Kentucky Gazette

The recent lapses of the Editor of the Monitor from the prudential course which he has been accustomed to observe, prove that conscious guilt will display itself, sooner or later, in the conduct or language of the most wary.

Without using the name of any person, a writer in our last paper, drew the portrait of insolent and unprincipled strangers, who have imposed on the credulity of the people of Kentucky. With a folly which has no precedent, Mr. Hunt asserts that he is so exactly described, that every person must perceive he is the person alluded to. The passion which he has displayed on the occasion, is not more foolish than astonishing. If in the exercise of our duties as managers of a free press, we portray a villain, what right has Mr. Hunt to enquire, Do you mean me? If we describe a wretch attainted with crimes, from the bare mention of which, society shrinks back with horror; is it not the height of madness for him to ask, Do you mean me? If we describe a traitor to his country, is it not singular that he should ask, Do you mean me? We do not feel ourselves bound to answer such interrogatories, and if the world should infer from the manner Mr. Hunt resents the charges which he imagines we have preferred against him, that he is really guilty, it is certainly not our fault. If by his indiscretion he has drawn suspicion on his character, it is not our business to rescue him from his dilemma. We leave him to the undisturbed enjoyment of all the consolations which he can derive from his pure conscience.