CAVITE MUTINY

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CAVITE MUTINY of 1872

Pag-aalsa sa
Kabite noong 1872
 What Is The Cavite Mutiny?
The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 was an uprising of military personnel
of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite Philippines on
January 20 1872. Around 200 soldiers and laborers rose up in the
belief that it would elevate to a national uprising. The mutiny
was unsuccessful, and government crack down on a burgeoning
nationalist movement. Many scholars believe that the Cavite
Mutiny of 1872 was the beginning of Filipino nationalism that
would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

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THE CAUSE OF THE CAVITE MUTINY
The primary cause of the mutiny is believed to be an order from
Governor-General Rafael de Izquierdo to subject the soldiers of
the Engineering and Artillery Corps to personal taxes, from
which they were previously exempt. The taxes required them to
pay a monetary sum as well as to perform forced labor called,
"polo y servicio." The mutiny was sparked on January 20, when
the laborers received their pay and realized the taxes as well as
the falla, the fine one paid to be exempt from forced labor, had
been deducted from their salaries.

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 THE CONFLICTING VIEWS ON THE CAVITE
MUTINY

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 1872 Cavite Mutiny: Spanish Perspective

• The two Spaniards deemed that the event of 1872 was planned
earlier and was thought of it as a big conspiracy among educated
leaders, mestizos, abogadillos or native lawyers, residents of Manila
and Cavite and the native clergy. They insinuated that the
conspirators of Manila and Cavite planned to liquidate high-ranking
Spanish officers to be followed by the massacre of the friars.

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 A Response to Injustice: The Filipino Version of the
Incident

Dr. Trinidad Hermenigildo Pardo de Tavera, a Filipino scholar

and researcher, wrote the Filipino version of the bloody incident
in Cavite. In his point of view, the incident was a mere mutiny
by the native Filipino soldiers and laborers of the Cavite arsenal
who turned out to be dissatisfied with the abolition of their
privileges. Indirectly, Tavera blamed Gov. Izquierdo’s cold-
blooded policies such as the abolition of privileges of the
workers and native army members of the arsenal.
 THE GOMBURZA MARTYRDOM

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 THE SECULARIZATION ISSUE 
• During the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines, the
Roman Catholic Church wielded strong cultural,
political and economic influence in the Philippine
archipelago. A feudal society, institutions largely favored
land-owning Spanish peninsulares and the Roman
Catholic friars. Clergymen who are affiliated with a
religious order such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans
had significant influence over the affairs of the islands.

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 They are two key groups among the Roman
Catholic clergy in the Philippines in relation to the
secularization movement.[

• Seculars (seculares) – Clergymen who are not
affiliated with a religious order. They are mostly
native Filipinos. At the time they are referred to
as indios with the term Filipino exclusive to
Spaniards born in the Philippines. Parish works
is usually reserved to seculars but the Spanish
colonial government in the Philippines had to
deal with the issue that there are virtually no
Spaniard seculars due to the low immigration
rate of Spaniards to the Philippines due to its
distance from Spain and its weak economy.
• Regulars (regulares) – Clergymen who are part of an
established order. They are mostly Spaniards.
• The secularization movement encouraged the
assignment of native Filipino priests to head
parishes. The movement was met with opposition
from the Spanish friars who are regulars due to its
negative effects to their political authority and
influence in the Philippine islands. Some religious
regulars justified their opposition from give native
priests more responsibility with racist reasoning,
that natives are not suitable for priesthood to
begin with.

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• It was stated that the Spaniards made the
Secularization Issue to involve to 3 priests
namely Mariano Gomes de los Angeles,
Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora as an
excuse to execute them via garotte the very
same year as the Cavite Mutiny.

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 So what is the relevance of the Cavite
Mutiny to The Philippine
Revolution?

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  Pasyano, Rizal’s brother witnessed the cruelty of the
Spanish Colonization and told Rizal about what he
witnessed.
 Rizal wrote El Filibusterismo as a reminder to the future
generations of what had really happened in the Spanish
Colonial of the Philippines.
 Andres Bonifacio believed in the writings of Rizal and
used his beliefs to hold up an uprising against the Spanish
Government despite Rizal telling him no because Rizal
knew that they stand no chance against the advanced
military govern of the Spanish. Which eventually lead to the
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 QUIZ!
• 1. When did the Cavite Mutiny happen?
A. 1896
B. January 20 1782
C. January 20 1872
D. February 20 1872

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 • 2. Who was the Governor-General who led the Spanish in the Cavite
Mutiny?
A. Jose Rizal
B. Rafael de Izquerdo
C. Andres Bonifacio
D. Gomburza

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 3-5. Name the three priests that was charged with treason
and sedition and was killed via garotte?

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