The Finances of the Texas Revolution (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Finances of the Texas Revolution (Classic Reprint) written by Eugene Campbell Barker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Finances of the Texas Revolution Under these conditions, then, how were the Texans enabled to establish a government, maintain an army and accomplish their independence Mr. Henry M. Morfit declared to Secretary Forsyth that the means were derived principally from the sym pathy of their neighbors and friends in the United States and by loans upon the credit of the state, while Mr. Gouge, in his Fiscal History of Texas, ' somewhat facetiously remarks that the various expedients of governments for raising funds in such exigencies may be resolved into taxing, borrowing, begging, sell ing, and robbing and cheating, and that the Texans apparently determined to try all six. Before investigating this question it will be necessary to outline briefly the political changes in Texas during the revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.