142 CONDITION OF GREEK POPULATION. 



the religion of the Greek church, amounting in 

 Turkey in Europe to two-thirds of the whole 

 population, are in a state not far removed from 

 slavery, have no rights of citizenship excepting 

 that of being taxed by the assessment of their own 

 communities, — a most villanous contrivance, by 

 which the industrious man is plundered and 

 oppressed, not only by his absolute masters, the 

 Turks, but by the rich and powerful of his own 

 race and religion ; and that the small portion of 

 the inhabitants of Turkey in Europe which are of 

 Asiatic descent, viz. the Turks, rule over and 

 oppress the whole of the remainder. Can it be ex- 

 pected that these populations will amalgamate? 

 Would it not be just as reasonable to expect the 

 inhabitants of the slave-holding states of North 

 America to amalgamate with the black population 

 there? It is no doubt desirable that they should, 

 but is it reasonable to expect it ? Is it probable, 

 is it possible for them to do so ? 



The populations can never amalgamate ; Turkey 

 can never be regenerated entirely ; she may remain 

 in her present state for some years, and, propped 

 up by the external influence of the great nations 

 of Europe, interested in keeping her together as 



