Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, issues Proclamation 103, declaring August sixth to be a day of thanksgiving, for the compulsory Union victory at Gettysburg two weeks previous: “[R]ender the homage due to the Divine Majesty … to lead the whole nation, through the paths of repentance and submission to the Divine Will, back to the perfect enjoyment of Union. …”
[added 4/9/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.
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“Speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, “Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4:332.
Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation 103 – Day of Thanksgiving, Praise, and Prayer, August 6, 1863.htm
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=69897
The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/
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