Lo Petit Temps of the 24th November has a signed special article on the insurreetion in the Philippines. After_briefiy dealing with the geographical position of the islands and with the torture of prisoners and the "black hole" it goes on as follows In 1842 the mystical exaltation of a son of the country gave rise in the Philippines to a repression as bloody as useless in which a thousand unfortunates were killed. If I relate the facts of that insurrection it is to make known the simple faith, the firmness of the islanders in those far away regions, and in what circumstances a regiment of native soldiers may revolt. A young Indian of the province of Tayabas, Luzon, went to Manila in 1842 with the desire to enter the monastic order and to follow the rules, not knowing that since the beginning of this century this privilege had been denied to natives. Apollinaire—that was the name of the young Indian—had to confine his ambition to being admitted to the brotherhood of Saint Jean de Dien, composed entirely of natives. After passing a certain time in the hospitals with the companions of his order Apollinaire returned to his province in order to establish there a cult specially in honour of St. Joseph. By his reading, his studies, and his assiduity in attending sermons during the period when he was at Manila he had become a rear preacher, and the crowd, eager for is eloquence, fellowed him everywhere when he announced a nine days' service in honour of his favourite saint. The Franciscan monks, who filled the principal cures of the Tayabas provine, became jealous of the influence which the new apostle exercised on their flocks. Having learned that Apollinaire form a Erotherhood they asked the Gover-had applied to Manila for permission to
nor to refuse him. Not only did the Governor not give the permission asked for, but he ordered the Aleaide of Tayabas to throw into prison those who attended the preaching of Apollinaire. Apollinaire then retired to a mountain, where his first care was to erect a chapel. The crowd followed him there and from the surrounding provinces the people ran in thousands in eager curiosity to hear him. From this time the apostle lost his head. He proposed to his disciples to elect an archbishop and five bishops to assist in the work of the temple which he had built. His name was the first to come out of the ballot box, but ere long he was little satisfied with his title and- he had himself named supreme pontiff by his five bishops. The news that native pope had been elected in Luzon spread throughout the archipelago, and, as much from curiosity as devotion, everyone wished: to visit the holy mountain and: the new spiritual sovereign. The reverend Franciscans cried sacrilege, accused Apollinaire of outrunning Luther in heres; and prayed the Governor, the Captain. General of the Philippines, to disperse by force the fanatic mob. On his side Vital, the Aleaide of Tayabas, received the order to send the city guard to the sanctuary and to dislodge those whom he found there. These last were numerous; there was resistance, and in the melee Vital was led.
That which had only been a pilgrimage, a pretext for an excursion to a pretty spot, became a serious revolt. Brigadier Huet received an order to proceed with cavalry to the province of Tayabas and to disperse
themselves and mounted a few small cannon the mutinous people, These had fortified on the heights. The resistance did not last long. Every living being met on the plateau was sabrad, Apollinaire, on his knees and holding a crucifix in his hand, being one of the first to fall. Old men and women and children who sought refuge in the church were put to the sword and a thousand corpses were buried. 'Those of the Indians of the province who feared molestation fled' to the mountains of the unsubdued tribes without any idea of returning, and at one time it was feared the district would be depopulated.
There is also an epilogue not less bloody to this drama. The third infantry regiment, garrisoned at Manila, was largely composed. of natives of Tayabas. One of them, Sergeant Samaniego, got them together and related to them the killing of their kinsman on the holy mountain and -the injustice of which they were the victims, and excited them so far as to lead them to'take by assault the fortress of Santiago. There the insurgents. met some deported politicians who had recently arrived from Spain. Instead of killing them Samaniego locked them in a vaulted enclosure in order that his companions, over excited by the triumph, should do them no harm—extraordinary compassion in a soldier who was revolting only to wreak revenge on Europeans. The Captain-Governor, at that time Genera @'Orea, was warned in his country house of what was going on in the town and he assembled the regiments which had remained faithful and made an assault on the fortress, which for want of asufiicient number of defenders could offer only a feeble resistance. Samaniego, wounded just at the moment when he was directing' the firing of one of the cannon, fought to the death; but his companions, on seeing him expire, lost their courage, the cry of sauce rei pent was raised, and the insurgents had to acknowledge themselves conquered. Those who were found armed were shot. Others who were found some days afterwards concealed about the fortress were hanged.
The last telegram from the Archbishop of Manila, Nozaleda, formerly a Dominican, informing the Spanish Government that the insurrection in the Philippines was assuming alarming proportions had only one purpose—only too easily attained—that of taking away from General Blanco the command of the archipelago. The manceuvre. has succeeded and General Polavieja has been called upon to replace General Blanco just at the moment when a telegram from the Governor announced an early pacification,
against Genera) Blanco in the Imparci-l, The clerical campaign passionately directed the Epoca, and the Heraldo under psecdonyms veiling the names of monks who have lived a long time in Manila, the Rev. Fathers Juan Gomez, Salvador Font, and Jose de Zamora, is coming to an end.' The last blow has been given by the Bishop of Porto-Rice, the Rev. Father Minguella, who had hardly disembarked when ho hastened to declare in a high piece that the General's tolerance of masonic lodges and his refusal to accept the advice of the various religious orders, always very powerful; were the principal causes of the present, insurrection, It is difficult to,
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