The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-10-15

By the President Of the United States of
dRsrfca.
A PROCLAMATION.


The year that 10 drawing TO q clone has been
filed With fruitful blessings of fields and healthful
skies. To those bountes which are so constantly
enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source
from which they come, others have been added
which are Of 20 extraordinary q nature that they
cannos fail to penetrate and soften even the heart
which is habitually iuaensible to the ever watch,
fnl Providence Of Almighty God: In the midst
of GIVE war OF unequalled magnitude and sever
ity, which has sometimes seemed to invite and
provoke the aggression Of foreign States, peace
hdS oeen preserved with all nations, order he's
oeen mslntained tho laws have been respected
and ooeyed and harmony has prevailed every
Where, except In the theatre of military conflicts
while that theatre has been greatly contracted by
the advancing armies and navies Of the Union
Inc neediul diversion of the wealth and strength
from the heds OF peaceful industry to the national
deienEes have not arrested the plow the shuttle,
or the ship The az has enlarged the borders OF
our settlements. and the mines-as well of iron
ana coal as the precious metas-have yielded
even more abundantly than heretofore Popula-
tloh mas steadily increased Notwithstanding the
waste that mas been made in the camp. the seiRe,
ana the battlefield, and the country rejoicing in
Inc consciousness of augmented strength and
Vigor, Is permitted to expect a continuance Of
years WIN large increase of freedom No human
cause hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand
worked out these great things-they are the
gracious gifts OF that most high God, who, while
dealing with US IN anger for our sins hath never,
theless remembered mercy. 1t has seemed al
and proper that they should be solemnly, rsver
emily, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one
heart and voice, by the whole American people
L do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens, in
every part of the United States, and also thoss
who are at sea, and those who are soiournng in
foreign lands. to observe and set apart the las
Thursday of November next az a day of thanks.
giving and prayersto our Benefcent Father, who
dWelleth IN the Heavens and recommend &c
hem that while offering up the aspiration justly
due to Him for such singular deliverances apC
blessings, they do, also, with humble penitenct
Tor our national perverseness and dsobedence
commend to his tender care ali those who have
become widows, orphans or sufferers 10 the la.
meHtable civil strife in which we are unaveidablJ
engaged, and iervently mplore the interpesitior
of the Almighty II and TO heal tho wounds of ting
nation and to restore it as soon as it may be con
sistenI with the Divine purposes to the full en-
Ijoymeht of peace, harmony, tranquility ant
union.
Ia Testimony whereof hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be af
fixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this, the Sc
day OF October, in the year Of our Lord 1868
and OF the independence Of the United States thu
leighty eighth.
tSigned) A. LINCOLN.
By the President.
WIN. II. SEWARD, Sec'y of State