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 for me by accepting the humble advice that I had the honour of tendering to them, and I told them I am not here to distribute justice that can be awarded only through our worthy president. But I ask you not to go to the president^ you need not worry him. If you are strong, if you a-e brave, if you are intent upon getting Swaraj, and if you really want to revise the creed, then >ou will bottle up your rage, you will bottle up all the feelings of injustice that inay rankle in your hearts and forget these things here under this very roof and I told them to forget their differen- ces, to forget the wrongs. I don't want to tell you or go- into the history of that incident. Probably most of you know. I simply want to invite your attention to the fact. I don't say they have settled up their differences. I hope they have, but I do know that they undertook to forget the differences. They undertook not to worry the President, they undertook not to make any demonstration here or in the Subjects Committee. All honour to those who listened to that advice.

I oniy wanted my Bengali friends and all the other friends who have.come to this great assembly with a fixtd determination to seek nothing but the settlement of their country, to seek nothing but the advancement of their respective rights, to seek nothing but the conservation of the national honour. I appeal to every one of you to copy the example set by those who felt aggrieved and wha felt that their heads were broken. I know, before we have done with this great battle on which we have embarked at the special sessions of the Congress, we have to go probably f possibly through a sea of blood, but let it not be said of us or any one of us that we are guilty of shedding blood, tyut let it be said by general tons yet to be born that we suffered, that we shed not somebody's blood but our own, and so

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