Visit him, and you will find him without coat or waistcoat, unshorn, in ragged blue trousers and old flannel shirt, too often bearing on his lantern jaws the signs of ague and sickness; but he will stand upright before you and speak to you with all the ease of a lettered gentleman in his own library.

All the odious incivility of the republican servant has been banished.

He is his own master, standing on his own threshold, and finds no need to assert his equality by rudeness.

He is delighted to see you, and bids you sit down on his battered bench, without dreaming of any such apology as an English cotter offers to a Lady Bountiful when she calls.

He has worked out his independence, and shows it in every easy movement of his body.