Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Union League Club of New York: Its Origin, Organization, and Work, 1863-1879 Vice. Which united men and women, cities and vil lages, distant States and Territories, in one protract ed, systematic, laborious and costly work - a work Of an impersonal character - animated by love for the national cause, the national soldier, and not merely by personal affection or solicitude for their own particular esh and blood, would develop, purify and strengthen the imperilled sentiment of national ity, and help to make America sacred in the eyes Of the living children Of her scattered States. The members Of the Sanitary Commission were ah sorbed in this conviction, and under great opposition and immense difficulties, they adhered to it and con quered by it. They would yield nothing to the intense feeling Of State and local pride or anxiety which sought to create differences in the administration of their resources. Their plan, with all its methods, was intensely national. Perhaps no persons out of the national Government had their full experience Of the evils and perils of State jealousies and local feeling. Every trial the national Government met in recruiting a national army out of the State troops, the Sanitary Commission experienced in struggling with the disposition of State or local Societies, to give a Special and not a national direction to their stores and means of succor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."