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wight want as any ether time , and was ready to supply me . He was T *^ y active a * d observant , and performed wtu&ke h % d to do with alacrity and good wilL Two of hie predecessors , i was told , were even superior to him in assiduity . One of them saved a thousand dollars in service ; and was , when I was at Boston , a merchant ' s clerk , with a fair prospect of rising to a higher station . Vermont and New Hampshire generally supply the New England cities with this class of men . They prove
honest , industrious , and prudent ; and , when they Lave laid by a little capital , go into business , and raise themselves to a higher , but not a more respectable , rank . Good masters make good servants here as elsewhere ; and those who complain that there is less distance between the parties than there is in an old country , would do well to observe , that the proximity would be dearly exchanged for an estrangement that might drive one of them into a collusive alliance with dishonest tradesmen ' . L —vol . pp . 142 , 143 .
The following ridiculous circumstance which happened in Canada , and is prefaced by some very sensible remarks , shows that peculiar circumstances ( originating in the fact of white servants being less numerous than the requisitions of the country ) cause the idleness and insolence where they do occur . It is not caused by the republican spirit , ' which is the cant watchword of our aristocracy . on of
* The same complaints are made abojj ^ tfrvants the frontier . It seems , however , both us ^^^ Bd foolish to grumble at the inevitable consequence of the pecuiiarW * of things in a new country . The master and the servant perform everywhere the safcie quantity- of work . It is but a division of labour . The share of each varies with the circumstances of the society in which they are placed . In some , none of the drudgery is done by the master ; in others it is equally divided
between them . In England , the servant stands submissivel y below , and has all the hard work to do . In America , he is frequently the " top sawyer . ** I had an amusing illustration of this simple truism from the young Englishman who had just left me . He had called a few days before on an old acquaintance of his family , who was living in the interior of the upper province ; when an apology was made for not asking him to dinner , as there was neither meat nor cook in the house . The
master was without a servant ; and his wife confined to her bed by sickness . His domestics had all left him ; and no one would take their places . The cause of this desertion was , that he had told the females they should no longer sit in the same room with their mistress . This resolution so exasperated them , that , in resentment for what they viewed as an unjustifiable infringement of their ^ kffeges , they left the house
immediately . The neighbours took up ^ PpphaUer very warm ly , and entered into a sort of combination to alter the domestic arrangements of the country , and draw a stronger line of distinction between the parlour and the kitchen . It is a hazardous experiment ; and they will probably pay dearrjr for it , whether the result be victory or defeat . —vol . L pp . » W ,
298-But it is time to Uirn to the subject of the black population . It i » JMfmniUe to read this journal without perceiving thai sismvy exists in its very won * form in some of the soutben
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/42/
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