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4-A - The 1820S WERE IN FACT A PERIOD OF DEPRESSION, THE FIRST ECONOMIC - CRISIS OF MODERN TIMES HAVING BEGUN IN 1819. NEAL, WRITING IN - BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE IN 1824, BUT REFLECTED THE GENERAL - SLUMP OF THE TIME: - "THE GINE ARTS, GENERALLY, ARE NEGLECTED BY THE AMERICANS. BY THIS I MEAN, THAT THEY, THE AMERICANS DO NOT THEMSELVES CULTIVATE THEM. THEY HAVE FOREIGN MUSICAL COMPOSERS, AND SCULPTURES, AMONG THEM .... BUT NONE OF THEIR OWN." - THIS ECHOES THE ATTITUDE OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WHO ANNOUNCED WHEN - A COMPETITION FOR WORKS OFART FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITOL BUILDING - WAS BEING HELD THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD NO SCULPTORS OR PAINT- - ERS WORTHY OF RECEIVING THE COMMISSIONS. TO THIS POINT OF VIEW - FENIMORE COOPER OPPOSED A MORE OPTIMISTIC VIEW. ESSENTIALLY - THE CLASH WAS BETWEEN THE OLD, ENTRENCHED ANTI-DEMOCRATIC FED- - ERALIST LACK OF FAITH IN THE PEOPLE AND THE LIBERATING HOPE OF - DEMOCRACY AS PROMOTED BY JEFFERSON AND JACKSON. BUT THE DAY - OF THE COMMON MAN WAS NO MORE WON THEN, THAN TODAY. WHAT MAC - LEISH HAS CALLED "THE EUROPEAN MIRROR" STILL TRIUMPHED>
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