Negroes Would Be Imported In Large
Numbers From The United States, And Planters Would Emigrate With Them.
Institutions Of Education Would Be Introduced, Commerce And Religion Would
Both Be Made Free, And The Character Of The Islanders Would Be Elevated By
The Responsibilities Which A Free Government Would Throw Upon Them.
The
planters, however, would doubtless adopt regulations insuring the
perpetuity of slavery; they would unquestionably, as soon as they were
allowed to frame ordinances for the island, take away the facilities which
the present laws give the slave for effecting his own emancipation.
Letter L.
English Exhibitions of Works of Art.
London, _July_ 7, 1849.
I have just been to visit a gallery of drawings in water-colors, now open
for exhibition. The English may be almost said to have created this branch
of art. Till within a few years, delineations in water-colors, on drawing
paper, have been so feeble and meagre as to be held in little esteem, but
the English artists have shown that as much, though in a somewhat
different way, may be done on drawing-paper as on canvas; that as high a
degree of expression may be reached, as much strength given to the
coloring, and as much boldness to the lights and shadows. In the
collection of which I speak, are about four hundred drawings not before
exhibited. Those which appeared to me the most remarkable, though not in
the highest department of art, were still-life pieces by Hunt. It seems to
me impossible to carry pictorial illusion to a higher pitch than he has
attained.
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