The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-30
Proclamation by the president

PROCLAMATION by the President
WASHINGTON, October 29.-The fol.
lowing was issued this afternoon:
BY TIE PRECEDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AStERIcA-A PROCLAMATION.
The completed circle OF summer and
winter, seed time and harvest, has brought
us to the accustomed season at which
religious people celebrate with praise
and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of
Almighty God. This devout and public
confession OF the constant dependence OF
man upon the Divine Father ior all the
good gifts Of life, and health and peace
and happiness, so early in our history
made the habit of our people, finds in u
survey ot the past year new grounds for
Its joyful and grateful manifestation
In all the blessings which depend on be.
nignant seasons this has indeed been a
memorial year. Over the vide territory
Of our country, with all its diversity Of
soil and climate and products, the
earth has yielded bountiful return
to the labor Of the husbandmen;
the health Of the people has been
blighted by no prevalent or wide.
spread disease; no great disasters OF ship.
wreck on our coasts or TO our commerce
on the seas have brought loss and hard.
ships to the merchants or mariners and
clouded the happiness of the community
with sympathetic sorrow. In all that
concerns our strength and peace and
greatness as n Nation, in all that touches
the permanence and security Of our Gov
ernment and the benilicent institutions
on which it rests; in all that affects the
character and dispositions OF our people
and tests our capacity 10 enjoy and up.
hold an equal and free condition Of So
ciety, now permanent and universal
throughout the land, the experience Of
the last year is conspiCuously marked by
the protecting providence OF God, and il
full of promise and hope for coming
generations. Under sense Of these in.
finite obligations 10 the Great Ruler of
the times and seasons and events, let us
humbly ascribe 1t 10 our own faults and
frailties, II in any degree, perfect concord
and happiness, peace and Justice which
such great merits should diiTuse through
the hearts and lives Of our people, do not
altogether and always and everywhere
prevail. Let us with one spirit and one
voice lift up praise and thanksgiving to
God for His manifold goodness to our
land and His manifest care for the nation.
Now, therefore, /, Rutherford 3. Hayes,
President Of the United States, do appoint
Thursday, the 29th day Of November
next, as day Of National Thanksgiv.
ing and Prayer, and | earnestly recon-.
mend that, Withdrawing Themselves from
secular cares and labors, the people Of
the United States do meet together, that
day, in their respective places Of worship,
and there give thanks and praise 10
the Almighty God for His mercies, 10 de.
vontly beseech their continuance.
In witness whereof have hereunto % set
my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed. Doue at the
city OF Washington, this 10Th day OF Oc-
tober, in tho year Of our Lord, one thou
sand eight hundred and seyenty.peven
and OF the independence Of the United
States one hundred and second.
lSigned Il. B. HAYES,
By President, WM. M. EvARTs,
Secretary Of Stole.