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at a month's warning. The man will not wear 

 a livery, any more than he will wear a halter 

 round his neck. This is no great matter; for, 

 as your neighbours' men are of the same taste, 

 you expose yourself to no humiliation on this 

 score. Neither men nor women will, allow you 

 to call them servants, and they will take especial 

 care not to call themselves by that name. This 

 seems something very capricious, at the least; 

 and, as people in such situations of life, really 

 are servants, according to even the sense which 

 MOSES gives to the word, when he forbids the 

 working of the man servant and the maid ser 

 vant, the objection, the rooted aversion, to the 

 name, seems to bespeak a mixture of false pride 

 and of insolence, neither of which belong to the 

 American character, even in the lowest walks 

 of life. I will, therefore, explain the cause of 

 this dislike to the name of servant. When this 

 country was first settled, there were no people 

 that laboured for other people; but, as man is 

 always trying to throw the working part off his 

 own shoulders, as we see by the conduct of 

 priests in all ages, negroes were soon introduced. 

 Englishmen, who had fled/row tyranny at home, 

 were naturally shy of calling other men their 

 slaves; and, therefore, "for more grace" as 

 Master Matthew says in the play* they called 

 their slaves servants. But, though I doubt not 



