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The press is the representative of the people.
Gen. Joseph R. Hawley.
The newspaper is the immediate recorder and interpreter of life.
Henry Irving.
Three Thousand newspapers voiced the public opinion of the nation; thousands no doubt escaped us.
Editor—Clara Barton In Memoriam (1912).
The press shapes the fortunes of the world and makes and unmakes with a breath. Clara Barton.
The American press has been to me, to my assistants, and our work, a band of faithful brotherhood. Clara Barton.
Human progress had evolved a “Press” whose lever moved the world. Clara Barton.
Among the dark hours that came to us in the hopeless waste of work and war on every side, the strong sustaining power has been the Press of the United States. Clara Barton.
I thank the press of my country for its unwavering and genuine kindness for all the years it has dealt with my name.
Clara Barton.
Through all of good report or ill; contradictory, perplexing, incomprehensible, the one thing that has not only sustained but astonished me has been the loyalty of the American press.
Clara Barton.
The Press and the Individual
The Press
Clara Barton is to America what Florence Nightingale is to us. The American Civil War created her, and determined the whole course of her life. There is that which war, and nothing less, can do with a woman. It can make her, right away, what we may without irreverence call superwoman; and, having done that, it can set her to hard administrative work, to reform and organize great matters of national welfare; and it can keep her at that high level to the end of her days. Only, it must have her all to itself; she must give up everything that she was doing.
It was a wonderful life. She was inspired to save lives. Providence, very wisely, chose her for its purposes, not because she was an intellectual woman but because she was a pure flame of sympathy. Not peace, but war, made her what she was.
London (Eng.) Times,
January 27, 1916.
The Individual
Among the countless thousands, in her lifetime, that Miss Barton numbered as her friends, the following have been culled; and Miss Barton had not only letters thanking her for her work from the following but also enjoyed their personal friendship:
Presidents of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Vice-Presidents of the United States
John C. Breckinridge
Hannibal Hamlin
Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
William A. Wheeler
Garret A. Hobart
Secretaries of the Interior
Zachariah Chandler
Henry M. Teller
John W. Noble
Secretaries of the Navy
Benjamin F. Tracey
Hillary A. Herbert
John D. Long
Secretaries of the Treasury
Salmon P. Chase
George B. Boutwell
William Windom
Charles J. Folger
Secretaries of State
William H. Seward
Elihu B. Washburn
Hamilton Fish
William M. Evarts
James G. Blaine
T. F. Frelinghuysen
Thomas F. Bayard
John W. Foster
Walter Q. Gresham
Richard Olney
John Sherman
William B. Day
John Hay
Secretaries of War
Edwin M. Stanton
John M. Schofield
William T. Sherman
Robert T. Lincoln
William C. Endicott
Redfield Proctor
Daniel S. Lamont
Russell A. Alger
Secretaries of Agriculture
Norman J. Coleman
Jeremiah M. Rusk
J. Sterling Morton
James Wilson
Postmasters General
James N. Tyner
John Wanamaker
Wilson S. Bissell
William L. Wilson
Chief Justices U. S. Supreme Court
Salmon P. Chase
Morrison R. Waite
Stanley Matthews
The Army
Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt
Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke
Gen. Daniel E. Sickels
Brig. Gen. James F. Wade
Brig. Gen. M. I. Luddington
Brig. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely
Brig. Gen. John M. Wilson
Brig. Gen. Jos. C. Breckinridge
Brig. Gen. W. A. Hammond
Brig. Gen. H. D. Rucker
Lieut. Gen. John M. Schofield
General Officers U. S. Volunteers
Maj. Gen. William R. Shafter
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood
Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson
Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
Brig. Gen. William Ludlow
Brig. Gen. Fred D. Grant
The Navy
Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley
Rear Admiral William F. Sampson
Sovereigns of Europe
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria
Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
Abdul-Hamid, Sultan of Turkey
William I., Emperor of Germany
Empress of Germany
Nathalie, Queen of Servia
Czar of Russia
Grand Duchess of Baden
Miscellaneous
Surg. Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, U.S.A.
Gen. Phil H. Sheridan
Gen. R. D. Mussey
Hon. George B. Loring
Hon. E. G. Lapham
Surg. Gen. George H. Crum, U.S.A.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler
Sumner I. Kimball, General Superintendent U. S. Life Saving Corps
Walter Weymann, Surgeon General, Marine Hospital Service