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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:48,042 --> 00:02:50,460 Some of us was in the Second Kansas Colored. 2 00:02:50,545 --> 00:02:53,088 We fought the Rebs at Jenkins' Ferry last April 3 00:02:53,214 --> 00:02:54,894 just after they killed every Negro soldier 4 00:02:55,008 --> 00:02:56,717 they captured at Poison Springs. 5 00:02:57,719 --> 00:02:59,511 So at Jenkins' Ferry, 6 00:02:59,721 --> 00:03:02,264 we decided warn't takin' no Reb prisoners. 7 00:03:02,390 --> 00:03:05,017 And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive. 8 00:03:05,727 --> 00:03:07,686 The ones of us that didn't die that day, 9 00:03:07,770 --> 00:03:10,564 we joined up with the 116th U.S. Colored, sir, 10 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:12,274 from Camp Nelson, Kentucky. 11 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:15,277 What's your name, soldier? 12 00:03:15,403 --> 00:03:17,529 Private. Harold Green, sir. 13 00:03:18,948 --> 00:03:20,574 I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir. 14 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:22,784 Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry. 15 00:03:22,952 --> 00:03:24,953 We're waiting over there. 16 00:03:25,204 --> 00:03:26,747 We're leaving our horses behind 17 00:03:26,873 --> 00:03:28,434 and shipping out with the 24th Infantry 18 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:31,376 for the assault next week on Wilmington. 19 00:03:33,546 --> 00:03:35,881 How long have you been a soldier? 20 00:03:36,466 --> 00:03:38,050 Two years, sir. 21 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:40,469 The Second Kansas Colored Infantry, 22 00:03:40,595 --> 00:03:42,888 they fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry. 23 00:03:43,264 --> 00:03:44,473 That's right, sir. 24 00:03:44,599 --> 00:03:46,279 They killed a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir. 25 00:03:46,392 --> 00:03:48,185 They were very brave. 26 00:03:48,603 --> 00:03:51,772 And making $3 less each month than white soldiers. 27 00:03:51,939 --> 00:03:53,106 Us Second Kansas boys... 28 00:03:53,191 --> 00:03:56,485 Another $3 subtracted from our pay for our uniforms. 29 00:03:56,778 --> 00:03:58,028 That was true, yes sir, but that's changed. 30 00:03:58,112 --> 00:04:01,281 Equal pay now, but still no commissioned Negro officers. 31 00:04:01,366 --> 00:04:03,367 I'm aware of that, Corporal Clark. 32 00:04:03,451 --> 00:04:05,452 Yes, sir. That's good that you're aware, sir... 33 00:04:05,787 --> 00:04:06,787 Do you think the Wilmington attack... 34 00:04:06,871 --> 00:04:09,414 Now that white people have accustomed themselves 35 00:04:09,499 --> 00:04:11,249 to seeing Negro men with guns 36 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:12,501 fighting on their behalf, 37 00:04:12,627 --> 00:04:13,919 and now that they can tolerate 38 00:04:14,003 --> 00:04:16,254 Negro soldiers getting equal pay 39 00:04:16,339 --> 00:04:18,882 maybe in a few years, they can abide the idea 40 00:04:18,966 --> 00:04:21,259 of Negro lieutenants and captains. 41 00:04:21,344 --> 00:04:23,970 In fifty years, maybe a Negro colonel. 42 00:04:24,722 --> 00:04:27,307 In a hundred years, the vote. 43 00:04:30,853 --> 00:04:33,897 What will you do after the war, Corporal Clark? 44 00:04:35,316 --> 00:04:36,650 Work, sir. 45 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,528 Perhaps you'll hire me. 46 00:04:39,654 --> 00:04:41,154 Perhaps I will. 47 00:04:41,656 --> 00:04:43,281 But you should know, sir, 48 00:04:43,366 --> 00:04:45,492 that I get sick at the smell of boot black 49 00:04:45,576 --> 00:04:47,494 and I cannot cut hair. 50 00:04:48,162 --> 00:04:49,871 I've yet to find a man could cut mine 51 00:04:49,956 --> 00:04:52,290 so that it'd make any difference. 