Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-07-15
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION FOR
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER.


The President. in accordance with a resolu
ton of Congress, has issued the following Proc
lamation, appointing Thursday, August 4th al
day of humiliation and prayer:
WHEREAS, The Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, at their last session, adopted a con-
current resolution, which was approved on the
second day of July, instant which was in the
words following namely:
sThat the President Of the United States be
requested to appoint day OF humiliation and
PRAYER by the people of the United States; that
belreouest his Constitutional advisers at the
head of the Executive Department to unite with
him as the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, at the
City of Washington and the members of CoE-
gress, and all magistrates, all civil and military
and naval officers all soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, with all loyal and law abiding people, tC
convene at their usual places of worship o.
wherever they may be- to confess and repent o.
their manifold sins: to implore the forgivness O.
the Almighty, that if consistent with His will
the existing rebellion may be speedily sup
pressed. and the supremacy of the Constitution
and laws of the United States may be established
in al the States; to implore Him, as the Su.
preme ruler of the world, not to destroy us as
people nor suffer us to be destroyed by the hos
tility or connivance of other nations, or by OBJ
stinaie adherence TO our own counsels, which
70 implore him to enlighten the mind of the ma
ton to know and do His viii, humbly believing
it is in accordance with His will that our place
should be maintained as united people among
the family of nations: to implore him to grant
our armed defenders and the masses of the peO-
pie that courage, power of resistance and endur-
ance necessary to secure that result; to implore
Him in His infinite goodness to soften the hearts
enlighten the minds and quicken the conscience
of those in rebellion, that they may lay down
their arms and speedily return TO allegiance to
the United States, that they be not utterly des-
troyed that the effusiOn of blood may be stayed,
and that unity and fraternity may be restored,
and peace established throughout all our bor-
ders."
Now. therefore, l, Abraham Lincoln Presi-
dent of the United States cordially cOncurring
with the Congress of the United States in the
penitential and pious sentiments expressed in
the aforesaid resolution, and heartily approving
of the devotional design and purpose thereof,
do hereby appoint the first Thursday of August
next to be observed by the people OF the United
States as day of National humiliation and
prayer.
do hereby further invite and request that the
heads of the executive departments of this gov
ernment together with all Legislators, all Judges
and magistrates, and all other persens 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
lawabiding people of the United States, to as
semble in their preferred places of public wor-
ship on that day, and there to render to the Al
mighty and Merciful Ruler of the Universe such
homage and such confessions, and to offer to Him
such supplications as the Congress of the United
States have, so earnestly, and so reverently rec
ommeDded.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventh day
of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty
TsEAL1 four, and of the Independence of the
United States the eighty ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ,
By the President:
WILLIAM 3. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.