APPENDIX. 755 can be claimed to justify the denial to them, by any one of such nations, of customary naval rights, as has heretofore been so unnecessaril persisted iu: Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM Lincomv, President of the United States, do Rmipmml hereby make known, that if} after a, reasonable time shall have elapsed for intel- hospitelities to ligence of this Proclamation to have reached any foreign country in whose ports ******18 0* WN'- the said privileges and immunities shall have been refused, as aforesaid, they shall continue to be so refused, then and thencefortb the same privileges and immunities shall be refused to the vessels of war of that country in the ports of the United States _:md this refusal shall continue until war vessels of the United States shall have been placed upon an entire equality in the foreign ports afore— said with similar vessels of other countries — the United States, whatever claim or pretence may have existed heretofore, are now, at least, entitled to claim and_concede pn entire and friendly equality of rights and hospitailities with all maritime nations. In witness whereof; I have hereunto set my band, and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done at the city of Washinglton, this élcventh day of A ril, in the ear [L. S.] of our Lord one thousan eight hundred and sixty—1'i)ve, and of? the Independence of the United étates of America the eigbtyminth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: Wxnmnu H. SmwAm>, Secretary of State. N0. 32. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: April 25, 1865.
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A PROCLAMATION. Wrmmazns, by my direction, the Acting Secretary of State, in a. notice to Preamble, the public of the seventeenth} requested the various religious denominations to assemble on the nineteenth instant, on the occasion of the obsequies of ABRAHAM Lmcom, late President of the United States, and to observe the same with appropriate ceremonies, but whereas our country has become one great house of mourning, where the Head of the Family has been taken away; and believing that a s ecial period should be assigned for again humbling ourselves before Almighty grad, in order that the bereavement may be sanctified to the nation : Now, therefore, in order to mitigate that grief on earth which can only be _ Day ofhumilassuaged by communion with the Father in heaven, and in compliance with 1¤f~i<>¤ {md the wishes of senators and representatives in Congress, communicated to me by m?;;;?? '*P‘ Resolutions adopted at the national Capitol, I, Ammmw Jomvson, President pm ° of the United States, do hereby appoint Thursday the twenty-fif’th day of May next, to be observed, wherever in the United States the fla of the country may be respected, as a day of humiliation and mourning, andd recommend my fellow-citizens then to assemble in their respective places of worship, thereto unite in solemn service to Almi bty God, in memory of the good man who has been removed, so that all shall he occupied at the same time, in contemplation of his virtues and in sorrow for his sudden and violent end. In witness whereoi I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of lrVashingt0n, the twenty-fifth day of April, in the [L. s.] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty--ive, and of the Independence of the United States of America the %ig¤-ninth. By the President, ANDREW 'JO ON. W. `Hunrnn, Acting Secretary of State. 1 -:0 mm menu or mm uiumm sruns. The undersigned is directed to announce that the funeral ceremonies of the late lamented Day of the Chief Magistrate, will take place at the Executive Mansion., in this city, at twelve o’clock funeral (memonoon, on Wednesday, the 19th instant: The rezpective religious denominations throughout nies of Abraham the country are invited to meet in their places worship, at that hour, for the purpose of Lincoln at solemnizing the occasion with appropriate ceremonies. Washington. W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of Stale. D<Q)G1‘¢7l|¢1|¢ cy" State, Washington, April 17, 1865.
