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Some of us was
in the Second Kansas Colored.
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We fought the Rebs at
Jenkins' Ferry last April
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just after they killed every Negro soldier
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they captured at Poison Springs.
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So at Jenkins' Ferry,
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we decided warn't takin'
no Reb prisoners.
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And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive.
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The ones of us that didn't die that day,
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we joined up with
the 116th U.S. Colored, sir,
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from Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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What's your name, soldier?
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Private. Harold Green, sir.
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I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir.
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Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry.
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We're waiting over there.
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We're leaving our horses behind
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and shipping out with the 24th Infantry
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for the assault next week on Wilmington.
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How long
have you been a soldier?
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Two years, sir.
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The Second Kansas
Colored Infantry,
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they fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry.
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That's right, sir.
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They killed
a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir.
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They were very brave.
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And making $3 less each month
than white soldiers.
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Us Second Kansas boys...
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Another $3 subtracted
from our pay for our uniforms.
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That was true, yes sir,
but that's changed.
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Equal pay now, but still
no commissioned Negro officers.
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I'm aware of that,
Corporal Clark.
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Yes, sir.
That's good that you're aware, sir...
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Do you think the Wilmington attack...
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Now that white people
have accustomed themselves
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to seeing Negro men with guns
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fighting on their behalf,
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and now that they can tolerate
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Negro soldiers getting equal pay
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maybe in a few years,
they can abide the idea
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of Negro lieutenants and captains.
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In fifty years, maybe a Negro colonel.
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In a hundred years, the vote.
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What will you do after the war,
Corporal Clark?
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Work, sir.
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Perhaps you'll hire me.
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Perhaps I will.
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But you should know, sir,
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that I get sick at the smell of boot black
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and I cannot cut hair.
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I've yet to find a man could cut mine
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so that it'd make any difference.
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You got springy hair
for a white man.
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Yes, I do.
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My last barber hanged himself.
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And the one before that.
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Left me his scissors in his will.
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President Lincoln, sir.
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Good evening, boys.
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We saw you, and...
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- We were at...
- We was at Gettysburg.
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You boys fight at Gettysburg?
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No, didn't fight there,
we just signed up last month.
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We saw him two years ago
at the cemetery dedication.
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Yeah. We heard you speak...
Goddamn.
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Hey, how tall are you, anyway?
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Jeez, shut up.
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Could you hear what I said?
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No, sir. Not much.
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It was...
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"Four score and seven years ago,"
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"our fathers brought forth
from this continent"
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"a new nation, conceived in liberty"
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"and dedicated to the proposition"
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"that all men are created equal."
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That's good. Thank you.
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"Now we are engaged
in a great civil war,"
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"testing whether that nation
or any nation"
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"so conceived and so dedicated,"
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"can long endure."
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"We are met on a great
battlefield of that war."
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That's good, thank you.
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"We come to dedicate"
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"a portion of that field"
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"as a final resting place
for those who here"
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"gave their lives
that that nation might live."
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His uncles, they died
on the second day of fighting.
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I know the last part. It is...
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Company up! Moving out!
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You boys best go
and find your company.
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- And thank you.
- Thank you, sir.
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- God bless you.
- God bless you, too.
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God bless you.
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"That we here highly resolve
that these dead"
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"shall not have died in vain."
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"That this nation, under God,"
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"shall have a new birth of freedom"
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"and that government
of the people, by the people,"
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"for the people"
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"shall not perish from the earth."
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It's nighttime.
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Ship's moved by some terribie power
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at a terrific speed.
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And though it's imperceptible
in the darkness,
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I have an intuition that
we're headed towards a shore.
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No one else seems to be
aboard the vessel.
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I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness.
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"I could be bounded in a nutshell"
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"and count myself
a king of infinite space"
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"were it not that I have bad dreams."
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I reckon it's the speed
that's strange to me.
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I'm used to going at a deliberate pace.
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I should spare you, Molly.
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I shouldn't tell you my dreams.
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I don't want to be spared if you aren't.
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And you spare me nothing.
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Perhaps it's...
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It's the assault on Wilmington Port.
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You dream about the ship
before a battle, usually.
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How's the coconut?
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Beyond description.
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Almost two years, nothing mends.
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Another casualty of the war.
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Who wants to listen to a useless woman
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grouse about her carriage accident?
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- I do.
- Stuff.
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You tell me dreams, that's all.
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I'm your soothsayer.
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That's all I am to you anymore.
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I'm not to be trusted
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even if it was not a carriage accident.
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Even if it was
an attempted assassination.
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It was most probably an accident.
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It was an assassin
whose intended target was you.
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How are the plans coming along
for the big shindy?
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I don't want to talk about parties.
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You don't care about parties.
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Not much, but they're
a necessary hindrance.
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I know.
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I know what it's about, the ship.
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It's not Wilmington Port.
It's not a military campaign.
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It's the amendment to abolish slavery.
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Why else would you force me
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to invite demented radicals
into my home?
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You're going to try to get
the amendment passed
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in the House of Representatives
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before the term ends?
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Before the Inauguration?
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Don't spend too much money
on the flubdubs.
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No one is loved as much as you.
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No one's ever been loved
so much by the people.
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You might do anything now.
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Don't... Don't waste that power
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on an amendment bill
that's sure of defeat.
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Did you remember Robert's
coming home for the reception?
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I knew you'd forget.
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That's the ship you're sailing on,
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the 13th Amendment.
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You needn't tell me I'm right.
I know I am.
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Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley.
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Well, she needs this
for the grand reception.
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It's slow work.
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Good night.
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Did you tell her a dream?
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Papa.
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Papa, I want to see Willie.
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Me, too, Taddie, but we can't.
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Why not?
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Willie's gone.
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It's three years now he's gone.
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The part assigned to me
is to raise the flag.
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Which, if there be no fault
in the machinery, I will do.
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And when up
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it'll be for the people to keep it up.
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That's my speech.
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We are coming, Father Abraham
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Three hundred thousand more
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From Mississippi's winding stream
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And from New England's shore
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We leave our plow and workshops
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Our wives...
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Even if every Republican
in the House votes yes,
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far from guaranteed.
Since when has our party
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unanimously supported anything?
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But say all our fellow Republicans
vote for it.
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We'd still be twenty votes short.
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Only twenty?
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"Only twenty?"
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We can find twenty votes.
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Twenty House Democrats
who'll vote to abolish slavery?
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In my opinion...
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To which I always listen.
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- Or pretend to.
- With all three of my ears.
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We'll win the war soon.
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It's inevitable, isn't it?
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Well, it ain't won yet.
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You'll begin your second term
with semi-divine stature.
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Imagine the possibilities
peace will bring.
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Why tarnish your invaluable luster
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with a battle in the House?
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It's a rat's nest in there.
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It's the same gang of
talentless hicks and hacks
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who rejected the amendment
10 months ago.
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We'll lose.
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I like our chances now.
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Well, consider the obstacles
that we'd face.
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The aforementioned two-thirds majority
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needed to pass an amendment.
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We have a Republican majority,
but barely more than 50%.
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Fifty-six.
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We need Democratic support.
There's none to be had.
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Since the House
last voted on the amendment,
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there's been an election.
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Sixty-four Democrats
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lost their House seats in November.
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That's 64 Democrats
looking for work come March.
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I know.
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They don't need to
worry about re-election.
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They can vote however it suits them.
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But we can't buy the vote
for the amendment.
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It's too important.
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I said nothing of buying anything.
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We need twenty votes was all I said.
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Start of my second term,
plenty of positions to fill.
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Mr. President, may I present
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Mr. and Mrs. Jolly
who've come from Missouri...
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From Jeff City, President.
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Mr. Jolly.
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Ma'am.
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And this here by the fire
is Secretary of State Seward.
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Jeff City?
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I heard tell once
of a Jefferson City lawyer
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who had a parrot
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that'd wake him
each morning, crying out,
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"Today is the day the world shall end,"
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"as scripture has foretold."
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And one day...
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the lawyer shot him,
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for the sake of peace and quiet,
I presume.
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Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least,
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his prophecy.
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There's only one toll booth in Jeff City,
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to the southwest
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and this man
Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla
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been in illegal possession
for near two yar
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since your man General Schofield
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set him up there.
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But President Monroe give that toll gate
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to my granpap
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and Quincy Adams
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give my pap a letter
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saying it's our'n for keeps.
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Mrs. Jolly got the...
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Show Mr. Lincoln
the Quincy Adams letter.
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That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly.
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Just tell me what you want from me.
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Mr. Jolly's emphysema
don't care for cigars.
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Madame, do you know
about the proposed
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13th Amendment of the Constitution?
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Yes, sir, everybody knows of it.
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The President favors it.
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- Do you?
- We do.
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You know that it abolishes slavery?
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Yes, sir, I know it.
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And is that why you favor it?
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What I favor is ending the war.
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Once we do away with slavery,
the Rebs'll quit fighting
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since slavery's what they're fighting for.
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Mr. Lincoln, you always says so.
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With the amendment, slavery's ended.
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And they'll give up.
The war can finish then.
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If the war finished first,
before we end slavery...
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President Lincoln
says the war won't stop
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unless we finish slavery.
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But if it did.
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The South is exhausted.
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If they run out of bullets and men
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would you still want your...
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Who's your Representative?
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Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton.
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"Beanpole" Burton.
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I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir.
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A Republican,
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undecided on the question
of the amendment, I believe.
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Perhaps you could call on him
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and inform him of your enthusiasm.
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Yeah.
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Madame.
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If the Rebels surrendered next week
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would you, at the end of this month
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want Congressman Burton to vote
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for the 13th Amendment?
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If that was how it was,
no more war and all
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I reckon Mr. Jolly
much prefer not to have
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Congress pass the amendment.
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And...
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why is that?
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Niggers.
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If he don't have to
let some Alabama coon
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come up to Missouri
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steal his chickens and his job,
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we'd much prefer that.
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The people.
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I begin to see why
you're in such a great hurry
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to put it through.
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Would you let me study this letter, sir,
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00:19:00,013 --> 00:19:01,013
about the toll booth?
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Come back to me in the morning
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and we'll consider what the law says.
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You be sure to
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visit Beanpole.
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Tell him that you support
passage of the amendment
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as a military necessity.
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Thank you.
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Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment.
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If procuring votes
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with offers of employment
is what you intend
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I'll fetch a friend from Albany
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who can supply the skulky men
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gifted at this kind of shady work
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and spare me the indignity
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of actually speaking to Democrats.
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Spare you the exposure and liability.
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00:20:20,969 --> 00:20:23,554
Pardon me, that's a distress signal
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which I am bound,
by solemn oath, to respond to.
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00:20:31,146 --> 00:20:32,897
Tom Pendel took away
the glass camera plates
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of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over
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because Tom says Mama says
they're too distressing.
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00:20:36,860 --> 00:20:38,069
You had nightmares all night long.
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I'll have worse nightmares
if you don't let me look
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at the plates again.
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Perhaps.
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You can't afford a single defection
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from anyone in the party.
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Not even a single Republican
absent when they vote.
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You know who you've got to see.
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Send over to Blair House.
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00:21:01,468 --> 00:21:05,304
Ask Preston Blair
can I call on him around 5:00.
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God help you.
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00:21:08,141 --> 00:21:10,393
God alone knows
what he'll ask you to give him.
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If the Blaire tell them to,
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no Republican will balk
at voting for the amendment.
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No conservative Republican
is what you mean.
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All Republicans
ought to be conservative.
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I founded this party,
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in my own goddamn home, to be a
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conservative anti-slavery party,
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00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:29,829
not a hobbyhorse for
goddamn radical abolitionists.
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00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:31,705
Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy.
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You'll frighten the child.
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You need us to keep
the conservative side
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of the party in the traces
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00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:38,462
while you diddle the radicals
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00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:40,673
and bundle up
with Thaddeus Stevens's gang!
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00:21:40,757 --> 00:21:42,091
You need our help!
355
00:21:42,175 --> 00:21:43,717
Yes, sir, I do.
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00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:45,386
Well, what do we get?
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00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:46,929
Blunt!
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00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:50,224
Your manners, Monty,
must be why Mr. Lincoln
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pushed you out of his Cabinet.
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00:21:52,269 --> 00:21:53,769
- I wasn't pushed!
- Oh, of course you weren't.
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00:21:53,854 --> 00:21:55,354
He was pushed out to
placate the damn radicals!
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00:21:55,439 --> 00:21:59,775
- I agreed to resign.
- Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy.
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00:22:01,945 --> 00:22:05,072
You don't mind, boy, do you?
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00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:07,241
He spends his days with soldiers.
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00:22:07,325 --> 00:22:08,325
They taught me a song.
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00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:09,869
Did they?
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00:22:10,954 --> 00:22:13,330
Soldiers know all manner of songs.
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00:22:14,291 --> 00:22:15,791
How's your brother Bob?
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00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:17,042
He's at school now, but he's coming
370
00:22:17,127 --> 00:22:18,836
to visit in four days for the shindy.
371
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,046
At school. Ain't that fine?
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00:22:21,381 --> 00:22:22,923
Good he's not in the Army.
373
00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:24,884
He wants to be,
but Mama said he cannot.
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00:22:24,968 --> 00:22:26,886
Dangerous life, soldiering.
375
00:22:26,970 --> 00:22:29,889
Your mama is wise
to keep him clean out of that.
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00:22:29,973 --> 00:22:33,142
Now, your daddy knows that what I want
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00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:36,061
in return for all the help I can give him
378
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is to go down to Richmond,
like he said I could
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00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:41,275
as soon as Savannah fell
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00:22:41,776 --> 00:22:43,819
and talk to Jefferson Davis.
381
00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:46,780
Now give me terms
I can offer to Jefferson Davis
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00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:49,325
to start negotiating for peace.
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00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:50,576
He'll talk to me.
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Conservative members of your party
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want you to listen
to overtures from Richmond.
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00:22:57,459 --> 00:22:59,043
That above all!
387
00:22:59,836 --> 00:23:03,005
They'll vote for this rash
and dangerous amendment
388
00:23:03,089 --> 00:23:06,467
only if every other possibility
is exhausted.
389
00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:09,595
Our Republicans ain't abolitionists.
390
00:23:10,222 --> 00:23:13,182
We can't tell our people
they can vote yes
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on abolishing slavery
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unless at the same time we can tell them
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that you're seeking a negotiated peace.
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00:23:28,907 --> 00:23:31,617
Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond.
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00:23:31,826 --> 00:23:33,494
Get him drunk so he can sleep.
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00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:34,954
Yes, ma'am.
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00:23:35,455 --> 00:23:36,872
Here, Daddy.
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00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:40,626
- Thank you.
- Yes, sir, all right.
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00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:42,336
Where's my hat?
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Leo has your hat.
401
00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:45,464
All right?
402
00:23:46,925 --> 00:23:48,425
Go make peace.
403
00:24:00,897 --> 00:24:02,940
Thunder forth, God of War.
404
00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:08,487
We'll commence our assault
on Wilmington from the sea.
405
00:24:12,158 --> 00:24:13,492
Why is this burnt?
406
00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:15,995
Was the boy playing with it?
407
00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:18,330
It got took by a breeze
several nights back.
408
00:24:18,415 --> 00:24:20,082
This is an official War Department map.
409
00:24:20,375 --> 00:24:22,001
And the entire Cabinet's waiting
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00:24:22,085 --> 00:24:23,168
to hear what it portends.
411
00:24:23,253 --> 00:24:24,336
A bombardment.
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00:24:25,005 --> 00:24:27,756
From the largest fleet
the Navy has ever assembled.
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00:24:27,841 --> 00:24:30,259
Old Neptune, shake thy hoary locks!
414
00:24:30,510 --> 00:24:32,344
Fifty-eight ships are under way,
415
00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:34,763
of every tonnage and firing range.
416
00:24:34,889 --> 00:24:37,182
We'll keep up a steady barrage.
417
00:24:37,684 --> 00:24:38,976
Our first target is Fort Fisher.
418
00:24:39,060 --> 00:24:40,728
It defends Wilmington Port.
419
00:24:40,854 --> 00:24:42,771
A steady barrage?
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00:24:43,398 --> 00:24:45,441
A hundred shells a minute.
421
00:24:46,526 --> 00:24:47,568
Till they surrender.
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00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:49,653
Dear God.
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00:24:49,946 --> 00:24:53,115
Wilmington's
their last open seaport, therefore...
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00:24:53,199 --> 00:24:55,868
Wilmington falls, Richmond falls after.
425
00:24:56,620 --> 00:24:59,622
And the war is done.
426
00:25:00,749 --> 00:25:02,041
Hear, hear!
427
00:25:02,125 --> 00:25:04,168
Then why, if I might ask
428
00:25:04,252 --> 00:25:05,502
are we not concentrating
429
00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:07,755
the nation's attention on Wilmington?
430
00:25:07,881 --> 00:25:10,215
Why, instead, are we
reading in the Herald
431
00:25:10,925 --> 00:25:12,259
that the anti-slavery amendment
432
00:25:12,385 --> 00:25:15,387
is being precipitated onto
the House floor for debate?
433
00:25:15,555 --> 00:25:16,555
Because your eagerness,
434
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,307
in what seems an unwarranted intrusion
435
00:25:18,391 --> 00:25:20,976
of the executive into
legislative prerogatives,
436
00:25:21,061 --> 00:25:22,895
is compelling it to what's...
437
00:25:23,229 --> 00:25:25,981
To what's likely to be
its premature demise.
438
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,066
Hear, hear!
439
00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:28,776
You signed
the Emancipation Proclamation.
440
00:25:28,902 --> 00:25:29,860
You've done all that could be done.
441
00:25:29,944 --> 00:25:31,184
The Emancipation Proclamation's
442
00:25:31,237 --> 00:25:33,322
merely a war measure.
After the war, the courts...
443
00:25:33,406 --> 00:25:35,157
When Edward Bates
was Attorney General,
444
00:25:35,241 --> 00:25:36,450
he felt confident enough
to let you sign it!
445
00:25:36,576 --> 00:25:38,577
Different lawyers, different opinions.
446
00:25:38,662 --> 00:25:41,163
It frees slaves
as a military exigent. Not...
447
00:25:41,289 --> 00:25:44,917
I don't recall Edward Bates
being any too certain about
448
00:25:45,293 --> 00:25:47,753
the legality of my proclamation.
449
00:25:49,297 --> 00:25:51,090
Just it wasn't downright criminal.
450
00:25:53,093 --> 00:25:54,927
Somewheres in between.
451
00:25:58,598 --> 00:26:01,308
Back when I rode
the legal circuit in Illinois,
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00:26:01,434 --> 00:26:03,727
I defended a woman from Metamora
453
00:26:03,812 --> 00:26:05,604
named Melissa Goings.
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00:26:06,481 --> 00:26:08,440
Seventy-seven years old.
455
00:26:09,150 --> 00:26:12,277
They said she'd murdered
her husband. He was 83.
456
00:26:13,029 --> 00:26:14,822
He was choking her
457
00:26:15,615 --> 00:26:18,659
and she grabbed a hold
of a stick of firewood
458
00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:21,370
and fractured his skull and he died.
459
00:26:22,497 --> 00:26:24,331
In his will, he wrote,
460
00:26:26,626 --> 00:26:28,794
"I expect she has killed me."
461
00:26:32,507 --> 00:26:35,175
"If I get over it, I will have revenge."
462
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,558
No one was keen to see her convicted,
463
00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:44,893
he was that kind of husband.
464
00:26:45,645 --> 00:26:47,271
I asked the prosecuting attorney
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00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,566
if I might have a short conference
with my client.
466
00:26:50,734 --> 00:26:53,902
She and I went into a room
in the courthouse,
467
00:26:54,070 --> 00:26:55,863
but I alone emerged.
468
00:26:56,364 --> 00:26:58,073
The window in the room
was found to be wide open.
469
00:26:58,158 --> 00:27:01,744
It was believed the old lady
may have climbed out of it.
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00:27:03,496 --> 00:27:05,164
I told the bailiff,
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00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:07,040
right before I left her in the room
472
00:27:07,167 --> 00:27:08,208
she asked me where she could get
473
00:27:08,334 --> 00:27:11,128
a good drink of water,
and I told her, Tennessee.
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00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:16,550
Mrs. Goings was seen no more
in Metamora.
475
00:27:16,676 --> 00:27:18,844
Enough justice had been done.
476
00:27:19,262 --> 00:27:21,930
They even forgave
the bondsman her bail.
477
00:27:23,349 --> 00:27:24,349
I'm afraid I don't see...
478
00:27:24,434 --> 00:27:25,893
I decided
479
00:27:27,187 --> 00:27:30,189
that the Constitution
gives me war powers
480
00:27:31,357 --> 00:27:32,649
but no one knows just exactly
481
00:27:32,734 --> 00:27:34,777
what those powers are.
482
00:27:35,695 --> 00:27:36,820
Some say they don't exist.
483
00:27:36,905 --> 00:27:38,572
I don't know. I decided
484
00:27:38,698 --> 00:27:40,908
I needed them to exist to uphold my oath
485
00:27:41,034 --> 00:27:43,243
to protect the Constitution.
486
00:27:43,536 --> 00:27:45,204
Which I decided meant I could take
487
00:27:45,288 --> 00:27:47,164
the Rebels' slaves from them
488
00:27:47,248 --> 00:27:49,625
as property confiscated in war.
489
00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:52,336
That might recommend
to suspicion that I agree
490
00:27:52,420 --> 00:27:53,660
with the Rebs that their slaves
491
00:27:53,713 --> 00:27:54,797
are property in the first place.
492
00:27:54,881 --> 00:27:57,132
Of course, I don't. Never have.
493
00:27:58,551 --> 00:28:00,093
I'm glad to see any man free,
494
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:02,387
and if calling a man property
495
00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:03,764
or war contraband
496
00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:07,100
does the trick,
why I caught at the opportunity.
497
00:28:08,061 --> 00:28:10,729
Now here's where it gets truly slippery.
498
00:28:11,064 --> 00:28:13,857
I use the law allowing for the seizure
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00:28:13,942 --> 00:28:15,025
of property in a war
500
00:28:15,109 --> 00:28:16,568
knowing it applies only to the property
501
00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:19,321
of governments and citizens
of belligerent nations.
502
00:28:19,405 --> 00:28:21,740
Well, the South ain't a nation.
503
00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:24,493
That's why I can't negotiate with them.
504
00:28:24,619 --> 00:28:27,412
So if, in fact, the Negroes are property,
505
00:28:27,497 --> 00:28:28,789
according to the law,
506
00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:30,791
have I the right to take
the Rebels' property
507
00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:32,709
from them, if I insist they're rebels only
508
00:28:32,794 --> 00:28:35,754
and not citizens of a belligerent country?
509
00:28:36,005 --> 00:28:37,506
And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't
510
00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:40,425
our actual Southern states in rebellion
511
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:43,262
but only the rebels living in those states,
512
00:28:43,346 --> 00:28:46,682
the laws of which states remain in force.
513
00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:50,811
"The laws of which states
remain in force."
514
00:28:50,937 --> 00:28:53,057
That means that since it's
states' laws that determine
515
00:28:53,106 --> 00:28:55,566
whether Negroes can be sold as slaves,
516
00:28:55,650 --> 00:28:57,150
as property,
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00:28:57,610 --> 00:28:59,987
the federal government
doesn't have a say in that.
518
00:29:00,113 --> 00:29:01,697
At least not yet.
519
00:29:02,282 --> 00:29:05,534
Then Negroes in those states
are slaves,
520
00:29:05,618 --> 00:29:06,618
hence property,
521
00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:08,871
hence my war powers
allow me to confiscate them
522
00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:11,206
as such, so I confiscate them.
523
00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:13,458
But if I'm a respecter of states' laws,
524
00:29:13,543 --> 00:29:14,918
how then can I legally free them
525
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:17,296
with my Proclamation as I done?
526
00:29:18,172 --> 00:29:20,549
Unless I'm canceling states' laws?
527
00:29:25,555 --> 00:29:27,639
I felt the war demanded it.
528
00:29:28,516 --> 00:29:30,309
My oath demanded it.
529
00:29:31,477 --> 00:29:33,020
I felt right with myself,
530
00:29:33,146 --> 00:29:35,397
and I hoped it was legal to do it.
531
00:29:35,481 --> 00:29:37,149
I'm hoping still.
532
00:29:38,902 --> 00:29:42,905
Two years ago, I proclaimed
these people emancipated.
533
00:29:43,156 --> 00:29:47,326
"Then, thenceforward and forever free."
534
00:29:49,037 --> 00:29:50,787
Now let's say the courts
decide I had no authority
535
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:53,498
to do it. They might well decide that.
536
00:29:53,833 --> 00:29:55,626
Say there's no amendment
abolishing slavery,
537
00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:57,169
say it's after the war
538
00:29:57,253 --> 00:29:59,212
and I can no longer use my war powers
539
00:29:59,339 --> 00:30:01,089
to just ignore the courts' decisions
540
00:30:01,174 --> 00:30:03,634
like I sometimes felt I had to do.
541
00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:07,262
Might those people I freed
be ordered back into slavery?
542
00:30:11,184 --> 00:30:12,392
That's why I'd like to get
543
00:30:12,518 --> 00:30:14,478
the 13th Amendment through the House,
544
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:16,688
on its way to ratification by the states.
545
00:30:16,773 --> 00:30:18,482
Wrap the whole slavery thing up,
546
00:30:18,566 --> 00:30:21,360
forever and aye,
as soon as I'm able. Now!
547
00:30:21,444 --> 00:30:22,903
End of this month.
548
00:30:23,029 --> 00:30:24,696
And I'd like you to stand behind me
549
00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:27,616
like my Cabinet's most always done.
550
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:37,709
As the preacher said,
551
00:30:38,544 --> 00:30:40,754
"I could write shorter sermons,"
552
00:30:40,922 --> 00:30:43,757
"but once I start, I get too lazy to stop."
553
00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:50,681
It seems to me, sir, you're describing
554
00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:52,683
precisely the sort of dictator
555
00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:54,559
the Democrats
have been howling about.
556
00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:56,520
Dictators
aren't susceptible to law.
557
00:30:56,604 --> 00:30:58,105
Neither is he.
He just said as much.
558
00:30:58,231 --> 00:30:59,898
Ignoring the courts?
Twisting meanings?
559
00:30:59,983 --> 00:31:01,900
What reins him in from... From...
560
00:31:01,985 --> 00:31:04,486
Well, the people do that, I suppose.
561
00:31:05,738 --> 00:31:08,198
I signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
562
00:31:08,282 --> 00:31:11,284
what, a year and a half
before my second election?
563
00:31:11,411 --> 00:31:13,161
I felt I was within my power to do it,
564
00:31:13,246 --> 00:31:16,748
however, I also felt that
I might be wrong about that.
565
00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:18,041
I knew the people would tell me.
566
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,793
I gave them a year and a half
to think about it,
567
00:31:19,919 --> 00:31:21,211
and they re-elected me.
568
00:31:21,295 --> 00:31:23,171
And come February the first,
569
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:26,091
I intend to sign the 13th Amendment!
570
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:39,688
Well, Mr. Representative Ashley.
571
00:31:40,314 --> 00:31:41,857
Tell us the news from the Hill.
572
00:31:41,941 --> 00:31:42,983
Well, the news...
573
00:31:43,109 --> 00:31:45,068
Why, for instance, is this thus,
574
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:46,987
and what is the reason
for this thusness?
575
00:31:47,113 --> 00:31:49,698
James, we want you to bring
the anti-slavery amendment
576
00:31:49,782 --> 00:31:50,782
to the floor for debate,
577
00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:52,325
- immediately.
- Excuse me, what?
578
00:31:52,785 --> 00:31:55,162
You are the amendment's manager,
are you not?
579
00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:56,455
I am, of course, but...
580
00:31:56,539 --> 00:31:59,332
Then we're counting
on robust radical support
581
00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,084
so tell Mr. Stevens we expect him
582
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:02,419
to put his back into it.
583
00:32:02,503 --> 00:32:03,587
It's not going to be easy, but...
584
00:32:03,671 --> 00:32:05,297
It's impossible.
585
00:32:05,798 --> 00:32:07,090
No. I am sorry, no.
586
00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:10,510
We can't organize anything
immediately in the House.
587
00:32:10,803 --> 00:32:12,095
I have been canvassing the Democrats
588
00:32:12,180 --> 00:32:13,221
since the election,
589
00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:14,765
in case any of them have softened
590
00:32:14,849 --> 00:32:16,558
after they got walloped, but
591
00:32:16,642 --> 00:32:18,393
they have stiffened,
if anything, Mr. Secretary.
592
00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:19,603
There aren't nearly enough votes.
593
00:32:19,687 --> 00:32:21,730
We're whalers, Mr. Ashley.
594
00:32:24,192 --> 00:32:28,153
Whalers? As in... Whales?
595
00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:30,655
We've been chasing this whale
for a long time.
596
00:32:31,199 --> 00:32:32,699
And we finally placed a harpoon
597
00:32:32,825 --> 00:32:33,867
in the monster's back.
598
00:32:33,993 --> 00:32:35,994
It's in, James. It's in.
599
00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:38,663
We finish the deed now. We can't wait.
600
00:32:38,748 --> 00:32:42,000
Or with one flop of his tail,
he'll smash the boat
601
00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:44,211
and send us all to eternity.
602
00:32:44,337 --> 00:32:46,630
On the 31 st of this month, of this year,
603
00:32:46,714 --> 00:32:49,049
put the amendment up for a vote.
604
00:32:51,344 --> 00:32:52,552
Whalers?
605
00:32:52,762 --> 00:32:53,804
That's what he said.
606
00:32:53,888 --> 00:32:56,556
The man's never been near
a whale ship in his life.
607
00:32:58,226 --> 00:33:00,227
Withdraw radical support.
608
00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:02,813
Force him to abandon this scheme,
609
00:33:02,897 --> 00:33:04,689
whatever he's up to.
610
00:33:05,399 --> 00:33:07,859
He drags his feet
about everything,
611
00:33:07,944 --> 00:33:10,028
Lincoln... Why this urgency?
612
00:33:10,446 --> 00:33:12,114
We got it through the Senate
without difficulty
613
00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:13,406
because we had the numbers.
614
00:33:13,533 --> 00:33:16,034
Come December, you'll have
the same in the House.
615
00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:18,119
The amendment will be
the easy work of 10 minutes.
616
00:33:18,121 --> 00:33:19,641
He's using the threat of the amendment
617
00:33:19,705 --> 00:33:21,705
to frighten the Rebels
into an immediate surrender.
618
00:33:21,707 --> 00:33:23,542
I imagine we'd rejoice to see that.
619
00:33:23,709 --> 00:33:25,585
Will you rejoice
when the Southern states
620
00:33:25,711 --> 00:33:27,337
have rejoined the Union pell-mell,
621
00:33:27,421 --> 00:33:29,381
as Lincoln intends them to,
and one by one,
622
00:33:29,465 --> 00:33:30,945
each refuses to ratify the amendment?
623
00:33:31,217 --> 00:33:33,051
If we pass it, which we won't.
624
00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:36,388
Why are we cooperating with him?
625
00:33:37,223 --> 00:33:39,975
We all know what he's doing
and we all know what he'll do.
626
00:33:40,059 --> 00:33:43,228
We can't offer up abolition's
best legal prayer
627
00:33:43,729 --> 00:33:44,771
to his games and tricks.
628
00:33:44,897 --> 00:33:46,356
He said he'd welcome the South back
629
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,649
with all its slaves in chains.
630
00:33:47,733 --> 00:33:50,110
Three years ago he said that,
to calm the border states.
631
00:33:50,236 --> 00:33:51,778
I don't!
632
00:33:54,323 --> 00:33:56,700
You said we all know
what he'll do. I don't know.
633
00:33:56,784 --> 00:33:58,076
You know he isn't to be trusted.
634
00:33:58,161 --> 00:33:59,494
Trust?
635
00:33:59,662 --> 00:34:01,204
I'm sorry, I was under
the misapprehension
636
00:34:01,289 --> 00:34:03,999
that your chosen profession was politics.
637
00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:06,459
I never trusted the President,
never trusted anyone,
638
00:34:06,586 --> 00:34:08,295
but hasn't he surprised you?
639
00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:10,547
No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn't.
640
00:34:10,631 --> 00:34:13,091
Nothing surprises you, Asa,
641
00:34:13,509 --> 00:34:15,635
therefore nothing about you
is surprising.
642
00:34:15,761 --> 00:34:17,512
Perhaps that is why your constituents
643
00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:20,265
did not re-elect you to the coming term.
644
00:34:21,642 --> 00:34:22,976
It's late.
645
00:34:23,102 --> 00:34:24,311
I'm old.
646
00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:26,938
I'm going home.
647
00:34:30,818 --> 00:34:33,111
Lincoln, the inveterate dawdler.
648
00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:35,363
Lincoln, the Southerner.
649
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:38,450
Lincoln, the capitulating compromiser,
650
00:34:39,285 --> 00:34:41,953
our adversary, and
651
00:34:42,788 --> 00:34:46,541
leader of the godforsaken
Republican party.
652
00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:47,834
Our party.
653
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,338
Abraham Lincoln has asked us
to work with him
654
00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:54,966
to accomplish the death
of slavery in America.
655
00:34:56,344 --> 00:34:58,553
Retain, even in opposition
656
00:34:59,972 --> 00:35:02,349
your capacity for astonishment.
657
00:35:08,648 --> 00:35:11,107
The President is never
to be mentioned. Nor I.
658
00:35:11,192 --> 00:35:12,817
You're paid for your discretion.
659
00:35:13,361 --> 00:35:14,801
Hell, you can have that for nothing.
660
00:35:14,862 --> 00:35:17,572
What we need money for
is bribes, to speed things up.
661
00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:19,449
No, nothing strictly illegal.
662
00:35:19,533 --> 00:35:21,243
It's not illegal to bribe Congressmen,
663
00:35:21,327 --> 00:35:22,744
they'd starve otherwise.
664
00:35:22,828 --> 00:35:26,331
I have explained to Mr. Bilbo
and Mr. Latham that
665
00:35:26,415 --> 00:35:28,124
we are offering patronage jobs
666
00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:29,334
to the Dems who vote yes.
667
00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:32,170
- Jobs and nothing more.
- That's correct.
668
00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:33,380
Congressmen come cheap.
669
00:35:33,506 --> 00:35:35,674
Few thousand bucks
will buy you all you need.
670
00:35:35,758 --> 00:35:38,051
The President would be unhappy
to hear you did that.
671
00:35:38,177 --> 00:35:40,553
Will he be unhappy if we lose?
672
00:35:41,097 --> 00:35:43,139
The money I managed to raise
for this endeavor
673
00:35:43,224 --> 00:35:45,892
is only for your fees,
your food and lodging.
674
00:35:48,062 --> 00:35:49,980
If that squirrel-infested attic
675
00:35:50,064 --> 00:35:51,398
you've quartered us in is any measure,
676
00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,149
you ain't raised much.
677
00:35:53,234 --> 00:35:54,359
Shall we get to work?
678
00:35:57,947 --> 00:36:00,532
The House recognizes Fernando Wood,
679
00:36:02,034 --> 00:36:05,036
the honorable Representative
from New York.
680
00:36:08,749 --> 00:36:10,250
Estimable colleagues.
681
00:36:11,377 --> 00:36:13,795
Two bloody years ago this month
682
00:36:14,714 --> 00:36:15,714
His Highness,
683
00:36:15,798 --> 00:36:18,216
King Abraham Africanus the First,
684
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,053
our great usurping Caesar,
685
00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:25,807
violator of habeas corpus
and freedom of the press,
686
00:36:25,891 --> 00:36:26,972
abuser of states' rights...
687
00:36:27,059 --> 00:36:29,936
If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,
688
00:36:30,062 --> 00:36:31,896
he'd have had your empty head
689
00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:33,648
impaled on a pike!
690
00:36:36,444 --> 00:36:38,528
And the country better for it!
691
00:36:38,779 --> 00:36:41,239
Radical Republican autocrat,
692
00:36:41,574 --> 00:36:44,576
ruling by fiat and martial law,
693
00:36:45,286 --> 00:36:47,912
affixed his name to his heinous and illicit
694
00:36:47,997 --> 00:36:50,123
Emancipation Proclamation
695
00:36:50,416 --> 00:36:53,335
promising it would hasten
the end of the war,
696
00:36:53,419 --> 00:36:56,755
which yet rages on and on.
697
00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:00,467
He claimed, as tyrants do
698
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:02,677
that the war's emergencies
699
00:37:02,762 --> 00:37:05,263
permitted him to turn our army into...
700
00:37:05,514 --> 00:37:09,100
The New York delegation is
looking decidedly uninspired.
701
00:37:09,602 --> 00:37:12,812
And radical Republicanism's
abolitionist fanaticism!
702
00:37:16,942 --> 00:37:19,194
His Emancipation Proclamation
703
00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:22,197
has obliterated millions of dollars...
704
00:37:23,449 --> 00:37:25,241
Over in Pennsylvania,
705
00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:27,786
who's the sweaty man eating his thumb?
706
00:37:27,870 --> 00:37:30,288
Unknown to me. Seems jumpy.
707
00:37:30,998 --> 00:37:32,540
Perhaps he'll jump.
708
00:37:36,837 --> 00:37:39,547
But all that was not enough
for this dictator,
709
00:37:39,632 --> 00:37:41,841
who now seeks to insinuate...
710
00:37:41,967 --> 00:37:43,134
Jesus.
711
00:37:43,803 --> 00:37:45,345
When's this son of liberty
sum-a-bitch gonna sit down?
712
00:37:45,471 --> 00:37:47,632
John Ellis is gonna break
his watch if he doesn't stop.
713
00:37:48,808 --> 00:37:51,726
We are once again asked, nay
714
00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:55,230
commanded, to consider
a proposed 13th Amendment
715
00:37:56,816 --> 00:37:59,109
which, if passed,
shall set at immediate liberty
716
00:37:59,193 --> 00:38:00,944
four million coloreds while manacling
717
00:38:01,028 --> 00:38:03,363
the limbs of the white race in America.
718
00:38:03,489 --> 00:38:05,156
If it is passed,
719
00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:07,534
but it shall not pass!
720
00:38:13,332 --> 00:38:14,290
What's more interesting
721
00:38:14,375 --> 00:38:15,375
is how dismal and disgruntled
722
00:38:15,501 --> 00:38:16,835
Mr. Yeaman appears.
723
00:38:18,003 --> 00:38:19,838
Every member of this House...
724
00:38:20,047 --> 00:38:21,327
He should be cheering right now.
725
00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:22,841
Looks like he ate a bad oyster.
726
00:38:22,925 --> 00:38:25,093
Party and
the constituents it serves
727
00:38:25,177 --> 00:38:26,344
shall oppose...
728
00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:29,806
Point of order,
Mr. Speaker, if you please.
729
00:38:29,890 --> 00:38:31,641
Mr. Speaker, I still have the floor.
730
00:38:31,725 --> 00:38:32,809
And the gentleman from Pennsylvania
731
00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:34,144
is out of order!
732
00:38:34,228 --> 00:38:36,104
When will Mr. Wood conclude
his interminable gabble?
733
00:38:36,188 --> 00:38:38,356
Some of us breathe oxygen
734
00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:41,651
and we find the mephitic
fumes of his oratory
735
00:38:41,735 --> 00:38:45,029
a lethal challenge
to our pulmonary capabilities!
736
00:38:48,242 --> 00:38:50,702
We shall oppose this amendment,
737
00:38:50,786 --> 00:38:53,371
and any legislation that
so affronts natural law
738
00:38:53,789 --> 00:38:56,040
insulting to God as to man!
739
00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:58,543
Congress must never declare equal
740
00:38:58,627 --> 00:39:00,879
those whom God created unequal!
741
00:39:06,385 --> 00:39:09,179
Slavery is the only insult to natural law,
742
00:39:09,263 --> 00:39:11,055
you fatuous nincompoop!
743
00:39:12,266 --> 00:39:14,976
Order!
744
00:39:15,811 --> 00:39:17,979
Procedure, Mr. Speaker.
745
00:39:18,230 --> 00:39:19,689
Mr. Wood has the floor.
746
00:39:19,773 --> 00:39:21,149
Instruct us,
747
00:39:21,233 --> 00:39:22,734
oh, Great Commoner.
748
00:39:22,818 --> 00:39:25,236
What is unnatural, in your opinion?
749
00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:27,614
Niggrahs casting ballots?
750
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:29,282
Niggrah representatives?
751
00:39:29,408 --> 00:39:31,409
Is that natural, Stevens?
752
00:39:31,827 --> 00:39:33,328
Intermarriage?
753
00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:36,623
What violates natural law?
754
00:39:36,790 --> 00:39:39,334
Slavery and you.
755
00:39:40,002 --> 00:39:42,420
Pendleton, you insult God!
756
00:39:44,423 --> 00:39:45,673
You unnatural noise.
757
00:39:50,596 --> 00:39:52,931
Mr. Colfax, please, use your gavel!
758
00:39:53,265 --> 00:39:54,557
- You are out of order!
- Order in the Cabinet!
759
00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:55,642
Instruct the Sergeant-at-Arms
760
00:39:55,768 --> 00:39:56,726
to suppress this!
761
00:39:56,810 --> 00:39:57,936
We are in session!
762
00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:00,021
Please don't encourage this!
763
00:40:00,105 --> 00:40:01,731
Don't encourage this!
764
00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,738
You're back! You're back! You're back!
765
00:40:09,949 --> 00:40:11,908
I am. The goat got big.
766
00:40:12,117 --> 00:40:14,452
Help me get one of these to my room.
767
00:40:14,578 --> 00:40:16,412
- She in there?
- She's asleep, probably.
768
00:40:16,497 --> 00:40:17,997
- You need help, sir?
- No, sir.
769
00:40:18,123 --> 00:40:19,082
They went to see Avonia Jones last night
770
00:40:19,166 --> 00:40:20,375
in a play about Israelites.
771
00:40:20,459 --> 00:40:22,210
Could you bring your pa this letter I writ
772
00:40:22,294 --> 00:40:23,534
about my insolvency proceeding?
773
00:40:23,587 --> 00:40:25,713
Deliver your own goddamn petition.
774
00:40:25,798 --> 00:40:26,923
There's a new book. Sam Beckwith
775
00:40:27,007 --> 00:40:28,299
says it's about finches
and finches' beaks,
776
00:40:28,425 --> 00:40:29,425
about how they change.
777
00:40:30,010 --> 00:40:31,052
He's here.
