Litchfield enquirer., 1863-10-08
DAY OF NATIONAL THANKSGIVING

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
 AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION.
 The year that is drawing towards it's 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 80 extraordinary a nature, that they cannot iaii to penetrate and soften even the heart when is habitually insensible to the ever watcaiui providence of Almighty God. In the midst ol . civil war of unequaled magnitude anu Be- verity, which has sometimes seemed to invite and provoke the aggresslons of foreign states' peace has been preserved with all nations, or der has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has pre- vailed everywhere except in the the theaser of military conflict while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and nayies of the Union. The needful diver sions of wealth and strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the piow, the shuttle, or the ship. The ax has enlarged the borders of our settle ments, and the mines, as well of iron and coal As of the precious metals, have yielded eveu more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made by the camp, the siege and the field and the country rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect the continu- ance Of years with a large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things They are the gracious gifs of the most high God, who, vhiis dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered us in mercy.
 Ia f1 G. md hot fhoy should be solemnly, reverenty and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and v0ics, by the whole American people: and do there re 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 prayer to our benefactor who dwelleth in the heavens, and 1 recommend to them that while ohering up the ascriptiOns justly due to Him for sucn singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, com mend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mOurnerS, or sufer CTS in the lamentable civil strife iH which the interpretation of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore 1t as soon as may be consistent with the divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace. har- mOny, tranquility and Union.
 In testimony: whereof have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to bs affixed. Done at the city of Wash ington this third day of October, in the year of cur Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty eighth. ABRAaAK LINCOLN
 By the President,
 W. H. SEWARD Seo'y of State.
 The Washington correspondent of the Eve ming Post says that Gen. Rosecr ans planes Generals McCook and Crittenden, and that they are in disgrace at the War Department furthermore, that it is evidently the deter imitation of the government to spare no pains to give Rosecrans all the troops he needs. nor will it cover up the blunders of any man, h, W ever high in station, who had anything to dc with the reverse below Chattanooga In 6 word the government is acting vigorously and eourageously and will not esitate,a ,as has some times been done heretofore, for fear of hurting the feelings of somebody's friends.
 AxEcporE OF GENERAL LYrrLE.-In a recent speech at the Ohio Convention of war demo- .crats Colonel Burke elated the following anec dote Of the brave General Lyttle, who was killed at the late battle of Chattanooga:
 "An officer of high rank from another state during a conversation on Ohio politics, re- marked that the democrats of Ohio ought to elect vallandigham, aud if they did not, they would not be true to the democratic party. The brave Lyttle instantly sprang to his feet and with that flash of his eye we all so we'll remember, replied. Sir, am an Ohio demo crat-my comrads here are Ohioans-you must retract what you have said, CT fight me before twelve o'clock. Sensation and loud cheering. "l