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Mr. Adams!

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Mr. Adams!

3
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Mr. Adams!

4
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There you are.
Didn't you hear me call you, Mr. Adams?

5
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You could've shouted down something,
saved me climbing up four flights.

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A man that likes to talk
as much as you do, I'd think--

7
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What do you keep
coming up here for, Mr. Adams?

8
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Afraid someone's going to steal our bell?

9
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Well, don't worry.

10
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Been here more than 14 years
and ain't been carried off once.

11
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Better get yourself
back down to Congress, Mr. Adams.

12
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Getting ready to vote, and they said

13
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they couldn't settle
such an important question

14
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without Massachusetts being there.

15
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I can just imagine.

16
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All right, what burning issue
are we voting on this time?

17
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On whether or not
to grant General Washington's request

18
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that all members
of the Rhode Island militia be required

19
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to wear matching uniforms.

20
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Oh, good God.

21
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I have come to the conclusion
that one useless man

22
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is called a disgrace,

23
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that two are called a law firm,

24
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and that three or more become a Congress.

25
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And by God, I have had this Congress.

26
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For ten years,
King George and his parliament

27
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have gulled, cullied, and diddled
these colonies with their illegal taxes.

28
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Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts,
Sugar Acts, Tea Acts.

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And when we dared stand up like men,

30
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they have stopped our trade,
seized our ships,

31
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blockaded our ports, burned our towns,

32
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and spilled our blood!

33
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And still this Congress refuses to grant
any of my proposals on independence,

34
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even so much
as the courtesy of open debate!

35
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Good God,
what in the hell are you waiting for?

36
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<i>Sit down, John
Sit down, John</i>

37
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-Thomas, for God's sake, listen to me.
<i>-For God's sake, John, sit down</i>

38
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<i>-Sit down, John</i>
-I've had enough of you.

39
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<i>Sit down, John
For God's sake, John, sit down</i>

40
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-Now, listen--
<i>-Why not open up a window?</i>

41
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-Listen to me and forget the window.
<i>-It's 90 degrees</i>

42
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<i>Have mercy, John, please</i>

43
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<i>It's hot as hell in Philadelphia</i>

44
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<i>Someone ought to open up a window</i>

45
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<i>I say vote yes</i>

46
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<i>Vote yes</i>

47
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<i>Vote for independency</i>

48
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<i>Someone ought to open up a window</i>

49
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<i>I say vote yes</i>

50
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<i>Sit down, John</i>

51
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<i>Vote for independency</i>

52
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<i>Someone ought to open up a window</i>

53
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<i>Too many flies
Too many flies</i>

54
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<i>But it's hot as hell in Philadelphia</i>

55
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<i>-Are you gonna open up a window?
-Can't we compromise here?</i>

56
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<i>Vote yes</i>

57
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<i>No, too many flies here</i>

58
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<i>Vote yes</i>

59
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<i>Oh, for God's sake, John
Sit down</i>

60
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Good God, consider yourselves fortunate

61
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that you have John Adams to abuse,
for no sane man would tolerate it!

62
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<i>John, you're a bore
We've heard this before</i>

63
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<i>Now, for God's sake, John
Sit down</i>

64
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<i>- I say vote yes
-No</i>

65
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<i>-Vote yes</i>

66
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<i>Vote for independency</i>

67
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<i>Someone ought to open up a window</i>

68
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<i>I say vote yes</i>

69
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<i>Sit down, John</i>

70
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<i>Vote for independency</i>

71
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<i>Will someone shut that man up?</i>

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Never!

73
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Never!

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Dear God.

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For one solid year,
they have been sitting here, a whole year,

76
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doing nothing!

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<i>I do believe you've laid a curse
On North America</i>

78
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<i>A curse that we here now rehearse
In Philadelphia</i>

79
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<i>A second flood
A simple famine</i>

80
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<i>Plagues of locusts everywhere</i>

81
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<i>Or a cataclysmic earthquake
I'd accept with some despair</i>

82
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<i>But, no, you've sent us Congress</i>

83
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<i>Good God, sir, was that fair?</i>

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<i>I say this with humility
In Philadelphia</i>

85
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<i>We're your responsibility
In Philadelphia</i>

86
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<i>If you don't want to see us hanging
From some far-off British hill</i>

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<i>If you don't want the voice
Of independency forever still</i>

88
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<i>Then God, sir, get thee to it</i>

89
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<i>For Congress never will</i>

90
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<i>You see
We piddle, twiddle and resolve</i>

91
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<i>Not one damn thing do we solve</i>

92
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<i>Piddle, twiddle and resolve</i>

93
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<i>Nothing's ever solved</i>

94
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<i>In foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy</i>

95
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<i>Philadelphia</i>

96
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<i>Someone ought to open up a window</i>

97
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Oh, shut up!

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I now call Congress's attention
to the petition of Mr. Melkey O'May,

99
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Who claims 20 dollars' compensation
for his dead mule.

100
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It seems the animal was employed
transporting luggage

101
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in the service of Congress.

102
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The question, then,
would appear to be one of the case

103
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where if the mule expired
not by her carry but after being unloaded,

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then clearly the beast dropped dead
on its own time.

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Oh, good God.

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<i>They may sit here for years and years
In Philadelphia</i>

107
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<i>These indecisive grenadiers
Of Philadelphia</i>

108
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<i>They can't agree
On what is right and wrong</i>

109
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<i>Or what is good or bad</i>

110
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<i>I'm convinced the only purpose
This Congress ever had</i>

111
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<i>Was to gather here specifically</i>

112
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<i>To drive John Adams mad</i>

113
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<i>You see
We piddle, twiddle and resolve</i>

114
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<i>Not one damn thing do we solve</i>

115
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<i>Piddle, twiddle and resolve</i>

116
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<i>Nothing's ever solved</i>

117
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<i>In foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy</i>

118
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<i>-Philadelphia.
-John, John</i>

119
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<i>Is that you carrying on, John?</i>

120
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Oh, Abigail, Abigail, I have such
a desire to knock heads together.

121
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<i>Then why in heaven's name
do you stay there?</i>

122
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<i>Come home to Boston, John.
It's only 300 miles.</i>

123
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<i>If you left tonight,
you could be here in only eight days.</i>

124
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How can I do that, Abigail?

125
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I'm no further along now
than I was when I first came here.

126
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I know, my dearest. I know.

127
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But that's because you make
everything so complicated.

128
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It's all quite simple, really.

129
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<i>Just tell the Congress to declare</i>

130
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<i>Independency</i>

131
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<i>Then sign your name
Get out of there</i>

132
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<i>And hurry home to me</i>

133
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<i>Our children all have dysentery</i>

134
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<i>Little Tom keeps turning blue</i>

135
00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:25,916
<i>Little Abby has the measles
And I'm coming down with flu</i>

136
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<i>They say we may get smallpox</i>

137
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Madam, what else is new?

138
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Abigail, in my last letter, I wrote you

139
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that the king had collected 12,000
German mercenaries to send against us.

140
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I asked you to organize the ladies
to make saltpeter for gunpowder.

141
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-Now, have you done as I asked?
-No, John, I have not.

142
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Well, why have you not?

143
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Because you neglected to tell us
how saltpeter is made.

144
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By treating sodium nitrate
with potassium chloride, of course.

145
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-Oh, yes, of course.
-Will it be done, then?

146
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John, I'm afraid
we have a more urgent problem.

147
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More urgent, madam?

148
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<i>There's one thing every woman's missed
In Massachusetts Bay</i>

149
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<i>Don't smirk at me, you egoist</i>

150
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<i>Pay heed to what I say</i>

151
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<i>We've gone from Framingham to Boston
And we cannot find a pin</i>

152
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<i>"Don't you know there's a war on?"
Say the tradesmen with a grin</i>

153
00:11:27,769 --> 00:11:32,357
<i>Well, we will not make saltpeter</i>

154
00:11:32,441 --> 00:11:36,612
<i>Until you send us pins</i>

155
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Pins, madam? Saltpeter.

156
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-Pins.
-Saltpeter.

157
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-Pins.
-Saltpeter.

158
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-Pins.
-Saltpeter.

159
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-Pins. Pins. Pins.
-'Peter. 'Peter. 'Peter.

160
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Pins.

161
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Done, madam, done.

162
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Done, John.

163
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-Hurry home, John.
-As soon as I'm able.

164
00:12:00,594 --> 00:12:02,512
Don't stop writing. It's all I have.

165
00:12:02,596 --> 00:12:04,723
Every day, my dearest friend.

166
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<i>Till then</i>

167
00:12:10,437 --> 00:12:13,023
<i>Till then</i>

168
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<i>I am</i>

169
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<i>As I ever was</i>

170
00:12:19,905 --> 00:12:24,534
<i>And ever shall be</i>

171
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<i>Yours</i>

172
00:12:26,912 --> 00:12:28,956
<i>Yours</i>

173
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<i>Yours</i>

174
00:12:31,583 --> 00:12:33,710
<i>Yours</i>

175
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<i>Yours</i>

176
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<i>Saltpeter</i>

177
00:12:40,342 --> 00:12:44,012
<i>John</i>

178
00:12:44,096 --> 00:12:45,931
<i>Pins</i>

179
00:12:47,307 --> 00:12:52,187
<i>Abigail</i>

180
00:12:52,270 --> 00:12:55,023
<i>For God's sake, John</i>

181
00:12:55,107 --> 00:12:57,776
<i>Sit down</i>

182
00:13:11,623 --> 00:13:12,916
Franklin!

183
00:13:15,502 --> 00:13:16,670
Franklin!

184
00:13:18,005 --> 00:13:19,840
Where in hell are you?

185
00:13:21,758 --> 00:13:23,093
Franklin!

186
00:13:23,176 --> 00:13:27,806
I see you hiding behind that tree.
Won't do you any good!

187
00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:31,768
Damn it, this is no time
for playing games.

188
00:13:33,478 --> 00:13:36,815
Franklin, I have been looking
everywhere for you.

189
00:13:36,898 --> 00:13:39,109
Where in God's name have you been?

190
00:13:39,192 --> 00:13:42,195
Right here, John,
being preserved for posterity.

191
00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:43,280
Do you like it?

192
00:13:47,784 --> 00:13:50,912
-It stinks.
-As ever, the soul of tact.

193
00:13:50,996 --> 00:13:54,332
-Well, the man's no Botticelli.
-And the subject's no Venus.

194
00:13:54,416 --> 00:13:57,419
Franklin, where were you last night
when I needed you?

195
00:13:57,502 --> 00:13:59,337
You should have heard
what I suffered in there.

196
00:13:59,421 --> 00:14:02,591
Oh, I heard, all right,
along with the rest of Philadelphia.

197
00:14:02,674 --> 00:14:04,676
Lord, your voice is piercing, John.

198
00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,846
Well, I wish to heaven my arguments were.

199
00:14:07,929 --> 00:14:11,183
My God, Franklin, when are they going
to make up their minds?

200
00:14:11,266 --> 00:14:13,393
With one hand, they can raise an army

201
00:14:13,477 --> 00:14:17,272
dispatch one of their own to lead it,
and cheer the news from Bunker's Hill.

202
00:14:17,355 --> 00:14:20,192
And with the other,
they wave the olive branch,

203
00:14:20,275 --> 00:14:23,278
begging the king for a happy
and permanent reconciliation.

204
00:14:23,361 --> 00:14:25,906
Fat George has declared us in rebellion.

205
00:14:25,989 --> 00:14:28,867
-Why in bloody hell can't they?
-John, really.

206
00:14:28,950 --> 00:14:31,203
You talk as if independence were the rule.

207
00:14:31,286 --> 00:14:33,038
It's never been done before.

208
00:14:33,121 --> 00:14:36,333
No colony has ever broken from the
parent stem in the history of the world.

209
00:14:36,416 --> 00:14:38,543
Damn it, Franklin,
you make us sound treasonous.

210
00:14:39,377 --> 00:14:42,005
Do I? Treason, eh?

211
00:14:43,298 --> 00:14:45,926
"Treason is a charge
invented by winners

212
00:14:46,009 --> 00:14:47,886
as an excuse for hanging the losers."

213
00:14:47,969 --> 00:14:51,181
I have more to do than stand here
listening to you quote yourself.

214
00:14:51,264 --> 00:14:52,891
No, that was a new one.

215
00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,727
Damn it, Franklin, we're at war.

216
00:14:55,811 --> 00:14:57,813
To defend ourselves, nothing more.

217
00:14:57,896 --> 00:15:00,398
We expressed our displeasure,
the English moved against us,

218
00:15:00,482 --> 00:15:02,025
and we in turn have resisted.

219
00:15:02,109 --> 00:15:04,820
Now our fellow congressmen want
to effect a reconciliation

220
00:15:04,903 --> 00:15:07,614
-before it becomes a war.
-Reconciliation, my ass.

221
00:15:07,697 --> 00:15:09,825
The people want independence.

222
00:15:09,908 --> 00:15:11,827
The people have read
Mr. Paine's <i>Common Sense.</i>

223
00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:15,330
- I doubt very much Congress has.
-Well, that's true.

224
00:15:15,914 --> 00:15:17,666
John, why don't you give it up?

225
00:15:17,749 --> 00:15:20,210
Nobody listens to you.
You're obnoxious and disliked.

226
00:15:21,461 --> 00:15:25,048
I'm not promoting John Adams.
I'm promoting independence.

227
00:15:25,132 --> 00:15:27,384
Evidently, they cannot help
connecting the two.

228
00:15:27,467 --> 00:15:29,094
Even your own cousin.

229
00:15:29,845 --> 00:15:32,139
And if Sam Adams can't put up with you,
nobody can.

230
00:15:33,723 --> 00:15:35,183
You're getting at something.

231
00:15:36,977 --> 00:15:38,770
How can you tell?

232
00:15:38,854 --> 00:15:43,108
All right, out with it, Franklin.
What new intrigue are you cooking up?

233
00:15:43,191 --> 00:15:46,319
Let someone else in Congress propose.

234
00:15:47,028 --> 00:15:48,029
Never!

235
00:15:56,037 --> 00:15:57,455
Why? Who'd you have in mind?

236
00:15:58,373 --> 00:16:00,167
I don't know.
I really haven't given it much thought.

237
00:16:03,044 --> 00:16:04,588
You sent for me, Benjamin?

238
00:16:05,797 --> 00:16:08,967
-Never.
-Hello, Johnny!

239
00:16:09,050 --> 00:16:10,343
Richard.

240
00:16:10,427 --> 00:16:12,262
Johnny and I need some advice.

241
00:16:13,054 --> 00:16:16,433
-If it's mine to give, it's yours.
-Thank you, Richard.

242
00:16:16,516 --> 00:16:20,020
The cause that we support has come
to a complete standstill.

243
00:16:20,103 --> 00:16:22,022
-Why do you suppose that is?
-Simple.

244
00:16:22,105 --> 00:16:24,691
-Johnny here is obnoxious and disliked.
-That's true.

245
00:16:24,774 --> 00:16:26,693
What's the solution? I wonder.

246
00:16:28,820 --> 00:16:31,406
Get somebody else in Congress to propose.

247
00:16:31,489 --> 00:16:34,409
Oh, Richard, that's brilliant.
Wasn't that brilliant, John?

248
00:16:34,492 --> 00:16:37,579
-Brilliant.
-The question remains, who can it be?

249
00:16:37,662 --> 00:16:39,748
The man that we need must belong
to a delegation

250
00:16:39,831 --> 00:16:41,708
publicly committed
to support independence.

251
00:16:41,791 --> 00:16:44,544
At the present time, only Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Delaware

252
00:16:44,628 --> 00:16:47,797
-have declared our way.
-And Virginia. Don't forget Virginia.

253
00:16:47,881 --> 00:16:49,674
Oh, Richard, I haven't. How could 1?

254
00:16:49,758 --> 00:16:52,761
But strictly speaking, while Virginia's
views on independence are well known,

255
00:16:52,844 --> 00:16:55,805
your legislature in Williamsburg
has never formerly authorized

256
00:16:55,889 --> 00:16:58,683
its delegation here in Congress
to support the cause.

257
00:16:58,767 --> 00:17:02,395
Now, if we could think of a Virginian
with enough influence to go down there

258
00:17:02,479 --> 00:17:06,608
-and persuade the House of Burgesses--
-I've thought of someone!

259
00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,569
-Who?

260
00:17:09,653 --> 00:17:12,739
-Oh, why didn't I think of that?
-I'll leave tonight.

261
00:17:12,822 --> 00:17:15,450
Why, hell, I'll leave right now,
if you like!

262
00:17:15,617 --> 00:17:18,536
I'll just stop off in Stratford
long enough to refresh the missus

263
00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:20,997
and then straight to the matter.

264
00:17:21,081 --> 00:17:23,959
Yes, sir, I really have to compliment you
on your judgment, Johnny.

265
00:17:24,042 --> 00:17:25,460
Whoa, boy! Steady.

266
00:17:25,543 --> 00:17:28,129
You've come to the one colony
that can get the job done.

267
00:17:28,213 --> 00:17:31,675
Virginia, the land that gave us
our glorious commander-in-chief,

268
00:17:32,676 --> 00:17:33,885
George Washington,

269
00:17:33,969 --> 00:17:36,972
will now give the continent
its proposal on independence.

270
00:17:37,055 --> 00:17:40,600
And when Virginia proposes,
the South is bound to follow.

271
00:17:40,684 --> 00:17:43,979
And where the South goes,
the middle colonies go.

272
00:17:44,062 --> 00:17:46,147
Gentlemen, a salute!

273
00:17:46,231 --> 00:17:49,943
To Virginia,
the mother of American independence!

274
00:17:50,026 --> 00:17:53,154
Incredible. We're free
and he hasn't even left yet.

275
00:17:53,238 --> 00:17:55,532
What makes you so sure you can do it?

276
00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,162
<i>My name is Richard Henry Lee
Virginia is my home</i>

277
00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:06,584
<i>My name is Richard Henry Lee
Virginia is my home</i>

278
00:18:06,668 --> 00:18:11,131
<i>And may my horses turn to glue
If I can't deliver up to you</i>

279
00:18:11,214 --> 00:18:15,343
<i>The resolution on independency</i>

280
00:18:15,427 --> 00:18:17,971
<i>For I am FFV</i>

281
00:18:18,054 --> 00:18:19,681
<i>The first family</i>

282
00:18:19,764 --> 00:18:23,643
<i>In the sovereign colony of Virginia</i>

283
00:18:23,727 --> 00:18:26,104
<i>Yes, the FFV</i>

284
00:18:26,187 --> 00:18:27,981
<i>The oldest family</i>

285
00:18:28,064 --> 00:18:31,943
<i>In the oldest colony in America</i>

286
00:18:32,027 --> 00:18:34,154
<i>And may the British burn my land</i>

287
00:18:34,237 --> 00:18:36,364
<i>If I can't deliver to your hand</i>

288
00:18:36,448 --> 00:18:39,909
<i>A resolution on independency</i>

289
00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:43,079
<i>You see, it's here a Lee
There a Lee</i>

290
00:18:43,163 --> 00:18:45,123
<i>And everywhere a Lee, a Lee</i>

291
00:18:45,206 --> 00:18:46,166
<i>-Social
-Lee</i>

292
00:18:46,249 --> 00:18:47,167
<i>-Political
-Lee</i>

293
00:18:47,250 --> 00:18:49,169
<i>-Financial, natural
-Lee, Lee</i>

294
00:18:49,252 --> 00:18:51,171
<i>-Internal, external
-Lee, Lee</i>

295
00:18:51,254 --> 00:18:52,172
<i>-Fraternal
-Lee</i>

296
00:18:52,255 --> 00:18:53,590
<i>-Eternal
-Lee</i>

297
00:18:53,673 --> 00:18:55,550
<i>The FFV</i>

298
00:18:55,633 --> 00:18:57,177
<i>The first family</i>

299
00:18:57,260 --> 00:19:01,139
<i>In the sovereign colony of Virginia</i>

300
00:19:01,222 --> 00:19:03,475
<i>And may my wife refuse my bed</i>

301
00:19:03,558 --> 00:19:05,477
<i>If I can't deliver as I said</i>

302
00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,147
<i>A resolution on independency</i>

303
00:19:09,230 --> 00:19:12,150
Spoken modest-Lee. God help us.

304
00:19:12,233 --> 00:19:14,152
Oh, he will, John. He will.

305
00:19:14,235 --> 00:19:17,739
<i>They say that God in heaven
Is everybody's God</i>

306
00:19:17,822 --> 00:19:20,408
-Amen.
<i>-I'll admit that God in heaven</i>

307
00:19:20,492 --> 00:19:24,079
<i>Is everybody's God</i>

308
00:19:24,162 --> 00:19:26,623
<i>But I tell you, John, with pride</i>

309
00:19:26,706 --> 00:19:29,876
<i>God leans a little
On the side of the Lees</i>

310
00:19:29,959 --> 00:19:32,545
<i>The Lees of old Virginia</i>

311
00:19:32,629 --> 00:19:35,131
<i>You see, it's here a Lee
There a Lee</i>

312
00:19:35,215 --> 00:19:37,342
<i>And everywhere a Lee, a Lee</i>

313
00:19:37,425 --> 00:19:40,678
<i>Here a Lee, there a Lee
And everywhere a Lee</i>

314
00:19:40,762 --> 00:19:43,556
<i>Look out, there's Arthur Lee
Bobby Lee</i>

315
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,767
<i>General Light horse Harry Lee</i>

316
00:19:45,850 --> 00:19:47,394
<i>Willie Lee, Jesse Lee</i>

317
00:19:47,477 --> 00:19:49,479
-And Richard H.
-That's me.

318
00:19:49,562 --> 00:19:53,274
<i>And may my blood stop running blue</i>

319
00:19:53,358 --> 00:19:58,571
<i>If I can't deliver up to you
The resolution on independency</i>

320
00:19:58,655 --> 00:20:01,866
<i>Yes, sir, my God
It's here a Lee, there a Lee</i>

321
00:20:01,950 --> 00:20:03,993
Come on, boys! Join in with me!

322
00:20:04,077 --> 00:20:06,746
<i>-Here a Lee, there a Lee
-When do you leave?</i>

323
00:20:06,830 --> 00:20:08,081
<i>Immediate-Lee</i>

324
00:20:08,164 --> 00:20:11,042
<i>-Here a Lee, there a Lee
-When will you return?</i>

325
00:20:11,126 --> 00:20:12,085
<i>Short-Lee</i>

326
00:20:12,168 --> 00:20:16,214
<i>Here a Lee, there a Lee
And I'll come back triumphant-Lee</i>

327
00:20:16,297 --> 00:20:20,427
<i>Here a Lee, there a Lee
Everywhere a Lee, a Lee</i>

328
00:20:20,510 --> 00:20:22,887
<i>Forward</i>

329
00:20:22,971 --> 00:20:28,351
<i>On</i>

330
00:20:33,940 --> 00:20:37,652
That was the most revolting display
I have ever witnessed.

331
00:20:37,735 --> 00:20:39,529
They're a warm-blooded people, Virginians.

332
00:20:39,612 --> 00:20:41,823
Not him, Franklin. You.

333
00:20:41,906 --> 00:20:44,534
You and your infernal obsession
for deviousness.

334
00:20:44,617 --> 00:20:47,704
If you'd come out and asked the man,
he'd have been gone a half hour ago.

335
00:20:47,787 --> 00:20:50,957
Yes, and he would be doing us a favor.
Cheer up, John.

336
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,293
At this very moment
our cause is again riding high,

337
00:20:53,376 --> 00:20:56,379
sitting straight in the saddle
and full gallop for Virginia.

338
00:20:56,463 --> 00:21:00,425
<i>And the women are serene</i>

339
00:21:00,508 --> 00:21:01,593
Oh, good God.

340
00:21:01,676 --> 00:21:03,887
<i>Full-bosomed</i>

341
00:21:03,970 --> 00:21:06,890
<i>Full-bosomed</i>

342
00:21:06,973 --> 00:21:12,103
<i>Full-bosomed, Benjy
Every one a queen</i>

343
00:21:12,187 --> 00:21:14,397
<i>Why, they are Lees, damn it</i>

344
00:21:14,481 --> 00:21:16,065
<i>Lees of old Virginia</i>

345
00:21:16,149 --> 00:21:19,527
<i>Yes, sir, by God
It's here a Lee, there a Lee</i>

346
00:21:19,611 --> 00:21:21,488
Come on, John! Step live-Lee!

347
00:21:21,571 --> 00:21:25,450
<i>Here a Lee, there a Lee
Everywhere a Lee, a Lee</i>

348
00:21:25,533 --> 00:21:29,037
<i>Here a Lee, there a Lee
Everywhere a Lee, a Lee</i>

349
00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:30,997
<i>Forward</i>

350
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:36,586
<i>On</i>

351
00:22:04,405 --> 00:22:06,741
-Excuse me.
-Yes?

352
00:22:06,824 --> 00:22:09,744
I'm Dr. Lyman Hall,
the new delegate from Georgia.

353
00:22:10,703 --> 00:22:13,790
I'm Andrew McNair,
congressional custodian.

354
00:22:13,873 --> 00:22:16,960
If you'll be wanting anything at all,
just holler out "McNair"

355
00:22:17,043 --> 00:22:20,129
as all the others do
and there won't be too long to wait.

356
00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:23,967
Where does the Georgia delegation belong?

357
00:22:24,050 --> 00:22:28,096
Oh, they mill about over there
in that corner near the two Carolinas.

358
00:22:34,102 --> 00:22:35,812
It's after 10:00.

359
00:22:35,895 --> 00:22:37,981
I was told Congress convenes at 10.

360
00:22:38,064 --> 00:22:41,109
Well, they'll be wandering in
any time now, sir,

361
00:22:41,192 --> 00:22:43,528
with Old Grape 'n Guts leading the pack.

362
00:22:43,611 --> 00:22:45,738
-Old who?
-McNair!

363
00:22:45,822 --> 00:22:47,156
Grape 'N Guts.

364
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,324
'Nair!

365
00:22:49,951 --> 00:22:51,327
Fetch me a rum.

366
00:22:51,411 --> 00:22:55,373
Mr. Hopkins, you'll be pleased
to meet Dr. Lyman Hall.

367
00:22:56,958 --> 00:22:58,876
I don't need a doctor, damn it.

368
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,129
New delegate from Georgia.

369
00:23:01,212 --> 00:23:03,339
Well, why didn't you say so?

370
00:23:04,173 --> 00:23:08,052
I'm Stephen Hopkins,
old delegate from Rhode Island.

371
00:23:08,136 --> 00:23:12,390
-McNair, fetch two rums.
-I fear it's a little early in the day.

372
00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,352
Nonsense.

373
00:23:16,436 --> 00:23:20,481
It's a medicinal fact that rum gets
a man's heart started in the morning.

374
00:23:22,108 --> 00:23:24,360
I'm surprised you didn't know that.

375
00:23:24,444 --> 00:23:27,238
Speaking as the oldest man in
the Congress, I can tell you right now--

376
00:23:27,322 --> 00:23:30,074
Ben Franklin is older by almost a year.

377
00:23:30,158 --> 00:23:31,284
Rum!

378
00:23:37,081 --> 00:23:38,499
Tell me, doctor.

379
00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:41,544
Where does Georgia stand
on the question of independence?

380
00:23:41,627 --> 00:23:44,172
With South Carolina, of course.

381
00:23:45,340 --> 00:23:46,799
Neddy, good morning.

382
00:23:46,883 --> 00:23:50,303
Neddy, come over here and shake
the hand of Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia.

383
00:23:50,386 --> 00:23:53,264
Dr. Hall,
this here is Edward Rutledge from...

384
00:23:53,348 --> 00:23:55,266
whichever Carolina he says he's from.

385
00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:58,061
-God knows I can't keep them straight.
-It's a pleasure, Dr. Hall.

386
00:23:58,144 --> 00:24:00,897
-Your servant, Mr. Rutledge.
-You've met the long and the short

387
00:24:00,980 --> 00:24:02,231
of it now, doctor.

388
00:24:02,315 --> 00:24:05,026
Neddy here is just a lad.
He's the youngest of us.

389
00:24:05,109 --> 00:24:07,737
-Except for Ben Franklin.
-McNair!

390
00:24:07,820 --> 00:24:09,739
Your rum!

391
00:24:09,822 --> 00:24:12,158
Where did you go for it, man? Jamaica?

