Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A Correspondent in your paper observes, it is truly pitiable that the old adage "mind your business," was not more strictly attended to. I am very apprehensive your sage correspondent does not, in the strictest sense apply himself to his own labours, and most probably is attempting to pick the mote out of his neighbour's eye while the beam remains in his own. 'Tis truly pitiable indeed, that there are any so degenerated as to direct the most envenom'd shafts of satire in a public manner at the characters of those whom they wish to charge with that shameful practice at street-corners. A question arises. Is your correspondent's character the most unspotted? the answer is ready: Touch a galled horse and he will wince. Your correspondent evidently appears to be out of the way, and not in the paths of that fair goddess, whom he with so much devotion and piety invokes. A jealous disposition, and a dealer of ill-nature is not the most eligible character for a reformer of mankind. He is therefore advised to regulate his unruly passions, and instead of a jealous and uncharitable temper, put on bowels of compassion, meekness and long suffering, agreeable to the precepts of his Master, to whom he affects to be thought a faithful servant.