To President Lincoln: Clara Barton is worthy of entire confidence.—HENRY WILSON. U. S. Senate, 1855–1873; Chairman Committee on Military Affairs, Civil War; Vice-President, 1873–1875. Senator Henry Wilson was my always good friend.—CLARA BARTON. See page 48. ] REPRESENTATIVE MASSACHUSETTS STATESMEN [Illustration: CHARLES SUMNER Clara Barton has the brain of a statesman, the command of a general, and the heart and hand of a woman.—CHARLES SUMNER, U. S. Senate, 1851–1857; 1863–1869. ] [Illustration: GEORGE F. HOAR Clara Barton is the greatest “man” in America. Where will you find a man to equal her?—GEORGE F. HOAR, U. S. Senate, 1877–1901. ] She achieved through nature’s endowments—a head to think, a heart to feel and hands to work. From her hard-working Barton forbears she inherited the sentiment in the Roman adage—“There is no easy way to the stars from the earth”;—all things are conquered by labor. For her to labor was to worship; to her the dignity of labor was greater than queenly dignity; labor, “wide as earth,” became her passport from the farm, the field of war, fire, flood, drouth, famine and pestilence, into every country of earth; her “labor of love,”—the open sesame to the White House, to the palaces of kings and emperors. The illustrious author of “The True Grandeur of Nations,” a personal friend of Clara Barton, says: “No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.” Clara Barton learned lessons in manual training before manual training became a science; she learned to use her hands in the kitchen, in the garden, in the factory, in the sick room. She not only knew how to sew and spin and weave and cook and care for the sick, but she organized women for such work throughout two continents. Labor organized by her among the poor, the sick and wounded in Germany, France, Russia, Sea Islands, Turkey, Armenia, Cuba and other countries, attesting her appreciation Luise, the Grand Duchess of Baden, writes: “Clara Barton possesses the ever powerful mind and ready love for suffering mankind;—faithful gratitude follows her for ever.”