Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-23
Thanksgivingfor foryictory, Peace
and Our Country Saved.
A PROCLAMATION.
BY Chas. Anderson, Governor of
the state of Ohio.

euhleht, as well Vi tne EXISTENCE, power
and goodness of God, as of his inter-
posing hand in all the work, ways and
relations of men.
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 TO 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 10
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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 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 For, whereas, at our for
mer festivals we were at 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 alp Then, slavery, like
a vast pail of nightside, blackened 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 has former chosen people:
"Thou hast turned for me my mourn
ing into dancing; Thou hast put off my
sackcloth, and girded me with glad
ness" O.
Let us, fellow citizens, each and all
all and each one of us-"Give thanks
unto the Lord, for he is good; for His
mercy endureth forever" "It is good
thing,to give thanks unto the Lord,
and 10 sing praises to his name" Nor
(let casuists and doubters deny as they
may) shall these our songs be a vain
thing; for if we may not, by our pray
ers and praises bend the Divine will
and Love to us, surely VIC can raise
ours toward Him. '''" ''
Now, therefore, I, Charles Anderson,
Governor of the State of Ohio, do here
by appoint the iass Thursday, being
the thirtieth day of the present month
of November, as a day of general
thanksgiving andspraise TO- that God
of Love who has so loved and blessed
this land and people, And do, fur
thcrmore, most respectfully hut earn
estly, request all the people of this
State, who love their country and their
God, upon that day to lay aside all
their customary care and vocations, to
gather their scattered children around
the frightened hearths and the cheerful
boards Of their olden family home; to
render thanks there and In the public
temples, to the Heavenly Father, for