Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-24
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The following Proclamation was issued
n.:ao,, Jobnaon. April 25th:

The following Proclamation was issueo
l.. pros;dent johnson, April 26th:
WASHINGTON, April q, 1855:
! Whereas, By my direcuon ING AconR sec
retary of State, in noace 70 tne Peone on
The l7th Of April, requested tue various re-
nH;ons denominations to assemble on the
Io,h 5,y of April, on the occasion Of the OBJ
.sonies of Abraham Lincoln, late President
ofthe United States, and to observe the same
with appropriate ceremonies; and
Whereas, Our country has become a. one
great house Of mourning; and
Whereas, The head Of the family has been
taken away, and believing that special pc.
Rod should be assigned for again humbling
ourselves before Almighty God in order that
the bereavement may be sanctifed to the
nation;
Therefore, in order to mitigate that grief
on earth, which can only be aSsuaged BY com
munion with our Father in Heaven, and in
compliance with the views Of Senators and
Representatives in Congress, communicated
to me BY resolution adopted at the National
Capital, l, Andrew Johnson, President Of the
United States, do hereby appoint Thursday,
June lst, next, to be observed, wherever in
the United States the flag Of the country may
be respected, as q day Of humiliation and
mourning, and recommending my fellow
citizens then to assemble in their respective
places Of worship, there to unite in solemn
service to Almighty God in memory Of the
good man who has been removed, 80 that all
shall be occupied at the same time in contem-
plation Of his virtues and SORROW for his sud
den and violent end.
In witness whereof, / have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at Washington, April Is, A. D. 1866,
and Of the year Of Independence Of the
United States the eighty-ninth.
(Signed.) ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
W. HUNTER, Act'g See'y Of State.
The tone of this chaste and appropriate
State paper Of President Johnson, will
find a response in every loyal, feeling
heart, and it is to be hoped that the day
will be observed as requested. Let all
business avocations cesse,-all newspapers
omit their issue for the day,-throng the
churches, all Of which should have ap-
propfiate services and testify to the
world that Nevada feels the need Of great
humiliation before the Almighty for her
own as well as for National sins. No
where is the Sabbath day made mockery
of holiness in its keeping-nowhere are
Christian men with their families exclud-
ed so rigidly as here, on account Of the
rule that laborers must labor in mines and
mills on Sunday or lose employment; and
if the words of the late President have
any emphasis, hiS constant teaching and
practice should come home to Us all on
that day, and lead to a reformation. He
always maintained that National virtue,
happiness and prosperity depended upon
Sabbath observance that the laborer and
all working animals needed one day Of
rest that the rising youth Of the Nation
who were trained by example to forget
the duties Of the day, would, when ma
tured in years, be the instruments Of evil,
and make our strength as Nation weak
and like rope of sand. On the LIST OF
June, then, let all hearts and heads bow
in penitence and prayer, as recommended
by the Chief Magistrate Of the United
States