भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

4-8-1918
Port Blair
My dear brother,
I was very glad to read your letter. This year owing to the regularity with
which your parcels and letters had been despatched, we could get them all
at the expected time and were, thus, able to get rid of a lot of anxiety and
trouble and petitioning. The answer to my letter, then the parcel to brother
and then his letter—all these enabled us to get your news almost every three
months. Please do follow up this plan as regularly as possible. The news
that the Maharashtra provincial conference had passed a strong resolution
and that with greater unanimity in favour of the release of all political
prisoners was very welcome! In fact, the Bombay provincial conference has
been doing its duty with greater vigour, consistency and persistence than
any other P.C. in India. Last year, so far as I could know, the provincial
conference of U.P. and especially the Andhra Conference had also passed
resolutions in favour of this release. The resolution of the Andhra
Conference was very definitely and comprehensively worded and showed
that the heart of the Andhras beat in thorough and honest sympathy with
those who, with the means they thought best to effect the Great Deliverance
had, maybe rightly, maybe wrongly but in utter sincerity and indisputable
selflessness, offered themselves to pine away in prisons. You write that
many of the papers write constantly for the release and magazines too press
on do the point that the release of all political prisoners is one of the
conditions, under which the removal of Indian discontent is possible. If all
this be true, then I really fail to understand why the Congress, so far as I
know, should still be fighting shy, should still be trembling to utter a
syllable that might smell of sympathy, nay even of ordinary humanity for
the political prisoners, of the people in whose name it poses to speak! Last
year, they passed a resolution for the release of the interned, forgetting
totally and very conveniently that the sufferings which brought tears to the
eyes of the patriots sitting comfortably in the well-aired and well-decorated
pandal had been indefinitly multiplied and incessantly faced by other men
—not one not two, but thousands of other men whose services or sacrifices
cannot, at least, be less than our interned brothers and who, because their
misery cannot automatically end with the war as in the case of the interned
and therefore demand a greater and more persistent agitation on the part of
those who are pasing as responsible leaders of the people! ‘Responsible’