Show thanksgiving givings GIVING 4 lintn da 01 N MER men t i il 0 N T r D rw K t 1 e the rhe following 1 proclamation li adust aJust been issued issue d by thic ifie ta 0 pre president 19 d crt 9 united stages A proclamation almighty almighty god our heavenly father ha has been p pleased eased lo 10 vouchsafe to us as us a people another year of that national life which is an indispensable condition of peace peato security and progress that year moreover ilas has been crowned ith many peculiar blessings the tho civil war which was so recently among us has not been anywhere opened reopened re foreign intervention hat haq ha ceased ceased to excite alarm or apprehension intrusive pestilence has been benignly mitigated domestic tranquility has improved sentiments me n ts of conciliation have largely prevailed and affections of loyalty and patriotism have been widely renewed oun OUE fields have yielded quite abundantly our mining industry lias has been richly rewarded and we have been allowed to eat extend our railroad aad dad system aste in i far into the interior recesses of the coti country while our commerce im lias resumed its customary activity in foreign sem seas these great national blessings demand a na tibal acknowledgements acknowledge ments no now therefore I 1 ANDREW jonnson Preg breg president ident of tiie the united states do hereby ree rec om mend that thursday thee the twenty ninth day dav of november next be set get apart and rud be observed everywhere in the several states and territories of the tho united states by the people ther thor thereof dof as ag aday a day of thanksgiving land praise td almighty god W with all iii dua due reme remembrance P railee that in iu ills his temple tempie ablo every very man NI speak of his honor bonor I 1 recommend ilsa that on 1 the shine same solemn solema ote ott occasion aslon we vve do humbly and 4 devoutly implore liim to grant to our pat nat national lonal ional councils and to gur pur uri w wahle h hlo olo p bi opie ople that div din an alone can cad lead aay any nation ru into to the ways wass of all good W these thanksgiving praises a and id supplications ions we have haie the divine assurance that tho the lord remal rem aineth neth a win hin king 0 forever thae that ara arc meek shail shall ho he guide in jud meni ment and sueh uch as wro aro gentle shall iye lye he learn his ay way the lord shall 1 av give lc strength 1 to his people ani and ohp the lord ord shall give to his people the blessing of 1 peace I 1 1 1 1 in jn witness rid vid ess whereof lierd ilerd hereunto unto set my baand banci bauci ba uil nil jand caused tle the twe peal deal eai eal ot 0 the tho united states to be affixed done at tho the city of washington this thi eighth day of october in intile the year yean olour our lord hord one thousand eight elgh hundred and ano sixty six and of the independency ca ofia of the tho united un Sta states slates iha ninety first firs t 1 AN dr by the lye lYo ident aident Willian use HSe ward waro secretary of ot state |