Page:The Pilgrims' March.djvu/70

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
48
THE PILGRIMS MARCH

confident that we shall meet again at no distant date as free men. I have only one parting word to say. Continue non-violent non-co-operation without a break until Swaraj is attained, and enlist as volunteers in your tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. Let the march of pilgrims to the only Temple of Liberty now existing in India which has escaped sacrilege at the hands of the bureaucracy, viz. the jail, be kept up in an uninterrupted stream, swelling in strength and volume as each day passes. Adieu!

PANDIT JAWAHARLAL TO HIS COLLEAGUES.

To my Colleagues of the U. P. Congress Committee:—Some days ago, you did me the high honour of appointing me General Secretary of the Committee. I have not been able to serve you in that capacity for long. To-day, a higher honour and a greater service await me; and I welcome them with the conviction that you will carry on the work of the Committee more vigorously and successfully than my co-secretaries and myself were able to do. It has pleased Providence to give this Province a chance of leading the fight for Liberty. May you, the representatives of the people, prove worthy of this high trust. The work of the Provincial