Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-11-21
State OF Vermont.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN E6VAHAIN IVA IN IA hO4Ns
Though the Almighty, in his providen-
tial dealings, both with nations and in
dividuals, mingles adversely with prosper
ity, discipline and sorrow with love and
mercy, and his ultimate designs are often
kept in sacred reserve which we can not
penetrate, still enough is revealed to in
spire humble trust in His providence,
and we are led to feel that even in times
of trouble and calamity, at is good
thing to give thanks unto the Lord.
In obedience to custom and the univer-
sal sentiment of our people, do there
fore appoint THURSDAY, THE 4rH DAY OF
DECEMBER NEXT, to be observed by the
people of this State as day of public
Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving; and [
invite them to lay aside the ordinary en-
| Payments of life on that day, and to as
semble in their chosen places of public
worship, to render thanks to Almighty
God; for the fruitfulnoss Of the year and
the plenty that everywhere abounds; for
the prosperity Of our material pursuits
and interests; for the general prevalence
of health: for our pleasant and comforta-
bic homes, and the endearments and treas
ures of domestic life; for the comforts of
good neigh Aprhood and the advantages
of intelligent, well-ordered society for
our institutions of education and of be-
nevolencc and religion; for freedom from
the desolation of war within our own ter
ritory; for the fervcnt patriotism, nation
ality of sentiment, and unity of purpose
and effort which have characterized the
people of our State, leading thousands of
its citizens to 90 forth voluntarily and
chcerfully to fight the battles of the Re-
public, and mothers and daughters to give
up to country the dearest objects of their
affection; for the devotion to country
so generally manifested by the loyal pco-
pie of the Union, and for the good order,
the steadiness and faithfulncss of purpose,
and obedience to authority and to law,
which have universally prevailed and
been q distinctive and striking feature in
the character and conduct of free society
in the loyal States, under Government
so mild in its restraints as scarcely to be
felt by the governed.
Let it be our special prayer to Almigh-
ty God, that he will, in his good time,
restore our beloved Republic, in peace and
prosperity, in unity and power, and that
therein the blessings of civil and relig-
ious liberty, may be dispensed to man
kind, to the end of time that He will
dispose all men everywhere, to accept the
mild reign of the Redeemer and will
hasten the promised time when, univer-
sally, there shall be "pEAoE ON EARTH
GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN,"
And though many of us while gather.
ed around the festive board or the domes-
tic hearth, must inevitably observe the
vacant chair and direct our thoughts to
him who is in the tented field, or lies in
the soldiers grave, or sick or wounded, is
nursed by stranger hands, yet let our sad
ness be tempered by the thought of his
manly and heroic purpose, to discharge
the last and highest duty of the patriot
to his country.
Gicen Dader my ha'ad and the Seal of
tile State, IN ErecatiUe Chamber, at
Montpelier, this Seventeenth Of Noyem-
Der, IN the gear Of our Lord one thou
sand and Sirty-taco, and Of Tie Inde-
pendence Of the United States the
eighty-Se0enM.
FREDERICK HOLBROOK.
By His Excellency the Governor.
SAMUEL WILLIAMS,
Sec. Of Girl and Military Affairs.