I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and obse…

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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . 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. ✨ Proclamation, 3 Oct. 1863
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . 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. ✨ Proclamation, 3 Oct. 1863

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