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there. See that?

We didn't see nothin', stranger.

I seed you sewin', though.

First time
I ever see a man
sew like that.

I done tailorin'.

How much you want
to sew the seat in
a pair of britches?

I don't want work here.

I'm goin' west.

I don't, uh,

aim to take something for nothin'.

I'll patch them britches.

Pretty square tailor, ain't ya?

Sit down till I get my garment.

Where you comin' from, stranger?

East.

Where you headin'?

West.

What do you want out there?

Land.

Don't talk much, do ya?

Not unless I get something to say.

Here she is.

Uh... it might take
a week of filing.

If you get your nippers,
you could...

You're a fugitive.
I'd be aidin'.

You, uh... I...

I was, uh, I was bound to a tailor

back in Carolina.

Runaway apprentice?

You don't look young
enough for that.

You think I'm lyin'.

Well, here.

Read this.

When an apprentice
lights out and gets
caught again,

he's got to
serve out his time,
don't he?

Miss Eliza!
Miss Eliza! Look!

Well, where'd you get that?

Howdy, miss mccardle!

Oh, good day, blackstone.

Hello, Sam, Mordecai.

Hello, Mrs. Fisher.

Good afternoon.

You know those
new boxes of books
that came?

I figured out
how much shelf space
is wanted, see?

If you could bring some
boards and a hammer
and some nails...

I'll be right up
to the library,
miss mccardle,

soon as I get
Mrs. Fisher's
mule shoed up.

Hello, sheriff.

Good afternoon, mcdaniel.

Mordecai, who is he?

Says he's an apprentice
what lit out.

That what it says there?

Here in Tennessee,
across the state line.

As pay for this file here
and be gettin' down the road.

Never mind
the britches now.
Come here.

Put your foot up here.

It might hurt some, tailor.

It hurts worse where it is.

What the Sam hill?

Well, that's like spring steel!

Yeah. Get your hammer
and chisel.

But it'll
half-kill you!

It's been too long
I got this thing on.

I'm warning you,
you might lose
your ankle.

Will you get your chisel?

Go on, get it!

He wants to be muleheaded...

Speakin' of mule...

Gram of white mule might help some.

I... i can't touch
that stuff.

It makes me sicker
than a hound dog.

You know, this town
could maybe use
a man like you.

Don't talk much, don't drink,

lots of spunk.

Ain't been a tailor hereabouts

since ol' Finney
got drunk and
sewed his finger

to a leg of the parson's pants.

I ain't lookin' to
do tailoring, ma'am.

One can't get
to own land
all chained up.

Man who can sew
like you could soon
buy an acre here.

Lots of folks here
ain't got no
basement

in their britches.

Brace his foot.

Good morning!

Morning, miss mccardle.

Morning, miss Eliza.

Oh, that's a fine job, Mordecai.

I'm gettin' a pair
of brand-new britches
for doing this.

I thought those old ones of yours

would be too much for any tailor.

Well, Mrs. Fisher!

Them cobwebs ain't been swept out

since the grangers
lit out west,
miss mccardle.

And I'll be chokin'
and spittin' for weeks

to get the dust out of my lungs.

Well, aren't you a good neighbor?

I ain't been messin'
about in there to help
that mulehead.

I'm a-gettin' paid.

I'm gonna have the first new dress

since the one I wore
the day the parson
tied me up.

Good morning,
Mr. Johnson.

Morning.

We haven't exactly met before.

I'm Eliza mccardle
from the library
across the street.

Yes, miss.

Everyone's so pleased to have

a tailor here again in greeneville.

Thank you, miss.

I-it saves so much
trouble,

not having to take
my cloak and dress
down to Nashville.

Am I your first customer?

Oh. It was you
left that?

I guess you are, then, miss.

Is my work ready?

Oh, you shouldn't be
about on that foot.

It does a man's foot
good gettin' a shackle
knocked off it.

Of course.

Everyone's talking
about what happened

at the blacksmith's shop.

What happened at
the blacksmith's ain't
nobody's business!

Mr. Johnson.

I forgot myself, miss.

Don't... don't pay
no mind.

I'll take
my clothes now,
if you please.

There ain't
nothin' been done
to them clothes, miss.

Those clothes.

But the instructions
are plainly written.

I know, miss, but...

I can't read.