52 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:53,940 You got springy hair for a white man. 53 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,210 Yes, I do. 54 00:04:55,294 --> 00:04:57,546 My last barber hanged himself. 55 00:04:59,507 --> 00:05:01,466 And the one before that. 56 00:05:01,634 --> 00:05:03,218 Left me his scissors in his will. 57 00:05:06,806 --> 00:05:07,848 President Lincoln, sir. 58 00:05:07,932 --> 00:05:08,932 Good evening, boys. 59 00:05:09,016 --> 00:05:10,600 We saw you, and... 60 00:05:10,768 --> 00:05:12,519 - We were at... - We was at Gettysburg. 61 00:05:12,603 --> 00:05:14,271 You boys fight at Gettysburg? 62 00:05:14,355 --> 00:05:16,481 No, didn't fight there, we just signed up last month. 63 00:05:16,899 --> 00:05:18,775 We saw him two years ago at the cemetery dedication. 64 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:21,862 Yeah. We heard you speak... Goddamn. 65 00:05:22,029 --> 00:05:23,488 Hey, how tall are you, anyway? 66 00:05:23,573 --> 00:05:24,906 Jeez, shut up. 67 00:05:25,366 --> 00:05:26,533 Could you hear what I said? 68 00:05:26,617 --> 00:05:27,868 No, sir. Not much. 69 00:05:28,077 --> 00:05:29,119 It was... 70 00:05:29,203 --> 00:05:30,662 "Four score and seven years ago," 71 00:05:30,746 --> 00:05:32,587 "our fathers brought forth from this continent" 72 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:34,124 "a new nation, conceived in liberty" 73 00:05:34,208 --> 00:05:35,417 "and dedicated to the proposition" 74 00:05:35,501 --> 00:05:37,085 "that all men are created equal." 75 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:39,171 That's good. Thank you. 76 00:05:39,338 --> 00:05:41,047 "Now we are engaged in a great civil war," 77 00:05:41,132 --> 00:05:42,883 "testing whether that nation or any nation" 78 00:05:42,967 --> 00:05:44,301 "so conceived and so dedicated," 79 00:05:44,385 --> 00:05:45,552 "can long endure." 80 00:05:46,971 --> 00:05:48,851 "We are met on a great battlefield of that war." 81 00:05:49,056 --> 00:05:50,056 That's good, thank you. 82 00:05:50,141 --> 00:05:51,141 "We come to dedicate" 83 00:05:51,225 --> 00:05:52,392 "a portion of that field" 84 00:05:52,477 --> 00:05:54,060 "as a final resting place for those who here" 85 00:05:54,145 --> 00:05:56,438 "gave their lives that that nation might live." 86 00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:59,566 His uncles, they died on the second day of fighting. 87 00:05:59,650 --> 00:06:01,151 I know the last part. It is... 88 00:06:01,235 --> 00:06:03,153 Company up! Moving out! 89 00:06:03,654 --> 00:06:05,989 You boys best go and find your company. 90 00:06:06,073 --> 00:06:07,991 - And thank you. - Thank you, sir. 91 00:06:08,075 --> 00:06:10,076 - God bless you. - God bless you, too. 92 00:06:10,161 --> 00:06:11,661 God bless you. 93 00:06:24,425 --> 00:06:27,344 "That we here highly resolve that these dead" 94 00:06:27,428 --> 00:06:29,554 "shall not have died in vain." 95 00:06:30,389 --> 00:06:32,516 "That this nation, under God," 96 00:06:32,725 --> 00:06:35,060 "shall have a new birth of freedom" 97 00:06:35,728 --> 00:06:39,022 "and that government of the people, by the people," 98 00:06:39,398 --> 00:06:41,024 "for the people" 99 00:06:41,108 --> 00:06:43,610 "shall not perish from the earth." 100 00:07:11,597 --> 00:07:13,557 It's nighttime. 101 00:07:14,475 --> 00:07:17,477 Ship's moved by some terribie power 102 00:07:18,145 --> 00:07:20,063 at a terrific speed. 103 00:07:21,023 --> 00:07:22,899 And though it's imperceptible in the darkness, 104 00:07:22,984 --> 00:07:26,069 I have an intuition that we're headed towards a shore. 105 00:07:26,153 --> 00:07:28,947 No one else seems to be aboard the vessel. 106 00:07:29,156 --> 00:07:33,493 I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness. 107 00:07:34,537 --> 00:07:36,454 "I could be bounded in a nutshell" 108 00:07:36,539 --> 00:07:39,416 "and count myself a king of infinite space" 109 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:41,876 "were it not that I have bad dreams." 