LVII
The philosophy of the old-time African servitor was of the most consoling character—he preached the gospel of contentment, perhaps as divine as any other principle of the moral law.
LaSalle Corbell Pickett—“In de Miz Series.”
America had freed a race. Clara Barton.
A gift must be outright. Clara Barton.
Our gifts fall short of the best. Clara Barton.
Charity and beneficence are degraded by being reduced to a dependence upon a system of beggary. Clara Barton.
Charity bears an open palm; to give is her mission.
Clara Barton.
How good it is to make two blades of grass grow where was one.
Clara Barton.
I know I am right because I know liberty is right. A. Lincoln.
The colored people would probably help, in some trying time, to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom. A. Lincoln.
My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Grey’s elegy:
“The short and simple annals of the poor.”
A. Lincoln.
The history of philanthropy has few brighter pages to record than at the Sea Island Hurricane, and its pleasant memories will gladden the hearts long after its weary hours are forgotten.
Clara Barton.