Thanksgiving,
the holiday, has NOT A THING TO DO with Indians, or Euro settlers and
genocide. That's all a bunch of bull, as much as any of the propaganda
of the 20th century has been.
Lincoln had
just been re elected in the midst of a terrible civil war. He was
grateful. He fully expected to be kicked out and replaced by his timid
former general McClellan. So, he made it a day of thanks.
OF GIVING THANKS FOR OUR BLESSINGS.
All the rest you hear about is total nonsense taught by the hate whitey campaign, sweeping over the world.
DB
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing toward 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. …
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.