Monday, March 1, 2010

The Prayer of the Chaplain of the House

The Chaplain of the House, in his prayer this morning gave thanks for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and that the air of the Capitol is now free. – Washington co. N. Y. Herald.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 25, 1862, p. 2

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