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Date:2010-11-24 ►
Thanksgiving
Information - Mrs. Hale and President Lincoln Over
the years I have tried to get someone, anyone, to read President
Lincoln's proclamation on national TV. I had high hopes I could
convince President Bush #43, him being a Christian and all that.
I
can't remember when I started or who I have contacted, since I
learned the truth about 1995. I have even twittered Sarah Palin and
some of the Tea Party winners this year.
Why
do I even bother when it appears most people could care less? I
don't know.
It
was not until fairly recently I learned about Mrs. Hale. Maybe that
is why. It is the hope of victory for a righteous thing, to
acknowledge God as a nation, for his many blessings. I
do not think President Lincoln ever properly acknowledged Sarah
Josepha Hale!
It
did not go well for all the other elected Presidents that ignored
her. So, when you get to the "It has seemed to me fit and
proper" you should pause and think upon that. Please
note, there seem to be "typos", I reproduce them here,
because that is the way I found them. I try not to change things
just because I think it is "best". When I can lay my hands
on the original documents, then I will. "It
has seemed to me", John Brown, "fit and proper" to
acknowledge Sarah Josepha Hale. When
your child sings her ditty, Mary Had a Little Lamb, let that song
bring remembrance of this: =========================================================== Sarah
J. Hale to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, September 28, 1863
(Thanksgiving) From
Sarah J. Hale to Abraham Lincoln1, September 28, 1863 Philadelphia,
Sept. 28th 1863. Sir.-- Permit
me, as Editress of the "Lady's Book", to request a few
minutes of
your
precious time, while laying before you a subject of deep interest
to
myself and -- as I trust -- even to the President of our Republic,
of
some
importance. This subject is to have the day of our annual
Thanksgiving
made a National and fixed Union Festival. You
may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an
increasing
interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on
the
same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and
authoritative
fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom
and
institution. Enclosed
are three papers (being printed these are easily read) which
will
make the idea and its progress clear and show also the popularity
of
the plan. For
the last fifteen years I have set forth this idea in the "Lady's
Book",
and placed the papers before the Governors of all the States and
Territories
-- also I have sent these to our Ministers abroad, and our
Missionaries
to the heathen -- and commanders in the Navy. From the
recipients
I have received, uniformly the most kind approval. Two of
these
letters, one from Governor (now General) Banks and one from
Governor
Morgan2 are enclosed; both gentlemen as you will see, have
nobly
aided to bring about the desired Thanksgiving Union. But
I find there are obstacles not possible to be overcome without
legislative
aid -- that each State should, by statute, make it
obligatory
on the Governor to appoint the last Thursday of November,
annually,
as Thanksgiving Day; -- or, as this way would require years to
be
realized, it has ocurred to me that a proclamation from the
President
of
the United States would be the best, surest and most fitting method
of
National appointment. I
have written to my friend, Hon. Wm. H. Seward, and requested him to
confer
with President Lincoln on this subject As the President of the
United
States has the power of appointments for the District of Columbia
and
the Territories; also for the Army and Navy and all American
citizens
abroad who claim protection from the U. S. Flag -- could he
not,
with right as well as duty, issue his proclamation for a Day of
National
Thanksgiving for all the above classes of persons? And
would it not be fitting and patriotic for him to appeal to the
Governors
of all the States, inviting and commending these to unite in
issuing
proclamations for the last Thursday in November as the Day of
Thanksgiving
for the people of each State? Thus
the great Union Festival of America would be established. Now
the purpose of this letter is to entreat President Lincoln to put
forth
his Proclamation, appointing the last Thursday in November (which
falls
this year on the 26th) as the National Thanksgiving for all those
classes
of people who are under the National Government particularly,
and
commending this Union Thanksgiving to each State Executive: thus, by
the
noble example and action of the President of the United States, the
permanency
and unity of our Great American Festival of Thanksgiving
would
be forever secured. An
immediate proclamation would be necessary, so as to reach all the
States
in season for State appointments, also to anticipate the early
appointments
by Governors. Excuse
the liberty I have taken With
profound respect Yrs
truly Sarah
Josepha Hale, Editress
of the "Ladys Book" =========================================================== Proclamation
of Thanksgiving Washington,
D.C. October
3, 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 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 States the Eighty-eighth.
=========================================================== John
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