392
00:24:13,409 --> 00:24:15,411
Well, now, come along, Dr. Hall.

393
00:24:15,495 --> 00:24:18,664
I know you must be anxious
to meet your colleagues from the South.

394
00:24:21,376 --> 00:24:23,419
Doctor, may I present
to you Joseph Hewes.

395
00:24:23,503 --> 00:24:26,047
This is Dr. Lyman Hall,
the new delegate from Georgia.

396
00:24:26,130 --> 00:24:29,467
-An honor and a pleasure, gentlemen.
-Where do you stand on independence?

397
00:24:29,550 --> 00:24:32,136
I'm here without instructions, Mr. Hewes,

398
00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:34,722
able to vote my own personal convictions.

399
00:24:35,765 --> 00:24:36,849
And they are?

400
00:24:41,270 --> 00:24:42,271
Personal.

401
00:24:44,232 --> 00:24:45,274
Dr. Hall...

402
00:24:46,067 --> 00:24:48,861
the Deep South speaks with one voice.

403
00:24:48,945 --> 00:24:50,279
It's traditional.

404
00:24:50,363 --> 00:24:53,074
Even more, it is historical.

405
00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:56,119
Enter Delaware.

406
00:24:58,121 --> 00:25:02,291
Speak plain, Rutledge. You know
I can't follow a word of your damn French.

407
00:25:02,375 --> 00:25:04,168
It's Latin, Colonel McKean,

408
00:25:04,252 --> 00:25:08,047
a tribute to the eternal peace
and harmony of the Delaware delegation.

409
00:25:08,131 --> 00:25:11,050
What are you saying, man?
You know perfectly well

410
00:25:11,134 --> 00:25:14,303
that neither Rodney nor I can stand
the sight of this louse.

411
00:25:14,387 --> 00:25:16,431
-Now, Thomas--
-Gentlemen, please.

412
00:25:16,514 --> 00:25:19,600
This is Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia.

413
00:25:20,726 --> 00:25:22,770
-Caesar Rodney.
-An honor, sir.

414
00:25:22,854 --> 00:25:26,441
George Read and Colonel Thomas McKean.

415
00:25:26,524 --> 00:25:27,692
-Dr. Hall.
-Your servant.

416
00:25:27,775 --> 00:25:31,154
I wonder if I might speak to you
for a moment in private.

417
00:25:31,237 --> 00:25:32,405
By all means.

418
00:25:35,533 --> 00:25:38,286
-McNair!
-I'm coming! I'm coming!

419
00:25:38,369 --> 00:25:40,788
Help me. I'm stuck.

420
00:25:43,749 --> 00:25:44,792
Tell me, sir.

421
00:25:45,710 --> 00:25:50,465
Would you be
a doctor of medicine or theology?

422
00:25:50,548 --> 00:25:53,259
Both, Mr. Rodney.
Which one can be of service?

423
00:25:53,342 --> 00:25:56,095
By all means, the physician first.

424
00:25:56,179 --> 00:25:58,181
Then we shall see about the other.

425
00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:01,392
I shall call at your convenience, sir.

426
00:26:11,068 --> 00:26:13,905
I trust, Caesar,
when you're through converting

427
00:26:13,988 --> 00:26:15,656
the poor fellow to independency

428
00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:18,117
that you'll give the opposition
a fair crack at him.

429
00:26:20,036 --> 00:26:22,330
You're too late, John.

430
00:26:22,413 --> 00:26:24,874
Once I get them, they're got.

431
00:26:24,957 --> 00:26:29,962
Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia,
Mr. John Dickinson of Pennsylvania.

432
00:26:30,046 --> 00:26:31,714
-An honor, sir.
-Your servant, sir.

433
00:26:33,132 --> 00:26:34,383
Tell me, doctor.

434
00:26:35,051 --> 00:26:38,304
-Where do you stand on the question of--
-Independence?

435
00:26:38,888 --> 00:26:39,722
Treason.

436
00:26:42,517 --> 00:26:43,976
I've no stomach for it.

437
00:26:44,810 --> 00:26:46,896
Then be careful not to dine
with John Adams.

438
00:26:46,979 --> 00:26:48,689
Between the fish and the soufflé,

439
00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:51,359
you'll find yourself hanging
from an English rope.

440
00:26:51,442 --> 00:26:52,818
Your servant, sir.

441
00:26:56,113 --> 00:27:00,493
Judge Wilson, forgive me,
but how can anyone see you

442
00:27:00,576 --> 00:27:04,705
if you insist on standing
in Mr. Dickinson's shadow?

443
00:27:05,831 --> 00:27:09,835
James Wilson, also of Pennsylvania.

444
00:27:09,919 --> 00:27:10,753
Sir.

445
00:27:12,213 --> 00:27:13,339
An honor, sir.

446
00:27:14,757 --> 00:27:16,092
Good morning. Good morning.

447
00:27:19,470 --> 00:27:21,013
Good morning, ladies. Good morning.

448
00:27:21,681 --> 00:27:24,642
Steady, steady. There we are.

449
00:27:24,725 --> 00:27:27,395
Make gangway, sir. Make gangway!

450
00:27:28,104 --> 00:27:30,022
Good morning, Mr. Wilson. Good morning.

451
00:27:30,106 --> 00:27:32,108
Watch where you're going. Over there.

452
00:27:33,401 --> 00:27:37,405
McNair, get me out of this thing.
Watch out for my foot.

453
00:27:38,823 --> 00:27:40,866
-Good morning, all.
-Morning, Ben.

454
00:27:42,201 --> 00:27:45,329
Here you are. Two coppers apiece.
Now straight back to jail with you.

455
00:27:45,413 --> 00:27:47,123
-Good morning, Stephen.
-Hi, Benjamin.

456
00:27:47,206 --> 00:27:48,207
Good morning.

457
00:27:53,296 --> 00:27:56,048
What are you staring at? Haven't
you ever seen a great man before?

458
00:27:56,924 --> 00:27:59,218
Good Lord, sir, do you have
the honor to be Dr. Franklin?

459
00:27:59,302 --> 00:28:02,471
Yes, I have that honor. Unfortunately,
the gout accompanies the honor.

460
00:28:03,389 --> 00:28:04,932
Been living too high again, pappy?

461
00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:08,644
Oh, Stephen, I only wish
King George felt like my big toe all over.

462
00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:14,317
McNair! Fetch a pillow
and two more rums.

463
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,528
Franklin, where's that idiot Lee?
Is he back yet? I don't see him.

464
00:28:17,612 --> 00:28:20,364
Softly, John.
Your voice is hurting my foot.

465
00:28:20,448 --> 00:28:24,118
One more day. That's how long
I'll remain silent, not a minute longer.

466
00:28:24,201 --> 00:28:26,746
That strutting popinjay
was so damn sure of himself,

467
00:28:26,829 --> 00:28:29,040
he's had time to bring back
a dozen proposals by now.

468
00:28:29,123 --> 00:28:33,502
Tell me, James, how do you explain
the strange, monumental quietude

469
00:28:33,586 --> 00:28:36,130
that Congress has been treated to
these past 30 days?

470
00:28:36,213 --> 00:28:39,884
Has the ill wind of independence
finally blown itself out?

471
00:28:40,718 --> 00:28:42,511
Well, if you ask me--

472
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:46,349
For myself, I must confess
that a month free from New England noise

473
00:28:46,432 --> 00:28:48,351
is more therapeutic
than a month in the country.

474
00:28:48,434 --> 00:28:51,270
-Don't you agree, James?
-Well, I feel--

475
00:28:51,354 --> 00:28:53,272
Mr. Adams, pray look for your voice, sir.

476
00:28:53,356 --> 00:28:58,277
It cannot be far, and God knows we need
the entertainment in this Congress.

477
00:29:02,365 --> 00:29:05,618
Congratulations. You just made your
greatest contribution to independence.

478
00:29:05,701 --> 00:29:08,329
-You kept your flap shut.
-One more day, Franklin,

479
00:29:08,412 --> 00:29:10,414
then I shall do the proposing.

480
00:29:12,249 --> 00:29:15,878
Gentlemen,
the usual morning festivities concluded,

481
00:29:15,961 --> 00:29:18,381
I will now call Congress to order.

482
00:29:18,964 --> 00:29:20,132
Mr. Thomson...

483
00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:27,556
Second Continental Congress,
in Philadelphia, is now in session.

484
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,102
Seven, June, 1776,
the 380th meeting.

485
00:29:31,185 --> 00:29:33,020
Sweet Jesus!

486
00:29:34,855 --> 00:29:37,525
The Honorable John Hancock
of Massachusetts Bay, president.

487
00:29:40,152 --> 00:29:42,363
Thank you, Mr. Thomson.
Mr. McNair...

488
00:29:43,030 --> 00:29:46,492
the stores of rum and
other drinking spirits are hereby closed

489
00:29:46,575 --> 00:29:50,037
to the colony of Rhode Island
for a period of three days.

490
00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:53,290
-Yes, sir.
-Johnny, you can't do that.

491
00:29:53,374 --> 00:29:56,627
Sit down, Mr. Hopkins.
You've abused the privilege.

492
00:29:59,296 --> 00:30:01,257
The chair would like
to take this opportunity

493
00:30:01,340 --> 00:30:04,135
to welcome Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia
to this Congress

494
00:30:04,218 --> 00:30:06,345
and hopes he will make the best of it.

495
00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:11,392
My God, it's hot.

496
00:30:12,309 --> 00:30:14,478
The secretary will read the roll.

497
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:17,231
All members present
with the following exceptions:

498
00:30:17,314 --> 00:30:20,234
Mr. Paine, Mr. Gerry,
Mr. Samuel Adams of Massachusetts,

499
00:30:20,317 --> 00:30:24,739
Mr. Morton of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wythe
and Mr. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia,

500
00:30:24,822 --> 00:30:27,658
and the entire delegation of New Jersey.

501
00:30:27,742 --> 00:30:31,495
I'm concerned over the continual absence
of one-thirteenth of this Congress.

502
00:30:31,579 --> 00:30:33,122
Where is New Jersey?

503
00:30:33,205 --> 00:30:36,292
Somewhere between New York
and Pennsylvania.

504
00:30:39,837 --> 00:30:41,380
Thank you very much.

505
00:30:42,298 --> 00:30:45,968
Dr. Franklin, have you heard anything?
Your son resides there.

506
00:30:46,051 --> 00:30:47,470
Son, sir? What son?

507
00:30:48,262 --> 00:30:51,056
The royal governor of New Jersey, sir.

508
00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:53,768
As that title might suggest, sir,

509
00:30:53,851 --> 00:30:56,187
we are not in touch
at the present time.

510
00:30:56,270 --> 00:30:57,271
Yes.

511
00:30:58,063 --> 00:31:00,941
Well... Now for the weather report...

512
00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:02,610
Mr. Jefferson of Virginia.

513
00:31:05,404 --> 00:31:08,574
-Mr. Jefferson!
-Present, sir.

514
00:31:08,657 --> 00:31:10,701
May we hear about the weather?

515
00:31:10,785 --> 00:31:13,162
As if it weren't speaking for itself.

516
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,708
Eighty-seven degrees of temperature,

517
00:31:17,792 --> 00:31:21,253
30-point-aught-six inches of mercury.

518
00:31:21,337 --> 00:31:22,213
Wind...

519
00:31:23,589 --> 00:31:26,091
from the southwest
for the rest of the day.

520
00:31:26,175 --> 00:31:29,345
And tonight--
Tonight I'm leaving for home.

521
00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:32,681
-On business?
-Family business.

522
00:31:32,765 --> 00:31:35,017
Give her a flourish for me, young feller.

523
00:32:03,170 --> 00:32:05,214
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies.

524
00:32:05,297 --> 00:32:08,300
To New York, dispatch number 1,137."

525
00:32:08,384 --> 00:32:11,053
Ah, sweet Jesus!

526
00:32:11,136 --> 00:32:13,973
"To the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, president. 'Dear, sir,

527
00:32:14,056 --> 00:32:16,600
it is with grave apprehension
that I have learned this day

528
00:32:16,684 --> 00:32:18,769
of the sailing
from Halifax, Nova Scotia,

529
00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:20,688
of a considerable force of British troops

530
00:32:20,771 --> 00:32:23,107
in the company of foreign mercenaries
and under the command

531
00:32:23,190 --> 00:32:24,859
of General Sir William Howe.

532
00:32:24,942 --> 00:32:27,403
There can be no doubt
that their destination is New York,

533
00:32:27,486 --> 00:32:30,698
for to take and hold this city
and the Hudson Valley beyond

534
00:32:30,781 --> 00:32:33,617
would serve to separate New England
from the rest of the colonies,

535
00:32:33,701 --> 00:32:36,245
permitting both sections
to be crushed in turn.

536
00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:39,498
Sadly, I see no way of stopping them
at the present time,

537
00:32:39,582 --> 00:32:41,750
as my army is absolutely falling apart.

538
00:32:41,834 --> 00:32:44,003
My military chest is totally exhausted.

539
00:32:44,086 --> 00:32:47,214
My commissary general has strained
his credit to the last.

540
00:32:47,298 --> 00:32:51,010
My quartermaster has no food,
no arms, No ammunition,

541
00:32:51,093 --> 00:32:53,929
and my troops are in
a state of near mutiny.

542
00:32:54,013 --> 00:32:58,934
I pray God some relief arrives
before the armada, but fear it will not.

543
00:32:59,018 --> 00:33:00,227
Your obedient...

544
00:33:01,979 --> 00:33:03,439
G. Washington.'"

545
00:33:04,231 --> 00:33:06,483
-Mr. President!
-Colonel McKean.

546
00:33:06,567 --> 00:33:11,739
Surely we have managed to promote
the gloomiest man on this continent

547
00:33:11,822 --> 00:33:13,741
to the head of our troops.

548
00:33:13,824 --> 00:33:18,162
Those dispatches are
the most depressing accumulation

549
00:33:18,245 --> 00:33:23,876
of disaster, doom and despair in
the entire annals of military history.

550
00:33:23,959 --> 00:33:26,253
Colonel McKean, please!

551
00:33:26,337 --> 00:33:29,465
-What?
-It's too hot.

552
00:33:30,925 --> 00:33:32,801
Well, I suppose so.

553
00:33:33,427 --> 00:33:37,848
General Washington will continue wording
his dispatches as he sees fit.

554
00:33:37,932 --> 00:33:39,934
And I'm sure we all pray

555
00:33:40,017 --> 00:33:43,938
he finds happier thoughts
to convey in the near future.

556
00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:47,149
Mr. Thomson, are there any resolutions?

557
00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:49,693
Dr. Josiah Barlett of New Hampshire.

558
00:33:50,945 --> 00:33:54,365
"Resolved: that for the duration
of the present hostilities,

559
00:33:54,448 --> 00:33:57,534
the Congress discourage every type
of extravagance and dissipation,

560
00:33:57,618 --> 00:34:00,287
elaborate funerals
and other expensive diversions,

561
00:34:00,371 --> 00:34:03,207
especially all horse racing, gambling

562
00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:06,126
and other forms of sinful activity--"

563
00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:07,670
Fire wagon!

564
00:34:24,937 --> 00:34:27,564
-Where's the fire? Can anybody tell?
-Looks like the Pepperton house.

565
00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:30,943
-Couldn't be. It's brand-new.
- It might be the city tavern.

566
00:34:31,026 --> 00:34:32,444
Bite your tongue, man.

567
00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:45,040
Benjy, I'm back! I'm back, Johnny!

568
00:34:51,005 --> 00:34:53,132
-Lee, is it done?
-First things first.

569
00:34:53,966 --> 00:34:58,387
Tom, your little bride wants to know:
"When's he coming home?"

570
00:34:58,470 --> 00:35:01,056
- I leave tonight.
-Never mind that, man. Is it done?

571
00:35:01,140 --> 00:35:03,267
Done? Why, certain-Lee.

572
00:35:04,143 --> 00:35:07,938
Mr. President, I have returned from
Virginia with the following resolution.

573
00:35:08,022 --> 00:35:11,608
"Resolved: that these united colonies are,
and of a right ought to be,

574
00:35:11,692 --> 00:35:13,235
free and independent states

575
00:35:13,318 --> 00:35:15,863
that they are absolved
from allegiance to the British crown

576
00:35:15,946 --> 00:35:19,199
and that all political connection
between them and Great Britain is

577
00:35:19,283 --> 00:35:22,411
and ought to be totally dissolved."

578
00:35:23,328 --> 00:35:25,998
Mr. President, I second the proposal.

579
00:35:26,081 --> 00:35:28,042
The resolution has been proposed
and seconded.

580
00:35:28,125 --> 00:35:30,002
The chair will now entertain debate.

581
00:35:31,628 --> 00:35:33,255
-Mr. Dickinson.
-Mr. President.

582
00:35:33,338 --> 00:35:35,799
Pennsylvania moves, as always,

583
00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:39,970
that the question of independence
be postponed indefinitely.

584
00:35:40,054 --> 00:35:41,930
I second the motion.

585
00:35:42,014 --> 00:35:43,182
Judge Wilson,

586
00:35:44,349 --> 00:35:47,269
in your eagerness to be loved,
you seem to have forgotten

587
00:35:47,352 --> 00:35:50,105
that Pennsylvania cannot second
its own motion.

588
00:35:51,523 --> 00:35:53,358
Delaware seconds.

589
00:35:53,442 --> 00:35:55,569
You would, you lousy wart.

590
00:35:56,278 --> 00:35:59,490
The motion to postpone
has been moved and seconded.

591
00:35:59,573 --> 00:36:00,824
Mr. Thomson.

592
00:36:02,284 --> 00:36:04,078
On the motion to postpone indefinitely

593
00:36:04,161 --> 00:36:07,081
the resolution on independency
or proceed with the debate,

594
00:36:07,164 --> 00:36:10,626
all those in favor of debate say "yea,"
all those for postponement say "nay."

595
00:36:10,709 --> 00:36:14,713
-New Hampshire.
-New Hampshire favors debate. Yea.

596
00:36:16,465 --> 00:36:19,343
New Hampshire says yea.
Massachusetts?

597
00:36:19,426 --> 00:36:24,223
Massachusetts, having borne
the brunt of the king's tyranny...

598
00:36:24,306 --> 00:36:26,642
Yes, I said tyranny!

599
00:36:27,309 --> 00:36:30,104
Massachusetts now
and for all time says yea.

600
00:36:31,313 --> 00:36:33,774
Massachusetts says yea.

601
00:36:33,857 --> 00:36:35,317
Rhode Island?

602
00:36:36,318 --> 00:36:37,736
Mr. Hopkins.

603
00:36:38,612 --> 00:36:42,908
-Where's Rhode Island?
-Out visiting the necessary.

604
00:36:42,991 --> 00:36:46,662
After what Rhode Island's consumed,
I can't say I'm surprised.

605
00:36:46,745 --> 00:36:48,539
We'll come back to him, Mr. Thomson.

606
00:36:48,622 --> 00:36:50,582
Rhode Island passes.

607
00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:56,255
Connecticut.

608
00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:01,135
While Connecticut has, till now,

609
00:37:01,218 --> 00:37:03,262
been against this proposal,

610
00:37:04,012 --> 00:37:06,348
our legislature has instructed me
that in the event

611
00:37:06,431 --> 00:37:09,685
it is introduced by any colony
outside of New England,

612
00:37:09,768 --> 00:37:12,062
we could not any longer
withhold our support.

613
00:37:12,146 --> 00:37:14,314
-Connecticut says yea.
-Hear! Hear!

614
00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:17,151
Connecticut says yea. New York.

615
00:37:18,235 --> 00:37:20,612
New York abstains, courteously.

616
00:37:20,696 --> 00:37:23,323
-New York abstains.
-Courteously.

617
00:37:25,826 --> 00:37:29,037
-New Jersey.
-Absent, Mr. Secretary.

618
00:37:30,414 --> 00:37:32,291
New Jersey's absent. Pennsylvania.

619
00:37:33,208 --> 00:37:36,628
Pennsylvania, for the 24th time, says nay.

620
00:37:36,712 --> 00:37:39,131
Pennsylvania says nay. Delaware.

621
00:37:40,007 --> 00:37:44,678
Delaware, as ever for independence,
says yea.

622
00:37:44,761 --> 00:37:47,431
Delaware says yea. Maryland.

623
00:37:48,223 --> 00:37:51,643
Maryland would welcome independence
if it were given,

624
00:37:51,727 --> 00:37:54,855
but is highly skeptical
that it can be taken.

625
00:37:54,938 --> 00:37:56,481
Maryland says nay.

626
00:37:58,358 --> 00:38:00,569
Maryland says nay. Virginia.

627
00:38:00,652 --> 00:38:03,363
Virginia, the first colony, says yea.

628
00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:08,994
Virginia says yea. North Carolina.

629
00:38:09,077 --> 00:38:13,540
North Carolina respectfully yields
to South Carolina.

630
00:38:13,624 --> 00:38:15,542
-South Carolina.
-Mr. President,

631
00:38:16,627 --> 00:38:20,297
although we of South Carolina
have never seriously considered

632
00:38:20,380 --> 00:38:22,591
the question of independence,

633
00:38:22,674 --> 00:38:26,595
when a gentleman proposes it,
attention must be paid.

634
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:31,767
However, we in the Deep South,

635
00:38:31,850 --> 00:38:33,769
unlike our friends in New England,

636
00:38:33,852 --> 00:38:37,356
have no cause for impatience
at the present time.

637
00:38:38,565 --> 00:38:42,027
If at some future date it becomes
the wish of all our sister colonies

638
00:38:42,110 --> 00:38:45,781
to effect a separation,
we will not stand in the way.

639
00:38:45,864 --> 00:38:47,824
But for the time being,

640
00:38:47,908 --> 00:38:51,161
South Carolina will wait and watch.

641
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:53,121
The vote is nay.

642
00:38:56,250 --> 00:39:00,045
-North Carolina--
-Says nay. Yes, Mr. Hewes. I know.

643
00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:03,090
Georgia.

644
00:39:06,593 --> 00:39:07,469
Georgia.

645
00:39:09,388 --> 00:39:14,142
Mr. President, Georgia seems to be split
right down the middle on this issue.

646
00:39:14,226 --> 00:39:16,687
The people are against it,
and I'm for it.

647
00:39:19,690 --> 00:39:22,943
However, I'm afraid I'm not quite certain

648
00:39:23,026 --> 00:39:27,030
whether representing the people means
relying on their judgment or on my own.

649
00:39:27,114 --> 00:39:29,241
In all fairness,
until I can figure that out,

650
00:39:29,324 --> 00:39:31,118
I'd better lean a little on their side.

651
00:39:32,035 --> 00:39:33,161
Georgia says nay.

652
00:39:37,582 --> 00:39:39,376
Georgia says nay.

653
00:39:40,419 --> 00:39:41,420
Rhode Island.

654
00:39:43,505 --> 00:39:45,924
Second call, Rhode Island!

655
00:39:46,633 --> 00:39:48,218
Rhode Island!

656
00:39:48,302 --> 00:39:51,013
I'm coming! I'm coming!

657
00:39:51,096 --> 00:39:53,473
Hold your damn horses.

658
00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:56,351
-We're waiting on you, Mr. Hopkins.
-Well, it won't kill you.

659
00:39:57,060 --> 00:40:00,522
You'd think
the Congress would have its own pisser.

660
00:40:00,605 --> 00:40:02,065
All right, where does she stand?

661
00:40:02,149 --> 00:40:05,569
Five for debate, five for postponement,
one abstention and one absence.

662
00:40:05,652 --> 00:40:07,279
So it's up to me, huh?

663
00:40:07,362 --> 00:40:08,864
Well, I'll tell ya.

664
00:40:08,947 --> 00:40:13,035
In all my years, I never seen,
heard nor smelled an issue

665
00:40:13,118 --> 00:40:15,746
that was so dangerous
it couldn't be talked about.

666
00:40:15,829 --> 00:40:18,874
Hell, yes! I'm for debating anything.
Rhode Island says yea.

667
00:40:21,084 --> 00:40:24,254
-McNair, get Mr. Hopkins a rum!
-But you said--

668
00:40:24,338 --> 00:40:27,424
Get him the whole damn barrel if he wants!

669
00:40:28,467 --> 00:40:30,969
The chair now declares this Congress
a Committee of the Whole

670
00:40:31,053 --> 00:40:34,431
for the purpose of debating
Virginia's resolution on independence.

671
00:40:34,514 --> 00:40:35,599
Mr. Dickinson.

672
00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:43,148
Well, now, you've got
your way at last, Mr. Adams.

673
00:40:43,231 --> 00:40:45,359
The matter may now be discussed.

674
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,779
I confess I'm almost relieved.

675
00:40:49,404 --> 00:40:52,949
There's a question
I've been fairly itching to ask you.

676
00:40:55,369 --> 00:40:57,829
-Why?
-Why what, Mr. Dickinson?

677
00:40:58,705 --> 00:41:01,958
Well, why independence, Mr. Adams?

678
00:41:02,042 --> 00:41:03,335
For the obvious reason

679
00:41:03,418 --> 00:41:07,798
that our continued association
with Great Britain has grown intolerable.

680
00:41:07,881 --> 00:41:10,550
Well, to whom, Mr. Adams? To you?

681
00:41:11,426 --> 00:41:14,346
Well, then I suggest
you sever your ties immediately.

682
00:41:14,429 --> 00:41:16,807
But please be kind enough

683
00:41:16,890 --> 00:41:20,352
to leave the rest of us where we are.

684
00:41:20,435 --> 00:41:22,354
For myself, I have no objection at all

685
00:41:22,437 --> 00:41:25,190
to being part
of the greatest empire on earth,

686
00:41:25,273 --> 00:41:28,318
to enjoying its protection
and sharing its benefits.

687
00:41:28,402 --> 00:41:29,403
Benefits?

688
00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:32,114
What benefits?

689
00:41:32,989 --> 00:41:36,201
Crippling taxes? Cruel repressions?

690
00:41:36,284 --> 00:41:37,786
Abolished rights?

691
00:41:39,621 --> 00:41:43,792
Is that all England means to you, sir?

692
00:41:45,669 --> 00:41:49,047
Is that all the pride and affection
you can muster

693
00:41:49,131 --> 00:41:50,590
for the nation that bore you?

694
00:41:51,425 --> 00:41:55,178
For the noblest, most civilized nation
on the face of this planet?

695
00:41:55,262 --> 00:41:58,974
What, would you have us forsake
Hastings and Magna Carta,

696
00:41:59,057 --> 00:42:02,644
Strongbow and Lionheart,
Drake and Marlborough,

697
00:42:02,727 --> 00:42:04,646
Tudors, Stuarts and Plantagenets?

698
00:42:04,729 --> 00:42:06,356
For what, sir?

699
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,400
Well, tell me. For what?

700
00:42:11,736 --> 00:42:12,946
For you?

701
00:42:16,533 --> 00:42:20,662
Some men are patriots,
like General Washington.

702
00:42:20,745 --> 00:42:22,998
And some are anarchists, like Mr. Paine.

703
00:42:23,081 --> 00:42:25,834
Some even are internationalists,
like Dr. Franklin.

704
00:42:25,917 --> 00:42:28,295
But you, sir...

705
00:42:30,005 --> 00:42:34,217
You are merely an agitator,
disturbing the peace,

706
00:42:34,301 --> 00:42:38,221
creating disorder, endangering
the public welfare, and for what?

707
00:42:38,305 --> 00:42:40,765
Your petty, little personal complaints:

708
00:42:40,849 --> 00:42:42,934
"Your taxes are too high."

709
00:42:44,394 --> 00:42:48,356
Well, sir, so are mine.

710
00:42:50,942 --> 00:42:53,695
Come, come, Mr. Adams.

711
00:42:53,778 --> 00:42:57,157
If you have grievances,
and I'm sure you have,

712
00:42:57,240 --> 00:43:00,952
our present system must provide
a gentler means of redressing them

713
00:43:01,036 --> 00:43:02,913
short of revolution.

714
00:43:03,705 --> 00:43:05,832
Yes, that's what he wants.

715
00:43:05,916 --> 00:43:08,001
Nothing less will satisfy him.

716
00:43:08,084 --> 00:43:11,046
Violence, rebellion, treason.

717
00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:15,467
Now, Mr. Adams,

718
00:43:16,551 --> 00:43:19,804
are these the acts of Englishmen?

719
00:43:19,888 --> 00:43:22,390
Not Englishmen, Dickinson. Americans.

