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W. T. Sherman
P. H. Sheridan
Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals

CHAPTER IV
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The only change was, that Mexico became her own executor of the laws and the recipient of the revenues.

The tobacco tax, yielding so large a revenue under the law as it stood, was one of the last, if not the very last, of the obnoxious imposts to be repealed.

Now, the citizens are allowed to cultivate any crops the soil will yield.

Tobacco is cheap, and every quality can be produced.

Its use is by no means so general as when I first visited the country.
Gradually the "Army of Occupation" assembled at Corpus Christi.


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