“ Mabini's refusal to sign an oath of allegiance unless he was first permitted to return to Manila and learn conditions there and was informed of the intentions of the United States is included in the letter.
“The prisoner, Mabini, a man much beloved by the Philippine people,” the communications says in closing, “is recognized by all among his countrymen as a statesman and patriot, whose crime, if such it is, has been a devotion as unselfish as absolute to his country's cause. ”

“ Unable to stand upon his feet — for he has been a cripple ever since his imprisonment by Spain in 1896 — of a highly sensitive organization, the privations of a prisoner's life have borne more hardly on him than they would have borne on ordinary men.
“This, and even more the exile from a country dearly loved by him, have made of Mabini an old man before his time, and threaten soon to close his career by death.” ”

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