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- 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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