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made me what I now am, being the sincere friend of man, and admirer of the works of his hands. As such I have, witness injuries as sand-favors on the tablet of memory.
As one of the great body of artists of America I deem it an encumbent duty to admire the beauteous arts, by all honorable means, and to chastise arrogance, presumptive ignorance and helpful malevolence. With chagrin I have viewed the sinister and aristocratical procedures of the National Academy, and the ill results that must eventually follow its longer continuance, and therefore have publickly deprecated its wickedness.  As one of the regenerators of the old or American Academy of Fine Arts I now make bold in saying to its directors a