Posted on 02/12/2019 2:18:15 AM PST by Chickensoup
It was a day to listen to legend. The history, if one learns it, is rather ugly.
ML/NJ (Honest Yankee)
Not surprisingly, not a PEEP on Google about Lincoln’s birthday. But every obscure minority “15 minutes of fame” person gets a full work up.
good to hear. Love cherry pie!
Thank you for putting that link here. I appreciate it.
I never visit or use google
Startpage duckduckgo and dogpile are my friends.
Am thinking of getting myself a web address so I can have emails on my own server space.
You’re quite welcome. They repost it every year and I reread it every year.
March, 1863
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
I have that for my husband’s business. I use duckduckgo mostly but at work I am forced to use google a lot because I’m in IT
Thank you that is great!
In NJ, we had off on Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday.
Different states could have been different. I was in California and we got both off.
Two days off, real close. It was great.
That’s why they made Presidents’ Day. There were two holidays. They took on and made MLK day and merged the two birthdays in to President’s Day.
The presidents are Lincoln and Washington.
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Unfortunately people seem to be forgetting this, the general public seems to think it is a day for celebrating all presidents.
I wrote this post in 2019 about the cultural loss of honoring Washington and Lincoln. A mere three years later the covert war on our country has become overt. Out statues have been toppled, our traditions perverted, our children co-opted, our institutions overtaken.
It’s crazy, huh.
Tragic.
Evil always destroys.
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