LATE FROM RICHMOND: Jeff. Davis’ Proclamation Appointing Another Fast Day; His Acknowledgment of Trials and Reverses (7/29/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/29/1863

[Homer_J_Simpson]

We have received the Richmond Whig and Sentinel of the 27th inst., from which we make the following interesting extracts:

Again do I call upon the people of the Confederacy -- a people who believe that the Lord reigneth, and that His overruling Providence ordereth all things -- to unite in prayer and humble submission under His chastening hand, and to beseech His favor on our suffering country.

It is meet that when trials and reverses befall us we should seek to take home to our hearts and consciences the lessons which they teach, and profit by the self-examination for which they prepare us. Had not our success on land and sea made us self-confident and forgetful of our reliance on Him? Had not the love of lucre eaten like a gangrene into the very heart of the land, converting too many of us into worshippers of gain and rendering them unmindful of their duty to their country, to their fellow-men, and to their God? Who, then, will presume to complain that we have been chastened, or to despair of our just cause and the protection of our Heavenly Father?

Let us rather receive in humble thankfulness the lesson which He has taught in our recent reverses, devoutly acknowledging that to Him, and not to our own feeble arms, are due the honor and the glory of victory; that from Him, in His paternal providence, come the anguish and sufferings of defeat, and that, whether in victory or defeat, our humble supplications are due to His footstool.

Now, therefore, I, JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of these Confederate States, do issue this, my Proclamation, setting apart Friday, the 21st day of August ensuing, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer; and I do hereby invite the people

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Late from Richmond: Jeff. Davis’ Proclamation Appointing Another Fast Day – 2-3
The War in Kentucky: Another Invasion Excitement – 3
The Retreat of Lee’s Army; The Bulk of it Probably South of Culpepper – 3-4
The Battle of Falling Waters: Who it Was Fought by – 4-5
Operations Against Charleston: The Siege of Fort Wagner Still in Progress – 5
Morgan and His Officers – 5
News from Fortress Monroe: Visit of Secretary Seward – 5
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 5-6
Editorial: The One Thing Indispensable – 6
Editorial: Prospects of the Campaign – 6-7
Editorial: Slavery and the Union – 7-8
Editorial: Expelling the Invaders – 8
Ground and Lofty Journalistic Tumbling – 8
Another Valuable Prize: The Blockade-Runner Merrimac Captured by the Steam Sloop Iroquois – 8
The Vessels Destroyed by the Rebel Pirates – 8

[daniel1212]

And also LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION of a NATIONAL FAST DAY

Correct response, vs. ACLU