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to the canons by law international and military honour, is eloquent
testimony of his/her deliberate intention to neutralize the effects of
The pacific mission of the Mr. Schurman.
What peace can be orchestrated by roaring of gun and the to whistle
of pellets?
What is and you/he/she has been the course of procedure of General Brooke in
Cuba? He/she anchors it is not the armed Cubans despite negotiations,
for the pacification and government of future of that Island still it is
following?
By chance it is us, I lead deserving some liberty and the independence that
those revolutionary?
Oh, dear Philippines! You blame Your wealth, Your beauty for the drug
dishonor that he/she remains on Your believers children.
You has waked up again the ambition of the Imperialists and Expansionists
of north America and double have put their acute claws on Your
entrailses!
Beloved mother, sweet mother we am here for defending Your liberty and
the independence to the death! We don't want war; on the contrary one, us
wish for the peace; but peace of honourable that doesn't make her blush
neither it Your forehead with shame and confusion. And we swear to you
and it promises that while America with everything of his/her power and wealth was able
I/you/he/she possibly win us; killing all of us; but enslaves us, never!!!
No; this humiliation is not the pact with which I have celebrated in Singapore
the American Consul Pratt. This was not the accord stipulated for
with the Mr. Wildman, American Consul in Hongkong. Finally it was not,
the subjection of my beloved country to an alien and new joke that the admiral
Dewey promised me.
It is sure that these three has abandoned me, while forgetful that me
you/he/she was looked for for and taken by my exile and my deportation; forgetting,
also, that none of these three it solicited my services in account
of the American Sovereignty, theirs that pays the expense of the Philippine one
Revolution for that, openly they looked for me to them, and they returned me
to Your beloved breast!
If there is, as I believe, a God, the root and fountain of everybody