Congressional Speeches

This collection features speeches made on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and Senate by Vermont Congressmen. Topics covered include the environment, education, agriculture, World War II and selective service, the Mexican War, the tariff and international trade, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. The speeches date from 1812 to the present and a wide variety of Congressmen are represented.

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A protective tariff or free trade : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 9, 1870.
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    • Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
    • Date Created: 1870-05-09
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    Activities of Senator McCarthy -- The World Crisis
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      • Creator: Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970.
      • Date Created: 1954-03-09
      • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


      Agricultural experiment stations : remarks of William W. Grout, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1887.
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        • Creator: Grout, William Wallace, 1836-1902.
        • Date Created: 1887-02-25
        • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


        America's Credibility: The Underpinning Of An Effective Foreign Policy
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          • Creator: Leahy, Patrick J.
          • Date Created: 2004-04-15
          • Description: Address of Senator Patrick Leahy School For International Training Brattleboro, Vermont April 15, 2004
          • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


          American labor : speech of Hon. H. Henry Powers, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1894, on the Wilson tariff bill.
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            • Creator: Powers, Horace Henry, 1835-1913.
            • Date Created: 1894-01-15
            • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


            An Answer to Misleading Charges About the Civil Rights Bill
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              • Creator: Prouty, Winston L. (Winston Lewis), 1906-1971.
              • Date Created: 1954-04-25
              • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


              An address of members of the House of representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain.
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                • Creator: Sullivan, George, 1771-1838., Chittenden, Martin, 1763-1840., United States. Congress,Federal Party (U.S.)
                • Date Created: 1812
                • Description: Signed by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members.
                • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


                Bread for our starving countrymen : speech of Hon. F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1867.
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                  • Creator: Woodbridge, Frederick Enoch, 1819-1888.
                  • Date Created: 1867-03-19
                  • Description: "On Senate joint resolution no. 16, for the relief of the destitute in the southern and southwestern states."
                  • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches


                  Colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morril, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, Saturday, June 14, 1890.
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                    • Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
                    • Date Created: 1890
                    • Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches