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an especial manner, ascribe the honor of this great deliverance. Now, therefore, I. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, do issue this my proclamation, setting apart Thursday, the 18th day of September, instant, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the great mercies vouchsafed to our people, and more especially for the triumph of our arms at Richmond and Manassas in Virginia, and at Richmond in Kentucky; and I do hereby invite the people of the confederate States to meet on that day at their respective places of public worship, and to unite in rendering thanks and praise to God for these great mercies, and to implore Him to conduct our country safely through the perils which surround us to the final attainment of the blessings of peace and security. Given under my hand, and the seal of the Confederate States, at Richmond, this fourth day of September, A. D. 1862. Jefferson Davis. By the President: J. P. Benjamin, Sec'y of State.