"_Senator Patterson_. I understand that, Admiral.
"_Admiral Dewey_. While assisting us they were fighting their own
battles, too.
"_The Chairman_. You were encouraging insurrection against a common
enemy with which you were at war?
"_Admiral Dewey_. I think so. I had in my mind an illustration
furnished by the civil war. I was in the South in the civil war, and
the only friends we had in the South were the negroes, and we made
use of them; they assisted us on many occasions. I had that in mind;
I said these people were our friends, and 'we have come here and they
will help us just exactly as the negroes helped us in the civil war.'
"_Senator Patterson_. The negroes were expecting their freedom--
"_Admiral Dewey_. The Filipinos were slaves, too.
"_Senator Patterson_. What were the Filipinos expecting?
"_Admiral Dewey_. They wanted to get rid of the Spaniards; I do not
think they looked much beyond that. I cannot recall but I have in
mind that the one thing they had in their minds was to get rid of
the Spaniards and then to accept us, and that would have occurred--I
have thought that many times--if we had had troops to occupy Manila
on the 1st day of May before the insurrection got started; these
people would have accepted us as their friends, and they would have
been our loyal friends--I don't know for how long, but they would
have been our friends then.
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