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tial, the FaDarotes became celebrated in the an
mails of Turk0- European sway.

tial. the FaDariotes became celebrated in the an
nails of Turko-European sway.
Whatever might be the new power to be created
in Constantinople it would soon be surrounded BY
the ipdestructlble Fanarotes They would confnus
to be the administrative ntators, the eIpOunders OF
governmental traditions, the dragomans between
the new Sovereign, his Court and the various pop
ulations which are TO be governed. They would
represent the Byzantine traditions of corruption,
sublimated by those of the serago. as well as oy
long contact with European diplomatic intflgues In
ard about the Porte. The Provinces to be ruled
from Constantuople would become-as they have
always been-the prey Of strangers and OF hated
Fansriotes, more cunning and willy than the Greek
or the Slavic population Of the interior. Soon 1t
would be scarcely modification Of the rule of the
Pashas now prevailing. 1t would probably become
in some respects similar to that under which the
Morea suffered in the last years of the Byzantine
Empire. Then the administration of the Peninsula
was carried on by various despots and Governors
depending upon the Emperors and appointed by
them. The MoreOtes feared the invading Turks
less than the extortons of ConstantnOpe and Of its
sstraps. The new Government, even if actuakd by
the best intentions, would unavoidably be unsuc-
cessfu The newly created Kingdom of Greece
advances very slowly, although-as said betore--lt
has to deal with a single Indigenous, ethnic ele-
meEt. Any Christian successor whatever to the
Sutan's European possessions would have to deal
with mutual envy nay, with mutual hatred, among
bis yareg, ted subjects. Their fusion Is abnormal,
heir repusions irreconcilable. Even the unity in
one Church of all the various peoples is Poweress
o conciliate these repulsions. Nay the centralza-
lion of the Eastern Church in the person of the
Patriarch of Constantinople, his contact with and
dependence upon the desp jtism of the Ottomans
has powerfully contributed to stir up and nurse this
antagoDism. The herarchica administration OF the
Orthodox or Eastern Christians is another proof OF
the baDeful influence Of Constantinopolitan central
zation and of the intrinsic impossbity of erecting
united State on the ruins of the Porte.
The patriarchs residing in COnstantinople are
Greeks by birth, and almost the whole hierarchy,
monachal and secular, is in the hands Of that ma
tionalty. Money opens and smooths all the rela
tons of the hierarchy with viziers, pashas, beys,
cadis, ETC., and this money must be got by the
many ways of material and spiritual exaction and
oppression 80 readily resorted to by the priesthOods
of all nations and religions. The Greek clergy
might have been to certain degree more lenient
with the hocks Of their own kith and kin, but the
Bulgarans and the Slayi have been treated by
their spiritual overseers especially by the higher
Ones with as little lenency as BY the Turks. These
poor victims in the eyes of the pashas, beys and
cadis as well as in those of patriarchs metropoli-
tans, and bishops down even to their own papas, or
curates, are only beasts of burden, matter to be
worked up in the most profitable way. The people
of Bulgaria, Roumela, and other regions, hate the
clergy Of their Church. To all the circumstances
enumerated above is to be ascribed the apparently
numerous conversions to Romanism, recently her
aided by the Romsb press. These conversions are
not due to dogmas. The communities and parishes
Of these regions are too simple and too unsophsti-
Gated to comprehend those vaporous subheties
which divide the dogmas of the two Churches No
religious fervor could have carried them so far as
to give to o worship in foreign jargOn, unntelligi
bic to them, preference over one performed in their
native tongue. They were inspired by the hope OF
relief flom CALLING extOrtiOns. The converts to R0
maLism expect change for the better; but they
will s?on find how little difference there is between
Latin and Greek priesty greed. The caste il Ofth
same average character, call them Brahmins
8(nzes, Egyptian hierophants, or the many.hued
ministers of Christian organizations
Constartinople is fatal gift to every possessOr
1t ruined the SUCCESSORS of Constantine and of Mo-
Damned III. Any new dynasty establishing there
ts supreme abode will inevitably be surrounded by
the old influences. No force of foreign birth, no
court, no institutions will be able 10 purify the
air. A new species of FanariOtes will spring out,
similar to those who have governed distant Prov
nces under the Porte, who demorazed and de-
Graded almost everything in Moldayia and Wal
lachia, and who will get hold of the administration
and the Government of any new Christian Constan-
tinopoIian Empire if such a curse should become
The destiny of these fated populati ms.
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