The Armenians, or the People of Ararat 1892 writes cynically of the Sultan Hamid's fairness to the Armenians. A systematic campaign to destroy the Armenians ravaged the proud nation of the Armenian Highlands:

* Sultan Hamid's demand from the Armenian patriarch that the history of Armenia should not be taught in the Armenian schools, but that the history of the Ottoman Empire should be taught, is another sign of his magnanimity!