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Gutierrez y Salazar refers to it with the enigmatic expression, "escapees fromhere (from what they 2_^4 we know)." See Las Proscripciones de Sila, 86.70. El Eco Filipino, II: 16 (16 April 1872). In a letter to his brother-inlaw,Jose Ma. Basa, Federico Lerena himself graphically describes thepurpose of the newspaper, saying that what it intended was to "aim at theenemies of progress," the friars, in the Philippines. See Tonno Sanz, 1872,99.71. El Eco Filipino, I: 2 (18 September 1871).72. Op. cit., II:14 (4 May 1872). Italics mine. On 18 May 1872, FedericoLerena writing again to Jose Ma. Basa, clearly expressed his attitude towardsthe events in Cavite: "The leaders of the uprising in Cavite, whatever be thepretext for launching such a horrendous crime, or likewise any bedevilledindividual who incites the least insurrection in the Philippines, cannot bepardoned by God or by men, because the situation of that country willunfailingly turn any armed fight into an immediate bloody racial question, themost terrible calamity that can befall a colony as backward and heterogeneousas the Philippines." See Tonno Sanz, 1872, 100.73. El Eco Filipino, II: 14 (4 May 1872).74. Tormo Sanz, /872, 115.75. Op. cit., 111.76. The Archbishop of Manila did it on 19 February 1872. See C. H.Reserla que muestra elfundamentoy causas de la insurecci6n del 20 de eneroen Filipinas . . . (Madrid, 1872), 95.77. El Eco Filipino, I: 6 (14 November 1871). Italics mine.78. Noli, 58.79. EJR, VII, 99.80. Ferdinand Blumentritt, El Noll me tangere de Rizal (Barcelona,1889), 8-9. The first word I italicized, the rest Bluementritt.81. Noli, 288.82. Elviro J. Perez, 0. S. A., Cauilogo bio-bibliografico de los religiososagustinos de la provincia del Sandsimo Nombre de Jesus de las IslasFilipinas (Manila, 1901), 478.282