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So in the 1860s, there was a famous poet, a lady named Sarah Hale. She was the editor of a book called Goody's Lady's Book. She penned the famous nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb. And for 17 years, beginning in 1846, she wrote to the President of the United States, and she was influential and known, so they would have received her letters.
Plus, back then, people actually could just walk into the White House. It was a different world, of course. And For 17 years, she would write to the president as a well-known figure, asking the president to formalize a day of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. In the middle of the Civil War, 18 months before the Civil War was to end, in 1863, Abraham Lincoln decided to do that.
And his Secretary of State, Seward, who wrote a lot of his speeches with Lincoln, Lincoln was known for his ability to speak, but Seward did a lot of his writing. And Seward wrote out the proclamation, and the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, declared that on October the 3rd, 1963, or 1863, that Thanksgiving was is going to be a national holiday. Here's the proclamation.
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 such extraordinary in nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and even soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations. Order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of military conflict.
while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship.
The axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield.
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