Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-11-10
THE NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DAY,
Proclamation by he President Of t.e UHI
States FiIing Thursday, Nor 20.

Proclamation By he President Of Ae URited
States FiIing Thursday, Nor 20.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The following was
issued this afternoon;
By Gle President efGie United SAFES Of america;
A PROCLAMATION.
The completed circle Of simmer and winter,
seed-time and harvest, has brought TO MS the
accustomed season at which a religious. people
celebrates with praise and thanksgiving the en-
during mercy Of Almighty God. This devout
and public confession of the constant depend
ence OF man upon the Divine Father for all good
gifts Of life and health and peace and happi-
ness, 50 early in our history made the habit OF
our people, finds in the survey Of the past year
new grounds for its joyful and grateful mani
festation. In all blessings which depend upon
benignant seasons this has indeed been menu
orable year. Over the wide 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 husbandman. The
health of the people has been blighted by no
prevalent or widespread diseases. No great
disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts or to
our commerce on the seas have brought loss
and hardship to merchants or mariners, and
clouded the happiness of the community with
sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our
strength and peace and greatness as nation /;
i'll all that touches the permanence and security
of our government and the beneficent institu-
tons on which it rests in all that affects the
character and dispositions of our people, and
tests our capacity to enjoy and uphold the
equal and free condition Of society, now per-
manent and universal throughout the land, the
experience Of the last year is conspicuously
marked by the protecting providence Of God,
and is full of promise and hope for the coming
generations Under a sense of these infinite
obligations to the Great Ruler of times and
seasons and events let us humbly ascribe it to
our own faults and frailties. If, in any degree,
that perfect concord and happiness, peace and
justice which such great mercies should diff
fuse through the hearts and lives of our peo-
pie do not altogether and always and every
where prevail Let us, with one spirit and with
one voice, lift M praise and thanksgiving to
God for his manifold goodness to our land and
his manifest care for our nation.
Now, therefore. l. Rutherford B. Hayes
President of the United States, do appoint
Thursday the Goth day of November next, as q
day of national thanksgiving and prayer and
earnestly recommend that, Withdrawing them.
selves from secular cares and iabors, the people
Of the United States do meet together on that
day in their respective places of worship, there
! to give thanks and praise to Almighty God fol
His mercies, and to devoutly beseech their con-
| tinuance.
hand and caused the seal of the United States
| to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty,
ninth day Of October, in the year Of oul
Lord one thousand eight hundred anG
| IL. ]seventy-seven, and of the Independence
of the United States the one hundre5
and second. r. b. HAYES.
By the President
WILLIAM NJ. EyARTs, Secretary Of State.