Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-07-26
OFFICIAL.
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A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Senate and House of Represen-
tat!vos, at their last session, adopted u Concur
rent Resolution, which was approved ON the
second day of July instant, and which was in the
words following, namely:
"Ihat the President of the United States he
requested to appoint day for humiliation and
prayer by the people OF the United States that
he request his constitutional advisers at the hend
Of the Executive Departments to unite with him
as Chief Magistrate Of the nation, at the city Of
Washington, and the members OF Congress- and
Rll magistrates, all civil, military, aud naval
officers, all soldiers, sailors, and marines, with
all loyal and law-abiding people, to convene ut
their usual places of worship, oc wherever they
may be, to confess and 10 repeat Of their mani
! fold sins 10 implore the compassion and for
giveness of the Almighty, that ii consistent with
His will, the existing rebcl.ion may be speedily
suppressed and the supremacy Of the COnsiitu-
tion and laws Of the Uuited States muy be estab
lished throughout all the States; TO implore
Him, as the supreme Ruler oil the World not 10
destroy us as people, nor suffer us to be de
stroyed by the hostility Or conniyance Of other
nations, or by obstinate adhesion to our own
oounsels, which may be in conflict with His eter-
nal purposes, and 10 implore lliin to onlightetl.
the mind of the nation to know and do His will.
humbly believing that it is ip accordance with
His Will that our place should be maintained as
united people among the family Of nations to
implore him TO grant 10 our armed defeniers
aud tho masses OF tho people that courage, pow
or Of resistance, and endurance necessary 10
secure that result to ipplore lliu in His in-
finite goodness to soften the hearts, enlighteu
the minds, and quicken tho conscieuees of those
in rebellion, that they may lay down their arms
and speedily return to their allegiance to the
United States, that they may not be utterly de-.
stroyed, that the etIusion Of blood may be stayed
and that unity and fraternity mhy be restored,
and poaee established throughout Rll our bor-
ders"
Now, therefore, /, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Presi-
dent Of the United States, cordially oonourrnc
with the Congress- of the United States in the
penltental and pious sentiments expressed in
the aforesaid Resolution, and heartily approving
OF the devotional design aud purpose thereof, do
hereby appoint the first THURSDAY Of August
next to be observed by the people Of the Unied
States as o day Of National humiliation and
prayer.
do hereby further invite and request the
Heads of the Executive Departments of this
Government, together with all Legislators, all
Judges and Magistrates, and all other persons
exercising authority in the land, whether civil.
military, or naval, and all soldiers, seamen, 'and
marines in the National service, and all the other
loyal and law abiding people Of the United States
10 assemble in their preferred places of public |
worship on that day, and there to render to the |
Almighty aud Merolul Ruler Of the Universe |
such homages and such confessions, and to offer
10 Him such applications as the Congress of
the United States have, in their aforesaid Reso- |
luton, 80 solemnly, SO earnestly, and 80 reye-
rently recommended.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States 10 |
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventh
day of July, in the year of our Lord, one
Fl, I thousand eight hundred Md sixty-four
'aud of the Independence Of the United
States the eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM II. SEWARD,
Secretary Of State.