Show OBJECTED TO CUSTOM observance of thanksgiving was for a period not popular in southern states ian N the south thanksgiving day was p practically unknown until 1858 1855 in that year gon governor arnor jones of virginia ginia a sent a letter to the state legislature urging a recognition of the day that he be might issue a proclamation for its observance ance but he was advised that as most of the citizens of the state tate a regarded this day as a relic of Purit anle bigotry he be ought not to urge its observance two tao years later governor wise the successor Buc cessor of jones without asking ad vice of the legislature issued a proclamation la land and the people generally throwing aside their prejudice observed the day in the next year 1858 eight governors of southern states issued proclamations after the model of new england calling upon their people to ob awve the last thursday in november as a day for thanksgiving but bat the civil war was at hand and the bit berness engendered in the long controversy over slavery elavery caused many violent opponents of the north to oppose the proclamation because of the introduction tro of a yankee custom undoubtedly our present thanksgiving day has its prototype in the ply PIT mouth thanksgiving festival of 1621 1621 athas it i has been asserted repeatedly that the plymouth festival was suggested to the pilgrims by the jewish feast of ingathering if the plymouth festival has immediate with similar events in the past it haq hag analogies with the har hegt home of england the pilgrims were familiar with the english cele bration and many of them no doubt had participated in it the dominant mark of each N a ai the joy over the ingathering harvest the chief difference between the two was the want of ceremony at plymouth that characterized the festl 1 ial al in some parts of england the merrymaking was around the nod dlugg or kern baba bab and in many places the last load of the harest hardest hari bari i was drawn to the barn in a wagon agon A called the hoch boch cart in front went alp and tabor and around it gathered the reapers readers men find and women singing joyously as they proceeded at plymouth there was no ceremony there was nas no harvest song so familiar in the fatherland sherea feres health to the barley mow moir tt here her a a health to the man al A who very well can both harrow barrow and plough and siow ow |