Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

To the Independent Electors of Cumberland

AT the approaching election of Governor and Senators, you will be called upon to decide which of the two sets of Candidates proposed by the political parties you believe most able, honest and proper to be entrusted with the government of our Commonwealth. Those intended to displace our present Governour and Lt. Governor, whom we have tried and found faithful, are such as their warmest partizans have been puzzled to their wits ends in hunting up claims upon your gratitude, or even the smallest qualifications for office. Driven as they have been, to the meanest shift, pilfering well earned laurels from the brows of a veteran to decorate a taylor's shop general-distorting the pages of history and interlarding the grossest frauds of sycophant flattery-they dare to claim your suffrages for the hero of their tale! What are Gen. Dearborn's claims to the honours or gratitude of his country? The riches, power and patronage already showered upon him, with a prodigality and profusion that enabled him to pension his whole tribe upon the spoils of the treasury? Let Gen. D's. friends point out a few of his qualifications "more or less" for the office of chief magistrate and I will show you in Gen. Brooks ten fold in number and degree. The truth is, there can be no comparison; they have no common characteristicks; they are unlike as a brave enterprising officer and a gaudy, tinsel-coated, powder-dreading general.

Doubtless Gen. D is an avaricious, money getting, haughty, aristocratick sort of a man. Gen. Brooks it is not pretended possesses any such claims upon your affections. He is known as a brave, discreet, intelligent and upright soldier and citizen. He never took Little York by deputy and obtained the freedom of that city by a scalp and mace; but at the head of his regiment, stormed the enemy's batteries and took their cannon. Gen. Brooks character and publick services are known and justly estimated by an intelligent community. Gen. Dearborn's are seen only in his whining complaints of neglect and ill treatment from the party that support him.

It is impossible that you can hesitate which of the two to prefer, "Nor can you have any more difficulty in deciding which of the two candidates for the office of Lt. Governour most deserve the expression of your confidence. Wm. King is notorious for his ambition intrigue and selfishness. Wm. Phillips for his christian humility, charity and benevolence that knows no bounds but his ample means.

In selecting candidates for Senators from this county, no one can doubt of the good sense and judgment exercised by the convention. We rejoice to find gentlemen proposed for our suffrages of fair and unblemished private character, distinguished for their zeal in the support of civil liberty and political rights: uniform republicans and eminently qualified to support with honour the just rights of their constituents. They are so well known that recommendation is unnecessary; and while the people entertain just notions of their own rights and a proper estimate of the claims of candidates for their suffrages. we feel a most confident belief of a successful result.

SENEX.