WASHINGTON, April 10.
By the President of
the United States:
It has pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe signal victories to
the land and naval forces engaged in suppressing an internal rebellion and at
the same time to avert from our country the dangers of foreign intervention and
invasion. It is therefore recommended to
the people of the United States at their next weekly assemblages, in their
accustomed places of worship, which shall occur after this proclamation shall
have been received, they especially acknowledge and render thanks to our
Heavenly Father for these inestimable blessings; that they then and there
implore especial aid in behalf of all those who have been thrown into
affliction by the councils of sedition and civil war; and that they reverently
invoke the Divine guidance of our national councils to the end that they may
speedily result in the restoration of peace, harmony and unity throughout our
borders, and the hasty establishment of fraternal relations among the countries
of the earth.
In witness whereof I have here under set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington, this 10th day of April in the year of
our Lord 1862.
(Signed:)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 3
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