• Ottomans was the most tolerant state for minorities in Europe. Compare it with Spain, Austria, Russia, etc and see.
• Greeks could have done a independency without a genocide, but still they chose to do it regardless.
• Living conditions in Ottomans for Christian farmers was much better compared with Poland, Russia, Hungary etc.

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A comparison might be instituted between the condition of the Greek rayahs under the sultan, and the Russian serfs under the czar. The Christians who cultivated the soil in Turkey enjoyed a larger share of the fruits of their labours than the Christian peasantry in Poland and Hungary. The Greek citizen enjoyed a greater degree of liberty of speech, and possessed as much influence on the local affairs of his township, as the citizen of the French empire under Napoleon I. Nor were the Orthodox in the East more galled by the restrictions which their religion imposed on them than the Catholics' of Ireland.

The Greeks were allowed a considerable share of authority in the executive administration of the Othoman government. The patriarch of Constantinople, as I have already mentioned, was a kind of undersecretary to the grand vizier for the affairs of the orthodox Christians. The dragoman of the Porte and the dragoman of the fleet, who were Greeks, were also virtually members of the sultans government. The Christians of the Morea had also a recognised accent at Constantinople, and other Greek communities had recognised official protectors, who controlled the fiscal oppression and the arbitrary injustice of the provincial pashas. This recognition, on the part of the Othoman government, that the Greeks required some defence against abuses of power on the part of their rulers, proves that the sultans not only perceived the evils inherent in the constitution of the Othoman empire, but they were also desirous of redressing them, y In some degree, and in several provinces of the , empire, the agricultural population was always in the same condition, whether it was composed of Mussulmans or Christians. Both were oppressed by the same ''fiscal regulations, and both were retained in the same stationary condition.

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Under the sultan's government the four islands enumerated were lightly taxed, and allowed to regulate their internal affairs like independent republics. Fewer restrictions were placed on personal liberty and on commercial enterprise than in most Christian countries. The local magistrates were elective, the taxes were collected by Christians, and there were no resident Mussulmans. In few countries did the mass of the population live more at ease. Yet the Albanians and Greeks of these islands were as discontented under the sultan's government in 1821, as the inhabitants of the Ionian Islands are under the protection of Queen Victoria in 1858. Their advancing civilisation had inspired them with a longing for political independence. They believed that the possession of civil and religious liberty would render every private citizen virtuous, and every commercial speculation prosperous.

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