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Classic Senate Speeches

Daniel Webster by Thomas B. Lawson

Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina
Reply to Daniel Webster
January 21 and 25, 1830

Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
Second Reply to Hayne
January 26 and 27, 1830

Henry Clay of Kentucky
The American System
February 2, 3, and 6, 1832

Daniel Webster of Massachusetts
The Constitution and the Union
March 7, 1850

William H. Seward
Freedom in the New Territories  (Appeal to a "Higher Law")
March 11, 1850

Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri
Against the Compromise of 1850
June 10, 1850

Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
Farewell to the Senate
January 21, 1861

Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi
The State of Georgia
March 16, 1870

George G. Vest of Missouri
Eulogy of the Dog
September 23, 1870

Robert M. La Follette, Sr., of Wisconsin
Free Speech in Wartime
October 6, 1917

William E. Borah
The League of Nations
November 19, 1919

Rebecca Latimer Felton
Address by the First Woman Senator
November 22, 1922

Huey P. Long of Louisiana
Every Man a King
February 23, 1934

Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan
American Foreign Policy
January 10, 1945

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine
Declaration of Conscience
June 1, 1950

Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois
The Civil Rights Bill
June 10, 1964

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Speeches and introductions reprinted from Robert C. Byrd, The Senate, 1789-1989: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994.

 
  

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