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Fort Santiago, Dec. 26, 1896.
JOSE RIZAL.
The remarks about the rebellion are from a photographic copy of the pencil notes used by Rizal for his brief speech. The manuscript is now in the possession of Sr. Eduardo Lete, of Saragossa, Spain.
I had no notice at all of what was being planned until the first or second of July, in 1896, when Pio Valenzuela came to see me, saying that an uprising was being arranged. I told him that it was absurd, etc., etc. and he answered me that they could bear no more. I advised him that they should have patience, etc., etc. He added then that he had been sent because they had compassion of my life and that probably it would compromise me. I replied that they should have patience and that if anything happened to me I would then prove my innocence. “Besides, said I, don’t consider me but our country which is the one that will suffer.” I went on to show how absurd was the movement.—This later Pio Valenzuela testified.—He did not tell me that my name was being used, neither did he suggest that I was its chief, nor anything of that sort.
Those who testify that I am the chief (which I do not know nor do I know of having ever treated with them), what proofs do they present of my having accepted this chiefship or that I was in relations with them or with their society? Either they have made use of my name for their own purposes or they have been deceived by others who have. Where is the chief who dictates no order nor makes any arrangement, who is not consulted in any way about so important an enterprise until the last moment, and then, when he decides against it, is disobeyed? Since the seventh of July of 1892 I have entirely ceased political activity. It seems some have wished to avail themselves of my name for their own ends.
One by one they have passed on,
All I loved and moved among;
Dead or married—from me gone,
For all I place my heart upon
By fate adverse are stung.
Go thou too, O Muse, depart;
Other regions fairer find;
For my land but offers art
For the laurel, chains that bind,
For a temple, prisons blind.
But before thou leavest me, speak;
Tell me with thy voice sublime,
Thou couldst ever from me seek
A song of sorrow for the weak,
Defiance to the tyrant’s crime.
From “A Mi Musa” (1884),
requested by a young lady of Madrid.
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José Rizal, in this short work (which originally appeared in Spanish in the Filipino newspaper La Solidaridad, September 1889–January 1890) gives a prediction of the future of the Philippines. Today, more than a century later, it is still interesting to read his insights.
The original Spanish is already in PG under the title Filipinas dentro de cien años.
An English translation of Jagor’s Reisen in den Philippinen, mentioned in this book, is available in The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes.
The editor added to this work a few poems and other short writings by Rizal.
Scans of this work are available on the Internet Archive (1, 2, 3).
Related Open Library catalog page: OL13521925M.
EncodingThe separate title pages of the various sections of this work have either been removed (if the repeat the title), or have been used as the argument of the sections the apply to (if they give some additional information).
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