110 00:07:44,338 --> 00:07:46,098 I reckon it's the speed that's strange to me. 111 00:07:46,173 --> 00:07:48,800 I'm used to going at a deliberate pace. 112 00:07:51,387 --> 00:07:52,679 I should spare you, Molly. 113 00:07:52,763 --> 00:07:54,931 I shouldn't tell you my dreams. 114 00:07:55,016 --> 00:07:57,684 I don't want to be spared if you aren't. 115 00:07:57,893 --> 00:07:59,686 And you spare me nothing. 116 00:08:02,231 --> 00:08:03,773 Perhaps it's... 117 00:08:04,692 --> 00:08:07,319 It's the assault on Wilmington Port. 118 00:08:08,195 --> 00:08:10,780 You dream about the ship before a battle, usually. 119 00:08:11,407 --> 00:08:13,074 How's the coconut? 120 00:08:14,201 --> 00:08:15,910 Beyond description. 121 00:08:17,538 --> 00:08:19,831 Almost two years, nothing mends. 122 00:08:21,042 --> 00:08:23,168 Another casualty of the war. 123 00:08:25,671 --> 00:08:27,672 Who wants to listen to a useless woman 124 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:29,758 grouse about her carriage accident? 125 00:08:29,842 --> 00:08:31,468 - I do. - Stuff. 126 00:08:32,595 --> 00:08:34,471 You tell me dreams, that's all. 127 00:08:34,555 --> 00:08:36,306 I'm your soothsayer. 128 00:08:36,599 --> 00:08:38,141 That's all I am to you anymore. 129 00:08:38,225 --> 00:08:40,185 I'm not to be trusted 130 00:08:41,479 --> 00:08:44,272 even if it was not a carriage accident. 131 00:08:44,857 --> 00:08:47,150 Even if it was an attempted assassination. 132 00:08:47,234 --> 00:08:48,443 It was most probably an accident. 133 00:08:48,527 --> 00:08:52,072 It was an assassin whose intended target was you. 134 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:57,118 How are the plans coming along for the big shindy? 135 00:08:57,745 --> 00:08:59,788 I don't want to talk about parties. 136 00:08:59,914 --> 00:09:01,665 You don't care about parties. 137 00:09:01,749 --> 00:09:05,168 Not much, but they're a necessary hindrance. 138 00:09:10,716 --> 00:09:11,925 I know. 139 00:09:13,386 --> 00:09:15,553 I know what it's about, the ship. 140 00:09:18,099 --> 00:09:22,060 It's not Wilmington Port. It's not a military campaign. 141 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:26,481 It's the amendment to abolish slavery. 142 00:09:27,191 --> 00:09:28,316 Why else would you force me 143 00:09:28,401 --> 00:09:30,610 to invite demented radicals into my home? 144 00:09:34,448 --> 00:09:36,116 You're going to try to get the amendment passed 145 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,826 in the House of Representatives 146 00:09:38,119 --> 00:09:39,577 before the term ends? 147 00:09:39,662 --> 00:09:40,912 Before the Inauguration? 148 00:09:40,996 --> 00:09:43,498 Don't spend too much money on the flubdubs. 149 00:09:46,001 --> 00:09:48,253 No one is loved as much as you. 150 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:52,507 No one's ever been loved so much by the people. 151 00:09:52,591 --> 00:09:54,467 You might do anything now. 152 00:09:54,593 --> 00:09:57,053 Don't... Don't waste that power 153 00:09:57,138 --> 00:09:59,222 on an amendment bill that's sure of defeat. 154 00:10:02,768 --> 00:10:06,312 Did you remember Robert's coming home for the reception? 155 00:10:10,609 --> 00:10:12,360 I knew you'd forget. 156 00:10:17,783 --> 00:10:20,201 That's the ship you're sailing on, 157 00:10:20,286 --> 00:10:22,328 the 13th Amendment. 158 00:10:22,747 --> 00:10:25,498 You needn't tell me I'm right. I know I am. 159 00:10:28,210 --> 00:10:29,919 Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley. 160 00:10:30,004 --> 00:10:32,964 Well, she needs this for the grand reception. 161 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:38,845 It's slow work. 162 00:10:40,389 --> 00:10:41,765 Good night. 163 00:10:44,602 --> 00:10:46,603 Did you tell her a dream? 164 00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:21,906 Papa. 165 00:12:22,616 --> 00:12:24,284 Papa, I want to see Willie. 