Trust and Loyalty Quotes
Not all Indians resented the coming of the white man. Several of the more peaceable tribes benefiting by interactions with the United States and some even sought affiliation—especially the military weaker tribes which would be protected by an alliance with the Americans.
This is an amazing quotation in the sense that it shows the absolute manner in which the Ottoman Turkish Empire ruled the Islamic World in the Middle East and North Africa. The Sultan and Caliph had absolute rule over both the civil and religious areas of the Islamic world. In this decree, the Caliph actually gave an entire nation to his loyal servant, Muhammad Ali, who had acted as Governor of Egypt for the Sultan. Muhammad Ali was neither a Turk or an Egyptian. He was an Albanian, racially and ethnically totally different from the nation that became his. From then on, Muhammad Ali’s children would inherit the Egyptian throne. And they did and his dynasty lasted until the revolution in 1923. The Ottoman Empire was far more controlling and arbitrary than the British Empire and lasted much longer as the Ottoman Caliph controlled the Islamic religion as well as the civil nations.