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 754 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. N OS. 4, 5. _ against measures likely to prove so pernicious to their country and themselves, lY¤Y¤¤¤g should they be seduced into similar infractions of the laws, I have therefore ggxnst such thought proper to issue this proclamation, hereby solemnly warning every ' person, not authorized by the laws, against enlisting any citizen or citizens of the United States, or levying troops, or assembling any persons within the United States for the purposes aforesaid, or proceeding in any manner to the execution thereof, as they will answer the same at their peril: And 1 do also admonish and require all citizens to refrain from enlisting, enrolling, or assembling themselves for such unlawful purposes, and from being in anywise concerned, aiding, or abetting therein, as they tender their own welfare, inasmuch as all lawful means will be strictly put in execution for securing obedience to the laws, and for punishing such dangerous and daring violations thereof Ofllcerstoen- And I do, moreover, charge and require all courts, magistrates, and other d83V0H!' tv p¤`€· officers whom it may concern, according to their respective duties, to exert the Egg ‘;g““'sh powers in them severally vested, to prevent and suppress all such unlawful as- ' semblages and proceedings, and to brine to condign punishment those who may have been guilty thereof, as they regard the due authority of government, and the peace and welfare of the United States. In teshmony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my [L. s.] hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighteenth. G. WASHINGTON. BY THE PRESIDENT: EDM. RANDOLPH. N0. 5. Dag of Public Thanksgiving appointed. ']°°‘ r 1795 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. WHEN we review the calamities which afliict so many other nations, the present condition of the United States affords much matter of consolation and satisfaction. Our exemption hitherto from foreign war, an increasing prospect of the continuance of that exemption, the great degree of internal tranquillity we have enjoyed, the recent confirmation of that tranquillity by the suppression of an insurrection which so wantonly threatened it, the happy course of our public affairs in general, the unexampled prosperity of all classes of our citizens-—are circumstances which peculiarly mark our situation with indications of the Divine Beneticence towards us. In such a state of things it is, in an especial manner, our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God, and to implore Him to continue and confirm the blessings we experience. Deeply penetrated with this sentiment, I, GEORGE WASHING'I`ON, President of the United States, do recommend to all religious societies and denominations, and to all persons whomsoever within the United States, to set apart and Thursday, Feb- observe Thursday, the nineteenth day of February next, as a day of public Thankswz Vg5v "P` giving and Prayer; and on that day to meet together, and render their sincere and gglnpgbflg 8 day hearty thanks to the great Ruler of Nations for the manifest and signal mercies Thanksgiving, which distinguish ou1~1ot as a Nation ; particularly for the possession of Consumtions of Government which unite and by their union estabhsh liberty with order, for the preservation of our peace, foreign and domestic, for the seasonable con- `troul which has been given to a spirit of disorder in the suppression of the late insurrection, and generally for the prosperous course of our affairs, public and private; and at the same time, humbly and fervently to beseech the kind author of these blessings graciously to prolong them to us,—to imprint on our hearts a deep and solemn sense of our obligations to Him for them—to teach us rightly to estimate their immense value-—to preserve us from the arrogance of prosperity, and from hazarding the advantages we enjoy by delusive pursuits—to dispose us to merit the continuance of his favors, by not abusing them, by our gratitude {br