to draw your attention to is that I had the honour and privilege of addressing both the parties.  They gave me their undivided attention and what is more they showed their attachment, their affection and their fellowship 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 are brave, if you are intent upon getting Swaraj, and if you really want to revise the creed, then you will bottle up your rage, you will bottle up all the feelings of injustice that may rankle in your hearts and forget these things here under this very roof and I told them to forget their differences, to forgot 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 only wanted my Bengali friends and all the other friends who have come to this great assembly with a fixed 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 who 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, 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, but let it be said by generations yet to be born that we suffered, that we shed not somebody’s blood but our own, and so I have no hesitation in saying that I do not want to show much sympathy for those who had their heads broken or who were said to be even in danger of losing their lives.  What does it matter?  It is much better to die at the hands, at least, of our own countrymen.  What is there to revenge ourselves about or upon.  So I ask everyone of you that if at any time there is blood-boiling within you against some fellow countrymen of yours, even though he may be in the employ of Government, though he may be in the Secret Service, you will take care not to be offended and not to return blow for blow.  Understand that the very moment you return the blow from the detective, your cause is lost.  This is your non-violent campaign.  And so I ask everyone of you not to retaliate but to bottle up all your rage, to dismiss your rage from you and you will rise graver men.  I am here to congratulate those who have restrained themselves from going to the President and bringing the dispute before him.