Note XXVI-23 — Chapter XXVI · FURTHER WARS AND REVOLUTIONS. 1863-1885.
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In assuming the executive office, Correoso found no money in the treasury. He at once resorted to the device employed by his predecessor Colunje of arresting the prominent citizens of the capital, whom he kept in confinement till they paid the amounts severally demanded. The same outrage was afterward practised in the interior. The result was an increase of poverty from day to day.