Servants

At any rate, the soldiers need provisions no whit less than the servants in your house.

Tell me, grandfather, said he, if one of your servants runs away and you catch him again, what will you do to him?

What said he, but flog him to prevent his doing it again, and then treat him as before?

Servants, I pointed out, carry, tend and guard their master’s property, and only in this sense have a share in it;

your duty will be to remain indoors and send out those servants whose work is outside, and superintend those who are to work indoors, and to receive the incomings, and distribute so much of them as must be spent, and watch over so much as is to be kept in store, and take care that the sum laid by for a year be not spent in a month.

For I get one of the servants to act as prosecutor or defendant, and try to confute him;

and that in the oath inquiry shall be made as to what the relationship is, even if the victim be a servant;

Modern law adds Servants who are creditors for their wages, and the Fiscus which has a claim for arrears.

And we find, that at and before the adoption of the constitution, the persons recognized by the State laws as “servants,” constituted a numerous class.

The words “service or labor” do not necessarily, nor in their common acceptation, so much as suggest the idea of slavery—that is, they do not suggest the idea of the laborer or servant being the property of the person for whom he labors.

Then do your servants complain when they use it both for drinking and washing?

Then reflect that you are apparently harder to please than servants and invalids.

do you think a trained man ought to be so much less capable of work than his slave?