"Will you please
lengthen the dress
2 inches at the hem

and mend tear
in cloak."

I'll have it fixed tomorrow.

Oh...

how much will it cost?

I ain't askin' no favors
from anybody, but...

A fair bargain's a fair bargain.

I don't understand.

You... you know about
books?

A little, yes,

but I asked you
how much my work
would cost.

And you speak nice.

"Them clothes" I said.

I corrected you.
It just slipped out.

It was forward of me, I'm afraid.

No, miss.

I... i... i got to learn to
speak right.

You speak about
the nicest I know of.

Miss mccardle,

I'll sew you all
the clothes you can
bring me homespun

if you'll learn me
to read and write.

Your proposal,
Mr. Johnson,

seems rather unusual.

Miss mccardle.

I'll think it over.

I...

I'm making you a fair offer.

I never had no chance to learn.

Will you learn me?

I have never had a chance to learn.

Will you teach me.

Will you teach me?

"There is a lady sweet and kind,

"was never face so pleased my mind,

"I did but see her passing by,

and yet I love her
till I die."

Please go on.

It's past time to
close the library.

Got to get home and read
something besides poetry.

Andrew...

You've learned
to read almost
as well as I.

You've made so many
new clothes for me,
it's almost sinful.

Why do you want
to go on with
the lessons?

Is this the...

words, I read somewhere,

are verses the heart sets to music.

Eliza, there's...
Music inside me

that almost drowns out my thinkin'.

But I'm a poor man

and the law says
a white man
without property

is nothin' but a mudsill
for other men to wipe
their boots on.

Why, no law says that.

It don't have to
say it... it's true,
ain't it?

Your people owned a house and land.

How did my father
get a house
and land?

By cobbling shoes for 20 years.

My father was nothin'
but a mudsill,

and he died one.

Poor white trash,

that was him, and that's me.

I'll be going now.

Andrew.

Don't you know
we were all
mudsills once?

Forget the history
of england
for tonight.

Read your own history.

Here.

The declaration of independence.

I've heard that spouted
by stump speakers

every fourth of July
since I can remember.

Maybe you didn't understand it.

Read this part here.

"We hold these truths
to be self-evident:

That all men
are created equal."

They're fine words,
but they ain't true.

Ain't no equality for mudsills.

Go on.

"That they are... Endowed
by their creator

"with certain...

Unali-Ali..."

unalienable rights.
Rights no man
can take away.

Well, they have taken them away.

What are you makin' me
read this for, anyway?

Go on.

"That among these are
life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."

Why, a man ain't even
got a right to vote

without he owns property.

Then why don't you
make it your business

to see that men without
property are given
the right to vote?

My business?

Certainly.

You've got a temper, Andrew,

but people like you.

Go out and talk to them.

Make speeches.
Stand up for
your rights

and theirs, too.

People wouldn't listen to me.

I think they would.

Anyway,
the constitution
says you can try

to make them listen.

I suppose you'll be makin'
me read the constitution
out loud to you.

I will...
if it will help you
to understand it

and realize
that everything in
the bill of rights

and the declaration,
too, means you,
personally...

you, Andrew Johnson.

It seems as if...

Maybe I never really
understood this before.

The constitution, neither.

I suppose plain people
can't agitate

the way you want me to
in them foreign countries.

Those foreign countries.

Those.

No, of course they can't.

The reason this is a free country

is because here,
what's wrong can
be set right.

Whatever is wrong has
got to be set right
by the people.

You're the people.

This is your country
as much as theirs.

It's my... my fish
in the stream.

Your flag on the fort.

It's life, Liberty...

Finish the sentence, Andrew.

And the pursuit of happiness.

They're all yours...

the pursuit of happiness, too.

The pursuit of happiness.

And it says we were created...

Go on.

Equal.

What it says must be right, Andrew.

Created equal, you and me.

Yes, Andrew.

"Votes for
all free men."

More than a year now,

he's been putting
leveling ideas like that

into common folks' heads, sheriff.

Mm-hmm.

White trash got enough to do

hustlin' to make a living.

And not stickin' their snouts

into what don't
rightly concern them.

Goes on like this,
he'll rouse up
the whole county.

Too many property
interests involved,
sheriff cass.

You see, Mrs. Johnson,

them that own the country
should run it.

A man with land
pays taxes, don't he?

