The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-11-06

! The acting president has issued
1.-THE following thanksgiving procla-
nation:
PROCLAMATION.
| At no period in it's history, since
the United States became nation,
has this people had SO abundant and
SO universal reasons for joy and
gratitude at the favor of almighty
God, or been subject to so profound
an obligation to give thanks for His
loving Kindness, and hnmbfy to i'm
plore His continued care and protec-
ton. Health, wealth and prosperity
throughout all our borders; peace
and honor and friendship with all
the world; firm and faithful adj
herence by the great body Of our
population to the principles of liber-
+ y and justice, which have made our
greatness as u nation, and to the
wise institutions and strong frame
of government or society which will
perpetuate it. For all these let the
thanks ola happy and united people,
as with one voice, ascend in devout
homage to the giver Of all good ]
therefore recommend that on Thurs
day, the 25th day of November next,
the people meet in their respective
places of worship to make their &C.
acknowledgements to Almighty God
for His bounties and protection, ID
to offer Him prayers for their con-
tinuance.
In witness whereof / have hereun-
to placed my hand and caused the
seal OF the United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington this
LIST day of November, 1880, aud of
the independence Of the United
States the l05th.
By the President. v...ts
WIN. M. EvAgrs, secretay of State.
The issuance, by the chief magis-
trate, of an annual proclamation of
Thanksgiving, is an excellent and
time-honored custom, and the setting
apart OF one day in the year, at the
end of the harvest season, when all
the people are called upon to meet
in places of public worship, to offer
their united expressions of gratitude
to the Deity for His manifold mercies,
is an act which the rulers of all
nations would do we'll to initiate.
1t is, however, remarkable that
the only man in the United States,
who ever held the Office of president
by a false and fraudulent title,
should be the only one who ever
converted u thanksgiving proclama.
ton into political campaign docu-
ment, confessedly designed, on the
eve OF a presidential election, to
promote the success of his own
political party.
His expression "frm and faithful
adherence by the great body of our
population to the principles of liberty
and justice which have made the
greatness of our nation, and to the wise
institutions and strong frame OF gov
eminent or society which will perpe-
tuate it," is palpable reference to the
republican party, and to that strong
government "by which that party is
openly seeking to make the federal
government absorb and annihilate the
constitutional rights of the States
The allusion to "the great body Of the
population" is as false as Mr.. Hayes
title to the presidency. The great
body of population, lhy i majority
of a quarter of million, and by
majority of electoral votes, defeated
Mr.. Hayes, and elected Mr.. Tilden
president, and it is adding insult to
injury Tor Mr.. Hayes to chmacterize
the theft Of the presidency il 1875 is
a firm and faithful adherence to tlle
principles of liberty and justice.
His language reminds Us Of that of
the French patriot-woman on the
scaffold--
80 liberty what crimes arc com
mittcd in thy name n
A PRoBLEM. During Tuesday last
the attention of our denizens was at
traeted to singular connection i'm the