He is imposing as a man of importance and his greeting was cordial to kindliness.

He said his acknowledgments were personally due the American people for the peace of mind he had enjoyed during the occupation of the city by the army of the United States, for its establishment of order and the justice in administration that relieved good citizens from oppression and alarm.

He was glad to have Americans know his sensibility on this subject, and wanted me to convey his sentiments to the President.
When asked what it was that caused the insurgents to be so ferocious against the priests and resolved on their expulsion or destruction he said the rebels were at once false, unjust and ungrateful.

They had been lifted from savagery by Catholic teachers, who had not only been educators in the schools but teachers in the fields.

The same Catholic Orders that were singled out for special punishment had planted in the islands the very industries that were sources of prosperity, and the leaders of the insurgents had been largely educated by the very men whom now they persecuted.