Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-11-13
THANKSGIVING DAY.
A PROCLAMATION

PROCLAMATION.
1t behooves people whose graneries are
full whose basket and store are overflow
ing with the good things of earth, whose
homes have been preserved from pestilence
and plague, whose civil and religious lib
erty have been neither impaired nor i'm
periled, whose affairs of worship have not
been thrown down or despoiled, whose
educational privileges-free to all-have
been improved and enlarged, whose wealth
has increased with uneXampled rapidity,
whose commercial enterprises have wild
ened and prospered, and to whom peace,
plenty, and social happiness have been
vouchsaved in Unreasonable abundance,
to acknowledge the goodness of that God
in whose hands are the issues of harvest
and health, peace and war, mind and mat
ter, and to assemble in places of public
worship, and at the family fireside, to
render praise and thanksgiving to His
holy name.
Therefore, I, CYRUS c. CARPENTER,
Governor of the State of Iowa, in COM
pliance with custom, in accordance with
the appointment of the President of the
United States, and in obedience to the
Christian sentiment of the American peo-
pie, do designate and set apart
THURSDAY, THE 10Th DAY OF NOVEMBER,
A. D. 1874,
as a day of thanksgiving and praise to
Him who is Lord over all.
And do advise and request all good
people throughout the State to observe
the same by public worship and prayer
and praise, and by such other acknowl-
edgment of dependence upon an over-rul-
ing Providence as may seem to an intelli-
gent and Christian people fitting and ap-
propriate.
And l ask the people to consider that
while met together, and lifted to spirit
of gratitude for the blessings of the year,
we can make no acknowledgement more
consistent with the sincerity of our thank
fitness for the abundance with which God
has blessed us than by giving of our sur
plus to preserve from hunger and cold
those of our neighbors who have been
stricken by misfortune.
Permit me, therefore, to suggest that in
all the public assemblies on that day
contribution be made for the unfortunate
and the suffering, and that, where these
contributions are not required in aid of
local charities, they be sent to those north
western counties of the State whose set
tiers have been reduced to restitution
through the recent incursion by grasshop-
pers from the western plains. Doing this,
we will fulfill those divine utterances,
which were not more true long centuries
ago than they are to-day: "For the poor
shall never cease out of the land; there
fore, command thee, saying, Thou shalt
open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to
thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land"
every man according as he purposeth in
his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly,
or of necessity; for God loveth cheerful
giver."
In Testimony Whereof, have
hereunto set my hand and
caused to be affixed the Great
Seal of the State of Iowa.
Done at the city of Des Mones,
the seat of government of
r, 81 the State, this sixth day of
IT, - November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy four,
of the Independence of the
United States the ninety
ninth, and of the State of
Iowa the twenty eighth
c. C. CARPENTER.
BY the Governor:
JOSIAH T. YOUNG,
Secretary Of State.