Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-16
thanksgiving fsrvictory, Peace
and Our Country Saved.
A. PROCLAMATION
BY Chas. Anderson, Governor OF
.t.. the state of Ohio.

let anotner year mas passed. oNer .
our State and nation; and the people
Of Ohio, in accordance with usage of
our dead fathers, older than the State
itself, have been once again invoked,
by joint resolution, of their General
Assembly, to unite in apublic acknowl-
edment, as well of the existence, power
and goodness Of God, as of his inter-
posing hand in all the work, ways and
relations of men. T ~FN
And now, upon full consideration
of all the religious truths connected
with this venerable custom, and with a
lively remembrance of the events of
the past year, what ought this whole
people to feel and 70 utter, at their
family reunions, in the greetings of
friends and neighbors, and around the
affairs of the Most High Can it be
possible that any people ever before
could have had such causes as our
selves for thankfulness and praises TO
God2
If the annually recurring seasons of
the regular year, and the varying eli
mates of our globe, with all their good
ly fruits, and health, and other count
less comforts and delights, have ever
been, and shall always be, severally
and in their due succession, fittest
causes for grateful homage to that
benign heart and bounteous hand from
which they ever flow, what can we feel,
what shall we say, of our debt of graft
tude FOR His works and mercies in this,
the most memorable of all the years
All those natural and general blessings,
we have fully shared with others. But
a great nation, desperately imperiled,
has been grandly saved, and that ma
ton was--is--ours! Surely, surely,
if ever a State and nation in all history
had more than fittest and fullest cause.
to give thanks unto the Lord, for His
wondrous benefits and forbcarance,
very surely, are they these of ours, here
and now f! For, whereas, at our for
mer festivals we were Mt war, we are now
in peace; we were divided, we are one :;
we were poor and weak, we are rich
and strong; we were pitied or depised
by all the nations of the earth, and are
we not envied and honored among and
above them all? Then, slavery, like
a vast pail of nightside, blackcned our
whole bright sky, and degraded and
disgraced all our fair land Now, Lib
erty, like new risen sun, with healing
in his beams, shines and glows under
all our heavens, upon our whole earth,
and into every American mind and
heart. Wondrous, happy, glorious
change Well may we sing, in the
words of that singer after Gods own
heart, among his former chosen people:
"Thou hast turned for me my mourn
ing into dancing; Thou hast put off nv
sackcloth, and girded me with glad
ness" ...-.... ......
Let us, fellow citizens, each and all
all and each one ofus-"Give thanks
unto the Lord, for he is good for His
mercy endureth forever" at is good
thing to give thanks unto the Lord,
and TO sing praises to his name" Nor
(let casuists and doubters deny as they
may) shall these our songs be vain
thing; for if we may not, by our pray
ers and praises bend the Divine will
and Love to us, surely we can raise
ours toward Him, .
Now, therefore, I, Charles Andersen,
Governor of the State of Ohio, do here.
by appoint the last Thursday, being
the thirtieth day OF the present month
OF November, as a day of general
thanksgiving and praise to that God
OF Love who has so loved and blessed
this land and people. And do, fur.
thermore, most respectfully but earn
estly, request all the people of this
State who love their country and their
God, upon that day to lay aside all
THAR