[40] P.I.R., 1300.2.
[41] P.I.R., 1300.2.
[42] Taylor, 4 MG., E.
[43] Report of the Philippine commission to the President. January 31, 1900. Vol. I, p. 121.
[44] P.I.R., 396. 3.
[45] Ibid., 396. 3.
[46] P.I.R., 461.4.
“My Dear Brother: I inform you that we arrived here in Cavite at eleven o’clock and disembarked at four o’clock in the afternoon after our conference with the American Admiral. Everything appears to be favourable for obtaining our independence. I cannot say more on that subject as it would take too long.
“I have no other object in writing this except to ask you and your companions to meet at once and arrange the best way to entrap all the enemy in your town, employing deceit, for instance, make a present of whatever you think best to the chiefs successively and then at once enter the houses and attack them, or if not this, do what you think best. Show valor and resolution, brothers, the hour has arrived for the Philippines to belong to her sons and not to them, only one step and we shall reach Independence; be constant, brothers, and be united in feelings, do not imitate those who show two faces, whatever such people do sooner or later they will be slaves. Respect foreigners and their property, also enemies who surrender.