166 00:12:24,451 --> 00:12:26,619 Me, too, Taddie, but we can't. 167 00:12:26,954 --> 00:12:28,121 Why not? 168 00:12:28,247 --> 00:12:29,497 Willie's gone. 169 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:31,875 It's three years now he's gone. 170 00:13:02,031 --> 00:13:04,991 The part assigned to me is to raise the flag. 171 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:11,039 Which, if there be no fault in the machinery, I will do. 172 00:13:12,374 --> 00:13:13,875 And when up 173 00:13:14,585 --> 00:13:17,337 it'll be for the people to keep it up. 174 00:13:23,302 --> 00:13:24,928 That's my speech. 175 00:13:27,723 --> 00:13:30,058 We are coming, Father Abraham 176 00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:32,644 Three hundred thousand more 177 00:13:32,728 --> 00:13:34,979 From Mississippi's winding stream 178 00:13:35,064 --> 00:13:37,315 And from New England's shore 179 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:39,442 We leave our plow and workshops 180 00:13:39,526 --> 00:13:40,568 Our wives... 181 00:13:41,236 --> 00:13:44,739 Even if every Republican in the House votes yes, 182 00:13:45,032 --> 00:13:47,575 far from guaranteed. Since when has our party 183 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:49,911 unanimously supported anything? 184 00:13:50,704 --> 00:13:53,748 But say all our fellow Republicans vote for it. 185 00:13:54,583 --> 00:13:56,668 We'd still be twenty votes short. 186 00:13:56,835 --> 00:13:57,835 Only twenty? 187 00:13:57,962 --> 00:13:59,003 "Only twenty?" 188 00:13:59,088 --> 00:14:00,338 We can find twenty votes. 189 00:14:00,464 --> 00:14:03,299 Twenty House Democrats who'll vote to abolish slavery? 190 00:14:03,384 --> 00:14:04,509 In my opinion... 191 00:14:04,593 --> 00:14:06,594 To which I always listen. 192 00:14:06,762 --> 00:14:09,597 - Or pretend to. - With all three of my ears. 193 00:14:11,266 --> 00:14:12,600 We'll win the war soon. 194 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:14,727 It's inevitable, isn't it? 195 00:14:15,145 --> 00:14:17,063 Well, it ain't won yet. 196 00:14:17,439 --> 00:14:20,900 You'll begin your second term with semi-divine stature. 197 00:14:21,318 --> 00:14:23,778 Imagine the possibilities peace will bring. 198 00:14:23,862 --> 00:14:25,905 Why tarnish your invaluable luster 199 00:14:25,990 --> 00:14:27,198 with a battle in the House? 200 00:14:27,282 --> 00:14:28,992 It's a rat's nest in there. 201 00:14:29,076 --> 00:14:31,661 It's the same gang of talentless hicks and hacks 202 00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:34,080 who rejected the amendment 10 months ago. 203 00:14:34,164 --> 00:14:35,540 We'll lose. 204 00:14:37,584 --> 00:14:39,502 I like our chances now. 205 00:14:40,963 --> 00:14:43,840 Well, consider the obstacles that we'd face. 206 00:14:44,758 --> 00:14:46,718 The aforementioned two-thirds majority 207 00:14:46,802 --> 00:14:48,469 needed to pass an amendment. 208 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:51,889 We have a Republican majority, but barely more than 50%. 209 00:14:51,974 --> 00:14:53,307 Fifty-six. 210 00:14:55,352 --> 00:14:58,354 We need Democratic support. There's none to be had. 211 00:14:58,439 --> 00:15:00,273 Since the House last voted on the amendment, 212 00:15:00,357 --> 00:15:01,733 there's been an election. 213 00:15:01,817 --> 00:15:03,192 Sixty-four Democrats 214 00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:05,695 lost their House seats in November. 215 00:15:05,988 --> 00:15:08,281 That's 64 Democrats looking for work come March. 216 00:15:08,365 --> 00:15:09,449 I know. 217 00:15:09,533 --> 00:15:11,034 They don't need to worry about re-election. 218 00:15:11,118 --> 00:15:12,558 They can vote however it suits them. 219 00:15:12,578 --> 00:15:15,830 But we can't buy the vote for the amendment. 220 00:15:15,914 --> 00:15:17,874 It's too important. 221 00:15:17,958 --> 00:15:20,084 I said nothing of buying anything. 