720
00:43:22,474 --> 00:43:24,392
No, sir. Englishmen!

721
00:43:25,185 --> 00:43:28,563
Please, Mr. Dickinson, must you start
banging? How is a man to sleep?

722
00:43:30,273 --> 00:43:33,527
Forgive me, Dr. Franklin,
but must you start speaking?

723
00:43:33,610 --> 00:43:35,237
How is a man to stay awake?

724
00:43:37,197 --> 00:43:39,282
We'll promise to be quiet, sir.

725
00:43:39,366 --> 00:43:42,577
I'm sure everyone prefers
that you remain asleep.

726
00:43:42,661 --> 00:43:45,121
If I'm to hear myself called
an Englishman, sir,

727
00:43:45,205 --> 00:43:47,123
I assure you,
I'd prefer I'd remained asleep.

728
00:43:47,207 --> 00:43:50,961
Oh, now, what's so terrible
about being called an Englishman?

729
00:43:51,044 --> 00:43:54,089
-The English don't seem to mind.
-Nor would I...

730
00:43:54,172 --> 00:43:56,299
were I given the full rights
of an Englishman.

731
00:43:56,383 --> 00:43:59,344
But to call me one without those rights
is like calling an ox a bull.

732
00:44:00,428 --> 00:44:02,597
He's thankful for the honor,
but he'd much rather have restored

733
00:44:02,681 --> 00:44:04,015
what's rightfully his.

734
00:44:10,605 --> 00:44:13,441
When did you first notice
they were missing, sir?

735
00:44:19,114 --> 00:44:21,950
Fortunately, the people of these colonies

736
00:44:22,033 --> 00:44:24,744
maintain a higher regard
for their mother country.

737
00:44:25,662 --> 00:44:27,706
Higher, certainly,
than she feels for them.

738
00:44:28,582 --> 00:44:31,209
Never was such
a valuable possession so stupidly

739
00:44:31,293 --> 00:44:32,919
and so recklessly managed

740
00:44:33,003 --> 00:44:35,213
than this entire continent
by the British crown.

741
00:44:35,922 --> 00:44:38,800
Our industry discouraged,
our resources pillaged.

742
00:44:40,385 --> 00:44:42,470
Worst of all, our very character stifled.

743
00:44:43,847 --> 00:44:46,016
We've spawned
a new race here, Mr. Dickinson.

744
00:44:46,099 --> 00:44:51,354
Rougher, simpler, more violent,
more enterprising, less refined.

745
00:44:52,355 --> 00:44:55,942
We're a new nationality.
We require a new nation.

746
00:44:59,529 --> 00:45:00,530
Well...

747
00:45:01,489 --> 00:45:05,285
that may be your opinion,
Dr. Franklin, but,

748
00:45:05,368 --> 00:45:09,497
as I said,
the people feel quite differently.

749
00:45:09,581 --> 00:45:12,083
Now, what do you know
about the people, Dickinson?

750
00:45:13,001 --> 00:45:16,004
You don't speak for the people.
You represent only yourself.

751
00:45:16,755 --> 00:45:18,965
And that precious status quo

752
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:22,260
you keep imploring the people
to preserve for their own good

753
00:45:22,344 --> 00:45:26,640
is nothing more than the eternal
preservation of your own property.

754
00:45:28,058 --> 00:45:30,769
Mr. Adams, you have an annoying talent

755
00:45:30,852 --> 00:45:35,523
for making such delightful words
as "property" sound quite distasteful.

756
00:45:36,358 --> 00:45:39,069
In heaven's name,
what's wrong with property?

757
00:45:39,986 --> 00:45:43,239
Perhaps you've forgotten that many of us
first came to these shores

758
00:45:43,323 --> 00:45:45,784
in order to secure rights to property

759
00:45:45,867 --> 00:45:50,163
and that we hold these rights no less dear
than the rights you speak of.

760
00:45:50,246 --> 00:45:54,793
Yes. So safe, so fat,
so comfortable in Pennsylvania.

761
00:45:54,876 --> 00:45:57,295
And what is this independence of yours

762
00:45:57,379 --> 00:45:59,881
except the private grievance
of Massachusetts?

763
00:45:59,964 --> 00:46:03,051
Why is it always Boston
that breaks the king's peace?

764
00:46:03,134 --> 00:46:07,097
My dear Congress,
you must not adopt this evil measure.

765
00:46:07,180 --> 00:46:08,640
It is the work of the devil.

766
00:46:09,599 --> 00:46:14,312
Leave it where it belongs.
In New England.

767
00:46:14,396 --> 00:46:17,899
Brother Dickinson, New England has
fought the devil more than 100 years.

768
00:46:17,982 --> 00:46:20,276
And as of now, Brother Sherman,

769
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,113
the devil has been winning hands down.

770
00:46:23,863 --> 00:46:27,075
Why, at this very moment,
he's sitting right here in this Congress.

771
00:46:27,158 --> 00:46:31,121
Don't let him deceive you.
This proposal is entirely his doing.

772
00:46:31,204 --> 00:46:33,123
Oh, it may bear Virginia's name,

773
00:46:33,206 --> 00:46:37,001
but it reeks of Adams,
Adams and more Adams.

774
00:46:37,085 --> 00:46:39,337
Look at him.
Ready to lead this continent

775
00:46:39,421 --> 00:46:41,965
down the fiery path of total destruction.

776
00:46:42,048 --> 00:46:46,344
Oh, good God! Why can't you acknowledge
what already exists?

777
00:46:46,428 --> 00:46:49,973
It has been more than a year
since Concord and Lexington.

778
00:46:50,056 --> 00:46:52,350
Damn it, man, we're at war right now!

779
00:46:52,434 --> 00:46:55,854
You may be at war.
You: Boston and John Adams.

780
00:46:55,937 --> 00:46:58,356
But you will never speak for Pennsylvania.

781
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,817
-Nor for Delaware.
-Mr. Read,

782
00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:04,112
you represent only one-third of Delaware.

783
00:47:04,195 --> 00:47:06,239
The sensible third, Mr. Rodney.

784
00:47:06,322 --> 00:47:09,534
Sit down, you scurvy dog,
or I'll knock you down.

785
00:47:10,201 --> 00:47:14,038
Sit down, all three of you! McNair,
do something about that damn dog!

786
00:47:14,122 --> 00:47:17,167
-Fetch me a rum.
-Get the dog first.

787
00:47:17,250 --> 00:47:19,210
I only got two hands.

788
00:47:24,215 --> 00:47:26,050
Christ, it's hot!

789
00:47:38,396 --> 00:47:40,356
Please do go on, gentlemen.

790
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,734
You're making the only breeze
in Philadelphia.

791
00:47:44,611 --> 00:47:49,032
Mr. Adams, perhaps you could
clear up something for me.

792
00:47:50,033 --> 00:47:52,285
After we have achieved independence,

793
00:47:52,368 --> 00:47:54,954
who do you propose
would govern in South Carolina?

794
00:47:56,873 --> 00:47:58,291
The people, of course.

795
00:47:58,374 --> 00:48:01,711
Which people, sir?
The people of South Carolina

796
00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:04,172
or the people of Massachusetts?

797
00:48:04,881 --> 00:48:08,927
Admit it, Neddy. You're against
independence now and you always will be.

798
00:48:09,010 --> 00:48:10,512
Aye.

799
00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:15,892
Gentlemen, you refuse to understand us.

800
00:48:15,975 --> 00:48:18,978
We desire independence. Yes.

801
00:48:19,813 --> 00:48:22,607
For South Carolina.
That is our country.

802
00:48:23,691 --> 00:48:26,236
And as such,
we don't wish it to belong to anyone.

803
00:48:26,986 --> 00:48:29,864
Not to England and not to you.

804
00:48:30,865 --> 00:48:33,409
We intend to have one nation, Rutledge.

805
00:48:33,493 --> 00:48:36,746
A nation of sovereign states, Mr. Adams.

806
00:48:36,830 --> 00:48:39,332
United for our mutual protection...

807
00:48:40,124 --> 00:48:42,460
but separate for our individual pursuits.

808
00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:44,921
Now, that is what
we have understood it to be

809
00:48:45,672 --> 00:48:48,424
and that is what we will support.

810
00:48:49,717 --> 00:48:52,345
As soon as everyone supports it.

811
00:48:56,391 --> 00:48:58,351
Well, there you are, Mr. Adams.

812
00:48:59,561 --> 00:49:02,188
You must see that we need time.

813
00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:07,485
Time to make certain who we are and
where we stand in regard to one another.

814
00:49:07,569 --> 00:49:11,489
For if we do not determine the nature
of the beast before we set it free,

815
00:49:11,573 --> 00:49:14,117
it will end by consuming us all.

816
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,244
For once in your life, Wilson,

817
00:49:17,495 --> 00:49:18,621
take a chance.

818
00:49:20,623 --> 00:49:22,458
I say the time is now.

819
00:49:23,626 --> 00:49:24,961
It may never come again.

820
00:49:26,337 --> 00:49:27,922
Your clock is fast, Mr. Adams.

821
00:49:28,006 --> 00:49:30,008
I say we're not yet ripe
for independence.

822
00:49:30,091 --> 00:49:33,678
Not ripe?
Hell, we're rotting for want of it.

823
00:49:33,761 --> 00:49:37,932
Gentlemen, please,
what in God's name is the infernal hurry?

824
00:49:38,016 --> 00:49:40,101
Why must this question be settled now?

825
00:49:40,184 --> 00:49:42,353
What's wrong with now, Mr. Chase?

826
00:49:42,437 --> 00:49:44,898
General Washington is in the field.

827
00:49:44,981 --> 00:49:48,985
If he's defeated as it now appears,
we'll be inviting the hangman.

828
00:49:49,068 --> 00:49:53,197
But if, by some miracle,
he should actually win,

829
00:49:53,281 --> 00:49:55,992
we can then declare anything
we damn please.

830
00:49:56,075 --> 00:49:58,870
The sentiments
of North Carolina precisely.

831
00:49:59,662 --> 00:50:01,831
Has it ever occurred to either of you

832
00:50:01,915 --> 00:50:06,252
that an army needs something
to fight for in order to win?

833
00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:09,881
A purpose? A goal? A flag of its own?

834
00:50:09,964 --> 00:50:11,341
Mr. Adams...

835
00:50:12,592 --> 00:50:15,511
how can a nation of only 2 million souls

836
00:50:15,595 --> 00:50:17,847
stand up to an empire of 10 million?

837
00:50:17,931 --> 00:50:21,768
Think of it. Ten million.
How do we compensate for that shortage?

838
00:50:21,851 --> 00:50:24,604
It's simple, Mr. Chase.
Increase and multiply.

839
00:50:24,687 --> 00:50:25,688
How's that?

840
00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:29,567
We will more than compensate with spirit.

841
00:50:30,610 --> 00:50:33,279
I tell you there is a spirit out there
among the people

842
00:50:33,363 --> 00:50:35,531
that is sadly lacking in this Congress.

843
00:50:35,615 --> 00:50:38,743
Yes, of course. Now it's spirit.

844
00:50:38,826 --> 00:50:40,828
Well, why didn't I think of that?

845
00:50:40,912 --> 00:50:45,083
No army, no navy,
no arms, no ammunition,

846
00:50:45,166 --> 00:50:49,295
no treasury, no friends.

847
00:50:49,379 --> 00:50:52,632
But bless our soul, spirit.

848
00:50:53,716 --> 00:50:56,094
Mr. Lee, Mr. Hopkins,

849
00:50:56,177 --> 00:50:57,804
Mr. Rodney, Colonel McKean,

850
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,056
Dr. Franklin.

851
00:51:01,349 --> 00:51:06,312
Why have you joined
this incendiary, little man,

852
00:51:06,396 --> 00:51:08,564
this Boston radical,

853
00:51:09,816 --> 00:51:11,109
this agitator,

854
00:51:12,568 --> 00:51:13,778
this demagogue,

855
00:51:14,737 --> 00:51:16,489
this madman?

856
00:51:16,572 --> 00:51:18,992
Are you calling me a madman, you--?

857
00:51:20,326 --> 00:51:21,494
You fribble!

858
00:51:23,913 --> 00:51:26,749
You and your Pennsylvania proprietors.

859
00:51:26,833 --> 00:51:29,711
Oh, you cool, considerate men.

860
00:51:29,794 --> 00:51:33,631
You hang to the rear on every issue,
so that if we should go under,

861
00:51:33,715 --> 00:51:35,466
you'll still remain afloat.

862
00:51:35,550 --> 00:51:40,179
-Are you calling me a coward?
-Yes. Coward.

863
00:51:40,263 --> 00:51:42,640
-Madman!
-Landlord!

864
00:51:42,724 --> 00:51:44,100
Lawyer!

865
00:51:50,523 --> 00:51:53,317
Stop it! Stop it!

866
00:51:54,193 --> 00:51:57,405
This is the Congress. Stop it, I say!

867
00:51:57,488 --> 00:52:00,575
-The enemy's out there!
-No, Mr. Rodney, the enemy is here!

868
00:52:00,658 --> 00:52:03,453
No. I say he's out there.

869
00:52:03,536 --> 00:52:08,833
England. England closing in,
cutting off our air.

870
00:52:08,916 --> 00:52:10,376
There's no time!

871
00:52:14,172 --> 00:52:15,548
No air.

872
00:52:16,591 --> 00:52:17,842
Dr. Hall.

873
00:52:22,305 --> 00:52:25,475
-Colonel McKean.
-Aye. It's the cancer.

874
00:52:26,601 --> 00:52:28,061
But he should go home.

875
00:52:29,562 --> 00:52:32,398
A man should die in his own bed.

876
00:52:34,233 --> 00:52:37,528
-John. John Adams.
-I'm here, Caesar.

877
00:52:41,115 --> 00:52:42,283
I leave you...

878
00:52:43,242 --> 00:52:45,369
a divided Delaware.

879
00:52:46,871 --> 00:52:50,416
-Forgive me.
-I'll take you home, Caesar.

880
00:53:15,691 --> 00:53:17,443
I'll be back within the week.

881
00:53:25,493 --> 00:53:28,871
Mr. President,
South Carolina calls the question.

882
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:35,419
-What's that, Mr. Rutledge?
- I said, Mr. President,

883
00:53:35,503 --> 00:53:39,006
South Carolina desires
to end the debate...

884
00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:43,010
and calls the question of independence.

885
00:53:43,094 --> 00:53:44,971
-Delaware seconds.
-Thank you.

886
00:53:46,848 --> 00:53:49,767
Gentlemen, please!

887
00:53:49,851 --> 00:53:52,395
The question has been called
and seconded.

888
00:53:53,688 --> 00:53:55,857
The secretary will record the vote.

889
00:53:55,940 --> 00:53:57,984
Franklin, do something. Think.

890
00:53:58,067 --> 00:54:00,236
I'm thinking, but nothing's coming.

891
00:54:00,319 --> 00:54:02,363
All those in favor
of the resolution on independence

892
00:54:02,446 --> 00:54:05,199
as proposed by the colony of Virginia,
signify by saying--

893
00:54:05,283 --> 00:54:06,701
Mr. Secretary.

894
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:09,370
Would you please read
the resolution again?

895
00:54:09,453 --> 00:54:10,580
What?

896
00:54:11,998 --> 00:54:14,834
-I'd forgotten it.
-Now, please.

897
00:54:17,253 --> 00:54:19,964
"Resolved that these united colonies are

898
00:54:20,047 --> 00:54:22,592
and of a right ought to be free
and independent--"

899
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:31,893
Excuse me.
Is this the Continental Congress?

900
00:54:32,894 --> 00:54:35,438
Well, yes, I can see that it must be.

901
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:37,982
It's all right. We found it!

902
00:54:39,233 --> 00:54:41,694
We've been looking
for you everywhere, you see.

903
00:54:41,777 --> 00:54:44,322
Someone told us
that you might be at Carpenters' Hall

904
00:54:44,405 --> 00:54:47,116
and someone else suggested Library Hall.

905
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,785
-So finally we asked a constable--
-Excuse me, sir,

906
00:54:49,869 --> 00:54:53,122
but if you don't mind,
the Congress is about to decide

907
00:54:53,206 --> 00:54:55,082
the question of American independence.

908
00:54:56,417 --> 00:54:58,920
Oh, how splendid.
That means we're not too late.

909
00:54:59,003 --> 00:55:01,047
These gentlemen are Mr. Francis Hopkins on,

910
00:55:01,130 --> 00:55:04,926
Mr. Richard Stockton,
and I'm the Reverend John Witherspoon.

911
00:55:08,262 --> 00:55:10,514
We're the new delegates from New Jersey.

912
00:55:10,598 --> 00:55:12,141
New Jersey?

913
00:55:16,312 --> 00:55:21,776
Dr. Franklin, I regret that I must be
the bearer of unhappy tidings, sir,

914
00:55:21,859 --> 00:55:24,695
but your son,
the royal governor of New Jersey,

915
00:55:24,779 --> 00:55:26,614
has been taken prisoner

916
00:55:26,697 --> 00:55:30,785
and has been moved under guard to
the colony of Connecticut for safekeeping.

917
00:55:30,868 --> 00:55:34,121
-Is he unharmed, sir?
-When last I heard, he was. Yes, sir.

918
00:55:34,205 --> 00:55:37,083
Then why the long face? I hear
Connecticut is an excellent location.

919
00:55:38,125 --> 00:55:41,003
Tell me. Why did they arrest
the little bastard?

920
00:55:43,339 --> 00:55:44,340
Our...

921
00:55:45,132 --> 00:55:48,803
New Jersey legislature has recalled
the old delegation to this Congress

922
00:55:48,886 --> 00:55:51,347
and has sent a new one.

923
00:55:52,265 --> 00:55:54,642
Quickly, man, where do you stand
on independence?

924
00:55:54,725 --> 00:55:57,770
Well, haven't I made that clear?
Well, I suppose I haven't.

925
00:55:57,853 --> 00:55:59,772
But that's the reason for the change.

926
00:55:59,855 --> 00:56:02,275
We've been instructed
to vote for independence.

927
00:56:03,484 --> 00:56:08,114
Massachusetts is now ready
for the vote on independence

928
00:56:08,197 --> 00:56:11,951
and reminds the chair of its privilege
to decide all votes that are deadlocked.

929
00:56:12,827 --> 00:56:14,912
I won't forget, Mr. Adams.

930
00:56:16,163 --> 00:56:20,042
The chair takes this opportunity
to welcome the New Jersey delegation

931
00:56:20,126 --> 00:56:23,587
and appoints the Reverend Witherspoon
congressional chaplain

932
00:56:23,671 --> 00:56:26,590
-if he will accept the post.
-With much pleasure, sir.

933
00:56:29,218 --> 00:56:34,598
Very well. Mr. Thomson, you may now
proceed with the vote on independence.

934
00:56:35,391 --> 00:56:37,435
All in favor of the resolution
on independence,

935
00:56:37,518 --> 00:56:40,813
-as proposed by the colony of Virginia--
-Mr. President.

936
00:56:42,732 --> 00:56:47,028
Pennsylvania moves that any vote
in favor of independence...

937
00:56:48,237 --> 00:56:49,947
must be unanimous.

938
00:56:50,990 --> 00:56:53,409
-What?
- I second the motion.

939
00:56:53,492 --> 00:56:56,954
-Judge Wilson!
-Oh, my God.

940
00:56:57,038 --> 00:56:59,415
Delaware seconds, Mr. President.

941
00:56:59,498 --> 00:57:01,959
No vote has ever had to be unanimous,
Dickinson, and you know it.

942
00:57:02,043 --> 00:57:04,420
-Yes, but this one must be.
-On what grounds?

943
00:57:04,503 --> 00:57:08,341
That no colony be torn from its
mother country without its own consent.

944
00:57:08,424 --> 00:57:09,800
Hear! Hear!

945
00:57:09,884 --> 00:57:13,012
But it will never be unanimous, damn it.

946
00:57:14,013 --> 00:57:16,140
If you say so, Mr. Adams.

947
00:57:18,059 --> 00:57:21,354
It has been moved and seconded
that the vote on independence

948
00:57:21,437 --> 00:57:23,522
must be unanimous in order to carry.

949
00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:26,192
All those in favor, signify by saying yea.

950
00:57:26,275 --> 00:57:27,151
Yea!I

951
00:57:27,234 --> 00:57:31,697
One, two, three, four, five, six.

952
00:57:31,781 --> 00:57:35,368
-Six colonies say yea. Against?
-Nay!

953
00:57:35,451 --> 00:57:39,663
One, two, three, four, five, six.

954
00:57:39,747 --> 00:57:41,749
Six colonies say nay.

955
00:57:42,708 --> 00:57:47,630
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains, courteously.

956
00:57:47,713 --> 00:57:52,051
Mr. Morris,
why does New York constantly abstain?

957
00:57:52,134 --> 00:57:54,804
Why does New York simply stay
in New York?

958
00:57:56,555 --> 00:57:58,224
Very well. The vote is tied.

959
00:57:59,850 --> 00:58:03,270
The principles of independence
have no greater advocate in Congress

960
00:58:03,354 --> 00:58:04,522
than its president

961
00:58:05,648 --> 00:58:08,943
and that is why I must join those
who vote for unanimity.

962
00:58:09,735 --> 00:58:12,154
Good God, John!
What are you doing? You've sunk us!

963
00:58:12,238 --> 00:58:16,325
Now, hear me out. Don't you see
that any colony who opposes independence

964
00:58:16,409 --> 00:58:18,744
will be forced to fight
on the side of England?

965
00:58:18,828 --> 00:58:21,247
That we'll be setting brother
against brother,

966
00:58:21,330 --> 00:58:24,708
that our new nation will carry
as its emblem the mark of Cain.

967
00:58:26,043 --> 00:58:27,628
I can see no other way.

968
00:58:27,711 --> 00:58:32,383
Either we all walk together,
or together we must stay where we are!

969
00:58:34,009 --> 00:58:37,346
-The man's from Massachusetts.
-Very well. Proceed, Mr. Thomson.

970
00:58:38,055 --> 00:58:40,349
A unanimous vote
being necessary to carry,

971
00:58:40,433 --> 00:58:43,018
if any be opposed
to the resolution on independence

972
00:58:43,102 --> 00:58:46,313
-as proposed by the colony of Virginia--
-Mr. President.

973
00:58:46,397 --> 00:58:49,150
Oh, for heaven's sake,
let me get through it once.

974
00:58:49,233 --> 00:58:50,276
Mr. President.

975
00:58:52,236 --> 00:58:54,780
-I move for a postponement.
-Postponement?

976
00:58:54,864 --> 00:58:56,782
I wish you the same luck I had with it.

977
00:58:56,866 --> 00:58:58,784
Mr. Adams is right.
We need a postponement.

978
00:58:58,868 --> 00:59:01,203
-On what grounds?
-On what grounds?

979
00:59:02,413 --> 00:59:06,750
Mr. President, how can
this Congress vote on independence

980
00:59:06,834 --> 00:59:11,881
without a written declaration
of some sort defining it?

981
00:59:13,132 --> 00:59:15,217
What sort of declaration?

982
00:59:16,969 --> 00:59:21,056
Well, you know,
listing the reasons for the separation,

983
00:59:21,140 --> 00:59:24,059
our purposes, goals, so forth, so on.

984
00:59:24,143 --> 00:59:26,520
-Ditto, Ditto.
-Ditto, ditto, et cetera, et cetera.

985
00:59:26,604 --> 00:59:28,063
We know those, don't we?

986
00:59:30,399 --> 00:59:32,359
Oh, yes, good God, we know them.

987
00:59:33,611 --> 00:59:35,863
But what about the rest of the world?

988
00:59:35,946 --> 00:59:38,324
Certainly we require the assistance

989
00:59:38,407 --> 00:59:41,952
of a powerful nation,
such as France or Spain,

990
00:59:42,036 --> 00:59:46,582
and such a written declaration would be
consistent with European delicacy.

991
00:59:47,791 --> 00:59:51,378
Come now, Mr. Adams.
You'll have to do better than that.

992
00:59:51,462 --> 00:59:54,715
Answer straight.
What would be its purpose?

993
00:59:55,424 --> 00:59:57,426
Yes. Well...

994
01:00:00,137 --> 01:00:04,558
To place before mankind
the common sense of the subject,

995
01:00:05,309 --> 01:00:07,895
in terms so plain and firm

996
01:00:08,604 --> 01:00:10,564
as to command their assent.

997
01:00:18,405 --> 01:00:21,659
Mr. Jefferson,
are you seriously suggesting

998
01:00:21,742 --> 01:00:24,662
that we publish a paper
declaring to all the world

999
01:00:24,745 --> 01:00:28,999
that an illegal rebellion is,
in reality, a legal one?

1000
01:00:29,083 --> 01:00:31,835
Oh, Mr. Dickinson, I'm surprised at you.

1001
01:00:31,919 --> 01:00:34,713
You should know that rebellion
is always legal in the first person,

1002
01:00:34,797 --> 01:00:36,423
such as our rebellion.

1003
01:00:36,507 --> 01:00:39,510
It's only in the third person--
"Their" rebellion. --that it is illegal.

1004
01:00:41,845 --> 01:00:45,891
Mr. President, I second the motion
to postpone the vote on independence

1005
01:00:45,975 --> 01:00:49,728
for a period of time sufficient
for the writing of a declaration.

1006
01:00:49,812 --> 01:00:52,231
It has been moved and seconded.
Mr. Thomson.

1007
01:00:52,314 --> 01:00:55,943
All those in favor of the motion
to postpone, signify by saying yea.

1008
01:00:56,026 --> 01:00:57,319
Yea!I

1009
01:00:57,403 --> 01:01:01,615
One, two, three, four, five, six.

1010
01:01:01,699 --> 01:01:04,660
-Six colonies say yea. Against?
-Nay!

1011
01:01:04,743 --> 01:01:09,331
One, two, three, four, five, six.

1012
01:01:09,415 --> 01:01:11,375
Six colonies say nay.

1013
01:01:13,669 --> 01:01:17,673
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains, courteously.

1014
01:01:22,136 --> 01:01:25,723
Mr. Morris, what in hell
goes on in New York?

1015
01:01:26,682 --> 01:01:30,227
I'm sorry, Mr. President,
but the simple fact is that

1016
01:01:30,311 --> 01:01:34,773
our legislature has never sent us
explicit instructions on anything.

1017
01:01:35,774 --> 01:01:36,609
Never?

1018
01:01:38,319 --> 01:01:39,653
That's impossible.

1019
01:01:41,614 --> 01:01:43,866
Mr. President,
have you ever been present

1020
01:01:43,949 --> 01:01:46,076
at a meeting
of the New York legislature?

1021
01:01:47,036 --> 01:01:49,330
They speak very fast and very loud,

1022
01:01:49,413 --> 01:01:52,041
and nobody listens to anybody else.

1023
01:01:52,124 --> 01:01:55,210
With the result
that nothing ever gets done.

1024
01:01:57,379 --> 01:01:59,465
I beg the Congress's pardon.

1025
01:02:02,051 --> 01:02:03,594
My sympathies, Mr. Morris.

1026
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:08,432
The vote again being tied, the chair
decides in favor of postponement.

1027
01:02:08,515 --> 01:02:09,558
So ruled.

1028
01:02:10,351 --> 01:02:12,478
A committee will now be formed
to manage the declaration.

1029
01:02:12,561 --> 01:02:15,356
Said document to be written, debated,
approved by the beginning of July,

1030
01:02:15,439 --> 01:02:18,567
some three weeks hence, at which time,

1031
01:02:18,651 --> 01:02:22,488
Virginia's resolution on independence
will finally be voted.

1032
01:02:22,571 --> 01:02:25,074
-Is that clear? Very well.
-Hear! Hear!

1033
01:02:25,157 --> 01:02:28,744
Will the following gentlemen serve on
the Declaration Committee: Dr. Franklin?

1034
01:02:28,827 --> 01:02:29,912
Gladly.

1035
01:02:29,995 --> 01:02:31,997
-Mr. John Adams?
-Yes.

1036
01:02:32,081 --> 01:02:33,165
Mr. Sherman?

1037
01:02:34,249 --> 01:02:36,001
-Mr. Livingston?
-Right.

1038
01:02:36,085 --> 01:02:37,961
Oh, and, of course, Mr. Lee.

1039
01:02:38,712 --> 01:02:42,466
Oh, excuse me, but I must be returning
to the sovereign colony of Virginia,

1040
01:02:42,549 --> 01:02:45,052
as I have been asked
to serve as governor.

