November
26th 2009
Posted under Lincoln & Sovereignty and Secession & The South
Lincoln apologist Michael Zak reminds us that Thanksgiving Day was officially established by the great tyrant himself during his conquest of the South.
Hope I didn’t spoil your dinner.
Michaek Zak on 26 Nov 2009 at 9:35 pm #
My dinner was delicious!
Michael Zak
http://www.RepublicanBasics.com
and
http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com
Stonewall on 27 Nov 2009 at 3:24 am #
That’s not even the worst part. Yankees like to claim that the first thanksgiving celebration was held at Plymouth in 1621. In reality, the first thanksgiving was in Virginia on December 4, 1619. But don’t tell that to the revisionists.
Brad C on 27 Nov 2009 at 5:03 am #
Lame. Thanksgiving is a great holiday, you spiritual eunuchs. In order to gain “street cred” at this site I’ll sign off with a cool handle.
Robert E. Lee
RedPhillips on 27 Nov 2009 at 5:52 am #
“spiritual eunuchs”?
We’re spiritual eunuchs? Lincoln invokes God in his proclamation but was a known irreverent skeptic. Which makes him a hypocrite.
S.L. Toddard on 27 Nov 2009 at 12:40 pm #
“Yankees like to claim that the first thanksgiving celebration was held at Plymouth in 1621. In reality, the first thanksgiving was in Virginia on December 4, 1619. But don’t tell that to the revisionists.”
I doubt that the Virginia thanksgiving was the first giving-of-thanks in history. From what I understand, thanks-giving feasts were a somewhat common thing. The Virginia feast predates the Massachusetts feast to be sure, but I believe it was from the New England feast that the contemporary national tradition derives, like it or not. Though if I found out otherwise it would make no difference at all to me. It’s a delightful tradition, whatever its origins, and one of the few we have left.
Personally I couldn’t care less whether non-New Englanders celebrate the holiday. My wife and I spent yesterday at my brother’s house, with Ma and Dad, my sister and brother in law, my sister in law, my nieces and nephews, my aunt, cousins and second cousins. The day before we found out that my father does not have cancer, so the giving of thanks was particularly poignant, joyful and heartfelt, and the turkey and stuffing, boiled onions, squash, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie, washed down with bottles of Ipswich Ale and red wine, were particularly gratifying.
I hope those of you who have not let a hatred of “yankees” (a now meaningless term, really) or King Lincoln poison your celebrations had a joyful day with your families and friends, and that they are all happy and healthy.
PS
The great Bill Kauffman has a piece on FDR’s meddling with Thanksgiving (link below). What is it with our worst presidents and thanksgiving? Lincoln and FDR both? I’d not be surprised to find out that (southern patrician) Woodrow Wilson tried to declare turkey to be the official food, or that the lumbering (Texan) warmonger LBJ attempted to standardize stuffing.
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7313
S.L. Toddard on 27 Nov 2009 at 12:42 pm #
Sorry – I was working my way down the posts and just now saw that you good fellows have (of course) already linked to the Kauffman classic.
Stonewall on 27 Nov 2009 at 6:11 pm #
Mr. Toddard:
I never claimed that the aforementioned thanksgiving celebration in Virginia was the first ever of such celebrations. I fully understand that thanksgiving feasts were common place at that time. However, my statement was that the thanksgiving celebration in Virginia was the first *American* thanksgiving. To the best of my knowledge, that is the first recorded thanksgiving in all of the colonies.
If we are not concerned with historical accuracy, then you’re correct that it doesn’t matter. But I’m not one who subscribes to the “let’s all be post-modernists” attitude which sadly has become the norm in today’s culture. History matters and we shouldn’t be teaching our children that the Pilgrim story is the first thanksgiving when in fact it was not.