M.Taylor, who has translated and compiled the Insurgent [4] records, thereby making available a very large mass of reliable and most valuable information without which a number of chapters of this book would have remained unwritten.

Surely no man who bases his statements concerning Filipino rule on the facts set forth in these records can be accused of deriving his information from hostile or prejudiced sources.
Of them, Major Taylor says:-- "No one reading the Insurgent records can fail to be impressed with the difference between the Spanish and the Tagalog documents.

Many of the former are doubtless written with a view to their coming into the hands of the Americans, or with deliberate purpose to have them do so, and are framed accordingly.

All Tagalog documents, intended only for Filipinos, say much that is not said in the Spanish documents.

The orders of the Dictator [5] to his subjects were conveyed in the latter series of documents.".