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John C. Calhoun's speech to the United States Senate against the Compromise of 1850, 4 March 1850

Reproduction number: A20 (color slide; page 1) The famous South Carolinian John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) made his last Senate speech during the course of the great debate over the Compromise of 1850, a complicate More

W. L. Munsell to Abraham Lincoln, 1860 (Wants to obtain published edition of Lincoln's speeches)

Lyman Trumbull to John G. Nicolay, Monday, June 18, 1860 (Sends speeches)

D. B. Cooke & Company to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, May 18, 1860 (Telegram; Request to edit speeches)

Ben Field to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, October 20, 1862 (Speeches by General Sigel)

A Senatorial Blondin - Public domain dedication image

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

A Senatorial Blondin - Public domain dedication image

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Robert Jackson before Senate committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 15. Robert H. Jackson, nominated as Solicitor General, told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today that both he and Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes, 'stole' portions of their recent speeches attacking monopoly in big business. Jackson said, 'I never hesitate to use a good phrase wherever I find it'

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If we have to make speeches until morning!' Austin on Senate filibuster. Washington, D.C., July 1. The Senate met at noon yesterday and kept going until 1:53 the next morning. Reason was that a republican bloc, opposed to allowing the President continued power to devalue the dollar and the Treasury to dip into the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, filibustered until midnight, at which time the power was supposed to lapse. Some opinion held that the power could again be granted, even after that time, so Senator Warren R. Austin told reporters that he had a list of 10 Senators who would speak if it held the Senate in session until dawn. The monetary authorization was, as was promised, 'talked to death'

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Portion of the last speech of President McKinley

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Portions of the last speech of President McKinley

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Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg - gramophone disc, record label

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Lincoln' Lincolns speech at Gettysburg

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