[Californiajones]

Well let's not forget that God obviously recognizes the Fourth.

Because -- as Lincoln noted in his July 9th 1863 extemporaneous speech from the White House -- God showed His hand was upon the nation with the extraordinary, statistic breaking event that both Jefferson and Adams the prime mover and prime propagator of the Declaration both died on the 4th of July in its Jubilee year -- 1826 -- fifty years to the minute. And Lincoln was referencing this because the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg had been won on the 3rd and 4th of July and old Abe was trying to see his way through the haze of war to see God's provenance.

Lincoln was comforted by the non-coincidence of the deaths of Adams and Jefferson, the only two signers of the Declaration who also became president -- dying on this hallowed day. (And its Jubilee year at that!)

Interesting that Lincoln himself was shot on Good Friday and set out for burial on Easter Sunday. He would not have expected the honor!