Excerpt from Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70; Adventure and Sight-Seeing in the Land of the Aztecs, With Picturesque Descriptions of the Country and the People, and Reminiscences of the Empire and Its Downfall The Soldiers of Mexico - The Invalid Corps - The press-literary and Musical Attainments - A Persevering Printer - Immigration - Public Improvements - The Great Need of Mexico - The Political Situation Its Hopeful and its Discouraging Aspects - Moral Responsibility of the United States - Advocates of Annexation - A Plea for Mexico. 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.