The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-10-15
President Lincoln's Proclamation.
By The President of the United States Of
America.
A PROCLAMATION,


The year that is drawing towards its
close has boen so filed with the bless
ings of fruitful fields and healthful
skies and those bountios which are so
constantly enjoyed, that we are proue
to forget the source from which they
come. Others have been added, which
are of SO extraordinary a nature that
they cannot fail to penetrate an d soften
the heart which is habituol'y insensi
bic of the ever-watohful providence of
the Almighty God. In the midst of a
civil war of unoqualed magnitude add
severity, which has sometimes seemed
to invite and provoke tho aggression Of
foreign States, peace has been preserv
ed with all nations, order has beer
maintained, tho laws have been re
spectod and obeyod, and harmony ha
prevailed everywhere, except in th
theatre of military conf ct. Will
that theatre. has been greatly contractc,
by tho advancing army and navios o
the Union, the needful diversions O
wealth and strength from the fields @
peaceful industry to tho National dc
fenco, have not arrested the plow, tn
shuttle, nor the ship. The axe has en-
larged the borders Of our settlements
and the mines, as we'll Of iron and COZ
as tho precious metals, have yieldo
even more abundantly than heretofore
Population has steadily increased, moi
withstanding the waste that has bee
made in tn c battle field, and tho Countr
5 rejoicing in the consciousness of auj
! mented strength and vigor, is permittt
to expect continuance of years vii
S a largo increase of freedom. No hi
= man counsel hath devised, nor hath an
J. mortal hand worked out these gre
things; they are the gracious gifts
v tho Most High God, who, while dca
4 Ting with US in anger for our sins, ha
: nevertheless remembered mercy.
r hath seemed to me fit and proper tn
n they should be solemnly, dcvotedly AZ
st gratefully acknowledged, as with o
o heart and voice, by the whole Amc
Is can people. l do, therefore, invite Il
Y fellow citizens in every part of tho Ur
n ted States, and also those who are
f. sea, and those who are sojourning
T. foreign lands, to set apart tho Il
is Thursday in November next as d
10 of Thanksgiving and prayer to our b
D. ncfccnt Father who dwclloth in
"a heavens, aud | recommend to them th
in while offering up the ascription just
ir due to Him for such singular delive
lc ancCs and blessings, they do also W
of humble penitence for our national p'
o- verscness and disobedience, CONNIE
NO to his tender care all those who h;
,ir become widows, orphans and suffer
no in the lnmentable civil strife in VIII
we are unavoidably engaged, and +
vently implore the interposition of
"0 Almighty hand to heal the wounds
'0 the nation, and to restore it, as soon
= may be consistant with the Divine p
- poses, to the full enjoyment of pea
~ harmony, tranquility and union.
'p In testimony whereof, 1 have horeu
~ set my hand, and caused the seal
We the United States to be affixed. d.
at the City of Washington, this
III day of October, in the year of {
'u' Lord 1863, and.of the independer
S 'Ser of tho United States the cigf
the eighth.
Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
on. BY the Presidents: "'H '.
not WM. II. SEWARD, Secretary of st
,.u
y" CHICAMAUdAs-What a novel
strapge-sopnding. name is thisI Ch