The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-11
BY the Governor Of West Virginia.
aPROCL

uNHE YEAR THAT Is DRAWING TO a
Il close has been one of signal and bountiful
mercies The tempest o: rebellion wblch DARK
ened aud devastated the Land and left desolatt
thousands OF once happy homes has passed
away, and pea"e again blesses the land with the
sunshine from her white wings. The great ar
maments the legiOns OF armed men the thun
ders of wars terrific enginery, and the terror,
blood and death Of four years stupeLaous con
dict exist only in the past and have left scarce
ly shadow to darken the smiling peace which
the present year has brought US. Ner IS peace
the only boon secured by the dread arbirament
forced upon the country. Lasting tranquility
has been secured, because the source OF all our
disorders has been destroyed, and the great
principles which underlie our Government have
been vindicated, strengthened and purified
treason and usurpation, which assailed good
government and natural right, have been over
powered and disarmed; and the people OF the
United States have not only stricken off the
snacsles of four millions of bondmen, but have
eIhancipated themselves forever from the fet-
tiers which aggressive and organized iniquity
has been able So long TO impose
From the chaos into which We were thrown
by wicked men, benifcent Providence brought
forth this young Commonwealth, and irsed US
from our ancient degradations. A people re-
deemed, regcnerate and disenthralled, with onr
priceless heritage of liberty and law secured TO
posterity we, indeed above all others, owe
thanks to the Great Rus and PreSsryer who
walked with US through the valley OF gloon
and depression.
Nor should we be unmindful of material bles-
sings In the year that is past unusual pros;
perity has attenie the enterprises and
Industries of the people. The earth has yielded
bountiful harvests, and the oil OF her fathcss
abundantly. So far from the pestilence and
famine usually consequent upon war, unusual
health and plenty prevail; and all look forward
with pleasant anticipation to future OF rich
promise which shall veil in oblivion the unhap-
py past. Confident too, that people who nave
shown such fortitude in the day ot trial. possess
the virtue to maintain forever the noble results
their sacrifice and suffering have secured, and
acting in harmony with the recolnmendatlon VI
our honored Chief Magistrate,
Arthur l. Boreman, Governor of the State
Of West vi; ginia, grateful to God, IN common
with my fellow wcitizens, for His signal mercies,
and in humble recognition and acknowledge-
ment thereof, do appoint and set apart Thurs
day the seventh dc V of December next. as day
of THANKSGIVING and Praise to Almighty GOD,
to be kept everywhere within the touhds OF I'll !
State, 10y such appropriate ooservances as tnS
grateful hearts of her people may suggest AND
I trust that in our rejoicing we will not be un
mindful of such as have hearts yet sore from the
great affliction of their noble sacrifices for the
country, and whose gladness must needs be
tempered with sorrows which it is our duty as
far as possible to assuage by timely remem
braRce of tltFwidows and orphans and the dis
abed of those TO whom, as the immediate
instruments OF Heaven, our gratitude is directly
due.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto
s set my hand and caused the seal OF the
l. - State TO be afii xed at the Capitol in the
~ City of Wheeling this 9TH day Of No
vember, in the year of our Lord. eighteen hun.
dred and sixty five, aud of the State the third.
ARTHUR l. FOREMAN.
BY the Governor
GRANVILLE D. HALL, sect'y OF the State.
noy Of