What Did Americans Do at the First Thanksgiving? Argue About It.

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Thanksgiving might seem like a fairly uncontroversial national holiday. That wasn't the case in Abraham Lincoln's day.

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In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln unwittingly launched what would soon become a cherished American tradition.

As non-controversial as Thanksgiving is today, you might imagine the proclamation met with universal acceptance. It did not. Even before the war, Lincoln told an audience in Wisconsin that holiday celebrations had the potential to “bring us together, and thereby make us better acquainted, and better friends than we otherwise would be.” He was particularly influenced by Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of the popular magazine, who had for many years spearheaded a campaign to create a national Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday in November.

Democrats, the opposition party, were split down the middle between “War Democrats” who supported the Lincoln administration’s military policy, though not necessarily the Emancipation Proclamation, and “Peace Democrats” who supported an immediate armistice which would effectively allow the Confederacy to leave the Union on its own terms, with slavery intact.

In the same way that some Americans today lump their cultural resentments under the banner of “wokeness,” many conservatives in Lincoln’s day decried the Republican Party’s affinity for “isms” — “an abolition conglomerate of all the, which I denounce as demonism, ” as Gov. Henry Wise of Virginia stated the case.

Puritanism, said influential Peace Democrats like Clement Vallandigham and Samuel Cox, was the origin of all the “isms” that had propelled America to war. Shortly before his Thanksgiving proclamation, Lincoln received a letter from Indiana’s beleaguered Republican governor, who reported that “every democratic newspaper … is teeming with abuse of New England and it is the theme of every speech. … They allege New England has brought upon us, the War, by a fanatical crusade against Slavery.

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Another made up corporate holiday

This is so problematic.

Uncontroversial Are you guys new here? Ever heard of national day of mourning?

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