LewRockwell By Thomas DiLorenzo
Various states held Thanksgiving holidays decades before Lincoln nationalized the holiday with his October 3, 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. The Proclamation was signed by him but authored by William Seward, which is why it includes more religious language than the few religious buzz words that are found in some of the atheist president’s other speeches and proclamations. (His wife and his law partner William Herndon, his only real friend, both said that he never became a Christian or believed in the afterlife).
Like so many of Lincoln’s speeches and proclamations, the Thanksgiving Proclamation is filled with audacious lawyerly tongue-twisting lies and deceptions. It starts out boasting of a year that was “filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.” Not in the Southern states, of course, which Lincoln always considered to be a part of the United States. His armies had already imposed scorched earth policies in the South and the death and maiming of hundreds of thousands of Americans, the burning of private homes, the bombing of cities, and the waging of total war on the civilian population of the South can hardly be described as “healthful.”
“Order has been maintained,” Lincoln said, ignoring the fact that there were draft riots in New York City and elsewhere with Union Army troops “maintaining order” in New York by firing into crowds of draft posters and killing hundreds. That of course was unconstitutional because soldiers are prohibited by the Constitution to engage in civil law enforcement…
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