Victoria Heilshorn Studio - Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln

Of all the many biographical outlines I have done for my artistic works, I have found this to be the most
difficult. I believe I heard once that more books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than almost any other
American political figure. It’s very hard to pick and choose what to include. Most people are very familiar with
the Legend of Abraham Lincoln and it therefore does not bare repeating.

So instead, I submit what I consider to be one of Lincoln’s finest moments -- his Thanksgiving day proclamation
of 1863. It is one of the few noble deeds of Lincoln’s that has faded from memory, and with that being the case,
it does bare repeating. It follows in part:

…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 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 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 imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the
wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, 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 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States
the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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