Since February we at the Phalanx have endeavored to give you the most hard-hitting insight into the minds of the left, the lazy, the depraved, the incompetent, the undemocratic, the criminal and the immoral. But we like you, value and appreciate our families far more than this activity or any other. Therefore, in light of President Lincoln’s designation that the last Thursday of November should be set aside as a national day of Thanksgiving, we will take a break from our regular musings to spend time with our families. We hope that you will do the same and enjoy the holiday season.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, however, one has to ponder why the left hasn’t launched an all out assault on “Thanksgiving” after all, Lincoln’s proclamation calls on his fellow Americans to give thanks to “our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Perhaps in their haste to destroy individual responsibility, they have decided to let stand this blatant recognition that the state is not supreme.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God…
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 us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United 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, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners 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 purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
-Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863
Happy Thanksgiving America! Please be sure to visit next week as we continue our efforts to shine the light of truth on the shadows of corruption, depravity and incompetence.
Link to President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
