On Mon, May 18, 2015 7:14 pm, michael perelman wrote:
> "No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight, or
> the gloom of the grave."
I think we may be indulging in a bit of anachronistic reading here. "Hirelings" and "slaves" were standard metaphorical tropes of Country Party propaganda against the Court Party in England in the 18th century. And of course it was Country Party ideology that supplied the American revolution (such as it was) with its intellectual arsenal (such as it was).