Cavite Mutiny - Filipino Perspective

The Cavite Mutiny:
Filipino Perspective
Introduction:
We supposed that understanding things work in the universe, you cannot

construct a basis on which to base your life. We have history to study. It illustrates a
precise picture of how society, technology, and government worked a long time ago, so
that we can better understand how it works today. It also allows us to determine how to
cope with the future, as it helps us to learn as a member of society from our past
mistakes and triumphs. History is more than just the living record of nations, leaders
and wars. It is also our story. All of those things are concepts we can relate to.
In Cavite Mutiny, Filipinos were confronted with various controversies and issues.
Some were already settled; many are yet to understand. The conflict you were about to
discover is the contradiction of perspective among the witnesses of the controversial
Cavite Mutiny in 1872. This historical controversy has two opposing sides. On one side
was the Filipino perspective denying the proposition of the Spaniards and underscoring
that it was just a mere mutiny of selected workers of arsenal who were rudely affected
by the abrupt and preposterous policies of Governor General Rafael Izquerdo during
that time. It seems that Spaniards only sees Filipinos as a laborer and never sees us
same as them. On the other side, was the Spanish perspective highlighting the mutiny
as well-orchestrated and extensive Filipino rebellion to overflow Spanish colonial rule in
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the islands and the desire of the Filipinos to be free from the rolling system of Spanish.
However, not everyone knew that there were different accounts in reference to the said
event. Filipinos must know the different sides of the story since this event led to another
tragic but significant part of our history, the execution of GOMBURZA in which effect a
major factor in the awakening nationalism among the Filipinos, which led the Philippine
Revolution.
Sides and/or Evidences of the Controversy
It was stated that the primary reason of the said mutiny is because of the unfairly
decisions of Governor General Rafael Izquerdo who replaced Governor General Carlos
Maria Dela Torre some months before 1871. Governor Izquierdo opposed to keep taxes
to the workers who are included in that area, in the first place these taxes may be paid
by means of money or by giving forced labor or the politician vision other than that when
the workers get the salary it has already been reduced due to the tax in this the wheel of
the Filipinos to fight for their freedom that stronger that they initiate an uprising. Filipinos
leave no choice but to fight and give a shot in fighting their word for Filipinos aspect of
the wrongdoings of Spaniards even though from the start they have small chances on
winning it.
A Spanish historian, Jose Montero y Vidal documented the event and highlighted
it as an attempt of the Indios to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, Governor General Rafael Izquierdo’s official report magnified the event and
made use of it to implicate the native clergy, which was then active in the call for
secularization. The two reports were complimented and corroborated by each other,
only that the general's report was more vexatious. Initially, both Montero and Izquierdo
argued that the elimination of privileges enjoyed by the Cavite arsenal workers, such as
non-payment of tributes and exemption from labor, were the key reasons for the
"revolution" as they called it, but that other factors, like the Spanish Revolution, had
been established. In particular, Izquierdo blamed the unruly Spanish press for "storing"
the malicious propaganda of the Filipinos. He told the King of Spain that the "rebels"
tried to overthrow the Spanish government and install a new "hari" in the likes of
Fathers Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora.
The two Spaniards considered that the case of 1872 had been organized earlier
and thought of as a great conspiracy between educated officials, mestizos, lawyers or
native lawyers, the citizens of Manila and Cavite and the native clergy. They insinuated
that the conspirators of Manila and Cavite had intended to liquidate high-ranking
Spanish officers to be preceded by the massacre of the friars. The alleged pre-
concerted signal among the conspirators of Manila and Cavite was the firing of rockets
from the walls of Intramuros.
According to the accounts of the two, on January 20, 1872, the district of
Sampaloc celebrated the feast of the Virgin of Loreto. Sadly, the participants of the feast
celebrated the occasion with the usual fireworks displays. Allegedly, those in Cavite
mistook the fireworks as a sign of the attack, and just as was decided, the 200-men
contingent led by Sergeant Lamadrid launched an attack against Spanish officers in
sight and captured the arsenal.
When the news reached the iron-fisted Governor Izquierdo, he readily ordered
the reinforcement of the Spanish forces in Cavite to put an end to the uprising. The
"revolution" was quickly crushed when the anticipated reinforcement from Manila did not
arrive. Significant instigators, including Sergeant Lamadrid, were killed in the skirmish,
while the GOMBURZA were tried by a court martial and sentenced to death by
strangulation. Patriots such as Joaquin Pardo de Tavera, Antonio Ma. Regidor, Jose and
Pio Basa and other lawyers were barred from the practice of law by the Audencia or the
High Court, arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on the island of Marianas. In
addition, Governor Izquierdo disbanded the native artillery regiments and directed the
formation of the artillery force to be composed solely of the Peninsulares.
