Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln
By Presidential Proclamation on October 3 1863, a national day of Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States. This was the the middle of the Civil War, and, in response to a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale (the last of which appeared in the September 1863) President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863. Or current state of affairs as a society, a culture, politically and economically; made me think of President Lincoln's proclamation. As you read this, keep in your mind the humble beginnings of this son of uneducated farmer pioneers. The eloquence and prose leap off the page. Almost a prayer, this Presidential Proclamation hits at the very heart of a spirit that seems to be dissapearing with increasing speed, that used to typify, to quote Linclon again, "the better angels of our nature." A man whose life and career typifies our dreams of what is possible. As w...