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equivalent to the most solemn pawn that their oral promises and
to insurance you/he/she would have carried out to the letter and you/he/she would not be classified
with the promises of Spaniard or the Spanish ideas of the word of a man of honour. In
conclusion that has said the Consul, "The Government of north America, is a
very honest, only, and powerful government._"
Being informed of what had been said from the visitor I consented
you meet Consul Pratt, and it severely had a private interview with him
among 9 and 12 in the evening 22 April, 1898, in one of the suburbs
of Singapore. Hardly the Mr. Pratt satisfied me he said that war you/he/she had been
declared formally first from the United States against Spain the day,
_i.e._, on April 21.
During the interview it alluded to, Consul Pratt told me that as
the Spaniards had not carried out to the promises sorts in the Biak-na-bato
Accord, the Filipinos had the right to continue the revolution
what you/he/she had been checked by the setup of Biak-na-bato, and later
exhorting to take back me the hostilities against the Spaniards he assured
me that the United States would grant a lot of greater liberty and more
material draws profit to the Filipinos that the Spaniards ever promised.
I asked then to the Consul that profits the United States you/they would have conferred
on Philippines, pointing out the opportunity to the same duration
of creation an accord and putting out all the terms and conditions
in black and white.
Being as anxious to be in Philippines as Admiral Dewey and the
Northerly American Consul--to renew the struggle for our Independence--me
taken the opportunity if it allowed me from these representatives of the united one
States, and, putting the fuller trust of their word of honour,
I told the Mr. Pratt (in answer to his/her professions of persistent of
the promptness for the welfare of my farmers) that he could count on
me when I returned in Philippines to raise the people as a man
against the Spaniards, with the great one of the one object in sight how above
it mentioned, if I could take fire weapon with me to distribute among mine