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Manila Petition for Filipino Independence Presented to Congress

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 10.

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Manila Petition for Filipino Independence Presented to Congress

A petition, “signed by 2,005 peaceable Filipinos , residents of Manila,” has been presented to Congress, in which it is declared that “the only admissible solution of the present difficulties is the recognition by America of the independence of the Filipinos. In saying this, we do not consider either the nullity or the legality of the Paris Treaty on our country, but the well-known doctrine of the immortal Washington, and of the sons of the United States of America, worthy champions of oppressed people.” The petition was denounced in the United States Senate by Senator Hawley as “a treasonable document.”