The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-29
IhsqHtelIiastteer.
Thanksgiving To-Day.

tom Ol IHS PSSP'N - "S "
met together, as the ancient Jews did,
and observe the feast Of ln.gathering,
s,hlch il the end Of the year, when thou
hy gathered in thy labOrs out Of the
sld.o Owing to the prejudice that ex-
ided in Virginia, and all over the South,
u,lnst New England, no Executive Of a
Slave State ever Issued a proclamation
recommending his people to observe a
d.y 0! Thanksgiving. To Governor Peir.
p,int belongs the honor Of having inau-
sura.ed this custom on the sacred soil Of
Virginia, when he was at the head Of the
restored government" Of the State.
The feeling Of the South against the
lU on account Of its associations with
Paritanism, was not unlike the prejudices
olthe paritans against the observance OF
Christina. on account Of its supposed re.
I.,ion. to the Catholic Church. The
Catholics have always made specially
olChri,tmas, and for that reason the Pu.
rian. we're inclined to irown upon the
festivities Of the Christmas season.
Time, however, ia the great destroyer
Of prejulice4. There are now no people
throughout the Christian world who do
no, observe Christmas week as season
Of good cheer, and there is no State in
The Union where the isms Of New Eng.
lAad any longer prevent the people from
oberying a day oI Thanksgiving. Had
no war occurred, and were slavery alive
and Aourishing to-day, we should not see
the people OF Wheeling and West Viz.
giniA obeying recommendation of their
STATE Executive to meet together for
PRAYER and praise.
Thi.is not DAY to introduce politics
into lhe pulpit, and yet we eau hardly
see how the ministers can fail to give
thank, to Providence for the overthrow
oi Democracy and slavery in the war for
the Union, inAsmuch as it gave us not
oaIy National thanksgiving day but
likeWi,e SO much more to be thankful
for. For instance, is free speech and
free press something to be thankful for =?
II so, We ought to recognize the hand
Ol Divinity in raising up, in the
ilIlne.s Of time, public SEN
timen! opposed 10 Democracy and
slavery, through the triumph Of which
every human being who breathes the air
Of America is today freeman, and uu.
der the protection Of which all men are
now at liberty 10 speak, write and vote
their sentiments upon allissues before the
public. No man who believes in great
Disposer OF events can doubt that he
delivered this country from both White
and Black bOndage through the iustru-
mentality of the Republican party.
For this deliverance, then, let us give
thanks. And while so doing let us not
forget that the Democracy, like the Phil
i,tines, are again upon US, and no doubt
for a wise purpose which it becomes ua TO
recognise. A philosophical minister will
have no difficulty in believing that it is
tOr the good OF the country that parties
siand now as they do. We are close 10 a
new departure in American politics.
The policy Of President Hayes is the in.
itiation Of new era. lie himself seems
to be the visible expression OF Proyi.
dental shaping of the new departure.
10 less Than year he has succeeded in
restoring to thiscountry degree OF peace
aud good will that it hss not known
for generation. There can be no
doubt that his administration ia to be a
golden epoch in our history. Parties
are SO evenly balanced that both are
bound to cooperate with him in helping
on this great change. Surely this is a
copiupcture Of events that we are bound
to recognize as something more than an
accident and ono for which We NAV we'll
be dsvOutly thankful.
There are other mstters Of moment
which the mipi,ters will not overlook to.
dsv, TLey can point to the most remark.
ABLE wear Of abundance in our history.
II i, ,plbom ,b.. an immense cron zoe,
hand in hand with nm unusual demand for
it from abroad. Tbi. has potbeen our ex.
periepee heretofore We have enough
thi,ye,r 10 pive our people cheaper bread
and ,l,o sunply a foreign demand for our
.urplu, I, istbu. that We will be able
10 keen our indn,,ris. alive at bome and
At the .,ms time nav off f, lsyye amount
of ottndeb,sdne., abroad
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tb,, , .rs,t ,monr, ri corco,lad mor.l
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ir,ud ,bsi, msif..s,rc. IN Office and
6p.ncisl breach of ,rps. in b,vb pl.cs,,
A, no tims bns tbis ,pnnn,a,ipv proces,
been more active than dining ,be l,sl
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