Note XXIII-25 — Chapter XXIII · POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NICARAGUA. 1867-1885.
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Its opponents abused Quadra for doing what the condition of the country required. Easing the treasury, reforming the administrative system, and restoring public credit. For this they called him a retrogressionist, a despot, and a fool; for being a respecter of the laws they claimed he should be censured.