Make 'em like men, not when you are forced to do so, and nobody thanks you, but when you see they are wanted, and are proper; but don't alter your name.
"My wardens wanted me to do that; they came to me, and said 'Minister,' says they, 'we don't want _you_ to change, we don't ask it; jist let us call you a Unitarian, and you can remain Episcopalian still.

We are tired of that old fashioned name, it's generally thought unsuited to the times, and behind the enlightment of the age; it's only fit for benighted Europeans.

Change the name, you needn't change any thing else.
What is a name ?' "'Every thing,' says I, 'every thing, my brethren; one name belongs to a Christian, and the other don't; that's the difference.

I'd die before I surrendered my name; for in surrenderin' that, I surrender my principles.'" "Exactly," said Mr.Slick, "that's what Brother Eldad used to say.
'Sam,' said he, 'a man with an _alias_ is the worst character in the world; for takin' a new name, shows he is ashamed of his old one; and havin' an old one, shows his new one is a cheat.'" "No," said Mr.Hopewell, "I don't like that word Consarvative.

Them folks may be good kind of people, and I guess they be, seein' that the Tories support 'em, which is the best thing I see about them; but I don't like changin' a name." "Well, I don't know," said Mr.Slick, "p'raps their old name was so infarnal dry rotted, they wanted to change it for a sound new one.