Excerpt from Thanksgiving for Peace: A Sermon, Preached in the First Congregational Church, at Pittsfield, Mass., On the Occasion of the National and State Thanksgiving; December 7, 1865 Now, therefore, I, andrew johnson, President of the United States, do hereby recommend to the people thereof that they do set apart and observe the first Thursday of December as a day of Thanksgiving to the Creator of the Universe, for their deliverance and blessings. And I do further recommend that, on that occasion, the whole people make confession of our National sins against his Infinite goodness, and with one heart and one mind implore the Divine guidance in the ways of National virtue and holiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.