Excerpt from Inaugural Addresses by Presidents of the Indian National Congress: With Mr. Charles Bradlaugh"s Speech
The Indian National Congress has entered upon the second decade of its existence after having successfully passed through a chequered career of ridicule, abuse, and misrepresentation. It has survived the charge of sedition and disloyalty, and the interested opposition of those who do not scruple to sacrifice the interests of their own class and country for the attainment of their personal ends. If the movement were really a "nursery for sedition and rebellion," it would be a melancholy commentary upon British methods of administration in India. Happily for all, thoughtful Englishmen and Indians have from its very birth discovered in it the most legitimate and glorious outcome of British rule. In the ever memorable words of Sir William Hunter, who deserves the cordial thanks of Congressmen for his having explained its origin and aims to his countrymen at home, the Congress, the child of British rule and the product of our Schools and Universities, represents a political power in India which no Indian statesman and no Indian member of Parliament can afford to disregard. The movement may, therefore, be safely said to have lived down the opposition of even those of its critics, who, in the supposed interests of the British Empire, and only mindful of the passing exigencies of the hour, have sought to discredit it and its promoters by every means in their power, forgetful of the lessons of the past and blind to the issues of the future.
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