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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The extinction of slavery : speech of Hon. F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, January 12, 1865, upon the motion to reconsider the vote by which the House, on the 15th of June last, rejected a joint resolution (S. no. 16)
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- Creator: Woodbridge, Frederick Enoch, 1819-1888.
- Date Created: 1865-01-12
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Speech of Hon. William Upham, of Vermont, on the Compromise bill : in Senate, July 1 and 2, 1850.
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- Creator: Upham, William, 1792-1853.
- Date Created: 1850-07-01
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
State of the Union / speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, February 18, 1861.
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- Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Date Created: 1861-02-18
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
I speak to-day for impartial suffrage, and for constitutional liberty based upon a free ballot, a truthful count, and an honest declaration of it : speech of Hon. Charles H. Joyce, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, April 24, 1879.
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- Creator: Joyce, Charles H.
- Date Created: 1879-04-24
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
The conduct of Captain Brownell, charged with the torture of the priest Augustine : speeches of Hon. Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, and Hon. J. H. Berry, of Arkansas, in the Senate of the United States, January 28 and February 2, 1903.
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- Creator: Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908., Berry, James Henderson, 1841-1913.
- Date Created: 1903
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Remarks in the United States Senate / by Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, upon the tariff, free coinage, and collateral matter, June 2, 1896.
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- Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Date Created: 1896-06-02
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
The blunders of a Democratic political tariff, and a British income tax : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, April 18, 1894.
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- Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Date Created: 1894-04-18
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Hathaway Nomination
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- Creator: Leahy, Patrick J.
- Date Created: 1975-06-10
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
National colleges : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont in the Senate of the United States, December 5, 1872.
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- Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Date Created: 1872-12-05
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Proposed recognition of Cuba : speech of Hon. Charles W. Willard, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, April 9, 1869, in opposition to the resolution of sympathy with the insurrection in Cuba.
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- Creator: Willard, Charles Wesley, 1827-1880.
- Date Created: 1869-04-09
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches