 | 1894 - 844 pages
...resolved that the ist day of June, the day on which the port bill was to go into effect, be set apart as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, "devoutly...implore the divine interposition, for averting the heavy calamities which threatened destruction to their civil rights, and the evils of a civil war; and to... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1900 - 868 pages
..." highly necessary that the said first clay of June next be set apart by the members of this house, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war." In consequence of this act, Governor Dunmore on the... | |
 | Mrs. Burton Harrison - 1897 - 370 pages
...they had voted to fall into line with Massachusetts ; to set apart the approaching first of June " as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, devoutly...Divine interposition for averting the heavy calamity to the civil rights of America ; and that the Burgesses attend church on that day." The motion, put... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1900 - 884 pages
..." highly necessary that the said first day of June next be set apart by the members of this house, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war." In consequence of this act, Governor Dunmore on the... | |
 | Lewis Preston Summers - 1903 - 932 pages
...deem it highly necessary that the said 1st day of June next be set apart by the members of this House as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights and the evils of civil war; to give us one heart and one mind, firmly to oppose, by... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 554 pages
...deem it highly necessary that the said 1st day of June next be set apart by the members of this House as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war; to give us one heart and one mind firmly to oppose, by... | |
 | George Elliott Howard - 1905 - 420 pages
...burgesses, in resolutions drafted by Jefferson, set aside June i — when the port bill went into effect — "as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer; devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war ; to give us one heart and one mind firmly to oppose,... | |
 | Virginia State Library - 1908 - 1222 pages
...DAY OF JUNE BE SET APART BY THE MEMBERS OF THIS HOUSE AS A DAY OF FASTING, HUMILIATION AND PRATER, DEVOUTLY TO IMPLORE THE DIVINE INTERPOSITION FOR AVERTING...THE HEAVY CALAMITY WHICH THREATENS DESTRUCTION TO OUB CIVIL BIGHTS, AND THE EVILS OF CIVIL WAR; ... BY THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES, GEORGE WYTHE, CNB Williamsburg:... | |
 | 1909 - 400 pages
...consequence of the approaching enforcement of the Boston Port Bill, the ist day of June was' set apart as "a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war, etc." (Journals, p. 124.) In consequence of this action,... | |
 | Ellen Chase - 1910 - 474 pages
...known, and the members straightway resolved that the day on which the bill took effect should be kept as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer "devoutly...the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war; to give us one heart and one mind, firmly to oppose,... | |
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House as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, devoutly to implore the Divine interposition for averting the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war; to give us one heart and one mind firmly to oppose... 
