Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-12-03
EXTRACTS.


aI wish to yield myself the spirit of the occasion
wish to acknowledge its gracious influence give free
course to its agreeable associations.
''This day of estivty is of New England origin. Only
few years, / think, have you assemble in your
places of worship for weekday service of this kind
Let express the hope that your desire is
the integrity Of this occasion, keeping il time for
rious gratitude and giving over the considering
Of subjects secular than relgou of the State
than the Church, is too often the where this
tor giving thanks is of an older date.
Enough other times there for exciting topics to
be boached for the expression Of opinion to be loud and
exciting for political measures and party principles
want of principles to be debated to be appauded
called to account viii have nothing TO do with these
subjects This day Of all the year is not to be
troubled and vexed by their intrusion We here for
common purpose, to be grateful and happy Think you
this would be gained by setting prejudice against
prejudice, opinion against opinion by opening afresh
the half-heaed wounds of disappointed partisanshp
by setting against defeat the apparent right
against the apparent wrong in all any of the moment
political interests Of the day? tell you, For
this day. least let the fires of such contention burn
low happy, indeed if they might burn out Let it be
felt how foreign such dscourses to this jubilee
Let it be felt that periods of pleasant intercourse like
this may far to differences of sentiment and
to melt all arring judgments into harmony and peace
But my interests awakened in the direction of
patriotism when remember that met to-day if at
the centre of great family of States The heart of the
country is here, and it beats with wise purpose and
strong desires for the general good universal prospe
ry for undivided brotherhood and unbroken peace its
the body polite seuding vigorous health through all the
numberess intricate channels Of business science
lation, and Improvement, and making of united America
u goodly heritage, even the garden for the Lord.
" Let u.s. then loyal Americans, be grateful that we
have such country to be proud of and be loyal
Let be thankful that generation after generation
found and have left this land of their birth and their
fecons rich with the blessings of liberty and bright with
the promises of glory whose may never set Let
us thank God that dscordan beligeren feelings have
prisoner the webeng OF which the fathers
bond together with wisdom and sanctifed with
their hoest prayers Let lift up hearts in praise
that through oil the vicssitudes of earth and time we
have been guarded and guided as people by an AL
mighty hand led on securely beneath gathering clouds
and bursting storms, until now within the shelter
of Provdental care, felicitate ourselves and
one another upon being united and hapy family still
numbering millions of glad and privileged souls who
day and every day. breathe thanksgyings together
north SOUTH east and west for the mercies and favors
poured out to them freely during another year.
\ Our reasons, indeed, for National Thanksgiving at
once appear when compare safe condition
with the precarous fortunes Of venerable empires on
the brink Of conyuson beyond the
Europe at any moment is likely be in arms. Even
now the great potentaes may have uncasped the bands
of amity and flung their flags with declaration of
war What picture, indeed, the Continent presents
Inc balance of power is trembling, and it needs but
little of detection and of despoism rretrieyaby
turn the SCALE And what then shall be the result is hid
den but from Him who oyerrues the counses and con-
ficts Of nations, and from seeming evil still educes
good
Dut p are a peace, ana with the prospect OF peace
An ocean rolls between us and the mseries of No
darkness from danger to institutions, lowers upon
our sky but rather in its place signs and assurances
that united and happy people, live and not
die The embers of disorder and distress die out before
they reach our shores. These fields be drench
ed with blood These muttudes that throng the high
ways and the mars and cultivate the valleys and level
the hills, and follow the of mighty streams
sharpening every where the tokens of unriyaed enter
prise and industry and Skill not to be decimated by
warfare, or thinned by famine brought down to de.
another later upon every unjust and
sary appeal to But will trust that while God
shall send the early and the latter rain that the hopes
oil the husoandman may not fall that He will also send
the dews Of his upon oil interests and all our
affairs, that they may continue to flourish and year by
year invite and draw to thanksgiving such as this