Springfield (Mo.) Republican.
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.
Slanderous as Satan. Shakespeare.
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—