The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863. Various

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      Still upon Yorktown's trampled fields,

      O'er grassy plain and wooded swell,

      Her sunny wealth the summer yields,

      And still the word comes, 'All is well.'

      A MERCHANT'S STORY

      'All of which I saw, and part of which I was.'

      CHAPTER XII

      In the afternoon the exercises at the meeting house were conducted by Preston, who publicly catechized the negroes very much in the manner that is practised in Northern Sunday schools. When the services were over, and the family had gathered around the supper table, I said to him:

      'I've an idea of passing the evening with Joe; he has invited me. Would it be proper for you and Mrs. Preston to go?'