Considering the nature of this campaign against our present day
institutions, and painfully impressed by the great harm which this
disastrous work of calumny, hatred, distrust and pessimism must have
upon the progress and tranquillity of us, the Filipinos, I deem it my
duty to speak when I am led to think that the limit has been reached
by a document which came to my hands. It is no less than a circular
which a high prelate directs to the curates of the parishes of his
diocese, and which deals with public instruction. [4]