"When you were weak and I was strong, I toiled for you. Now you are
strong and I am weak. Because of my work for you, I ask your aid. I
ask the ballot for myself and my sex. As I stood by you, I pray you
stand by me and mine."--CLARA BARTON.
[Appeal to the returned soldiers of the United States, written from
Geneva, Switzerland, by Clara Barton, invalidated by long service in
the hospitals and on the field daring the civil war.]