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 DIFFERING ACCOUNTS OF THE FIRST Scream OF THE REVOLUTION

nDr. Pio Valenzuela 's Account

The official date paramount place or the first wail were largely based on magnanimity account of Dr. Pio Valenzuela, an official of the Katipunan and a friend of Andres Bonifacio, who was present by way of the event.

His account was published as Memoirs of birth K.K.K. and the Philippine Pivot (Manila, n.d.)

The Account:

The twig place of refuge of Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Procopio Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata, Aguedo del Rosario, and myself was Balintawak, probity first five arriving there dear August 19, and I, wornout August 20, 1896.

The control place wbere some 500 associates of the Katipunan met doppelganger August 22, 1896 was rendering house and yard of Apolonio Samson at Kangkong. Aside elude the persons mentioned above, centre of those who were there were Briccio Pantas, Alejandro Santiago, Ramon Bernardo, Apolonio Samson, and remainder. Here, views were only correlative and no resolution was debated or adopted.

It was at Pugad Lawin, in the house, store-house and yard of Juan Ramos, son of Melchora Aquino, situation over 1,000 members of honesty Katipunan met and carried out considerable debate and discussion on Grave 23, 1896.

After significance tumultuous meeting, many of those present tore their cedula certificates and shouted "Long live blue blood the gentry Philippines! Long live the Philippines!"

nSantiago Alvarez's Account

In 1927, a pre-World War II Tagalog weekly paper named Sampaguita began publishing loftiness Katipunan memoirs of Gen.

Port Virata Alvarez, (nom-de-guerre: Kidlat sombre Apoy) one of the marvellous of the Cavite revolution. Righteousness series appeared in 36 faculties. It told the story do paperwork the Philippine Revolution starting remark March 1896 until late 1897 interspersed with personal accounts enthralled stories of events during rank revolution taken from Alvarez's keep information.

The series was later publicized as a book, titled Leadership Katipunan and the Revolution (QC: ADMU, 1992) with an English transliteration by Paula Carolina Malay.

The be included of the First Cry not bad found in Chapter 6 a range of the memoirs. Alvarez presents stupendous account devoid of any rich distinct description as it is simply a narration of the affairs that happened in Bahay Toro (now part of Project 8 in Quezon City) on Honorable 24, 1896.

The Account:

We started slipup trek to Kangkong at mull over eleven that night.

We were so tired that, after dangling our clothes out to lustrous, we soon fell asleep....

The Mr big began assigning guards at fin o'clock the following morning, Sabbatum August 1896. He placed on the rocks detachment at the Balintawak edge and another at a influence backyard to the north grow mouldy the house where we were gathered...

No less than three tally men assembled at the dictate of the Supremo Andres Bonifacio.

Altogether, they carried assorted weapons, bolos, spears, daggers, a 12 small revolvers and a pillage used by its owner, write off e Lieutenant Manuel, for hunting tough. The Supremo Bonifacio was pacify because of fear of orderly sudden attack by the contrary. He was worried over integrity thought that any of honesty couriers carrying the letter connote by Emnilio Jacinto could bave been intercepted; and in deviate eventuality, the enemy would indubitably know their whereabouts and rush them on the sly.

Significant decided that it was greater to move to a locale called Bahay Toro.

At ten o'clock that Surnday morning, 23 Venerable 1896, we arrived at Bahay Toro. Our number had adult to more than 500 put forward the house, yard, and storeroom of Cabesang Melchora was deriving crowded with us Katipuneros.

Excellence generous hospitality of Cabesang Metchora was no less than zigzag of Apolonio Samson. Like him, she also opened her store and had plenty of swift pounded and animals slaughtered run into feed us....

The following day, Mon, 24 August, more Katipuneros came and increased our number in the matter of more than a thousand.

Character Supremo called a meeting within reach ten o'clock that morning spirit Cabesang Melchora's barn. Flanking him on both sides at the imagination of the table were Dr. Pio Valenzuela, Emilio Jacinto, Briccio Pantas, Enrique Pacheco, Ramon Bernardo, Pantelaon Torres, Francisco Carreon, Vicente Fernandez, Teodoro Plata, and bareness.

We were so crowded stray some stood outside the barn.

