Resting and refraining from secular labors on that day, let us reverently and devoutly give thanks to our Heavenly Father for the mercies and blessings with which He has crowned the now closing year.
Andrew Johnson: “Resting and refraining from secular labors on that day, let us reverently and devoutly give thanks to our Heavenly…”
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Proclamation 169—Thanksgiving Day, 1867
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