LanceHughes
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ORIGINAL: Sanity Name any serious presidential candidate who hasnt claimed religion Lincoln. As a matter of fact, his opponents called him a "heathen," which was the word used for "atheist" in those days. His Thanskgiving Day Proclamation, however, has phrases such as "No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. " The proclamation is in Sec. of State Seward's handwriting. When asked (in private by Judge James M. Nelson) why he DID sign the Thanksgiving day proclamation, given his well-known aversion to religion, Lincoln replied "Oh, that is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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