reat deal more; and had
proved the utility of its work on almost continuous fields of national
calamity of the character defined in the "American Amendment" to the
Treaty. But the American government had not given the Red Cross the
official recognition that it desired and was entitled to; and it could
not take its appropriate place by the government of which it was so
eminently a part. As long as government provides for war, so long must
it recognize its adopted twin sister of peace, the Red Cross; as long as
it finds it necessary to deliberately mutilate men, so long should it
take part in healing them.

In order to strengthen the organization, and make its influence more
widely felt, the members decided to adopt a plan that would enable them
to work on a somewhat broader basis; accordingly, on April 17, 1893, the
Red Cross was reincorporated and has continued its labors up to the
present time under the provisions of the instrument a copy of which
follows:


THE RE-INCORPORATION OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS.

  CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS.

  Know all men by these presents, that we, Clara Barton, Julian B.
  Hubbell, Stephen E. Barton, Peter V. DeGraw and George Kennan, all
  being persons of full age, citizens of the United States, and a
  majority residents of the District of Columbia, being desirous of
  forming an association to carry on the benevolent and humane work of
  "The Red Cross" in accordance with the Articles of the International
  Treaty of Geneva, Switzerland, entered into on the twenty-second day
  of August, 1864, and adopted by the Government of the United States
  on the first day of March, 1882, and also in accordance with the
  broader scope given to the humane work of said treaty by "The
  American Association of the Red Cross," and known as "The American
  Amendment," whereby the suffering incident to great floods, famines,
  epidemics, conflagrations, cyclones, or other disasters of national
  magnitude, may be ameliorated by the administering o