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Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to do. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to episode number 452 of our Civil War Podcast. I'm Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello y'all. Thanks

for tuning into the podcast. On Saturday, January 16, 1864, at the invitation of admiring Republicans in Washington,

including Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 23 Senators, and 78 Representatives who signed the note inviting her to speak.

Celebrated abolitionist orator Anna E. Dickinson delivered a fiery address on Capitol Hill before an impressive assembly of government

officials, journalists, and other public figures, including President and Mrs. Lincoln.

Her address was titled The Perils of the Hour

and in it the 21-year-old Dickinson ranked Lincoln over the coals

for his moderate policies, but received great applause and a

smile from the president when she finally declared that in the nation's hour of

peril she did support his upcoming re-election despite his

faults. The address on Capitol Hill would enhance the 21-year-old Dickinson's

growing reputation among Republican circles and spark many more

invitations to speak. It would also inspire a barrage of criticism from her many

detractors.

For example, the Democratic-leaning Geneva New York Gazette

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