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.
Proclamation 169—Thanksgiving Day, 1867
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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