| Show THE GREAT NATIONAL FAST thursday the uit was probably very throughout the non seceding tates tates as a day of f fasting asting 1 humiliation ana prayer in in accordance with the following at of the president ereg Pes ident in the event that the tile observance of odthe the day and the performance for mance of othe the ceremonies were all lp B and ana truth fat fay favor fator oratte atte results may be some inhibiting cause unknown to the majority of the people A r liy ily by the tle President of the united states stales Wh wheres eres ereg he Senate f the united states devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government of almighty god ia in ali all i i the affairs of men and nations has by a areso abeso the president ent to and 1 iet set ima apart q art a day for national prayer abd abdi h humiliation lation and whereas it is s the duly of naf nations iong long as well la as of men to own their dependence upon tha th overruling power of god to confess their bira bins and transgress trans transgressions gres in humble bumble sorrow yet with assured hope tha genuine tence will lead to mercy and pardon and to recognize the sublime truths announced in the holy noly scriptures and proven by all his history fory that thos those naton nat sonly oil oll are bessei bessel whose god is the lord and inasmuch as we know that by his divine law nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world may we not justly fear that the awful calm caim calamity of civil bivil war which abt I 1 d deso lates the land may be but a punishment 10 in flate d upon us for out presumptuous sins sina ta t the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people we have hare been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven we have been preserved these many year years in peace and prosperity behave we nave brown in numbers wealth and power as no other nation has ever rown but we have forgotten god we eve edo eco ave forgotten the gracious hand band which pre served us in and and enriched and strengthened us and we have vainly ima ined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that ati all ail thes these blessings were produced by some ru superior wisdom and virtue of our own intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self sufficient tofeek to feel the necessity af redeeming Ired red edming aud preserving grace too proud to pray to the god that made us it behooves us then to humble odra ourselves eires elres before the offended power to confess our national tion al sins and to pray f for or clemency and f forgiveness or given gi veness esq now therefore in in compliance with there the request and fully concurring inthe views of the I 1 lecate decate I 1 do by this my proclamation besig I 1 nate and anil bet set apart THURSDAY THE THIRTIETH I 1 DAY OF or arril april 1863 as a day of national humiliation f a bt and prayer and I 1 do hereby request all the people to abstain from their ordinary secular pur nur pursuits suits and to unite at their several places of 0 public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the lordi lord nord and devoted to the tho humble discharge ft f the rehofus religious d r to tat dolemo i acasia 01 H H A S I 1 vla via ik all ail tilis be being ag abo nho let us th then rest humbly la lu the hope authorized i by the divine teachings that hat the united cry of 1 the nation will be heard on high and answered with blessings no less than the pardon of our national bins sins and restoration of our now divided aid aad ald suT buffering ering country t former i harpy happy condition of unit unity yand and peace in n witness thereof I 1 have hereunto set act my cay hand band and caused the beal seal of the united states to be affixed I 1 doneal the city cly of washington this thir bieth day of march in the year 1 LS of our lord one thousand eight aal ajl 11 0 hundred and si sixty YA y three tb ree and andoe of i the independence of the thi united states the I 1 eighty seventh ABRAHAM by the president Prest dent lent H 11 secretary of 0 state |