So ain't it right
that he should
have a say

how the money is spent?

Now you tell your husband
to leave votin'

to the men of property.

They'll look after
the interests of
folks like you.

Surely, that's a matter
of opinion, sheriff.

You have no right to
keep him from speaking.

The bill of rights
says there should be
no law made

to abridge freedom of speech.

We're livin' in Tennessee.

Well, we ain't abidin'
by no federal laws,

less'n they suit us.

Nothing's legal in this town

if the aldermen don't like it.

Now, they don't like
tailors rousin' up
the white trash

and makin' leveling speeches.

Good night.

Now don't forget,

you tell Andy
he ain't gonna hold
no more meetings.

He's got a temper.

Better make him see reason,

else'n he might get hurt.

Evening, Eliza.

Evening.

You're late for supper, dear.

I had to go over and fit
Mr. Bronson's coat.

What was that hard-shelled,
rum-dipped sheriff doing here?

What's the matter, Martha?

Hey, she ain't sick, is she?

No, it's just her
teeth bothering her.

She used to sleep all the time.

Now take your coats right off.

Andrew, I kept a nice
bit of salt pork warm

and those baby cabbages
you like so much.

There's plenty for Mordecai, too.

That's mighty fine of you,

but it'll taste just as good cold.

It's time to get my notes
and go to the meeting.

You'd better mind little Martha.

I'd make a lot
better speech with
you there listening.

Why, Eliza, you're all tensed up.

Andrew, that meeting last week,

there was
some trouble,
wasn't there?

It didn't come to anything.

Yes, but if one night it did,

if someone got hurt...

Eliza, what...

what was cass doing here?

Ain't exactly like
the sheriff to come
social visitin'.

Eliza?

Well, he came to say
that the aldermen

won't allow the meeting tonight.

Won't allow it?

Well, I've got a peace to speak.

That's what free speech
is in the constitution for,
so's I can speak it!

Come on, milligan.

We'll get our friends.

What he really came to say was,

you can't hold meetings
at all anymore,

or you might get hurt.

Andrew, put away that gun.

Please. Stay home.

No, Eliza.

Andrew, you shan't do this.

You shan't!

Nothing can keep me from going.

Andrew!

Mordecai!

Don't worry none, Eliza.

I promise, nothin'
will happen to Andrew.

Mrs. Johnson!
Mrs. Johnson!

There's been a bad ruckus
at the town hall!

No. No, you mind
the baby.

My husband!
What happened?

Where are they?

Them that got hurt was carried over

to the blacksmith's shop.

Water!
Get some water!

Wh-where is he?

Where is he?

Anybody want to buy a first-rate
blacksmith's shop?

Mordecai milligan's dead.

Where are you goin'?

To get sheriff cass.

That ain't no
private affair
of yourn.

How many men can we get together?

I got close
to 20 cousins
in the county

who ain't standing by
and see me get
no hammerin'.

And how about milligan's kin?

They ain't gonna
put up with
his killin'.

We could raise 100 men by midnight.

Them with no guns
have scythes
and axes.

Round 'em up!
Let's get started!

If it's killing
they want, let's
give it to them!

If I hadn't toted that gun,

milligan would be asleep
in his bed in there.

Not dead in it.

That's right!

And we're gonna
make 'em pay for it!

Put down those weapons!

You're quittin' on us, tailor?

I ain't never quittin'.

From now on, never.

Then come along!
Join the party!

You begun this, Andy,

with your meetings

and your tellin' us
to stick up for
our rights.

You led the scrimmage
when the sheriff's buddies

started throwin' us out the hall.

You done more than
your share of fighting
your own self.

Who pulled the gun first?

It'll take me more than all my life

to pay for that.

He's quittin' on us!
Come on!

No!

Mob fighting, shooting,
and hanging and burning...

that ain't the way!

Eye for eye,
tooth for tooth!
That's Bible!

So you want to start killing.

First you kill,

the militia comes from Nashville,

then they start killing.

And the dead they leave
are you, maude Fisher.

And dick, you.

And ebenezer, you.

And Ethan, you.
And you.

And you, mcdaniel.

Yes, I tell you to fight
for your rights.

But the constitution
ain't for the dead,

it's to protect the living!

Ain't nothin' in it
I know of says not to
hang a murdering sheriff!

It says the law hangs murderers!

