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 | President Lincoln's Proclamation
Pres. Abraham Lincoln
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"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have
been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown
in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which
preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and
we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these
blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to
feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to
God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the
offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and
forgiveness."
Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer
April 30, 1863
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