On the recordAugust 11, 1861
that the inestimable boon of civil and religious liberty, earned under His guidance and blessing by the labors and sufferings of our fathers, may be restored in all its original excellence.
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Proclamation 85—Proclaiming a Day of National Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting
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