We are fighting to recover independence.

The enemy has had to relax somewhat in the exigencies of the struggle and to concede all these positions of local government and enterprise now in question.

We take these posts as places conceded in the fight and avail of them to strengthen, develop and uplift the country and prepare her to carry the last post.

Surely this is adequate.
On a field of battle it is always to the credit of a general to capture an enemy's post and use it for the final victory.

It is a sign of the battle's progress, and tells the distant watchers on the hills how the fight is faring and who is going to win.