popularity with comrades, [41]
Congress,
aspirations, [97];
elected to lower house, 1846, [34], [99]-[100], [159];
Whig leader, [100];
reputation in, [100];
first speech, [101];
Mexican War attitude, [101]-[102];
notable speech and ridicule of Gen. Cass, [102]-[104];
bill for abolition of slavery, [104];