The evidence in support of the proposition was so presented that it could not be successfully disputed. Congressman W. A. Stone skillfully enlisted influential collegiates in an effort to correct the error already widely spread. The correction by the National Legislature was in time to have its influence upon President Harrison, who named October 21 in his proclamation, as the day to be observed, and Boston and Chicago fell into line. All honor to Rev. George Nichols Packer, of Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Corrections noted in the Errata section have been applied to the text. The following misprints have been corrected: "aad" corrected to "and" (page 8) "leap-year" corrected to "leap-years" (page 45) missing "the" added (page 45) "1993" corrected to "1793" (page 63) "co-incide" standardized to "coincide" (page 71) "Caesar" standardized to "Caesar" (page 71) "conseqently" corrected to "consequently" (page 74) "1736" corrected to "1737" (page 96) "countenace" corrected to "countenance" (page 114) Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original. On page 37, "3 400" is presented with a space as in the original text.