PROCLAMATION.

TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

A RECOMMENDATION.


WASHINGTON, _April 13, 1841_.

When a Christian people feel themselves to be overtaken by a great
public calamity, it becomes them to humble themselves under the
dispensation of Divine Providence, to recognize His righteous government
over the children of men, to acknowledge His goodness in time past, as
well as their own unworthiness, and to supplicate His merciful
protection for the future.

The death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United
States, so soon after his elevation to that high office, is a
bereavement peculiarly calculated to be regarded as a heavy affliction
and to impress all minds with a sense of the uncertainty of human things
and of the dependence of nations, as well as individuals, upon our
Heavenly Parent.

I have thought, therefore, that I should be acting in conformity with
the general expectation and feelings of the community in recommending,
as I now do, to the people of the United States of every religious
denomination that, according to their several modes and forms of