The New York herald., 1871-11-30


Its garnered fruits behold on every hand:
Truly It's "Hail Columbia, happy land"
our industry rev arded-East and West,
And North and South on every hand confessed,
With ample stores-we are supremely Dlest.
We are In peace, thank God, with all the nations,
And We enjoy at home the same relations,
Save here and there some fighting Indian bucks,
And sway down South,n the horrible Ku klux.
II some OF us have suffered there should be
From all the rest an active sympathy,
And resignation to the will OF Heaven,
And gratitude for all its mercies given.
Therefore, good people Of the United States
While Peace and Plenty reign within your gates,
DO proclaim. and you will please remember
That on the thirtieth day Of this November.
Your thanks, with hearts upiifted to the sky,
You numbly oner up to the Most High.
And then, be the day dry, or wet, or murky,
You all sit down TO your thanksgiving turkey.
President Grants Proclamation.
Second Edition.
The day has come, and, with sharp touch
of Jack Frost 1t comes in the good old Pu-
ritan style, including Whit of snow upon
the hills from Cape Cod to San Francisco and
from the New to the ''Old Dominion" And
it will or ought to be, happy day throughout
the country And we like the enlargement of
the institution to q national holiday. 1t comes
down to US from Moses and the children of
Israel in the Wilderness. Itwas brought over
to America by the Pilgrim Fathers-those
hard-headed old biblical expounders of the
law, whose highest embodiments Of piety and
pluck were cold Noll" and ''Praise-Go
Barebones." In the proclamation of Wash
ington, in 1889, of day of national thanks
giving for the happy establishment of the
constitution of the United States, we have the
inauguration of this institution as national
affair with the Inauguration of our national
government. But Washington's example was
not followed up, and from the beginning of the
slavery agitation down to our Southern re-
bellion Thanksgiving Day was tabooed south
of the Susquehanna as "a hypocritical
| Yankee invention;" and so wide was the dis
| agreement between the two sections concern
ing it that the peril of combining the South
with the North in Yankee thanksgiving was
carefully avoided by our Presidents.
But the Christmas and New Years social
pastimes Of the English Cavaliers, established
in Virginia by her first settlers and thence
throughout the South, were thousand times
better for purposes of honest piety or social
enjoyments than your old cold Puritan Thanks
giving. Now, however, Thanksgiving Day,
with ''all the modern improvements, warmed,
softened and refined as day of social re-
unions, is as well adapted to the fighting
General Quattlebaum of South Carolina as to
the psalm-singing Aminadab Sleek of old witch
burning Salem. But we apprehend that the
dead issues or dead ashes of the war are still
too full of burning Goals in the South to JUS
tify the hope that our brethren in that section
will this day be very thankful for all their
mercies, or very cordial in the endorsement of
General Grants proclamation. Their late
system Of African slavery, with their social
castes and institutions and their political ideas
and power resting upon savery-institu-
tions and dogmas OF two hundred years of
cultivation-have been too suddenly torn out
by the roots for the deep wounds made
quickly to heal. The living generation, at
least, must pass away before the white race of
South Carolina can heartily join with Massa-
chusetts in thanksgiving on the new order Of
things. Years must yet elapse before even
the Southern blacks can be acclimated to
this Yankee innovation. And yet, as now
established, it is q most excellent national in
stitution for reconciling and harmonizing all
sections, races and creeds of the American
people; aud your turkey Is genuine Amsri-
can bird.
We hear, in the next place, that the Saints
orI a. alt La nil -
very enthusiastic in this Thanksgiving. Their
High Priest, President and Prophet, leaving
behind him twenty-nine wives and seventy-six
children, is on his travels, and the minions of
the law are after him for slewd md lascivi-
Gus conduct" and even upon charges of
disciples is almost as uncertain as the return
of Bailey, Garvey or Ingersoll. Then, again,
with the snow six feet deep upon level and
from twenty to forty feet deep in their noun
tain de6es, the Saints of Utah aud the Gen.
tiles will, doubtless this day be as short of
visitors as they are of turkeys. And SO it
may be said Of all those new mining States and
Territories from the eastern flank Of the Rocky
Mountains to the plains Of California. But
still at Salt Lake they are in for a good
time and we ''reckon" that our Western
miners, adventurers aud trappers, in many
cosey shanty and uproarious saloon, with their
wild game and wilder modes OF ksgivng,
will make jolly day of it in their variations
from the old Salem ritual. Meantime, we are
glad to learn that General Grants Quaker
Peace Commissioners may be relied upon to
ing dinner, barring the whiskey.
The unfortunate people Of Chicago aud of
those Western forests and prairie settlements
laid waste by fire will, we venture the opinion,
OF all our people most devoutly thank mer-