Lincoln: “Thanksgiving… to our beneficent Father”

Happy Thanksgiving to each business owner and leader and your families and friends. Although there are many challenges facing us and many battles to fight to recover and sustain a free-market economy and free-exchange in America, there is still much for which we must be thankful.

The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth (oil on canvas, 1914), by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936)

Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday and be thankful:

• for the liberties and opportunities that remain;
• that we are able to continue to voice our opposition to threats;
• that we are able act within our natural and God-granted liberty to reverse existing over regulation, taxation, and interference in our lives and businesses.

State protected liberty is a rarity in history and we are some of the very few who have enjoyed it. Be thankful for this, while also fighting to restore and maintain.

Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”  Abraham Lincoln, 1863(1)

God bless you, your businesses and families. Thank you for “fighting the fight”. We are blessed.

(1) “Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It became an official Federal holiday in 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln  proclaimed a national day of ‘Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens’, to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and public holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. The event that Americans commonly call the ‘First Thanksgiving’ was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans (as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow) and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating ‘Thanksgivings’—days of prayer  thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)

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