Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-11-22
STATE OF VERMONT.
Nv Carlos Coolidge, Governor.


The voice of the reapers returning with
their sheaves from the rich harvest Of anoth-
er year-the notes Of joy emanating from
many hearts made glad with plenty-the
songs of health and thrift and peace issuing
from many lips in our land at this season of
the year-remind US Of the delightful SER
vice of grateful homage TO the bountiful
father of Lights
In accordance therefore, with the admir-
able custom of our revered forelathers, and
with the dictates of enlightened reason and
conscience, do hereby appoint THURS
DAY, the TWENTY-NlNTH DAY OF
NOVEMBER NEXT, to be observed
throughout this State as day of PUBLIC
THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE TO ALMIGHTY
Cop.
And most earnestly recommend TO the
people of this Commonwealth, to regard
that day with all the civil, social, and reli-
gious prophecies which are required by
profound sense of gratitude to God
Chastened, as sad membranes Of Attic
tons may make the present TO some hearts,
it is yet meet that the people, ceasing from
ordinary labors and unbecomiDg amusc-
ments, should on this chris.ion festival, gath
er, with their sons and daughters, and kin
dred from afar, around the family altar to
rejoice again together under the paternal
roof, aud give thanks to the Most High for
His goodness and mercy.
And as it is cminently fit on such occa-
sions to "praise God in his Sanctuary
do invite and request the people to con-
vene, on that day in their several places of
customary public worship, and from the full
ness of sincere hearts render thanks unto
the gracious Author of all good, for his dis
tlnguished fayors toward our State: in the
remarkable gentleness of his affective hand
upon the public health, during the past
year in the marked success which has at
tended the labors of the people in their va
rious pursuits; in the Joys of an abundant
harvest, and the opening up of new resour-
ces for individual and common prosperity;
and in the continuance of the inestmable
blessings of civil and social peace and hap
piness under the genial light of learning and
religion.
Let us also, bless and glori(y the Lord
for His merciiu kindness towards our coun-
try, in hearing the voice of prayer for the
removing of the Pestilence, and in comfort
ing the desoate family hearth; Let us
praise him for his benignant smiles on our
nation, in the continued preservation of the
priceless legacy bequeathed us by our fore
fathers, of civil and religious freedom, I'M
der the benihcent light of Divine Revela-
ton, and in a form Of government the ex-
celencles of which were never more signal
ly illustrated than in the late momentous
events of the Old world.
Above all-let us give thanks to God for
the glorious Gospel, which by living faith
turns the very sorrows of human life into
joys, and lights up mans pathway TO the
tomb, with bright hopes of blessed immor-
tality through Jesus Christ our glorified Sa-
viour.
And while the recollection of past bless
ings, with medtations on the present, serve
to quicken also, the remembrance of our
numerous individual and common sins, let
us heartily confess our wanderings and ear
nestly implore divine forgiveness, relying OH
His aid, in the future for strength to keep
his commandments.
While, therefore, we rejoice before the
Lord "with fear and trembling" let us
trustfully commit the keeping of all interests
dear to us in tins life, and that to come, un-
to God as unto faithful CREATOR" with
out whose Fatherly eye, never so much as
sparrow shall fall to the ground"
GIVEN under my hand and the seal Of this
State, this goth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-nine, and of the in
dependence of the United States, the
seventy-fourih.
CARLOS COOLIDGE.
BY the Governor,
GEORGE F. HoUGHroN, Secretary.