Second Homecoming and The Liga Filipina

Second
Homecoming and
the Liga Filipina
Reporter:
Jubelyn S. Mesias
BSED – SCI
Second Homecoming and the
Liga Filipina
• Rizal’s bold return to
Manila in June 1892
was his second
homecoming
Liga Filipina
• Rizal firmly believed
that the fight for Filipino
liberties had assumed a
new phase: it must
Liga Filipina
be fought in the
Philippines not in
Spain. “The battlefield
is in the Philippines,”
Liga Filipina
he told countrymen in
Europe, “There is
where we should
meet… There we will
Liga Filipina
help one another,
there together we will
suffer or triumph
perhaps.”
Arrival in Manila with Sister
• June 26, 1892 –
Sunday at 12:00 noon,
Rizal and his widowed
sister Lucia (wife of late
Mariano Herbosa)
arrived in Manila
• In the afternoon, at
4:00 o’ clock, he went
to Malacañang Palace
to seek audience with
the Spanish
government general,
General Eulogio
Despujol, Conde de
Caspe
• June 27, 1892 – at
6:00 pm, Rizal boarded
a train in Tutuban
Station and visited his
friends in Malolos
(Bulacan), San
Fernando (Pampanga),
Tarlac (Tarlac), and
Bacolor (Pampanga)
• Rizal returned by train
to Manila on the next
day, June 28, at 5 o’
clock in the afternoon
Foundling of the Liga Filipina
• July 3, 1892 – on the
evening of Sunday,
following his morning
interview with Governor
General Despujol, Rizal
attended a meeting
with patriots at the
home of the Chinese-
Filipino mestizo,
Doroteo Ongjunco, on
Ylaya Street, Tondo,
Manila
• Rizal explained the
objectives of the Liga
Filipina, a civic league
of Filipinos, which he
desired to establish and
its role in the socio-
economic life of the
people.
• The officers of the new
league were elected, as
follows: Ambrosio
Salvador (President);
Deodato Arellano
(Secretary); Bonifacio
Arevalo (Treasurer);
and Agustin de la Rosa
(Fiscal)
• Unus Instar Omnium
(One Like All) – the
motto of the Liga
Filipina
 The governing body
of the league was
the Supreme Council
which had
jurisdiction over the
whole country. It was
composed of a
president, a
secretary, a
treasurer, and a
fiscal. There was a
Provincial Council in
every province and a
Popular Council in
every town.
• The duties of the Liga
members are as follows
(1) obey the orders of
the Supreme Council
(2) to help in
recruiting new
members (3) to keep in
strictest secrecy the
decisions of the Liga
authorities (4) to have
symbolic name which
he cannot change until
he becomes president
of his council (5) to
report to the fiscal
anything that he may hear
which affect the Liga (6) to
behave well as befits a good
Filipino (7) to help fellow
members in all ways
Rizal Arrested and Jailed in Fort
Santiago
• July 6, 1892 –
Wednesday, Rizal went
to Malacañang Palace
to resume his series
Santiago
of interviews with
governor general
• Pobres Frailles (Poor
Friars) - incriminatory
Santiago
leaftlets which allegedly
found in Lucia’s pillow
cases; it is under the
authorship of Fr.
Santiago
Jacinto and printed by
the Imprenta de los
Amigos del Pais,
Manila
Santiago
• Rizal was placed under
arrest and escorted to
Fort Santiago by
Ramon Despujol,
Santiago
nephew and aide of
Governor General
Despujol
• July 7, 1892 – the
Santiago
Graceta de Manila
published the story of
Rizal’s arrest which
produced indignant
Santiago
commotion among the
Filipino people,
particularly the
members of the newly
Santiago
organized Liga Filipina
• July 7, 1892 – the
same issue of the
Gaceta contained
Santiago
Governor General
Despujol’s decree
deporting Rizal to “one of
the islands in the South”
Santiago
• July 14, 1892, shortly
after midnight (that is
12:30 am of July 15,
1892) – Rizal was
Santiago
brought under heavy
guard to the steamer
Cebu which was sailing
for Dapitan. This
Santiago
steamer under Captain
Delgras departed at
1:00 AM, July 15,
sailing south, passing
Santiago
Mindoro and Panay
and reaching Dapitan
on Sunday, the 17th of
July at 7:00 in the
Santiago
evening
• Captain Ricardo
Carnicero – Spanish
commandment of
Santiago
Dapitan whom Captain
Delgras handed Rizal
• July 17 to 31, 1896 –
Rizal began his exile in
Santiago
Dapitan whom Captain
Delgras handed Rizal
• July 17, 1892 to 31,
1896 – Rizal began his
Santiago
exile in lonely Dapitan,
a period of four years.

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