STATE OF WISCONSIN.
PROCLAMATION FOR THANKSGIVING.
It is right that all Christian nations should praise the Ruler of the Universe for His wonderful goodness to the Children of Men
It is iminently proper that the people of this country should praise Him, for they are favored above all others, in their form of government, devised, under God, by the wisdom of their forefathers--in freedom to do all things that are right--in health, peace, prosperity--in a wonderful process of development which has already placed them in the foremost rank of the Nations of the World
The People of Wisconsin have extraordinary reason for thankfulness the present year. The peaceful labors of the husbandmen have been blessed in a most remarkable degree, and their barns and storehouses are overflowing with the abundance of the Harvest. Surely, "He filleth them with the finest of the wheat." Health has prevailed throughout our borders. Good order has everywhere reigned. The blessings of free education have been extended. All classes and professions have pursued their avocations with greater or less measure of success, under the protection of just and equal laws. If afflictions have come upon, or calamities overtaken us, the benign influences of Christian benevolence have hastened to dry the tears and ministered to the wants of the bereaved.
Following time-honored custom, it is my privilege again to invite the people of Wisconsin to the observance of their annual festival of joy and gladness, and I do hereby appoint Thursday, the 29th day of November, 1860, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe.
And I recommend that the people of the State, on that day, laying aside the cares of life, gather together in their solemn assemblies, and, in manner and form approved by their consciences, return their thanks to God for His great goodness to us as citizens of a country blessed, beyond others, with Civil and Religious Liberty, Educational Institutions. Peace and Prosperity; and especially for His overflowing blessings to the people of this Commonwealth in Abundant Harvests, Health, Social Comforts and Privileges, and for all that contributes to their happiness and well-being as communities and individuals.
"Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him and bless His name."
When the feast is spread, and the tables groan with fatness, let not the poor be forgotten, nor any man found begging bread.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the Great Seal of the {Begin inserted text}SEAL{End inserted text} State to be affixed.
Done at Madison, this twenty-ninth day of October, 1860.
By the Governor,
ALEX. W. RANDALL.
EDWARD ILSLEY, Ass't Secretary of State.
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