The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-01
Rad ADVICE REBuKEp.


The acting governor Of Maine has issued proclamation
for "a day of public humiliation, fasting, and prayer
which concludes as follows;
And as citizens Of a confedsrated republic whose Con-
suon was avowedy adopted establish jashes and IL
the blessings Of liberty let this day Of public
past which impered the very objects for which ou
national government was formed Ia an hour like thu
when Judgment is turned away backward, and justice
standeth aar off when truth is fallen in the street and
equity cannot enter let depore before God the national
decadence from those inspired and inspiring principles
which cherished by the fathers Of the republic and
our individual folly in suffering any trapstory Interests Of
State national policy to usurp the place Of the aus
cepdant questions which concern the liberty and equality
Of man.
And may we all by our daily lives hepceforth evnc,
our faith in that Divine truth that the OF human duty
whether men, patriots or as Christians is 10 love
God with all the heart aud our neghbor as ourselves
Given at the council chamber at Augusta, this twenty
third day of March in the year thousand eight hun
dred and yseven and Of the independence Of the United
States the eghty-hrst ,os,,,,,, :,
ALDEN JACKSON, Secretary of State
whereupon the Augusta cage has the following ar.
| ticle;
Counter Proclamation The Lap-abiding Ciisens Of a,
State ejoned not 10 Deseerafe The l8h prorio inritd
TO do By The Gorernori
We advise and recommend to the Union-ovns and con-
people OF Maine not to desecrae the houses
dedicated TO the Most High God the family altar on the
sixteenth day of April upon any other day. recon-
mended by the acting governor Of Maine in his procam
Gospel who desire to follow tho example Of their Divine
Master heed the invocation of the executive of the
State to turn their pulpits into political rosrums on that
tuition and the institutions Of the country for any alleged
mperiecbity ether but to preserve their sacred desks
from the ponting influences of growing heresy which
threatens il speedily checked to eventuae in the do
sruction OF the glorious temple of civil and religious lib
ery erected by fathers and to illustrate to the world
by their abstinence from csrna weapons OF warfare that
they true and worthy disciples OF Him who said that
| his kingdom was not OF this world ...
Better far better that every church in the State should
be closed on tat day. every family altar deserted and the
population of Name than that all any Of them should
be prostnted recommended 10 be done in the executive
proclamation. Are there not days enough in tho year
when phrensied faction rail against the constitution
and the Institutions Of the country without renchng upon
the annual fast consecrated to holy aud Chrsan obser
by pious forethcrs who laid the foundations
Of our institutions which their descendants are now in
voked to assa and with sacrgous hands to overthrow
Are there not days enough in the year when seconam
indulge itself in camor against the gov.
eminent uader which we livesgans the institutions Of
sister the sins of other sections Of the
tyagaust the wickedness of other communities
eacroaching upon day haowed and apart by
ancestors to far other and better purposesf o'
Cannot the who invited and expected to rail
against othes-eyen the rulers and judges Of the land
on the occasion in question, devote day to them-
selves 2one day to determination lone day turning
their mental vision Within to explore the Of their
own hearts, and if all is clean there7 Let them
aud ascertain if they have Gins of their to
for no wickedness Of their repent of and rsak
of their to mourn and to correct Let
them do and whether the section in which they live
has not perverted justice and pracscd oppressionto
if they themselves have not denied the blessings Of lib.
ery and equality to those about them-to whether they
have not contributed their full share toward turning judy
aeaf bockraJd sand prosratipg truth in the sreetsth
full share towards the national decadence and towards
bringing upon the country the very evils which they
profess to depore Lstthem devote one day to the con
paon OF the baefuness of that Pharisaica spirit which
seems to say in every gesture well word am hoer
than thou (which detects the mote in brothers eye but
fails to discover the beam in its ownthat overlook and
dsegards evils at home TO fix s gaze of holy horror
on evils at distance for which II is not responsible and
10 powcress TO remedy ~ Let them inquire of themselves
if be not quite possible that their zeal may be mistaken
and msdected, and is not altogether pure and dsn
terested as they would fegn have themselves besves
they should succeed In their purposes they would in
upon society vastly greater evils than those they seek to
extirpae Let them beware lest in their efforts to revise
and improve the work of the fathers Of the republic with
the design OF inanguratng moro comprehensive equality
and broader liberty they do not overthrow the republic
ITSELF and destroy the of liberty aud equality which
their wisdom established and transmitted to u.s. ..
Discard then the recommendation to your churches
into abolition schools where II shall BE- taught that ODE
dence the constitution regard for the laws eXpound
ed by the supreme tribunal of the land, and the faithful
adherence to provisions securing State rights and the
pac's framed by the fathers OF the republic ranso
interests and that there is depore that these have
riumphed rather than tho ranscendant question" Of
overhrowing these for tho establishment of mad abolition
ism.
Disregard Il ese Objectionable executive recommends
ons unworthy the chief magistrate of State of The
American Union andy while sacredy observing The re
your voice in impons repinings against government The
es, and institutions the best that vouchsafed
| by God 10 any people under the sun.
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