778
00:40:31,136 --> 00:40:33,638
He's here! Mrs. Cuthbert, he's here!
779
00:40:34,181 --> 00:40:35,598
- Robbie.
- Hi, Mom.
780
00:40:35,683 --> 00:40:37,016
- Oh, Robbie.
- Hey.
781
00:40:37,142 --> 00:40:38,309
- Robbie.
- Hey.
782
00:40:42,356 --> 00:40:44,691
You're only staying a few days,
why'd you pack all that?
783
00:40:44,817 --> 00:40:46,401
Well, I don't know how long...
784
00:40:46,485 --> 00:40:47,846
Go tell your father Robert's home.
785
00:40:48,153 --> 00:40:50,738
Mr. Nicolay says Daddy's
secluded with Mr. Blair.
786
00:40:50,823 --> 00:40:52,448
Tell him anyway.
787
00:40:54,785 --> 00:40:56,494
Did you forget to eat?
788
00:40:56,620 --> 00:40:58,288
- Exactly like him.
- No.
789
00:40:58,539 --> 00:41:01,374
You'll linger a few days extra
after the reception
790
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:03,042
before you go back to school.
791
00:41:03,168 --> 00:41:05,169
Well, I don't know
if I'm going to go back...
792
00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:08,506
We'll fatten you up
before you return to Boston.
793
00:41:09,508 --> 00:41:11,551
- All right, Mom.
- All right.
794
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:14,262
Oh, Robbie.
795
00:41:15,014 --> 00:41:17,849
Jefferson Davis is sending
three delegates.
796
00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:20,351
Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.
797
00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:23,771
Vice President of the Confederacy,
798
00:41:23,856 --> 00:41:25,648
the former Secretary of State
799
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:28,318
and their Assistant Secretary of War.
800
00:41:28,694 --> 00:41:31,529
They're coming in earnest
to propose peace.
801
00:41:33,365 --> 00:41:36,326
I know this is unwelcome news for you.
802
00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:38,202
Now hear me.
803
00:41:39,413 --> 00:41:42,248
I went to Richmond to talk to traitors.
804
00:41:43,375 --> 00:41:45,918
To smile at and plead with traitors
805
00:41:47,004 --> 00:41:49,839
because it'll be spring in two months.
806
00:41:50,507 --> 00:41:52,342
The roads will be passable,
807
00:41:52,426 --> 00:41:54,719
the spring slaughter commences.
808
00:41:55,721 --> 00:41:57,722
Four bloody springs now.
809
00:41:59,725 --> 00:42:01,392
Think of my Frank,
810
00:42:02,019 --> 00:42:04,228
whom you've taken to your heart.
811
00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:07,190
How you'll blame yourself
if the war takes my son
812
00:42:07,274 --> 00:42:09,776
as it's taken multitudes of sons.
813
00:42:11,528 --> 00:42:13,821
Think of all the boys who will die
814
00:42:13,906 --> 00:42:15,865
if you don't make peace.
815
00:42:15,949 --> 00:42:17,867
You must talk with these men.
816
00:42:17,951 --> 00:42:19,327
I intend to, Preston.
817
00:42:19,411 --> 00:42:21,496
In return, I must ask you to support
our push for the amendment...
818
00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:23,164
No, this is not horse trading.
819
00:42:24,416 --> 00:42:25,416
Not now!
820
00:42:26,085 --> 00:42:27,919
Bob. I'm sorry.
821
00:42:28,879 --> 00:42:29,879
- Welcome home.
- Thank you, sir.
822
00:42:29,963 --> 00:42:32,090
Looking fit, Robert.
Harvard agrees with you.
823
00:42:32,216 --> 00:42:33,424
- Mr. Blair.
- Fit and rested.
824
00:42:33,550 --> 00:42:36,469
Could you give us a moment,
please, Robert? Thank you.
825
00:42:38,138 --> 00:42:41,307
I will procure your votes for you,
as I promised.
826
00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:45,561
You have always kept your word to me.
827
00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:48,940
Those Southern men are coming.
828
00:42:49,775 --> 00:42:52,610
I beg you, in the name
of gentle Christ, sir.
829
00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:53,736
I understand.
830
00:42:53,821 --> 00:42:55,530
Talk peace with these men.
831
00:42:55,614 --> 00:42:57,448
I understand, Preston.
832
00:43:00,077 --> 00:43:01,911
We have one abstention so far.
833
00:43:01,995 --> 00:43:03,121
Jacob Graylor.
834
00:43:03,247 --> 00:43:05,248
He'd like to be
Federal Revenue Assessor
835
00:43:05,332 --> 00:43:07,083
for the 5th District of Pennsylvania.
836
00:43:07,501 --> 00:43:09,335
So the total of Representatives
837
00:43:09,461 --> 00:43:12,547
voting three weeks from today
is reduced to 182,
838
00:43:12,631 --> 00:43:14,549
which means 122 yes votes
839
00:43:14,633 --> 00:43:16,634
to reach the requisite
two-thirds of the House.
840
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,429
Assuming all Republicans
vote for the amendment.
841
00:43:21,807 --> 00:43:24,225
Then despite our abstention,
842
00:43:24,309 --> 00:43:25,893
to reach a two-thirds majority,
843
00:43:25,978 --> 00:43:27,729
we remain twenty yeses short.
844
00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:28,855
For which we're seeking
845
00:43:28,981 --> 00:43:31,482
from among 64 lame duck Democrats.
846
00:43:31,942 --> 00:43:36,154
Fully 39 of these we deem
unredeemable no votes.
847
00:43:38,449 --> 00:43:40,491
The kind that hates niggers.
848
00:43:40,951 --> 00:43:43,161
Hates God for makin' niggers.
849
00:43:43,495 --> 00:43:46,247
The Good Lord on high
would despair of their souls.
850
00:43:46,331 --> 00:43:49,459
Thank you for that
pithy explanation, Mr. Bilbo.
851
00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:51,252
We've abandoned these 39 to
852
00:43:51,336 --> 00:43:53,004
the devil that possesses them.
853
00:43:53,088 --> 00:43:54,088
We would...
854
00:43:55,424 --> 00:43:58,926
The remaining lame ducks, on whom
we've been working with a purpose.
855
00:43:59,845 --> 00:44:00,928
Charles Hanson.
856
00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:02,680
Congressman.
857
00:44:04,016 --> 00:44:06,100
My colleagues and I would like
a moment of your time.
858
00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:07,977
I wonder if you've given much thought...
859
00:44:08,604 --> 00:44:09,854
Giles Stuart.
860
00:44:15,194 --> 00:44:16,694
Rather clumsy.
861
00:44:29,208 --> 00:44:30,792
Nelson Merrick.
862
00:44:37,382 --> 00:44:38,382
Homer Benson.
863
00:44:44,389 --> 00:44:46,057
My name is Richard Schell.
864
00:44:46,141 --> 00:44:48,559
I wanted you to have a look
at this prospectus here.
865
00:44:50,395 --> 00:44:51,562
And lastly,
866
00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:55,650
Clay Hawkins. Of Ohio.
867
00:44:56,568 --> 00:44:58,653
Tax Collector for the Western Reserve.
868
00:44:58,737 --> 00:45:00,321
That pays handsomely.
869
00:45:00,405 --> 00:45:02,156
Don't just reach
for the highest branches,
870
00:45:02,241 --> 00:45:04,075
they sway in every breeze.
871
00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:06,577
Assistant Port Inspector in Morristown
872
00:45:06,703 --> 00:45:08,162
looks like the ticket to me.
873
00:45:08,247 --> 00:45:10,081
Boats, they, they make me sick.
874
00:45:10,165 --> 00:45:12,208
So just stand on the dock.
875
00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:15,086
Let the Assistant Assistant
Port Inspector's stomach
876
00:45:15,212 --> 00:45:16,504
go weak.
877
00:45:18,590 --> 00:45:20,424
And, lastly,
Democratic yes vote
878
00:45:20,509 --> 00:45:22,426
number six, Hawkins.
879
00:45:22,511 --> 00:45:23,511
From Ohio.
880
00:45:23,595 --> 00:45:24,679
Six?
881
00:45:24,763 --> 00:45:26,347
Well, thus far.
882
00:45:26,431 --> 00:45:28,558
Plus Graylor's abstention.
883
00:45:29,017 --> 00:45:31,435
- From tiny acorns and so on.
- What did Hawkins get?
884
00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:33,688
Postmaster of the Millersburg
Post Office.
885
00:45:33,772 --> 00:45:35,106
He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?
886
00:45:35,190 --> 00:45:37,441
Well, he wanted Tax Collector
of the Western Reserve.
887
00:45:37,526 --> 00:45:39,646
First term Congressman
who couldn't manage reelection.
888
00:45:39,695 --> 00:45:40,778
I felt it unseemly
889
00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:42,363
and they bargained him down
to Postmaster.
890
00:45:42,447 --> 00:45:43,865
Scatter them over several
rounds of appointments
891
00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:45,366
so no one notices, then burn this ledger,
892
00:45:45,450 --> 00:45:47,535
please, after you're done.
893
00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:52,874
Time for my public opinion bath.
894
00:45:53,041 --> 00:45:54,292
Might as well let them in.
895
00:45:56,253 --> 00:45:58,421
Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis.
896
00:45:59,464 --> 00:46:00,965
Thirteen to go.
897
00:46:02,134 --> 00:46:03,634
One last item.
898
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:05,928
An absurdity, but
899
00:46:06,972 --> 00:46:09,307
my associates report that
among the Representatives
900
00:46:09,433 --> 00:46:11,976
a fantastical rumor's bruited about,
901
00:46:12,477 --> 00:46:14,937
which I immediately disavowed,
902
00:46:15,397 --> 00:46:17,398
that you'd allowed
bleary old Preston Blair
903
00:46:17,482 --> 00:46:18,566
to sojourn to Richmond
904
00:46:18,650 --> 00:46:20,735
to invite Jeff Davis
to send commissioners
905
00:46:20,819 --> 00:46:23,404
up to Washington with a peace plan.
906
00:46:26,992 --> 00:46:29,744
I, of course, told them
that you would never.
907
00:46:29,828 --> 00:46:32,663
Not without consulting me, you wouldn't.
908
00:46:33,415 --> 00:46:35,666
Because why on earth would you?
909
00:48:02,337 --> 00:48:03,754
Much obliged.
910
00:48:10,846 --> 00:48:11,846
Why wasn't I consulted?
911
00:48:11,930 --> 00:48:13,431
I'm Secretary of State.
912
00:48:13,598 --> 00:48:17,101
And you informally send
a reactionary dotard to...
913
00:48:18,562 --> 00:48:19,937
What will happen, do you imagine,
914
00:48:20,063 --> 00:48:22,606
when these
peace commissioners arrive?
915
00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:23,774
We'll hear them out.
916
00:48:24,067 --> 00:48:25,526
Splendid.
917
00:48:25,902 --> 00:48:27,194
And next, the Democrats will invite them
918
00:48:27,279 --> 00:48:28,779
up to hearings on the Hill.
919
00:48:28,905 --> 00:48:31,449
And the newspapers...
Oh, the newspapers.
920
00:48:31,575 --> 00:48:32,950
The newspapers will ask,
921
00:48:33,076 --> 00:48:34,869
"Why risk enraging the Confederacy"
922
00:48:34,953 --> 00:48:36,034
"over the issue of slavery"
923
00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:38,414
"when they're here to make peace?"
924
00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:42,460
We'll lose every Democrat we've got,
925
00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:44,145
more than likely
conservative Republicans
926
00:48:44,212 --> 00:48:45,796
will join them, and all our work,
927
00:48:45,922 --> 00:48:48,215
all our preparing the ground for the vote
928
00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:49,467
laid waste for naught.
929
00:48:49,551 --> 00:48:51,311
The Blaire promised support
for the amendment
930
00:48:51,386 --> 00:48:52,386
if we listen to these people.
931
00:48:52,471 --> 00:48:54,305
Oh, the Blaire promise, do they?
932
00:48:54,431 --> 00:48:55,473
You think they'll keep their promise
933
00:48:55,599 --> 00:48:56,640
once we've heard these delegates
934
00:48:56,725 --> 00:48:58,642
and refused them,
which we will have to do,
935
00:48:58,727 --> 00:49:00,227
since their proposal most certainly
936
00:49:00,312 --> 00:49:01,645
will be predicated on
937
00:49:01,730 --> 00:49:03,314
keeping their slaves!
938
00:49:03,398 --> 00:49:05,941
What hope for
any Democratic votes, Willum,
939
00:49:06,151 --> 00:49:08,235
if word gets out that
I've refused a chance
940
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:09,987
to end the war?
941
00:49:10,447 --> 00:49:12,239
You think word won't get out?
942
00:49:13,241 --> 00:49:14,742
In Washington?
943
00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:18,535
It's either the amendment
or this Confederate peace.
944
00:49:18,622 --> 00:49:20,414
You cannot have both.
945
00:49:21,166 --> 00:49:23,834
"If you can look into the seeds of time,."
946
00:49:24,669 --> 00:49:27,755
"And say which grain will grow
and which will not,"
947
00:49:27,839 --> 00:49:29,006
"Speak then to me."
948
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:30,674
A disaster. This is a disaster.
949
00:49:30,759 --> 00:49:33,094
Time is a great thickener
of things, Willum.
950
00:49:33,178 --> 00:49:34,970
Yes, I suppose it is.
951
00:49:35,472 --> 00:49:37,515
Actually, I have no idea
what you mean by that.
952
00:49:39,684 --> 00:49:41,519
Get me 13 votes.
953
00:49:42,479 --> 00:49:44,814
Them fellas from Richmond
ain't here yet.
954
00:50:06,002 --> 00:50:08,379
You drafted
half the men in Boston.
955
00:50:08,463 --> 00:50:11,298
What do you think
their families think about me?
956
00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:13,300
The only reason they don't
throw things and spit on me
957
00:50:13,385 --> 00:50:14,885
is 'cause you're so popular.
958
00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:18,722
I can't concentrate on,
on British Mercantile Law.
959
00:50:18,807 --> 00:50:20,975
I don't care about British Mercantile Law.
960
00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:24,854
I might not even want to be a lawyer.
961
00:50:26,606 --> 00:50:29,984
It's a sturdy profession.
And a useful one.
962
00:50:30,068 --> 00:50:35,072
Yes, and I want to be useful,
but now, not afterwards.
963
00:50:35,157 --> 00:50:36,907
I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade.
964
00:50:36,992 --> 00:50:37,992
They never fit right.
965
00:50:38,076 --> 00:50:40,327
The missus will have you
wear them. Don't think...
966
00:50:40,412 --> 00:50:42,329
You're delaying,
that's your favorite tactic.
967
00:50:42,414 --> 00:50:44,331
- Be useful...
- You won't tell me no,
968
00:50:44,416 --> 00:50:46,250
but the war will be over in
a month, and you know it will.
969
00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:49,003
I've found that prophesying
970
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:53,591
is one of life's
less profitable occupations.
971
00:50:55,385 --> 00:50:57,511
Why do some slaves
cost more than others?
972
00:50:57,596 --> 00:50:58,996
If they're still young and healthy,
973
00:50:59,055 --> 00:51:00,598
or if the women can
still conceive, they pay more.
974
00:51:00,682 --> 00:51:03,350
Put them back in the box, you scoundrel.
975
00:51:04,769 --> 00:51:06,687
We'll return them to Mr. Gardner's studio
976
00:51:06,771 --> 00:51:08,272
day after next.
977
00:51:09,357 --> 00:51:11,108
Be careful with them now.
978
00:51:11,943 --> 00:51:13,694
These things should have
stayed on the calf.
979
00:51:13,778 --> 00:51:18,199
When you were a slave,
Mr. Slade, did they beat you?
980
00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:19,783
I was born a free man.
981
00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:22,703
Nobody beat me
except I beat them right back.
982
00:51:24,873 --> 00:51:25,873
Mr. Lincoln...
983
00:51:25,957 --> 00:51:29,877
Mrs. Keckley was a slave.
Ask her if she was beaten.
984
00:51:29,961 --> 00:51:31,795
- Were you...
- Tad.
985
00:51:32,297 --> 00:51:33,380
I was beaten with a fire shovel
986
00:51:33,465 --> 00:51:34,715
when I was younger than you.
987
00:51:34,799 --> 00:51:37,635
You should go to Mrs. Lincoln.
She's in Willie's room.
988
00:51:38,762 --> 00:51:39,970
She never goes in there.
989
00:51:40,096 --> 00:51:43,474
The reception line is already
stretching out the door.
990
00:51:45,810 --> 00:51:48,395
See, I'll be the only man
over 15 and under 65
991
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,564
in this whole place not in uniform.
992
00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:52,107
I'm under 15.
993
00:52:12,796 --> 00:52:14,797
My head hurts so.
994
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:21,011
I prayed for death the night Willie died.
995
00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:25,349
My headaches are how I know
I didn't get my wish.
996
00:52:27,852 --> 00:52:31,355
How to endure the long afternoon
997
00:52:31,439 --> 00:52:32,856
and deep into the night.
998
00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:34,191
I know.
999
00:52:34,276 --> 00:52:37,444
Trying not to think about him.
How will I manage?
1000
00:52:37,529 --> 00:52:39,363
- Somehow. You will.
- Somehow?
1001
00:52:40,573 --> 00:52:42,616
Somehow. Somehow.
1002
00:52:44,869 --> 00:52:46,287
Every party.
1003
00:52:46,955 --> 00:52:48,205
Every...
1004
00:52:51,293 --> 00:52:52,626
And now
1005
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:56,880
four years more in this terrible house,
1006
00:52:57,007 --> 00:52:58,799
reproaching us.
1007
00:53:00,343 --> 00:53:02,469
He was a very sick little boy.
1008
00:53:02,554 --> 00:53:04,972
We should have canceled
that reception, shouldn't we?
1009
00:53:05,056 --> 00:53:06,473
We didn't know how sick he was.
1010
00:53:06,558 --> 00:53:08,142
I knew. I knew.
1011
00:53:09,227 --> 00:53:11,562
I saw that night he was dying.
1012
00:53:11,688 --> 00:53:15,065
Three years ago,
the war was going so badly.
1013
00:53:15,191 --> 00:53:17,901
We had to put on a face.
1014
00:53:17,986 --> 00:53:19,486
But I saw Willie was dying.
1015
00:53:19,612 --> 00:53:21,155
Molly...
1016
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:22,990
I saw him.
1017
00:53:25,410 --> 00:53:26,910
It's too hard.
1018
00:53:32,917 --> 00:53:34,251
Too hard.
1019
00:53:41,593 --> 00:53:43,677
Oh, gracious saints!
1020
00:53:56,399 --> 00:53:59,276
She's just ten feet yonder.
I'd like to keep my job.
1021
00:53:59,361 --> 00:54:00,962
- How nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
1022
00:54:01,112 --> 00:54:04,281
Senator Sumner.
It's been much too long.
1023
00:54:04,407 --> 00:54:06,033
"Oh, who can look
on that celestial face..."
1024
00:54:06,117 --> 00:54:07,117
And?
1025
00:54:07,202 --> 00:54:08,702
James Ashley, ma'am.
We've met several times.
1026
00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:10,454
Praise heavens, praise heavens.
1027
00:54:10,580 --> 00:54:12,790
Just when I had abandoned
hope of amusement,
1028
00:54:12,874 --> 00:54:14,124
it's the Chairman of the House Ways
1029
00:54:14,250 --> 00:54:16,126
- and Means Committee.
- Mrs. Lincoln.
1030
00:54:16,586 --> 00:54:18,879
Madame President, if you please.
1031
00:54:21,049 --> 00:54:22,716
Don't convene another subcommittee
1032
00:54:22,801 --> 00:54:23,884
to investigate me, sir.
1033
00:54:23,968 --> 00:54:25,803
I'm teasing. Smile, Senator Wade.
1034
00:54:25,929 --> 00:54:27,805
I believe I am smiling, Mrs. Lincoln.
1035
00:54:27,889 --> 00:54:29,056
As long as your household accounts
1036
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:30,974
are in order, madam,
1037
00:54:31,101 --> 00:54:33,394
we'll have no need to investigate them.
1038
00:54:33,478 --> 00:54:36,397
You have always taken such a lively,
1039
00:54:36,481 --> 00:54:40,317
even prosecutorial interest
in my household accounts.
1040
00:54:40,402 --> 00:54:43,070
Your household accounts have
always been so interesting.
1041
00:54:43,154 --> 00:54:45,155
Yes, thank you. It's true.
1042
00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:48,158
The miracles I have wrought
1043
00:54:48,243 --> 00:54:50,744
out of fertilizer bills
and cutlery invoices,
1044
00:54:50,829 --> 00:54:52,454
but I had to.
1045
00:54:53,665 --> 00:54:55,666
Four years ago, when
the President and I arrived,
1046
00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:57,251
this was pure pigsty.
1047
00:54:57,335 --> 00:54:59,253
Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets.
1048
00:54:59,337 --> 00:55:02,923
Mushrooms, green as the moon,
sprouting from the ceilings.
1049
00:55:03,007 --> 00:55:06,260
And a pauper's pittance
allotted for improvements.
1050
00:55:06,344 --> 00:55:09,346
As if your committee joined
with all of Washington
1051
00:55:09,431 --> 00:55:10,931
awaiting in what you anticipated
1052
00:55:11,015 --> 00:55:13,475
would be our comfort in squalor.
