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 734 APPENDIX. Day ofmtioml Now, therefore, be it known that I do set apart Thunsnay, the 6th day of Aufh¤Pk$giV$¤g, gust next, to be observed as a day for National Thauksgxvmg,Pra1sc, and Bmygr, £;*;;§;;’éd P'”Y” and I invite the people ff the%Unite<$ Statig tc} assemble on gag orégagxon m their customary laces o wars ip, an, in ea orms npprove y mr own consciences, rendgr the homage due to the Divine Majegty for the wogilerful things He has done in the nationfs behalf, and invoke the mflucnce ofH1s Holy Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long sustained a. needless and cruel rebellion, to change the hearts of the insurgents, yo gmde the counsels 0f the government with wisdom adequate to so great a. natmnal emergency, and to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles, and siegeés, have been brought to sufer in mind, body, or estatenand finally to le?ad the whole nation, through the paths of repentance and submission to the Dxvme YVHI, back to the perfect enjoyment of union and fraternal peace. In wigness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United hates to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this fifteenth day of July, in the year [L. s.] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and mxty-tnree, gud of the Independence of the United States of America the exgbtymghth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. B the President: W11.mAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of Stale. N0. 7. Sept. 15, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION. Preamble. WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States has ordained that the privi· 186% p}1 81  Ieicfff the wjrrit of babsas ccgyus slgall not be suspended uédei when in css? of VOL Km p y5a  ra e 1qn or mvasxon t  e pu 10 sa cty may require nt, an  w eyeast a re e ¤on was exnsting on the tbu·d day of March, 1863, wb10h rebellion is stall existing; and whereas, by a. statute which was approved on that day, it was enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in congress assembled, that during the present insurrection, the President of the United States, whenever in his judgment the public safety rnay require xt, IS authorized to suspend the privilege of tge writ of gabias corpus 1;; anyécasc thriuggcué the United Stafes, or an artt ereof; an w areas, int ce ju gment 0 thee r0si— dent, the public safegrgloes require that the privilege of the said writ shall now be suspended throughout the United States in the cases where, by the authority of the President of the United States, military, naval, and civil officers of the United States, or any of them, hold persons under their command or in their custody, either as prisoners of war, spies, or aiders or abettors of the enemy, or officers, soldiers, or seamen enrolled or drafted or mustered or enlisted in, or belonging to, the land or naval forces of the United States, or as deserters therefrom, or otherwise amenable to military law, or the rules and articles of war, or the rules or regulations prescribed for the military or naval services by authority of the Presidentsf th? United Stains, or for resisting a. draft, or for any other offence ¤a.inst,t ez mi itary or nava service: Nowfgerefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, do W£*;; l;?;;; hereby proclaim and make known to all whom it may ccucernathat the privilege rp Pof the wmt of habeas corpus xs susp euded throughont tha? United States m the several cases before mentioned, and that this suspension wnll contmue throughout the duration of the said rebellion, or until this proclamation shall, by a subsequent one to be issued by the President of the United Stateslbe modified or revoked. And I do hereby require all magistrates, attorneys, and other civil officers within the United States, and all officers and others in the military and naval services of the United States, to take distinct notice of this suspension, and to give it full efect, and all citizens of the United States to conduct and govern