The Cry of Balintawak by Vicente Samson is most compelling in retelling the Cry of the Katipunan
Justify why The Cry of Balintawak by Vicente Samson is most compelling in retelling the Cry of the Katipunan?
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THE I-STORIES THE ‘CRIES" WHICH LAUNCHED THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION 54 55 6) The Cry of Balintawak Bonifacio. He was taller and fairer than most of the Katipuneros and by Vicente Samson had his hair parted near the side of his head. He also heard how he (August 26, 1896) spoke. Bonifacio had a loud voice that clearly and easily dominated the Don Vicente Samson, an old man then in his mid seventies discussions of the several hundreds of Katipuneros present. in 1961, was one of the most respected and most popular figures in Aside from Bonifacio, Don Vicente also saw Emilio Jacinto Balintawak, Quezon City. Samson owned a thriving and well-known whom he remembered as a boyish-looking man who was always beside gravel and sand company. He was also an undefeated barrio lieutenant Bonifacio writing down notes. of Barrio Balingasay of that district and was regarded as a community On the morning of August 26 the discussion on the revolution leader and a man of means. became more intense and heated than usual. He said it was the prevailing Most of the folks of Balintawak hardly knew that Don Vicente was sentiment that the revolution would start right away, but there were was one of the few surviving persons at the time who actually witnessed some objections from some members and these caused verbal clashes the "Cry of Balintawak" in 1896 and the first encounter between the that Bonifacio had to intervene every now and then. It was shortly agreed Katipuneros and the Spaniards. In 1961 he narrated his story which that the revolution should begin on August 29. Then Don Vicente saw appeared in an issue of The Evening News. He declared: Bonifacio stand up on a platform to deliver a short speech. "The "Cry" was on August 26 and not on any other date. I Don Vicente could no longer remember the Supremo’s exact words remember it very well because I noted the date myself." but he vividly recalled that after the speech, the Katipuneros amidst At that time he was 12 years old when the event happened. It was shouts of "Mabuhay!" took out their cedulas, tore them to pieces, and still fresh in his mind because his father was a leader of the Katipunan threw these into a dried-up carabao mud-hole nearby where they were and his older brother was also a Katipunero. He said that they were burned. among those who participated in the tearing of the cedulas and the Asked where the mud-hole was located, Don Vicente pointed to fight that later ensued between the Katipuneros and the Spanish civil a direction where the present old Balintawak monument now stands. guards and infantrymen. Hearing reports that the Spaniards were on their way to Balintawak, Don Vicente recalled that everybody in Balintawak knew that Bonifacio and his men proceeded to the neighboring barrio of Pasong something was about to happen and Katipunan leaders and members Tamo where Tandang Sora’s farm was located Here, Don Vicente, said, started converging at the house of Don Apolonio Samson in Barrio was where the Katipuneros had their first battle with the Spaniards. Kangkong, a few days before August 26. Apolonio Samson was a cousin According to Don Vicente there were around 80 civil guards and of Don Vicente and was reputedly one of the richest men in Balintawak infantrymen. While they approached Tandang Sora’s house, the at that time. He threw open his barn and butchered his cows, pigs and Katipuneros numbering several hundreds led by Bonifacio himself, chickens to feed the Katipuneros. executed an envelopeng movement in an effort to capture them. The Out of curiosity, Don Vicente followed his father and brother to Katipuneros were only armed with bolos and spears and crude guns these meetings and often heard the rebels hotly discussing the planned called sulsulin and arkonite. These two weapons used iron fragments for revolution. Don Vicente personally saw the Katipunan Supremo Andres bullets and which were fired with their ends buried in the ground.’ The Katipuneros had to withdraw because the enemy was better armed with 7 Vicente Samson and Emesto Flores, "Man Recalls First Cry." Interview between Samson and Flores, in: The Evening News. (Manila: August 26, 1961). Remington and Mauser rifles. 8 They were most likely homemade mortars.
THE I-STORIES 56 The old man remembered the bravery of a man named Simplicio Acabo. Acabo who was a neighbor of the Samsons, tried to seize one of the enemy rifles and was killed. Acabo was apparently Filipino native soldiers in the Spanish army standing over the the first to die in the bodies of slain Katipuneros (Tristes Recuerdos) revolution. According to Don Vicente, Acabo came out from his hiding place and lunged at a civil guard with his bolo, but before he could touch the civil guard, he was felled by a bullet. While Acabo lay mortally wounded the civil guards and infantrymen retreated towards Manila. Shortly after according to Don Vicente, the Katipuneros, including his father and brother left Balintawak. He was unaware of what they did next. The Spanish forces returned to Balintawak and instituted repressive measures against the inhabitants. All houses were searched and people found to be sympathetic to the Katipunan were arrested. People who had scars on their left wrists and arms and those who had no cedulas were automatically considered suspects. They were taken away and thrown in prison. Some of them were exiled to Guam. Among these was Melchora Aquino, known popularly as Tandang Sora, considered as the "Mother of the Katipunan." Like most of the old folk of Balintawak, Don Vicente believes emphatically that the first fight of the Philippine Revolution took place in Balintawak. He said: "Don’t ever believe the stories that the first fight happened in other places. They were just made up to distort the true story of the revolution." Melchora Aquino in her advanced years, was sent to exile to Guam in 1896 (NHI)
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