The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
SOME POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF
THE FAMOUS SEVENTH REGIMENT


It Would Not March Through Baltimore,
but Was the First Band Of Northerners
to Step Foot on virginia's soii-John l..
sullivan--A Remepyi "Reminiscences.
NEW YORK, June 4.-[Special. THE
public has heard a good deal about the
famous Seventh regiment" OF this city
within the past few weeks and most peo-
pie probably have made up their minds
that the organization has been more or
less wrong headed in its recent attitude,
to say the least. Very possibly this Is a
just view to take of the situation, yet 1t
should not be forgotten that this regiment
has many good marks to its credit on the
records.
For instance, though it did refrain from
marching through Baltimore in 1861 out
of respect to the protests OF that city, the
Seventh was the first organization OF
northern soldiers to set foot on the soil OF
Virginia, and its march down Broadway
on April 10, 1861, thus assuring the loyal
support of many men or some consequence
whose views were till then not well de-
fined, meant much to the government.
Yet it must be admitted that historian
of the regiment has set it down in black
and white that some of the Seventies
members at the moment of the Broadway
march were states rights men and that
when they passed over the long bridge
from Washington to the Old Dominion
State there were not wanting those in the
ranks who deprecated the act as ungen-
tlemanly and unconstitutional
To offset this sort of members in 1861
the regiment carried on its rolls the names
of some men whose loyalty to the old flag
was never questioned. For instance, that
splendid young patriot, Theodore Win
throp, who was killed at Big Bethel, wore
the uniform of the Seventh at the time OF
his death, though he had enlisted in the
engineer corps and was then serving
therein. Winthrop, it will be remembered,
was writer of great promise, though
better recognized after than before his
death, and his "John Brent" Is now al
most q classic. Fitz James o Brien was
another old time member of the Seventh
and so was Tom Mast, the Nestor OF
American cartoonists, whose pencil
wrought more powerfully than muske
in certain civil war crises albeit he seems
now to be virtually out of cartoon making
for good and all.
Seventh Regiment Cavalry.
Away back in the forties the Seventh
regiment had cavalry troop, and it wa
called out to help suppress the 1iots Eic.,e'
up by the rivalry between Forrest, Ga
American actor, and Macready, the Eng
lishman, in 1913, u few months less thai
half century ago. There were 30 horsemel
all told in the troop, and they were ordered
to charge and dispersc the mob. But Tn
mob knew the men were amateurs and
moreover, that they were mounted o.
green horses, and took action accordingly
This action consisted in bowling big
heavy cobblestones at the legs of the beasts
to tho great discontinue of the troopers
who were actually thus forced TO disperst
since when the Seventh's troop has neve
been in evidence. 1t was the Seventh
however, that broke up that mob, thong
the work bad TO be done by firing into tn
crowd and killing number OF persons.
In 1887 there was movement TO estat
lsh u Seventh regiment veteran reserN
corps, to DO made use of in New YORK c
} Brooklyn only, in case OF labor or oth'
riots. This corps was to consist or wv
companies, eligibility to membership beln
. former membership in the regiment II
r present August Belmont, George *. 81
, tare. William Oothout, Richard ;. Satte
, lee and q number of others fairly we
2 known the country over, but better Know
Y here, wero among those prominent IN u
v movement, but 1t never materlallzeu III
: anything of consequence.
Of John L. Sullivan.
: see that John l.. Sullivan, the @
t champion, has won for himself an en'n
u siastic vote of thanks from the Central
al bNy1 nnnnnclnV n
f low wapes paid the stage hands at one
:" the theaters and deciding to cancer MS
e oapement there. A few years ago, wh'
tbe "bir UNI had a political bee in b
s bonnet. this action on his part might ma
: been taken as q bid for votes, and that
II ut least q possibility now.
If Sullivan always has been sorry that
r. failed TO persevere in his notion of I'll
; ring for congress in one of the Boston d
d tricts. and tho last time saw him he G
a voted half nm hour to explaining how
a was switched off. He also explained VIII
r. he Thought of Harvard university and
is negro in one or two brief sentences.
10 81 uster think pretty well of old Hi
ward. - no said, "till some years ago VIII
- they had a black man speak In pub
~ there. That didn't suit me bit. kn'
!, n negro ms he does of white man, but
"a he does, why, In heavens name, didn .
"A mako him whites"
he Rcmenyi, Broadway Rouss and Ingerso
D There is probably no man in New 10
t who regrets the death of Remenyi',
Of yiolinist, moro deeply than Colonel hob
lie @. Ingcrsoll. AS everybody knows,
E. colonel is exceedingly fond of music, a
ct it used to DO one of his delights 10 n'
I'd Remenyi at his house of an evening
listen TO his playing. There was little
cept their love of music to bind these
together, for tho colonel, intellectual
w , alert. bubbling over with incisive wit a
n, fully abreast of the times, is about eve
l. thing that poor Remenyi was not, and
& their common passion for sweet sour
se served as the strongest kind OF a bond.
r. Charles Broadway Rouss, the rich IN
al chant whose boast is that he has mad
~ great n success out of mercantile est