1041
01:02:45,135 --> 01:02:48,806
And therefore I must decline,
respectful-Lee.

1042
01:02:53,227 --> 01:02:55,479
Very well, Mr. Lee. You're excused.

1043
01:02:55,562 --> 01:02:58,107
I supposed we could leave it
a four-man committee.

1044
01:02:58,190 --> 01:03:00,359
Just a moment.
This business needs a Virginian.

1045
01:03:00,442 --> 01:03:03,153
Therefore, I propose a replacement,
Mr. Thomas Jefferson.

1046
01:03:03,237 --> 01:03:06,281
-No. Mr. Adams--
-Very well. Mr. Jefferson will serve.

1047
01:03:06,365 --> 01:03:08,867
-I'm going home too, to my wife.
-Move to adjourn.

1048
01:03:08,951 --> 01:03:10,369
-Wait.
- I second.

1049
01:03:10,452 --> 01:03:13,872
Mr. Hancock,
I haven't seen her for six months.

1050
01:03:13,956 --> 01:03:15,874
Moved and seconded. Any objections?

1051
01:03:15,958 --> 01:03:18,127
I have objections.
I have lots of objections.

1052
01:03:18,210 --> 01:03:20,295
So ruled! Congress stands adjourned!

1053
01:03:20,379 --> 01:03:22,715
John, I need to see my wife.

1054
01:03:22,798 --> 01:03:26,677
-It's all right. Come along.
-No. I'm going home tonight.

1055
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:31,181
Of course you are. Of course.
McNair, some rum up to my office.

1056
01:03:32,766 --> 01:03:36,228
Don't worry, Tom. Let me handle it.

1057
01:03:36,311 --> 01:03:38,230
I'll get Adams to write it.

1058
01:03:38,313 --> 01:03:40,816
I don't know.
He had a funny look on his face.

1059
01:03:40,899 --> 01:03:42,192
He always does.

1060
01:03:42,276 --> 01:03:45,154
All right, gentlemen,
let's get on with it.

1061
01:03:45,237 --> 01:03:48,240
Which of us will write
our Declaration of Independence?

1062
01:03:49,992 --> 01:03:52,953
<i>Mr. Adams
I say you should write it</i>

1063
01:03:53,871 --> 01:03:56,832
<i>To your legal mind
And brilliance we defer</i>

1064
01:03:56,915 --> 01:03:59,752
<i>Is that so?
Well, if I'm the one to do it</i>

1065
01:03:59,835 --> 01:04:01,670
<i>They'll run their quill pens through it</i>

1066
01:04:01,754 --> 01:04:04,381
<i>I'm obnoxious and disliked
You know that, sir</i>

1067
01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:07,509
-Yes, I know.
<i>- I say you should write it, Franklin</i>

1068
01:04:07,593 --> 01:04:09,386
<i>-Yes, you
-Hell, no</i>

1069
01:04:09,470 --> 01:04:12,014
<i>Yes, you, Dr. Franklin, you</i>

1070
01:04:12,097 --> 01:04:13,849
<i>-But, but
-You, you</i>

1071
01:04:13,932 --> 01:04:16,018
<i>-You
-But</i>

1072
01:04:18,187 --> 01:04:21,774
<i>Mr. Adams
But, Mr. Adams</i>

1073
01:04:21,857 --> 01:04:25,235
<i>The things I write
Are only light extemporanea</i>

1074
01:04:25,319 --> 01:04:28,864
<i>I won't put politics on paper
It's a mania</i>

1075
01:04:28,947 --> 01:04:31,950
<i>So I refuse to use the pen
in Pennsylvania</i>

1076
01:04:32,910 --> 01:04:36,663
<i>Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania</i>

1077
01:04:36,747 --> 01:04:40,250
<i>Refuse to use the pen</i>

1078
01:04:51,512 --> 01:04:54,807
<i>Mr. Sherman
I say you should write it</i>

1079
01:04:54,890 --> 01:04:57,601
<i>You are never controversial
As it were</i>

1080
01:04:57,684 --> 01:05:00,854
-That is true.
<i>-Whereas, if I'm the one to do it</i>

1081
01:05:00,938 --> 01:05:02,689
<i>They'll run their quill pens through it</i>

1082
01:05:02,773 --> 01:05:04,399
<i>I'm obnoxious and disliked</i>

1083
01:05:04,483 --> 01:05:06,151
<i>-You know that, sir</i>
-Yes, I do.

1084
01:05:06,235 --> 01:05:08,987
<i>So I say you should write it
Roger, yes, you</i>

1085
01:05:09,071 --> 01:05:13,033
-Good heavens, no.
<i>-Yes, you, Roger Sherman, you</i>

1086
01:05:13,116 --> 01:05:14,952
<i>-But, but
-You, you</i>

1087
01:05:15,035 --> 01:05:16,954
<i>But</i>

1088
01:05:18,455 --> 01:05:21,959
<i>Mr. Adams
But, Mr. Adams</i>

1089
01:05:22,042 --> 01:05:25,712
<i>I cannot write with any style
Or proper etiquette</i>

1090
01:05:25,796 --> 01:05:29,341
<i>I don't know a participle
From a predicate</i>

1091
01:05:29,424 --> 01:05:32,344
<i>I am just a simple cobbler
From Connecticut</i>

1092
01:05:33,428 --> 01:05:37,015
<i>Connecticut
Connecticut</i>

1093
01:05:37,099 --> 01:05:40,686
<i>A simple cobbler, he</i>

1094
01:05:51,029 --> 01:05:54,324
<i>Mr. Livingston
Maybe you should write it</i>

1095
01:05:54,992 --> 01:05:57,744
<i>You have many friends
And you're a diplomat</i>

1096
01:05:57,828 --> 01:06:00,539
-Oh, that word.
<i>-Whereas, if I'm the one to do it</i>

1097
01:06:00,622 --> 01:06:02,416
<i>They'll run their quill pens through it</i>

1098
01:06:02,499 --> 01:06:05,002
<i>He's obnoxious and disliked
Did you know that?</i>

1099
01:06:05,085 --> 01:06:07,880
- I hadn't heard.
<i>-So I say you should write it, Robert</i>

1100
01:06:07,963 --> 01:06:09,506
<i>-Yes, you</i>
-Not me, Johnny.

1101
01:06:09,590 --> 01:06:12,384
<i>Yes, you, Robert Livingston, you</i>

1102
01:06:12,467 --> 01:06:13,343
<i>-But
-You</i>

1103
01:06:13,427 --> 01:06:14,720
<i>-But, but
-You, you</i>

1104
01:06:14,803 --> 01:06:17,723
<i>But</i>

1105
01:06:18,891 --> 01:06:22,185
<i>Mr. Adams
Dear Mr. Adams</i>

1106
01:06:22,269 --> 01:06:25,814
<i>I've been presented with a new son
By the noble stork</i>

1107
01:06:25,898 --> 01:06:29,443
<i>So I am going home to celebrate
And pop the cork</i>

1108
01:06:29,526 --> 01:06:33,238
<i>With all the Livingstons together
Back in old New York</i>

1109
01:06:33,322 --> 01:06:34,781
<i>New York</i>

1110
01:06:34,865 --> 01:06:37,159
<i>New York</i>

1111
01:06:37,242 --> 01:06:43,081
<i>Livingston's going to pop a cork</i>

1112
01:06:53,342 --> 01:06:55,802
<i>Mr. Adams</i>

1113
01:06:55,886 --> 01:06:59,389
<i>Leave me alone</i>

1114
01:07:01,183 --> 01:07:03,393
-Mr. Jefferson.
-Mr. Adams, I beg of you.

1115
01:07:03,477 --> 01:07:06,897
I've not seen my wife
these past six months.

1116
01:07:06,980 --> 01:07:10,525
"And we solemnly declare
that we will preserve our liberties,

1117
01:07:10,609 --> 01:07:13,779
being with one mind
resolved to die free men

1118
01:07:13,862 --> 01:07:15,405
rather than to live slaves."

1119
01:07:15,489 --> 01:07:20,619
Thomas Jefferson,
on the <i>Necessity of Taking up Arms,</i> 1775.

1120
01:07:20,702 --> 01:07:21,703
Magnificent.

1121
01:07:22,496 --> 01:07:26,583
You write ten times better
than any man in Congress, including me.

1122
01:07:27,501 --> 01:07:33,256
For a man of only 33 years, you possess
a happy talent for composition

1123
01:07:33,340 --> 01:07:36,969
and a remarkable felicity of expression.

1124
01:07:37,052 --> 01:07:41,056
Now, then, sir.
Will you be a patriot or a lover?

1125
01:07:43,350 --> 01:07:44,351
A lover.

1126
01:07:45,268 --> 01:07:46,269
No.

1127
01:07:47,020 --> 01:07:51,233
-But I burn, Mr. A.
-So do I, Mr. J.

1128
01:07:52,067 --> 01:07:53,735
-You?
-You do?

1129
01:07:53,819 --> 01:07:55,237
-John.
-Who'd have thought it?

1130
01:07:57,322 --> 01:07:59,408
<i>Mr. Jefferson</i>

1131
01:07:59,491 --> 01:08:01,785
<i>Dear Mr. Jefferson</i>

1132
01:08:02,619 --> 01:08:07,541
<i>I'm only 41
I still have my virility</i>

1133
01:08:08,333 --> 01:08:12,921
<i>And I can romp through Cupid's grove
With great agility</i>

1134
01:08:14,297 --> 01:08:19,553
<i>But life is more
Than sexual combustibility</i>

1135
01:08:19,636 --> 01:08:21,763
-Jefferson, stop right there.
<i>-Bustibility</i>

1136
01:08:21,847 --> 01:08:23,890
<i>Bustibility</i>

1137
01:08:23,974 --> 01:08:27,019
<i>-Combustibili--</i>
-Quiet!

1138
01:08:31,314 --> 01:08:32,983
Now, you'll write it, Mr. J.

1139
01:08:34,067 --> 01:08:35,861
Who will make me, Mr. A.?

1140
01:08:36,903 --> 01:08:37,821
I.

1141
01:08:38,864 --> 01:08:39,698
You?

1142
01:08:40,532 --> 01:08:41,366
Yes.

1143
01:08:45,746 --> 01:08:46,747
How?

1144
01:08:48,498 --> 01:08:51,418
By physical force, if necessary.

1145
01:08:52,544 --> 01:08:55,589
It's your duty, damn it. Your duty!

1146
01:08:57,466 --> 01:08:59,885
<i>Mr. Adams</i>

1147
01:08:59,968 --> 01:09:02,137
<i>Damn you, Mr. Adams</i>

1148
01:09:03,305 --> 01:09:05,974
<i>You're obnoxious and disliked</i>

1149
01:09:06,058 --> 01:09:08,894
<i>That cannot be denied</i>

1150
01:09:08,977 --> 01:09:14,983
<i>Once again you stand
Between me and my lovely bride</i>

1151
01:09:15,067 --> 01:09:18,987
<i>Lovely bride</i>

1152
01:09:20,113 --> 01:09:25,702
<i>Oh, Mr. Adams
You are driving me to homicide</i>

1153
01:09:25,786 --> 01:09:27,788
-Jefferson, stop right there!
<i>-Homicide</i>

1154
01:09:27,871 --> 01:09:28,997
<i>Homicide</i>

1155
01:09:29,081 --> 01:09:30,540
Quiet!

1156
01:09:36,129 --> 01:09:39,925
The decision is yours, Mr. Jefferson.
Do as you like with it.

1157
01:09:43,970 --> 01:09:47,599
<i>We may see murder</i>

1158
01:09:47,682 --> 01:09:51,895
<i>Yet</i>

1159
01:09:59,653 --> 01:10:00,779
Damn the man.

1160
01:10:04,074 --> 01:10:05,575
Goddamn the man.

1161
01:10:53,748 --> 01:10:54,624
Sorry.

1162
01:10:57,627 --> 01:10:58,628
Pardon me, sir.

1163
01:10:58,712 --> 01:11:00,130
Step aside. Step aside.

1164
01:11:00,922 --> 01:11:02,799
-How do you do? How are you?
-Franklin.

1165
01:11:09,931 --> 01:11:11,016
Jefferson!

1166
01:11:14,311 --> 01:11:15,395
Jefferson!

1167
01:11:18,064 --> 01:11:19,316
What is that racket?

1168
01:11:19,399 --> 01:11:21,484
Latest thing from Europe, John.
It's called music.

1169
01:11:21,568 --> 01:11:24,779
I came here hoping to hear
a pen scratching, not a bow.

1170
01:11:27,574 --> 01:11:29,743
Jefferson! I know you're in there!

1171
01:11:32,037 --> 01:11:33,955
Jefferson. Are you finished?

1172
01:11:36,374 --> 01:11:37,500
Well, is it written yet?

1173
01:11:41,171 --> 01:11:43,632
Well, you've had a whole week, man.

1174
01:11:43,715 --> 01:11:44,716
Is it done?

1175
01:11:46,801 --> 01:11:48,178
Can I see it?

1176
01:11:55,852 --> 01:11:58,355
"There comes a time in the lives of men
when it becomes necessary

1177
01:11:58,438 --> 01:12:01,608
to advance from that subordination
in which they have hitherto rem--"

1178
01:12:01,691 --> 01:12:04,903
This is terrible. Where's the rest of it?

1179
01:12:11,368 --> 01:12:14,829
Do you mean to say
that it is not yet finished?

1180
01:12:15,622 --> 01:12:18,833
No, sir. I mean to say
that it's not yet begun.

1181
01:12:20,168 --> 01:12:21,795
Good God!

1182
01:12:23,046 --> 01:12:24,381
A whole week!

1183
01:12:25,632 --> 01:12:28,510
The entire earth was created in a week.

1184
01:12:32,430 --> 01:12:35,934
Someday you must tell me
how you did it.

1185
01:12:38,853 --> 01:12:40,563
Disgusting.

1186
01:12:41,648 --> 01:12:44,943
Look at him, Franklin.
Virginia's most famous lover...

1187
01:12:46,486 --> 01:12:48,154
Virginia abstains.

1188
01:12:51,908 --> 01:12:54,077
Well, cheer up, Jefferson.

1189
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:56,079
Get out of the dumps.
It'll come out all right, I assure you.

1190
01:12:56,162 --> 01:12:58,456
Now, get back to work.

1191
01:12:59,291 --> 01:13:01,710
Franklin, tell him to get back to work.

1192
01:13:01,793 --> 01:13:03,336
I think he's asleep.

1193
01:13:06,506 --> 01:13:08,049
Wake up, Franklin!

1194
01:13:13,263 --> 01:13:15,807
Hello! And who, little girl, are you?

1195
01:13:19,728 --> 01:13:22,605
-John, who is she?
-His wife.

1196
01:13:24,065 --> 01:13:24,941
I hope.

1197
01:13:26,901 --> 01:13:28,445
What makes you think so?

1198
01:13:28,528 --> 01:13:32,449
-Because I sent for her.
-You what?

1199
01:13:32,532 --> 01:13:35,243
It simply occurred to me
that the sooner his problem was solved,

1200
01:13:35,327 --> 01:13:37,329
the sooner our problem is solved.

1201
01:13:37,412 --> 01:13:40,248
That's good thinking, John.
Good thinking.

1202
01:13:40,332 --> 01:13:43,335
Madam, may I present myself? John Adams.

1203
01:13:46,171 --> 01:13:47,172
Adams.

1204
01:13:49,132 --> 01:13:50,383
John Adams.

1205
01:13:51,676 --> 01:13:53,636
Oh, and Dr. Franklin.

1206
01:13:56,181 --> 01:13:57,724
The inventor of the stove.

1207
01:14:02,937 --> 01:14:05,440
Jefferson, kindly present me to your wife.

1208
01:14:08,651 --> 01:14:10,111
She is your wife, isn't she?

1209
01:14:10,779 --> 01:14:13,031
Of course she is.
Look at the way they fit.

1210
01:14:15,825 --> 01:14:17,410
Come along, John, come along.

1211
01:14:17,494 --> 01:14:19,746
-Franklin, where are you going?
-Come along, John.

1212
01:14:19,829 --> 01:14:22,332
Come along where?
There's work to be done.

1213
01:14:22,415 --> 01:14:23,458
Obviously.

1214
01:14:24,376 --> 01:14:27,545
Good God. You don't mean to say that--?

1215
01:14:28,755 --> 01:14:30,090
I mean, they're not going to--

1216
01:14:31,841 --> 01:14:33,802
In the middle of the afternoon?

1217
01:14:34,552 --> 01:14:36,846
Not everybody's from Boston, John.

1218
01:14:38,056 --> 01:14:39,891
Incredible.

1219
01:14:39,974 --> 01:14:43,603
-Well, goodbye, John.
-Franklin?

1220
01:14:45,355 --> 01:14:47,023
-Have you eaten?
-Not yet, but--

1221
01:14:47,107 --> 01:14:48,983
I understand the turkey's fresh
at Bunch O' Grapes.

1222
01:14:49,067 --> 01:14:51,236
Well, the fact is,
I have a rendezvous, John.

1223
01:14:52,237 --> 01:14:54,364
I'd ask you along,
but talking makes her nervous.

1224
01:14:58,284 --> 01:14:59,285
Yes, of course.

1225
01:15:19,597 --> 01:15:21,015
Incredible.

1226
01:15:28,940 --> 01:15:30,024
Abigail?

1227
01:15:31,651 --> 01:15:33,445
I'm very lonely, Abigail.

1228
01:15:34,279 --> 01:15:37,282
<i>Are you, John? Then as long
as you were sending for wives,</i>

1229
01:15:37,365 --> 01:15:39,200
<i>why didn't you send for your own?</i>

1230
01:15:39,284 --> 01:15:42,328
Oh, now, don't be unreasonable, Abigail.

1231
01:15:42,412 --> 01:15:44,497
<i>Oh, now I'm unreasonable.</i>

1232
01:15:44,581 --> 01:15:46,124
<i>You must add that to your list.</i>

1233
01:15:48,042 --> 01:15:49,210
List?

1234
01:15:49,294 --> 01:15:52,714
The catalog of my faults
you included in your last letter.

1235
01:15:54,299 --> 01:15:57,760
Oh, they were fondly intended, madam.

1236
01:15:57,844 --> 01:16:01,139
-That I play at cards badly?
-A compliment.

1237
01:16:01,222 --> 01:16:05,560
-That my posture is crooked?
-An endearment.

1238
01:16:05,643 --> 01:16:09,606
-That I read, write and think too much?
-An irony.

1239
01:16:09,689 --> 01:16:11,399
That I'm pigeon-toed?

1240
01:16:13,860 --> 01:16:15,570
Oh, well, now there you have me, Abby.

1241
01:16:17,906 --> 01:16:19,782
I'm afraid you are pigeon-toed.

1242
01:16:22,118 --> 01:16:26,539
Please. Come to Philadelphia.
Please come.

1243
01:16:26,623 --> 01:16:27,957
Oh, thank you, John.

1244
01:16:29,042 --> 01:16:31,085
I do want to,
but you know now it's not possible.

1245
01:16:31,169 --> 01:16:32,754
The children have the measles.

1246
01:16:33,505 --> 01:16:34,506
So you wrote.

1247
01:16:36,633 --> 01:16:37,842
Tom and little Abby.

1248
01:16:38,676 --> 01:16:40,845
Only now it's Quincy and Charles.

1249
01:16:43,181 --> 01:16:46,351
And it appears the farm here
in Brain tree is failing, John.

1250
01:16:48,061 --> 01:16:50,063
The chickens and the geese have all died.

1251
01:16:51,231 --> 01:16:54,108
The apples never survived the late frost.

1252
01:16:55,902 --> 01:16:58,530
How do you suppose
she managed to get away?

1253
01:17:00,031 --> 01:17:03,243
Well, the winters are softer in Virginia.

1254
01:17:03,326 --> 01:17:04,702
And their women, John?

1255
01:17:06,287 --> 01:17:11,167
Fit for Virginians, madam, but pale,
puny things beside New England girls.

1256
01:17:14,671 --> 01:17:16,047
I thank you for that.

1257
01:17:20,510 --> 01:17:23,388
Abigail, how goes it with you?

1258
01:17:23,471 --> 01:17:25,807
Not well, John. Not at all well.

1259
01:17:27,058 --> 01:17:30,645
<i>I live like a nun in a cloister</i>

1260
01:17:30,728 --> 01:17:34,941
<i>Solitary, celibate
I hate it</i>

1261
01:17:35,024 --> 01:17:36,109
And you, John?

1262
01:17:36,859 --> 01:17:41,114
<i>I live like a monk in an abbey</i>

1263
01:17:41,197 --> 01:17:43,491
<i>Ditto, ditto
I hate it</i>

1264
01:17:44,951 --> 01:17:46,578
<i>Write to me</i>

1265
01:17:46,661 --> 01:17:52,750
<i>With sentimental effusion</i>

1266
01:17:52,834 --> 01:17:56,296
<i>Let me revel in</i>

1267
01:17:56,379 --> 01:18:01,384
<i>Romantic illusion</i>

1268
01:18:01,467 --> 01:18:03,761
<i>Do you still smell</i>

1269
01:18:03,845 --> 01:18:08,433
<i>Of vanilla and spring air?</i>

1270
01:18:10,018 --> 01:18:13,521
<i>And is my favorite lover's pillow</i>

1271
01:18:13,605 --> 01:18:17,442
<i>Still firm and fair?</i>

1272
01:18:18,401 --> 01:18:23,781
<i>What was there, John</i>

1273
01:18:23,865 --> 01:18:29,370
<i>Still is there</i>

1274
01:18:29,454 --> 01:18:30,788
<i>John</i>

1275
01:18:31,664 --> 01:18:35,960
<i>Come soon as you can
To my cloister</i>

1276
01:18:36,044 --> 01:18:40,757
<i>I've forgotten
The feel of your hand</i>

1277
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:45,386
<i>Soon, madam, we shall walk
In Cupid's grove together</i>

1278
01:18:45,470 --> 01:18:51,809
<i>And we'll fondly survey</i>

1279
01:18:51,893 --> 01:18:58,441
<i>That promised land</i>

1280
01:18:59,317 --> 01:19:03,821
<i>Till then, till then</i>

1281
01:19:03,905 --> 01:19:09,452
<i>I am as I ever was</i>

1282
01:19:09,535 --> 01:19:14,248
<i>And ever shall be</i>

1283
01:19:14,332 --> 01:19:16,501
<i>Yours</i>

1284
01:19:16,584 --> 01:19:19,128
<i>Yours</i>

1285
01:19:19,212 --> 01:19:21,506
<i>Yours</i>

1286
01:19:21,589 --> 01:19:24,634
<i>Yours</i>

1287
01:19:24,717 --> 01:19:28,388
<i>Yours</i>

1288
01:19:28,471 --> 01:19:30,473
<i>Saltpeter</i>

1289
01:19:32,100 --> 01:19:36,771
<i>John</i>

1290
01:19:44,737 --> 01:19:47,532
John? John?

1291
01:19:47,615 --> 01:19:49,659
-What?
-What are you doing down here?

1292
01:19:49,742 --> 01:19:51,786
I thought you'd be up there,
cracking the whip.

1293
01:19:51,869 --> 01:19:55,123
Oh, well, the shutters are still closed.

1294
01:19:55,832 --> 01:19:58,084
My word! So they are.

1295
01:20:00,712 --> 01:20:03,965
-Well, as the French say--
-Oh, please, Franklin!

1296
01:20:04,048 --> 01:20:07,135
Spare me your bawdy mind,
first thing in the morning.

1297
01:20:08,553 --> 01:20:12,056
-Dare we call?
-A congressman dares anything.

1298
01:20:12,140 --> 01:20:13,891
-Go ahead.
-Me?

1299
01:20:13,975 --> 01:20:15,852
Your voice is more piercing.

1300
01:20:18,187 --> 01:20:22,316
-Oh, John, look at her. Just look at her.
-Oh, I am.

1301
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:24,569
She's even more magnificent
than I remember.

1302
01:20:26,904 --> 01:20:28,781
Of course, we didn't see
much of her front last night.

1303
01:20:29,699 --> 01:20:32,034
-Good morrow, madam.
-Good morrow.

1304
01:20:35,079 --> 01:20:38,875
Is it the habit in Philadelphia
to shout at ladies from the street?

1305
01:20:38,958 --> 01:20:41,294
-Not really, but--
-And for men of your age,

1306
01:20:41,377 --> 01:20:44,756
it is not only unseemly, it is unsightly.

1307
01:20:46,215 --> 01:20:49,177
Excuse me, madam,
but we met last evening.

1308
01:20:50,261 --> 01:20:53,347
- I spoke to no one last evening.
-Indeed, you did not.

1309
01:20:53,431 --> 01:20:56,017
Nonetheless, we did present ourselves.

1310
01:20:56,100 --> 01:20:59,061
This is Mr. John Adams.
I'm Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

1311
01:21:00,354 --> 01:21:01,856
The inventor of the stove.

1312
01:21:03,733 --> 01:21:07,361
Oh, please!
I know your names very well, but...

1313
01:21:07,445 --> 01:21:09,822
Well, you said
you presented yourselves last night?

1314
01:21:09,906 --> 01:21:12,617
It's of no matter.
Your thoughts are well-taken elsewhere.

1315
01:21:15,745 --> 01:21:17,371
As my husband is not yet up...

1316
01:21:17,455 --> 01:21:20,082
Well, then shall we start over again?
Won't you join us?

1317
01:21:21,042 --> 01:21:22,460
Why, yes, of course!

1318
01:21:24,796 --> 01:21:26,547
Well, no wonder the man couldn't write.

1319
01:21:26,631 --> 01:21:28,508
Who would think of independence
married to her?

1320
01:21:28,591 --> 01:21:30,843
- I feel an absolute fool.
-That's good for you, John.

1321
01:21:30,927 --> 01:21:32,887
I tell you, Franklin,
it's positively indecent.

1322
01:21:32,970 --> 01:21:36,557
-John, they're young and in love.
-Not them, Franklin. Us.

1323
01:21:36,641 --> 01:21:39,477
Standing down here,
waiting for them to...

1324
01:21:41,103 --> 01:21:42,980
Well, what will people think?

1325
01:21:43,064 --> 01:21:45,149
Don't worry, John.
The history books will clean it up.

1326
01:21:46,442 --> 01:21:47,485
Well, it doesn't matter.

1327
01:21:47,568 --> 01:21:51,197
I'll not appear
in the history books anyway. Only you.

1328
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:53,783
Franklin did this
and Franklin did that,

1329
01:21:53,866 --> 01:21:56,160
and Franklin did
some other damned thing.

1330
01:21:56,244 --> 01:21:59,455
Franklin smote the ground
and out sprang...

1331
01:21:59,539 --> 01:22:03,084
George Washington,
fully grown and on his horse.

1332
01:22:03,793 --> 01:22:07,004
Franklin then electrified him
with his miraculous lightning rod.

1333
01:22:07,088 --> 01:22:10,925
Then the three of them,
Franklin, Washington and the horse,

1334
01:22:11,008 --> 01:22:13,928
conducted the entire revolution
all by themselves.

1335
01:22:17,765 --> 01:22:18,599
I like it.

1336
01:22:20,685 --> 01:22:22,979
I beg your pardon, gentlemen.

1337
01:22:23,980 --> 01:22:27,942
It is indeed an honor to meet
the two greatest men in America.

1338
01:22:28,025 --> 01:22:30,361
Certainly the greatest
within earshot anyway.

1339
01:22:30,444 --> 01:22:32,363
I'm not an idle flatterer, Dr. Franklin.

1340
01:22:32,446 --> 01:22:34,615
My husband admires you both greatly.

1341
01:22:34,699 --> 01:22:36,450
Then we are doubly flattered.

1342
01:22:36,534 --> 01:22:40,413
For we admire very much
that which your husband admires.

1343
01:22:45,418 --> 01:22:46,544
Did you sleep well, madam?

1344
01:22:49,463 --> 01:22:51,299
Well, I mean, did you lie comfort--?

1345
01:22:53,968 --> 01:22:56,262
-Damn it, you know what I mean.
-Yes, we know what you mean.

1346
01:22:56,345 --> 01:22:59,015
Tell us about yourself.
We've heard precious little.

1347
01:22:59,098 --> 01:23:01,058
-What's your first name?
-Martha.