222 00:15:20,169 --> 00:15:22,503 We need twenty votes was all I said. 223 00:15:22,671 --> 00:15:26,049 Start of my second term, plenty of positions to fill. 224 00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:31,471 Mr. President, may I present 225 00:15:31,555 --> 00:15:33,639 Mr. and Mrs. Jolly who've come from Missouri... 226 00:15:33,724 --> 00:15:35,767 From Jeff City, President. 227 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:37,351 Mr. Jolly. 228 00:15:38,312 --> 00:15:39,479 Ma'am. 229 00:15:39,730 --> 00:15:42,356 And this here by the fire is Secretary of State Seward. 230 00:15:45,736 --> 00:15:47,070 Jeff City? 231 00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:53,910 I heard tell once of a Jefferson City lawyer 232 00:15:54,953 --> 00:15:56,788 who had a parrot 233 00:15:57,206 --> 00:15:59,415 that'd wake him each morning, crying out, 234 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:02,043 "Today is the day the world shall end," 235 00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:04,212 "as scripture has foretold." 236 00:16:05,547 --> 00:16:07,090 And one day... 237 00:16:08,175 --> 00:16:10,093 the lawyer shot him, 238 00:16:10,427 --> 00:16:13,262 for the sake of peace and quiet, I presume. 239 00:16:13,472 --> 00:16:16,099 Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, 240 00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:17,850 his prophecy. 241 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:29,320 There's only one toll booth in Jeff City, 242 00:16:29,404 --> 00:16:30,947 to the southwest 243 00:16:31,031 --> 00:16:33,574 and this man Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla 244 00:16:33,659 --> 00:16:35,868 been in illegal possession for near two yar 245 00:16:35,953 --> 00:16:38,204 since your man General Schofield 246 00:16:38,288 --> 00:16:39,831 set him up there. 247 00:16:39,998 --> 00:16:41,958 But President Monroe give that toll gate 248 00:16:42,042 --> 00:16:43,334 to my granpap 249 00:16:43,418 --> 00:16:45,211 and Quincy Adams 250 00:16:45,295 --> 00:16:46,879 give my pap a letter 251 00:16:46,964 --> 00:16:48,714 saying it's our'n for keeps. 252 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:50,675 Mrs. Jolly got the... 253 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:52,844 Show Mr. Lincoln the Quincy Adams letter. 254 00:16:53,303 --> 00:16:55,138 That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly. 255 00:16:55,222 --> 00:16:56,622 Just tell me what you want from me. 256 00:16:59,017 --> 00:17:01,894 Mr. Jolly's emphysema don't care for cigars. 257 00:17:02,771 --> 00:17:05,356 Madame, do you know about the proposed 258 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,482 13th Amendment of the Constitution? 259 00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:08,442 Yes, sir, everybody knows of it. 260 00:17:08,735 --> 00:17:10,194 The President favors it. 261 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:11,821 - Do you? - We do. 262 00:17:11,947 --> 00:17:13,906 You know that it abolishes slavery? 263 00:17:13,991 --> 00:17:15,158 Yes, sir, I know it. 264 00:17:15,242 --> 00:17:17,451 And is that why you favor it? 265 00:17:17,911 --> 00:17:20,830 What I favor is ending the war. 266 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:25,168 Once we do away with slavery, the Rebs'll quit fighting 267 00:17:25,669 --> 00:17:27,837 since slavery's what they're fighting for. 268 00:17:27,921 --> 00:17:30,506 Mr. Lincoln, you always says so. 269 00:17:32,301 --> 00:17:33,926 With the amendment, slavery's ended. 270 00:17:34,011 --> 00:17:36,137 And they'll give up. The war can finish then. 271 00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:40,641 If the war finished first, before we end slavery... 272 00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:43,144 President Lincoln says the war won't stop 273 00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:45,229 unless we finish slavery. 