Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-11-25
A NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY.
A Proclamation by the President Of the
United States Of America.

THE YEAR THAT is DRAWING TOWARD
i its close has been filled with the blessings of
fruitful fields and healthfu skiet. To these boun
ties, which are 70 constantly enjoyed that we are
prone to forget the source from which they come:
others have been added, which are of 80 extraor-
binary nature that they cannot fail to penetrate
and soften the heart which is babitually insensi!
BILE to the ever.watchful Providence Of Almighty
God ......
In the midst of civil war Of unequaled magni:
tude and severity, which has sometimes seemed
to invite and provoke the aggressions Of foreign
States, peace has been preserved with all nationsi
order has been maintained, the laws have been re;
spected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed
everywhere except in the theater Of military con-
flict; while that theater has been greatly con-
tracted by the advancing armies and navies Of the
Union.
The needful diversions of Wealth and strength
from the fields of peaceful industry to the national
defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle or
the ship. The AK has enlarged the borders of our
settlements, and the mines, as well OF IRON and
coal as of the precious metals, have yielded more
abundantly than heretofore. Population has
steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that
has been made in camp, the siege and the battle!
field, and the country rejoicing In the conscious.
ness of augmented strength and vigor is permitted
to expect continuance of years with large increase
of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any
mortal hand worked out these great things. They
are the gracious gifts Of the Most High God, who,
while dealing with as In anger for our sins, hath
nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed TO me hit and proper that they
should be soemnly, reverently, and gratefully &c.
knowledged as with one heart and voice by the
whole American people; do, therefore, invite
my fellow citizens In every part of the Uuited
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
az day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to our be-
nifcent Father who dwelleth In the Heavens.
And recommend to them that while offering up
the inscriptions justly due to him for such singular
deliverances and blessings, they do also with
humble pepitence for our national perversepess
and disobedieucc commend to His tender care all
those who have become widows, orphans, mourn
ers, or sufferers, in the lamentable civil strife in
which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently
implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to
heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as
soon as may be consistent with the Divine pur-
poses to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony.
tranquility and union
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this third day
of October, In the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, and Of the indie.
pendence of the United States the eighty eighth
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the Presidents
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.