I cannot recall but I have in mind that the one thing they had in their minds was to get rid of the Spaniards and then to accept us, and that would have occurred--I have thought that many times--if we had had troops to occupy Manila on the 1st day of May before the insurrection got started; these people would have accepted us as their friends, and they would have been our loyal friends--I don't know for how long, but they would have been our friends then.
"_Senator Patterson_.

You learned from Pratt, or Wildman, or Williams, very early, did you not, that the Filipinos wanted their own country and to rule their own country; that that is what they were expecting?
"_Admiral Dewey_.

I heard from Williams that there was an insurrection there against the Spaniards.

The Spaniards were very cruel to them, and I think they did not look much beyond getting rid of them.

There was one, Dr.Rizal, who had the idea of independence, but I don't think that Aguinaldo had much idea of it.
"_Senator Carmack_.