The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-11-19
By Hrs ExcELLgHcy
JOHN BROWN FRANCIS,
Governor. Captain General. and Com
mardsr-in- Chef Of The State IF
Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations.
A IArOc1u nation.


NAf 1Eh EAS tue Otuetoi HSso"c'y oi
wv the Stale aforesaid on the second day
Of November instant, passed the following
Resolutions, 10 wit:
WHEREAs it has been the veneraied Gus.
ton, OF our ancestors, on appropriate occa
sions, TO &c cknowle ledg their dependence upon
Almighty God, and 10 express their sense Of
gratitude for the blessings which he has be
slowed upon them: and whereas such ac-
acknowledgement aud expression Is founded on
"a faith in the holy and eternal attributes Of
that Being, are suited to the wants Of man,
and the obligations and feelings OF chris,
,isn community. aud are thus recommended
to us alike by a love Of truth end duls, and
by love Of ancestry and whereas the soa.
son has arrived a. which, in times past. II has
been usual to appoint day for the purpose
aforesaid; Therefore, to continue the re-
membrancc of the pious faith and gratitude
Of our ancestors, md TO hold up to posterity
a similar exsmple as the witness Of our own,
and moro especially to recognise the solemn
relation existing between US and III 10 bounti.
ful author Of the universe:
Rssoired, That Thursday the 25th day of
November instant, be, and tho same is here
by set apart as Day Of Public Thanksgiv-
ing and Praise to Almighty God. 80
And the General Assembly recommend to
their fellow citizens, that abstsining on that
day from all unnecessary labor, and unbeco-
ming recreation, they assemble together in
their respective houses Of worship, and there
unite IN rendering TO God, the giver OF al
good, the homage Of sincere and grateful
hearts, for the innumerablo bounties lie has
grac ously conferred on us, and particularly
that lie led our fathers to this land, 10 lay
here the foundations Of government and
great nation; that lie established Us in the
pleasant places of their foundation and sur
rounded Us with the monuments and triumphs
Of civil and religious freedom, and has conil-
nucd to our day, institutions calculated to in.
culcste q due sense OF the value o. such an
inheritance, and to perpetuste a spirit that
shall maintain il. Thst He has protected
our land during the past year from domestic
and fsreign war, and has sustained and fos.
tered the arts Of peace that lie has distin-
guished il as year Of unusual health In our
borders and crowned the l,bours Of the hus.
bsndmen with plenty |; our manufacturing
and commercial enterprise with success, and
our whole country with prosperity and hap
pincss :--And above ali. that He has granted
and continued TO us the consultations, the
consultations, the hopes and the rewards pro.
m!sea in His holy revelation and the gospel
|of Ills son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, made
more dear and precious by tho advancing
light ofcivii=aton.
And they further recommend that the good
people Of this State, when assembled rs
aforesaid, should with penitent and contrite
hearts, and with an humble reliance on Di-
vine mercy, devoutly supplicate a continu.
auce of favour towards US, and such sanc-
tihcation thereof TO II EN- and their children.
as being manifested in their dispositions and
lives, shall make them to tho latest gencrs.
tions, great, and happy. and religious
people.
Resolved, That his Excellency the Cover.
nor be requested to is,ue bis Proclamation Of
these resolutions, that the came may be duly
made known to the people OF this State, and
that they be requested to conform thereto.
l do therefore, pursuant to the above reel
ted Resolutions, issue this my Proc lamation
to make known the same, that the good peo.
pie Of this State may conform thoreto.
Given under my hand. and the soal OF said
State, at Providence, this fourth day of
November, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred end thirty three,
and Of Independence the ifty-eighth.
JOHN Brown FRANCIS.
By his Excollency's command
HENRY BOWEN, See'ry