Capitolo 31
Being informed of this strange procedure, and to the duration when the
Revolutionary government had his/her head office in Malolos, I sent
a Committee to General Otis to discuss the matter with him. General
Otis gave a letter of recommendation to the Commissioners to the admiral
to whom him if it reported them; but the admiral declined to receive the
Committees despite General the recommendation of Otis.
Despite the procedure of the American Commanders, so contrary
to the spirit of all the pacts and antecedents above of it mentioned,
I kept on maintaining a friendly attitude toward their, while sending
a Committee to General Merritt to offer him/it goodbye in the eve of
his/her departure for Paris. In his/her recognition of his/her courtesy
Merritt Generale was good enough to say that he would have defended the
Filipino Cause in the United States. In the same way I sent to
Admiral Dewey a _punal_ [5] in a sheath of solid silver and a walking
baton of the very best reed with gold handle engraved more anymore by the
skilled silversmiths as a souvenir and mark of our friendship. This
the admiral accepted, with this in of the measure that assuages my feelings
and the anxiety of my fellow citizens that you/they constitute the Revolutionary one
Government of whom hearts were filled again with pleasant hopes a
complete understanding with Admiral Dewey.
I CAPITULATE XV
Vain hopes
Vain indeed it became these they hope when news arrived that Admiral Dewey
you/he/she had acted and you/he/she was continuing to act against the Revolutionary one
Order government of the His Excellency the Mr. McKinley that, it incited
from the party of "Imperialist", you/he/she had decided to annex Philippines,
granting, in every probability concessions to adventurers to exploit
the natural wealth to lie immense they concealed our ground of virgin under.
These news was out receipts in the Revolutionary field as a lightning
of a clear sky. Some cursed the time and the day that we have orally treated
with the Americans; some reported the to surrender some suburbs, while
others were again of opinion to which a Committee should be expeditious