Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-10
GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
Thanksatviug for victcry, Peace, and Gu
Ceuntry Saved.

Thanksgiving for victory, Peace, and Our
Ceunfry Saved.
- Yet another year hes passed over our
g State. and Nation And the people of
Ohio in accordance with usage of our
dead fathers, older than the State itselE,
have been once again invoked, by Joint
resolution of their General Assembly. to
unite in public acknowledgment. as well
of the existence, power, and goodness of
God, as of His interposing hand in all the
works, ways aud relations of men.
And, now, upon full consideration OF
all the religious truths connected WITH TINS
venerable custom, and with lively remem-
brarce of all the events of that past year,
what ought this whole people to feel and
to utter, at their family reunions IN the
greetinrs Of friends and neighbors, and
!, sround the affairs ofthe Most High Can
it be possible that any people ever before
could have had such causes as ourselves,
for thankfulness and praises to God II
the annually recurring seasons OF the reg
ular wear and the varying climates OF our
globe with all their goodly fruits and health
and other countless comforts and dehghts,
have ever been and shall always be, sever
sllv and IN their due succession, tlttest
csuse for grateful homage to that benign
Hesrt and bounteous Hand, from which
they ever fow. what can we feel, what
shall we saw, of our debt of gratitude for
He works aud mercies IN this, the most
memorable of all the years All those
natural and general blessings we have fully
shared with Others. But, great nation,
desperately imperiled, has been grandlyy
saved. And that nation was-ls-ours J!
Surely, surely, if ever State and Nation
IN all history, had more than ilttest and
fullest cause to give thanks unto the Lord
for His wondrous benefits and forbearanees,
very surely are they these of ours, here
and now For, whereas, at our former
festivals, we we're at war, we are now III
peaee: we were divided, we are one: we
we're poor and weak, we are rich and
strong; we were pitied, or despised, byall
the nations of the earth, and are we not
envied and honored among and above them
. aIl Then, Slavery, like vast pail OF
nirht-shade. blackened our whole bright
skv and degraded and disgraced all our
fair land. Now, Liberty, 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
snd heart. Wondrous, happy, glorious,
chanee Well may we sing in the words
yf that singer after Gods own heart,
amongst his former chosen people; "Ihou
-aast turned, for me, my mourning into
lancing; thou hast put off my sackcloth'
and girded me with gladness' :
Let us then, fellow citizens, each and all
-all and each one of us-"Give thanks un-
to the Lord. for He is good; for his mercy
sndureth forever" at is good thingto
.-;ve thanks unto the Lord, and To sing
praises to His name" Nor Qet casuists
and doubters DENY rs they mayl shall
these. our songs. be yain thing; for, II
we NAV not, by our prayers and praises,
tend the Divine will and love TO us, surely
we can raise ours towards Him.
Now therefore, |, CHARLES ANDERSON,
Governor of the State of Ohio, do hereby
anpoint the last THURSDAY, being the 3Oth
dav of the present month OF November, as
y day of general Thanksgiving and Praise
to that God of Love who has so loved and
blessed this land and people. And / do.
furthermore, most respectfully, but earn
estly request all the people OF this state,
who love their country and their God, up
on that day to hay aside all their customary
cares and vocations; to gather their scat
tered children around the frightened
hearths and the cheerful boards of their
olden family homes; to render thanks
there, and in the public temples, to the
Heavenly Father, for all his past benefits,
and, especially, for His amazing and glori-
GUS works of the past year; to implore
continuance and increase Of them, and
most especially, of that highest and best
Of all temporal blessings-Peace and Good
viii amongst men; and, finally, that in the
true spirit Of that cheerful, Christian thank
fulness to God, and of good will towards
men, which is suitable TO an occasion so
extraordinary, we shall for ourselves,
strive, henceforth, SO to live with our fel-
Ioy-citi,ens and our fellow-men, every
where throughout our now redeemed and
reunited land, as to prove ourselves worthy
TO bethe common citizens of such coun-
try, and the common children of such a
God.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
set my name and caused the Great
Seal of the State of Ohio to be afhx-
ed, at Columbus, on this, the third
GLS.1 day of November, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hun
drsd and sixty-fve, and in the
ninetieth year Of the Independence
of the United States of America.
CHARLES ANDERSON.
By the Governor:
WV. HENRY SMITH, Secretary of State.