1053
00:55:13,935 --> 00:55:16,270
Further proof that my husband and I
1054
00:55:16,354 --> 00:55:18,021
were prairie primitives
1055
00:55:18,148 --> 00:55:21,191
unsuited to the position to
which an error of the people,
1056
00:55:21,317 --> 00:55:24,778
a flaw in the Democratic
process had elevated us.
1057
00:55:24,863 --> 00:55:27,781
The past is the past. It's a new year now
1058
00:55:27,866 --> 00:55:32,035
and we are all getting along,
or so they tell me.
1059
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,288
I gather we are working together.
1060
00:55:34,372 --> 00:55:36,373
The White House and the other House,
1061
00:55:36,458 --> 00:55:37,708
hatching little plans together.
1062
00:55:37,834 --> 00:55:38,876
- Mother.
- What?
1063
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,044
You're creating a bottleneck.
1064
00:55:41,171 --> 00:55:43,005
Oh, I'm detaining you.
1065
00:55:43,715 --> 00:55:46,550
And more importantly,
the people behind you.
1066
00:55:47,343 --> 00:55:49,970
How the people love my husband.
1067
00:55:50,555 --> 00:55:54,558
They flock to see him by
their thousands on public days.
1068
00:55:55,059 --> 00:55:58,061
They will never love you
the way they love him.
1069
00:55:59,189 --> 00:56:02,316
How difficult it must be
for you to know that
1070
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,068
and yet how important to remember it.
1071
00:56:15,663 --> 00:56:18,499
Since we have the floor
next in the debate,
1072
00:56:18,583 --> 00:56:20,918
I thought I'd suggest you might
1073
00:56:21,586 --> 00:56:23,504
temper your contribution
1074
00:56:23,588 --> 00:56:26,590
so as not to frighten
our conservative friends.
1075
00:56:26,674 --> 00:56:28,759
Ashley insists you're ensuring approval
1076
00:56:28,843 --> 00:56:30,761
by dispensing patronage
1077
00:56:30,845 --> 00:56:33,514
to otherwise undeserving Democrats.
1078
00:56:33,598 --> 00:56:35,432
I can't ensure a single damn thing
1079
00:56:35,558 --> 00:56:37,184
if you scare the whole House silly
1080
00:56:37,268 --> 00:56:39,019
with talk of land appropriations
1081
00:56:39,103 --> 00:56:41,021
and revolutionary tribunals.
1082
00:56:41,105 --> 00:56:43,524
When the war ends, I intend to
1083
00:56:43,608 --> 00:56:48,403
push for full equality,
the Negro vote, and much more.
1084
00:56:49,113 --> 00:56:50,822
Congress shall mandate the seizure
1085
00:56:50,949 --> 00:56:52,449
of every foot of Rebel land
1086
00:56:52,575 --> 00:56:55,118
and every dollar of their property.
1087
00:56:56,454 --> 00:56:57,996
We'll use their confiscated wealth
1088
00:56:58,122 --> 00:57:00,040
to establish hundreds of thousands
1089
00:57:00,124 --> 00:57:01,667
of free Negro farmers
1090
00:57:01,793 --> 00:57:04,419
and, at their side,
soldiers armed to occupy
1091
00:57:04,504 --> 00:57:06,129
and transform the heritage of traitors.
1092
00:57:07,757 --> 00:57:09,216
We'll build up a land down there
1093
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:12,469
of free men and free women
and free children and freedom.
1094
00:57:14,138 --> 00:57:17,307
The nation needs to know
that we have such plans.
1095
00:57:18,142 --> 00:57:21,019
That's the untempered version
of reconstruction.
1096
00:57:23,147 --> 00:57:24,815
It is not...
1097
00:57:24,941 --> 00:57:27,484
It's not quite exactly what I intend.
1098
00:57:29,821 --> 00:57:33,198
But we shall oppose one another
in the course of time.
1099
00:57:33,324 --> 00:57:35,367
Now we're working together,
and I'm asking you...
1100
00:57:35,493 --> 00:57:36,702
For patience, I expect.
1101
00:57:36,828 --> 00:57:38,537
When the people disagree,
bringing them together
1102
00:57:38,663 --> 00:57:41,164
requires going slow
until they're ready to...
1103
00:57:41,291 --> 00:57:43,333
Shit on the people and what they want
1104
00:57:43,459 --> 00:57:44,418
and what they're ready for.
1105
00:57:44,502 --> 00:57:45,711
I don't give a goddamn about the people
1106
00:57:45,837 --> 00:57:47,045
and what they want.
1107
00:57:47,171 --> 00:57:48,297
This is the face of someone
1108
00:57:48,381 --> 00:57:49,756
who has fought long and hard
1109
00:57:49,841 --> 00:57:50,966
for the good of the people
1110
00:57:51,050 --> 00:57:53,719
without caring much for any of them.
1111
00:57:53,845 --> 00:57:55,554
And I look a lot worse without my wig.
1112
00:57:56,848 --> 00:58:00,350
The people elected me
to represent them,
1113
00:58:00,476 --> 00:58:03,145
to lead them, and I lead.
You ought to try it.
1114
00:58:05,857 --> 00:58:08,984
I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens
1115
00:58:09,068 --> 00:58:12,863
and I have tried to profit
from the example of it, but
1116
00:58:13,865 --> 00:58:14,906
if I'd listened to you,
1117
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:16,394
I'd have declared every slave free
1118
00:58:16,492 --> 00:58:18,994
the minute the first shell
struck Fort Sumter.
1119
00:58:19,078 --> 00:58:20,621
And the border states
would have gone over
1120
00:58:20,705 --> 00:58:22,873
to the Confederacy,
the war would have been lost
1121
00:58:22,999 --> 00:58:24,374
and the Union along with it,
1122
00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:26,418
and instead of abolishing slavery
1123
00:58:26,544 --> 00:58:28,211
as we hope to do in two weeks,
1124
00:58:28,338 --> 00:58:30,881
we'd be watching,
helpless as infants, as it spread
1125
00:58:31,007 --> 00:58:33,091
from the American South
into South America.
1126
00:58:33,217 --> 00:58:36,011
Oh, how you have longed
to say that to me.
1127
00:58:36,888 --> 00:58:38,597
You claim you trust them,
1128
00:58:38,723 --> 00:58:41,058
but you know what the people are.
1129
00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:44,645
You know that the inner compass,
1130
00:58:44,729 --> 00:58:47,230
that should direct the soul
towards justice
1131
00:58:47,357 --> 00:58:50,942
has ossified in white men
and women, North and South,
1132
00:58:51,069 --> 00:58:52,819
unto utter uselessness,
1133
00:58:52,904 --> 00:58:55,113
through tolerating the evil of slavery.
1134
00:58:55,239 --> 00:58:57,282
White people cannot bear the thought
1135
00:58:57,408 --> 00:58:59,242
of sharing this country's
infinite abundance
1136
00:58:59,369 --> 00:59:00,911
with Negroes.
1137
00:59:03,247 --> 00:59:06,249
A compass, I learned
when I was surveying,
1138
00:59:06,918 --> 00:59:10,087
it'll point you true north
from where you're standing.
1139
00:59:10,213 --> 00:59:12,005
But it's got no advice about
1140
00:59:12,090 --> 00:59:14,716
the swamps and deserts and chasms
1141
00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:17,344
that you'll encounter along the way.
1142
00:59:17,428 --> 00:59:18,845
If in pursuit of your destination,
1143
00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:20,847
you plunge ahead,
heedless of obstacles
1144
00:59:20,932 --> 00:59:24,393
and achieve nothing more
than to sink in a swamp,
1145
00:59:25,770 --> 00:59:28,146
what's the use of knowing true north?
1146
00:59:44,455 --> 00:59:47,791
Robert's going to plead
with us to let him enlist.
1147
00:59:50,336 --> 00:59:54,464
Make time to talk to Robbie.
You only have time for Tad.
1148
00:59:54,549 --> 00:59:56,007
Tad is young.
1149
00:59:56,467 --> 01:00:00,220
So is Robert. Too young for the Army.
1150
01:00:00,304 --> 01:00:03,306
Plenty of boys younger
than Robert signing up.
1151
01:00:06,310 --> 01:00:07,978
Don't take Robbie.
1152
01:00:08,688 --> 01:00:10,439
Don't let me lose my son.
1153
01:00:11,649 --> 01:00:14,359
Go away! We're occupied!
1154
01:00:18,197 --> 01:00:19,448
Secretary Stanton has sent over
1155
01:00:19,532 --> 01:00:21,093
to tell you that as of half an hour ago
1156
01:00:21,117 --> 01:00:23,493
the shelling of Wilmington Harbor
has commenced.
1157
01:00:28,541 --> 01:00:31,376
They cannot possibly maintain
under this kind of an assault.
1158
01:00:31,502 --> 01:00:33,962
Terry has got 10,000 men
surrounding the goddamn port.
1159
01:00:34,046 --> 01:00:35,046
Why doesn't he answer...
1160
01:00:35,173 --> 01:00:37,090
Fort Fisher is a mountain
of a building, Edwin.
1161
01:00:37,175 --> 01:00:38,258
It's the largest fort they have, sir.
1162
01:00:38,342 --> 01:00:40,218
Twenty-two big Seacoast guns
on each rampart.
1163
01:00:40,303 --> 01:00:41,595
They've been reinforcing it
for the last two years.
1164
01:00:41,679 --> 01:00:43,764
They've taken 17,000 shells
since yesterday!
1165
01:00:43,848 --> 01:00:46,475
I want to hear Fort Fisher is ours
1166
01:00:46,559 --> 01:00:47,768
and Wilmington has fallen.
1167
01:00:47,852 --> 01:00:49,352
Send another damn cable!
1168
01:00:49,479 --> 01:00:52,063
The problem's their
commander, Whiting!
1169
01:00:52,857 --> 01:00:54,274
He engineered the fortress himself,
1170
01:00:54,358 --> 01:00:55,439
the damn thing's his child.
1171
01:00:55,526 --> 01:00:57,861
He'll defend it till
his every last man is gone.
1172
01:00:57,987 --> 01:01:00,405
"Come on out, you old rat!"
1173
01:01:02,492 --> 01:01:06,453
That's
what Ethan Allen called out
1174
01:01:06,537 --> 01:01:10,081
to the commander
of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.
1175
01:01:10,208 --> 01:01:12,250
"Come on out, you old rat!"
1176
01:01:13,377 --> 01:01:14,586
Of course, there were only
1177
01:01:14,712 --> 01:01:17,088
40 odd Redcoats at Ticonderoga.
1178
01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:22,010
There is one Ethan Allen story
that I'm very partial to.
1179
01:01:22,094 --> 01:01:24,596
No, you're going to tell a story.
1180
01:01:25,223 --> 01:01:27,641
I don't believe that I can bear
1181
01:01:27,725 --> 01:01:29,725
to listen to another one
of your stories right now.
1182
01:01:30,394 --> 01:01:33,271
I need the B&O sideyard
schedules for Alexandria!
1183
01:01:33,397 --> 01:01:34,815
I asked for them this morning!
1184
01:01:34,899 --> 01:01:39,486
It was
right after the Revolution,
1185
01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:41,947
right after peace had been concluded.
1186
01:01:42,073 --> 01:01:44,991
And Ethan Allen went to London
1187
01:01:45,076 --> 01:01:46,743
to help our new country
1188
01:01:46,869 --> 01:01:49,246
conduct its business with the King.
1189
01:01:50,206 --> 01:01:52,874
The English sneered
at how rough we are
1190
01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:55,293
and rude and simple-minded,
and on like that,
1191
01:01:55,419 --> 01:01:56,378
everywhere he went
1192
01:01:56,462 --> 01:01:59,422
till one day he was invited
to the townhouse
1193
01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:01,466
of a great English lord.
1194
01:02:03,761 --> 01:02:06,763
Dinner was served
and beverages imbibed,
1195
01:02:07,557 --> 01:02:09,891
time passed, as happens, and
1196
01:02:09,976 --> 01:02:12,602
Mr. Allen found he needed the privy.
1197
01:02:14,146 --> 01:02:16,773
He was grateful to be directed thence.
1198
01:02:20,444 --> 01:02:22,529
Relieved, you might say.
1199
01:02:24,615 --> 01:02:27,284
Now, Mr. Allen discovered
1200
01:02:28,119 --> 01:02:29,411
on entering the water closet,
1201
01:02:29,495 --> 01:02:32,080
that the only decoration therein
1202
01:02:32,164 --> 01:02:34,791
was a portrait of George Washington.
1203
01:02:38,296 --> 01:02:40,672
Ethan Allen done what he came to do,
1204
01:02:40,798 --> 01:02:43,133
and returned to the drawing room.
1205
01:02:43,801 --> 01:02:45,927
His host and the others
were disappointed
1206
01:02:46,012 --> 01:02:48,054
when he didn't mention
Washington's portrait.
1207
01:02:48,139 --> 01:02:50,765
Finally, His Lordship couldn't
resist and asked Mr. Allen
1208
01:02:50,850 --> 01:02:52,610
had he noticed it,
the picture of Washington.
1209
01:02:52,643 --> 01:02:54,102
He had.
1210
01:02:54,186 --> 01:02:55,826
Well, what did he think of its placement,
1211
01:02:55,855 --> 01:02:58,899
did it seem appropriately
located to Mr. Allen?
1212
01:02:58,983 --> 01:03:01,067
Mr. Allen said it did.
1213
01:03:01,152 --> 01:03:02,861
His host was astounded.
1214
01:03:02,987 --> 01:03:04,988
"Appropriate?"
1215
01:03:05,114 --> 01:03:07,991
"George Washington's likeness
in a water closet?"
1216
01:03:08,117 --> 01:03:11,494
"Yes," said Mr. Allen.
"Where it'll do good service.
1217
01:03:12,204 --> 01:03:14,365
"The whole world knows nothing
will make an Englishman"
1218
01:03:14,373 --> 01:03:16,625
"shit quicker than the sight
of George Washington."
1219
01:03:21,047 --> 01:03:23,006
I love that story.
1220
01:03:49,825 --> 01:03:52,035
Fort Fisher is ours. We've taken the port.
1221
01:03:52,161 --> 01:03:53,703
And Wilmington?
1222
01:03:55,790 --> 01:03:56,873
We've taken the fort,
1223
01:03:56,999 --> 01:03:59,292
but the city of Wilmington
has not surrendered.
1224
01:04:00,127 --> 01:04:01,878
How many casualties?
1225
01:04:14,225 --> 01:04:16,142
- Heavy losses.
- And more to come.
1226
01:04:16,227 --> 01:04:18,812
It sours the national mood.
It might suffice...
1227
01:04:18,896 --> 01:04:20,814
To what? To bring this down?
1228
01:04:20,898 --> 01:04:23,400
Not in a fight like this.
This is to the death.
1229
01:04:23,484 --> 01:04:25,068
That's gruesome.
1230
01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:27,821
Are you despairing or merely lazy?
1231
01:04:27,905 --> 01:04:31,074
This fight is for
the United States of America.
1232
01:04:31,158 --> 01:04:34,077
Nothing "suffices." A rumor? Nothing.
1233
01:04:34,203 --> 01:04:37,080
They're not lazy.
They're busily buying votes
1234
01:04:37,164 --> 01:04:40,417
while we hope to be saved
by "the national mood"?
1235
01:04:46,424 --> 01:04:50,010
Before this blood is dry, when
Stevens next takes the floor,
1236
01:04:50,094 --> 01:04:51,845
taunt him. You excel at that.
1237
01:04:51,929 --> 01:04:54,014
Get him to proclaim what
we all know he believes
1238
01:04:54,098 --> 01:04:55,765
in his coal-colored heart.
1239
01:04:55,850 --> 01:04:58,518
That this vote is meant
to set the black race on high,
1240
01:04:58,602 --> 01:04:59,602
to niggerate America...
1241
01:04:59,729 --> 01:05:02,105
George, please, stay on course.
1242
01:05:02,940 --> 01:05:05,108
Bring Stevens to full froth.
1243
01:05:05,943 --> 01:05:07,694
I can ensure that every newspaperman
1244
01:05:07,778 --> 01:05:09,112
from Louisville to San Francisco
1245
01:05:09,238 --> 01:05:11,114
will be here to witness it and print it.
1246
01:05:14,035 --> 01:05:16,369
The floor belongs to
the mellifluent gentleman
1247
01:05:16,454 --> 01:05:18,955
from Kentucky, Mr. George Yeaman.
1248
01:05:24,795 --> 01:05:26,921
I thank you, Speaker Colfax.
1249
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,433
Although I am disgusted by slavery,
1250
01:05:42,605 --> 01:05:45,190
I rise on this sad and solemn day
1251
01:05:45,816 --> 01:05:48,985
to announce that
I'm opposed to the amendment.
1252
01:05:53,866 --> 01:05:57,285
We must consider what
will become of colored folk
1253
01:05:57,369 --> 01:06:01,289
if four million are, in
one instant, set free.
1254
01:06:01,665 --> 01:06:02,874
They'll be free, George,
1255
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,834
that's what will become of them.
1256
01:06:06,087 --> 01:06:07,128
Think how splendid
1257
01:06:08,130 --> 01:06:10,006
if Mr. Yeaman switched.
1258
01:06:10,132 --> 01:06:12,926
Too publicly against us.
He can't change course now.
1259
01:06:13,010 --> 01:06:16,137
Not for some miserable
little job, anyways.
1260
01:06:16,222 --> 01:06:19,390
And we will be forced to enfranchise
1261
01:06:19,517 --> 01:06:21,768
the men of the colored race.
1262
01:06:21,852 --> 01:06:23,978
It would be inhuman not to.
1263
01:06:24,688 --> 01:06:28,316
Now who among us is prepared
to give Negroes the vote?
1264
01:06:29,777 --> 01:06:31,027
And, and,
1265
01:06:31,153 --> 01:06:33,363
what shall follow upon that?
1266
01:06:34,156 --> 01:06:36,199
Universal enfranchisement?
1267
01:06:37,535 --> 01:06:38,576
Votes for women?
1268
01:06:46,335 --> 01:06:47,502
We...
1269
01:06:50,047 --> 01:06:51,089
Bless my eyes.
1270
01:06:51,215 --> 01:06:53,800
If it isn't the Postmaster
of Millersburg, Ohio.
1271
01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:58,888
Mr. LeClerk felt honor-bound
to inform us
1272
01:07:00,057 --> 01:07:01,891
of your disgusting betrayal.
1273
01:07:03,060 --> 01:07:04,727
Your prostitution.
1274
01:07:05,855 --> 01:07:08,231
Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins?
1275
01:07:09,525 --> 01:07:11,860
Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
1276
01:07:14,697 --> 01:07:15,655
If my neighbors hear
1277
01:07:15,739 --> 01:07:16,948
that I voted yes for nigger freedom
1278
01:07:17,074 --> 01:07:18,474
and no to peace, they will kill me.
1279
01:07:18,576 --> 01:07:19,617
A deal is a deal.
1280
01:07:19,743 --> 01:07:21,286
You men know better
than to piss your pants
1281
01:07:21,412 --> 01:07:22,829
just 'cause there's talk
about peace talks.
1282
01:07:22,913 --> 01:07:24,831
- Look, I'll find another job!
- My neighbors in Nashville,
1283
01:07:24,915 --> 01:07:26,516
they found out I was loyal to the Union,
1284
01:07:26,584 --> 01:07:27,959
they came after me with gelding knives.
1285
01:07:28,085 --> 01:07:29,586
- I'll find another job.
- You do right, Clay Hawkins.
1286
01:07:29,712 --> 01:07:33,006
I want to do right! But I got no courage!
1287
01:07:33,090 --> 01:07:34,757
Wait. You wanted...
What was it?
1288
01:07:34,884 --> 01:07:36,676
A tax man for the Western Reserve?
1289
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,595
Hell, you can have the whole
state of Ohio if you want...
1290
01:07:38,721 --> 01:07:40,221
Oh, crap.
1291
01:07:42,975 --> 01:07:44,309
Eleven votes?
1292
01:07:44,435 --> 01:07:46,603
Two days ago, we had twelve.
What happened?
1293
01:07:46,729 --> 01:07:47,687
There are defections in the ranks.
1294
01:07:47,771 --> 01:07:48,771
It's the goddamn rumors
1295
01:07:48,898 --> 01:07:49,856
regarding the Richmond delegation.
1296
01:07:49,940 --> 01:07:50,940
- Yes. The peace offer.
- Groundless.
1297
01:07:51,066 --> 01:07:53,651
- And yet the rumors persist.
- They are ruining us.
1298
01:07:53,777 --> 01:07:55,820
Among the few
remaining Representatives
1299
01:07:55,946 --> 01:07:57,488
who seem remotely plausible,
1300
01:07:57,615 --> 01:08:00,074
there is a perceptible
increase in resistance.
1301
01:08:00,159 --> 01:08:01,784
Resistance, hell.
1302
01:08:02,453 --> 01:08:04,787
Thingamabob Hollister,
Dem from Indiana.
1303
01:08:04,914 --> 01:08:07,624
I approached him,
sumbitch near to murdered me.
1304
01:08:07,750 --> 01:08:10,627
Colorado Territory... What's this one?
1305
01:08:11,128 --> 01:08:14,297
Job description... Taxpayers and...
1306
01:08:14,423 --> 01:08:16,174
Oh, shit! Cracky!
1307
01:08:25,309 --> 01:08:28,102
Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Goddamn!
