I advocate broad and general principles; and the more comprehensive they are, so does my love of kind take a wider range.

I am a patriot, that is my boast--a moderate man--an educated man; I am, at least, a competent master of the English language, which I trust I can write and speak like a gentleman.

I am not given to low and gross habits of life; I am never found in a state of beastly intoxication late at night, or early in the day; nor do I suffer my paper to become the vehicle of gratifying that private slander or personal resentment which I am not capable of writing myself, and have not the courage to acknowledge as a man.

I am not a poor, kicked, horse-whipped, and degraded scoundrel, whose malignity is only surpassed by my cowardice--whose principal delight is to stab in the dark--a lurking assassin, but not an open murderer--a sneaking, skulking thief, without the manliness of the highwayman--a pitiful, servile--but, I believe, I have said enough.

Well, gentlemen, I trust I am none of these; nor am I saying who is.