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Otis Generale to deduce from him clear and positive declarations on the
situation, stretching an essay of the friendship and commerce if the united one
States recognizes our independence or it immediately starts the hostilities if
States they refused.
In this crisis I recommended moderation and the prudence, for me he/she anchors I had
the trust in the justice and the rectitude of the Congress of the United States,
what, I believed, it would not approve the sketches of the imperialist
party and it would give attention to the declarations of Admiral Dewey that,
in the ability of an elevated Representative of the United States in
these Islands orchestrated and covenanted with the people of the and I
Recognition of Philippines of our independence.
In fact in any other way such serious matter be concern,
for if America submitted to Admiral Dewey the honour of his/her strengths in
such distant region, certainly the Filipinos would put equally them
has trust in the word of honour of such smoothed gentleman, chivalrous
and brave sailor, in the fixed belief, clearly that the great one and
American and noble people neither they would refuse his/her decision neither they would expose
to put in ridiculous the illustrious conqueror of the Spanish fleet.
In the same way the not less known and notorious circumstances that
the American Commanders that came soon after the echoes of the admiral
victory arrived to their native beaches, or rather the General Merritt Anderson,
and Otis, proclaimed to the people of Philippines that _did of America
doesn't come to conquer territories, but to free his/her inhabitants from
the oppression of Spanish Sovereignty_. I would expose therefore also
to ridiculous universal and I despise the honour of these Commanders
if the United States, repudiating their official actions and public,
attempts to annex these conquest islands.
I CAPITULATE XVI
The American Committee
With so prudent as well it founded reflections, I succeeded
in to calm my companions just before the official news they arrived