274 00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:47,356 But if it did. 275 00:17:47,441 --> 00:17:49,358 The South is exhausted. 276 00:17:49,943 --> 00:17:52,695 If they run out of bullets and men 277 00:17:53,614 --> 00:17:55,865 would you still want your... 278 00:17:56,283 --> 00:17:58,034 Who's your Representative? 279 00:17:58,118 --> 00:18:00,578 Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton. 280 00:18:00,662 --> 00:18:01,913 "Beanpole" Burton. 281 00:18:01,997 --> 00:18:04,040 I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir. 282 00:18:04,124 --> 00:18:05,166 A Republican, 283 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,336 undecided on the question of the amendment, I believe. 284 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:10,046 Perhaps you could call on him 285 00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:12,048 and inform him of your enthusiasm. 286 00:18:12,424 --> 00:18:13,466 Yeah. 287 00:18:13,550 --> 00:18:15,092 Madame. 288 00:18:15,469 --> 00:18:18,054 If the Rebels surrendered next week 289 00:18:18,513 --> 00:18:20,932 would you, at the end of this month 290 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:23,601 want Congressman Burton to vote 291 00:18:23,685 --> 00:18:25,603 for the 13th Amendment? 292 00:18:28,482 --> 00:18:31,359 If that was how it was, no more war and all 293 00:18:31,443 --> 00:18:33,736 I reckon Mr. Jolly much prefer not to have 294 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:35,738 Congress pass the amendment. 295 00:18:36,698 --> 00:18:38,616 And... 296 00:18:39,826 --> 00:18:41,369 why is that? 297 00:18:42,788 --> 00:18:43,829 Niggers. 298 00:18:43,914 --> 00:18:45,706 If he don't have to let some Alabama coon 299 00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:46,874 come up to Missouri 300 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,334 steal his chickens and his job, 301 00:18:48,418 --> 00:18:50,253 we'd much prefer that. 302 00:18:52,589 --> 00:18:53,965 The people. 303 00:18:54,049 --> 00:18:56,384 I begin to see why you're in such a great hurry 304 00:18:56,468 --> 00:18:57,551 to put it through. 305 00:18:57,636 --> 00:18:59,929 Would you let me study this letter, sir, 306 00:19:00,013 --> 00:19:01,013 about the toll booth? 307 00:19:01,890 --> 00:19:03,975 Come back to me in the morning 308 00:19:04,059 --> 00:19:06,602 and we'll consider what the law says. 309 00:19:08,063 --> 00:19:09,689 You be sure to 310 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:11,941 visit Beanpole. 311 00:19:12,693 --> 00:19:16,070 Tell him that you support passage of the amendment 312 00:19:16,154 --> 00:19:18,239 as a military necessity. 313 00:19:19,074 --> 00:19:20,241 Thank you. 314 00:19:21,952 --> 00:19:24,453 Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment. 315 00:20:03,076 --> 00:20:04,118 If procuring votes 316 00:20:04,202 --> 00:20:06,162 with offers of employment is what you intend 317 00:20:06,246 --> 00:20:07,496 I'll fetch a friend from Albany 318 00:20:07,581 --> 00:20:09,373 who can supply the skulky men 319 00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:11,584 gifted at this kind of shady work 320 00:20:11,668 --> 00:20:12,960 and spare me the indignity 321 00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:15,504 of actually speaking to Democrats. 322 00:20:15,589 --> 00:20:18,132 Spare you the exposure and liability. 323 00:20:20,969 --> 00:20:23,554 Pardon me, that's a distress signal 324 00:20:23,805 --> 00:20:27,433 which I am bound, by solemn oath, to respond to. 325 00:20:31,146 --> 00:20:32,897 Tom Pendel took away the glass camera plates 326 00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:34,940 of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over 327 00:20:35,025 --> 00:20:36,776 because Tom says Mama says they're too distressing. 