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DOCUMENTS
OF THE Katipunan |
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Center (Ubod) Draft Appointment, September 11, 1892
Source: Archivo General Militar de Madrid: Caja 5393, leg.4.24. |
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Introduction Assuming
this draft became a formal appointment, Ildefonso Laurel was hereby authorized
to form a Katipunan chapter in Hong Kong, where he
normally resided. Some
sources list Laurel as one of the Katipunan’s
founders, but it seems he was out of the country in early July 1892 and was
only initiated into the Katipunan on September 10,
just a day before this appointment was drafted.[1] A week earlier, on September 3, 1892, Laurel
had written from Manila to José Rizal, injudiciously saying that the people
hoped he would return from his Dapitan exile as
their redeemer and savior (“su redentor y salvador”)
and that all stood ready to shed blood for his salvation and that of the
country (“por su salvación y la de nuestra
patria.”) A copy of this letter in the KKK’s cipher was amongst the
documents found at Bonifacio’s workplace by the
Guardia Civil Veterana after the outbreak of the
revolution, and was later presented as evidence at Rizal’s trial.[2] No record
of Laurel’s subsequent involvement with the Katipunan
has been found, but during the second phase of the revolution he is said to
have been a member of the Hong Kong-based Junta Revolucionaria
together with Mariano Ponce, Felipe Agoncillo and
others.[3]
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Tagalog text Alang alang na si G. I. L. at [?] tauwong tunay sa
bayan ng Sta Rosa Hukuman ng la Laguna, nag tataglay ng mga bagay na
karapatan na kinakailangan ng bayan at na pailalim sa manga atas na itinatag
sa mga katuiran ng Kat ... Katip ...
ng Ubod ng Mainila at sa
panukala na payo [?] ng mga Kasanguni ay inihahalal siyang tagapangasiwa
buhat ngayon sa Colonia Inglesa ng Hong Kong, tuloy siyang tinutulutan, upang
makapag tayo sa naturang Colonia ng isang Katipunan na ang kalagayan ay
provincial, ang kinauukulan ay ang nasabing Ubod at doon ay siya ang sangayon
[?] ay, Pangulo. Kaya nga ipinag uutos namin eto [?] sa mga
makikisanib sa kaniya, na igalang at alinsunurin sa anomang kanyang cautusan
na calooban din namin. Manila, a 11 de Set. de 1892 |
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Notes