The Red Cross : in peace and war . ll as President Garfield, for having been willing to lake intoserious consideration the wish contained in my letter of August 19, 1877, assuredlya very natural wish, since it tended to unite your country with a work of humanityand civilization for which it is one of the best qualified. Since my letter of 1S77 was written, several new governmental adhesionshave been given to the Geneva Convention, and I think that these precedeats willbe much more encouraging to the United States from the fact that they hr e beengiven by America. It was under the influence of
The Red Cross : in peace and war . ll as President Garfield, for having been willing to lake intoserious consideration the wish contained in my letter of August 19, 1877, assuredlya very natural wish, since it tended to unite your country with a work of humanityand civilization for which it is one of the best qualified. Since my letter of 1S77 was written, several new governmental adhesionshave been given to the Geneva Convention, and I think that these precedeats willbe much more encouraging to the United States from the fact that they hr e beengiven by America. It was under the influence of events of the recent war of thePacific that Bolivia signed the treaty the i6th of October, 1879, Chili on the 15thof November, 1879, Argentine Republic on the 25th of November, 1879, and Pernon the 22d of April, 1881. This argument in favor of the adhesion of your countryis the only one I can add to my request, and to the printed documents that MissBarton has placed in your hands, to aid your judgment and that of Congress. IP^I^PI. SOME OF THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE AMERICANNATIONAL RED CROSS.
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