88 RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND BULGARIA. 



all the children of the Empire, will acknowledge their fellow- 

 citizenship, and to this unity in the civil and military ranks let her 

 grant equality before the law, and in the tribunals of justice, for 

 thus will be inaugurated a great measure of reform, which cannot 

 but bring other concessions of a social and religious character, 

 so essential to the consolidation of all races and religions into one 

 great solidarity. 



When this great work shall have been accomplished, Europe will 

 have the renown of having brought deliverance to the oppressed, not 

 only to the Christians, but also to the Mussulmans. The insisting 

 by the allied Powers of these possible reforms, which shall be 

 general and just, reforms urged by a united voice, without offensive 

 conditions, without imperious injunctions, and without infringing on 

 the National Sovereignty, such are, we venture to believe, the only real 

 and effective means for settling and solving, justly and permanently, 

 this great Eastern Question. 