1348
01:23:01,142 --> 01:23:05,271
Martha! He might at least
have told us that.

1349
01:23:05,354 --> 01:23:07,064
Your husband doesn't say very much.

1350
01:23:07,148 --> 01:23:10,610
Most silent man in Congress. I've never
heard him utter three sentences together.

1351
01:23:10,693 --> 01:23:12,236
Not every man's a talker, John.

1352
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:16,699
Yes, it's true, you know.
Tom is not... a talker.

1353
01:23:19,327 --> 01:23:22,872
<i>Oh, he never speaks his passions</i>

1354
01:23:22,955 --> 01:23:26,000
<i>He never speaks his views</i>

1355
01:23:26,083 --> 01:23:29,629
<i>Whereas other men speak volumes</i>

1356
01:23:29,712 --> 01:23:34,091
<i>The man I love is mute</i>

1357
01:23:34,175 --> 01:23:36,677
<i>In truth I can't recall</i>

1358
01:23:36,761 --> 01:23:40,181
<i>Being wooed with words</i>

1359
01:23:40,264 --> 01:23:42,475
<i>At all</i>

1360
01:23:42,558 --> 01:23:46,604
<i>Even now</i>

1361
01:23:46,687 --> 01:23:49,982
-Oh, don't stop, madam.
-No. Tell us, how did he win you?

1362
01:23:50,066 --> 01:23:53,110
And how does he hold on
to a bounty such as you?

1363
01:23:53,194 --> 01:23:56,906
Surely you've noticed that Tom is
a man of many accomplishments.

1364
01:23:56,989 --> 01:24:00,451
Author, lawyer,
statesman, architect, farmer.

1365
01:24:01,661 --> 01:24:05,873
And still one more
that I hesitate to mention.

1366
01:24:05,957 --> 01:24:08,751
-Don't hesitate, madam. Don't.
-No, tell us.

1367
01:24:08,834 --> 01:24:11,253
What else can
that redheaded tombstone do?

1368
01:24:14,048 --> 01:24:19,053
<i>He plays the violin</i>

1369
01:24:19,136 --> 01:24:23,307
<i>He tucks it right under his chin</i>

1370
01:24:23,391 --> 01:24:25,643
<i>And he bows</i>

1371
01:24:25,726 --> 01:24:27,645
<i>Oh, he bows</i>

1372
01:24:27,728 --> 01:24:31,691
<i>For he knows
Yes, he knows</i>

1373
01:24:31,774 --> 01:24:35,987
<i>That it's heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle</i>

1374
01:24:36,070 --> 01:24:39,657
<i>"Twixt my heart
Tom and his fiddle</i>

1375
01:24:39,740 --> 01:24:43,661
<i>My strings are unstrung</i>

1376
01:24:43,744 --> 01:24:46,539
<i>Heigh, heigh, heigh</i>

1377
01:24:46,622 --> 01:24:49,959
<i>Heigh</i>

1378
01:24:50,042 --> 01:24:52,962
<i>I am undone</i>

1379
01:24:53,045 --> 01:24:54,422
The violin, madam?

1380
01:24:54,505 --> 01:24:58,134
<i>I hear his violin</i>

1381
01:24:58,217 --> 01:25:01,595
<i>And I get that feeling within</i>

1382
01:25:01,679 --> 01:25:05,224
<i>And I sigh
Oh, I sigh</i>

1383
01:25:05,307 --> 01:25:08,853
<i>He draws near, very near</i>

1384
01:25:08,936 --> 01:25:13,107
<i>And it's heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle</i>

1385
01:25:13,190 --> 01:25:16,819
<i>And goodbye to the fiddle</i>

1386
01:25:16,902 --> 01:25:20,740
<i>My strings are unstrung</i>

1387
01:25:20,823 --> 01:25:23,659
<i>Heigh, heigh, heigh</i>

1388
01:25:23,743 --> 01:25:26,912
<i>Heigh</i>

1389
01:25:26,996 --> 01:25:29,081
<i>I'm always undone</i>

1390
01:25:29,165 --> 01:25:31,000
That settles it, John.
We're taking up the violin.

1391
01:25:31,083 --> 01:25:34,211
Very well, madam. You have us playing
the violin. What happens next?

1392
01:25:34,295 --> 01:25:36,797
-Next, Mr. Adams?
-Yes. What does Tom do now?

1393
01:25:36,881 --> 01:25:38,507
Why, just what you'd expect.

1394
01:25:41,594 --> 01:25:44,138
-We dance.
-Dance?

1395
01:25:44,221 --> 01:25:47,224
Dance? Incredible!

1396
01:25:47,308 --> 01:25:49,393
One, two, three. One, two, three.

1397
01:25:54,231 --> 01:25:56,150
Who's playing the violin?

1398
01:25:56,233 --> 01:25:57,902
Oh, John, really!

1399
01:26:34,313 --> 01:26:36,190
Oh, John, you can dance.

1400
01:26:36,273 --> 01:26:38,609
We still do a few things
in Boston, Franklin.

1401
01:26:53,916 --> 01:26:56,627
<i>Heigh, heigh, heigh</i>

1402
01:26:56,710 --> 01:26:59,505
<i>Heigh</i>

1403
01:26:59,588 --> 01:27:01,257
<i>Heigh</i>

1404
01:27:01,340 --> 01:27:05,177
<i>When heaven calls to me</i>

1405
01:27:05,261 --> 01:27:08,222
<i>Sing me no sad elegy</i>

1406
01:27:08,305 --> 01:27:10,141
<i>Say I died</i>

1407
01:27:10,224 --> 01:27:12,184
<i>Loving bride</i>

1408
01:27:12,268 --> 01:27:15,521
<i>Loving wife
Loving life</i>

1409
01:27:15,604 --> 01:27:19,567
<i>For it was heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle</i>

1410
01:27:19,650 --> 01:27:23,445
<i>"Twixt my heart
Tom and his fiddle</i>

1411
01:27:23,529 --> 01:27:28,284
<i>And ever 'twill be</i>

1412
01:27:31,871 --> 01:27:34,415
<i>Heigh, heigh, heigh</i>

1413
01:27:34,498 --> 01:27:38,210
<i>-Heigh
-Heigh</i>

1414
01:27:38,294 --> 01:27:42,756
<i>-Through eternity
-He plays the violin</i>

1415
01:27:42,840 --> 01:27:46,844
<i>He plays the violin</i>

1416
01:27:46,927 --> 01:27:51,724
<i>He plays the violin</i>

1417
01:27:59,481 --> 01:28:02,776
Look! Look, Franklin, he's done it.
He's written it.

1418
01:28:05,070 --> 01:28:07,656
"Dear Mr. Adams,
I am taking my wife back to bed.

1419
01:28:07,740 --> 01:28:10,576
<i>Kindly go away.
Your obedient, 1. Jefferson."</i>

1420
01:28:11,702 --> 01:28:13,162
Incredible.

1421
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,791
You know, perhaps I should have
written the declaration after all.

1422
01:28:17,875 --> 01:28:21,378
At my age, there's little doubt
the pen is mightier than the sword.

1423
01:28:24,298 --> 01:28:28,969
<i>For it's heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle</i>

1424
01:28:29,053 --> 01:28:33,098
<i>And God bless
A man who can fiddle</i>

1425
01:28:33,182 --> 01:28:37,061
<i>And independency</i>

1426
01:28:37,144 --> 01:28:39,939
<i>Heigh, heigh, heigh</i>

1427
01:28:40,022 --> 01:28:42,316
<i>Heigh</i>

1428
01:28:42,399 --> 01:28:47,446
<i>Ya, da, da, da, da</i>

1429
01:28:47,529 --> 01:28:50,741
<i>Through eternity</i>

1430
01:28:50,824 --> 01:28:55,579
<i>He plays the violin</i>

1431
01:28:55,663 --> 01:28:59,333
<i>Violin</i>

1432
01:28:59,416 --> 01:29:06,048
<i>Violin</i>

1433
01:29:12,012 --> 01:29:16,141
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland--
Virginia's absent.

1434
01:29:16,225 --> 01:29:20,020
--And North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.

1435
01:29:20,813 --> 01:29:23,857
And what follows is a complete
and up-to-date list

1436
01:29:23,941 --> 01:29:26,068
of all the committees of this Congress

1437
01:29:26,151 --> 01:29:30,114
now sitting, about to sit
or just having sat.

1438
01:29:30,906 --> 01:29:33,993
"A committee formed to investigate
a complaint made against

1439
01:29:34,076 --> 01:29:37,621
the quality of yeast manufactured
by Mr. Henry Pendleton's mill

1440
01:29:37,705 --> 01:29:39,957
designated as the Yeast Committee.

1441
01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:44,336
A committee formed to consider the most
effective method of dealing with spies

1442
01:29:44,420 --> 01:29:46,880
designated as the Spies Committee.

1443
01:29:48,549 --> 01:29:51,593
A committee formed to think,
perhaps to do,

1444
01:29:51,677 --> 01:29:54,930
but in any case, to gather,
to meet, to confer, to talk,

1445
01:29:55,014 --> 01:29:58,475
and perhaps even to resolve
that each rifle regiment

1446
01:29:58,559 --> 01:30:02,479
be allowed at least one drum
and one fife attached to each company

1447
01:30:02,563 --> 01:30:05,316
designated
as the Drum and Fife Committee.

1448
01:30:05,399 --> 01:30:06,900
A committee formed to--"

1449
01:30:07,901 --> 01:30:09,570
Where is that committee?

1450
01:30:09,653 --> 01:30:13,032
What do you think of it, doctor?
Democracy.

1451
01:30:13,115 --> 01:30:16,660
What Plato called
"a charming form of government

1452
01:30:16,744 --> 01:30:18,579
full of variety and disorder."

1453
01:30:19,788 --> 01:30:22,333
I never knew
Plato had been to Philadelphia.

1454
01:30:22,416 --> 01:30:26,337
Ben, I want you to see some cards
I've gone and had printed up.

1455
01:30:26,420 --> 01:30:28,714
Ought to save everybody here
a lot of time and effort,

1456
01:30:28,797 --> 01:30:32,760
considering the epidemic
of bad disposition that's been going on.

1457
01:30:33,802 --> 01:30:37,014
"Dear sir, you are,
without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal,

1458
01:30:37,097 --> 01:30:39,558
a villain, a thief, a scoundrel,
and a mean, dirty,

1459
01:30:39,641 --> 01:30:41,852
stinking, sniveling, sneaking,
pimping, pocket-picking,

1460
01:30:41,935 --> 01:30:43,854
thrice double-damned
no-good son-of-a-bitch."

1461
01:30:43,937 --> 01:30:45,606
And you sign your name.
What do you think?

1462
01:30:45,689 --> 01:30:49,193
-I'll take a dozen right now.
-Aha! Here it is.

1463
01:30:49,276 --> 01:30:52,321
"A committee formed to answer
all congressional correspondence

1464
01:30:52,404 --> 01:30:55,032
designated as the Congressional
Correspondence Committee."

1465
01:30:57,701 --> 01:31:00,371
All right, Franklin, enough socializing.
There's work to be done.

1466
01:31:00,454 --> 01:31:02,122
-Good morning, John.
-What?

1467
01:31:02,206 --> 01:31:04,458
-Good morning.
-Oh, good morning, good morning.

1468
01:31:04,541 --> 01:31:06,460
-Now, then, let's get to it.
-Get to what?

1469
01:31:06,543 --> 01:31:08,545
Unanimity, of course. Look at that board.

1470
01:31:08,629 --> 01:31:10,923
Six nays to win over
in little more than a week.

1471
01:31:11,006 --> 01:31:13,842
"A committee formed to consider
the problem of counterfeit money

1472
01:31:13,926 --> 01:31:15,719
designated
as the Counterfeit Money Committee."

1473
01:31:15,803 --> 01:31:18,430
-Oh, God. What--?
-All right, John, all right.

1474
01:31:18,514 --> 01:31:20,599
-Where shall we start?
-Well, what about Delaware?

1475
01:31:20,682 --> 01:31:23,894
Sad thing to see them on the wrong side
after all this time.

1476
01:31:23,977 --> 01:31:26,313
-Any news of Rodney?
-Yes. McKean's back.

1477
01:31:26,397 --> 01:31:28,565
-Thomas!
-"A committee formed to study

1478
01:31:28,649 --> 01:31:31,151
the causes
of our military defeat in Canada."

1479
01:31:31,235 --> 01:31:35,197
Thomas, how did you leave Caesar?
Is he still alive?

1480
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:39,451
Aye, but the journey to Dover
was fearful hard on him.

1481
01:31:39,535 --> 01:31:43,205
He never complained, but I could see
the poor man was suffering terrible.

1482
01:31:43,288 --> 01:31:45,207
But you got him safely home.

1483
01:31:45,290 --> 01:31:49,086
I did, but I doubt
he'll ever set foot out of it again.

1484
01:31:49,169 --> 01:31:51,755
That leaves you and Read split
down the middle. Will he come over?

1485
01:31:51,839 --> 01:31:54,550
I don't know.
He's a stubborn ignoramus.

1486
01:31:54,633 --> 01:31:56,635
Work on him. Keep after him
till you wear him down.

1487
01:31:56,718 --> 01:32:00,097
John, face facts, will ya?
If it were just Read standing in our way,

1488
01:32:00,180 --> 01:32:02,808
it wouldn't be so bad,
but look for yourself, man.

1489
01:32:02,891 --> 01:32:06,937
Maryland, Pennsylvania
and the entire South. It's impossible!

1490
01:32:07,020 --> 01:32:10,065
Well, it's impossible if we all
stand around complaining about it.

1491
01:32:10,149 --> 01:32:12,943
To work, McKean.
One foot in front of the other.

1492
01:32:13,026 --> 01:32:15,904
I believe I put it a better way:
Never leave off until tomorrow--

1493
01:32:15,988 --> 01:32:19,908
-Oh, shut up, Franklin.
-But what good will it do?

1494
01:32:19,992 --> 01:32:23,495
You know Dickinson.
He'll never give in.

1495
01:32:23,579 --> 01:32:25,497
And you haven't heard
the last of Rutledge either.

1496
01:32:25,581 --> 01:32:27,624
Never mind about them.
Your job is George Read.

1497
01:32:27,708 --> 01:32:30,502
Talk him deaf if you have to,
but bring us back Delaware.

1498
01:32:30,586 --> 01:32:32,087
-There's a simpler way.
-What?

1499
01:32:33,505 --> 01:32:36,758
-This'll break the tie.
-All right, John, who's next?

1500
01:32:36,842 --> 01:32:38,969
"A committee formed to keep secrets

1501
01:32:39,052 --> 01:32:41,430
designated as the Secrets Committee."

1502
01:32:41,513 --> 01:32:45,517
Pennsylvania and Maryland. I suggest
you get your own house in order,

1503
01:32:45,601 --> 01:32:47,936
and I'll take a crack at old bacon-face--

1504
01:32:48,020 --> 01:32:49,980
Lord, look at him stuff himself.

1505
01:32:51,607 --> 01:32:52,816
Mr. Chase!

1506
01:32:52,900 --> 01:32:56,153
How about it, Chase? When are you
coming to your senses, man?

1507
01:32:56,236 --> 01:32:59,198
Please, Mr. Adams, not while I'm eating.

1508
01:32:59,281 --> 01:33:00,491
Mr. Wilson, sir?

1509
01:33:01,992 --> 01:33:03,869
It's time to assert yourself.

1510
01:33:03,952 --> 01:33:05,954
Tell me something,
when you were a judge,

1511
01:33:06,038 --> 01:33:07,873
how in hell did you ever make a decision?

1512
01:33:08,957 --> 01:33:13,629
The decisions I made were all based
on legality and precedence.

1513
01:33:13,712 --> 01:33:17,799
But there is no legality here
and certainly no precedent.

1514
01:33:17,883 --> 01:33:22,721
Because it's a new idea, you clot!

1515
01:33:22,804 --> 01:33:25,224
We'll be setting our own precedent!

1516
01:33:25,307 --> 01:33:29,186
No, Mr. McKean. No, no, no!

1517
01:33:29,269 --> 01:33:33,106
Damn your eyes, Read!
You come into this world screaming no

1518
01:33:33,190 --> 01:33:36,944
and you're determined to leave it
the same way, ya slimy worm!

1519
01:33:38,654 --> 01:33:41,198
The Congress is waiting on you, Chase!

1520
01:33:41,281 --> 01:33:45,035
America is waiting!
The whole world is waiting!

1521
01:33:45,118 --> 01:33:47,037
What's that? Kidney?

1522
01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:51,375
Leave me alone, Mr. Adams!
You're wasting your time.

1523
01:33:51,458 --> 01:33:55,003
If I thought we could win this war,
I'd be at the front of your ranks,

1524
01:33:55,087 --> 01:33:58,048
but you must know it's impossible.

1525
01:33:58,131 --> 01:34:00,175
You've heard
General Washington's dispatches.

1526
01:34:00,259 --> 01:34:02,344
His army has fallen to pieces.

1527
01:34:02,427 --> 01:34:05,055
Washington is exaggerating the situation,

1528
01:34:05,138 --> 01:34:07,891
in order to arouse
this torpid Congress into action.

1529
01:34:07,975 --> 01:34:10,686
Why, as chairman of the War Committee,
I can state for a fact

1530
01:34:10,769 --> 01:34:13,272
that the army has never been
in better shape.

1531
01:34:13,355 --> 01:34:16,149
Never have troops been more cheerful.

1532
01:34:16,233 --> 01:34:18,318
Never have soldiers been more resolute.

1533
01:34:18,402 --> 01:34:21,613
Never have training
and discipline been more spirited!

1534
01:34:22,281 --> 01:34:23,657
Oh, good God.

1535
01:34:33,166 --> 01:34:36,545
May we have your ears, gentlemen?
Mr. Thomson has a dispatch.

1536
01:34:36,628 --> 01:34:39,339
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in New York,

1537
01:34:39,423 --> 01:34:41,675
dispatch number 1,157,

1538
01:34:41,758 --> 01:34:44,177
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, President. 'Dear, sir,

1539
01:34:44,261 --> 01:34:47,264
it is with the utmost despair
that I must report to you

1540
01:34:47,347 --> 01:34:50,309
the disorder and confusion
that reign in every department.'"

1541
01:34:50,392 --> 01:34:53,186
Oh, sweet Jesus!

1542
01:34:54,855 --> 01:34:57,566
"The Continental soldier
is as nothing ever seen

1543
01:34:57,649 --> 01:34:59,484
in this or any other century.

1544
01:34:59,568 --> 01:35:01,862
He is a misfit, ignorant of hygiene,

1545
01:35:01,945 --> 01:35:05,115
destructive, disorderly,
and totally disrespectful of rank.

1546
01:35:05,198 --> 01:35:07,159
Only this last is understandable,

1547
01:35:07,242 --> 01:35:11,788
as there is an incredible reek
of stupidity amongst the officers.

1548
01:35:11,872 --> 01:35:13,832
The situation is most desperate

1549
01:35:13,915 --> 01:35:16,543
at the New Jersey training ground
in New Brunswick,

1550
01:35:16,627 --> 01:35:18,837
where every able-bodied whore in the--"

1551
01:35:19,671 --> 01:35:20,505
Whore?

1552
01:35:22,090 --> 01:35:24,217
" ..In the colonies has assembled.

1553
01:35:24,301 --> 01:35:28,388
There are constant reports of drunkenness,
desertion, foul language,

1554
01:35:28,472 --> 01:35:30,932
naked bathing in the Raritan River,

1555
01:35:31,016 --> 01:35:32,351
and an epidemic

1556
01:35:33,310 --> 01:35:35,312
of the French disease.

1557
01:35:36,938 --> 01:35:40,651
I have placed this town off-limits
to all military personnel

1558
01:35:40,734 --> 01:35:42,152
with the exception of officers.

1559
01:35:42,903 --> 01:35:46,657
I beseech the Congress to dispatch
the War Committee to this place,

1560
01:35:46,740 --> 01:35:51,370
in the hope of restoring some of the order
and discipline we need to survive.

1561
01:35:51,453 --> 01:35:52,871
Your obedient...

1562
01:35:54,247 --> 01:35:55,540
G. Washington.'"

1563
01:35:58,251 --> 01:36:00,879
That man would depress a hyena.

1564
01:36:02,756 --> 01:36:05,717
Well, Mr. Adams, you're chairman
of the War Committee.

1565
01:36:05,801 --> 01:36:09,971
Do you feel up to whoring, drinking,
deserting, and New Brunswick?

1566
01:36:10,055 --> 01:36:15,143
There must be some mistake. I have
an aunt who lives in New Brunswick.

1567
01:36:16,770 --> 01:36:19,523
You must tell her
to keep up the good work.

1568
01:36:22,150 --> 01:36:24,361
Come, come, Mr. Adams.

1569
01:36:24,444 --> 01:36:26,863
You must see that it's hopeless.

1570
01:36:26,947 --> 01:36:28,740
Let us recall General Washington

1571
01:36:28,824 --> 01:36:32,703
and disband the Continental Army
before we're overwhelmed.

1572
01:36:32,786 --> 01:36:35,914
Oh, yes, indeed. The English would
like that, now, wouldn't they?

1573
01:36:35,997 --> 01:36:39,501
Why not ask them yourself?
They ought to be here any minute.

1574
01:36:40,377 --> 01:36:42,879
And when they hang you, Mr. Adams,

1575
01:36:42,963 --> 01:36:46,007
I hope you will put in a good word
for the rest of us.

1576
01:36:55,058 --> 01:36:56,685
Face facts, Mr. Adams.

1577
01:36:57,644 --> 01:37:02,190
A handful of drunk and disorderly recruits
against the entire British Army,

1578
01:37:03,024 --> 01:37:04,985
the finest musket men on earth.

1579
01:37:05,902 --> 01:37:10,157
How can we win?
How can we even hope to survive?

1580
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:11,867
Answer me straight, Chase.

1581
01:37:11,950 --> 01:37:15,620
If you thought we could beat the Redcoats,

1582
01:37:15,704 --> 01:37:17,998
would Maryland say yea
to independence?

1583
01:37:18,081 --> 01:37:21,168
-Well, I suppose--
-No supposing.

1584
01:37:21,835 --> 01:37:23,712
Would you or wouldn't you?

1585
01:37:26,339 --> 01:37:28,008
Very well, Mr. Adams.

1586
01:37:28,925 --> 01:37:31,178
Yes, we would.

1587
01:37:31,261 --> 01:37:35,015
-Then come with me and see for yourself.
-John, are you mad?

1588
01:37:35,098 --> 01:37:37,058
You heard what Washington said.
It's a shambles.

1589
01:37:37,142 --> 01:37:39,895
-They're pushing you into it, Johnny!
-What do you say, Chase?

1590
01:37:39,978 --> 01:37:42,939
Go ahead, Sam.
It sounds lively as hell up there.

1591
01:37:43,023 --> 01:37:44,941
All right. Why not?

1592
01:37:45,025 --> 01:37:47,986
And maybe it'll be John Adams
who comes to his senses.

1593
01:37:48,069 --> 01:37:50,989
Mr. President, the War Committee
will heed General Washington's request.

1594
01:37:51,072 --> 01:37:54,576
A party consisting of Chase, Franklin
and myself will leave immediately.

1595
01:37:54,659 --> 01:37:55,660
Is--?

1596
01:37:56,787 --> 01:37:59,748
Is that satisfactory with you,
Dr. Franklin?

1597
01:37:59,831 --> 01:38:02,501
Wake up, Franklin!
You're going to New Brunswick.

1598
01:38:02,584 --> 01:38:05,670
-Like hell I am. What for?
-The whoring and the drinking.

1599
01:38:08,048 --> 01:38:10,884
All right, Chase! Move all that lard.
Not a moment to lose.

1600
01:38:10,967 --> 01:38:14,554
Left, right, left, right.
Left, right, left, right.

1601
01:38:14,638 --> 01:38:16,139
Left, right, left!

1602
01:38:27,359 --> 01:38:31,112
Mr. McNair, all this talk of independence

1603
01:38:31,196 --> 01:38:34,074
has left a certain foulness in the air.

1604
01:38:34,157 --> 01:38:38,119
My friends and I would appreciate it
if you could open some windows.

1605
01:38:38,203 --> 01:38:39,704
Well, what about the flies?

1606
01:38:40,497 --> 01:38:42,374
The windows, Mr. McNair.

1607
01:38:44,626 --> 01:38:47,629
Open the windows,
close the windows.

1608
01:38:47,712 --> 01:38:49,381
Sweet Jesus!

1609
01:38:58,723 --> 01:39:02,853
<i>Oh, say, do you see what I see?</i>

1610
01:39:02,936 --> 01:39:06,898
<i>Congress sitting here
In sweet serenity</i>

1611
01:39:06,982 --> 01:39:10,068
<i>I could cheer
The reason's clear</i>

1612
01:39:10,151 --> 01:39:12,487
<i>For the first time in a year</i>

1613
01:39:12,571 --> 01:39:14,489
<i>Adams isn't here</i>

1614
01:39:14,573 --> 01:39:17,951
<i>And look
The sun is in the sky</i>

1615
01:39:18,034 --> 01:39:20,287
<i>A breeze is blowing by</i>

1616
01:39:20,370 --> 01:39:23,915
<i>And there's not a single fly</i>

1617
01:39:23,999 --> 01:39:26,251
<i>I sing, Hosanna</i>

1618
01:39:26,334 --> 01:39:28,837
<i>Hosanna</i>

1619
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:32,883
<i>Hosanna, Hosanna</i>

1620
01:39:32,966 --> 01:39:34,676
<i>And it's cool</i>

1621
01:39:36,303 --> 01:39:40,807
<i>Come, ye cool, cool
Conservative men</i>

1622
01:39:40,891 --> 01:39:44,769
<i>Our like may never, ever be seen again</i>

1623
01:39:44,853 --> 01:39:48,440
<i>We have land
Cash in hand</i>

1624
01:39:48,523 --> 01:39:52,360
<i>Self-command
Future planned</i>

1625
01:39:52,444 --> 01:39:56,114
<i>Fortune thrives
Society survives</i>

1626
01:39:56,197 --> 01:39:58,283
<i>In neatly ordered lives</i>

1627
01:39:58,366 --> 01:40:02,245
<i>With well-end owe red wives</i>

1628
01:40:02,329 --> 01:40:04,789
<i>Come sing, Hosanna</i>

1629
01:40:04,873 --> 01:40:07,000
<i>Hosanna</i>

1630
01:40:07,083 --> 01:40:10,837
<i>In our breeding and our manner</i>

1631
01:40:10,921 --> 01:40:14,507
<i>We are cool</i>

1632
01:40:14,591 --> 01:40:18,887
<i>Come, ye cool, cool
Considerate set</i>

1633
01:40:18,970 --> 01:40:22,724
<i>We'll dance together
To the same minuet</i>

1634
01:40:22,807 --> 01:40:26,728
<i>To the right
Ever to the right</i>

1635
01:40:26,811 --> 01:40:30,649
<i>Never to the left
Forever to the right</i>

1636
01:40:30,732 --> 01:40:34,235
<i>Let our creed be never to exceed</i>

1637
01:40:34,319 --> 01:40:36,363
<i>Regulated speed</i>

1638
01:40:36,446 --> 01:40:39,741
<i>No matter what the need</i>

1639
01:40:40,450 --> 01:40:42,702
<i>Come sing, Hosanna</i>

1640
01:40:42,786 --> 01:40:45,163
<i>Hosanna</i>

1641
01:40:45,246 --> 01:40:52,212
<i>Emblazoned on our banner
Is keep cool</i>

1642
01:41:00,845 --> 01:41:04,599
<i>To the right
Ever to the right</i>

1643
01:41:04,683 --> 01:41:08,603
<i>Never to the left
Forever to the right</i>

1644
01:41:08,687 --> 01:41:12,649
<i>Hands attach
Tightly latch</i>

1645
01:41:12,732 --> 01:41:14,109
<i>Everybody match</i>

1646
01:41:14,192 --> 01:41:16,778
<i>I have a new dispatch</i>

1647
01:41:20,407 --> 01:41:22,784
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in New York,

1648
01:41:22,867 --> 01:41:25,036
dispatch number 1,158,

1649
01:41:25,120 --> 01:41:27,497
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, president. 'Dear, sir,

1650
01:41:28,289 --> 01:41:30,583
I awoke this morning
to find that General Howe

1651
01:41:30,667 --> 01:41:33,586
has landed 25,000 British regulars
and Hessian mercenaries

1652
01:41:33,670 --> 01:41:35,130
on Staten Island,

1653
01:41:35,213 --> 01:41:39,092
and that the fleet, under the command
of his brother, Admiral Lord Howe,

1654
01:41:39,175 --> 01:41:42,887
controls not only the Hudson
and the East Rivers but New York Harbor,

1655
01:41:42,971 --> 01:41:45,348
which now looks like all of London afloat.

