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Excerpt from Republican Loyalty: A Discourse Delivered on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1860, in Trinity Church, Washington
IN this capital Of the country it is natural that a Thanks giving Discourse should refer to national interests and affairs. This is nota place in which there are family gatherings Of three or four generations in Old homesteads, and in which the sense of general and political good is almost lost in that Of personal and domestic joys. In such festive home scenes the national airs are played upon the lawn, at a distance from the house, and are only heard in occasional strains, which ?oat through the windows into the pauses between the sacred lyrics Of heart and home. In such communities, personal, domestic, social, and local blessings may form fit themes for the pulpit on Thanksgiving Day. But in this community we are made to feel so distinctly that all Our other temporal blessings are interwoven with those that are national, that even our home hymns are set and sung to the tunes Of the Union. You will not, then, my friends, think it strange that today I take a national theme for my discourse.
We call and celebrate this day as the Thanksgiving Day. But, to use the language of the prophet, [zech. I: 15, it is a day Of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day Of wasteness and desolation, a day Of darkness and gloominess, a day Of clouds and thick darkness, a day Of the trumpet and alarm Many wise and good men think that our nationality is about to be destroyed. How, then, can we make this a day Of thanksgiving? My friends.
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