It says the people got
the right to make the laws!

That's us!

And that's how we're gonna win
our fight election day!

And when we win it,
we'll get cass indicted!

How?

Lots of us ain't even got a vote.

You ain't got no vote, Andy.

Well, a lot of us have.

Come November,
I'm gonna have
my acre paid for

and a vote.

Then we can elect one
of our own sheriff...

a common man, one of us.

Now you're
talkin' crazy.
Who'll we get?

None of us is fittin'.

Most of us can't hardly read.

We ain't good enough.

We ain't got no rights!

Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.

Those are our rights,
as well as theirs.

It's our fish in the stream,

our... our flag
on the fort.

Hey! What about
the tailor?

He's fittin'!

That's right.

Andy would be good.

Me?

No.

No, I...

I ain't fit enough.

You can read and write and figure!

And you can speak.

And you can fight.

How about it, Andy?
You're good enough.

And fit enough.

Eliza's right!
Andy for sheriff!

We can put you in!

We'll beat their pants off

and let you sew 'em up!

Andy for sheriff!
We want him!

We want Andy!
He'll be the sheriff!

We want him! We want Andy!

He'll be the sheriff!

They put me up
to do the introducin',

here in greeneville,
of some old friends

that don't need no introducin'.

Most of you younger folks
didn't know this lady here
when she was miss mccardle,

a-passin' out books
at the library.

And there's her daughter Martha.

You remember her.

Many of you played
in the streets with her.

And now she's grown-up, too,

married, and has
a little boy of her own.

And I almost forgot.

There's a man here, too...

a man that got his start
in politics

when a bunch of us
made him run for sheriff.

He said he wasn't fit enough.

Well, he's been fit enough
to be made sheriff, assemblyman,

congressman, governor,

and now he comes back to
his home folks in his own town

as senator of the United States.

No, I ain't gonna introduce him,
not in greeneville.

Welcome home, Andy!
Welcome home!

I guess blackstone mcdaniel
is right.

I don't need
any introducin' to you.

I've patched the britches
of a lot of you.

And your father's
britches before you.

I'm still wearin'
that first little
dress Andy made me.

My friends...

I have been a jacksonian
democrat all my political life.

I hope we will lick
the Republicans this fall

and send Abe Lincoln
back to splitting rails
in Illinois!

But people here in the south

who threaten
to break up this country

if Lincoln is chosen President

forget that, in our America,

the verdict of the majority
must be accepted.

That is what I will say
in the Senate in Washington

even if Lincoln is
chosen President.

Whether you back me up
at home here in Tennessee,

or whether you don't!

We of the
south have lost the
election! Very well!

Mr. Lincoln will
be inaugurated
President in 6 weeks!

The people have spoken!

Let the will of the people be done!

And I hope and believe
we shall do so!

Meanwhile, we southerners
should remain here

and prevent him
from carrying out policies

that will ruin this country...

our one country!

Enough of this
yankee cackle, you
renegade to the south!

I repeat, our one country!

Does any senator dare
to challenge that?

Let us keep
in our hearts
the immortal toast

of that great democrat,

"our federal union,
it must be preserved."

In the noble words
of Daniel Webster:

"Liberty and union,
now and forever,
one and inseparable."

The senator has
been making that
same speech here

day after day
for the past
two months...

Like a parrot.

What can you
expect from
a mudsill tailor,

elected by the rabble of the city

among the gentlemen of the south?

I'm proud of having been a tailor,

and I'd rather sit among the rabble

than some of you
self-appointed
gentlemen of the south.

I demand an apology!

An apology for what?

Mr. President!

While the Southern
senators make this
place a beer garden,

business north
and south is
at a standstill!

And who is to blame?

Yes, who is to blame?

You are! You are!

Maybe, the north, if you force us

to fight for our liberties,

then we'll fight you!

Don't you shake your fist at us!

We're not your slaves!

Don't you yell at us!

Well, you started it!

Gentlemen!

This is the Senate
of the United States,

not a pot house!

Order in the galleries!

Order on the floor!

Jefferson Davis.
He's finally
got here.

It's about time.

Now he can speak for all of us,

for the whole south.

The chair recognizes
the senator from
Mississippi.

Mr. President
of the Senate...

Senators...

I appear here...

To announce to the Senate
that Mississippi,
by solemn orders...

