Congressional Papers
Collection Overview
The University of Vermont (UVM) is a major repository for Vermont Congressional papers, holding the records of over 30 Members of Congress from 1791 to the present. The Congressional Papers collection will provide access to digitized content from these papers. The intent is to document selected aspects of the legislative history of Vermont's members of Congress. In particular, we look at issues that were important for a particular member as well as issues that have been important over time such as support for dairy farmers, water quality, and slavery.
Time Period Covered: 1818-2004
Sub-collections
Letters Home From Congress
Dairy and the US Congress
Congressional Portraits
Congressional Speeches
Related Archival Collection(s)
Collamer Family Papers
George D. Aiken Papers
Warren R. Austin Collection
Crafts Family Collection
Published: October 07, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Topic: ("Public lands -- United States")
Topic: ("Tariff -- United States")
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, August 14, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-08-14
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include veto of Tariff Bill by President Tyler; Southern and Western Whig opinions to leave Washington without a Tariff Bill leaving the Federal Government without revenue; strategy meetings of Whigs from the Senate and House; idea to give up on public lands piece of Tariff Bill; treaty between Great Britain and the United States is before the Senate, with possible Locofoco (Democrat) opposition to it; the treaty settles boundary questions from St. Croix to the Rocky Mountains.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, July 3, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-07-03
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include attendance at church meetings in the Representatives Hall in the Capitol and various chaplains and clergymen who preach there; regular attendance of Washington citizens, particularly blacks, at church meetings; plans to see Sabbath School scholars and black Sabbath School scholars 4th of July processions; death and funeral of Senator Samuel Southard (NJ); veto by President Tyler of Tariff Bill with provision postponing the distribution to the States of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and return of bill to the House of Representatives with little chance of overriding the veto; Locofocos (Democrats) are against distribution and generally against protection, but despise Tyler.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, June 11, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-06-11
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; duties on imports; duty on foreign wool and response of wool manufacturers; distribution of the proceeds of the public lands; Apportionment Bill for Representatives to Congress debated in the Senate; fashions in Washington, DC; flowers and vegetables seen in DC.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, June 18, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-06-18
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include reports of a snow storm in Vermont; Apportionment Bill passed in the Senate; Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; distribution of the proceeds of the public lands; description of work in the Senate; Locofocos (Democrats) and Whigs in Congress; President Tyler and Congress.
Title: Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, June 25, 1842
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Date: 1842-06-25
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include different rules and protocols in the House of Representatives and the Senate such as the one hour rule; President Tyler and the Whigs in Congress; Apportionment Bill; Locofoco (Democrat) opposition to districting of States; Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; duty on wool; Distribution Act; rumor of a Cabinet break-up by President Tyler.
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