelleth in the
Heavens.
And I recommend to them that while
offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such 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, tranquility and Union. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this
Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites
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Washington, D.C.
October
3, 1863