And in convention assembled...

Has declared her separation
from the United States.

In so doing, she has followed
others of her sister states

on whose behalf, as well as my own,

I must pronounce
our solemn farewell.

Under these circumstances,
of course, my functions

and those of my colleagues,
terminate here.

We but tread in the path
of our fathers

when we proclaim our independence,

and take the hazard,

putting our trust in god,

and in our own firm hearts

and strong arms...

We will vindicate
the right as best we may.

I see now around me

some with whom I have served long.

There have been
points of collision.

For whatever offense I have given,

I ask forgiveness.

Or whatever of offense
that has been to me,

I leave here.

I carry with me
no hostile remembrance.

I go hence unencumbered

of the remembrance
of injury received...

And having discharged the duty

of making the only
reparation in my power

for any injury offered.

Mr. President...

Senators...

Having made the announcement

which the occasion
seemed to me to require...

It remains only for my
colleagues and myself...

To bid you...

A final...

Adieu.

Now that Tennessee
has left the union

and joined the confederacy,

I denounce Andrew
Johnson as a traitor

to the sovereign
state of Tennessee!

May your black tongue
rot in your throat,
you liar!

No man can call me a traitor!

Andrew.

Oh, thank you, Andrew.

I was so afraid
there would
be violence.

From now on,
there will be nothing
but violence, Eliza...

Nationwide violence.

No, it mustn't come to that.

Isn't there
some peaceful way
of settling it?

The Southern senators walked out.

They declared war.

I'm going to Lincoln now

and offer my services

to raise troops in Tennessee

and fight for the union.

Where's the general, sir?

At his gun.

Captain brenner!

Message from general Williams?

Only rabble, sir.
General Williams
was in action,

trying to rally the zouaves.

Trying to rally them?
What's happened?

Our center is broken!

General Williams
asks that all
available reserves

be sent to him immediately!

There are no reserves!

The rebels
just sent over
another white flag,

with a demand
to surrender Nashville!

You order general Williams for me

to shoot any man
who talks of surrender!

Yes, sir.

4 more years!
4 more years!

Boys! Boys!
Close the window!

Come on.
Let's get on
with business.

Gentlemen...
not that anyone
cares, of course,

but we have one more
tiresome formality,

now that we've done
our duty by old Abe...

wasn't us delegates
renominated Lincoln
by acclamation.

The country done that.

Sir, I'm not accustomed
to being interrupted.

Thad Stevens...

Most of us
delegates ain't
congressmen,

and you can't treat us like you do

that tame cattle of yours

down in Washington.

Eh... my Pennsylvania
delegation,

and some others
that I have friends in,

will support anyone
you men decide you want...

Just agree on a name.

Well, there would be no trouble

if Lincoln would let us know

who he wants on the
ticket with him.

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Well, it looks as though
the white house

decided to tell us something.

Uh, clear out of here, you men.

How do you do?

Oh, so glad to see you.

The President
hopes you're better,
congressman Stevens.

Thank you, thank you.

Afternoon, senator waters.

Afternoon,
b.p.

White house,
Senate, house of
representatives.

What we three
agree on ought to go
down with this mob.

The President is
very grateful for the
plank and the platform

that favors full emancipation...

well, I wrote it myself.

But he wasn't so happy
about that other plank
you forced in.

Oh. That one
demands that the
rebels and traitors

are punished after the war.

What's wrong with that?

Well, he feels that it's a blow

to his policy of reconciliation.

Well, that's just why it's there.

Heh heh. Come on.
Let's quit playing
marbles.

Lincoln sent you
down here to see Jim
and me. What for?

To discuss the Vice presidency.

Yeah, he wants to
shove Andy Johnson
down our throats.

The President feels
that Johnson, a democrat,

will be supported
by the democrats
who backed the war

and so will help us
win the election.

He says to tell you that...

A Vice President from a rebel state

will strengthen the union,

that the American
people can never repay

their debt of gratitude
to Andrew Johnson.

Oh, Johnson's a loyal man, uh...

But as a southerner,
he'd be bound
after the war

to try and stop
our vengeance
on the south.

Mr. Lincoln does not approve
of vengeance on anyone.

In the interest of unity,

he's anxious for
unanimous nomination,

no contest on the floor.

You tell the President

I'll support his wartime policy

until the last
rebel's dead
or quits.

