Have We Got the Best Men!

There are some educated, experienced, conscientious, and hard-working legislators amongst those elected, but on the other hand there are some who reflect no credit on the House, and render no service to the Colony. They are learning their new vocation at the expense of the taxpayers. In the next elections men, not measures, will decide the choice. Good legislators will not pass bad laws—bad men cannot pass good ones. The country is safer in the hands of good men than bad ones, and therefore we all ought to exert ourselves to induce upright men to stand for election, and to defend them from the bullying political persecution that hitherto have deterred the best men from serving us.