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of labour. This feeling of servant against master, of 

 opposing rights, opposing interests, and opposing designs, 

 are inculcated earnestly, and believed in, and acted upon, 

 by many. I fancy the gentleman I walked with in 

 Long Island, who talked so finely of the rights of labour, 

 must have been one of this persuasion. 



The independence of behaviour produced by this 

 doctrine shows itself sometimes in very amusing ways. 

 I was told at Boston of a gentleman in the neighbour 

 hood, who, having engaged a farm-servant, found him 

 very satisfactory in all respects, except that he invariably 

 came into the house, and into his master s room, with his 

 hat on. a John,&quot; he said to him one day, &quot; you always 

 keep your hat on when you come into the house.&quot; 

 &quot; Well, sir, haven t I a right to?&quot; &quot;Yes, I suppose 

 you have.&quot; u Well, if I have a right to, why shouldn t 

 I?&quot; This was a poser from one man to another where 

 all have equal rights. So, after a moment s reflection, 

 he shrewdly asked, &quot; Now, John, what 1 !! you take- 

 how much more wages will you ask to take your hat off 

 when you come in?&quot; &quot;Well, that requires considera 

 tion, I guess.&quot; u Take the thing into consideration, 

 then, and tell me to-morrow morning.&quot; The morrow 

 comes. &quot; Well, John, have you considered what addi 

 tional wages you are to have for taking your hat off?&quot; 

 &quot; Well, sir, I guess its worth a dollar a-month.&quot; &quot; Its 

 settled then, John, you shall have another dollar a 

 month;&quot; and the gentleman retained a good servant, 

 while John s hat was always in his hand when he entered 

 the house in future. So works democracy. The 

 Kentucky people cast in the teeth of the Bostonians, 

 that they worship the almighty dollar. At all events, 

 even in a democracy, the stiffest has his price, and 

 wealth cannot be deprived of a certain amount of influ 

 ence. 



Where feelings such as those I have spoken of, as 