1308
01:08:34,193 --> 01:08:36,819
- Perhaps you pushed too hard.
- I push nobody.
1309
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:39,530
Perhaps we need reinforcements.
1310
01:08:39,990 --> 01:08:42,200
If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities,
1311
01:08:42,326 --> 01:08:44,744
who do you think is going to
give a genuine solid shit
1312
01:08:44,828 --> 01:08:45,912
to free slaves?
1313
01:08:45,996 --> 01:08:47,288
Get back to it.
1314
01:08:48,165 --> 01:08:49,874
And gentlemen, good day.
1315
01:08:51,043 --> 01:08:52,627
We are at an impasse.
1316
01:08:52,711 --> 01:08:55,046
Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.
1317
01:08:55,172 --> 01:08:56,372
Tell us what you expect of us.
1318
01:08:56,674 --> 01:08:58,383
I expect you to do your work.
1319
01:08:58,509 --> 01:09:00,009
And have sufficient sense and taste
1320
01:09:00,135 --> 01:09:02,595
not to presume to instruct the President.
1321
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:03,680
Or me.
1322
01:09:04,556 --> 01:09:07,350
Is there a Confederate offer, or not?
1323
01:09:23,367 --> 01:09:25,034
Gentlemen.
1324
01:09:27,329 --> 01:09:29,747
I suggest you work some changes
to your proposal
1325
01:09:29,873 --> 01:09:31,874
before you give it to the President.
1326
01:09:32,001 --> 01:09:34,043
We're eager to be on our way
to Washington.
1327
01:09:34,169 --> 01:09:36,337
Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?
1328
01:09:36,422 --> 01:09:40,383
It says "securing peace
for our two countries"
1329
01:09:40,509 --> 01:09:42,051
and it goes on like that.
1330
01:09:42,928 --> 01:09:45,096
- I don't...
- There is just one country.
1331
01:09:45,222 --> 01:09:47,557
You and I, we're citizens of that country.
1332
01:09:47,891 --> 01:09:50,893
I'm fighting to protect it
from armed rebels.
1333
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:52,687
From you.
1334
01:09:52,771 --> 01:09:54,689
But Mr. Blair, he told us,
1335
01:09:54,773 --> 01:09:57,150
he told President
Jefferson Davis that we...
1336
01:09:57,234 --> 01:09:59,777
A private citizen like Preston Blair
1337
01:09:59,903 --> 01:10:00,945
can say what he pleases,
1338
01:10:01,071 --> 01:10:03,865
since he has no authority over anything.
1339
01:10:03,949 --> 01:10:07,535
If you want to discuss peace
with President Lincoln,
1340
01:10:08,579 --> 01:10:10,413
consider revisions.
1341
01:10:10,914 --> 01:10:12,457
If we're not to discuss
1342
01:10:12,583 --> 01:10:15,001
a truce between warring nations,
1343
01:10:15,085 --> 01:10:17,045
what in heaven's name can we discuss?
1344
01:10:18,088 --> 01:10:19,756
Terms of surrender.
1345
01:10:22,259 --> 01:10:24,344
"Office United States
Military Telegraph,"
1346
01:10:24,428 --> 01:10:25,428
"War Department."
1347
01:10:25,554 --> 01:10:27,930
"For Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States."
1348
01:10:28,057 --> 01:10:30,266
"January 20, 1865."
1349
01:10:30,768 --> 01:10:33,061
"I will state confidentially
that I am convinced"
1350
01:10:33,145 --> 01:10:35,438
"upon conversation
with these commissioners"
1351
01:10:35,564 --> 01:10:37,023
"that their intentions are good"
1352
01:10:37,107 --> 01:10:40,443
"and their desire sincere
to restore peace and union."
1353
01:10:41,111 --> 01:10:42,945
"I fear now they're going back"
1354
01:10:43,072 --> 01:10:46,032
"without any expression
of interest from anyone"
1355
01:10:46,116 --> 01:10:49,660
"in authority, Mr. Lincoln,
will have a bad influence."
1356
01:10:50,954 --> 01:10:53,956
"I will be sorry should
it prove impossible for you"
1357
01:10:54,083 --> 01:10:55,625
"to have an interview with them."
1358
01:10:55,751 --> 01:10:58,002
"I am awaiting your instructions."
1359
01:10:59,838 --> 01:11:02,048
"U.S. Grant, Lieutenant General,"
1360
01:11:02,132 --> 01:11:03,758
"Commanding Armies, United States."
1361
01:11:05,803 --> 01:11:08,012
After four years of war, and
1362
01:11:09,264 --> 01:11:11,808
near 600,000 lives lost,
1363
01:11:11,934 --> 01:11:14,685
he believes we can end this war now.
1364
01:11:18,357 --> 01:11:21,192
My trust in him is marrow deep.
1365
01:11:27,449 --> 01:11:30,326
You could bring the delegates
to Washington.
1366
01:11:30,619 --> 01:11:32,829
In exchange for the South's
immediate surrender,
1367
01:11:32,955 --> 01:11:35,873
we could promise them
the amendment's defeat.
1368
01:11:37,209 --> 01:11:41,879
They'd agree, don't you think?
We'd end the war. This week.
1369
01:11:44,216 --> 01:11:45,758
Or, if you could manage
1370
01:11:45,843 --> 01:11:48,970
without seeming to do it, to...
1371
01:11:53,058 --> 01:11:55,184
The peace delegation
might encounter delays
1372
01:11:55,310 --> 01:11:57,228
as they travel up the James River.
1373
01:11:57,354 --> 01:11:59,689
Particularly with the fighting
around Wilmington.
1374
01:12:06,572 --> 01:12:07,989
Within ten days' time,
1375
01:12:08,073 --> 01:12:10,700
we might pass the 13th Amendment.
1376
01:12:53,285 --> 01:12:55,578
Here's a 16-year-old boy,
1377
01:12:55,704 --> 01:12:57,246
they're going to hang him.
1378
01:12:57,372 --> 01:13:00,082
He's with the Fifteenth
Indiana Cavalry near Bulford.
1379
01:13:00,209 --> 01:13:03,127
It seems he lamed his horse
to avoid battle.
1380
01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:06,506
I don't think even Stanton
would complain
1381
01:13:06,590 --> 01:13:07,590
if I pardoned him.
1382
01:13:07,716 --> 01:13:09,037
You think Stanton would complain?
1383
01:13:09,051 --> 01:13:12,136
I don't know, sir.
I don't know who you're...
1384
01:13:12,262 --> 01:13:14,639
- What time is it?
- It's 3:40 in the morning.
1385
01:13:14,765 --> 01:13:18,226
Don't let him pardon any more deserters.
1386
01:13:18,310 --> 01:13:21,020
Mr. Stanton thinks you pardon too many.
1387
01:13:21,104 --> 01:13:22,744
He's generally apoplectic on the subject.
1388
01:13:22,773 --> 01:13:24,315
He oughtn't have done that,
crippled his horse.
1389
01:13:24,441 --> 01:13:25,691
That was cruel, but you don't just hang
1390
01:13:25,776 --> 01:13:26,776
a 16-year-old boy for that...
1391
01:13:26,902 --> 01:13:28,062
Ask the horse what he thinks.
1392
01:13:28,111 --> 01:13:31,739
For cruelty. There'd be
no 16-year-old boys left.
1393
01:13:50,300 --> 01:13:52,635
Grant wants me to bring
the secesh delegates
1394
01:13:52,761 --> 01:13:54,262
to Washington.
1395
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:58,933
So there are secesh delegates?
1396
01:13:59,643 --> 01:14:01,894
He was afraid, that's all it was.
1397
01:14:01,979 --> 01:14:04,939
I don't care to hang a boy
for being frightened, either.
1398
01:14:05,524 --> 01:14:07,608
What good would it do him?
1399
01:14:22,332 --> 01:14:24,667
War's nearly done, ain't that so?
1400
01:14:28,005 --> 01:14:30,172
What use is one more corpse?
1401
01:14:32,384 --> 01:14:34,010
Any more corpses?
1402
01:14:43,145 --> 01:14:45,021
Do you need company?
1403
01:14:45,147 --> 01:14:48,024
In times like this,
I'm best alone.
1404
01:15:26,855 --> 01:15:31,067
"Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant, City Point."
1405
01:15:32,444 --> 01:15:34,654
"I have read your words with interest."
1406
01:15:34,738 --> 01:15:35,738
"I ask that,"
1407
01:15:35,864 --> 01:15:38,240
"regardless of any action
I take in the matter"
1408
01:15:38,367 --> 01:15:41,410
"of the visit of
the Richmond commissioners"
1409
01:15:42,412 --> 01:15:43,996
"you maintain among your troops"
1410
01:15:44,081 --> 01:15:46,916
"military preparedness for battle"
1411
01:15:47,918 --> 01:15:50,211
"as you have done until now."
1412
01:15:56,301 --> 01:15:58,803
"Have Captain Saunders convey
the commissioners to me
1413
01:15:58,929 --> 01:16:00,596
"here in Washington.
1414
01:16:02,057 --> 01:16:04,100
"A. Lincoln." And the date.
1415
01:16:04,267 --> 01:16:05,601
Yes, sir.
1416
01:16:09,648 --> 01:16:11,482
Shall I transmit, sir?
1417
01:16:15,112 --> 01:16:17,405
You think we choose to be born?
1418
01:16:23,161 --> 01:16:24,912
I don't suppose so.
1419
01:16:26,248 --> 01:16:29,083
Are we fitted to the times
we're born into?
1420
01:16:30,961 --> 01:16:32,628
Well, I don't know about myself.
1421
01:16:33,630 --> 01:16:35,131
You may be,
1422
01:16:35,966 --> 01:16:37,508
sir. Fitted.
1423
01:16:41,638 --> 01:16:43,305
What do you reckon?
1424
01:16:45,267 --> 01:16:47,309
Well, I'm an engineer.
1425
01:16:49,938 --> 01:16:51,856
I reckon there's machinery,
1426
01:16:51,982 --> 01:16:54,859
but no one's done the fitting.
1427
01:16:58,321 --> 01:17:00,030
You're an engineer.
1428
01:17:00,365 --> 01:17:03,951
You must know Euclid's axioms
and common notions.
1429
01:17:06,163 --> 01:17:07,997
I must have in school, but...
1430
01:17:08,123 --> 01:17:09,323
I never had much of schooling,
1431
01:17:09,374 --> 01:17:12,293
but I read Euclid
in an old book I borrowed.
1432
01:17:13,128 --> 01:17:15,713
Little enough ever found its way in here,
1433
01:17:15,839 --> 01:17:18,174
but once learnt, it stayed learnt.
1434
01:17:21,052 --> 01:17:23,804
Euclid's first common notion is this,
1435
01:17:24,473 --> 01:17:26,766
"Things which are equal
to the same thing"
1436
01:17:26,850 --> 01:17:29,727
"are equal to each other."
1437
01:17:31,396 --> 01:17:33,731
That's a rule of mathematical reasoning.
1438
01:17:33,857 --> 01:17:36,108
It's true because it works.
1439
01:17:36,193 --> 01:17:38,360
Has done and always will do.
1440
01:17:40,655 --> 01:17:43,157
In his book...
1441
01:17:44,201 --> 01:17:46,702
Euclid says this is "self-evident."
1442
01:17:47,662 --> 01:17:48,621
You see? There it is,
1443
01:17:48,705 --> 01:17:51,373
even in that 2,000-year-old book
1444
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:53,042
of mechanical law.
1445
01:17:53,168 --> 01:17:55,085
It is a self-evident truth
1446
01:17:55,212 --> 01:17:58,255
that things which are equal
to the same thing
1447
01:17:58,381 --> 01:18:00,591
are equal to each other.
1448
01:18:03,678 --> 01:18:05,554
We begin with equality.
1449
01:18:07,015 --> 01:18:08,557
That's the origin, isn't it?
1450
01:18:08,683 --> 01:18:11,560
That's balance. That's... That's fairness.
1451
01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:18,192
That's justice.
1452
01:18:25,242 --> 01:18:26,951
Just read me back the last sentence
1453
01:18:27,077 --> 01:18:29,286
of the telegram, please.
1454
01:18:29,913 --> 01:18:32,039
"Have Captain Saunders convey
the commissioners to me"
1455
01:18:32,123 --> 01:18:33,123
"here in Washington."
1456
01:18:33,875 --> 01:18:36,460
A slight emendation,
if you would, Sam.
1457
01:18:39,965 --> 01:18:41,715
"Have Captain Saunders
convey the gentlemen"
1458
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:43,050
"aboard the River Queen"
1459
01:18:43,885 --> 01:18:47,596
"as far as Hampton Roads, Virginia,"
1460
01:18:47,973 --> 01:18:50,057
"and there wait until"
1461
01:18:52,727 --> 01:18:55,145
"further advice from me."
1462
01:18:57,607 --> 01:18:59,817
"Do not proceed to Washington."
1463
01:19:45,322 --> 01:19:47,781
The World, the Herald,
the Times,
1464
01:19:47,866 --> 01:19:49,825
New York, Chicago,
1465
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,036
the Journal of Commerce,
1466
01:19:52,162 --> 01:19:53,704
even your hometown paper's here.
1467
01:19:53,830 --> 01:19:57,291
Say you believe only in
legal equality for all races,
1468
01:19:57,375 --> 01:19:58,751
not racial equality.
1469
01:19:58,835 --> 01:20:00,502
I beg you, sir.
1470
01:20:00,837 --> 01:20:04,006
Compromise. Or you risk it all.
1471
01:20:25,695 --> 01:20:27,738
I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens,
1472
01:20:27,864 --> 01:20:29,740
and you must answer me.
1473
01:20:30,492 --> 01:20:32,826
Do you or do you not
hold that the precept
1474
01:20:32,911 --> 01:20:36,372
that "All men are created equal"
is meant literally?
1475
01:20:42,003 --> 01:20:44,797
Is that not the true purpose
of the amendment?
1476
01:20:44,881 --> 01:20:47,758
To promote your ultimate
and ardent dream to elevate...
1477
01:20:47,884 --> 01:20:50,260
The true purpose
of the amendment, Mr. Wood,
1478
01:20:50,387 --> 01:20:52,137
you perfectly named,
1479
01:20:52,222 --> 01:20:54,390
brainless obstructive object...
1480
01:20:55,767 --> 01:20:59,061
Now you have always insisted,
Mr. Stevens,
1481
01:20:59,896 --> 01:21:03,440
that Negroes are the same
as white men are.
1482
01:21:04,359 --> 01:21:06,902
The true purpose of the amendment...
1483
01:21:35,306 --> 01:21:36,724
I don't hold with equality in all things,
1484
01:21:36,808 --> 01:21:38,934
only with equality before the law.
Nothing more.
1485
01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:43,313
That's... That's not so.
1486
01:21:43,940 --> 01:21:47,359
You believe that Negroes are
entirely equal to white men.
1487
01:21:47,444 --> 01:21:48,724
You've said it a thousand times!
1488
01:21:48,778 --> 01:21:51,071
For shame! For shame!
1489
01:21:51,156 --> 01:21:53,991
Stop prevaricating and
answer Representative Wood!
1490
01:21:54,242 --> 01:21:56,285
I don't hold with equality in all things,
1491
01:21:56,369 --> 01:21:57,411
only with equality before the law.
1492
01:21:57,495 --> 01:22:00,414
After the decades of fervent advocacy...
1493
01:22:00,790 --> 01:22:02,458
He's answered your questions!
1494
01:22:02,584 --> 01:22:04,385
This amendment's
not to do with race equality.
1495
01:22:04,419 --> 01:22:07,546
I don't hold with equality in all things,
1496
01:22:07,630 --> 01:22:11,258
only with equality before
the law, and nothing more!
1497
01:22:11,342 --> 01:22:13,552
Who'd ever have guessed
that old nightmare
1498
01:22:13,636 --> 01:22:15,471
capable of such control?
1499
01:22:15,597 --> 01:22:17,389
He might make a politician someday.
1500
01:22:17,474 --> 01:22:18,724
I need to go.
1501
01:22:18,808 --> 01:22:20,309
Mrs. Keckley.
1502
01:22:23,104 --> 01:22:25,814
Your frantic attempt to delude us now
1503
01:22:25,940 --> 01:22:27,483
is unworthy of a representative.
1504
01:22:27,609 --> 01:22:29,651
It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
1505
01:22:33,948 --> 01:22:36,408
How can I hold that
all men are created equal
1506
01:22:36,493 --> 01:22:39,578
when here before me stands, stinking,
1507
01:22:39,662 --> 01:22:43,248
the moral carcass of
the gentleman from Ohio, proof
1508
01:22:43,333 --> 01:22:45,834
that some men are inferior,
1509
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:48,462
endowed by their Maker with dim wits,
1510
01:22:48,546 --> 01:22:50,506
impermeable to reason,
1511
01:22:50,632 --> 01:22:53,675
with cold, pallid slime in their veins
1512
01:22:53,802 --> 01:22:56,136
instead of hot, red blood!
1513
01:22:56,221 --> 01:22:59,973
You are more reptile than man, George!
1514
01:23:00,058 --> 01:23:02,392
So low and flat that the foot of man
1515
01:23:02,519 --> 01:23:03,852
is incapable of crushing you.
1516
01:23:03,978 --> 01:23:05,729
How dare you?
1517
01:23:05,855 --> 01:23:08,941
Yet even you, Pendleton,
1518
01:23:10,193 --> 01:23:11,944
who should have been
gibbeted for treason
1519
01:23:12,028 --> 01:23:13,070
long before today.
1520
01:23:13,196 --> 01:23:15,656
Even worthless, unworthy you
1521
01:23:15,740 --> 01:23:18,742
ought to be treated equally
before the law!
1522
01:23:20,537 --> 01:23:24,248
And so again, sir, again
and again and again I say,
1523
01:23:24,374 --> 01:23:27,459
I do not hold with equality in all things,
1524
01:23:27,544 --> 01:23:29,795
only with equality before the law.
1525
01:23:33,716 --> 01:23:36,802
Mr. Speaker, will you permit
this vile, boorish man
1526
01:23:36,886 --> 01:23:39,388
to slander and to threaten me?
1527
01:23:39,597 --> 01:23:41,056
And to reduce these proceedings
1528
01:23:41,182 --> 01:23:44,434
on this most important matter
into an anarchic
1529
01:23:45,061 --> 01:23:47,354
and tawdry burlesque?
1530
01:24:11,588 --> 01:24:15,048
You asked if ever I was surprised.
1531
01:24:15,550 --> 01:24:18,218
Today, Mr. Stevens,
1532
01:24:18,386 --> 01:24:19,386
I was surprised.
1533
01:24:20,263 --> 01:24:23,891
You've led the battle for
race equality for 30 years.
1534
01:24:29,230 --> 01:24:32,399
The basis of every hope for
this country's future life,
1535
01:24:32,483 --> 01:24:35,527
you denied Negro equality.
I'm nauseated.
1536
01:24:35,612 --> 01:24:38,197
You refused to say that all humans are...
1537
01:24:38,281 --> 01:24:40,073
Well, human.
1538
01:24:40,783 --> 01:24:43,202
Have you lost your very soul,
Mr. Stevens?
1539
01:24:43,536 --> 01:24:44,786
Is there nothing you won't say?
1540
01:24:44,871 --> 01:24:46,538
I'm sorry you're nauseous, Asa.
1541
01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:48,290
That must be unpleasant.
1542
01:24:49,459 --> 01:24:50,792
I want the amendment to pass,
1543
01:24:50,877 --> 01:24:52,794
so that the Constitution's first
1544
01:24:52,921 --> 01:24:54,296
and only mention of slavery
1545
01:24:54,380 --> 01:24:56,548
is its absolute prohibition.
1546
01:24:56,633 --> 01:24:58,967
For this amendment, for which
I have worked all my life
1547
01:24:59,093 --> 01:25:01,720
and for which countless
colored men and women
1548
01:25:01,804 --> 01:25:02,888
have fought and died
1549
01:25:02,972 --> 01:25:05,974
and now hundreds
of thousands of soldiers...
1550
01:25:06,100 --> 01:25:07,643
No, sir, no.
1551
01:25:08,645 --> 01:25:11,813
It seems there's very nearly
nothing I won't say.
1552
01:25:42,804 --> 01:25:44,429
I'm not going in.
1553
01:25:49,519 --> 01:25:51,812
You said you wanted to help me.
1554
01:25:52,272 --> 01:25:56,024
But this is just a clumsy attempt
to discourage me.
1555
01:25:56,150 --> 01:25:58,527
I've been to Army hospitals.
I've seen surgeries.
1556
01:25:58,611 --> 01:26:01,530
I went and visited
the malaria barges with Mama.
1557
01:26:01,656 --> 01:26:03,532
She told me she didn't take you inside.
1558
01:26:03,616 --> 01:26:05,033
I snuck in afterwards.
1559
01:26:05,159 --> 01:26:07,452
I've seen what it's like.
This changes nothing.
1560
01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:11,665
Well, at all rate, son,
1561
01:26:11,749 --> 01:26:13,583
I'm happy to have your company.
1562
01:26:20,300 --> 01:26:22,926
- Good morning, Jim.
- Hello, Mr. President.
1563
01:26:23,011 --> 01:26:24,845
- Good to see you again.
- Good to see you.
1564
01:26:26,014 --> 01:26:29,599
Well, boys, first question.
You getting enough to eat?
1565
01:26:29,892 --> 01:26:30,934
Hello, sir.