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nationalist and our national hero, Dr. José P.
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during Spanish colonialism.
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THE STAND
Positive Stand
Even before Spaniards never treat Filipinos fair, it is just that by this time Filipino
reached the point where they need to do a move. They want to fight for their right and
freedom more especially it is our own country. The reason of uprising was because of
the desire of the Filipinos to be free from the rolling system of the Spanish. They didn't
agree to the terms that the Spanish was like forcing them to work and the unfair amount
that will be given to them is not enough for the time that they invest.
In spite of the four narratives of the Mutiny of 1872, there were certain
fundamental details that appeared in the Filipino perspective that made me agree with
their accounts. The case was only a clear mourning as the Filipinos have no intention of
splitting from Spain until that time, but only stable supplies and educational advances in
the nation. The mutiny, however, was used to a powerful basis. The central government
also stripped the friars of the powers of participation in civil government and in university
administration and management during that time. This resulted in the friars fearing that
their leverage in the Philippines would be a thing in the past, taking advantage of the
mourning and disclosing it to the Spanish government as a large plot to overthrow
Spanish supremacy coordinated in the island nation. Without any effort to verify the
concrete evidence or nature of the supposed rebellion stated by Izquierdo, the
government of Madrid claimed that the plan was true which made it seemed biased.
Negative Stand
There was uncertain point in the narratives, especially in the Spanish version.
The members of the Filipino clergy took an active part in the secularization movement in
order to allow the Filipino priests to take over the parishes in the country, making them a
prey to the rage of the friars. At that time, the Filipinos were active participants and
responded to what they called injustices; and, inevitably, the execution of GOMBURZA
was a blunder on the part of the Spanish Government, since the behavior shattered the
ill-feelings of the Filipinos, and the incident encouraged Filipino patriots to call for
change and ultimately independence. When Gen. Izquierdo set in motion stringent and
stringent policies, it made the Filipinos step and turn away from the Spanish
Government out of disgust. There was discontent among the arsenal staff as well as the
veterans of the native army after their rights had been revoked. The Central
Government also refused to launch an investigation into what had actually happened,
but relied on the reports of Izquierdo and the friars and the opinion of the people. The
good days of the friars
had already been celebrated in 1872, when the Central Government of Spain resolved
to deprive them of the right to interfere in government affairs, as well as in the course
and management of the schools, which led them to commit frantic movements to
expand their stay and power. There may be different accounts of the case, but one thing
is certain: the 1872 Cavite Mutiny opened the way for a historic 1898.
Final Stand
I believe Filipinos will never fight back if a Spaniards treat Filipinos right and fair
from the start. I think Filipinos will openly accept the Spaniards colonization before if
they govern Philippines equally to how they govern the country, accept it or not
Philippines before is in a weak state, we Filipinos can't stand or govern our own country
that many countries tried to colonized us. I think killing the Gomburza just a spare and
stop the act of meeting is not right it only proves the Spaniards only sees Filipinos as a
laborer and never sees us same as them. Spaniards is only thought that time how they
can take advantage to weak Filipinos, they were always will reciprocate the whole
scenario just to give them the good ones. They colonized us for so long but in those
long years Filipino people suffered a lot. They may be contributed and influenced in
some many ways but that doesn't change the fact that Filipinos become a slave for their
own good. It's only right for the Filipinos to want more because after all, it's our own
country that they are trying to take over from us and as natives, we have the rights for
everything that is originally belongs to us. Not because I'm a Filipino but for the fact that
Filipinos doesn't deserve the treatment that the Spaniards done. This situation serves
as a group of Spaniards sickening government to our own country.
References:
https://www.coursehero.com/file/33645426/FIL-VERSION-CAVITE-MUTINYpptx/
https://xiaochua.net/2013/01/22/xiaotime-21-january-2013-tunay-na-kasaysayan-
sa-likod-ng-cavite-mutiny/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Cavite_mutiny
https://nhcp.gov.ph/the-two-faces-of-the-1872-cavite-mutiny/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHgp-uEBbGQ&feature=youtu.be
https://nhcp.gov.ph/the-two-faces-of-the-1872-cavite-mutiny/
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