Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-11-20
A FROCLAM NATION.


A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General Assembly of
W the State aforesaid, on the 2d day of
November inst passed the following reso!u-
tons. TO wit -
Whereas it has been The veneratcd Gus
tom OF our ancestors, on appropriate occa
sions. to acknowledge their dependence up
on Almighty God and 10 express Their sense
OF gratitude for lie dressings which lie has
bestowed upon them and whereas such ac-
acknowledgement and exprt ssion founded on
faith III The holy and eternal attributes oi
that Being, are suited to the wants OF man,
and the Obligations and feelings OF chris
tian community, and are thus recommended
to us alike by a love of truth and duty and
by love OF ancestry and whereas the sea-
son has arrived at which, in times past, it
has been usual to appoint day for the pur-
pose aforesaid Therefore, TO continue the
remembrance Of the pious faith and gIati-
tude of our ancestors, and To hold up 10
posterity similar example us the witness
Of our own, and more especially to recognize
the solemn relation existing between US and
tho bountiful author Of the universe:
ResolUed, That Thursday the 28th day of
November inst. be aud the same is hereby
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and Praise to Almighty God.
And the General Assent bly, recommend
to their fellow citizens, that abs,aining OIL
| that day from all unnecessary labor, and un-
becoming recreation, they assemble together
in their respective houses of worship, and
there unite in rendering to God, the giver Of
all good, the homage OF sincere and grateful
hearts, for the innumerable bounties He has
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that He led our fathers to this land 10 lay
here the foundations OF government and
grea: nation that He established us in the
pleasant places Of their foundation, and sur.
rounded us with the monuments & triumphs
of civil and religious freedom, aud has COLI
tinued to our day, institutions calculated to
inculcate due sense OF the value ofsuch an
inheritance. and to perpetuate spirit that
| shall maintain it. That He has protected
our land during the past year from foreign
and domestic " ar and has sustained and fos-
tered the arts Of peace that He has distin-
guished it as year Of unusual health IN our
borders, and crowned the labors Of the hus-
bandmen with plenty; our manufacturing
and commercial enterprise with success,
und our whole, country with prosperity aud
happiness And above all, that He has
granted apd continued to us the consola-
tions, the hopes and the rewards promised
in his holy revelation and the gospel of His
Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, made more
dear and precious by the advancing light Of
civilization.
And they further recommend, that the
good people oftbis State, when assembled
as aforesaid, should with penitent and con-
trite hearts, ,und with an humble reliance on
Divine mercy, devoutly supplicate con-
FINANCE of favor towards us, and such a
modification thereof to them and their
children, us beng manifested in their dispo-
sitions and lives, shall make them to the la
test generation, great, an happy. and a
religious people.
i Resoiued, That his Excellency the Co
vernon, be requested to issue his Proclnma-
tion of these resolutions, that the same NAV
be duly made known to The people Of this
State, and that they be requested to con-
form thereto.
l do therefore, pursuant to the above re-
cited Resolutions, issue this my Proc!ama-
tion, to make known the same that the good
people of this State may conform thereto.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of said
State, at Providence, this 4th day OF
November, in the year of our Lord 1893
and oilndependence The filty-eighth.
JOHN BROWN FRANCIS.
II By his Exce,lency's commend,