COUNTY POST.

LITCHFIELD, MAY 8, 1897.
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 son was then declared governor, and took the oath of office. His first message to the Assembly We shal! give in our next. We know not what topic of interest other than the District Bill he will touch upon; but we presume the document will do honour to the sound judgment and liberal views of this in- teIligent statesman. The election sermon Was to have, and we doubt not has, been preached by Rev. Mr Lewis, of Greenwich. Speaking upon this subject the Register re- marks, "There is no propriety in keeping up this legislative preaching, and singing, and id- ding. and negro dancing, &c. on the first day of the session." We do not know what con- nection there is between preaching and me- gro-dancing,' and until informed by Mr Bar ber were ignorant that these were combined nuisances which moral people should be freed from! Agreeably to Mir Barber's ad vice, the state may submit to this hydra of evils one year longer, because '' MT Wheaton has already been appointed to preach the elec- ton sermon for lss8," and then let the prin- cipal head of the monster by cut of! "let there be no more legislative preaching after 1828." We trust the political Hercules who shall undertake to follow this sage advice will be able to find an Iolus to scar the wound so that two greater evils may not spring up in lieu of the one. But here the work of refor- nation would of necessity stop, for even the governor with all his councillors has not pow CT to suppress ''singing, fiiddling, and negro daocing;' other powers than an executive or legislative must be brought to bear against them; moral inAuence,-which we have been told the enemies of "preaching" seldom exert with much effect-can only restrain the remaining evils.

 Late intelligence from Europe states that the Porte obstinately refuses to be in- 6uenced by the mediation of the Christian European powers, in their overtures fer the paci6cation of Greece. From the known character of the Turks, we are led to sup- pose there is some foundation for this re- port. A sort of sovereign contempt to- wards thepowers of Europe, ,and an exalted idea of its own power, would naturally in- duce the Porte to reject with disdain every proposition which might be made to better the condition of Greece. We shall re- ioice if such is the result of the late nego- tiations with that abandoned power. Had she acceded to these overtures, made prin- cipally by England and France, Greece would have been bettered from her condi- tion previous to the breaking out of tue war; but still her liberty would have been so only in the name. She would have been tributary to Turkey, and continually subject to insult and outrage from the Va cillating policy of that power. But should the Grand Turk persist in the resolution that nothing but abject slavery or death shall await Greece from his hands, those powers which proposed mediation will be constrained to say that the Porte shall carry on the war single handed-that Ibra- him of Egypt shall call home his fleets aud armies, and not interfere in contest which does not concern him. Two years he has carried on the war, and all he has received in exchange for the thousands of men he has lost and the millions he has expended, is few Greek heads and ears !-Greece has defended herself against the combined forces of Turkey and Egypt let the lat- ter be warned from the 6eld,-a warning which, in his present embarrassed situation, Ibrahim would deem it policy to obey.- and the former would fast dwindle before the feroc;ous bravery of their injured ene- my. Better days are dawning upon Greece. The time is coming when she will again rank among the nations of the earth; and we trust that the recent movements of Christian Europe will have tendency to hasten thisevent SO devoutly to be wished.

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