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HOME Emilio Jacinto Letter to Julio Nakpil, April 11, 1897 Source: Archivo General Militar de Madrid: Caja 5677, s.n
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Emilio Jacinto is responding here to a message from Julio Nakpil about the long-awaited arrival of weapons from Japan.  Julio Nakpil has received a letter saying that a shipment has arrived, and has asked Jacinto whether the news is true.  Jacinto replies that he hasn’t heard anything about the weapons, and suggests that clarification should be sought from Aguinaldo, or better yet from Bonifacio because “we recognize him, and he is now the only figure of authority involved in the fighting now going on there in the area of Cavite, according to what people coming from there say.  They say that Don E. Aguinaldo has now gone really quiet.” It is not known where Emilio Jacinto was based at this time, or how much he knew about events in Cavite. He wrote this letter some three weeks after the fateful Tejeros convention, but may have heard nothing about it – Bonifacio had not yet written to tell him what happened.
EMILIO JACINTO PINGKIAN ------------------------- PANGULONG -DIGMA M. Julio N. Giliw Minamahal na kapatid: Tinangap kong malualhati ang inyong sulat at nabasa ko naman ang kalakip. Ayon sa inyong hinihiling na pasiya ko tungkol sa nabangit nang kalakip na sulat, ay inaakala ko na ang sulat na ito ay hindi nagbuhat sa taong may tunay na karapatang magpanukala, at magkuro naman ng wasto at katutuhanan ng mga balita at ng nauukol pagsakdalan at gawain. Ang sinasabi niyang dumating na mga sandatang nababatid ko ay wala akong kamalay-malay; at kung sa General Emilio Aguinaldo naman natin tatalastasin ang tila lalung nauukol sa kay M. Andres Bonifacio, sapagka’t siya nating kinikilala, at siya namang nangangatawan lamang sa labanan ngayon doon sa lupang Kavite, ayon sa sabi ng nagsisipangaling doon at si M. E. Aguinaldo ay tunay daw pong tumatahimik na. Kaya po ako’y sa gang [?] ating sarili, kung sakali’t mayroong makapaparoon ay talastasin natin ito kay M. A. Bonifacio. Ako’y hindi mangyayaring makararating diyan bukas kung di sa Miercoles, sapagka’t tinawag ko ng pulong sa Martes ang pinagkikingan natin dito ng abuloy. Tangapin ang aking yakap. Emilio Jacinto 11-4-97