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Philippine people were craving that that peace had been concluded
yesterday,--long first now--but a honest and the peace of honourable,
similar honourable for the United States and the Philippine Republic
in order that is sincere and eternal.
The second impolitic action of General Otis was the problem of a
proclamation on January 4, 1899, affirming in the name
of President McKinley the sovereignty of America in these islands,
with threats of downfall, death and the devastation to all to that they declined
recognize him/it.
Me, Emilio Aguinaldo--although the humble servant of everybody, is, as
President of the Philippine Republic, debited with the protection
of the rights and the independence of the people to that they named me this way
an elevated position of the trust and the responsibility--it distrusted than for the
before the time the Americans' honour, clearly perceiving that
this proclamation of General Otis exceeded completely the limits of
prudence and that therefore any other course was open to me but to
rejects with arm so unfair and unexpected procedure from
the commander of friendly strengths.
I protested, therefore, against such proclamation--also threatening
an immediate breakup of friendly relations,--for the whole populace it was
asking that an action of betrayal had been committed, while reasonably affirming
what the announcement of the Committee applied for from Admiral Dewey
it was an artifice, and that how General Otis was scheming for it was tender
us the quiet while he brought reinforcement after reinforcement from the
United States for the purpose to collapse ours not trained and badly
Army equipped with a hit.
But now General that Otis is involved as a diplomatist for the first time,
and he/she wrote me, through his/her Secretary the Mr. Carman, a letter that he/she invites the
Government of Filipino to send a Committee to meet an American Committee
for the purpose to arrive to a friendly setup among both
parties; and even if I didn't put trust in the professions of friendly