Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — Slow to Find Favor in South. [ARTICLE]

Slow to Find Favor in South.

In the South Thanksgiving day was practically unknown till about 1855, when Governor John of Virginia urged the observance of the day In a letter to the legislature; but the idea met with hot opposition, on the ground that it was a “New England superstition,” and the small favor it found was completely wiped out by the Civil war.