By His Excellency William A. Buckingham, Governor of the state of Connecticut, a proclamation. : Incited by a sense of constitutional obligations, by manifestations of public sentiment, and by the natural law of self-preservation, the national government has organized a large military power, to maintain its authority and preserve the Republic against an extended conspiracy formed for its overthrow. ... I therefore recommend that Friday, the third day of April next, be observed throughout this state, as a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer. Given under my hand and the seal of this state, at the city of Hartford, this, the thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in the eighty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. / William A. Buckingham. By His Excellency, the Governor, J. Hammond Trumbull, Secretary of State.