They are heart songs, and the finest feelings of human nature are expressed in them.

"Lucy Neal," "Old Kentucky Home," and "Uncle Ned," can make the heart sad as well as merry, and can call forth a tear as well as a smile.

They awaken the sympathies for the slave, in which antislavery principles take root, grow, and flourish.

In addition to authors, poets, and scholars at home, the moral sense of the civilized world is with us.

England, France, and Germany, the three great lights of modern civilization, are with us, and every American traveler learns to regret the existence of slavery in his country.