Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-11-10
e0YERHoRs Observation-Disclosures
FOR WGTsRY. PEAGs. AND OUR COUNTY SAVED

/ E0VERE0R'S PR0GLAAATI0H-THAhKS
FnR WGTgRY. PEAGs. AND OUR COUNTY SAVED
| Yet another year has passed over our
State and Nationl And the people of
Ohio, in accordance with usage of our
dead fathers, older than the State itself,
have been once again invoked, bya joint
resolution of their General Assembly, to
unite in a public acknowledgement, as
we'll of the existence, power, and good
ness of God, as of His interposing hand
in all the works, ways and relations OF
4 men.
And, now, upon full consideration of
all the religious truths connected with
| this venerable custom, and with a lively
remembrance of all the events of that
past year, what ought this whole people
to feel and to utter, at their family re- -un-
ions, In the greetings of friends and neigh
| bors, and around the altar5 of the Most
| High? Can it be possible, that any peo-
pie ever before could have had such
causes as ourselves, for Thanksgiving and
praises to God? If the annually recur-
ring seasons of the regular year and the
varying climates of our globe, with all
their goodly fruits and health and other
countless comforts and delights, have
ever been and shall always be, seVerally
and in their dus succession, fttest 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 gratitude for His
works and mercies in this, the most MEM
orabie of all the years? All those natu-
raj and general blessings we have fully
shared with others. But, great nation,
desperately imperiled, has been grandly
saved. And that nation Was-ls ours!-
Surely, surely. If ever State and Nation
in all history. had more than fttest and
fullest cause to give thanks unto the Lord
for His Wondrous benefits and forbear-
ances, 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 poor and weak, we are
rich and strong; we were pltled, or des-
pissed, by all the nations of the earth, and
are we not envied and honored among
and above them all? Then, Slavery, like
q vast pail of night-shade, blackened our
whole bright sky and degraded and dis
graced all our fair land. Now, Liberty,
like a 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 Won
drous, happy, glorious, changel 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 mourning into dancing; 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
unto the Lord, for he is good; for his
mercy endureth forever" 1T is a good |
thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and |
to sing praises to his name" Nor Qet |
casuists and d0ubters deny as they may)
shall these, our songs, be a vain thing; for, /
If we may not, by our prayers and prals- |
es, bend the Divine will and love to us,
surely we can raise ours towards Him.
Now, therefore, [, CHARLES ANDER-
SON, Governor of the State of Ohio, do /
hereby appoint the last Thursday, being 1
the Both day of the present month of No
vember, as day of general ThanksgIV-
ing and Praise to that God of Love who
has so loved aud blessed this land and
people. And do, furthermore, most re-
spectfully. but earnestly, request all the /
people of this State, who love their coun-
try and their God, upon that day to lay
aside all their customary cares and voca-
tions, to gather their scattered children
around the frightened hearths and the
cheerful boards of their olden family
houses; to render thanks there; and in the
public temples, to the Heavenly Father,
for all his past benefits, and, especially.
for His amazing and glorious works of
the past year; to implore a continuance
and increase of them, and most especial
ly. of that highest and best of all tempo
raj blessiDgs-Peace and Good Will
amongst men; and, finally, that in the
true spirit of that cheerful, Christian
to God, and of good will to-
wards men, which is suitable to an occa-
sion so extraordinary, we shall, for our
selves, strive. henceforth, so to live with
our fellow-eitizens and our fellew-men,
everywhere throughout our now redeem
ed andreunited land, as to prove ourselves
worthy to be the common citizens of such
a country, and the common children of
such God
In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto
set my name and caused the Great
Seal of the State of Oh, o to be af-
fixed, at Columbus, on this, the
third day of November, in the year
LIS. of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-fve, and in the
ninetieth year of the Independence
of the United States of America.
CHARLES ANDERSON. Il
By the Governor:
WIN. HENRY SMITH, Sec'y of State.