. . . made the following prayer in the House on the 17th:
“We thank Thee for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. We thank Thee for the emancipation of slaves in the capital of our country. We thank Thee that our soil is now free from slavery, and that this air is now free air, and so shall remain forever. We accept this great blessing not as the result of human manifestation – not as a matter of party policy, but as a Devine intervention; as a development of another form of confirmation of Thy great and glorious purpose, to carry on and complete the whole work of human redemption. Therefore we bless and magnify Thy most excellent name, united with the churches of all lands, and of all ages in saying: Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end!”
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday April 26, 1862, p. 2
“We thank Thee for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. We thank Thee for the emancipation of slaves in the capital of our country. We thank Thee that our soil is now free from slavery, and that this air is now free air, and so shall remain forever. We accept this great blessing not as the result of human manifestation – not as a matter of party policy, but as a Devine intervention; as a development of another form of confirmation of Thy great and glorious purpose, to carry on and complete the whole work of human redemption. Therefore we bless and magnify Thy most excellent name, united with the churches of all lands, and of all ages in saying: Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end!”
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday April 26, 1862, p. 2
