The weekly Butte record., 1858-11-20
Thanksgiving UaY.


readers that next Thursday has been suggested
by our Governor, as an appropriate season for
thanksgiving and praise to the dispenser of
all earthly blessings ALL or nearly all the
States OF the Union have fixed upon this same
dayl and thus, the occasion is made national
one, as it ought to be- When we feel thank
ful, we feel happy and as happiness is the
natural result of health, we are pre-supposed to
be possessed Of all the blessings flesh is heir to-:
not the least OF which is keen appetite and
good digestion and tEis latter is, and from
time immemorial has justly been, regarded as
one of the most indispensable incidents to
cheerfulness and ehristian-like department.
Shakespeare makes Macbeth his mouth piece
for paying just tribute to digestion, which
he (Macbeth) does presence of his assembled
and unsuspecting guests, by proposing as a
toast: MAY good digestion wait on appetite
and health on both" In the whole category
OF toasts, where is there the match for this
But we started in to speak of Thanksgiving
Day, and not of properly regulated stomachs-
though, as we have incidentally thought, and
still think, Thanksgiving cannot be right heartily
enjoyed without them, and hence the digres-
ion.
The setting apart Of this day, is custom
peculiarly American, although it is only of late
years that it has obtained general observ-
ance outside of the New England States As
one born in the land over which the Eagle is
supposed to sail most proudly, and in the most
complete freedom, we are proud of the nstitu-
tion of Thanksgiving. We feel a glow of na-
tional pride at the thought that after all the
chickering's engendered by political differences,
and with all the strles of religious sects, there
is one day in which all can meet at their res
pectiye altars to offer thanks and praise for
the property bestowed upon the land, and for
the continuance of that liberty for which they
who inaugurated Thanksgiving days, were
among the first 10 take up arms. After the
harvesting of our crops. after the horn of
plenty has been emptied into the lap of on
est Toll; after the products of the field and
the orchard have been garncred, and prepara
tions for the inclemcncies of an approaching
season of storms have been completed, then
comes, in the most proper of seasons, the day
of praise.
Now, as We were led to remark in the outset
thankfulness results from health-good appe-
tite and digcstion-and so it does. The man.
or woman, or child, who cannot feel an exoui-
site tingling of the nostris at the scent of
roasted turkies and the steam of plum pud-
dings, or whose neither lip does not moisten at
his or her anticipation of heaping platefull of
those substantial luxuries, is untitled for the
earnest giving of thanks. Gratitude and par
alyzed stomachs, are Is much incompatible as
good humor and the toothache. A pre-deter-
mination to this conclusion, led US to say what
we did say at the commencement of this arti-
Gle and now we will conclude with the hope
that every one of our readers, they and their
friends, and their friends friends, may be so
tempered as to properly celebrate and enjoy
the coming holiday. May they all be permit
ted and constrained to offer up fervent thanks
for the blessings conferred upon them and their
households and kinsfolk may their enjoyments
be seasoned with temperance and reason; and
in the discussion of plentiful provision of the
good things of earth, "May good digestion
wait on appetite and health on BOTH"