Autobiography of William G Schauffler for Forty Nine Years a Missionary in Th
Autobiography of William G Schauffler for Forty Nine Years a Missionary in Th
William Gottlieb Schauffler
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As I was well acquainted with the Russian Ambassa- dor, (his lady being a Protestant, and coming frequently to my German services, ) we concluded to inform him of the fact, that one of his prot^gds was unlawfully im- prisoned. No diplomat was ever more impenetrable than he, and I suspect the Armenian Patriarch had been shrewd enough to inform His Excellency of the 134 Autobiography. necessity of this step for the purpose of guarding their church interests, and to assure him that the protege of ...Russia should not be harmed. But the Patriarch's chief aim, if within reach of human accomplishment, was the expulsion of the American missionaries from Turkey ; and, considering the character of Sultan Mah- moud, there seemed to be a chance for that, — indeed, many circumstances favored such a possibility. The American Minister was new, and was only an Envoy of the second grade. Besides, he entertained the idea that, as the treaty with the United States was a commercial treaty, he had no right to protect the mis- sionaries in their character and work as such, although, in fact, that treaty puts Americans in Turkey on the same footing " with the most favored nations" and secures to them in future all the advantages which any others might attain.
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