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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
Lincoln's Thanksgiving Te Deum of the Yanks. It appears that Abraham, President of the Yankees, recommends to his subjects a day of thanksgiving some time in August next. We are not apprised of the order of the services, nor the exact description of religious rites to be observed, but would suggest a programme as follows. by the war. Everything being thus prepared, and Seward, who has of late assumed the sacerdotal robe, being consecrated High Priest for the occasion, let the Te Deum proceed. We thank Thee, oh, Divine Benevolence, that Thou hast enabled us to turn a once happy land into a dwelling place of devils, where the light of the lhe earth, shall give thee high land and glory here, and afterwards, with tunefulness, enter upon the rewards of the just.--Amen. We respectfully commend this Te Deum for the Yankee Thanksgiving. If it is a litany of Devils, and not of men, that is their fault, not ours. It embodies in plain English the thoughts of thei