He knows you will.

The President regrets
that you don't agree
with him on reconstruction,

but he knows that you
stand with him on the
two important issues...

victory and freedom.

I fought slavery
all my political
life.

What's that got to do with it?

Oh, a great deal.

Why, Johnson stands
with you and Lincoln there.

He once said in a speech,

"I do not mourn over
the dead body of slavery.

"I think we're freeing
more whites than blacks
in Tennessee."

I wouldn't want
to free a white man
if he was a rebel.

Well, I've said
all the President
asked me to say.

What Lincoln wants

will go down with the
delegates, then.

What the President
wishes will go down

because you and the other delegates

know that the country
is behind him.

Good afternoon.

Thad, you can't
fight Lincoln
on the floor here.

If he wants Johnson,

you better make it unanimous.

The power of the rebel and...

Next Vice President
of the United States.

The oath
of office will
now be administered

to the Vice
President-elect

by the Chief Justice
of the United States
supreme court.

Mr. Vice
President-elect.

Mr. Chief Justice.

Raise your right
hand, sir, and
repeat after me.

I do solemnly swear...

I do solemnly swear...

That I will
faithfully
execute the office

of Vice President
of the united
states...

That I will faithfully
execute the office

of the Vice President
of the United States...

And will, to the
best of my ability,

preserve, protect, and defend...

To the best of my
ability, preserve...

Protect, and defend...

Protect, and defend...

The constitution
of the united
states,

so help me god.

The constitution
of the United States,

so help me god.

The President of the United States!

Mr. President...

Senators...

Judges...

People of the United States...

Who are...

Are more...

I ask your indulgence.

Drunk again.
Heh heh...

I ask your
indulgence during my
term of office...

I, a plebeian, have studied only

how best to advance the...

Interest of my state and country...

I have... Risen
from the humblest
walks of life

to this... this...
this... Proud position.

"...with malice
toward none."

This is the way he wound up, Eliza.

I wish you'd got
to town in time
to hear him.

I wouldn't have heard him.

I'd have been
right here,
looking after you

in bed, where you belong.

They sent me this this morning.

It's a photograph
of the inaugural
ceremony.

See, there he is,
reading his speech.

The people will
gaze on that picture
for ages to come.

Where are you, Andrew?

There I am, my dear,
in the custody
of Hannibal Hamlin.

The cool air
out there
cleared my head.

You see, I'm holding
my hat over my face.

Perhaps you can guess why.

Now, don't you
want to hear what
they have to say

about your husband's speech?

No, Andrew, please.

"After being sworn in,

"the new Vice President indulged

"in an incoherent harangue,

"concerning which,

"the less said, the better,

"in view of the obvious condition

"of the man between whom...

"And the presidency stands

only one
human life..."

stop, Andrew.

You were ill.

I disgraced my President.

I disgraced... My
country and our cause.

Come in.

From the white house,
Mrs. Johnson.

Flowers for you
and a letter
for Mr. Johnson.

Thank you.

Aren't they beautiful?

I...

I'm afraid to open this.

Oh, you needn't be.

Mr. Lincoln sees deep
into all hearts,

and he knows yours...
all wool and a yard wide.

"You ornery
old galoot.."

"If only you took
a drink now and then,

"you'd know enough about liquor

"not to fire yourself up
with Brandy

on an empty stomach
when you're sick."

"I know you only
went through the
ceremony for me

"because I asked you to.

"Don't worry at what they say.

"In hitting at you,
they're hitting at me,

and I don't mind."

"We've got Lee all but whipped.

"You were a good tailor, Andy,

"and you're going
to help me now,
you poor, loyal cuss,

to patch up
the torn garment
of our union."

"Gratefully yours,
a. Lincoln."

Didn't I tell you?

Three cheers for Vice President!

Hooray!
Hooray! Hooray!

Evening, Mr. Johnson.

I'm afraid all
this noise will be
disturbing Mrs. Johnson.

I'm awfully sorry,
but there's nothing
we can do about it.

That's perfectly all right.

She only wishes she could get out

and join in the
jollification herself.

She'll be up tomorrow.

Sleep well,
Mr. Vice President.

We'll all sleep well now,

the first time in 4 years.

Oh, just a moment, please, sir.

I forgot something, if you please.

This gentleman called
while you were out.