1566
01:26:31,019 --> 01:26:32,419
- What's your name, soldier?
- Robert.
1567
01:26:32,478 --> 01:26:34,980
- Good to meet you, Robert.
- Nice to meet you.
1568
01:26:35,064 --> 01:26:36,145
- What's your name?
- Kevin.
1569
01:26:36,149 --> 01:26:37,190
Tell me your names as I go past.
1570
01:26:37,275 --> 01:26:38,650
I'd like to know who I'm talking to. Kevin.
1571
01:26:38,735 --> 01:26:41,611
- Mr. President. John.
- John. I've seen you before.
1572
01:26:41,696 --> 01:26:42,779
Mr. President.
1573
01:26:43,531 --> 01:26:44,740
Make sure you get some steak.
1574
01:26:44,824 --> 01:26:46,344
I wouldn't mind one myself, right now.
1575
01:28:01,776 --> 01:28:03,235
What's the matter, Bob?
1576
01:28:09,575 --> 01:28:11,535
I have to do this, and I will do it.
1577
01:28:11,619 --> 01:28:12,994
And I don't need
your permission to enlist.
1578
01:28:13,079 --> 01:28:16,998
That same speech has been made
by how many sons
1579
01:28:17,083 --> 01:28:19,626
to how many fathers
since the war began?
1580
01:28:19,710 --> 01:28:20,919
"I don't need your damn permission,"
1581
01:28:21,003 --> 01:28:23,547
"you miserable old goat,
I'm gonna enlist anyhow."
1582
01:28:23,673 --> 01:28:24,673
And what wouldn't those
1583
01:28:24,799 --> 01:28:26,091
numberless fathers have given
1584
01:28:26,175 --> 01:28:28,009
to be able to say to their sons
1585
01:28:28,136 --> 01:28:31,346
as I now say to mine,
"I'm Commander in Chief."
1586
01:28:32,306 --> 01:28:33,723
So, in point of fact,
without my permission
1587
01:28:33,850 --> 01:28:36,893
you ain't enlisting
in nothing nowhere, young man.
1588
01:28:37,019 --> 01:28:39,479
It's Mama you're scared of,
it's not me getting killed.
1589
01:28:47,363 --> 01:28:49,990
I have to do this! And I will!
1590
01:28:50,867 --> 01:28:53,535
Or I will feel ashamed of myself
for the rest of my life!
1591
01:28:53,661 --> 01:28:55,620
Whether or not you fought
is what's gonna matter,
1592
01:28:55,705 --> 01:28:58,415
and not just to other people,
but to myself!
1593
01:28:58,541 --> 01:29:00,041
I won't be you, Pa, I can't do that,
1594
01:29:00,168 --> 01:29:02,377
but I don't want to be nothing!
1595
01:29:05,756 --> 01:29:07,382
I can't lose you.
1596
01:29:13,639 --> 01:29:15,474
He'll be fine, Molly.
1597
01:29:15,558 --> 01:29:17,893
City Point's a way back
from the front lines
1598
01:29:17,977 --> 01:29:18,977
and the fighting.
1599
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:22,898
He'll be an adjutant, running
messages for General Grant.
1600
01:29:24,025 --> 01:29:26,151
The war will take our son.
1601
01:29:26,235 --> 01:29:28,820
A sniper, or a shrapnel shell, a typhus
1602
01:29:28,905 --> 01:29:29,905
same as took Willie.
1603
01:29:30,031 --> 01:29:33,408
It takes hundreds of boys a day.
He'll die uselessly.
1604
01:29:33,534 --> 01:29:35,911
And how will I ever forgive you?
1605
01:29:36,913 --> 01:29:39,414
Most men, their firstborn
is their favorite.
1606
01:29:39,540 --> 01:29:42,167
You've always blamed Robert
for being born.
1607
01:29:42,251 --> 01:29:43,585
For trapping you in a marriage
1608
01:29:43,669 --> 01:29:45,253
that's only ever given you grief
1609
01:29:45,379 --> 01:29:47,506
- and caused you regret.
- That's simply not true.
1610
01:29:47,590 --> 01:29:49,257
And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor's
1611
01:29:49,383 --> 01:29:51,676
on your hands same as Grant,
God help us.
1612
01:29:52,053 --> 01:29:54,262
We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood
1613
01:29:54,347 --> 01:29:56,598
you've sanctioned,
the uncountable corpses!
1614
01:29:56,682 --> 01:29:59,434
We'll be made to pay
with our son's dear blood!
1615
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:01,102
Just this once, Mrs. Lincoln,
1616
01:30:01,187 --> 01:30:03,939
I demand of you to try
and take the liberal
1617
01:30:04,065 --> 01:30:05,941
and not the selfish point of view.
1618
01:30:06,067 --> 01:30:07,275
Robert will never forgive himself.
1619
01:30:07,401 --> 01:30:08,944
You imagine he'll forgive us
1620
01:30:09,028 --> 01:30:12,614
if we continue to stifle
this very natural ambition?
1621
01:30:13,699 --> 01:30:15,909
And if I refuse to take the high road?
1622
01:30:18,746 --> 01:30:22,082
If I won't pick up the rough old cross,
1623
01:30:22,458 --> 01:30:25,293
will you threaten me again
with the madhouse?
1624
01:30:25,378 --> 01:30:28,880
As you did when I couldn't
stop crying over Willie.
1625
01:30:28,965 --> 01:30:31,383
When I showed you what heartbreak,
1626
01:30:31,467 --> 01:30:34,135
real heartbreak, looked like.
1627
01:30:34,220 --> 01:30:35,720
And you hadn't the courage
1628
01:30:35,805 --> 01:30:37,889
- to countenance, to help me!
- That's right, that's right...
1629
01:30:37,974 --> 01:30:40,225
When you refused so much
as to comfort Tad,
1630
01:30:40,309 --> 01:30:42,477
a child who was not only sick,
dangerously sick,
1631
01:30:42,562 --> 01:30:43,562
but beside himself with grief!
1632
01:30:43,646 --> 01:30:45,814
I was holding him in my arms
when he died.
1633
01:30:45,940 --> 01:30:48,400
But your grief, your grief,
your inexhaustible grief!
1634
01:30:48,484 --> 01:30:50,360
How dare you throw that up at me?
1635
01:30:50,444 --> 01:30:51,653
And his mother wouldn't let him near her
1636
01:30:51,737 --> 01:30:52,988
because she's screaming
from morning to night!
1637
01:30:53,072 --> 01:30:55,115
I couldn't risk him
seeing how angry I was!
1638
01:30:55,199 --> 01:30:56,658
Pacing the halls, howling at shadows
1639
01:30:56,742 --> 01:30:58,326
and furniture and ghosts!
1640
01:30:59,495 --> 01:31:01,496
I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,
1641
01:31:01,581 --> 01:31:03,331
for everybody's goddamn sake,
1642
01:31:03,457 --> 01:31:05,097
I should have clapped you
in the madhouse!
1643
01:31:05,167 --> 01:31:06,626
Then do it!
1644
01:31:07,670 --> 01:31:09,504
Do it! Don't you threaten me!
1645
01:31:09,630 --> 01:31:12,007
You do it this time. Lock me away.
1646
01:31:12,091 --> 01:31:14,134
You'll have to, I swear,
1647
01:31:14,510 --> 01:31:16,595
if Robert is killed.
1648
01:31:35,323 --> 01:31:37,699
I couldn't tolerate you
grieving so for Willie
1649
01:31:37,825 --> 01:31:40,452
because I couldn't permit it in myself.
1650
01:31:41,037 --> 01:31:43,038
Though I wanted to, Mary.
1651
01:31:43,998 --> 01:31:45,874
I wanted to crawl under the earth,
1652
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:48,209
into the vault, with his coffin.
1653
01:31:49,629 --> 01:31:53,214
And I still do. Every day I do.
1654
01:31:53,716 --> 01:31:56,301
Don't speak to me about grief.
1655
01:32:05,561 --> 01:32:09,314
I must make my decisions,
Bob must make his, you yours.
1656
01:32:09,398 --> 01:32:12,817
And bear what we must.
Hold and carry what we must.
1657
01:32:12,902 --> 01:32:16,571
What I carry within me,
you must allow me to do it.
1658
01:32:16,697 --> 01:32:19,574
Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary,
1659
01:32:19,700 --> 01:32:23,244
you alone may lighten this burden.
1660
01:32:25,039 --> 01:32:26,414
Or render it intolerable.
1661
01:32:26,916 --> 01:32:28,416
As you choose.
1662
01:32:50,231 --> 01:32:52,190
You think I'm ignorant
of what you're up to
1663
01:32:52,274 --> 01:32:53,434
because you haven't discussed
1664
01:32:53,442 --> 01:32:55,777
this scheme with me
as you ought to have done?
1665
01:32:55,861 --> 01:32:58,697
When have I ever been
so easily bamboozled?
1666
01:32:59,073 --> 01:33:00,365
I believe you when you insist
1667
01:33:00,449 --> 01:33:01,950
that amending the Constitution
1668
01:33:02,076 --> 01:33:04,035
and abolishing slavery will end this war.
1669
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:06,454
And since you are
sending my son into the war,
1670
01:33:06,580 --> 01:33:09,624
woe unto you if you fail
to pass the amendment.
1671
01:33:12,795 --> 01:33:15,797
Seward doesn't want me
leaving big muddy footprints
1672
01:33:15,923 --> 01:33:17,424
all over town.
1673
01:33:21,137 --> 01:33:23,221
No one has ever lived
who knows better than you
1674
01:33:23,305 --> 01:33:25,390
the proper placement of footfalls
1675
01:33:25,474 --> 01:33:27,392
on treacherous paths.
1676
01:33:27,476 --> 01:33:30,228
Seward can't do it. You must.
1677
01:33:30,980 --> 01:33:34,649
Because if you fail to acquire
the necessary votes,
1678
01:33:34,734 --> 01:33:37,610
woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.
1679
01:33:51,959 --> 01:33:53,293
Thank you.
1680
01:33:59,467 --> 01:34:02,302
I know the vote is only four days away.
1681
01:34:02,928 --> 01:34:04,596
I know you're concerned.
1682
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:06,765
Thank you for your concern over this.
1683
01:34:07,683 --> 01:34:10,477
And I want you to know,
they'll approve it.
1684
01:34:11,812 --> 01:34:13,521
God will see to it.
1685
01:34:15,316 --> 01:34:17,358
I don't envy Him his task.
1686
01:34:19,111 --> 01:34:21,529
He may wish He'd chosen
an instrument for His purpose
1687
01:34:21,655 --> 01:34:24,657
more wieldy than
the House of Representatives.
1688
01:34:25,868 --> 01:34:27,702
Then you'll see to it.
1689
01:34:29,872 --> 01:34:33,291
Are you afraid of what
lies ahead for your people
1690
01:34:33,375 --> 01:34:34,876
if we succeed?
1691
01:34:36,378 --> 01:34:38,671
White people don't want us here.
1692
01:34:39,048 --> 01:34:41,466
- Many don't.
- What about you?
1693
01:34:46,889 --> 01:34:49,182
I don't know you, Mrs. Keckley.
1694
01:34:50,184 --> 01:34:51,559
Any of you.
1695
01:34:53,020 --> 01:34:56,022
You're familiar to me, as all people are,
1696
01:34:57,316 --> 01:35:00,318
unaccommodated, poor, bare,
forked creatures,
1697
01:35:00,402 --> 01:35:02,070
such as we all are.
1698
01:35:03,364 --> 01:35:06,074
You have a right to expect what I expect.
1699
01:35:06,575 --> 01:35:08,576
And likely our expectations
1700
01:35:08,661 --> 01:35:11,162
are not incomprehensible to each other.
1701
01:35:14,750 --> 01:35:17,001
I assume I'll get used to you.
1702
01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:20,088
Now what you are to the nation,
1703
01:35:21,257 --> 01:35:23,758
what'll become of you
once slavery's day is done,
1704
01:35:24,093 --> 01:35:25,885
I don't know.
1705
01:35:27,513 --> 01:35:30,098
What my people are to be, I can't say.
1706
01:35:32,268 --> 01:35:35,353
Negroes have been fighting
and dying for freedom
1707
01:35:35,938 --> 01:35:38,439
since the first of us was a slave.
1708
01:35:38,524 --> 01:35:42,026
I never heard any ask
what freedom would bring.
1709
01:35:44,154 --> 01:35:45,780
Freedom is first.
1710
01:35:48,617 --> 01:35:50,034
As for me,
1711
01:35:51,453 --> 01:35:54,122
my son died fighting for the Union,
1712
01:35:55,332 --> 01:35:57,375
wearing the Union blue.
1713
01:35:57,960 --> 01:35:59,711
For freedom he died.
1714
01:36:01,797 --> 01:36:03,506
And I'm his mother.
1715
01:36:05,718 --> 01:36:08,636
That's what I am
to the nation, Mr. Lincoln.
1716
01:36:12,975 --> 01:36:14,726
What else must I be?
1717
01:36:24,153 --> 01:36:26,070
My whole hand's gonna be proud
in about five seconds.
1718
01:36:26,155 --> 01:36:27,739
Let's see how proud you can be.
1719
01:36:28,908 --> 01:36:31,492
Go away. That watch fob, is that gold?
1720
01:36:31,577 --> 01:36:33,161
You keep your eyes off my fob.
1721
01:36:33,245 --> 01:36:35,455
Gentlemen, you have a visitor.
1722
01:36:35,539 --> 01:36:37,665
- Goddamn!
- Hey, Bill.
1723
01:36:39,835 --> 01:36:41,461
Well, I'll be fucked.
1724
01:36:41,545 --> 01:36:43,004
I wouldn't bet against it.
1725
01:36:43,088 --> 01:36:44,255
Mr...?
1726
01:36:45,007 --> 01:36:46,424
W. N. Bilbo.
1727
01:36:46,508 --> 01:36:48,593
Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen.
1728
01:36:48,677 --> 01:36:49,677
Sir.
1729
01:36:50,054 --> 01:36:51,554
Why are you here? No offense,
1730
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:54,974
but Mr. Seward's banished
the very mention of your name.
1731
01:36:55,059 --> 01:36:56,739
He won't even let us use fifty cent pieces
1732
01:36:56,852 --> 01:36:58,686
'cause they've got your face on 'em.
1733
01:36:59,438 --> 01:37:02,023
The Secretary of State here
tells me that you got
1734
01:37:02,107 --> 01:37:04,567
11 Democrats in the bag.
That's encouraging.
1735
01:37:04,693 --> 01:37:08,404
Oh, you've got no cause
to be encouraged, sir.
1736
01:37:09,615 --> 01:37:11,741
Are we being fired?
1737
01:37:13,118 --> 01:37:17,038
"We have heard the chimes
at midnight, Master Shallow."
1738
01:37:18,040 --> 01:37:19,499
I'm here to alert you boys
1739
01:37:19,583 --> 01:37:22,710
that the great day of reckoning
is nigh upon us.
1740
01:37:23,128 --> 01:37:25,046
The Democrats we've yet to bag, sir,
1741
01:37:25,130 --> 01:37:27,882
the patronage jobs simply won't bag 'em.
1742
01:37:27,967 --> 01:37:30,593
They require more convincing,
Mr. President.
1743
01:37:32,221 --> 01:37:35,098
Do me a favor, will you?
1744
01:37:35,224 --> 01:37:36,265
Sure.
1745
01:37:36,392 --> 01:37:38,393
It snagged my eye
in the paper this morning
1746
01:37:38,477 --> 01:37:39,894
that the Governor Curtin
1747
01:37:39,979 --> 01:37:42,313
is set to declare a winner in the disputed
1748
01:37:42,398 --> 01:37:43,398
Congressional election for the...
1749
01:37:43,482 --> 01:37:44,649
Pennsylvania 16th District.
1750
01:37:45,067 --> 01:37:47,819
District.
What a joy to be comprehended.
1751
01:37:47,903 --> 01:37:50,488
Hop on a train to Philadel,
call on the Governor...
1752
01:37:50,572 --> 01:37:51,948
Send Latham. Or Schell.
1753
01:37:52,074 --> 01:37:54,033
No, he'll do fine.
Just polish yourself up first.
1754
01:37:55,995 --> 01:37:58,079
The incumbent is claiming
he won it. Name of...
1755
01:37:58,163 --> 01:37:59,205
Coffroth.
1756
01:37:59,289 --> 01:38:00,456
- That's him.
- Coffroth.
1757
01:38:00,582 --> 01:38:02,458
- He's a Democrat.
- I understand that.
1758
01:38:03,127 --> 01:38:05,253
- Silly name.
- A little bit silly.
1759
01:38:05,796 --> 01:38:08,715
Tell Governor Curtin
it'd be much appreciated
1760
01:38:08,799 --> 01:38:11,426
if he'd invite
the House of Representatives
1761
01:38:11,510 --> 01:38:12,552
to decide who won.
1762
01:38:12,636 --> 01:38:15,263
He's entitled to do that.
He'll agree to it.
1763
01:38:15,347 --> 01:38:17,640
Then advise Coffroth
1764
01:38:17,766 --> 01:38:20,101
if he hopes to retain his seat,
1765
01:38:20,185 --> 01:38:22,478
then he'd better pay a visit
to Thaddeus Stevens.
1766
01:38:22,604 --> 01:38:24,188
Well, pity poor Coffroth.
1767
01:38:26,483 --> 01:38:27,775
It opens!
1768
01:38:34,783 --> 01:38:36,159
You are Canfrey?
1769
01:38:38,162 --> 01:38:41,330
Coffroth, Mr. Stevens.
Alexander Coffroth.
1770
01:38:41,457 --> 01:38:44,375
Are we representatives
of the same state?
1771
01:38:44,460 --> 01:38:46,419
Yes, sir.
We sit only three desks apart.
1772
01:38:46,503 --> 01:38:48,337
I haven't noticed you.
1773
01:38:48,964 --> 01:38:51,966
I'm a Republican and you,
Coughdrop, are a Democrat?
1774
01:38:52,051 --> 01:38:55,428
Well... I... that is to say...
1775
01:38:55,512 --> 01:38:57,513
The modern travesty
of Thomas Jefferson's
1776
01:38:57,639 --> 01:38:58,765
political organization
1777
01:38:58,849 --> 01:39:00,600
to which you've attached
yourself like a barnacle
1778
01:39:00,684 --> 01:39:03,978
has the effrontery to call
itself the Democratic Party.
1779
01:39:04,063 --> 01:39:07,023
You are a Democrat.
What's the matter with you?
1780
01:39:07,149 --> 01:39:08,733
Are you wicked?
1781
01:39:08,817 --> 01:39:10,401
- Well, I felt...
- Never mind.
1782
01:39:10,486 --> 01:39:12,737
Coffsnot, you were
ignominiously trounced
1783
01:39:12,821 --> 01:39:14,363
at the hustings in November's election
1784
01:39:14,490 --> 01:39:16,449
by your worthy challenger,
a Republican.
1785
01:39:16,533 --> 01:39:18,409
No, sir, I was not trounced.
1786
01:39:18,494 --> 01:39:20,495
He wants to steal my seat.
I didn't lose the election.
1787
01:39:20,579 --> 01:39:22,038
What difference does it make
if you lost or not?
1788
01:39:22,164 --> 01:39:26,334
The governor of our state
is... A Democrat?
1789
01:39:27,503 --> 01:39:29,837
No, he's, he's a...
1790
01:39:31,882 --> 01:39:35,176
Re-...
1791
01:39:36,261 --> 01:39:38,513
- ...-pub-...-lic-...
- ...-pub-...-lic-...
1792
01:39:38,597 --> 01:39:40,139
- ...-can.
- ...-can. Republican.
1793
01:39:40,224 --> 01:39:42,433
I know what he is.
This is a rhetorical exercise.
1794
01:39:42,518 --> 01:39:44,398
And Congress is controlled
by what party? Yours?
1795
01:39:46,897 --> 01:39:48,689
Your party was beaten.
1796
01:39:48,774 --> 01:39:51,317
Your challenger's party
now controls the House
1797
01:39:51,401 --> 01:39:54,112
and hence the House
Committee on Elections,
1798
01:39:54,196 --> 01:39:56,656
so you have been beaten.
1799
01:39:56,740 --> 01:39:59,659
You shall shortly be sent home
in disgrace. Unless...
1800
01:39:59,743 --> 01:40:00,824
I know what I must do, sir.
1801
01:40:00,869 --> 01:40:03,121
I will immediately become
a Republican and vote yes...
1802
01:40:03,205 --> 01:40:04,205
No!
1803
01:40:04,957 --> 01:40:07,375
Coffroth will vote yes,
1804
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:09,418
but Coffroth will remain a Democrat
1805
01:40:09,545 --> 01:40:10,503
until after he does so.
1806
01:40:10,587 --> 01:40:12,171
Why wait to switch? I'm happy to...
1807
01:40:12,256 --> 01:40:14,507
We want to show the amendment
has bipartisan support,
1808
01:40:14,591 --> 01:40:16,551
you idiot. Early in the next Congress,
1809
01:40:16,635 --> 01:40:18,886
when I tell you to do so,
you will switch parties.
1810
01:40:18,971 --> 01:40:22,515
Now congratulations
on your victory, and get out.
1811
01:40:22,599 --> 01:40:25,059
Now, give me the names
1812
01:40:25,144 --> 01:40:27,103
of whoever else you've been hunting.
