Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

From the Salem Gazette.

Who is John E. Howard? Contemptuously exclaimed an ignorant Democrat yesterday when he heard the Electors of this State had bestowed their suffrages on him for Vice President.

Listen a moment, and you shall know;

John E. Howard is one of those you call Tories—he is a Veteran Warrior of the Revolution—the Cowpens, the Eutaw Springs, and Guilford Court House, attest his valour and history will perpetuate the memory of his gallant services in the cause of Liberty. He is an illustrious and patriotic Statesman of the school of Washington—he has been a Senator in Congress, and Governor of Maryland.

Gen. Lee, his fellow soldier, said of him, "He was always to be found where the battle raged, pressed into close action to wrestle with the bayonet—Placid in temper, and reserved in deportment, he never lessened his martial fame by arrogance or ostentation."

Gen. Greene, in a letter to a friend, 14th Nov. 1791, thus speaks of him,

"This will be handed to you by Col. Howard, as good an officer as the world affords. He deserves a statue of gold no less than the Roman and Grecian heroes. He has been wounded," &c.

Such is the man who has received the votes of the Federalists of Massachusetts; here is a double honour—it honours him that gives, and him that takes.

It is just cause of deep humiliation to every American, to recollect he dwells in a country where honorable scars and glorious services constitute no claim to promotion and reward. Our most illustrious Patriots and Statesmen are doomed to political exile; while those who abandon the Capital of the nation to pillage and flames, and who actually proposed to enforce on us the most odious measures of Despotism—a Conscription—and Impressment—are held in honour, and worshipped as idols.