1656
01:41:46,349 --> 01:41:48,143
I can no longer, in good conscience,

1657
01:41:48,226 --> 01:41:52,272
withhold from the Congress my certainty
that the British object at this time

1658
01:41:52,355 --> 01:41:53,356
is Philadelphia.

1659
01:41:54,190 --> 01:41:56,985
Happy should I be if I could see
the means of preventing them,

1660
01:41:57,068 --> 01:41:59,279
but at present, I confess I do not.

1661
01:42:00,238 --> 01:42:03,992
Oh, how I wish I had never seen
the Continental Army.

1662
01:42:04,075 --> 01:42:07,037
I would have done better
to retire to the back country

1663
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:08,955
and to live in a wigwam.

1664
01:42:09,748 --> 01:42:11,166
Your obedient...

1665
01:42:12,709 --> 01:42:14,210
G. Washington.'"

1666
01:42:15,170 --> 01:42:19,132
<i>What we do
We do rationally</i>

1667
01:42:19,215 --> 01:42:22,677
<i>We never, ever go off half-cocked
Not we</i>

1668
01:42:22,761 --> 01:42:26,139
<i>Why begin
Till we know that we can win?</i>

1669
01:42:26,222 --> 01:42:29,976
<i>And if we cannot win
Why bother to begin?</i>

1670
01:42:30,060 --> 01:42:34,522
<i>We say
This game's not of our choosing</i>

1671
01:42:34,606 --> 01:42:37,901
<i>Why should we risk losing?</i>

1672
01:42:37,984 --> 01:42:41,571
<i>We're cool, cool men</i>

1673
01:42:43,823 --> 01:42:48,620
Mr. Hancock,
you're a man of property, one of us.

1674
01:42:48,703 --> 01:42:51,122
Why don't you join us in our minuet?

1675
01:42:51,206 --> 01:42:53,875
Why do you persist
in dancing with John Adams?

1676
01:42:53,958 --> 01:42:55,877
Good Lord, sir, you don't even like him.

1677
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:59,798
<i>That is true
He annoys me quite a lot</i>

1678
01:42:59,881 --> 01:43:03,176
<i>But still I'd rather trot
To Mr. Adams' new gavotte</i>

1679
01:43:03,259 --> 01:43:06,888
Why? For personal glory?
For a place in history?

1680
01:43:06,971 --> 01:43:10,600
Be careful, sir. History will brand him
and his followers as traitors.

1681
01:43:10,683 --> 01:43:13,394
Traitors, Mr. Dickinson? To what?

1682
01:43:13,478 --> 01:43:17,190
The British crown
or the British half-crown?

1683
01:43:17,273 --> 01:43:20,985
Fortunately, there are not enough men
of property in America to dictate policy.

1684
01:43:21,069 --> 01:43:24,823
Perhaps not, but don't forget
that most men with nothing

1685
01:43:24,906 --> 01:43:28,076
would rather protect
the possibility of becoming rich

1686
01:43:28,159 --> 01:43:30,787
than face the reality of being poor.

1687
01:43:32,997 --> 01:43:35,500
And that is why they will follow us!

1688
01:43:35,583 --> 01:43:39,087
<i>To the right
Ever to the right</i>

1689
01:43:39,170 --> 01:43:43,174
<i>Never to left
Forever to the right</i>

1690
01:43:43,258 --> 01:43:46,594
<i>Where there's gold
A market to behold</i>

1691
01:43:46,678 --> 01:43:48,388
<i>Tradition that is old</i>

1692
01:43:48,471 --> 01:43:50,598
<i>Reluctant to be bold</i>

1693
01:43:50,682 --> 01:43:52,600
<i>I sing, Hosanna</i>

1694
01:43:52,684 --> 01:43:54,769
<i>Hosanna</i>

1695
01:43:54,853 --> 01:43:58,022
<i>In a sane and lucid manner</i>

1696
01:43:58,106 --> 01:43:59,691
We are cool!

1697
01:44:00,358 --> 01:44:04,487
<i>We're the cool, cool
Considerate men</i>

1698
01:44:04,571 --> 01:44:08,283
<i>Whose like may never, ever
Be seen again</i>

1699
01:44:08,366 --> 01:44:11,953
<i>We have land
Cash in hand</i>

1700
01:44:12,036 --> 01:44:15,999
<i>Self-command
Future planned</i>

1701
01:44:16,082 --> 01:44:19,836
<i>And we'll hold to our gold</i>

1702
01:44:19,919 --> 01:44:22,005
<i>Tradition that is old</i>

1703
01:44:22,088 --> 01:44:23,923
<i>Reluctant to be bold</i>

1704
01:44:24,007 --> 01:44:28,970
<i>We say this game's
Not of our choosing</i>

1705
01:44:29,053 --> 01:44:32,432
<i>Why should we risk losing?</i>

1706
01:44:32,515 --> 01:44:36,978
<i>We're cool, cool
Cool, cool, cool</i>

1707
01:44:37,061 --> 01:44:40,940
<i>Cool, cool, cool
Cool, cool</i>

1708
01:44:41,024 --> 01:44:44,819
<i>Cool, cool</i>

1709
01:44:44,903 --> 01:44:51,910
<i>Men</i>

1710
01:45:07,050 --> 01:45:10,470
How'd you like to try and borrow
a dollar from one of them?

1711
01:45:11,804 --> 01:45:14,891
-You want some more rum, general?
-General?

1712
01:45:16,267 --> 01:45:18,311
Lord, I ain't even a corporal.

1713
01:45:18,394 --> 01:45:20,563
Yeah, well, what's the army know?

1714
01:45:23,816 --> 01:45:25,735
Here, son. There you go.

1715
01:45:30,198 --> 01:45:34,535
Sit down, gentlemen. The chair rules
it's too damn hot to work.

1716
01:45:44,837 --> 01:45:48,007
Well, general, what's it like out there?

1717
01:45:48,091 --> 01:45:49,550
You probably know more than me.

1718
01:45:50,134 --> 01:45:51,552
Sitting here?

1719
01:45:51,636 --> 01:45:55,556
Sweet Jesus, this is the last place
to find out what's going on.

1720
01:45:56,641 --> 01:45:58,101
I'm aiming to join up.

1721
01:45:58,184 --> 01:46:01,229
Oh, what are you talking about?
You don't have to join up.

1722
01:46:01,312 --> 01:46:03,648
-You're in Congress.
-What's that got to do with it?

1723
01:46:03,731 --> 01:46:06,818
Well, you don't see them
rushing off to get killed, do ya?

1724
01:46:06,901 --> 01:46:09,946
They sure are great ones
for sending others, I can tell ya that.

1725
01:46:10,613 --> 01:46:12,240
Hey, who sits here?

1726
01:46:12,323 --> 01:46:14,367
Caesar Rodney of Delaware.

1727
01:46:15,368 --> 01:46:16,619
Where are you from, general?

1728
01:46:16,703 --> 01:46:17,745
Water town.

1729
01:46:18,830 --> 01:46:21,791
-Where's that?
-Massachusetts.

1730
01:46:21,874 --> 01:46:24,085
Well, then you belong over there.

1731
01:46:30,133 --> 01:46:31,426
But be careful.

1732
01:46:31,509 --> 01:46:35,346
There's something about that chair
that makes a man awful noisy.

1733
01:46:39,600 --> 01:46:40,727
You seen any fighting?

1734
01:46:42,854 --> 01:46:43,855
Sure did.

1735
01:46:45,148 --> 01:46:48,443
I see'd my two best friends
get shot dead on the very same day.

1736
01:46:50,111 --> 01:46:51,863
And at Lexington it was too.

1737
01:46:52,655 --> 01:46:53,990
Right on the village green.

1738
01:46:55,450 --> 01:46:58,745
When they didn't come home, their mamas
went down the hill looking for them.

1739
01:46:59,912 --> 01:47:01,748
Mrs. Lowell, she found Timothy.

1740
01:47:04,375 --> 01:47:05,376
Right off.

1741
01:47:09,088 --> 01:47:10,214
But Mrs. Pickett...

1742
01:47:13,593 --> 01:47:15,470
she looked near half the night
for William.

1743
01:47:17,638 --> 01:47:19,390
He went and crawled off the green...

1744
01:47:21,142 --> 01:47:22,226
before he died.

1745
01:47:31,152 --> 01:47:35,114
<i>Mama, hey, Mama</i>

1746
01:47:35,198 --> 01:47:39,410
<i>Come looking for me</i>

1747
01:47:40,203 --> 01:47:44,582
<i>I'm here in the meadow</i>

1748
01:47:44,665 --> 01:47:49,170
<i>By the red maple tree</i>

1749
01:47:50,213 --> 01:47:54,133
<i>Mama, hey, Mama</i>

1750
01:47:54,217 --> 01:47:56,344
<i>Look sharp</i>

1751
01:47:56,427 --> 01:47:59,931
<i>Here I be</i>

1752
01:48:00,014 --> 01:48:04,560
<i>Hey, hey</i>

1753
01:48:04,644 --> 01:48:09,857
<i>Mama, look sharp</i>

1754
01:48:12,026 --> 01:48:15,988
<i>Them soldiers, they fired</i>

1755
01:48:16,072 --> 01:48:20,785
<i>Oh, Ma, did we run</i>

1756
01:48:20,868 --> 01:48:24,664
<i>But then we turned round</i>

1757
01:48:24,747 --> 01:48:29,043
<i>And the battle begun</i>

1758
01:48:30,128 --> 01:48:34,090
<i>Then I went under</i>

1759
01:48:34,173 --> 01:48:38,511
<i>Oh, Ma, am I done</i>

1760
01:48:39,679 --> 01:48:43,891
<i>Hey, hey</i>

1761
01:48:43,975 --> 01:48:49,355
<i>Mama, look sharp</i>

1762
01:48:51,607 --> 01:48:55,820
<i>My eyes are wide open</i>

1763
01:48:55,903 --> 01:48:59,907
<i>My face to the sky</i>

1764
01:49:00,658 --> 01:49:04,454
<i>Is that you I'm hearing</i>

1765
01:49:04,537 --> 01:49:08,624
<i>In the tall grass nearby?</i>

1766
01:49:09,375 --> 01:49:12,753
<i>Mama, come find me</i>

1767
01:49:12,837 --> 01:49:17,008
<i>Before I do die</i>

1768
01:49:17,091 --> 01:49:21,012
<i>Hey, hey</i>

1769
01:49:21,095 --> 01:49:22,430
<i>Mama</i>

1770
01:49:23,556 --> 01:49:27,268
<i>Look sharp</i>

1771
01:49:29,395 --> 01:49:33,941
<i>I'll close your eyes</i>

1772
01:49:34,025 --> 01:49:37,111
<i>My Billy</i>

1773
01:49:37,195 --> 01:49:43,117
<i>Them eyes that cannot see</i>

1774
01:49:43,201 --> 01:49:46,454
<i>And I'll bury ya</i>

1775
01:49:46,537 --> 01:49:49,457
<i>My Billy</i>

1776
01:49:49,540 --> 01:49:56,547
<i>Beneath the maple tree</i>

1777
01:49:56,631 --> 01:49:59,217
<i>And</i>

1778
01:49:59,300 --> 01:50:03,679
<i>Never again</i>

1779
01:50:03,763 --> 01:50:10,019
<i>Will ya whisper to me</i>

1780
01:50:10,102 --> 01:50:11,687
<i>Hey</i>

1781
01:50:12,855 --> 01:50:14,315
<i>Hey</i>

1782
01:50:15,441 --> 01:50:17,568
<i>Oh, Mama</i>

1783
01:50:18,653 --> 01:50:25,660
<i>Look sharp</i>

1784
01:50:42,343 --> 01:50:45,888
The secretary will now read the report
of the Declaration Committee.

1785
01:50:45,972 --> 01:50:47,682
Mr. Thomson.

1786
01:50:47,765 --> 01:50:51,143
"A declaration by the representatives
of the United States of America

1787
01:50:51,227 --> 01:50:53,020
in general Congress assembled.

1788
01:50:54,397 --> 01:50:57,567
When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people

1789
01:50:57,650 --> 01:51:01,112
to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another

1790
01:51:01,195 --> 01:51:03,739
and to assume
among the powers of the earth

1791
01:51:03,823 --> 01:51:06,742
the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature

1792
01:51:06,826 --> 01:51:08,953
and of nature's god entitle them,

1793
01:51:09,036 --> 01:51:11,789
a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind

1794
01:51:11,872 --> 01:51:13,916
requires that they should declare
the causes

1795
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:16,085
which impel them to the separation.

1796
01:51:16,168 --> 01:51:19,422
We hold these truths to be self-evident

1797
01:51:19,505 --> 01:51:22,258
that all men are created equal.

1798
01:51:22,341 --> 01:51:25,928
They're endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights

1799
01:51:26,012 --> 01:51:29,640
that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,

1800
01:51:29,724 --> 01:51:31,642
that we secure these rights..."

1801
01:51:31,726 --> 01:51:35,896
Jefferson, we're back,
and we've got Maryland.

1802
01:51:35,980 --> 01:51:38,691
That is, we will, as soon as Chase gets
through telling the Maryland assembly

1803
01:51:38,774 --> 01:51:40,901
what we saw in New Brunswick.

1804
01:51:40,985 --> 01:51:46,365
He's in Annapolis, describing a ragtag
collection of provincial militiamen

1805
01:51:46,449 --> 01:51:49,368
who couldn't drill together,
train together or march together.

1806
01:51:49,452 --> 01:51:51,454
But when a flock of ducks flew over

1807
01:51:51,537 --> 01:51:54,582
and they saw their first meal
in three full days,

1808
01:51:54,665 --> 01:51:56,584
sweet Jesus, could they shoot together.

1809
01:51:56,667 --> 01:51:58,377
-It was a slaughter.
-A slaughter.

1810
01:51:59,211 --> 01:52:00,921
They're reading the declaration.

1811
01:52:01,005 --> 01:52:03,507
Good God. How far have they gotten?

1812
01:52:03,591 --> 01:52:07,303
"To render the military independent of
and superior to the civil power."

1813
01:52:07,386 --> 01:52:10,222
"...independent of and superior to..."

1814
01:52:16,312 --> 01:52:18,939
Nothing to fear. It's a masterpiece.

1815
01:52:19,732 --> 01:52:21,150
I'm to be congratulated.

1816
01:52:22,151 --> 01:52:23,152
You?

1817
01:52:24,403 --> 01:52:27,281
-For making him write it.
-Oh, of course.

1818
01:52:28,866 --> 01:52:31,744
<i>It's a masterpiece, I say</i>

1819
01:52:31,827 --> 01:52:35,790
<i>They will cheer every word
Every letter</i>

1820
01:52:35,873 --> 01:52:39,001
<i>I wish [ felt that way</i>

1821
01:52:39,085 --> 01:52:42,380
<i>I believe I can put it better</i>

1822
01:52:42,463 --> 01:52:45,049
<i>Now then attend
As friend to friend</i>

1823
01:52:45,132 --> 01:52:47,718
<i>Our Declaration Committee</i>

1824
01:52:47,802 --> 01:52:51,555
<i>For us I see immortality</i>

1825
01:52:51,639 --> 01:52:56,686
<i>In Philadelphia City</i>

1826
01:52:56,769 --> 01:52:59,897
<i>A farmer, a lawyer</i>

1827
01:52:59,980 --> 01:53:01,232
<i>And a sage</i>

1828
01:53:03,150 --> 01:53:04,985
<i>A bit gouty in the leg</i>

1829
01:53:06,195 --> 01:53:09,782
<i>You know it's quite bizarre
To think that here we are</i>

1830
01:53:09,865 --> 01:53:13,411
<i>Playing midwives to an egg</i>

1831
01:53:14,495 --> 01:53:17,748
-Egg? What egg?
-America. The birth of a new nation.

1832
01:53:17,832 --> 01:53:21,168
If only we could be sure
of what kind of a bird it's going to be.

1833
01:53:21,252 --> 01:53:23,838
Tom has a point.
What sort of bird shall we choose

1834
01:53:23,921 --> 01:53:26,006
as the symbol of our new America?

1835
01:53:26,090 --> 01:53:29,593
-The eagle.
-The dove.

1836
01:53:29,677 --> 01:53:30,678
The turkey.

1837
01:53:32,346 --> 01:53:33,472
The eagle.

1838
01:53:34,807 --> 01:53:37,059
-The dove.
-The eagle.

1839
01:53:38,602 --> 01:53:40,271
-The eagle.
-The turkey.

1840
01:53:41,647 --> 01:53:43,607
The eagle is a majestic bird.

1841
01:53:43,691 --> 01:53:46,485
The eagle is a scavenger,
a thief and a coward.

1842
01:53:46,569 --> 01:53:49,113
A symbol of over ten centuries
of European mischief.

1843
01:53:50,197 --> 01:53:53,617
-The turkey?
-The turkey is a truly noble bird.

1844
01:53:53,701 --> 01:53:56,912
Native American. Source of sustenance
of our original settlers.

1845
01:53:56,996 --> 01:53:58,998
An incredibly brave fellow
who will not flinch

1846
01:53:59,081 --> 01:54:02,168
at attacking a regiment
of Englishmen single-handedly!

1847
01:54:02,251 --> 01:54:05,087
Therefore, the national bird
of America is going to be--

1848
01:54:05,171 --> 01:54:08,132
-The eagle!
-The eagle!

1849
01:54:08,215 --> 01:54:12,094
<i>We're waiting
For the chirp, chirp, chirp</i>

1850
01:54:12,178 --> 01:54:14,847
<i>Of an eaglet being born</i>

1851
01:54:14,930 --> 01:54:17,975
<i>Waiting for the chirp, chirp, chirp</i>

1852
01:54:18,058 --> 01:54:21,395
<i>On this humid Monday morning</i>

1853
01:54:21,479 --> 01:54:25,483
<i>In this congressional incubator</i>

1854
01:54:25,566 --> 01:54:28,486
<i>God knows
The temperature's hot enough</i>

1855
01:54:28,569 --> 01:54:32,114
<i>To hatch a stone
Let alone an egg</i>

1856
01:54:33,657 --> 01:54:37,036
<i>We're waiting
For the scratch, scratch, scratch</i>

1857
01:54:37,119 --> 01:54:40,372
<i>Of that tiny, little fellow</i>

1858
01:54:40,456 --> 01:54:43,501
<i>Waiting for the egg to hatch</i>

1859
01:54:43,584 --> 01:54:46,629
<i>On this humid Monday morning</i>

1860
01:54:46,712 --> 01:54:50,883
<i>In this congressional incubator</i>

1861
01:54:50,966 --> 01:54:53,928
<i>God knows
The temperature's hot enough</i>

1862
01:54:54,011 --> 01:54:57,765
<i>-To hatch a stone
-But will it hatch an egg?</i>

1863
01:54:59,099 --> 01:55:03,354
The declaration will be a triumph.
I tell you, a triumph.

1864
01:55:03,437 --> 01:55:05,523
If I was ever sure of anything,
I'm sure of that.

1865
01:55:05,606 --> 01:55:06,690
A triumph.

1866
01:55:08,108 --> 01:55:11,779
And if it isn't, we still got four days
left to think of something else.

1867
01:55:12,780 --> 01:55:16,450
<i>The eagle's going to crack the shell</i>

1868
01:55:16,534 --> 01:55:19,203
<i>Of the egg that England laid</i>

1869
01:55:19,286 --> 01:55:22,331
<i>Yes, sir
We can tell, tell, tell</i>

1870
01:55:22,414 --> 01:55:25,376
<i>On this humid Monday morning</i>

1871
01:55:25,459 --> 01:55:29,588
<i>In this congressional incubator</i>

1872
01:55:29,672 --> 01:55:32,800
<i>And just as Tom here has written</i>

1873
01:55:32,883 --> 01:55:35,678
<i>Though its shell may belong
To Great Britain</i>

1874
01:55:35,761 --> 01:55:39,265
<i>The eagle inside belongs to us</i>

1875
01:55:39,348 --> 01:55:42,518
<i>And just as Tom here has written</i>

1876
01:55:42,601 --> 01:55:45,020
<i>We say to hell with Great Britain</i>

1877
01:55:45,104 --> 01:55:47,398
<i>The eagle inside</i>

1878
01:55:47,481 --> 01:55:50,734
<i>Belongs to us</i>

1879
01:56:01,704 --> 01:56:03,497
"...and to do all other acts and things

1880
01:56:03,581 --> 01:56:05,749
which independent states may of right do.

1881
01:56:05,833 --> 01:56:08,294
And for the support of this declaration,

1882
01:56:08,377 --> 01:56:10,921
we mutually pledge
to each other our lives,

1883
01:56:11,005 --> 01:56:13,382
our fortunes and our sacred honor."

1884
01:56:16,218 --> 01:56:17,595
Thank you, Mr. Thomson.

1885
01:56:18,762 --> 01:56:22,975
The Congress has heard the report
of the Declaration Committee.

1886
01:56:23,058 --> 01:56:25,352
Are there any here
who wish to offer alterations,

1887
01:56:25,436 --> 01:56:28,272
deletions, amendments to this declaration?

1888
01:56:29,398 --> 01:56:30,524
Mr. President!

1889
01:56:31,609 --> 01:56:36,572
Gentlemen! Gentlemen, please!

1890
01:56:37,323 --> 01:56:39,450
Colonel McKean, I saw your hand first.

1891
01:56:39,533 --> 01:56:41,201
Mr. Jefferson,

1892
01:56:41,285 --> 01:56:44,622
it's a funny paper you've written, Tom,
but somewhere in it

1893
01:56:44,705 --> 01:56:49,460
you mention Scottish and
foreign mercenaries sent to destroy us.

1894
01:56:49,543 --> 01:56:51,045
Scottish, Tom?

1895
01:56:51,128 --> 01:56:53,297
That is in reference
to a Highland regiment

1896
01:56:53,380 --> 01:56:54,715
which stood against us at Boston.

1897
01:56:56,508 --> 01:57:01,096
It's more likely Germans wearing Kilts
to disguise their being there.

1898
01:57:01,180 --> 01:57:05,935
I ask you to remove the word and
avoid giving offense to a good people.

1899
01:57:06,018 --> 01:57:07,019
Mr. Jefferson?

1900
01:57:08,896 --> 01:57:12,024
-The Reverend...
-Witherspoon.

1901
01:57:12,107 --> 01:57:16,570
Mr. Jefferson, nowhere do you mention
the Supreme Being.

1902
01:57:16,654 --> 01:57:20,866
Surely this was an oversight,
for how could we hope to achieve a victory

1903
01:57:20,950 --> 01:57:21,992
without his help?

1904
01:57:22,785 --> 01:57:27,122
Therefore, I suggest the following
addition to your final sentence.

1905
01:57:27,206 --> 01:57:31,043
"With a firm reliance
on the protection of Divine Providence."

1906
01:57:31,126 --> 01:57:32,336
Mr. Jefferson?

1907
01:57:35,714 --> 01:57:36,548
Mr. Read.

1908
01:57:38,300 --> 01:57:41,345
Among your charges
against the king, Mr. Jefferson,

1909
01:57:41,428 --> 01:57:45,391
you accuse him of depriving us
of the benefits of trial by jury.

1910
01:57:45,474 --> 01:57:50,145
This is untrue, sir. In Delaware,
we've always had trial by jury.

1911
01:57:50,938 --> 01:57:52,731
In Massachusetts, we have not.

1912
01:57:53,524 --> 01:57:57,194
Well, then I suggest that the words
"lily many cases" be added.

1913
01:57:58,278 --> 01:57:59,196
Mr. Jefferson?

1914
01:58:00,197 --> 01:58:03,492
"In many cases"? Brilliant!

1915
01:58:03,575 --> 01:58:05,911
I suppose every time
you see those three words,

1916
01:58:05,995 --> 01:58:08,330
your puny chest will swell with pride

1917
01:58:08,414 --> 01:58:10,958
over your great historical contribution.

1918
01:58:11,041 --> 01:58:14,503
It's more memorable
than your unprincipled whitewash

1919
01:58:14,586 --> 01:58:16,588
of that race of barbarians!

1920
01:58:16,672 --> 01:58:20,426
"Race of barbarians"?
Why, I'll have you--

1921
01:58:21,093 --> 01:58:23,387
Colonel McKean, Mr. Read, that's enough!

1922
01:58:25,931 --> 01:58:27,850
-Mr. Hopkins.
-I've no objections, Johnny.

1923
01:58:27,933 --> 01:58:30,185
-I'm just trying to get a drink.
- I should've known.

1924
01:58:30,269 --> 01:58:31,395
McNair, get him a rum.

1925
01:58:37,693 --> 01:58:40,988
-Mr. Barlett.
-Mr. Jefferson.

1926
01:58:41,071 --> 01:58:44,199
I beg you to remember
that we still have friends in England.

1927
01:58:44,283 --> 01:58:47,870
I see no purpose in antagonizing them
with such phrases as:

1928
01:58:49,246 --> 01:58:51,957
"unfeeling brethren" and "enemies at war."

1929
01:58:52,041 --> 01:58:54,585
Our quarrel is with the British king,
not the British people.

1930
01:58:55,502 --> 01:58:57,629
Be sensible, Bartlett.

1931
01:58:57,713 --> 01:59:01,383
Remove those phrases and the entire
paragraph becomes meaningless.

1932
01:59:01,467 --> 01:59:04,845
And it so happens that it's one
of the most stirring and poetic

1933
01:59:04,928 --> 01:59:08,182
of any passage
in the entire document. Now--

1934
01:59:08,265 --> 01:59:11,852
We're a Congress, Mr. Adams,
not a literary society.

1935
01:59:11,935 --> 01:59:15,731
- I ask that the paragraph be stricken.
-Mr. Jefferson?

1936
01:59:18,233 --> 01:59:21,779
Oh, good God, Jefferson, when are you
going to speak up for your own work?

1937
01:59:22,613 --> 01:59:25,699
I had hoped
that the work would speak for itself.

1938
01:59:25,783 --> 01:59:29,661
-Mr. Hancock?
-What is it, Mr. McNair?

1939
01:59:29,745 --> 01:59:34,958
I'm not fond of "The United States
of America" as a name for a new country.

1940
01:59:36,794 --> 01:59:39,505
I don't care
what you're fond of, Mr. McNair.

1941
01:59:39,588 --> 01:59:42,132
You're not a member of this Congress!

1942
01:59:45,010 --> 01:59:46,386
Mr. Sherman.

1943
01:59:47,429 --> 01:59:52,518
Brother Jefferson, I noted at least
two distinct and direct references

1944
01:59:52,601 --> 01:59:55,229
to the British Parliament
in your declaration.

1945
01:59:55,312 --> 01:59:57,856
Do you think it's wise
to alienate that august body

1946
01:59:57,940 --> 02:00:01,819
in light of our contention that they've
never had any authority over us anyway?

1947
02:00:01,902 --> 02:00:04,404
This is a revolution, damn it!

1948
02:00:04,488 --> 02:00:06,532
We're going to have to offend somebody.

1949
02:00:06,615 --> 02:00:07,783
Brother Hancock!

1950
02:00:12,704 --> 02:00:14,498
John, John.

1951
02:00:14,581 --> 02:00:17,292
You'll give yourself an attack
of apoplexy if you're not careful.

1952
02:00:17,376 --> 02:00:19,378
-Have you heard what they're doing?
- I heard.

1953
02:00:19,461 --> 02:00:22,881
And that's just our friends. Can you
imagine what our enemies will do?

1954
02:00:22,965 --> 02:00:25,926
The word "parliament" will be removed
wherever it occurs.

1955
02:00:26,009 --> 02:00:29,221
They won't be satisfied till they remove
one of the F's from Jefferson's name.

1956
02:00:29,304 --> 02:00:31,515
Courage, John. It won't last much longer.

1957
02:00:35,352 --> 02:00:36,395
Mr. Dickinson.

1958
02:00:37,312 --> 02:00:41,316
Mr. Jefferson,
I have very little interest in your paper,

1959
02:00:41,400 --> 02:00:45,070
as there's no doubt in my mind
that we've all but heard the last of it.

1960
02:00:45,154 --> 02:00:47,865
But I am curious about one thing.

1961
02:00:48,740 --> 02:00:52,244
Why do you refer
to King George as a tyrant?

1962
02:00:53,829 --> 02:00:55,497
Because he is a tyrant.

1963
02:00:56,707 --> 02:01:00,669
I remind you, Mr. Jefferson,
that this tyrant is still your king.

1964
02:01:02,379 --> 02:01:04,673
When a king becomes a tyrant,

1965
02:01:04,756 --> 02:01:08,343
he thereby breaks the contract
binding his subjects to him.

1966
02:01:08,427 --> 02:01:12,389
-How so?
-By taking away their rights.

1967
02:01:12,472 --> 02:01:15,350
Rights that came from him
in the first place?

1968
02:01:15,434 --> 02:01:19,730
All except one. The right to be free
comes from nature.

1969
02:01:20,856 --> 02:01:23,567
And are we not free, Mr. Jefferson?

1970
02:01:25,861 --> 02:01:27,988
Homes entered without warrant.

1971
02:01:28,071 --> 02:01:31,283
Citizens arrested without charge.

1972
02:01:31,366 --> 02:01:34,745
And in many places,
free assembly itself denied.

1973
02:01:34,828 --> 02:01:40,000
No one approves of such things,
but these are dangerous times.

1974
02:01:40,083 --> 02:01:41,668
Be careful, Mr. Dickinson.

1975
02:01:41,752 --> 02:01:45,839
Those who'd give up some liberty
in order to obtain temporary safety

1976
02:01:45,923 --> 02:01:48,258
deserve neither liberty nor safety.

1977
02:01:50,135 --> 02:01:51,345
Mr. Wilson.

1978
02:01:52,930 --> 02:01:56,558
Do we in Pennsylvania
consider King George a tyrant?

1979
02:01:57,809 --> 02:02:01,563
Well, I don't know. He--

1980
02:02:04,608 --> 02:02:06,944
No. No, we don't.

1981
02:02:07,027 --> 02:02:08,237
He's not a tyrant...

1982
02:02:09,821 --> 02:02:12,699
-in Pennsylvania.
-There you are, Mr. Jefferson.

1983
02:02:12,783 --> 02:02:14,701
Your declaration does not speak
for us all.

1984
02:02:14,785 --> 02:02:18,038
-I demand the word "tyrant" be removed.
-Very well.

1985
02:02:18,121 --> 02:02:20,415
Just a moment, Mr. Thomson.

1986
02:02:20,499 --> 02:02:21,792
I do not consent.

1987
02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:26,797
The king is a tyrant,
whether we say so or not.

1988
02:02:27,965 --> 02:02:31,385
-We might as well say so.
-But I already scratched it out.

1989
02:02:31,468 --> 02:02:33,470
Then scratch it back in.

1990
02:02:35,264 --> 02:02:38,225
Put it back, Mr. Thomson.
The king will remain a tyrant.

1991
02:02:42,854 --> 02:02:44,815
-Mr. Hewes.
-Mr. Jefferson.

1992
02:02:45,565 --> 02:02:47,651
Nowhere do you mention
deep-sea fishing rights.

1993
02:02:49,987 --> 02:02:54,241
Oh, good God! Fishing rights!

1994
02:02:55,033 --> 02:02:57,911
How long is this piddling to go on?

1995
02:02:57,995 --> 02:03:01,456
We have been here
for three full days.

1996
02:03:01,540 --> 02:03:05,085
We have endured, by my count,
85 separate changes

1997
02:03:05,168 --> 02:03:08,797
and the removal
of close to 400 words.

1998
02:03:08,880 --> 02:03:12,009
Now, would you whip it and beat it
till you break its spirit?

1999
02:03:12,092 --> 02:03:17,806
I tell you that document is a masterful
expression of the American mind!

2000
02:03:22,894 --> 02:03:24,813
If there are no more changes,

2001
02:03:24,896 --> 02:03:28,150
then I can assume the report
of the Declaration Committee has been--

2002
02:03:28,233 --> 02:03:31,862
-Just a moment, Mr. President.
-Look out.

2003
02:03:33,864 --> 02:03:36,408
I wonder if we might prevail
upon Mr. Thomson

2004
02:03:36,491 --> 02:03:40,537
to read again a small portion
of Mr. Jefferson's declaration.

2005
02:03:41,621 --> 02:03:44,291
The one beginning,
"He has waged cruel war."

2006
02:03:47,961 --> 02:03:49,755
"He has affected. He's combined.

2007
02:03:49,838 --> 02:03:52,132
He's abdicated. He's plundered.

2008
02:03:52,215 --> 02:03:54,843
He's constrained.
He's excited. He's incited.

2009
02:03:54,926 --> 02:03:57,387
He's waged cruel war." Here it is.

2010
02:03:57,471 --> 02:04:00,057
"He has waged cruel war
against human nature itself

2011
02:04:00,140 --> 02:04:03,060
in the persons of a distant people
who never offended him,

2012
02:04:03,143 --> 02:04:07,064
captivating and carrying them
into slavery in another hemisphere,

2013
02:04:07,147 --> 02:04:10,901
determined to keep open a market
where men should be bought and sold.

2014
02:04:10,984 --> 02:04:14,488
-He has prostituted his--"
-That will suffice. I thank you, sir.

2015
02:04:15,322 --> 02:04:19,910
Mr. Jefferson, I can't quite make out
what it is you're talking about.

2016
02:04:21,828 --> 02:04:23,747
Slavery, Mr. Rutledge.

2017
02:04:23,830 --> 02:04:27,751
Oh, yes. You're referring to us
as slaves of the king.

2018
02:04:27,834 --> 02:04:30,504
No, sir. I'm referring to our slaves.

2019
02:04:30,587 --> 02:04:31,797
Black slaves.

2020
02:04:34,925 --> 02:04:36,134
Black slaves.

2021
02:04:37,469 --> 02:04:39,096
Why didn't you say so, sir?

2022
02:04:39,930 --> 02:04:42,140
Were you trying to hide your meaning?

2023
02:04:43,183 --> 02:04:44,518
No, sir.

2024
02:04:44,601 --> 02:04:47,354
Just another literary license, then.

2025
02:04:48,730 --> 02:04:49,731
If you like.

2026
02:04:50,816 --> 02:04:53,276
I don't like at all, Mr. Jefferson.

2027
02:04:54,486 --> 02:04:58,031
To us in South Carolina,
Black slavery is our peculiar institution

2028
02:04:58,115 --> 02:05:00,033
and a cherished way of life.

2029
02:05:00,117 --> 02:05:03,245
Nevertheless, we must abolish it.

2030
02:05:03,328 --> 02:05:06,248
Nothing is more certainly written
in the Book of Fate

2031
02:05:06,331 --> 02:05:08,250
than that this people shall be free.

2032
02:05:08,333 --> 02:05:12,087
I am not concerned
with the Book of Fate right now.

2033
02:05:12,170 --> 02:05:15,090
I'm more concerned with what is
written in that little paper there.

2034
02:05:15,173 --> 02:05:19,052
That little paper there deals
with freedom for Americans.

2035
02:05:20,720 --> 02:05:21,847
Oh, really?

2036
02:05:23,765 --> 02:05:25,475
Mr. Adams...

2037
02:05:25,559 --> 02:05:30,021
is now calling
our Black slaves "Americans."

2038
02:05:30,105 --> 02:05:32,065
-Are they now?
-Yes, they are.

2039
02:05:32,149 --> 02:05:34,401
They're people and they're here.

2040
02:05:34,484 --> 02:05:36,403
If there's any other requirement,
I've never heard of it.

2041
02:05:36,486 --> 02:05:39,531
They are here, yes, but they are
not people. They are property.

2042
02:05:39,614 --> 02:05:43,785
No, sir. They are people
who are being treated as property.

2043
02:05:43,869 --> 02:05:46,705
I tell you, the rights of human nature

2044
02:05:46,788 --> 02:05:50,083
are deeply wounded
by this infamous practice.

2045
02:05:50,167 --> 02:05:54,379
Then see to your own wounds,
for you are a practitioner!

2046
02:05:54,463 --> 02:05:55,797
Are you not?

2047
02:06:02,012 --> 02:06:07,684
I have already resolved
to release my slaves.

2048
02:06:25,994 --> 02:06:27,120
Then I'm sorry...

2049
02:06:28,413 --> 02:06:32,501
for you've also resolved
the ruination of your personal economy.

2050
02:06:32,584 --> 02:06:35,086
Economy. Always economy.

2051
02:06:36,129 --> 02:06:39,090
There's more to this
than a filthy purse string, Rutledge.

2052
02:06:39,174 --> 02:06:41,259
It is an offense against man and God.

2053
02:06:41,343 --> 02:06:44,846
It's a stinking business, Mr. Rutledge.
A stinking business.

2054
02:06:44,930 --> 02:06:46,932
Is it really, Mr. Hopkins?

2055
02:06:47,015 --> 02:06:51,269
Then what is that I smell
floating down from the North?

2056
02:06:53,146 --> 02:06:55,398
Could that be the aroma of hypocrisy?

2057
02:06:55,482 --> 02:06:59,444
For who holds the other end
of that filthy purse string, Mr. Adams?

2058
02:07:03,114 --> 02:07:08,453
Our Northern brethren feeling
a bit tender toward our slaves.

2059
02:07:08,537 --> 02:07:10,872
They don't keep slaves.

2060
02:07:10,956 --> 02:07:12,165
Oh, no.

2061
02:07:13,124 --> 02:07:17,003
But they're willing
to be considerable carriers

2062
02:07:17,087 --> 02:07:19,589
of slaves to others.

2063
02:07:19,673 --> 02:07:20,757
They're willing...

2064
02:07:22,717 --> 02:07:23,843
for the shilling.

2065
02:07:24,886 --> 02:07:26,805
Or haven't you heard, Mr. Adams?

2066
02:07:28,557 --> 02:07:30,976
Clink, clink.

2067
02:07:32,185 --> 02:07:34,938
<i>Molasses to rum</i>

2068
02:07:35,021 --> 02:07:38,024
<i>To slaves</i>

2069
02:07:38,108 --> 02:07:43,488
<i>Oh, what a beautiful waltz</i>

2070
02:07:43,572 --> 02:07:46,157
<i>You dance with us</i>

2071
02:07:46,241 --> 02:07:48,827
<i>We dance with you</i>

2072
02:07:48,910 --> 02:07:51,621
<i>In molasses and rum</i>

2073
02:07:51,705 --> 02:07:56,960
<i>And slaves</i>

2074
02:07:57,043 --> 02:08:00,714
<i>Who sail the ships out of Boston</i>

2075
02:08:00,797 --> 02:08:04,676
<i>Laden with Bibles and rum?</i>

2076
02:08:04,759 --> 02:08:08,179
<i>Who drinks a toast
To the Ivory Coast?</i>

2077
02:08:08,263 --> 02:08:12,434
<i>Hail, Africa
The slavers have come</i>

2078
02:08:12,517 --> 02:08:15,979
<i>New England with Bibles</i>

2079
02:08:16,062 --> 02:08:18,356
<i>And rum</i>

2080
02:08:19,232 --> 02:08:21,901
<i>Then it's off with the rum
And the Bibles</i>

2081
02:08:21,985 --> 02:08:24,779
<i>Take on the slaves
Clink, clink</i>

2082
02:08:24,863 --> 02:08:28,783
<i>Then hail and farewell to the smell</i>

2083
02:08:28,867 --> 02:08:33,204
<i>Of the African coast</i>

2084
02:08:36,458 --> 02:08:41,546
<i>Molasses to rum to slaves</i>

2085
02:08:41,630 --> 02:08:47,135
'Tisn't morals
'Tis money that saves

2086
02:08:47,218 --> 02:08:52,474
<i>Shall we dance to the sound
Of the profitable pound?</i>

2087
02:08:52,557 --> 02:08:55,018
<i>In molasses and rum</i>

2088
02:08:55,101 --> 02:09:00,273
<i>And slaves</i>

2089
02:09:00,357 --> 02:09:03,902
<i>Who sail the ships out of Guinea</i>

2090
02:09:03,985 --> 02:09:07,614
<i>Laden with Bibles and slaves?</i>

2091
02:09:07,697 --> 02:09:11,326
'Tis Boston can boast
To the West Indies' coast

2092
02:09:11,409 --> 02:09:15,163
<i>Jamaica, we brung what ye craves</i>

2093
02:09:15,246 --> 02:09:18,667
<i>Antigua, Barbados</i>

2094
02:09:18,750 --> 02:09:22,128
<i>We brung Bibles</i>

2095
02:09:22,212 --> 02:09:26,007
<i>And slaves</i>

2096
02:09:26,091 --> 02:09:29,302
Gentlemen, you mustn't think
that our Northern friends

2097
02:09:29,386 --> 02:09:32,639
see our Black slaves
as merely figures in a ledger.

2098
02:09:32,722 --> 02:09:38,395
Oh, no. They see them
as figures on a block.

2099
02:09:38,478 --> 02:09:41,106
Look at the faces
at the auctions, gentlemen.

2100
02:09:41,189 --> 02:09:43,942
White faces on African wharves.

2101
02:09:44,025 --> 02:09:47,404
Seafaring faces. New England faces.

2102
02:09:47,487 --> 02:09:49,864
"Put them in the ships.

2103
02:09:49,948 --> 02:09:52,617
Cram them in the ships.

2104
02:09:52,701 --> 02:09:55,829
Stuff them in the ships.

2105
02:09:56,454 --> 02:10:00,125
Hurry, gentlemen. Let the auction begin."

2106
02:10:00,208 --> 02:10:05,296
<i>Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah</i>

2107
02:10:05,380 --> 02:10:09,175
Gentlemen, do you hear?
That's the cry of the auctioneer.

2108
02:10:09,259 --> 02:10:14,472
<i>Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah</i>

2109
02:10:14,556 --> 02:10:16,975
Slaves, gentlemen!

2110
02:10:17,058 --> 02:10:19,352
Black gold!

2111
02:10:19,436 --> 02:10:21,855
Living gold!

2112
02:10:21,938 --> 02:10:25,567
Gold from Angola!

2113
02:10:25,650 --> 02:10:27,569
Guinea, Guinea, Guinea!

2114
02:10:27,652 --> 02:10:30,238
<i>Blackbirds for sale</i>

2115
02:10:30,321 --> 02:10:35,118
Ashanti, ebo, ebo, ebo!

2116
02:10:35,201 --> 02:10:38,121
<i>Blackbirds for sale</i>

2117
02:10:38,204 --> 02:10:42,125
Handle them!

2118
02:10:42,208 --> 02:10:45,795
Fondle them!

2119
02:10:45,879 --> 02:10:48,923
But don't finger them!

2120
02:10:49,007 --> 02:10:54,137
<i>They're prime
They're prime</i>

2121
02:10:54,220 --> 02:11:01,227
<i>Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah</i>

2122
02:11:01,311 --> 02:11:04,689
For the love of God,
Mr. Rutledge, please.

2123
02:11:13,740 --> 02:11:16,785
<i>Molasses to rum</i>

2124
02:11:16,868 --> 02:11:20,121
<i>To slaves</i>

2125
02:11:20,205 --> 02:11:25,168
<i>Who sail the ships
Back to Boston</i>

2126
02:11:25,251 --> 02:11:30,924
<i>Laden with gold
See it gleam</i>

2127
02:11:31,007 --> 02:11:35,637
<i>Whose fortunes are made
In the triangle trade</i>

2128
02:11:35,720 --> 02:11:40,266
<i>Hail, slavery
The New England dream</i>

2129
02:11:40,350 --> 02:11:43,019
Mr. Adams, I give you a toast.

2130
02:11:43,978 --> 02:11:46,105
<i>Hail, Boston</i>

2131
02:11:46,189 --> 02:11:48,733
<i>Hail, Charleston</i>

2132
02:11:50,443 --> 02:11:52,654
<i>Who stinketh</i>

2133
02:11:52,737 --> 02:11:59,744
<i>The most?</i>

2134
02:12:05,500 --> 02:12:08,211
Mr. Rutledge, please!

2135
02:12:10,839 --> 02:12:12,006
Mr. Hewes.

2136
02:12:15,760 --> 02:12:16,803
Dr. Hall.

2137
02:12:27,814 --> 02:12:29,524
Don't worry, John. They'll be back.

2138
02:12:30,483 --> 02:12:33,152
Aye, to vote us down.

2139
02:12:39,576 --> 02:12:41,744
Adams! Franklin!

2140
02:12:43,329 --> 02:12:47,792
It's done. I have it.
And the Maryland Assembly's approved it.

2141
02:12:47,876 --> 02:12:53,089
I told them about one of the greatest
military engagements in history

2142
02:12:53,172 --> 02:12:54,966
against a flock of...

2143
02:12:58,303 --> 02:13:02,223
Well, what's wrong? I thought--

2144
02:13:02,307 --> 02:13:04,517
You'll have to forgive them, Mr. Chase.

2145
02:13:04,601 --> 02:13:07,228
They just suffered a slight setback.

2146
02:13:07,312 --> 02:13:09,939
And after all, "What is a man profited

2147
02:13:10,023 --> 02:13:14,444
if he shall gain Maryland
and lose the entire South?"

2148
02:13:15,612 --> 02:13:18,531
Matthew, chapter 16, verse 26.

2149
02:13:20,408 --> 02:13:21,409
McNair.

2150
02:13:22,201 --> 02:13:24,621
-Oh, I know. The flies.
-No.

2151
02:13:26,039 --> 02:13:27,040
The rum.

2152
02:13:31,961 --> 02:13:34,047
What are we all sitting around for?

2153
02:13:36,049 --> 02:13:37,759
We're wasting time. Precious time.

2154
02:13:37,842 --> 02:13:40,178
Thomas, I want you
to ride down into Delaware

2155
02:13:40,261 --> 02:13:42,972
-and fetch back Caesar Rodney.
-John, are you mad?

2156
02:13:43,056 --> 02:13:47,226
-It's 80 miles, and he's a dying man.
-No, he's a patriot.

2157
02:13:47,310 --> 02:13:49,687
John, what good will it do?
The South's done us in.

2158
02:13:49,771 --> 02:13:51,439
And suppose they change their minds?

2159
02:13:51,522 --> 02:13:53,608
Can we get Delaware without Rodney?

2160
02:13:56,694 --> 02:13:59,739
God. What a bastardly bunch we are.

2161
02:14:02,533 --> 02:14:05,662
-Stephen, I want you to--
-I'm going to the tavern, Johnny.

2162
02:14:05,745 --> 02:14:08,373
If there's anything I can do
for you there, let me know.

2163
02:14:10,208 --> 02:14:13,252
Chase. Bartlett!

2164
02:14:13,336 --> 02:14:16,881
What's the use, John?
The vote's tomorrow morning.

2165
02:14:16,965 --> 02:14:18,967
There's less than a full day left.

2166
02:14:22,804 --> 02:14:26,975
-Roger.
-Face facts, John. It's finished.

2167
02:14:29,644 --> 02:14:30,895
I'm sorry, John.

2168
02:14:39,612 --> 02:14:41,155
We have no choice, John.

2169
02:14:42,740 --> 02:14:44,575
The slavery clause has got to go.

2170
02:14:47,704 --> 02:14:49,122
Franklin, what are you saying?

2171
02:14:49,205 --> 02:14:51,457
It's a luxury we can't afford.

2172
02:14:52,583 --> 02:14:53,710
A luxury?

2173
02:14:56,337 --> 02:15:00,216
A half million souls in chains

2174
02:15:00,299 --> 02:15:03,052
and Dr. Franklin calls it a luxury.

2175
02:15:04,178 --> 02:15:06,097
Maybe you should've
walked out with the South.

2176
02:15:06,806 --> 02:15:08,766
You forget yourself, sir.

2177
02:15:08,850 --> 02:15:11,853
I founded the first antislavery society
on this continent.

2178
02:15:11,936 --> 02:15:15,648
Don't wave your credentials at me.
Perhaps it's time you had them renewed.

2179
02:15:16,399 --> 02:15:19,360
The issue here is independence.

2180
02:15:19,444 --> 02:15:21,988
Perhaps you've forgotten that fact,
but I have not.

2181
02:15:22,071 --> 02:15:27,535
How dare you jeopardize our cause
when we've come so far.

2182
02:15:29,579 --> 02:15:30,580
These men...

2183
02:15:32,206 --> 02:15:34,459
no matter how much
we may disagree with them,

2184
02:15:34,542 --> 02:15:37,795
are not ribbon clerks
to be ordered about.

2185
02:15:37,879 --> 02:15:41,090
They're proud, accomplished men.
The cream of their colonies.

2186
02:15:41,174 --> 02:15:44,218
And whether you like it or not,
they and the people they represent

2187
02:15:44,302 --> 02:15:48,222
will be part of this new nation
you'd hope to create.

2188
02:15:48,306 --> 02:15:51,517
Now either learn how to live with them,
or pack up and go home!

2189
02:15:57,190 --> 02:15:59,442
In any case,
stop acting like a Boston fishwife.

2190
02:16:14,415 --> 02:16:17,210
Good God. What's happened to me?

2191
02:16:17,293 --> 02:16:20,630
John Adams. The great John Adams.

2192
02:16:20,713 --> 02:16:22,632
What have I come to?

2193
02:16:22,715 --> 02:16:26,719
Law practice down the pipe.
Farm mortgaged to the hilt.

2194
02:16:26,803 --> 02:16:29,889
At a stage in life
when other men prosper,

2195
02:16:29,972 --> 02:16:32,266
I'm reduced to living in Philadelphia.

2196
02:16:34,727 --> 02:16:35,853
Philadelphia.

2197
02:16:45,571 --> 02:16:48,157
Abigail, what am I going to do?

2198
02:16:48,241 --> 02:16:49,283
<i>Do, John?</i>

2199
02:16:50,868 --> 02:16:51,994
I need your help.

2200
02:16:53,204 --> 02:16:55,706
<i>You don't usually ask my advice.</i>

2201
02:16:55,790 --> 02:16:58,459
Yes, well, there doesn't appear
to be anyone else right now.

2202
02:16:59,418 --> 02:17:00,878
<i>Very well, John. What is it?</i>

2203
02:17:02,213 --> 02:17:05,424
The entire South has
just walked out of this Congress.

2204
02:17:06,384 --> 02:17:10,221
George Washington is
on the verge of total annihilation.

2205
02:17:10,304 --> 02:17:13,307
And the precious cause for which
I have labored these several years

2206
02:17:13,391 --> 02:17:14,600
has come to nothing.

2207
02:17:17,311 --> 02:17:20,523
And it seems
that I'm obnoxious and disliked.

2208
02:17:20,606 --> 02:17:22,859
<i>Nonsense, John.</i>

2209
02:17:22,942 --> 02:17:25,486
That I am unwilling to face reality.

2210
02:17:25,570 --> 02:17:27,655
<i>Foolishness, John.</i>

2211
02:17:27,738 --> 02:17:29,115
That I'm pigheaded.

2212
02:17:30,199 --> 02:17:33,703
<i>Well, there you have me, John.
I'm afraid you are pigheaded.</i>

2213
02:17:38,124 --> 02:17:39,167
Well, yes.

2214
02:17:41,544 --> 02:17:42,795
Oh, Abby.

2215
02:17:44,630 --> 02:17:46,966
Has it been any kind of a life for you?

2216
02:17:47,967 --> 02:17:50,511
God knows
I haven't given you very much.

2217
02:17:51,554 --> 02:17:53,055
I never asked for more.

2218
02:17:54,140 --> 02:17:58,227
After all, I am Mrs. John Adams.
That's quite a lot for one lifetime.

2219
02:18:00,813 --> 02:18:03,983
-Is it, Abby?
-Well, think of it, John.

2220
02:18:04,066 --> 02:18:07,904
To be married to the man who is
always the first in line to be hanged.

2221
02:18:12,533 --> 02:18:14,744
Yes. The agitator.

2222
02:18:17,246 --> 02:18:18,247
Why, Abby?

2223
02:18:20,416 --> 02:18:22,001
You must tell me what it is. I--

2224
02:18:23,628 --> 02:18:26,797
Well, I have always been dissatisfied.
I know that.

2225
02:18:28,341 --> 02:18:32,803
But lately, I find
that I reek of discontentment.

2226
02:18:32,887 --> 02:18:36,474
It fills my throat,
and it floods my brain.

2227
02:18:40,603 --> 02:18:43,272
Sometimes I fear
there is no longer a dream.

2228
02:18:44,941 --> 02:18:46,817
Only the discontentment.

2229
02:18:49,111 --> 02:18:50,529
Oh, John.

2230
02:18:52,949 --> 02:18:55,576
Can you really know
so little about yourself?

2231
02:18:57,453 --> 02:18:59,497
And can you think so little of me
that you'd believe

2232
02:18:59,580 --> 02:19:01,666
I'd marry the man you've described?

2233
02:19:04,460 --> 02:19:07,213
Have you forgotten what
you used to say to me? I haven't.

2234
02:19:09,548 --> 02:19:11,550
"Commitment, Abby.

2235
02:19:12,718 --> 02:19:14,095
Commitment.

2236
02:19:15,554 --> 02:19:19,267
There are only two creatures of value
on the face of this earth.

2237
02:19:20,559 --> 02:19:22,144
Those with a commitment

2238
02:19:22,979 --> 02:19:25,564
and those who require
the commitment of others."

2239
02:19:28,276 --> 02:19:29,610
Do you remember, John?

2240
02:19:32,280 --> 02:19:33,447
Yes, I remember.

2241
02:19:34,532 --> 02:19:36,409
Mr. Adams!

2242
02:19:37,952 --> 02:19:40,871
Are you up there, Mr. Adams?

2243
02:19:40,955 --> 02:19:42,373
What do you want?

2244
02:19:43,082 --> 02:19:46,877
There's a delivery down here for ya!

2245
02:19:46,961 --> 02:19:48,045
What is it?

2246
02:19:50,339 --> 02:19:52,550
Where did it come from? Who sent it?

2247
02:19:58,806 --> 02:20:03,477
<i>Compliments
Of the Concord Ladies' coffee club</i>

2248
02:20:03,561 --> 02:20:08,316
<i>And the Sisterhood
Of the Truro Synagogue</i>

2249
02:20:08,399 --> 02:20:13,321
<i>And the Friday evening
Baptist sewing circle</i>

2250
02:20:13,404 --> 02:20:18,326
<i>And the Holy Christian Sisters
Of St. Claire</i>

2251
02:20:18,409 --> 02:20:22,330
<i>All for you</i>

2252
02:20:22,413 --> 02:20:25,499
<i>John</i>

2253
02:20:25,583 --> 02:20:31,172
<i>I am, as I ever was</i>

2254
02:20:31,255 --> 02:20:35,885
<i>And ever shall be</i>

2255
02:20:35,968 --> 02:20:41,474
<i>Yours, yours, yours</i>

2256
02:20:41,557 --> 02:20:44,393
<i>Yours</i>

2257
02:20:44,477 --> 02:20:47,980
Abigail, what's in these kegs?

2258
02:20:48,064 --> 02:20:51,484
<i>Saltpeter</i>

2259
02:20:51,567 --> 02:20:58,574
<i>John</i>

2260
02:21:02,578 --> 02:21:03,746
McNair!

2261
02:21:04,663 --> 02:21:07,917
McNair, go out and buy every damned pin
you can find in Philadelphia.

2262
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:09,668
Pin? What sort of pin?

2263
02:21:09,752 --> 02:21:12,671
Well, I don't know. Whatever
the ladies use for their sewing.

2264
02:21:12,755 --> 02:21:16,050
Franklin, Jefferson,
what are you all sitting around for?

2265
02:21:16,133 --> 02:21:19,804
-Didn't you hear a word I said before?
-Oh, never mind about that.

2266
02:21:19,887 --> 02:21:23,641
-Here's what I want you to do.
-John, I'm not even speaking to you.

2267
02:21:23,724 --> 02:21:26,477
It's too late for that, damn it.
There's work to be done.

2268
02:21:26,560 --> 02:21:28,479
Jefferson, go find Rutledge.

2269
02:21:28,562 --> 02:21:30,481
Don't come back
until you've worn him down.

2270
02:21:30,564 --> 02:21:32,525
Now, you're both Southern aristocrats.

