JULY 9, 1812
[From Annals of Congress Twelfth Congress. part 2, 2224.]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THB UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution of
the two Houses, have signified a request that a day may be recommended
to be observed by the people of the United States with religious
solemnity as a day of public humiliation and prayer; and
Whereas such a recommendation will enable the several religious
denominations and societies so disposed to offer at one and the same
time their common vows and adorations to Almighty God on the solemn
occasion produced by the war in which He has been pleased to permit
the injustice of a foreign power to involve these United States:
I do therefore recommend the third Thursday in August next as a
convenient day to be set apart for the devout purposes of rendering
the Sovereign of the Universe and the Benefactor of Mankind the public
homage due to His holy attributes; of acknowledging the transgressions
which might justly provoke the manifestations of His divine
displeasure; of seeking His merciful forgiveness and His assistance in
the great duties of repentance and amendment, and especially of
offering fervent supplications that in the present season of calamity
and war He would take the American people under His peculiar care and
protection; that He would guide their public councils, animate their
patriotism, and bestow His blessing on their arms; that He would
inspire all nations with a love of justice and of concord and with a
reverence for the unerring precept of our holy religion to do to
others as they would require that others should do to them; and,
finally, that, turning the hearts of our enemies from the violence and
injustice which sway their councils against us, He would hasten a
restoration of the blessings of peace.
Given at Washington, the 9th day of July, A. D. 1812.
[SEAL.]
JAMES MADISON.
By the President:
JAMES MONROE,
Secretary of State.
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: A COMPILATION OF THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF
THE PRESIDENTS, VOL. II, BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE, N Y, PP 498)
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
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That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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