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Your honored self can easily conclude from all the foregoing that Señor Del Pan, after the receipt of these promises, concurred with him; and he returned to inform Señor Apacible about the results of the conference. So these two studied over the plan of the policy to be adopted and carried out.
The gentlemen who interrogated me may have been connected with the university, but I doubt it. We reached Hongkong on February 22. Here I had an interview with Dr. Apacible of the junta, while Mr. Schurman visited Canton. Apacible told me that the Filipinos wanted an independent republic under an American protectorate.
Garchitorena and Apacible expressed themselves in similar terms.
Superior P. M. Commander of Southern Region. "To The Honourable Sultan Raha Halon" Spanish for "mountain people." Extract from a letter to Apacible of the Hongkong junta dated February 26, 1899: "It is also said that the Cantonal Government of Negros has wished to make a treaty with the Americans, some members of that government having come in American transports to confer with General Otis.
In a letter dated September 21, 1898, Apacible says that the conflict will come sooner or later and asks Aguinaldo if it would not be better for them to provoke it before the Americans concentrate their troops.
Sandico, Garchitorena, Gonzaga and Apacible replied that they were fully convinced the Admiral of the American squadron would furnish the President all the arms which he might desire, since the former was convinced that the fleet could do nothing in the Philippines unless it were used in conjunction with the insurgents in the development of their plans of war against the Spanish government.... The authority to treat which the President desired to give to the other chiefs, without reflecting at all upon their personal qualifications, they did not believe would be as efficacious as his personal intervention which is necessary in grave affairs, such as those the subject of discussion; there would be no better occasion than that afforded them to insure the landing of the expeditionary forces on those islands and to arm themselves at the expense of the Americans and to assure the situation of the Philippines in regard to our legitimate aspirations against those very people.
To be again in the hands of Spain will mean a long and bloody war, and it is doubtful whether the end will be favourable to us... Spain free from Cuba and her other colonies will employ her energy to crush us and will send here the 150,000 men she has in Cuba." Apacible thought that the best thing was independence under an American protectorate.
As Dewey's allegations flatly contradict those of Aguinaldo, we must choose between the two. While I have no doubt as to where the choice will fall, I will now submit some additional matter of interest. Let us first consider the history of the "Reseña Verídica" in which Aguinaldo makes the charges above quoted. On September 12, 1899, Buencamino wrote of it to Apacible in Hongkong, saying:
The action later taken by Negros shows that there was abundant reason for this fear. As late as February 26, 1899, the Insurgent government was still ignorant as to the real conditions in Negros and Mindanao. From a letter written on March 18, 1899, to Apacible at Hongkong, we learn that Aguinaldo and his followers were even then still uninformed as to events in the Visayan Islands.
We are to send a person by her if possible, whom I recommend to you. Being much obliged for the favor. "A. G. Escamilla," "Private Secretary to General Aguinaldo." On the same day the General sent the following personal letter: "Dear Sir: The bearer, Dr. G. Apacible, is the person whom was announced to you in the telegram.
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