Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"that the inestimable boon of civil and religious liberty, earned under His guidance and blessing by the labors and sufferings of our fathers, may be restored in all its original excellence."

"to pray with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action."

"it is peculiarly fit for us to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation."

"Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God."