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an any side justifiable . The different manner , however , in which governments appeal , in their quarrels , to the Lord of Hosts , is characteristic of the spirit of their institutions . In this view , we have been considerably impressed with the following
Proclamatjon ' of a Day of Humiliation by the President of the United States , during the late unhappy contest with this country ; and venture to insert it in our Repository , wishing it to be read , as it surely may , now that the two countries are at peace , not as a political manifesto , but as a State Curiosity . Ez > . J
WHEREAS the Congress of the United States , by a joint resolution of the two houses , have signified a request that a day may be recommended , to be observed by the people of the United States with
religious solemnity , as a day of Public Humiliation and Prayer ; and whereas in times of public calamity , such as that of the war , brought on the United States by the injustice of a foreign government , it is especially becoming , that the hearts of all should be touched with the same , and the
eyes of all be turned to that Almighty Power , in whose hand are the welfare and destiny of nations : I do , therefore , issue this my proclamation , recommending to all who shall be piously disposed , to unite their hearts and voices in addressing , at one and
the same time , their vows and adorations to the great Parent and Sovereign of the Universe , that they assemble on the second Thursday of September next , in their respective religious congregations , to render him thanks for the many blessings he has
bestowed on the people of the United States ; that he has blessed them with aland capable of yielding all the necessaries and requisites of human life , with ample means for convenient exchanges with foreign countries , that he has blessed the labours employed
in its cultivation and improvement ; that he is now blessing the exertions to extend and establish the arts and Manufactures , which will secure with-* n ourselves supplies too important to remain dependent on the precarious policy , or the peaceable dispositions ° f other nations ; and particularly that « e has blessed the United States with * political constitution , founded . on
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the will and authority of the whole people , and guaranteeing to each individual security , not only of his person and his property , but of those sacred rights of conscience ,. eo essential to his present happiness and so dear to his future hopes .- —that with those expressions of devout
thankfulness be joined supplications to the same Almighty Power , that he would look down with compassion on our infirmities , that he would pardon our manifold transgressions , and awaken and strengthen in all the wholesome purposes of repentance and
amendment j that in this season of trial and calamity , he would preside in a particular manner over our public councils , and inspire all citizens with a love of their country , and with those fraternal affections , and that mutual confidence , which have so happy a
tendency to make us safe at home and respected abroad ; and that , a * he was graciously pleased , heretofore * to smile on ouv struggles against the attempts of the government of the empire of which these states then made a part , to wrest from them the
rights and privileges to which they were entitled in common with every other part , and to raise them to the station of an independent and sovereign people ; so he would now be pleased , in like manner , to bestow his blessing on our arms in resisting
the hostile and persevering efforts of the same power to degrade us on the ocean , the common inheritance of all * from rights and immunities , belongring and essential to the American people , a » a co-equal member of the great community of independent
nations ; and that , insniriner our enetions y and that , inspiring our enemies with moderation , with justice , and with that spirit of reasonable accommodation , which our country has continued to manifest , we may be enabled to beat our swords into
ploughshares , and to enjoy in peace , every man , the fruits of his honest industry and the rewards of his lawful enterprise . If the public homage of a people cau ever be worthy the favourable regard of the holy and omniscient Being to whom it is addressed , it must be that in which those vrho
join in it are guided only by their free choice , by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences , and such a spectacle muft be interesting to all Christian nation *;
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American Proclamation ' of a Fast-Day * 7 q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/15/
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