1813
01:40:27,437 --> 01:40:28,729
Hell.
1814
01:40:29,106 --> 01:40:30,148
George Yeaman.
1815
01:40:30,232 --> 01:40:31,649
Yes. Yeaman.
1816
01:40:32,401 --> 01:40:33,860
Among others.
1817
01:40:33,944 --> 01:40:35,570
- But Yeaman, that'd count.
- Yeah.
1818
01:40:35,654 --> 01:40:37,446
Y-E-A-M-A-N.
1819
01:40:37,906 --> 01:40:39,240
I got it.
1820
01:40:40,117 --> 01:40:41,200
Kentucky.
1821
01:40:44,163 --> 01:40:47,206
I can't vote for
the amendment, Mr. Lincoln.
1822
01:40:54,756 --> 01:40:56,924
I saw a barge once, Mr. Yeaman,
1823
01:40:57,593 --> 01:40:59,927
filled with colored men in chains
1824
01:41:00,053 --> 01:41:01,262
heading down the Mississippi
1825
01:41:01,388 --> 01:41:03,264
to the New Orleans slave markets.
1826
01:41:04,725 --> 01:41:05,933
It sickened me.
1827
01:41:07,269 --> 01:41:09,729
And more than that,
it brought a shadow down.
1828
01:41:11,273 --> 01:41:13,608
A pall around my eyes.
1829
01:41:15,277 --> 01:41:17,945
Slavery troubled me
as long as I can remember
1830
01:41:18,780 --> 01:41:20,990
in a way it never troubled my father,
1831
01:41:21,992 --> 01:41:24,285
though he hated it, in his own fashion.
1832
01:41:25,746 --> 01:41:27,663
He knew no smallholding dirt farmer
1833
01:41:27,789 --> 01:41:29,457
could compete with slave plantations
1834
01:41:29,583 --> 01:41:31,834
so he took us out from Kentucky
1835
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:33,169
to get away from 'em.
1836
01:41:33,295 --> 01:41:35,087
He wanted Indiana kept free.
1837
01:41:36,632 --> 01:41:38,299
He wasn't a kind man
1838
01:41:39,927 --> 01:41:43,346
but there was a rough,
moral urge for fairness,
1839
01:41:43,472 --> 01:41:44,805
for freedom in him.
1840
01:41:45,849 --> 01:41:47,808
I learnt that from him, I suppose.
1841
01:41:48,685 --> 01:41:50,019
If little else from him.
1842
01:41:52,648 --> 01:41:54,857
We didn't care
for one another, Mr. Yeaman.
1843
01:41:58,487 --> 01:42:00,071
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
1844
01:42:00,155 --> 01:42:03,241
Loving kindness, that most
ordinary thing, came to me
1845
01:42:03,325 --> 01:42:05,493
from other sources. I'm grateful for that.
1846
01:42:05,619 --> 01:42:08,454
Well, I hate it, too, sir.
1847
01:42:09,831 --> 01:42:11,165
Slavery, but...
1848
01:42:12,209 --> 01:42:15,127
But we're entirely unready
for emancipation.
1849
01:42:15,671 --> 01:42:16,796
And there's too many questions...
1850
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:18,441
We're unready for peace, too, ain't we?
1851
01:42:19,466 --> 01:42:21,676
Yeah, when it comes,
it'll present us with conundrums
1852
01:42:21,802 --> 01:42:25,096
and dangers greater than
any we faced during the war,
1853
01:42:25,180 --> 01:42:26,931
bloody as it's been.
1854
01:42:27,015 --> 01:42:30,893
We'll have to extemporize and
experiment with what it is,
1855
01:42:31,019 --> 01:42:32,144
when it is.
1856
01:42:35,524 --> 01:42:37,191
I read your speech, George.
1857
01:42:38,151 --> 01:42:39,819
Negroes and the vote,
1858
01:42:40,904 --> 01:42:42,029
that's a puzzle.
1859
01:42:42,906 --> 01:42:46,534
No, no. But, but, but Negroes can't
1860
01:42:47,369 --> 01:42:50,413
vote, Mr. Lincoln.
1861
01:42:51,665 --> 01:42:53,332
You're not suggesting
we enfranchise colored people?
1862
01:42:53,500 --> 01:42:55,126
I'm asking only that
1863
01:42:55,210 --> 01:42:59,046
you disenthrall yourself
from the slave powers.
1864
01:43:00,590 --> 01:43:01,674
I'll let you know when
1865
01:43:01,758 --> 01:43:03,398
there's an offer on my desk
for surrender.
1866
01:43:03,510 --> 01:43:04,677
There's none before us now.
1867
01:43:04,761 --> 01:43:05,886
What's before us now,
1868
01:43:06,013 --> 01:43:08,723
that's the vote on the 13th Amendment.
1869
01:43:10,100 --> 01:43:12,351
And it's going to be so very close.
1870
01:43:15,564 --> 01:43:17,523
You see what you can do.
1871
01:43:26,867 --> 01:43:28,367
I can't make sense of it.
1872
01:43:28,910 --> 01:43:30,870
What he died for.
1873
01:43:33,457 --> 01:43:35,750
Mr. Lincoln, I hate them all.
1874
01:43:35,876 --> 01:43:37,960
I do. All black people.
1875
01:43:47,471 --> 01:43:49,722
I am a prejudiced man.
1876
01:43:52,434 --> 01:43:54,310
Well, I'd change that in you if I could,
1877
01:43:54,561 --> 01:43:55,936
but that's not why I come.
1878
01:43:56,772 --> 01:43:58,439
I might be wrong, Mr. Hutton,
1879
01:43:58,565 --> 01:44:01,942
but I expect colored people
most likely be free.
1880
01:44:02,819 --> 01:44:04,070
And when that's so, it's simple truth
1881
01:44:04,154 --> 01:44:06,155
that your brother's bravery
1882
01:44:06,281 --> 01:44:08,115
and his death helped make it so.
1883
01:44:09,785 --> 01:44:10,993
Only you can decide whether
1884
01:44:11,119 --> 01:44:12,519
that's sense enough for you or not.
1885
01:44:16,291 --> 01:44:18,084
My deepest sympathies to your family.
1886
01:44:30,806 --> 01:44:33,349
We've managed our members
to a fare-thee-well.
1887
01:44:34,643 --> 01:44:35,810
You've had no defections
1888
01:44:35,936 --> 01:44:37,853
from the Republican right to trouble you.
1889
01:44:39,147 --> 01:44:40,856
Whereas as to what you promised,
1890
01:44:41,942 --> 01:44:43,943
where the hell are the commissioners?
1891
01:44:44,861 --> 01:44:47,321
Oh, my God. It's true.
1892
01:44:48,990 --> 01:44:51,283
You... You lied to me.
1893
01:44:51,618 --> 01:44:55,079
Mr. Lincoln, you evaded
my request for a denial
1894
01:44:55,163 --> 01:44:57,164
that there is a Confederate peace offer,
1895
01:44:57,290 --> 01:44:59,125
because there is one!
1896
01:44:59,459 --> 01:45:03,462
We are absolutely guaranteed
to lose the whole thing.
1897
01:45:03,547 --> 01:45:06,465
We don't need a goddamn
abolition amendment!
1898
01:45:07,050 --> 01:45:08,843
Leave the Constitution alone!
1899
01:45:09,177 --> 01:45:10,377
What if the peace commissioners
1900
01:45:10,387 --> 01:45:11,846
appear today, or worse...
1901
01:45:15,308 --> 01:45:17,518
I can't listen to this anymore.
1902
01:45:19,688 --> 01:45:22,648
I can't accomplish a goddamn thing
1903
01:45:22,732 --> 01:45:25,234
of any human meaning or worth
1904
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:29,113
until we cure ourselves of slavery
1905
01:45:29,197 --> 01:45:31,907
and end this pestilential war!
1906
01:45:33,201 --> 01:45:35,828
And whether any of you
or anyone else knows it,
1907
01:45:35,912 --> 01:45:37,872
I know I need this!
1908
01:45:38,665 --> 01:45:41,333
This amendment is that cure!
1909
01:45:44,671 --> 01:45:47,381
We are stepped out upon
the world stage now!
1910
01:45:47,507 --> 01:45:48,716
Now!
1911
01:45:49,384 --> 01:45:52,344
With the fate of human dignity
in our hands!
1912
01:45:54,181 --> 01:45:56,724
Blood's been spilt to
afford us this moment!
1913
01:45:56,933 --> 01:45:59,226
Now! Now! Now!
1914
01:46:00,061 --> 01:46:03,105
And you grousle and heckle
and dodge about like
1915
01:46:03,231 --> 01:46:05,191
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!
1916
01:46:06,401 --> 01:46:08,068
See what is before you.
1917
01:46:09,029 --> 01:46:11,780
See the here and now, that's the
1918
01:46:11,907 --> 01:46:14,950
hardest thing,
the only thing that accounts.
1919
01:46:16,912 --> 01:46:20,998
Abolishing slavery
by constitutional provision
1920
01:46:21,082 --> 01:46:24,877
settles the fate for all coming time
1921
01:46:26,129 --> 01:46:29,131
not only of the millions now in bondage
1922
01:46:31,259 --> 01:46:34,220
but of unborn millions to come.
1923
01:46:35,764 --> 01:46:39,975
Two votes stand in its way.
These votes must be procured.
1924
01:46:44,397 --> 01:46:48,984
We need two yeses,
three abstentions, or
1925
01:46:49,110 --> 01:46:50,236
four yeses
1926
01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:54,031
and one more abstention,
and the amendment will pass.
1927
01:46:54,115 --> 01:46:55,716
You got a night, and a day, and a night,
1928
01:46:55,742 --> 01:46:57,076
and several perfectly good hours.
1929
01:46:57,160 --> 01:46:59,161
Now get the hell out of here and get 'em.
1930
01:46:59,996 --> 01:47:01,497
Yes. But how?
1931
01:47:03,750 --> 01:47:05,084
Buzzards' guts, man.
1932
01:47:07,629 --> 01:47:11,799
I am the President of the
United States of America
1933
01:47:12,509 --> 01:47:14,969
clothed in immense power.
1934
01:47:17,472 --> 01:47:19,807
You will procure me these votes.
1935
01:48:29,085 --> 01:48:31,879
We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen,
1936
01:48:33,882 --> 01:48:36,258
first in the history of
this people's chamber,
1937
01:48:37,719 --> 01:48:39,094
to your House.
1938
01:49:03,912 --> 01:49:05,412
Mr. Ashley, the floor is yours.
1939
01:49:14,005 --> 01:49:15,964
On the matter of the
joint resolution before us,
1940
01:49:16,091 --> 01:49:17,212
presenting a 13th Amendment
1941
01:49:17,258 --> 01:49:19,510
to our National Constitution,
1942
01:49:19,594 --> 01:49:21,887
which was passed last year
by the Senate
1943
01:49:21,971 --> 01:49:23,389
and which has been debated now
1944
01:49:23,473 --> 01:49:26,016
by this estimable body
for the past several weeks,
1945
01:49:27,102 --> 01:49:28,310
today we will vote.
1946
01:49:33,775 --> 01:49:35,693
By mutual agreement,
1947
01:49:35,777 --> 01:49:38,028
we shall hear brief, final statements,
1948
01:49:39,614 --> 01:49:41,073
beginning with
1949
01:49:41,157 --> 01:49:43,409
the honorable
George Pendleton of Ohio.
1950
01:49:49,791 --> 01:49:51,125
I have just received
1951
01:49:53,044 --> 01:49:54,128
confirmation
1952
01:49:54,838 --> 01:49:57,214
of what previously has
been merely rumored.
1953
01:49:57,298 --> 01:49:59,883
Affidavits from loyal citizens
1954
01:49:59,968 --> 01:50:01,510
recently returned from Richmond.
1955
01:50:01,636 --> 01:50:04,179
They testify that
commissioners have indeed
1956
01:50:04,472 --> 01:50:05,764
come north and ought to have arrived
1957
01:50:05,849 --> 01:50:07,725
by now in Washington City
1958
01:50:07,809 --> 01:50:10,811
bearing an offer of immediate cessation
1959
01:50:11,187 --> 01:50:12,354
of our civil war.
1960
01:50:14,691 --> 01:50:15,816
Is it true, sir?
1961
01:50:16,151 --> 01:50:18,402
Are there Confederate
commissioners in the capital?
1962
01:50:18,486 --> 01:50:20,279
I have no idea where they are
or if they've arrived.
1963
01:50:20,363 --> 01:50:21,488
They'll arrive.
1964
01:50:21,823 --> 01:50:23,741
I appeal to
my fellow Democrats,
1965
01:50:23,825 --> 01:50:25,993
to all Republican representatives
1966
01:50:26,077 --> 01:50:27,494
who give a fig for peace,
1967
01:50:27,829 --> 01:50:29,830
postpone this vote!
1968
01:50:30,039 --> 01:50:31,165
Until we have answers
1969
01:50:31,249 --> 01:50:32,416
from the President himself!
1970
01:50:32,709 --> 01:50:33,709
Postpone the vote!
1971
01:50:34,169 --> 01:50:36,545
Postpone the vote!
1972
01:50:36,629 --> 01:50:42,801
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
1973
01:50:42,886 --> 01:50:45,929
Postpone the vote!
1974
01:50:46,014 --> 01:50:47,639
- Postpone the vote!
- Gentlemen!
1975
01:50:47,724 --> 01:50:49,141
Postpone the vote!
1976
01:50:49,601 --> 01:50:54,813
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
1977
01:50:56,733 --> 01:50:58,609
I have made a motion!
1978
01:50:58,693 --> 01:51:01,236
Does anyone care to second my motion?
1979
01:51:13,374 --> 01:51:14,541
Gentlemen.
1980
01:51:15,752 --> 01:51:17,336
The conservative faction
1981
01:51:17,420 --> 01:51:19,546
of border and western Republicans
1982
01:51:19,631 --> 01:51:21,840
cannot approve this amendment,
1983
01:51:21,925 --> 01:51:24,009
about which we harbor grave doubts,
1984
01:51:24,761 --> 01:51:28,305
if a peace offer is being
held hostage to its success.
1985
01:51:29,265 --> 01:51:31,183
Joining together with
our Democratic colleagues,
1986
01:51:31,267 --> 01:51:32,392
I second the motion
1987
01:51:32,477 --> 01:51:33,894
to postpone.
1988
01:51:33,978 --> 01:51:35,898
He must deny peace
commissioners are in the city.
1989
01:51:35,939 --> 01:51:37,231
Quick, man. Quick.
1990
01:52:26,906 --> 01:52:29,825
This is precisely
what Mr. Wood wishes me
1991
01:52:29,909 --> 01:52:31,159
to respond to?
1992
01:52:32,495 --> 01:52:34,246
Word for word, this is precisely
1993
01:52:34,330 --> 01:52:36,206
the assurance that he demands of me?
1994
01:52:36,708 --> 01:52:38,000
Yes, sir.
1995
01:52:57,770 --> 01:52:59,271
Give this to Mr. Ashley.
1996
01:53:02,775 --> 01:53:06,486
I feel I have to say,
Mr. Lincoln, that...
1997
01:53:07,614 --> 01:53:09,114
Could you please just step outside?
1998
01:53:09,490 --> 01:53:10,611
You want to have a chat now,
1999
01:53:10,658 --> 01:53:11,783
with the whole of the
House of Representatives
2000
01:53:11,868 --> 01:53:12,993
waiting on this?
2001
01:53:13,620 --> 01:53:15,996
Making false representation
to Congress, is...
2002
01:53:16,664 --> 01:53:18,248
- It's...
- It's impeachable,
2003
01:53:18,333 --> 01:53:21,001
but I've made no such
false representation.
2004
01:53:21,419 --> 01:53:22,669
But there are.
2005
01:53:23,379 --> 01:53:24,819
There is a delegation from Richmond.
2006
01:53:25,465 --> 01:53:26,798
Give me the note, Johnnie.
2007
01:53:30,595 --> 01:53:32,387
Please, deliver that to Mr. Ashley.
2008
01:53:51,699 --> 01:53:52,866
From the President.
2009
01:53:53,785 --> 01:53:55,025
"So far as I know, there are no"
2010
01:53:55,036 --> 01:53:56,453
"peace commissioners in the city"
2011
01:53:56,537 --> 01:53:57,871
"nor are there likely to be."
2012
01:53:59,165 --> 01:54:00,832
"So far as I know"?
2013
01:54:02,210 --> 01:54:03,293
That means nothing.
2014
01:54:04,754 --> 01:54:07,756
Are there commissioners from
the South, or aren't there?
2015
01:54:09,175 --> 01:54:10,634
The President
has answered you, sir.
2016
01:54:10,718 --> 01:54:12,010
Your peace offer is a fiction.
2017
01:54:12,303 --> 01:54:13,470
That is not a denial.
2018
01:54:14,347 --> 01:54:15,889
It is a lawyer's dodge!
2019
01:54:17,350 --> 01:54:19,434
Mr. Haddam, is your faction satisfied?
2020
01:54:22,313 --> 01:54:24,815
The conservative Republican
faction is satisfied.
2021
01:54:24,899 --> 01:54:26,400
And we thank Mr. Lincoln.
2022
01:54:27,652 --> 01:54:29,653
I move to table Mr. Wood's motion.
2023
01:54:30,113 --> 01:54:31,154
Tabled!
2024
01:54:34,659 --> 01:54:37,285
Mr. Colfax, I order the main question.
2025
01:54:38,037 --> 01:54:39,871
A motion has been made to bring the bill
2026
01:54:39,956 --> 01:54:41,873
for the 13th Amendment to a vote.
2027
01:54:41,958 --> 01:54:43,000
Do I hear a second?
2028
01:54:43,167 --> 01:54:44,334
I second the motion.
2029
01:54:44,544 --> 01:54:46,795
So moved, so ordered.
2030
01:54:47,505 --> 01:54:48,630
The Clerk will now...
2031
01:54:48,715 --> 01:54:49,881
Quiet, please!
2032
01:54:51,509 --> 01:54:53,802
The Clerk will now
call the roll for the voting.
2033
01:54:59,892 --> 01:55:01,059
We begin with Connecticut.
2034
01:55:01,352 --> 01:55:03,061
Mr. Augustus Benjamin,
2035
01:55:03,146 --> 01:55:05,522
on the matter of this amendment,
how say you?
2036
01:55:05,982 --> 01:55:07,065
Nay!
2037
01:55:08,693 --> 01:55:10,193
Mr. Arthur Bentleigh.
2038
01:55:10,778 --> 01:55:12,529
Nay!
2039
01:55:15,950 --> 01:55:18,285
Mr. John Ellis, how say you?
2040
01:55:18,703 --> 01:55:19,745
Aye!
2041
01:55:19,829 --> 01:55:20,829
What!
2042
01:55:27,545 --> 01:55:30,505
Missouri next. Mr. Walter Appleton.
2043
01:55:31,466 --> 01:55:32,758
I vote no.
2044
01:55:34,427 --> 01:55:35,677
Mr. Josiah Burton.
2045
01:55:37,221 --> 01:55:41,016
Beanpole Burton is pleased to vote yea!
2046
01:55:43,144 --> 01:55:44,478
The State of New Jersey.
2047
01:55:44,562 --> 01:55:46,730
- Mr. Nehemiah Cleary.
- No!
2048
01:55:49,567 --> 01:55:50,984
Mr. James Martinson.
2049
01:55:51,611 --> 01:55:53,653
Mr. Martinson has delegated me
2050
01:55:54,072 --> 01:55:55,822
to say he is indisposed.
2051
01:55:56,699 --> 01:55:58,033
And he abstains.
2052
01:56:00,453 --> 01:56:01,661
Mr. Austin J. Roberts.
2053
01:56:01,913 --> 01:56:04,206
Also indisposed, also abstaining.
2054
01:56:09,504 --> 01:56:10,796
Illinois concluded.
2055
01:56:13,007 --> 01:56:15,217
Mr. Harold Hollister. How say you?
2056
01:56:15,927 --> 01:56:16,968
No.
2057
01:56:17,929 --> 01:56:19,221
Mr. Hutton.
2058
01:56:20,473 --> 01:56:22,641
Mr. William Hutton. Cast your vote.
2059
01:56:25,061 --> 01:56:27,646
William Hutton,
remembering at this moment
2060
01:56:27,730 --> 01:56:29,606
his beloved brother Frederick
2061
01:56:29,690 --> 01:56:32,025
votes against the amendment.
2062
01:56:44,372 --> 01:56:45,497
Webster Allen votes no.
2063
01:56:48,793 --> 01:56:50,001
Webster Allen,
2064
01:56:50,086 --> 01:56:52,587
Illinois, Democrat,
2065
01:56:52,672 --> 01:56:54,673
votes no.
2066
01:56:56,425 --> 01:57:00,220
Halberd Law, Indiana, Democrat,
2067
01:57:00,304 --> 01:57:01,721
votes no.
2068
01:57:03,933 --> 01:57:07,394
Archibald Moran, yes.
2069
01:57:10,148 --> 01:57:12,732
Ambrose Baylor, yes.
2070
01:57:14,610 --> 01:57:17,279
Mr. Walter H. Washburn.
2071
01:57:18,114 --> 01:57:19,281
Votes no.
2072
01:57:23,035 --> 01:57:25,912
And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you?
2073
01:57:37,925 --> 01:57:39,467
My vote ties us.
