Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
DAILY LEADER.
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CLEVELAND LEADER COMPANY.
SATURDAY, NovEMBER II, 1865.
The Two Misunderstanding Days.

1t is a matter of very serious regre'
that Governor Anderson should have seer
fit, in issuing his Thanksgiving Procla,
nation, to have appointed for the obser-
vance of this anniversary a day different
from that already designated by President
johnson forthe celebration of the National
Thanksgiving. The discrepancy will
cause either in confusion and variance
some localities observing n day and
some the other-or else an attempt to
keep both days, which will be likely to re-
sult in a failure properly to keep either.
Tn the former event there would not only
he n painful lack of harmony in the OBJ
seryance of the day, but also a disrespect
to, or at least a disregard of, one or the
other of the anniversaries proclaimed by
our chief magistrates, which, though I'M
avoidable, would be indecorous. In the
latter case, the whole object of the day
will be lost, and its pleasant traditions
disturbed, if not destroyed.
1t has been suggested that Gov. Ander-
sonappointed the Both of November forthe
State Thanksgiving Daywith the hope that
President johnson would modify his proc
lamation, and fix the same date for the
national Thanksgiving. In view of the
fact that many of the states of the Union,
including New York, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and others, have already fixed
upon the day announced by the President,
and that Ohio alone has chosen the both
inst. for Thanksgiving, it will be seen that
the mobilization f-P-os;5ont-Iahnsan's
proclamation is impossible. To request
such a modification seems, indeed, to in
volve remarkable assurance. To be sure,
the President overstepped the usual Gus
tom and appointed the Thanksgiving in
December rather than November, but the
change is trivial, existing rather in the
imagination than in reality, and was IN
doubleday occasioned by the desire of the
Presidentto have Congress unite as a body
in the national Thanksgiving. At all
events, the responsibility for the evils
resulting from the discrepancy, if it con-
to exist, will rest with Governor
Anderson. The Presidents proclamation
first issued, and has been generally
conceded in by the northern States. Ohio,
alone, or almost alone, practically opposes
It. The only proper course left for Gov
ernor Anderson, therefore, is TO modify
his proclamation and postpone the State
Thanksgiving until the day fixed for the
observance of the National one. If, as
has been stated, the Governor was infu-
aneed in his decision of the matter by the
idvice of the ministers of Columbus, GER
the united voice of the press and
leroy of the State, which has expressed
unanimous regret at the discrepancy in
dates named by the two P-roclamations,
lould have its influence in causing him
reconsider his action.
It is most appropriate and desirable,
lat the institution thanksgiving should
scome a national one-not only for gen
al reasons, in order to secure harmony
I'd unity in the time, manner and objects
its celebration, but, on this year, for
,ecial reasons, because, as Governor An
himself remarks, our greatest
uses for Thanksgiving are for national
lvation and triumph. Let the Cover 1
T, then, modify his proclamation, and t
the people unite fervently and heartily I
a harmonious and universal NATIONAL !
IAKKsGIYING!