“my son,” said a New York merchant, to his heir and namesake, on Thursday, “I would rather give $1,000 than have you go to Washington soldiering.”
“Father,” was the kindly but decisive response, “if you could make it $100,000 it would be of no use; for where the Seventh Regiment goes, I go.” --Tribune, April 20.
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