Happy Thanksgiving from News19
Columbia, SC (WLTX) - All across the Midlands and the rest of America, people are coming together for Thanksgiving.
Many people have either driven out of town to attend a Thanksgiving gathering or are welcoming friends and family who took a trek to celebrate with them. AAA of the Carolinas predicted that 670,000 South Carolinians would travel 50 miles or more from home this year.
The origin of Thanksgiving goes back hundreds of years in
North America. There have actually been several different types of
"thanksgivings," celebrated at different times during the year, but
the one we all know now pays homage to a feast between Pilgrims and Native
Americans in 1621 that took place in what's now Massachusetts.
The first Thanksgiving was done to celebrate the harvest after
a successful growing season. For the next 200 years, similar celebrations were
held in first the colonies, and then the states, but there was no set time for
this day to occur.
It wasn't until October of 1863, during the height of the
Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Thanksgiving
day to be held the final Thursday in November. In 1941, it became a federal holiday.
Here is Lincoln's proclamation:
"The year that is drawing towards its close, has been
filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these
bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the
source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so
extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the
heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of
Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity,
which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their
aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been
maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere
except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly
contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions
of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national
defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had
enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and
coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than
heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that
has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country,
rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to
expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked
out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who,
while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered
mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be
solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and 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 November next,
as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in
the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions
justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also,
with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend
to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or
sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged,
and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds
of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine
purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence
of the United States the eighty-eighth."
Happy Thanksgiving from News19!
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