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adamrabinowitz at Sep 05, 2019 05:31 AM

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The Turks know this; their Ruler recog-
nizes in the Catholic and Greek churches
the friends of legitimacy and of absolutism,
and in Protestantism their enemy. En-
gland
is the only strong power whose people
sympathise with Protestant schools in
Turkey, and the policy of their Government
is controled {sic} by their interest. These con-
siderations are so closely germane to {inserted in pencil: the}
subject of this despatch, that I will be
excused for presenting them; and I
will add, that the Catholic and Greek
churches that dominate southern and
eastern Europe have as little sympathy
with Protestantism, as with Islamism.

My failure to assume some
right to protect the native, and
the recently naturalized American
(since 1869) teachers in Missionary

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The Turks know this; their Ruler recog-
nizes in the Catholic and Greek churches
the friends of legitimacy and of absolutisms,
and in protestantisms their enemy. En-
gland is the only strong power whose people
sympathize with protestant schools in
Turkey, and the policy of their Government
is controled by their interest. These con-
siderations are so closely germane to the
subject of this despatch, that I will be
excused for presenting them; and I
will add, that the Catholic and Greek
churches that dominate southern and
eastern Europe have as little sympathy
with protestantism, as with Islamism.

My failure to assume some
[right?] to protect the native, and
the recently naturalized American
(since 1869) teachers in Missionary