Identifier: harpersweeklyv9bonn (find matches)
Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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By the President of the United States of America: A PROCL, Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, during the year wltry from the fearful scourge of civil war, and to permit usa great enlargement of civil liberty ; and Whereas our Heavenly Father has also, during the year, jilerxe, and famine, while our grai> Whereas righteousness exalteth Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the Un:they do set apart and observe the First Thursday of Decethe Universe And I do further recommend thatHis infinite goodness, and with one heart and one mind i: ,.„.., whereof I have hereunto set my hand,-andat the City of Washington this twenty-eighth day ofdrcd and sixty-five, and of the independence of the I By the President, William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
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HARPER'S WEEKLY. (December 9, 1865. THANKSGIVING HYMN. The weary night of war is gone,lis shadows grim and glinstly flee; The dny her robes of Pence puts on,Andchants her matins, Lord, to Thee! The quenchless Star of Liberty, That pours its beams on every State— For broken chains that fettered men,For Pride cast down that factions bred For bonds of Union forged ngain, Twixt States at Freedoms altar wed: Than Hint the Sword eer wins or keeps,Our grateful songs shall never cease, Till Praise in Heaths sad silence sleeps. FARMER BELLS THANKSGIVING. A cozy, comfortable home was Farmer Bells. ,s delightful aspot to passni would fin ■ ■ Farmer I.. Christmas the parlor was warmed and occupied;an-! throughout this goodly land there was no manwin. observed Thanksgiving Day more religiously hie, Iowa to the er.niil.irrv •, no ledidiv mrkevi? a perleet= v,oot to b,- Farmer Bells rhc<k=gi;ine: Pay 1ml never pa<-eo nforL Farmer Bell had betIn the spring Mr. Bell, loci Leonards contemp

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