2074
01:57:43,598 --> 01:57:44,639
Sir, Mr. Yeaman,
2075
01:57:44,724 --> 01:57:46,433
I didn't hear your vote.
2076
01:57:47,226 --> 01:57:50,061
I said "Aye", Mr. McPherson!
2077
01:57:50,897 --> 01:57:51,938
Aye!
2078
01:57:52,064 --> 01:57:53,064
Traitor!
2079
01:57:53,191 --> 01:57:54,191
Order!
2080
01:58:07,788 --> 01:58:09,289
Order in my chamber!
2081
01:58:16,047 --> 01:58:18,882
Mr. McPherson, you may proceed.
2082
01:58:22,261 --> 01:58:24,679
Mr. Clay R. Hawkins of Ohio.
2083
01:58:34,899 --> 01:58:36,524
Goddamn it, I'm voting yes.
2084
01:58:37,652 --> 01:58:39,569
I don't care, you shoot me dead!
2085
01:58:39,654 --> 01:58:42,072
You shoot me dead! I am voting yes!
2086
01:58:43,574 --> 01:58:44,950
Mr. Edwin F. LeClerk.
2087
01:58:45,534 --> 01:58:46,534
No!
2088
01:58:49,372 --> 01:58:52,540
Oh, to hell with it.
Shoot me dead, too! Yes!
2089
01:58:55,878 --> 01:58:56,878
I mean...
2090
01:58:57,630 --> 01:59:00,090
Abstention. Abstention!
2091
01:59:04,470 --> 01:59:05,929
Spineless! No gender.
2092
01:59:12,395 --> 01:59:13,853
Mr. Alexander Coffroth.
2093
01:59:19,110 --> 01:59:21,111
I vote
2094
01:59:21,862 --> 01:59:22,904
yes.
2095
01:59:27,827 --> 01:59:28,910
Yea.
2096
01:59:30,496 --> 01:59:32,038
James Brooks...
2097
01:59:33,040 --> 01:59:34,249
Nay.
2098
01:59:35,459 --> 01:59:36,918
Josiah Grenelle...
2099
01:59:38,212 --> 01:59:39,421
Yea.
2100
01:59:40,548 --> 01:59:41,715
Meyer Strauss...
2101
01:59:43,050 --> 01:59:44,134
Nay.
2102
01:59:44,802 --> 01:59:46,845
- Mr. Joseph Marstern.
- Nay.
2103
01:59:46,929 --> 01:59:49,306
- Mr. Chilton A. Elliot.
- No!
2104
01:59:49,807 --> 01:59:51,808
- Mr. Daniel G. Stuart.
- I vote yes.
2105
01:59:52,184 --> 01:59:53,184
- Mr. Howard Guilfoyle.
- Yea.
2106
01:59:53,311 --> 01:59:54,686
- John F. McKenzie.
- Yea.
2107
01:59:54,854 --> 01:59:56,062
- Andrew E. Fink.
- Nay.
2108
01:59:56,147 --> 01:59:57,689
- Mr. John A. Castle.
- Yea.
2109
01:59:57,773 --> 01:59:59,149
- Mr. Hanready.
- Nay.
2110
01:59:59,317 --> 02:00:00,734
- And Mr. Rufus Warren?
- Yea.
2111
02:00:21,672 --> 02:00:23,423
The roll call concludes.
2112
02:00:23,924 --> 02:00:26,092
The voting is completed. Now...
2113
02:00:26,177 --> 02:00:28,928
Mr. Clerk, please call my name.
2114
02:00:30,056 --> 02:00:31,264
I want to cast a vote.
2115
02:00:31,349 --> 02:00:32,599
I object.
2116
02:00:33,476 --> 02:00:34,851
The Speaker doesn't vote.
2117
02:00:35,144 --> 02:00:37,312
The Speaker may vote if he so chooses.
2118
02:00:37,730 --> 02:00:39,647
It is highly unusual, sir.
2119
02:00:39,857 --> 02:00:41,483
This isn't usual, Mr. Pendleton.
2120
02:00:41,567 --> 02:00:42,776
This is history.
2121
02:00:45,237 --> 02:00:47,655
How does Mr. Schuyler Colfax vote?
2122
02:00:52,495 --> 02:00:53,953
Aye, of course.
2123
02:01:17,228 --> 02:01:18,478
The final vote.
2124
02:01:20,314 --> 02:01:22,357
Eight absent or not voting.
2125
02:01:24,276 --> 02:01:26,069
Fifty-six votes against.
2126
02:01:27,321 --> 02:01:29,572
One hundred and nineteen votes for.
2127
02:01:30,616 --> 02:01:32,325
With a margin of two votes...
2128
02:02:21,125 --> 02:02:23,001
We chose great leadership.
2129
02:02:37,099 --> 02:02:38,933
We'll rally round the flag, boys
2130
02:02:39,018 --> 02:02:40,768
We'll rally once again
2131
02:02:40,853 --> 02:02:42,854
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
2132
02:02:44,273 --> 02:02:46,733
We will rally from the hillside
2133
02:02:46,817 --> 02:02:48,735
We'll gather from the plain
2134
02:02:48,819 --> 02:02:52,405
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
2135
02:02:52,781 --> 02:02:57,035
The Union forever!
Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
2136
02:02:57,119 --> 02:02:58,953
Down with the traitor
2137
02:02:59,038 --> 02:03:00,747
And up with the star
2138
02:03:00,956 --> 02:03:04,876
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
2139
02:03:05,169 --> 02:03:06,794
Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
2140
02:03:06,879 --> 02:03:08,963
The bill, Mr. McPherson. May I?
2141
02:03:11,425 --> 02:03:14,928
The Union forever!
Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
2142
02:03:15,262 --> 02:03:17,805
That's, that's the official bill.
2143
02:03:17,890 --> 02:03:19,933
I'll return it in the morning.
2144
02:03:20,518 --> 02:03:21,893
Creased,
2145
02:03:22,770 --> 02:03:23,770
but unharmed.
2146
02:03:23,854 --> 02:03:27,524
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
2147
02:03:27,608 --> 02:03:31,903
We are springing to the call
Of the loyal, true and brave
2148
02:03:32,071 --> 02:03:33,432
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
2149
02:03:35,658 --> 02:03:37,825
And we'll fill our vacant ranks
2150
02:03:37,910 --> 02:03:39,827
With a million freemen more
2151
02:03:40,704 --> 02:03:43,456
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
2152
02:03:44,625 --> 02:03:46,167
The Union forever!
2153
02:03:47,002 --> 02:03:48,503
Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
2154
02:03:49,088 --> 02:03:52,507
Down with the traitor
And up with the star
2155
02:04:14,446 --> 02:04:16,573
A gift for you.
2156
02:04:20,911 --> 02:04:22,996
The greatest measure
of the 19th century,
2157
02:04:23,080 --> 02:04:24,163
passed by corruption,
2158
02:04:24,248 --> 02:04:27,500
aided and abetted by
the purest man in America.
2159
02:04:46,145 --> 02:04:48,062
I wish you had been present.
2160
02:04:48,856 --> 02:04:50,940
- I wish I'd been.
- It was a spectacle.
2161
02:04:51,817 --> 02:04:54,277
You can't bring your
housekeeper to the House.
2162
02:04:54,361 --> 02:04:56,362
I won't give them gossip.
2163
02:04:56,447 --> 02:04:57,989
This is enough.
2164
02:04:58,365 --> 02:04:59,490
This is...
2165
02:05:01,160 --> 02:05:02,952
It's more than enough for now.
2166
02:05:04,538 --> 02:05:06,247
Read it to me again, my love.
2167
02:05:08,250 --> 02:05:10,126
- "Proposed..."
- And adopted.
2168
02:05:10,210 --> 02:05:11,586
"Adopted,"
2169
02:05:12,254 --> 02:05:13,379
"an amendment to"
2170
02:05:13,464 --> 02:05:16,424
"the Constitution of the United States."
2171
02:05:16,508 --> 02:05:17,925
"Section One."
2172
02:05:18,344 --> 02:05:22,138
"Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude"
2173
02:05:22,222 --> 02:05:25,016
"except as a punishment for crime"
2174
02:05:25,100 --> 02:05:28,561
"whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted"
2175
02:05:29,104 --> 02:05:31,939
"shall exist within the United States"
2176
02:05:32,441 --> 02:05:35,902
"or any place subject
to their jurisdiction."
2177
02:05:35,986 --> 02:05:37,403
Section Two.
2178
02:05:37,905 --> 02:05:42,075
"Congress shall have power
to enforce this amendment"
2179
02:05:42,159 --> 02:05:44,160
"by appropriate legislation."
2180
02:06:06,350 --> 02:06:07,558
Let me be blunt.
2181
02:06:08,268 --> 02:06:09,936
Will the Southern states
2182
02:06:10,020 --> 02:06:12,563
resume their former position
in the Union
2183
02:06:12,648 --> 02:06:14,148
speedily enough to enable us
2184
02:06:14,233 --> 02:06:16,818
to block ratification to this here
2185
02:06:16,902 --> 02:06:18,069
13th Amendment?
2186
02:06:22,700 --> 02:06:24,242
I'd like peace immediately.
2187
02:06:25,202 --> 02:06:26,619
Yes, and?
2188
02:06:29,498 --> 02:06:32,083
I'd like your states restored to
2189
02:06:32,167 --> 02:06:35,753
their practical relations
with the Union immediately.
2190
02:06:38,507 --> 02:06:40,591
If this could be given to me in writing,
2191
02:06:41,135 --> 02:06:43,052
as Vice President of the Confederacy,
2192
02:06:43,137 --> 02:06:44,470
I'd bring that document
2193
02:06:44,555 --> 02:06:46,389
with celerity, to Jefferson Davis.
2194
02:06:49,059 --> 02:06:50,184
Surrender.
2195
02:06:50,686 --> 02:06:53,020
And we can discuss reconstruction.
2196
02:06:54,857 --> 02:06:56,441
Surrender won't be thought of.
2197
02:06:57,234 --> 02:07:00,403
Unless you've assured us, in writing,
2198
02:07:00,487 --> 02:07:03,197
that we'll be readmitted
in time to block this amendment.
2199
02:07:03,782 --> 02:07:07,326
This is the arrogant demand
of a conqueror.
2200
02:07:07,536 --> 02:07:10,413
You'll not be
a conquered people, Mr. Hunter.
2201
02:07:10,497 --> 02:07:11,956
You will be citizens.
2202
02:07:13,125 --> 02:07:14,709
Returned to the laws and
the guarantees of rights
2203
02:07:14,793 --> 02:07:15,793
of the Constitution.
2204
02:07:16,712 --> 02:07:19,380
Which now extinguishes slavery.
2205
02:07:19,465 --> 02:07:22,216
And with it, our economy.
2206
02:07:22,551 --> 02:07:23,912
All our laws will be determined by
2207
02:07:23,969 --> 02:07:25,595
a Congress of vengeful Yankees.
2208
02:07:26,388 --> 02:07:28,931
All our rights will be subject
to a Supreme Court
2209
02:07:29,641 --> 02:07:31,642
benched by bloody Republican radicals.
2210
02:07:32,311 --> 02:07:35,229
All our traditions will be obliterated.
2211
02:07:36,190 --> 02:07:37,940
We won't know ourselves anymore.
2212
02:07:39,985 --> 02:07:42,403
We ain't here to discuss reconstruction.
2213
02:07:42,488 --> 02:07:44,864
We have no legal basis
for that discussion.
2214
02:07:44,948 --> 02:07:46,574
But I don't want to deal falsely.
2215
02:07:46,658 --> 02:07:49,202
The Northern states
will ratify, most of them.
2216
02:07:49,286 --> 02:07:51,078
As I figure it, it remains for
two of the Southern states
2217
02:07:51,163 --> 02:07:52,205
to do the same,
2218
02:07:52,289 --> 02:07:53,956
even after all are readmitted.
2219
02:07:54,041 --> 02:07:55,625
And I've been working on that.
2220
02:07:56,585 --> 02:07:57,710
Tennessee and Louisiana.
2221
02:07:58,128 --> 02:08:00,338
Arkansas, too, most likely.
It'll be ratified.
2222
02:08:01,048 --> 02:08:03,800
Slavery, sir... It's done.
2223
02:08:17,272 --> 02:08:20,024
If we submit ourselves to law, Alex,
2224
02:08:20,776 --> 02:08:22,777
even submit to losing freedoms,
2225
02:08:24,196 --> 02:08:26,364
the freedom to oppress, for instance
2226
02:08:27,491 --> 02:08:29,283
we may discover other freedoms
2227
02:08:29,409 --> 02:08:30,910
previously unknown to us.
2228
02:08:31,995 --> 02:08:35,540
Had you kept faith
with the democratic process,
2229
02:08:35,624 --> 02:08:37,083
as frustrating as that can be...
2230
02:08:37,167 --> 02:08:38,417
Come, sir.
2231
02:08:38,544 --> 02:08:41,045
Spare us, at least, these pieties.
2232
02:08:42,005 --> 02:08:43,589
Did you defeat us with ballots?
2233
02:08:45,050 --> 02:08:46,884
How have you held your Union together?
2234
02:08:47,886 --> 02:08:49,095
Through democracy?
2235
02:08:50,347 --> 02:08:52,098
How many hundreds
of thousands have died
2236
02:08:52,182 --> 02:08:53,599
during your administration?
2237
02:08:55,018 --> 02:08:57,645
Your Union, sir, is bonded
in cannon fire and death.
2238
02:09:01,441 --> 02:09:02,859
It may be you're right.
2239
02:09:07,281 --> 02:09:10,116
But say all we done is show the world
2240
02:09:10,200 --> 02:09:12,368
that democracy isn't chaos.
2241
02:09:15,038 --> 02:09:18,499
That there is a great, invisible strength
2242
02:09:18,584 --> 02:09:19,959
in a people's union.
2243
02:09:20,878 --> 02:09:24,755
Say we've shown that a people
can endure awful sacrifice
2244
02:09:24,840 --> 02:09:26,507
and yet cohere.
2245
02:09:27,134 --> 02:09:28,301
Mightn't that save at least
2246
02:09:28,385 --> 02:09:30,636
the idea of democracy to aspire to?
2247
02:09:32,097 --> 02:09:34,390
Eventually to become worthy of?
2248
02:09:38,562 --> 02:09:40,479
At all rates, whatever may be proven
2249
02:09:40,564 --> 02:09:42,773
by blood and sacrifice
2250
02:09:42,858 --> 02:09:44,400
must have been proved by now.
2251
02:09:54,786 --> 02:09:56,913
Shall we stop this bleeding?
2252
02:11:35,554 --> 02:11:36,554
Once he surrenders,
2253
02:11:36,638 --> 02:11:38,431
send his boys back to their homes
2254
02:11:39,266 --> 02:11:40,891
and their farms, their shops.
2255
02:11:42,811 --> 02:11:43,936
Yes, sir.
2256
02:11:45,272 --> 02:11:46,272
As we discussed.
2257
02:11:46,356 --> 02:11:48,566
Liberality all around, not punishment.
2258
02:11:48,650 --> 02:11:49,734
I don't want that.
2259
02:11:50,610 --> 02:11:53,487
And their leaders,
Jeff and the rest of them,
2260
02:11:53,572 --> 02:11:54,864
they escape, leave the country
2261
02:11:54,948 --> 02:11:57,450
while my back's turned,
that wouldn't upset me none.
2262
02:11:58,785 --> 02:12:01,495
When peace comes,
it mustn't just be hangings.
2263
02:12:07,961 --> 02:12:09,503
By outward appearance
2264
02:12:11,256 --> 02:12:14,050
you're 10 years older
than you were a year ago.
2265
02:12:17,387 --> 02:12:19,638
Some weariness has bit at my bones.
2266
02:12:33,111 --> 02:12:35,404
I never seen the like of it before,
2267
02:12:35,489 --> 02:12:36,989
what I seen today.
2268
02:12:38,575 --> 02:12:40,409
Never seen the like of it before.
2269
02:12:43,121 --> 02:12:44,663
You always knew that.
2270
02:12:46,083 --> 02:12:47,625
What this was going to be.
2271
02:12:49,461 --> 02:12:51,545
Intimate and ugly.
2272
02:12:54,716 --> 02:12:56,217
You must have needed to see it close
2273
02:12:56,301 --> 02:12:57,701
when you decided to come down here.
2274
02:13:16,947 --> 02:13:20,616
We've made it possible for
one another to do terrible things.
2275
02:13:22,994 --> 02:13:24,578
We've won the war.
2276
02:13:25,580 --> 02:13:28,916
Now you have to lead us out of it.
2277
02:15:00,967 --> 02:15:02,593
You have an itch to travel?
2278
02:15:02,928 --> 02:15:04,762
I'd like that.
2279
02:15:06,264 --> 02:15:08,515
To the West, by rail.
2280
02:15:08,600 --> 02:15:09,975
Overseas.
2281
02:15:12,145 --> 02:15:13,312
The Holy Land.
2282
02:15:16,316 --> 02:15:17,942
Awfully pious for a man
2283
02:15:18,026 --> 02:15:20,569
who takes his wife out
buggy-riding on Good Friday.
2284
02:15:21,321 --> 02:15:22,488
Jerusalem.
2285
02:15:23,073 --> 02:15:24,907
Where David and Solomon walked.
2286
02:15:25,242 --> 02:15:28,702
I dream of walking in that ancient city.
2287
02:15:35,001 --> 02:15:36,710
All anyone will remember of me
2288
02:15:36,795 --> 02:15:39,463
is I was crazy and
I ruined your happiness.
2289
02:15:40,215 --> 02:15:42,758
Anyone thinks that
doesn't understand, Molly.
2290
02:15:46,638 --> 02:15:48,138
When they look at you,
2291
02:15:49,641 --> 02:15:52,393
at what it cost to live
at the heart of this,
2292
02:15:53,895 --> 02:15:56,146
they'll wonder at it.
They'll wonder at you.
2293
02:15:56,231 --> 02:15:57,398
They should.
2294
02:15:58,733 --> 02:15:59,942
But they should also look at
2295
02:16:00,026 --> 02:16:01,568
the wretched woman by your side
2296
02:16:01,653 --> 02:16:04,488
if they want to understand
what this was truly like.
2297
02:16:05,615 --> 02:16:07,116
For the ordinary person.
2298
02:16:08,159 --> 02:16:09,743
For anyone other than you.
2299
02:16:09,911 --> 02:16:11,662
You must try to be happier.
2300
02:16:12,622 --> 02:16:14,164
We must, both of us.
2301
02:16:14,708 --> 02:16:16,917
We've been so miserable for so long.
2302
02:16:26,594 --> 02:16:29,388
I did say some colored men...
2303
02:16:29,472 --> 02:16:31,932
The intelligent, the educated, and the
2304
02:16:32,017 --> 02:16:33,976
veterans. I qualified it.
2305
02:16:34,060 --> 02:16:35,561
Mr. Stevens is furious.
2306
02:16:35,645 --> 02:16:37,354
He wants to know why you qualified it.
2307
02:16:37,439 --> 02:16:39,690
No one heard
the intelligent or educated part.
2308
02:16:39,774 --> 02:16:41,817
All they heard was the first time
2309
02:16:41,901 --> 02:16:44,611
any president has ever made mention
2310
02:16:44,696 --> 02:16:46,030
of Negro voting.
2311
02:16:46,406 --> 02:16:50,200
Still, I wish I'd mentioned it
in a better speech.
2312
02:16:50,285 --> 02:16:52,036
Mr. Stevens also wants to know
2313
02:16:52,120 --> 02:16:53,954
why you didn't make a better speech.
2314
02:16:56,666 --> 02:16:57,958
Mrs. Lincoln is
waiting in the carriage.
2315
02:16:58,084 --> 02:17:00,544
She wants me to remind you
of the hour, and that
2316
02:17:00,628 --> 02:17:03,422
you'll have to pick up
Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.
2317
02:17:06,926 --> 02:17:08,761
- Am I in trouble?
- No, sir.
2318
02:17:09,262 --> 02:17:10,637
Thank you, Mr. Slade.
2319
02:17:26,196 --> 02:17:27,654
I suppose it's time to go.
2320
02:17:29,282 --> 02:17:30,908
Though I would rather stay.
2321
02:19:00,707 --> 02:19:03,083
The President has been shot!
2322
02:19:06,045 --> 02:19:07,296
The President
2323
02:19:07,380 --> 02:19:10,132
has been shot! At Ford's Theater!
2324
02:19:15,805 --> 02:19:18,015
No. No!
2325
02:19:52,008 --> 02:19:55,344
It's 7:22 in the morning.
2326
02:19:56,387 --> 02:19:58,096
Saturday, the 15th of April.
2327
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It's all over.
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The President is no more.
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Now he belongs to the ages.
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Fondly do we hope,
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fervently do we pray,
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that this mighty scourge of war,
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may speedily pass away.
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Yet if God wills that it continue
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until all the wealth piled
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by the bondman's 250 years
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of unrequited toil shall be sunk
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and until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash
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shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword
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as was said 3,000 years ago,
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so still it must be said,
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"The judgments of the Lord"
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"are true and righteous altogether."
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With malice toward none,
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with charity for all,
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with firmness in the right,
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as God gives us to see the right,
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let us strive on to finish
the work we are in,
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to bind up the nation's wounds,
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to care
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for him who shall have borne the battle
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and for his widow
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and his orphan,
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to do all which may achieve and cherish
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a just and a lasting peace
among ourselves
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