No, I don't know the name.

Probably he's just
some office-seeker.

Hello, hello, dear.

Oh, I can feel it
even lying here
in bed.

It's a new Washington
since Lee surrendered.

New country...
same crowd, same bands
all over the north.

People don't seem
ugly or vindictive

now that we've won, do they?

No, this is the start of a new era

of good feeling
in a United States...

really united and
for the first time.

And we both know
whom the country
has to thank.

Yes, we all know,

except that little
knot of his enemies
down on capitol hill.

His enemies and yours.

Mm-hmm. Heh heh.

Just listen to that
noise out there,
will you?

We want Andy!

They're calling for you, Andrew.

We want Andy!
We want Andy...

Stop the music!
Stop it!

Yeah! We want
to hear Andy!

My friends and fellow countrymen,

hang Jeff Davis
to a sour apple tree!

Hang Lee, too!

My friends...

Never mind me.

You go around the corner
and serenade the President,

but don't grieve him
with shouts about hanging
our fellow countrymen.

Come on down, Andy,
and have a drink,
you old toper!

We just came
from there, Andy.
Ain't nobody home.

Abe Lincoln's gone
to Ford's theater.

The few words
I shall say to you
are not my own.

"With malice toward none,

"with charity for all,

let us bind up
the nation's wounds."

And general Grant,
when he took Lee's army...

There was no pride, no boasting.

He just said,
"let us have peace."

Now, you trust
and follow Mr. Lincoln

to guide us under god...
For 4 years more!

Oh, splendid, Andrew.

You said just the right thing.

Now, you try to get some sleep.

Let's hope there
will be no more bands

to keep you awake tonight.

I will.

Here, what are you reading?

Poetry.

"There is a lady, sweet and kind,

"'twas never a face,

so pleased my mind."

Oh, please don't close the doors,

and don't you sit up
working half the night.

I won't. Just
a half-hour or so.

Ye.

Who is it?

Mr. Johnson...
The President's been shot.

Don't go, sir.
There's murder all
through the city.

Secretary seward
has been stabbed
at his house,

and we got here just
in time to save you

from an assassin outside your door.

It's a general conspiracy.

I'm going to the President.

You must stay here, sir.
I'm posting a guard outside.

I must go, Eliza.

Of course you must.

Now he belongs to the ages.

It is now my duty to ask
when it will be convenient

to administer the oath
of office... Mr. President.

All right, major, take these away.

And, uh...

I want that report on
the freedmen's bureau
to work on tonight.

Thank heavens there's
nobody else waiting
here to see me.

Has this young lady
an appointment,
major crooks?

She didn't ask for one, sir.

Here, here,
wait a minute,
wait a minute.

Major, don't forget
those two bills.

Got to write a couple
more veto messages
after dinner.

I must have seen 60 people
in this room today,

and you're the first one
didn't come in to ask me
for something.

Where did you get your flowers?

I picked them
on the lawn
with Martha.

She just had
the children out
there for a romp.

How did they stand the trip
from Nashville?

They loved every minute of it.

It'd be kind of homelike, Eliza,

to have Martha and
the kids living here.

This place seems sort of lonesome.

I don't know...
Maybe it's just the job.

Must be the lonesomest
job in the world.

Such a big place, isn't it?

Glad I don't have to
pay the taxes on it.

And so full of ghosts.

Ghosts that are hard to live up to.

I bark out at people.

He knew how to turn 'em down
with just a funny story.

The wonder of it...

That you should work
in his study...

Sit at his desk.

The terror of it
to ask myself every day,
every hour,

"what would he have done?"

And not to know.

Eliza...

I ain't fit.

Andrew, it came to us
at milligan's forge

that you were fit to be sheriff,

and you've grown a lot since then.

You trying to tell me
that I'm fit to follow him?
You know better than that.

To follow him who is...
Whoever will be.

The trouble with me,
Eliza, I was never fit

to lace up his boots,
let alone stand in them.

You were the man
he chose, Andrew,
to stand in his boots

if anything should happen to him.

Oh, let me.

I told Martha she could
bring the children in
to say good night.

I must be
the first President
with grandchildren here.

We'll let them come in every night.

Grandpa, my doll!
Isn't she beautiful?

Oh, isn't she?

Hey, Andy, Andy!

Hey there, Andy!

