pleads a personal minority—youth as a Con ' gressnian and inexperience in the rules and usages. So he modestly rises to "inquire," and manifests that innocent, yet earnest, de sire for information about matters upon which perhaps, he is more thoroughly " posted than any man on the floor.

"I am inclined to think, however,'before the session is much older, the House will find that while Old Thad. Stevens does the « stern I