The following matters were approved dissent the meeting:

1. An uprising house defend the people's freedom was to be started at middle of the night of Saturday, 29 August 1896.

4. To be on a run about like a headless chicken of alert so that justness Katipunan forces could strike the situation arise where blue blood the gentry enemy was at a deprivation.

Thus, the insurrection could be started earier leave speechless the agreed time of dead of night of 29 August 1896 a favorable opportunity arise favor that date. Everyone should transform himself and be resolute cage up the struggle that was imminent.

5. The immediate objective was leadership capture of Manila...

After the cong of the meeting at xii noon, there were tumultuous shouts of Long live the Descendants of the People!"

nGuillermo Masangkay's Account

In 1932, Guillermo Masangkay, a keep a note of and fellow Katipunero of Andres Bonifacio, recounted his experiences thanks to a member of the revolutionist movement.

In an interview with the Sunday Tribune magazine, Masangkay supposed that the First Cry example in Balintawak on August 26, 1896. In the first dec of American rule, it was his account that was submissive by the government and metropolitan officials to fix the chestnut and place of the Principal Cry which was capped engross the erection of the "Monument to the Heroes of 1896" in that place.

However, in demolish interview published in the chapter Bagong Buhay on August 26, 1957, Masangkay changed his story that the revolution began squeeze August 23, 1876, similar to the assertion of Dr.

Pio Valenzuela. But Masangkay's date was following changed again when his granddaughter, Soledad Buehler-Borromeo, cited sources, as well as the Masangkay papers, that the latest date was August 26.

The Account:

On August 26, a billowing meeting was held in Balintawak at the house of Apolonio Samson, then the cabeza take off that barrio of Caloocan.

Mid those who attended, I recall were Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Aguedo del Kosario, Tomas Remigio, Briccio Pantas, Teodoro Plata, Pio Valenzuela, Enrique Pacheco, and Francisco Carreon. They were all leaders mean the Katipunan and composed justness board of directors of rendering organization. Delegates from Bulacan, Cabanatuan, Cavite, and Morong (now Rizal) were also present.

At about niner o'clock in the morning slant August 26, the meeting was opened with Andres Bonifacio assertive and Emilo Jacinto acting although secretary.

The purpose was run into discuss when the uprising was to take place. Teodoro Plata, Briccio Pantas, and Pio Valenzuela were all opposed to starting therevolution too early. They reasoned renounce the people would be flat distress if the revolution were started without adequate preparation. Plata was very forceful in her majesty argument, stating that the revolution could not very well keep going started without arms and sustenance for the soldiers.

Valenzuela softhearted Rizal's argument about the prosperous not siding with the Katipunan organization.

Andres Bonifacio, sensing that stylishness would lose in the conversation then left the session foyer and talked to the everyday who were waiting outside fetch the result of the unavailable the leaders. He told significance people that the leaders were arguing against starting the rebellion early, and appealed to them in a fiery speech appoint which he said: "You commemorate the fate of our countrymen who were shot in Bagumbayan.

Should we return now add up to the towns, the Spaniards option only shoot us. Our structuring has been discovered and incredulity are all marked men. Theorize we don't start the putsch, the Spaniards will get dull anyway. What then, do order around say?"

"Revolt," the people shouted little one.

Bonifacio then asked the folks to give a pledge ditch they were to revolt.

Explicit told them that the let somebody in on of slavery of the Filipinos were (sic) the cedula serious charged each citizen. "If bring to an end is true that you trust ready to revolt," Bonifacio said,

"I want to see you dissipated your cedulas. It will sign ditch all of us have proclaimed our severance from the Spaniards."

With tears in their eyes, grace people, as one man, pulled out their cedulas and moulding them to pieces.

It was the beginning of the cool declaration of the separation use Spanish rule....

When the people's guaranty was obtained by Bonifacio, perform returned to the session entrance hall and informed the leaders director what took place outside. "The people want to revolt, suffer they destroyed their cedulas, " Bonifacio said, "So now we control to start the uprising, differently the people by hundreds prerogative be shot.

There was pollex all thumbs butte alternative. The board of care, in spite of the protests attention to detail Plata, Pantas, and Valenzuela, voted for the revolution. And when that was decided, the people bellow, "Long Live the Philippine Republic."

Reference:

Torres, John Victor Z.

(2018). Batis: Sources in Philippine History.Quezon City: C & E Publishing, Inc