Congressional Speeches

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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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Published: April 10, 2007, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

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Thumbnail: 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.

Title: 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.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1870-05-09

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: A tariff revision should leave our industries and labor unharmed and prosperous : remarks of Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, December 9, 1886, on his resolution relative to a revision of the tariff.

Title: A tariff revision should leave our industries and labor unharmed and prosperous : remarks of Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, December 9, 1886, on his resolution relative to a revision of the tariff.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1886-12-09

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Activities of Senator McCarthy -- The World Crisis

Title: Activities of Senator McCarthy -- The World Crisis

Creator: Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970.

Date: March 9, 1954

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Agricultural experiment stations : remarks of William W. Grout, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1887.

Title: Agricultural experiment stations : remarks of William W. Grout, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1887.

Creator: Grout, William Wallace, 1836-1902.

Date: 1887-02-25

Resource type: speech

Title: America's Credibility: The Underpinning Of An Effective Foreign Policy

Creator: Leahy, Patrick J.

Date: April 15, 2004

Resource type: speech

Address of Senator Patrick Leahy School For International Training Brattleboro, Vermont April 15, 2004

Thumbnail: American labor : speech of Hon. H. Henry Powers, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1894, on the Wilson tariff bill.

Title: American labor : speech of Hon. H. Henry Powers, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, January 15, 1894, on the Wilson tariff bill.

Creator: Powers, Horace Henry, 1835-1913.

Date: 1894-01-15

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: An Answer to Misleading Charges About the Civil Rights Bill

Title: An Answer to Misleading Charges About the Civil Rights Bill

Creator: Prouty, Winston L. (Winston Lewis), 1906-1971.

Date: April 25, 1964

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: 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.

Title: 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.

Date: 1812

Resource type: speech

Signed by George Sullivan and 33 other Federalist members.

Thumbnail: Bread for our starving countrymen : speech of Hon. F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1867.

Title: Bread for our starving countrymen : speech of Hon. F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1867.

Creator: Woodbridge, Frederick Enoch, 1819-1888.

Date: 1867-03-19

Resource type: speech

"On Senate joint resolution no. 16, for the relief of the destitute in the southern and southwestern states."

Thumbnail: 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.

Title: 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.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1890

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Defense of the clergy : speech of Hon. James Meacham, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, May 17, 1854.

Title: Defense of the clergy : speech of Hon. James Meacham, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, May 17, 1854.

Creator: Meacham, James, 1810-1856.

Date: 1854-05-17

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Educational fund : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, April 26, 1876.

Title: Educational fund : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, April 26, 1876.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1876-04-26

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: 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.

Title: 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.

Creator: Stafford, Robert, 1913-

Date: 1988

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Free trade and protective tariffs tested by official statistics : speech of Hon. E.P. Walton, of Vermont, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1859.

Title: Free trade and protective tariffs tested by official statistics : speech of Hon. E.P. Walton, of Vermont, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 7, 1859.

Creator: Walton, Eliakim Persons, 1812-1890.

Date: 1859-02-07

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Freedom of the seas or else : speech of Hon. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, October 17, 1941.

Title: Freedom of the seas or else : speech of Hon. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, October 17, 1941.

Creator: Plumley, Charles Albert, 1875-1964

Date: 1941-10-17

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Hawaiian reciprocity treaty : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, executive session, March 18, 1875.

Title: Hawaiian reciprocity treaty : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, executive session, March 18, 1875.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1875-03-18

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: 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.

Title: 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.

Creator: Joyce, Charles H.

Date: 1879-04-24

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Immigration abuses : remarks of Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, December 14, 1887, on his bill (S. 141) to regulate immigration and for other purposes.

Title: Immigration abuses : remarks of Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, December 14, 1887, on his bill (S. 141) to regulate immigration and for other purposes.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1887-12-14

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Interstate commerce : speech of Hon. John W. Stewart, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, December 10, 1884.

Title: Interstate commerce : speech of Hon. John W. Stewart, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, December 10, 1884.

Creator: Stewart, John W. (John Wolcott), 1825-1915.

Date: 1884-12-10

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: It is time for a show-down : remarks of Hon. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, September 25, 1941.

Title: It is time for a show-down : remarks of Hon. Charles A. Plumley, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, September 25, 1941.

Creator: Plumley, Charles Albert, 1875-1964

Date: 1941-09-25

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Limitations of national policy : speech of Hon. Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont in the Senate of the United States August 11, 1949.

Title: Limitations of national policy : speech of Hon. Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont in the Senate of the United States August 11, 1949.

Creator: Flanders, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1880-1970.

Date: 1949-08-11

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: 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.

Title: 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.

Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853

Date: January 2, 1828

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Modern democracy : the extension of slavery in our own territory or by the acquisition of foreign territory wrong morally, politically, and economically / speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont.

Title: Modern democracy : the extension of slavery in our own territory or by the acquisition of foreign territory wrong morally, politically, and economically / speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: 1860-06-06

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: National colleges : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont in the Senate of the United States, December 5, 1872.

Title: National colleges : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont in the Senate of the United States, December 5, 1872.

Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898.

Date: December 5, 1872

Resource type: speech

Thumbnail: Nebraska and Kansas : speech of Mr. Meacham, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Feb. 15, 1854, against the Nebraska and Kansas territorial bill, and in favor of maintaining the government faith with the Indian tribes.

Title: Nebraska and Kansas : speech of Mr. Meacham, of Vermont, in the House of Representatives, Feb. 15, 1854, against the Nebraska and Kansas territorial bill, and in favor of maintaining the government faith with the Indian tribes.

Creator: Meacham, James, 1810-1856.

Date: 1854-02-15

Resource type: speech

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