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
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.