The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-27
VOL. XV.-NO. 2l,
SAlNTaPAUI. FRIDAY, NOVEMB r
THE PRESIDENTS HYMN.
the Editor Of the Nsw York Tribune: :

THE PRESIDENTS HYMN.
To the Editor Of the Nsw York Tribune:
SIR:-Inclosed you will find hymn written
by our beloved and reverend fellow-citizen, DR..
Muhlenherg, founder of st. Luke's Hospital,
and writer of the immortal hymn. II would
not live Away" Will you not give it place
in your columns, and use your editorial influ.
ence to induce our people throughout the loyal
States to sing it in the churches on the ap-
preaching Thanksgiving, as The Presidents
1t has right to that designation. 1t is, as
q comparison Of the two will prove, met
rical version of the Presidents Proclama-
ton, which this year, for the first time made
our Harvest Home" a national festival-a
significant and blessed augury of that "more
perfect Union" with which, with Gods bless
ing, the war shall leave us as a people,
Solicitous to have the highest authority
given to the use of this National Hymn, OBJ
tanned the reluctant consent of its writer (au-
thor also Of the music to which it is set) to ask
our Chief Magistrates permission to style it
The Presidents Hymn" The Secretary of
State, through whom the application was
made, telegraphed me a few hours afterward
the Presidents leave, in the decisive style which
mas now become so familiar to our people
Let it he SO called" May we not hope that
millions of our people will. on November 26,
be found uniting in the National Psalm of
Thanksgiving, and that "The Presidents
hymn will he the household and temple
song of that solemn and joyful day? 1t will
help to join our hearts as citizens thus to blend
our voices as worshipers; and the blessings
OF Union Liberty and Peace will sooner de-
scend on a people that can thus unite in its
praise and hOsannahs.
Respectfully yours,
HENRY w. BELLOWS.
Give Thanks, all We People.
Give thanks, all ye people, give thanks to the
Allelui&s Of freedom, with Joyful accord;
Let the Aast and the West, North and South
roli along,
Sea, mountain and prairie, one Thanksgiving
song.
CHoRUs AFTER EACH vERsR'
Give thanks, all ye people. give tasnks to the
AIeluias of freedom, with joyful accord.
For the sunshine and rainfall, enriching again
Our acres in myriadH With treasures of grain
For the Earth SAL unloading her manifold
For the Skies Seaming vigor the Winds breath
ing 4realth.
Give thanks
For the Nations wide table, oeriowingly
A., spread,
While the many have feasted and all have been
With no bondage, their God-given rights to
But Liberty guarded by Justice for all.
Give thanks
In the realms of the Anvil, the Loom. and the
Plow,
Whose the mines and the realms. to Him CRATE
fully bow:
His the docks and the herds, sing ye hill-sides
and wales:
On His Oceans domains chant His name with
the gales.
Give thanks
OF commerce and traffic, ye princes, behold
Your riches from Him whose the silver and
Happier children of Labor, true lords of the
soil,
Bless the Great Master Workman, who blesseth
Give thanks
Brave men of eur forces, Life-guard of our
coasts,
To your Leader be loyal, Jehovah Of Hosts:
Glow the Stripes and the Stars aye with victory
Rejecting His glory-He crowneth the Right.
Give thanks
Nor shall ye through our borders, ye stricken
of heart,
Only wa:ling your dead, in the JOY have me
part:
Gods solace be yours, and for you there shall
All that honor and sympathy's gifts cab bestow.
Give thanks4>
In the Domes Of Messiah, We worshipinp
thrOngs,
Solemn litanies mmgle with sJJabilant songs:
The Ruler Of Nations beseeching to spare.
And our Empire still keep the Elect Of His
care.
Give thanks
Our guilt and Gangressions remember no
more;
Peace, Lord! righteous Peace, of Thy gift we
implore;
And the Banner of Union, restored by Thv
Hand,
Be the Banner of Freedom o'cr all in the Land
And the Banner of Union, &c.