Excerpt: ... of the United States, do hereby proclaim the same accordingly. SEAL. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the 24th day of December, A.D. 1799, and of the Independence of the United States the twenty-fourth. JOHN ADAMS. By the President: TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State. From the Daily National Intelligencer, December 15, 1860. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. A RECOMMENDATION. WASHINGTON, December 14, 1860. Numerous appeals have been made to me by pious and patriotic ...
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Excerpt: ... of the United States, do hereby proclaim the same accordingly. SEAL. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the 24th day of December, A.D. 1799, and of the Independence of the United States the twenty-fourth. JOHN ADAMS. By the President: TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State. From the Daily National Intelligencer, December 15, 1860. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. A RECOMMENDATION. WASHINGTON, December 14, 1860. Numerous appeals have been made to me by pious and patriotic associations and citizens, in view of the present distracted and dangerous condition of our country, to recommend that a day be set apart for humiliation, fasting, and prayer throughout the Union. In compliance with their request and my own sense of duty, I designate Friday, the 4th day of January, 1861, for this purpose, and recommend that the people assemble on that day, according to their several forms of worship, to keep it as a solemn fast. The Union of the States is at the present moment threatened with alarming and immediate danger; panic and distress of a fearful character prevail throughout the land; our laboring population are without employment, and consequently deprived of the means of earning their bread. Indeed, hope seems to have deserted the minds of men. All classes are in a state of confusion and dismay, and the wisest counsels of our best and purest men are wholly disregarded. In this the hour of our calamity and peril to whom shall we resort for relief but to the God of our fathers? His omnipotent arm only can save us from the awful effects of our own crimes and follies
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