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- GLC#
- GLC02542.14-View header record
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 23 March 1798
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John, 1735-1826
- Title
- [Presidential proclamation for a national day of prayer]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : free frank Height: 37.7 cm, Width: 32.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Proclamation declaring national "day of Solemn Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer," with Timothy Pickering's free frank on verso. Adams wants Americans to pray for the protection of their country. Proclamation states that America is in a "hazardous and afflictive situation" and therefore asks all citizens to "offer their devout Addresses to the Father of Mercies." Prayer is needed because "the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God...the national acknowledgement of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him, but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that Morality and Piety." Features the Great Seal of the United States printed at top.
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