I will take back the check for his winter feed as useless now; but wish to enclose in this ten dollars for the last tender care and burial, with the assurance that you will always hold a high place in my esteem and affection for the kind and manly part you have taken in this little episode of life’s woes.
Let me repeat from your letter this sentiment, the hope that we may be friends while life shall last.
Resolved, in behalf of the State of Texas especially does the legislature thank Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross Society.
A tribute of honor, of which sovereigns might be proud, clothed in language the eloquence of which our English tongue does not surpass. CLARA BARTON.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ST. JOHN.
Clara Barton is the embodiment of the saving principle of laying down one’s life for one’s friends. Her achievements are greater than the conquest of nations or the inventions of genius, and who is justly crowned in the even-tide of her life with the love and admiration of all humanity.
Central Relief Committee of Galveston, Texas.
The name of Clara Barton has ever been a cherished one in our Southland, and the Red Cross the symbol of the most noble charity. MRS. ROSENE RYAN, Chairman, the Governor’s Relief Committee for Clothing, March 5, 1901.
It proves to us more strongly than ever, after the experience we have had since the arrival of Miss Barton, that “woman rules the world, as she has always done.” MRS. JENS MOLLER, of the Central Relief Committee, November 13, 1900.
No name in Texas is today dearer to its people than that of Clara Barton. Red Cross Committee, 1903.
How much of the heroic there is in our people when it is needed.
The Red Cross has come to be the first thought of any community suddenly overtaken by disaster. CLARA BARTON.
The Red Cross creates an organized neutral volunteer force, from the people, supplied by the people. CLARA BARTON.
The Red Cross is the outward and practical expression of that universal sympathy that goes out from millions of homes and firesides; from the heart of the nation to humanity in distress.
Not one dollar, for twenty years or more, on twenty fields of national disaster, has there been drawn from the Treasury of the United States,—the beneficence of the people through their awakened characters were equal to all needs. CLARA BARTON.