328 00:20:36,860 --> 00:20:38,069 You had nightmares all night long. 329 00:20:38,153 --> 00:20:39,945 I'll have worse nightmares if you don't let me look 330 00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:41,822 at the plates again. 331 00:20:43,116 --> 00:20:44,367 Perhaps. 332 00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:47,995 You can't afford a single defection 333 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,246 from anyone in the party. 334 00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:51,874 Not even a single Republican absent when they vote. 335 00:20:51,958 --> 00:20:54,168 You know who you've got to see. 336 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,881 Send over to Blair House. 337 00:21:01,468 --> 00:21:05,304 Ask Preston Blair can I call on him around 5:00. 338 00:21:05,889 --> 00:21:07,348 God help you. 339 00:21:08,141 --> 00:21:10,393 God alone knows what he'll ask you to give him. 340 00:21:11,978 --> 00:21:13,854 If the Blaire tell them to, 341 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,357 no Republican will balk at voting for the amendment. 342 00:21:16,566 --> 00:21:19,026 No conservative Republican is what you mean. 343 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:21,445 All Republicans ought to be conservative. 344 00:21:21,738 --> 00:21:22,905 I founded this party, 345 00:21:22,989 --> 00:21:25,116 in my own goddamn home, to be a 346 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,535 conservative anti-slavery party, 347 00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:29,829 not a hobbyhorse for goddamn radical abolitionists. 348 00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:31,705 Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy. 349 00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:33,582 You'll frighten the child. 350 00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:35,626 You need us to keep the conservative side 351 00:21:35,710 --> 00:21:37,044 of the party in the traces 352 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:38,462 while you diddle the radicals 353 00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:40,673 and bundle up with Thaddeus Stevens's gang! 354 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. 356 00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:45,386 Well, what do we get? 357 00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:46,929 Blunt! 358 00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:50,224 Your manners, Monty, must be why Mr. Lincoln 359 00:21:50,434 --> 00:21:52,184 pushed you out of his Cabinet. 360 00:21:52,269 --> 00:21:53,769 - I wasn't pushed! - Oh, of course you weren't. 361 00:21:53,854 --> 00:21:55,354 He was pushed out to placate the damn radicals! 362 00:21:55,439 --> 00:21:59,775 - I agreed to resign. - Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy. 363 00:22:01,945 --> 00:22:05,072 You don't mind, boy, do you? 364 00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:07,241 He spends his days with soldiers. 365 00:22:07,325 --> 00:22:08,325 They taught me a song. 366 00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:09,869 Did they? 367 00:22:10,954 --> 00:22:13,330 Soldiers know all manner of songs. 368 00:22:14,291 --> 00:22:15,791 How's your brother Bob? 369 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? 372 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. 374 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. 376 00:22:29,973 --> 00:22:33,142 Now, your daddy knows that what I want 377 00:22:33,226 --> 00:22:36,061 in return for all the help I can give him 378 00:22:36,563 --> 00:22:38,939 is to go down to Richmond, like he said I could 379 00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:41,275 as soon as Savannah fell 380 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 382 00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:49,325 to start negotiating for peace. 