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that this device was quite efficient in quieting 

 their own consciences, it gave rise to the notion, 

 that slave and servant meant one and the same 

 thing, a conclusion perfectly natural and di 

 rectly deducible from the premises. Hence 

 every free man and woman have rejected with 

 just disdain the appellation of servant. One 

 would think, however, that they might be re 

 conciled to it by the conduct of some of their 

 superiors in life, who, without the smallest ap 

 parent reluctance, call themselves " Public 

 Servants," in imitation, 1 suppose, of English 

 Ministers, and his Holiness, the Pope, who, in 

 the excess of his humility, calls himself, " the 

 " Servant of the Servants of the Lord'' But, 

 perhaps, the American Domestics have observ 

 ed, that " Public Servant" really means master. 

 Be the cause what it may, however, they con 

 tinue most obstinately to scout the name of 

 servant; and, though they still keep a civil 

 tongue in their head, there is not one of them 

 that will not resent the affront with more bit 

 terness than any other that you can offer. The 

 man, therefore, who would deliberately offer such 

 an affront must be a fool. But, there is an incon 

 venience far greater than this, People in gene 

 ral are so comfortably situated, that very few, 

 and then only of those who are pushed hard, will 

 become domestics to any body. So that, gene.- 



