He put some of the members of the town council of Echague in the stocks, and he had others whipped." [298] It was really incautious for Governor Guzman to complain of these conditions because Major Canoy and his party won, and the Governor had to resign.
But the day of reckoning came.

It was in consequence of the atrocities committed by the Tagalog soldiers in the Cagayan valley that Captain Batchelder was able a little later to march practically unopposed through the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela and Cagayan with one battalion of American negro troops, for whom he had neither food nor extra ammunition, and that Tirona surrendered the Insurgent forces in the valley without attempting resistance!.