PHILADELPHIA. 
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Is very bad; indeed, excepting in the southern 
states, where there are such great numbers of 
negroes, it is a matter of the utmost difficulty to 
procure domestic servants of any description. 
The generality of servants that are met with in 
Philadelphia are emigrant Europeans; they, 
however, for the most part, only remain in ser¬ 
vice until they can save a little money, 
when they constantly quit their masters, being 
Sed to do so by that desire for independence 
which is so natural to the mind of man, and 
which every person in America may enjoy that 
will be industrious. The few that remain 
steady to those who have hired them are retain¬ 
ed at most exorbitant wagesi As for the Ame¬ 
ricans, none but those of the most indifferent 
characters ever enter into service, which they 
consider as suitable only to negroes; the ne¬ 
groes again, in Pennsylvania and in other states 
where steps have been taken for the gradual 
abolition of slavery, afe taught by the Quakers 
to look upon themselves in every respect as 
equal to their white brethren, and they endea¬ 
vour to imitate them by being saucy. It is the 
same both with males and females. I must 
here observe, that amongst the generality of 
the lower sort of people in the United States, 
and particularly amongst those of Philadelphia 
there is a want of good manners which excif v 
the surprize of almost every foreigner; I wr ; 
