Hartford, Conn., March 13. —Governor Morris's Fast Day proclamation issued this afternoon is attracting considerable attention on account of the somewhat unusual wording. It is as follows:—
I hereby appoint Friday, the 23d day of March, as a day of fasting and prayer.
It has been the custom of the people of this Commonwealth for many years to observe this day by meeting in their places of public worship, and invoking the blessings of heaven upon this country. The minds of the people seem so greatly at variance concerning the things needful for their happiness, that it would be well for them to continue the custom of observing this day, and in their invocations say: "O, Jesu hominum salvator, with Thy gracious light illumine the minds of thy children, who, groping in darkness, are unable to see the truth when it is presented to them."
