The ratifying powers at Berne accepted the National American Red Cross with the proposed Clara Barton amendment, generally known as the American Amendment. The system for relief work in national disasters, made popular in the United States through Clara Barton, was later approved and adopted by the International Red Cross Committee of the Treaty of Geneva. It has therefore become a part of the Red Cross system of all Treaty nations. These nations, representing a population of more than one billion of human beings, or four-fifths of the human race, are now enjoying the beneficence of the constructive genius of Clara Barton.
Clara Barton—one of God’s noblest. Augusta (Ga.) _Journal_.
Honored in three continents. St. Paul (Minn.) _Dispatch_.
The preferring of charges against Clara Barton, and her subsequent investigation, is one of the rankest instances of injustice in the history of this country. Unfounded charges, political spite and the hope of remuneration,—the charges were refuted and the schemers were discredited, but politics had triumphed and Miss Barton was cast aside. Los Angeles (Cal.) _Examiner_.
It was demanded of Clara Barton that she give an accounting of goods and food distributed to dying and wounded on the battlefield. The unspeakable Turk never did anything as bad as this.—But that investigation was only an exigency, an excrescence, a malformation, a wart on the nose. _The Fra_, East Aurora, N. Y.
Squint-eyed slander. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Slander expires at a good woman’s door. EWALD.
’Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words, Slander, the foulest whelp of sin. POLLOCK—_Course of Time_.
Slander, meanest spawn of Hell— And woman’s slander is the worst. TENNYSON—_The Letters_.
’Tis slander “whose breath Rides on posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world.” CYMBELINE.
If the end brings me out all right what is said against me won’t amount to anything. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
They that slander the dead are like envious dogs that bark, and bite, at bones. ZENO.
Done to death by slanderous tongues. SHAKESPEARE.
The greater the truth the greater the libel. LORD MANSFIELD.
The greatest friend of truth is Time. COLTON-LACON.