Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1868 — NATIONAL THANKSGIVING [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL THANKSGIVING

Piy* In tho year winch now draw# to its end, the art, the skill, and }h.f greater dIHginCP rtddibigor, and iu broader field* than over before, and the lruiis of the earth have been store lioomc in murveloe* abnndnnce. Vmv l>tfih'taya,htn and new and prolife bcbfi ()j.enjTTod. \Ve are permitted to Iwipt* that long prMrtrctid polilicul imd m>qAicajutsi-«iMMSA#*.tdugiat no • diHtnnt day, are t<> give nlaco to rrbnfniony Atid fri/«Tnid affeclion UirmigiiotU -t-bfriepubHc. Jfiitiy torcign sthtes have entered iniu liberal :igreeme i nGl i ,wUh while nations Ina’t aro for off, and iitiVb’ tyeCW ’unsocial ahd CxclufWc, haVo bCCCtneour friends. . \

Tbe'ennunl period Of we havG rehcHCd In health *nd tranquility, so many blessings, Is. by univ«t*ftl oonsonf, a convenient and suitable one fur cultivating personal piety and practicing public duvotibrt. therefore, rncomaaend : that THURSDAY, the Twerttj-sixthday of No yt,m^er next, bo set opart*nd . itbserved by all the people of the United Steles, as a day of public praise, thanksgiving and prayer tp tbe Alpiighty Creator aiul. l)«vgie Ruler q$ the Universe, by wb»se ever watchful, mercifn), and . gracious providence alone, etatsa and nations, no less than families and Individual meii, do liVe, and move, and have their being, , In vtitness, wjlereof, I fcatolfcirtounto set my hand, and causcq the seal of the United Slfiltes to bq Affixed. Done at the city of .-Uie twelfth- ’"ln year of our elgbt hundred and pf the rndcpondence of tho United States the ninety-third. By tho President:

A NDREW JOHNSON.

WiuiAM H. Seward, mTTT' Secretary of State.