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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Important Announcement. (search)
attended devine service." "In this electrifying piece of intelligence, the Turkey," as is meet and proper, is mentioned , and "divine service" last. We pass over the pardonable characteristic self-con that all "Anglo-Saxon mankind" were keeping Thanksgiving and eating turkey on the 29th day of November last, whereas, with the exception of a few Yankee Doodle States, composing an infinitesimal portion of the Anglo-Saxon family, their Thanksgiving day is unknown, and turkeys kept for Christmas. But it is a common notion of New England, that it is the hub of the whole of the creation, the axis of the entire universe, and that when it thanks God that it is not as other men, everybody else is doing the same. The great point, however, is that the eating of a turkey by Mr. Lincoln should be now telegraphed over the United States, when a year ago, a turkey buzzard ending his dinner on a rail, would have been just as likely to have had his performances published. What a race these