only to cherish proud and tender memories, but also to pledge
ourselves to union in its sublimest significance?"

To this we add: The brave deeds of the soldier at Gettysburg, and the
wise counsels of the orator, should be followed by the patient toil
of the teacher and the preacher. It is hard to choose between the
ballot withheld and the ballot cast by ignorance and vice. Blood and
treasure flowed like water in the war. Shall treasure and toil be
wanting for the work of peace--preparing the ignorant voter to cast
the free ballot intelligently and honestly?

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*A BOOM IN THE PRICE OF A SLAVE.*

One of our best educated and most efficient colored ministers in
the South furnishes us the following sketch of his experience on
the auction block. He not only was sold "early and often," but
always at advancing prices. We do not wonder at this, for he has
shown himself to be so valuable as a _man_, that we are sure the
boy must have promised to be worth a great deal as a slave.

I was sold in 1862 at the age of ten years, for $400, by the widow B.
of Virginia. As a rule, after the first sale, I was upon the auction
block every day for three months. How often I was sold during those
three months I cannot tell, but on Davis' auction block in his
sale-room I was sold five times in one day. The last sale at the end
of the three months was made in Tennessee, to the Rev. H.F.S., a
Baptist minister, who paid $3,500 for his property. The Rev. Mr. S.
was a "Yankee" from Philadelphia, Pa., and came South at the