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.
Showing 1 - 10 of 85 Records
Remarks of George P. Marsh, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories of New Mexico, California and Oregon : delivered in the House of representatives, August 3d, 1848.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882.
- Date Created: 1848-08-03
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Speech of Mr. J. Collamer, of Vermont, on the annexation of Texas : delivered in the house of Representatives, U.S., in Committee of the Whole, January 23, 1845.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865.
- Date Created: 1845-01-23
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Speech of Hon. Jacob Collamer, of Vermont, on affairs in Kansas. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 3 and 4, 1856.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865.
- Date Created: 1856-04-03
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
The President's message hostile to home protection, home markets, and home labor : remarks of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, April 11, 1888.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Date Created: 1888-04-11
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Environmental speeches of the Honorable Robert T. Stafford, United States Senator from the state of Vermont : delivered in the Senate of the United States, September-October 1988.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Stafford, Robert, 1913-2006.
- Date Created: 1988
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
An Answer to Misleading Charges About the Civil Rights Bill
-
Image nop
- Creator: Prouty, Winston L. (Winston Lewis), 1906-1971.
- Date Created: 1954-04-25
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Memorial of Samuel C. Crafts and others : citizens of the state of Vermont, praying for further protection to domestic industry, January 2, 1828; read, and referred to the Committee on Manufactures.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853.
- Date Created: 1828-01-02
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Oleomargarine legislation : speech of Hon. Elbert S. Brigham of Vermont in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1930.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Brigham, Elbert S. (Elbert Sidney), 1877-1962.
- Date Created: 1930-01-31
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Speech of Mr. Upham, of Vermont, on the Three million bill : delivered in the Senate of the United States, Monday, March 1, 1847.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Upham, William, 1792-1853.
- Date Created: 1847-03-01
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches
Remarks upon the bill proposing a reduction of internal taxes and of the tariff : speech of Hon. J. S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, January 10, 1883.
-
Image nop
- Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.
- Date Created: 1883-01-10
- Parent Collections: Congressional Speeches