Having become a candidate for the honorable office of one of your Representatives in the next General Assembly of this State . . . With regard to existing laws, some alterations are thought to be necessary. Many respectable men have suggested that our estray laws, the laws respecting the issuing of executions, the road law, and some others, are deficient in their present form, and require alterations. But considering the great probability that the framers of those laws were wiser than myself, I should prefer not meddling with them, unless they were first attacked by others ; in which case I should feel it both a privilege and a duty to take that stand which, in my view, might tend towards the advancement of justice.