Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-07-12
IN sENKTE-ThuFsday june Assh.

Houses wait on The President Of the United
States, aud request thathe recommend a day'
- BE designated BY him, Of public hnmiila-
lion, prayer, aud fasting, TO DO observed Oy |
The people oflhe United States with religious
solemnity. aud with fervent snPplcations to
Almighty God, that He will be glaciously !
rla.srd 10 continue his blessing on our cOun- !
~ and that He wiliaycrt from it the Asiatic
seoarre which has reached our borders--Or IL.
J ia the dispeusations Of His Providence, we
are not TO be exemptedafrom the calamity,
that, through his bOunli[nl mercy, its severity
may be mitigated, and Is duration shortened. |
Mr.. IdzetCeM asked for the ayes and noes, |
which were ordered.
Mr.. Clay roseand observed that he bad
only one word to express. The resolution I
had not been Submitted without consultation !
9Th members Of the Senate, whose opinion |
,,,as entitled to more respect than his own
n MAS indesd first suggested to him by afev-
.rend member of the Clergy, and, alter deID'
J, crate consideration, he lAr. C.l thought me
occasion ct for the lecOmmsnaatiOn o. tue
religious ceremony which tne sese.u,io ~, ~
temnIated. K was the practices Of all Chris
tian pasions, in seasons Of general and great
calamity, to implore Divine Mercy. ofali
fhe pestilential scOurges which had amicteo
our race, the Asiatic Cholera. 10 some OF US
characteristics, was the most renarkabIe.-
lIts. range of operation had been more extern
:siye than perhaps any other known or re.
corded, the small pOx excepted IL mao
broken ont in Asia, and, after des0iating some
OF its fairest portions. penetrated the NORTH
ern part Of Europe. and, sweeping over
great part ofthat continent. reached the Brit
ish channel. II passed over the Brltish Isles
where It ragged, Tut with mitigated severity.
We had hoped, yainly. II seems hoped-that
the wide expanse OF The Atlantic ccean,wouid
have been protecting barrier against its raw
ages in our far distant land. But It has been
Introduced in America. and lift has not actu-
ally entered our territory, It now hangs on our
borders ia it's most frightful form.
The progress of the extraordinary scourge
il sometimes marked by apparent caprice
It win approach city or district OF country,
RECOMMENDING it as il were, with military
eye, suddenly fly off to distance, leaving the
inhabitants rejoicing IN their escape, and it
viii then Unexpectedly return and pursue its
work Of DEATH Il attacks, too, it's victims in
various ways, despatching some in a few
hours, whilst in regard to others, their exeru-
ciati0g tortures are prolonged much greater
leogth oftime. Hitherto the skill Of medical
science, liberal and enlightened as it now is,
has been altogether Incompetent to provide
sure and effective remedy. sf
Should the resolution be adopted, said Mr..
C.the act Of the President, in conformity to
iis request, will be merely recommendatory.
Voluntary as to alis II would b. obligatory
upon none, There seems TO be peculiar
propriety, 90 thegrOund Of uniformity, ia the
proposed measure. Already, in different
parts of the Union, the Clergy OF several de-
y nominations have, it is believed, had their at
tenti0ns turned to the subject Different
days of prayer and humiliation will be proba-
bly, recommended. Il is desirable that the
whole nation, on the same day, shall present
its united prayers and supplications to- the
Throne Of Mercy. And there can be but lit
lie doubt, that although there win be nothing
coereive 10 the Recommendation 0fthe Presi-
dent. there will be general acquiescence in It.
The measure will be grateful to all pious and
oil moral men whether members of religious
eommnnities or not. Ii times Of national or
individual distress, those no suffer feel ir-
resistible impulse to appeal TO that Being, who
Is alone able TO afford adequate relief. s.
should have hestated to present this res
Olution, said Mr.. C. lit had been unsapction-
ed by precedent. But, during the late war,a
similar resolution was adopted by Congress.
at the instance Of a member of the House of
Representatives from Virginia. and President
Madison issued his Recommendation accord
ingly. t'ssr
It ID far from my purpose to excite unne-
faidable at a distance. Even the greatest of
tsall terrors, when the awful moment arrives, |
with anlind fortified by philosophical reflec-
tion,land still more iii be strengthened by re-
ligious hope and belief, 10 less appalling than |
" seemed when far Of.
III A single word. Mr.. President, as to myself. |
lam q member ii no religious sect. II am not !
professor Of religion. Iregret that am not.
wish that was, and I trust shall he. But
have, and always have had, profound re-
spect for christianity, the religion Of my far
theirs, and for its rites, its usages and its OBJ
sersations. Among that which 10 proposed
10 the resolution before yOn, has AWAY com.
nanded the respect Of the good and devont-
And Ihope is will obtain the concurrence Of
! the Senate.
mr.. krsliag kaysen said he Inferred from the
call 30K the Yeas and Nays, that this resolu-
tion would be opposed, and he therefore de-
sired again to refer the Senate to the prece-
dent Of 1914. The revolution at that time
was indHced BY the state of war into which
the county, had been plunged with Great
Britain, and was offered BY Mr.. Ciopton, Of
Virginia. The preamble, which he read.
laid II down as the duty Of Congress TO adopt
measures Of this character in times.0f calami-
" and ofwar. The proposition had passed
the Senate without any opposition. If in