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CURRENT NEWSLETTER
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Lindemann Chimney Supply sells wholesale only to the chimney and hearth industry.
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 November 2007
Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving 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 theatre of military conflict; while that
theatre 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 ofThanksgiving
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.
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