[In the summer of 1863 an attack was made on Fort Wagner, in South Carolina, by the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, composed of colored troops. Their leader, COLONEL SHAW, belonging to one of the best white families in Boston, was killed. When his friends asked for his body, the reply of the Rebels was, "He is buried with his niggers."] Buried with a band of brothers, Whom for him would fain have died; Buried with the gallant fellows Who fell fighting by his side. Buried with the men God gave him,-- Those whom he was sent to save; Buried with the martyred heroes, He has found an honored grave. Buried where his dust so precious Makes the soil a hallowed spot; Buried where by Christian patriot He shall never be forgot. Buried in the ground accursed, Which man's fettered feet have trod; Buried where his voice still speaketh, Appealing for the slave to God. Fare thee well, thou noble warrior! Who in youthful beauty went On a high and holy mission, By the God of battles sent. Chosen of Him, "elect and precious," Well didst thou fulfil thy part; When thy country "counts her jewels," She shall wear thee on her heart. ADVICE FROM AN OLD FRIEND. BY L. MARIA CHILD. For many years I have felt great sympathy for you, my brethren and sisters, and I have tried to do what I could to help you to freedom. And now that you have at last received the long-desired blessing, I most earnestly wish that you should make the best possible use of it. I have made this book to encourage you to exertion by examples of what colored people are capable of doing. Such men and women as Toussaint l'Ouverture, Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, and William and Ellen Crafts, prove that the power of _character_ can overcome all external disadvantages, even that most crushing of all disadvantages, Slavery. Perhaps few of you will be able to stir the hearts of large assemblies by such eloquent appeals as those of Frederick Douglass, or be able to describe what you have seen and heard so gracefully as Charlotte L. Forten does. Probably none of you will be called to govern a state as Toussaint l'Ouverture did; for such a remarkable career as his does not happen once in hundreds of years. But the Bible says, "He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that ruleth a kingdom"; and such a ruler every man and woman can become, by the help and blessing of God. It is not the _greatness_ of the thing a man does which makes him worthy of respect; it is the doing _well_ whatsoever he hath to do. In many respects, your opportunities for usefulness are more limited than those of others; but you have one great opportunity peculiar to yourselves. You can do a vast amount of good to people in various parts of the world, and through successive generations, by simply being sober, industrious, and honest. There are