Litchfield enquirer., 1867-11-14
BY HIS EXCELLENCY.
 JAMES E. ENGLISH. GOVERNOR c8 THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. A PROCLAMATION.

In view of the many blessings which have crowned the year now drawing to a close, and in accordance with the custom of avenerated ancestry, whose pious example we are admorished to follow, I do hereby re- commend THURSDAY, the 18th day of No vember next, to be religiously observed by the people of this State, as a day of Thanks giving and Praise to Almighty God for His manifold goodness and mercy to us; for the abundant measure of health with which we have been blessed, the past year, through the continuance of His guardian care over us; for the bonntiful dispensations of His Providence in bestowing upon us another season of plentiful harvest; and especially for the inestimable blessings of civil and re- ligious liberty which we are still permitted to enjoy.
 And to this end earnestly invite the clergy and people of all denominations in the State to assemble on that day, at.their usual places of divine worship, and there, with hearts filled with love towards God and their fellow men, devoutly ''enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise"
 Given under my hand and the seal of the t--, State, at New Haven, this twenty
 L. s. sixth day of October, in the year t--) of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and of the inde- pendence of the United States the ninety second.
 JAMES B. ENGLISH.
 By His Excellency's command,
 LEvERETT B. PEAsE, Secretary of State,
 THE ENGLISH QUARREL WITH ABYssINIA. There are two sides to most stories, and one of the New York dailies insists upon it the Abyssinian question. The case, as it now stands at present, presents these fea- tures:-
 King Theodore has insulted and detain- ed as hostages an English Consul, other subjects, and even special En glish envoy But on the other hand Abyssinia has great grievances to allege against England. Ig- norant, degraded, low as they are, the Abs sinias have, from very early ages, been Christians; though ill the immediate neigh borhood of Arabs, Egyptians and Turks, they have always successfully resisted the tide of Moslem invasion and conquest. In 1S49, England formally recognized the in- dependence of Abyssinia, and agreed to ex- change Ambassadors; and in 1855, by guar anteeing the security of the Abyssinian seaboard, induced the reception of an EngllSn COnSul. buG since lSoZ, that pol icy has been reversed. The Egyptians make uninterrupted slave raids into the lowlands of Abyssinia, and sell thousands of Christians into Moslem slavery. The English Consul at Jerusalem declared Abys. sinians there to be Turkish subjects, and allowed them to be despoiled at the most venerated sanctuaries; the representations of King Theodore were unnoticed and his letter to Queen Victoria unanswered; and finally, English envoys assisted at the ne- gotiation by which Turkey sold Christian Abyssinia to Egypt and British cannon officially saluted the 800 Egyptian troops who came in to take formal possession. Why? Because England needed Egyptian cotton and the consul sent to make nego- tiations was seized and imprisoned by Theodore, who, reading the orders from England, saw how he had been deserted and betrayed. That is the substance of a long letter published in the English papers, by one who had lived many years in Abys sinia. It has not been contradicted Eng. lands Abyssinian war will cost more than it comes to.