The national Republican., 1861-11-12
Thanksgiving among Massachusetts,
TROOPS.
,RrW's PROCLAMATION,

Gov ANDREW PROCLAMATION.
The following order has been Issued by the
Governor of rhe State, with respect to the OBJ
servance of Thanksgiving by the troops from
this State 10 active service:
HEADQUARTERS, BosToN,
November 5, 1861.
General Order No. 2s
The soldiers who illustrate the fame of Mas.
sachuset's and defend her cause, with that I
our Union aud our National Flag. III military
service remote from the homes where they
have been wont to celebrate with their families
the venerable AID joyful New England festival
of thanksgiving 10 God for the fruits Of til"
season and the bounty Of His Providence,
ought to be remembered anil associated as far
as may be, in the celebration now at hand.
It ia therefore ordered by the commander-in'
chief that the adJutant general cause copies OF
the Glvernor's recent proclamation for day
| Of public thanksgiving aud praise to be sent b.
the colonies and chapiains of all the Mas'schu-
sets regiments of volunteers, with the assurance
of the grateful and sympathetic remembrance
of them by the Government and people of Mas
sacbusetts, Of their thankiulness for the many
salts actions and blessings with which even in
war we are constantly attended, and of our fer
vent prayers for the welfare Of our gallant ard
patriotic soldiers, aud our undoubting faith il
their fidelity and honor; and finally with tn"
expression of the hope that military dnties may
not be Inconsistent with their observation. in
some fitting manner, Of the day usually s'''
apart for the renewel and enlivening of the do
mestic affections, and for remembering the
Giver of all mercies, by the united consent Of
the people of our beloved Commonwealth.
| Commanders OF regiments and batteries OF
the Massachusetts, volunteers will promulgate
| l,,;, nfivn anIo
By order of His Excclency, John A. Andrew
Governor and Commander in-Chief
| WILLIAM SCHOrLER Adutant General.
The New York Herald has the following com
ments upon the beautiful proclamation of the
Governor for thanksgiving:
n A Puritan Thanksgiving Procldmation.-Ir
the contemptuous epithets which the Southern
chivalry apply to the people OF the Eastern
States, there is an afectation of the insolen
, swagger that Distinguished the cavaliers in tn,
English civil wars. The sur ous and charac
teristic document by Gov. Andrew Of Mesa
cbusetts reminds one as forcibly of the relig
ious zeal and uncompromising determination
which constituted the strength of their ,ntago
nists No one who has watched the course o
the people of Massachusetts,, and # their Gov
ernor, since the commencement OF the prescn
struggle, can douot thelf ti'le 10 ih possession
of all the qualities that distinguished thei
Puritan ancestors.
They have thrown themselves into the con
-, test with an earnestness and q determiDatiCi
/ which are beyond all precedent Not onl,
have they contributed larger number Of regi
ments to the army, but they have sent them II
the field better disciplined better equipped
l and better organized generally than those Q
a any other State 1t has been remarked OF them
as they passed through our streets, that the
seemed to carry the Union in their hearts an
the Bible in their hands, 40 enthusiastic and 3
3 determined vas their aspect.
q Instead OF relaxing her efforts after all th
e exertion, we find the Old Bay State strainin
y every nerve to preserve the pre-eminerce sh
!, has won. The proclamation Of Governor Al
drew may be taken as an index of the inter
a sty Of the feeling which still pervades hi
people on the subject of this rebellion, and (
the sacrifices they are prepared to make to pr
1t down.