Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-11-14

Precedence. Plantation.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General Assembly Of
w the State aforesaid. on the ID day Of |
November inst passed the following Jeso!u.
tions. to wit -
Whereas il has boen 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 the dressings which He has
bestowed upon them; and whereas such ac-
Acknowledgement and expression 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.
lian community, and are thus recommended
| to us alike by love of truth and duty and
by a love OF ancestry aud 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 graft.
tude of our ancestors, and to hold up to
postcrtya similar example as the wiincss
of our own and more especially to recognize
the solemn relation existing between US and
the bountiful author of the universe
Resolped, That Thursday the 28th day Of
November inst. be and the same is he reby
set apart as a Day of Public Thanksgiving
and Praise to Almighty God.
!, And the General Assem- bly, recommend
to their fellow citizens, that ubstaining on
that day from all unnecessary labor. and un-
becoming recreation they assemble together
Il in their respective houses of worship, and
there unite in rendering to Goo, the giver Of
all good, the homage OF sincere and grateful
hearts, tor the innumerable bounties lie has
/ graciously conferred on us, and particularly
! that lie led our fathers to this land to lay
here the foundations OF government and a
! grea: nation that He established us in the
| pleasant places of their foundation, and sur
rounded US with the monuments g. triumphs
/ Of civil and religious freedom, aud has cOn-
I tinued to our day, institutions calculated to
inculcate a due sense Of the value otsuch an
| inheritance. and to perpetuate spirit that
shall maintain it. That He has protected
our land during the past year from foreign
j and domestic war and has sustained and ios-
tered the arts Of peace that lie 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 comInerciul enterprise with success,
and our whole country with prosperity and
happiness And above all, that He has
granted and continued to us the consola-
!, tons, the hopes and the rewasds promised
in his holy revelation and the gospel of Ills
Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, made more
dear and precious by the advancing light OF
civilization.
And they further recommend, that the
good people fthis State; when assembled
us aforesaid, should with penitcnt and con.
, tritc hearts and with nm humble reliance on
Divine mercy, devoutly supplicatc a con-
. tinnance Of favor towards us, and such
anct 6cation thereof to them and tbei
children, as being manifested in their dispo
sitions and lives, shall make them to the la
test generation, agreat, an happy. and I
religious people.
5 Resolred, That his Excellency the Go.
vernon, be requested to issue his Proclama
q. ton of these resolutions, that the same MAJ
be duly made known to the people of thi
h State, and that they be requested to con
. form thereto.
do therefore, pursuant to the above re
y cited Resolutions, issue this my Proc!ama
h1 ton, to make known the same that the GOO
y people Of this State may conform thereto.
n GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of Sal
r State, at Providence, this 4th day Q
November, in the year ofour Lord 1873:
RI and OfIndependence the ffty-elghth.
e. JOHN BROWN FRANCIS.
BY his Exceency's command,
Henry BowEN, Sec'ry.
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