The Syrian War and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1848 Volume 1; In Reports, Documents, and Correspondences, Etc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...their feudal privileges at the expense of their faith; further the latent consequences of the Servian and Greek wars of independence; the revolutionary doctrines of the neighbouring Greek press and of the French journals, favored by the foolish shortsightedness of Reshid Pasha's adherents; the machinations of the Italian, Polish, and Hungarian refugee, and last not least the cabals of the Moldavian and Wallachian revolutionists, who tend ultimately--abusing Turkish simplicity and ignorant credulity--to accelerate the fall' of an Empire--absolute par excellence--in whose interest they pretend to act in favor of liberty, against Russia and Austria. The above facts and opinions lead to the logical conclusion that the more positively the great policy of Europe must be directed to maintain the status quo of the Levant, the more clearly its leading statesmen must have perceived the dangerous rapidity of the internal process of dissolution, which undermines the Ottoman Empire The status quo, however, can be maintained only by means of a sincere co-operation on the part of the great Powers--1 rS$8. See the project of an "independent" Daco-Roumanic stale under a foreign Prince, as proposed by France and the revolutionary party in Moldavia and Walachia. and in the first line of Russia and Austria--and their chances ot success rise in proportion as these two Empires agree on a common policy, in one instance for the maintenance of the status quo, in the other for the eventuality of an internal dissolution especially of European Turkey, which may possibly still occur in the portentous times of the present generation. Amongst the misconceptions of the year 1848, which have found their expression partially in the German national Assembly, is to be included the c...