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...

to pray that we may be spared further punishment, though most justly deserved.

to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full conviction that the fear ...

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