2271
02:21:32,608 --> 02:21:34,819
If he'll listen to anybody,
he'll listen to you.

2272
02:21:34,902 --> 02:21:36,821
Franklin, out of that chair!

2273
02:21:36,904 --> 02:21:39,490
What good is the South
if you can't deliver Pennsylvania?

2274
02:21:39,573 --> 02:21:42,410
Talk to Wilson.
Get him away from Dickinson.

2275
02:21:42,493 --> 02:21:44,787
That's the only way to do it.
Go on, now, both of you.

2276
02:21:45,955 --> 02:21:48,332
-John?
-Time's running out, damn it.

2277
02:21:49,333 --> 02:21:50,334
Now move.

2278
02:21:53,712 --> 02:21:55,464
I'm still from Massachusetts, John.

2279
02:21:57,133 --> 02:22:01,220
You know where I stand.
I'll do whatever you say.

2280
02:22:04,849 --> 02:22:05,683
No.

2281
02:22:07,435 --> 02:22:09,311
No. You're the president of Congress.

2282
02:22:11,188 --> 02:22:13,732
You're a fair man, Hancock.
Stay that way.

2283
02:22:35,880 --> 02:22:39,467
Tell me, Mr. Thomson, out of curiosity,

2284
02:22:40,217 --> 02:22:43,888
do you stand with Mr. Dickinson,
or do you stand with me?

2285
02:22:45,723 --> 02:22:47,349
I stand with the general.

2286
02:22:49,602 --> 02:22:53,189
Well, lately, I've had
the oddest feeling that he's been...

2287
02:22:54,064 --> 02:22:55,399
writing to me.

2288
02:22:59,528 --> 02:23:02,615
<i>I have been in expectation</i>

2289
02:23:02,698 --> 02:23:05,951
<i>Of receiving a reply</i>

2290
02:23:06,035 --> 02:23:12,291
<i>On the subject
Of my last 15 dispatches</i>

2291
02:23:13,292 --> 02:23:18,756
<i>Is anybody there?</i>

2292
02:23:19,882 --> 02:23:25,262
<i>Does anybody care?</i>

2293
02:23:26,472 --> 02:23:32,478
<i>Does anybody care?</i>

2294
02:23:34,355 --> 02:23:36,774
"Your humble and obedient--"

2295
02:24:09,723 --> 02:24:11,475
"Is anybody there?

2296
02:24:15,187 --> 02:24:17,314
Does anybody care?"

2297
02:24:21,068 --> 02:24:27,658
<i>Does anybody see what I see?</i>

2298
02:24:31,328 --> 02:24:33,664
<i>They want me to quit</i>

2299
02:24:34,582 --> 02:24:37,960
<i>They say
John, give up the fight</i>

2300
02:24:39,003 --> 02:24:42,006
<i>Still to England, I say</i>

2301
02:24:42,089 --> 02:24:45,259
<i>Good night, forever
Good night</i>

2302
02:24:46,677 --> 02:24:51,348
<i>For I have crossed the Rubicon</i>

2303
02:24:51,432 --> 02:24:54,351
<i>Let the bridge be burned behind me</i>

2304
02:24:54,435 --> 02:24:56,604
<i>Come what may</i>

2305
02:24:56,687 --> 02:24:59,857
<i>Come what may
Commitment</i>

2306
02:24:59,940 --> 02:25:04,403
<i>The croakers all say
We'll rue the day</i>

2307
02:25:04,486 --> 02:25:09,908
<i>There'll be hell to pay
In fiery purgatory</i>

2308
02:25:09,992 --> 02:25:13,787
<i>Through all the gloom
Through all the gloom</i>

2309
02:25:13,871 --> 02:25:17,791
<i>I can see the rays
Of ravishing light</i>

2310
02:25:17,875 --> 02:25:20,210
<i>And glory</i>

2311
02:25:20,294 --> 02:25:22,504
Is anybody there?

2312
02:25:23,881 --> 02:25:26,258
Does anybody care?

2313
02:25:27,009 --> 02:25:30,012
Does anybody see what I see?

2314
02:25:31,221 --> 02:25:33,682
<i>I see fireworks</i>

2315
02:25:33,766 --> 02:25:37,186
<i>I see the pageant
And pomp and parade</i>

2316
02:25:37,269 --> 02:25:39,813
<i>I hear the bells ringing out</i>

2317
02:25:39,897 --> 02:25:42,816
<i>I hear the cannons roar</i>

2318
02:25:42,900 --> 02:25:45,361
<i>I see Americans</i>

2319
02:25:45,444 --> 02:25:49,198
<i>All Americans free</i>

2320
02:25:49,281 --> 02:25:52,159
<i>Forevermore</i>

2321
02:26:05,172 --> 02:26:10,803
<i>How quiet
How quiet the chamber is</i>

2322
02:26:12,137 --> 02:26:19,019
<i>How silent
How silent the chamber is</i>

2323
02:26:22,773 --> 02:26:28,028
<i>Is anybody there?</i>

2324
02:26:29,571 --> 02:26:34,535
<i>Does anybody care?</i>

2325
02:26:36,704 --> 02:26:38,455
Does anybody see...

2326
02:26:39,748 --> 02:26:40,833
what I see?

2327
02:26:43,836 --> 02:26:45,045
Yes, Mr. Adams.

2328
02:26:47,214 --> 02:26:48,257
I do.

2329
02:26:51,969 --> 02:26:52,970
Dr. Hall.

2330
02:26:54,138 --> 02:26:55,723
I didn't know anyone was--

2331
02:26:57,474 --> 02:26:59,017
I'm sorry if I startled you.

2332
02:27:00,436 --> 02:27:01,729
I couldn't sleep.

2333
02:27:03,063 --> 02:27:05,566
And in trying to resolve my dilemma,

2334
02:27:06,567 --> 02:27:08,318
I remembered something I'd once read.

2335
02:27:09,528 --> 02:27:12,406
"That a representative owes
the people not only his industry

2336
02:27:13,407 --> 02:27:14,408
but his judgment,

2337
02:27:15,951 --> 02:27:19,496
and he betrays them
if he sacrifices it to their opinion."

2338
02:27:22,666 --> 02:27:24,793
That was written by Edmund Burke,

2339
02:27:26,587 --> 02:27:28,255
a member of the British Parliament.

2340
02:27:58,076 --> 02:28:00,788
-Good night, Mr. Adams.
-Good night.

2341
02:28:12,424 --> 02:28:14,134
<i>It's never been done before.</i>

2342
02:28:14,218 --> 02:28:17,012
<i>No colony has ever broken from the
parent stem in the history of the world.</i>

2343
02:28:17,095 --> 02:28:19,681
<i>If you have grievances,
and I'm sure you have,</i>

2344
02:28:19,765 --> 02:28:22,768
<i>our present system must provide
a gentler means of redressing them--</i>

2345
02:28:22,851 --> 02:28:25,062
<i>-We've spawned a new race here.
-Revolution?</i>

2346
02:28:25,145 --> 02:28:29,066
<i>Rougher, simpler, more violent,
more enterprising, less refined.</i>

2347
02:28:29,149 --> 02:28:32,694
<i>"My quartermaster has no food,
no arms, no ammunition,</i>

2348
02:28:32,778 --> 02:28:35,405
<i>and my troops are
in a state of near mutiny.</i>

2349
02:28:35,489 --> 02:28:39,868
<i>I pray God some relief arrives
before the armada, but fear it will not."</i>

2350
02:28:39,952 --> 02:28:41,995
<i>And when they hang you, Mr. Adams,</i>

2351
02:28:42,746 --> 02:28:45,374
<i>I do hope you'll put in
a good word for the rest of us.</i>

2352
02:28:45,457 --> 02:28:49,378
<i>England closing in,
cutting off our air. There's no time!</i>

2353
02:28:49,461 --> 02:28:53,006
<i>Place before mankind
the common sense of the subjects.</i>

2354
02:28:53,090 --> 02:28:55,008
<i>The issue here is independence.</i>

2355
02:28:55,092 --> 02:28:57,010
<i>Perhaps you've lost sight
of that fact, but I have not.</i>

2356
02:28:57,094 --> 02:28:59,012
<i>"We mutually pledge
to each other our lives,</i>

2357
02:28:59,096 --> 02:29:01,390
<i>our fortunes and our sacred honor."</i>

2358
02:29:02,808 --> 02:29:05,602
<i>Can you really know
so little about yourself?</i>

2359
02:29:10,816 --> 02:29:11,817
Very well.

2360
02:29:14,111 --> 02:29:17,739
The Congress will now vote on
Virginia's resolution on independence.

2361
02:29:26,248 --> 02:29:29,585
Thank you for coming, Caesar,
and God bless you, sir.

2362
02:29:35,716 --> 02:29:37,843
The secretary will call the roll.

2363
02:29:37,926 --> 02:29:41,054
And I remind you, gentlemen,

2364
02:29:41,138 --> 02:29:43,098
that a single "nay" vote...

2365
02:29:44,391 --> 02:29:45,559
will defeat the motion.

2366
02:29:47,811 --> 02:29:48,812
Mr. Thomson.

2367
02:29:54,067 --> 02:29:57,154
-New Hampshire.
-New Hampshire says yea.

2368
02:29:57,237 --> 02:29:59,740
New Hampshire says yea.
Massachusetts.

2369
02:29:59,823 --> 02:30:02,659
-Massachusetts says yea.
-Massachusetts says yea.

2370
02:30:02,743 --> 02:30:05,037
-Rhode Island.
-Rhode Island says yea.

2371
02:30:05,120 --> 02:30:07,372
Rhode Island says yea. Connecticut.

2372
02:30:07,456 --> 02:30:10,042
-Connecticut says yea.
-Connecticut says yea.

2373
02:30:10,125 --> 02:30:11,835
New York.

2374
02:30:11,919 --> 02:30:15,047
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains courteously.

2375
02:30:15,130 --> 02:30:17,257
-New York abstains.
-Courteously.

2376
02:30:18,884 --> 02:30:21,887
-New Jersey.
-New Jersey says yea.

2377
02:30:21,970 --> 02:30:24,389
New Jersey says yea. Pennsylvania.

2378
02:30:26,642 --> 02:30:29,978
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania is not ready.
Please come back to us later.

2379
02:30:30,979 --> 02:30:33,273
Pennsylvania passes. Delaware.

2380
02:30:33,357 --> 02:30:34,399
Just a moment.

2381
02:30:35,484 --> 02:30:39,279
Delaware, by majority vote...

2382
02:30:39,363 --> 02:30:41,281
-Aye.
-...says yea.

2383
02:30:41,949 --> 02:30:44,952
Delaware says yea. Maryland.

2384
02:30:45,035 --> 02:30:47,496
-Maryland says yea.
-Maryland says yea.

2385
02:30:47,579 --> 02:30:49,164
-Virginia.
-Virginia says yea.

2386
02:30:49,247 --> 02:30:51,333
Virginia says yea. North Carolina.

2387
02:30:51,416 --> 02:30:53,877
North Carolina yields to South Carolina.

2388
02:30:55,253 --> 02:30:56,296
South Carolina.

2389
02:30:57,381 --> 02:30:59,007
Well, Mr. Adams?

2390
02:31:00,217 --> 02:31:01,426
Well, Mr. Rutledge?

2391
02:31:04,805 --> 02:31:05,806
Mr. Adams,

2392
02:31:08,392 --> 02:31:12,312
you must believe that I will do
what I promised to do.

2393
02:31:19,069 --> 02:31:20,570
What is it you want?

2394
02:31:20,654 --> 02:31:24,408
Remove the offending passage
from your declaration.

2395
02:31:24,491 --> 02:31:29,997
If we did that, we would be guilty of
what we ourselves are rebelling against.

2396
02:31:31,873 --> 02:31:34,126
Nevertheless, remove it,

2397
02:31:34,835 --> 02:31:37,879
or South Carolina will bury
now and forever

2398
02:31:37,963 --> 02:31:39,840
your dream of independence.

2399
02:31:41,049 --> 02:31:44,511
John, I beg you,
consider what you're doing.

2400
02:31:51,518 --> 02:31:52,686
Mark me, Franklin,

2401
02:31:54,438 --> 02:31:59,359
if we give in on this issue,
posterity will never forgive us.

2402
02:31:59,443 --> 02:32:02,779
That's probably true, but we won't
hear a thing. We'll be long gone.

2403
02:32:03,780 --> 02:32:07,951
Besides, what will posterity
think we were? Demigods?

2404
02:32:08,744 --> 02:32:11,663
We're men, no more, no less,
trying to get a nation started

2405
02:32:11,747 --> 02:32:15,542
against greater odds than
a more generous God would have allowed.

2406
02:32:16,918 --> 02:32:20,172
First things first, John.
Independence. America.

2407
02:32:20,255 --> 02:32:24,176
If we don't secure that,
what difference will the rest make?

2408
02:32:31,433 --> 02:32:32,726
Jefferson, say something.

2409
02:32:35,729 --> 02:32:37,230
What else is there to do?

2410
02:32:38,857 --> 02:32:40,692
Well, man, you're the one that wrote it.

2411
02:32:42,486 --> 02:32:45,739
I wrote all of it, Mr. Adams.

2412
02:33:06,843 --> 02:33:08,720
There. There it is, Rutledge.

2413
02:33:08,804 --> 02:33:11,014
You have your slavery.
Little good may it do you.

2414
02:33:11,098 --> 02:33:12,808
Now vote, damn you.

2415
02:33:14,434 --> 02:33:18,396
Mr. President,
the fair colony of South Carolina...

2416
02:33:19,397 --> 02:33:22,776
-says yea.
-South Carolina says yea.

2417
02:33:22,859 --> 02:33:26,029
-North Carolina says yea.
-North Carolina says yea.

2418
02:33:28,031 --> 02:33:30,325
-Georgia.
-Georgia says yea.

2419
02:33:30,408 --> 02:33:31,993
Georgia says yea.

2420
02:33:33,286 --> 02:33:35,122
Pennsylvania, second call.

2421
02:33:37,124 --> 02:33:42,212
Mr. President, Pennsylvania regrets
all of the inconvenience

2422
02:33:42,295 --> 02:33:47,425
that such distinguished men
as Adams, Franklin and Jefferson

2423
02:33:47,509 --> 02:33:48,760
were put to just now.

2424
02:33:49,469 --> 02:33:52,931
They might've kept their document intact
for all the difference it will make.

2425
02:33:53,932 --> 02:33:58,061
-Mr. President, Pennsylvania says--
-Just a moment.

2426
02:34:00,188 --> 02:34:02,232
I ask the delegation to be polled.

2427
02:34:02,899 --> 02:34:05,026
Dr. Franklin, don't be absurd.

2428
02:34:05,110 --> 02:34:07,779
A poll, Mr. President.
It's a proper request.

2429
02:34:08,822 --> 02:34:11,658
Yes, it is.
Poll the delegation, Mr. Thomson.

2430
02:34:12,450 --> 02:34:15,370
-Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
-Yea.

2431
02:34:15,453 --> 02:34:18,123
-Mr. John Dickinson.
-Nay.

2432
02:34:18,832 --> 02:34:20,125
Mr. James Wilson.

2433
02:34:23,628 --> 02:34:24,629
Judge Wilson?

2434
02:34:28,216 --> 02:34:30,218
There it is, Mr. Wilson.
It's all up to you now.

2435
02:34:30,969 --> 02:34:34,181
The question of American independence
rests squarely on your shoulders.

2436
02:34:35,390 --> 02:34:39,019
An entirely new nation ready
to be born or to die at birth

2437
02:34:39,102 --> 02:34:40,353
all on your say-so.

2438
02:34:41,938 --> 02:34:43,231
Which will it be, Mr. Wilson?

2439
02:34:44,524 --> 02:34:47,527
Every mapmaker in the world
is waiting for your decision.

2440
02:34:48,737 --> 02:34:51,948
Oh, come now, James.
Nothing has changed.

2441
02:34:52,032 --> 02:34:54,701
We mustn't let
Dr. Franklin create one of his confusions.

2442
02:34:54,784 --> 02:34:56,161
The question is clear.

2443
02:34:57,078 --> 02:34:59,664
Most questions are clear
when someone else has to decide them.

2444
02:35:00,624 --> 02:35:04,878
It'd be a pity for a man who's handed
down hundreds of wise decisions

2445
02:35:04,961 --> 02:35:06,046
from the bench...

2446
02:35:07,005 --> 02:35:11,343
to be remembered only for the one
unwise decision he made in Congress.

2447
02:35:13,261 --> 02:35:16,348
James, you're keeping everybody waiting.

2448
02:35:16,431 --> 02:35:18,350
The secretary has called for your vote.

2449
02:35:19,309 --> 02:35:20,310
Please.

2450
02:35:21,895 --> 02:35:25,523
Don't push me, John.
I know what you want me to do.

2451
02:35:28,276 --> 02:35:30,946
But Mr. Adams is correct about one thing.

2452
02:35:33,531 --> 02:35:36,243
I'm the one who'll be remembered for it.

2453
02:35:36,326 --> 02:35:37,619
What do you mean?

2454
02:35:43,291 --> 02:35:45,168
I'm different from you, John.

2455
02:35:46,461 --> 02:35:48,838
I'm different from most of the men here.

2456
02:35:50,131 --> 02:35:51,925
I don't want to be remembered.

2457
02:35:53,468 --> 02:35:54,928
I just don't want the...

2458
02:35:56,304 --> 02:35:58,265
responsibility.

2459
02:35:59,057 --> 02:36:01,559
Yes, well,
whether you want it or not, James,

2460
02:36:01,643 --> 02:36:03,186
there's no way of avoiding it.

2461
02:36:04,020 --> 02:36:05,605
Not necessarily, John.

2462
02:36:06,481 --> 02:36:10,568
If I go with them,
I'll just be one among dozens.

2463
02:36:12,570 --> 02:36:15,532
No one will ever remember
the name of James Wilson.

2464
02:36:17,325 --> 02:36:18,952
But if I vote with you,

2465
02:36:20,745 --> 02:36:23,999
I'll be the man who prevented
American independence.

2466
02:36:26,835 --> 02:36:28,253
I'm sorry, John.

2467
02:36:29,963 --> 02:36:31,965
I just didn't bargain for that.

2468
02:36:33,800 --> 02:36:37,262
And is that how new nations are formed?

2469
02:36:38,638 --> 02:36:40,974
By a nonentity trying to preserve

2470
02:36:41,057 --> 02:36:44,311
the anonymity he so richly deserves?

2471
02:36:45,520 --> 02:36:48,815
Revolutions come into this world
like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson.

2472
02:36:48,898 --> 02:36:50,734
Half improvised and half compromised.

2473
02:36:51,609 --> 02:36:53,945
Our side has provided the compromise.

2474
02:36:54,029 --> 02:36:55,822
Now Judge Wilson is supplying the rest.

2475
02:37:00,869 --> 02:37:01,870
James.

2476
02:37:03,496 --> 02:37:04,831
I'm sorry, John.

2477
02:37:06,249 --> 02:37:09,419
My vote... is yea.

2478
02:37:10,628 --> 02:37:13,381
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania says yea.

2479
02:37:15,175 --> 02:37:19,220
The count, being 12 to none,

2480
02:37:21,097 --> 02:37:22,474
with one abstention,

2481
02:37:22,557 --> 02:37:25,226
the resolution on independence...

2482
02:37:26,895 --> 02:37:28,355
is adopted.

2483
02:37:29,397 --> 02:37:30,648
It's done.

2484
02:37:34,694 --> 02:37:35,695
It's done.

2485
02:37:38,531 --> 02:37:42,577
Mr. Thomson,
is the declaration ready to be signed?

2486
02:37:42,660 --> 02:37:45,747
<i>-Wis.
-Then I suggest we do so.</i>

2487
02:37:48,166 --> 02:37:52,420
And the chair further proposes,
for our mutual security and protection,

2488
02:37:54,297 --> 02:37:58,134
that no man sit in this Congress
without attaching his name to it.

2489
02:38:01,930 --> 02:38:04,766
I'm sorry, Mr. President.

2490
02:38:06,142 --> 02:38:10,522
I cannot, in good conscience,
sign such a document.

2491
02:38:12,107 --> 02:38:16,569
I will never stop hoping for
our eventual reconciliation with England.

2492
02:38:18,113 --> 02:38:20,448
But because...

2493
02:38:21,574 --> 02:38:22,909
in my own way...

2494
02:38:24,035 --> 02:38:27,831
I regard America no less
than does Mr. Adams...

2495
02:38:29,582 --> 02:38:33,503
I will join the army
and fight in her defense,

2496
02:38:35,088 --> 02:38:38,007
even though I believe
that fight to be hopeless.

2497
02:38:43,763 --> 02:38:45,306
Goodbye, gentlemen.

2498
02:38:47,559 --> 02:38:49,102
Gentlemen of the Congress,

2499
02:38:49,811 --> 02:38:52,355
I say yea, John Dickinson.

2500
02:39:03,825 --> 02:39:04,826
Very well.

2501
02:39:06,119 --> 02:39:09,539
Are there objections to the declaration
being approved as it now stands?

2502
02:39:09,622 --> 02:39:13,585
- I have one, Mr. Hancock.
-You, Mr. Adams?

2503
02:39:14,294 --> 02:39:16,796
Yes. Mr. Jefferson.

2504
02:39:16,880 --> 02:39:20,967
It so happens
that the word is "unalienable,"

2505
02:39:21,050 --> 02:39:22,719
not "inalienable."

2506
02:39:24,304 --> 02:39:28,600
I'm sorry, Mr. Adams,
but "inalienable" is correct.

2507
02:39:30,101 --> 02:39:32,979
I happen to be a Harvard graduate,
Mr. Jefferson.

2508
02:39:36,232 --> 02:39:38,943
I attended William and Mary, Mr. Adams.

2509
02:39:40,570 --> 02:39:45,617
Gentlemen, please! Mr. Jefferson,
will you yield to Mr. Adams' request?

2510
02:39:47,744 --> 02:39:49,913
No, sir, I will not.

2511
02:39:56,211 --> 02:39:58,463
Oh, very well. I withdraw it.

2512
02:39:58,546 --> 02:40:00,924
Oh, good for you, John.

2513
02:40:05,261 --> 02:40:07,805
I'll speak
to the printer about it later on.

2514
02:40:10,475 --> 02:40:11,476
Very well, gentlemen.

2515
02:40:12,769 --> 02:40:16,606
We're about to brave the storm
in a skiff made of paper.

2516
02:40:17,774 --> 02:40:21,027
And how it shall end, God only knows.

2517
02:40:23,446 --> 02:40:25,532
That's a pretty large signature, Johnny.

2518
02:40:25,615 --> 02:40:28,993
So Fat George in London can read it
without his glasses.

2519
02:40:31,246 --> 02:40:35,166
Step right up, gentlemen. Don't miss
your chance to commit treason.

2520
02:40:37,627 --> 02:40:41,548
Hancock is right. This paper is
our passport to the gallows.

2521
02:40:41,631 --> 02:40:44,259
But there's no backing out now,
for if we do not hang together,

2522
02:40:44,342 --> 02:40:46,678
we shall most assuredly
hang separately.

2523
02:40:49,180 --> 02:40:51,724
In my case, hanging won't be so bad.

2524
02:40:51,808 --> 02:40:55,061
One snap and it'll be all over,
just like that.

2525
02:40:55,144 --> 02:40:59,732
But look at Read there. He'll be dancing
a jig long after I'm gone!

2526
02:41:01,818 --> 02:41:04,779
Gentlemen, forgive me
if I don't join in the merriment,

2527
02:41:04,862 --> 02:41:06,781
but if we are arrested now,

2528
02:41:06,864 --> 02:41:09,993
my name is still the only one
on the damn thing!

2529
02:41:30,471 --> 02:41:33,099
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in--

2530
02:41:34,934 --> 02:41:38,855
Army of the United States in New York,

2531
02:41:38,938 --> 02:41:40,815
dispatch number 1,209,

2532
02:41:40,898 --> 02:41:44,193
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, President. 'Dear, sir,

2533
02:41:44,277 --> 02:41:48,323
I can now report with some certainty
that the eve of battle is near at hand.

2534
02:41:49,198 --> 02:41:53,244
Toward this end, I have ordered
the evacuation of Manhattan

2535
02:41:53,328 --> 02:41:57,707
and directed our defenses to take up
stronger positions on Brooklyn Heights.

2536
02:41:58,583 --> 02:42:03,212
At the present time, my forces consist
entirely of Has let's Delaware Militia

2537
02:42:03,296 --> 02:42:05,214
and Smallwood's Marylanders,

2538
02:42:05,298 --> 02:42:09,260
a total of 5,000 troops
to stand against...

2539
02:42:11,304 --> 02:42:13,431
25,000 of the enemy.

2540
02:42:14,265 --> 02:42:16,476
And I begin to notice that many of us

2541
02:42:16,559 --> 02:42:20,605
are lads under 15 and old men,

2542
02:42:20,688 --> 02:42:23,691
none of whom could truly be
called soldiers.

2543
02:42:25,735 --> 02:42:28,905
One personal note
to Mr. Lewis Morris of New York.

2544
02:42:28,988 --> 02:42:33,409
I must regretfully report that his estates
have been totally destroyed,

2545
02:42:33,493 --> 02:42:36,579
but that I have taken the liberty
of transporting Mrs. Morris

2546
02:42:36,663 --> 02:42:40,208
and eight of the children
to Connecticut and safety.

2547
02:42:40,291 --> 02:42:45,296
The four older boys are now enlisted
in the Continental Army.

2548
02:42:45,380 --> 02:42:47,757
As I write these words,

2549
02:42:47,840 --> 02:42:51,052
the enemy is plainly in sight
beyond the river.

2550
02:42:52,345 --> 02:42:55,348
How it will end
only Providence can direct.

2551
02:42:56,307 --> 02:42:59,018
But dear God, what brave men...

2552
02:43:03,064 --> 02:43:04,273
I shall lose...

2553
02:43:07,151 --> 02:43:08,152
before...

2554
02:43:09,529 --> 02:43:10,697
this business...

2555
02:43:13,533 --> 02:43:14,534
ends.

2556
02:43:18,663 --> 02:43:19,997
Your obedient...

2557
02:43:24,043 --> 02:43:26,170
G. Washington.'"

2558
02:43:51,028 --> 02:43:52,029
Very well, gentlemen.

2559
02:43:54,031 --> 02:43:55,032
McNair.

2560
02:43:59,620 --> 02:44:00,621
Go ring the bell.

2561
02:44:08,463 --> 02:44:10,715
-Mr. President.
-Mr. Morris.

2562
02:44:11,924 --> 02:44:15,052
To hell with New York.
I'll sign it anyway.

2563
02:44:15,845 --> 02:44:17,180
Thank you, Mr. Morris.

2564
02:44:24,395 --> 02:44:26,606
Stephen, sit down.

2565
02:44:27,815 --> 02:44:28,649
No.

2566
02:44:29,358 --> 02:44:32,320
I want to remember
each man's face as he signs.

2567
02:44:34,864 --> 02:44:35,865
Very well.

2568
02:44:37,825 --> 02:44:38,826
Mr. Thomson.

2569
02:44:42,538 --> 02:44:46,083
New Hampshire. Dr. Josiah Bartlett.

2570
02:44:55,927 --> 02:44:59,096
Massachusetts. Mr. John Adams.

2571
02:45:19,158 --> 02:45:21,828
Rhode Island. Mr. Stephen Hopkins.

2572
02:45:29,377 --> 02:45:31,546
Connecticut. Mr. Roger Sherman.

2573
02:45:38,636 --> 02:45:41,556
New York. Mr. Lewis Morris.

2574
02:45:48,563 --> 02:45:51,524
New Jersey. The Reverend John Witherspoon.

2575
02:45:58,322 --> 02:46:02,034
Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

2576
02:46:08,165 --> 02:46:10,835
Delaware. Mr. Caesar Rodney.

2577
02:46:22,013 --> 02:46:24,307
Maryland. Mr. Samuel Chase.

2578
02:46:35,651 --> 02:46:38,029
Virginia. Mr. Thomas Jefferson.

2579
02:46:45,745 --> 02:46:48,122
North Carolina. Mr. Joseph Hewes.

2580
02:46:54,337 --> 02:46:56,839
South Carolina. Mr. Edward Rutledge.

2581
02:47:03,304 --> 02:47:06,223
Georgia. Dr. Lyman Hall.