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President Abraham Lincoln October 3, 1863: "It is the duty of nations as well as men to own their dependence upon the overruling powers of God: to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all of history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the lord. "We know that by his divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justify fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people. "We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved through these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever done. But we have forgotten God, we have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and mulitplied and enriched us, and gave us strength, we can only imagine the deceitfulness of our hearts to proud to pray to the God that made us. "It has seemed to me it and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of Novenber as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficient Father who dewelleth in the heavens."
