“‘Brethren, the country is in danger and we must rise to save it. Europe sees that we are feeble, but we will demonstrate that we know how to do as should be done, shedding our blood for the salvation of our outraged country. Death to the tyrant! War without quarter to the false Americans who wish to enslave us! Independence or death!
“‘A. Luna.
“‘Malolos, February 7, 1899.
“‘Colonel José: By order of General Luna, have several copies of this made, in order that these instructions may be communicated to all.’”—Senate Document 331, part 2, p. 1912, Fifty-seventh Congress, First Session.
[56] Major F. S. Bourns.
[57] Dr. Manuel Xerez Burgos.
[58] This is the “note by compiler on exhibit 816,” which is Luna’s order.
[59] Taylor, 96 FZ.
[60] Taylor, 99 FZ.
[61] Ibid., 44 HS.