383 00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:50,576 He'll talk to me. 384 00:22:50,744 --> 00:22:53,204 Conservative members of your party 385 00:22:53,288 --> 00:22:56,916 want you to listen to overtures from Richmond. 386 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 391 00:23:13,391 --> 00:23:14,600 on abolishing slavery 392 00:23:14,684 --> 00:23:17,728 unless at the same time we can tell them 393 00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:20,731 that you're seeking a negotiated peace. 394 00:23:28,907 --> 00:23:31,617 Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond. 395 00:23:31,826 --> 00:23:33,494 Get him drunk so he can sleep. 396 00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:34,954 Yes, ma'am. 397 00:23:35,455 --> 00:23:36,872 Here, Daddy. 398 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:40,626 - Thank you. - Yes, sir, all right. 399 00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:42,336 Where's my hat? 400 00:23:42,420 --> 00:23:44,046 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 410 00:24:22,085 --> 00:24:23,168 to hear what it portends. 411 00:24:23,253 --> 00:24:24,336 A bombardment. 412 00:24:25,005 --> 00:24:27,756 From the largest fleet the Navy has ever assembled. 413 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? 420 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. 422 00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:49,653 Dear God. 423 00:24:49,946 --> 00:24:53,115 Wilmington's their last open seaport, therefore... 424 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, 452 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. 454 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 465 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. 470 00:27:03,496 --> 00:27:05,164 I told the bailiff, 471 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. 474 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 499 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, 517 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 02:19:58,181 --> 02:19:59,473 It's all over. 2328 02:19:59,557 --> 02:20:00,974 The President is no more. 2329 02:20:04,729 --> 02:20:06,688 Now he belongs to the ages. 2330 02:20:13,029 --> 02:20:14,780 Fondly do we hope, 2331 02:20:16,449 --> 02:20:18,492 fervently do we pray, 2332 02:20:20,036 --> 02:20:22,996 that this mighty scourge of war, 2333 02:20:23,081 --> 02:20:25,040 may speedily pass away. 2334 02:20:28,127 --> 02:20:30,671 Yet if God wills that it continue 2335 02:20:31,297 --> 02:20:33,632 until all the wealth piled 2336 02:20:33,716 --> 02:20:36,843 by the bondman's 250 years 2337 02:20:36,928 --> 02:20:39,972 of unrequited toil shall be sunk 2338 02:20:41,307 --> 02:20:45,394 and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash 2339 02:20:45,478 --> 02:20:49,147 shall be paid by another drawn with the sword 2340 02:20:50,441 --> 02:20:52,818 as was said 3,000 years ago, 2341 02:20:52,902 --> 02:20:55,112 so still it must be said, 2342 02:20:55,989 --> 02:20:57,823 "The judgments of the Lord" 2343 02:20:58,741 --> 02:21:03,120 "are true and righteous altogether." 2344 02:21:08,835 --> 02:21:10,544 With malice toward none, 2345 02:21:12,755 --> 02:21:14,798 with charity for all, 2346 02:21:16,467 --> 02:21:18,176 with firmness in the right, 2347 02:21:18,261 --> 02:21:20,554 as God gives us to see the right, 2348 02:21:20,638 --> 02:21:23,807 let us strive on to finish the work we are in, 2349 02:21:24,559 --> 02:21:26,893 to bind up the nation's wounds, 2350 02:21:27,770 --> 02:21:29,229 to care 2351 02:21:29,564 --> 02:21:31,898 for him who shall have borne the battle 2352 02:21:33,192 --> 02:21:35,110 and for his widow 2353 02:21:35,737 --> 02:21:36,987 and his orphan, 2354 02:21:38,740 --> 02:21:42,909 to do all which may achieve and cherish 2355 02:21:44,078 --> 02:21:48,707 a just and a lasting peace among ourselves 163293

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