Report of the Proceedings of the Fourth Session of Indian National Congress 1888

The secret enemies of British rule (too acute not to perceive that the success of the movement means the perpetuation of this rule) and large sections of the official community (too blinded by class bias to catch the faintest glimpse of this cardinal fact) together with their entire train of obsequious followers laboured ceaselessly to strangle the movement. [...] Hundreds of missionaries of the cause travelled from town to town and village to village expounding the good tidings of the Cogress and the fiercer the opposition raged and the more persistent the efforts of the adversaries of the movement the more strenuous became the efforts of its supporters. [...] He took with him a formal lease and adequate funds and the same night the lease was signed the rent paid in advance and on the next day the Reception Committee had taken possession of Lowther Castle in the very centre of the Civil Station overlooking the Alfred Park and alongside Government House and had commenced their preparations there before the authorities obtained any inkling of the a [...] English readers may have heard a good deal of the seditious character of the writings of some of the Congresmen ; may even have heard of the proposal by some of the leading AngloIndian papers that some of the Europeans of the Congress Party should be summarily deported and may have possibly fancied that there was really something in all this bluster ; but they will perhaps appreciate better [...] The existence of the Congress the very meetings which we hold annually are the best proofs of the excellence of the British Government.