Provenance:
Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno (1857– 1911) and
Doña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino (Sra. de Paterno, d. 1897)

ABOUT THE WORK

Held with the consent of the Spanish Governor General, the meeting unanimously declares “adhesión incondicional al Gobierno de la Nación,” and the revolutionists pledge to offer their services “para la defensa de nuestra comun Patria Española.” A commentary by historian Jim Richardson is as follows : "Santiago Alvarez describes this meeting in his Memoirs (Ch. 67), and Agoncillo (Malolos, Ch.5, citing the Spanish author Manuel Sastron) mentions that a number of leading revolutionists “hastened to offer their services to Spain” at this time. This note provides a fuller list of the revolutionists who attended the meeting, however, and confirms not only their seniority but also that they included both “ex-Magdalos” and “ex-Magdiwangs” (including some who had been close to Andres Bonifacio, such as Santos Nocon and Antonio Guevara). "Were they serious in proclaiming their support for Spain? And if so, why? Most likely their main aim was to get guns from the Spaniards, which they apparently did (Malolos, Ch.5). The episode has never been fully explained, but in any event the “loyalty” of the revolutionists to Spain proved very fleeting (less than a month) and none of them (so far as I know) used their guns against the Americans until February 1899." The names of those who attended the meeting included the following : Mariano Traias, Artemio Ricarte “Vibora”, Pio del Pilar, Santiago and Mariano Alvarez, Luciano San Miguel, Licerio Geronimo, Daniel Tirona, Baldomero Aguinaldo and Francisco Macabulos Soliman.