<P> If my letter makes no appeal to your heart, on the eleventh day of this month I shall proceed with such co-workers of the Ashram as I can take, to disregard the provisions of the Salt Laws . I regard this tax to be the most iniquitous of all from the poor man's standpoint . As the sovereignty and self - rule movement is essentially for the poorest in the land, the beginning will be made with this evil . </P> <P> As mentioned earlier, the Viceroy held any prospect of a' salt protest' in disdain . After he ignored the letter and refused to meet with Gandhi, the march was set in motion . Gandhi remarked, "On bended knees I asked for bread and I have received stone instead ." The eve of the march brought thousands of Indians to Sabarmati to hear Gandhi speak at the regular evening prayer . An American academic writing for The Nation reported that "60,000 persons gathered on the bank of the river to hear Gandhi's call to arms . This call to arms was perhaps the most remarkable call to war that has ever been made ." </P> <P> On 12 March 1930, Gandhi and 80 satyagrahis, many of whom were from scheduled castes, set out on foot for the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, over 390 kilometres (240 mi) from their starting point at Sabarmati Ashram . The Salt March was also called the White Flowing River because all the people were joining the procession wearing white khadi . </P> <P> According to The Statesman, the official government newspaper which usually played down the size of crowds at Gandhi's functions, 100,000 people crowded the road that separated Sabarmati from Ahmadabad . The first day's march of 21 kilometres (13 mi) ended in the village of Aslali, where Gandhi spoke to a crowd of about 4,000 . At Aslali, and the other villages that the march passed through, volunteers collected donations, registered new satyagrahis, and received resignations from village officials who chose to end co-operation with British rule . </P>

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