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States. Manifold causes have hitherto
prevented the organization of the political life of
these nations, shorn of political maturity in
consequence of protracted thraldom, mutual
jealousy, and influences of the great powers,
who under all manner of excuses have played
their own game at the cost of these people,
pretending to protect them, while they sought
to make them into their subjects. Russia
has doubtless, even if unintentionally, in the
greatest degree helped to set these nations
free, and to produce the present position by
which Servia and Roumania have been changed,
from being subject to Turkey, into independent
States; and Bulgaria, instead of being a Turkish
province, has now a less subject position as
regards Turkey. “It is,” says the writer, “not
altogether without reason that the Russians
accuse their Southern Sclav brethren of
ingratitude”; but he admits that Russia ought
partly to blame herself. She has, for instance,
at times shown a decided inclination to force
her forms of thought and policy upon them,
and to get the whole of their inner national life
placed under her authority. This action of
Russia is blameworthy, both because it violates the
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