Thomas E. Bramlette, Proclamation

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KYR-0001-001-0001

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Proclamation/Legislation

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Proclamations, 1863-1865

Item Location

BR1-366

Place of Creation

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

21 April 1865

Dates Mentioned

1865-04-21

1865-05-25

Thomas E. Bramlette, Proclamation, 21 April 1865, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Proclamations, 1863-1865, BR1-366, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-001-0001, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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PROCLAMATION.
{UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}
Commonwealth of Kentucky,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Frankfort, April 21, 1865.

In view of the sad calamity which has fallen upon our country by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States of America, it becomes us as a people to humble ourselves before a Merciful God, and pray Him that the sin of our people, which has culminated in such great crime, be forgiven, and we purged from our iniquity, and be again restored to His favor, and to peace and unity amongst ourselves.

For this purpose, Thursday, the 4th ^25th^ day of May, 1865, is hereby appointed as a day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer.

On that day the people of Kentucky are invoked to suspend all secular business, and, at the usual hour for service, attend their respective places of worship, and engage in the solemn and earnest observance of the day as one for humiliation before God, and prayer for His forgiving mercy and sustaining grace, in this our day of affliction.

THOS. E. BRAMLETTE, Governor of Kentucky.

To accord with the Proclamation of President Johnson, Gov Bramlette has changed the date of the foregoing Proclamation from the 4^th to the 25^th May.

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