Thanksgiving Proclamation

During the past year universal d to the country was caused by the muitlar of the l'rc-iilcnt ; yet have the people cause to be thiinkful that the government was so wisely f ramcd by the fathers that it passed unimpaired the assault of the assassiu, as it li:is withstood every assault since its foundation. For some eighty days during the prostration of President Garficld after hc was shot, the government was without an executive head, yet peace and fixl order iirovaileil, and with marked regularity public business was conducted. Commercial activity and prosperity is also a feature of the year past' In the especial calamity by fire which has fallen on a large district of Michigan, we recognize the inscrutable hand of Providence, and yet to temper the blow to the bereaved and sufferinj? inhabitants of that section, cainegenerousand munificent donations from people from all parts of the Union. For this relief of aftliction we owc inany thanks. Mimlfnl of these cli.istenings, yet are we thankful for the general prosperity wliich nssures remunerative occupation for labor abundance for the needs of our people, and for the absence of plague, pestilence or general inisfortune in the State. To show our submisaion to our Heavenly Father and to attest our thanktulness for the blessings Touchsafed to us, I reeoramend to the people of Michigan that they assemble in their respective places of wor-lnp, on the day hereinaftcr named, and in humble supplication to Almiuhty Ood, nsk for ilis coutinued kindness to us as a people. Tlierefore, uiulcr the authority vested in me as Governor of the State, I hereby desiguale Thursclay, the 24th day of Novemlier instant, as a day of Prayer and Thanksgiving throughout the commonwealth. In testiniony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of Ilic State to be hereunto afflxed, at Lanslng, this seventh day of November, A. D. 1881. David II. Jerome. Bv the Governor: Secretary of8tate.