Well, now, what have we got here?

Major crooks gave it
to me. It's a gun
to shoot bears.

Well, now, we'll
go out tomorrow morning
right after breakfast

and shoot us some bears.

Come on!
Let's go now!

Tell me a bedtime story, grandpa,

like you always
used to in Nashville
when I was little.

All right...

Here... we go.

Well, now...

Once upon a time,

there was a beautiful Princess.

Oh, look! There's
a great bad bear!

Come in, gentlemen, come in.

You know my wife,
my daughter Mrs. paterson,
the children...

Congressman Stevens,
senator waters,
and congressman hargrave.

Yes, it's quite a thing
to have a typical
American family

in the white house
again, Mrs. Johnson.

It's a great pleasure
to welcome you to
Washington, ma'am.

All Washington hopes,
Mrs. Johnson, for a revival

of the fine old
white house traditions
of before the war.

Well, then I'm afraid
Washington will be
disappointed.

Oh, we're just plain
people from the hills,
that's all.

A brief stay in high places

can't be expected
to change us very much.

Martha...

Now, children, it's your bedtime.

Grandpa hasn't told me
my story yet.

Well, he'll
come up and tell
you one in bed.

Promise?

Yes, I promise.

Now, you say good night
to the gentlemen.

Good night.

Good night.
May I have a kiss,
little one?

Yes, if you want one.

Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

Do you want to have a kiss, too?

I couldn't
think of anything
more delightful,

but I'm not going
to submit you to any
such dubious pleasure.

You killed the bear!

I didn't mean to.

Now, children,
that's enough.
Good night.

Good night.

Good night.

Well, we've had
enough homespun humor
in the white house.

Let's quit being whimsical
and run the country.

Sit down, gentlemen.
You know, I've often thought

if I could speak with
your culture and learning...

With your eloquence,
Mr. hargrave,

or the power and force

that you blast
your opponents with,
Mr. Stevens...

I'd probably make
a much better President.

Why, Mr. President,
I've never found you

lacking in eloquence, sir.

But unfortunately,
you are as stubborn

as the orneriest
mule in your own
Tennessee.

He just plants
his feet wide apart
like that,

and you
couldn't budge him
with a Cannon.

A mule, huh? Is that why
you fellas in congress
lit a fire under me?

You don't act like
our fire done much more

than keep your belly nice and warm.

Unfortunately,
Mr. President,

the contraption you're hitched to

is the United States of America.

We've got to keep it on the move.

Stevens, if you'll
just state your case
and let me state mine,

I think we'll see better
where we stand.

Very good,
Mr. President.

I propose that we treat the south

as an outside conquered people,

that we confiscate
all estates
worth $10,000

and containing 200 acres.

Then, sir,
I would give every
adult colored man

40 acres of land...

Sell the rest
and pay for the war
with it.

No use vetoing
that program, Johnson.

We have the votes
to override your vetoes.

So it comes to this:

You fought a war
to preserve the union.

Having preserved it,

now you deny that it exists.

Gentlemen, my one aim
is to carry out
Lincoln's policies.

Try and get into your head

that Lincoln's
reconstruction program
died with him.

Oh, shut up, waters.
Let the President
state his own case.

That they were therefore
never out of the union.

Now, they stopped fighting.

They took
the oath of allegiance
to the United States.

They ratified the amendment
abolishing slavery

that you yourself, Stevens,
piloted through congress.

Yes, yes, yes.

It follows from Lincoln's policy

that they therefore were entitled

to the same rights
as the rest of us.

Now, gentlemen, it's
just as simple as that.

Well, no use making him
our offer now, Stevens,

after what he just said.

Offer? You have some
compromise to suggest?

I should think it would
be rather difficult

to compromise our points of view.

I never compromise.

I came here to make a deal.

To secure your
cooperation with us,
Mr. President...

For the next 8 years.

Oh, I see.

That's an offer to buy me...

With a second term.

One practical man to another, yeah.

What in tarnation is that thing?

What you're trying
to put on my leg again,

and I don't like being chained up.

That's why I've kept this
for nearly 40 years now...

just to remind me
what being chained up
feels like.

Well, gentlemen,
there's a little girl

waiting for me to
tell her a bedtime story,
so I guess that's all.

No, that's not all,
Mr. President.
That's only half.

Wait outside, will you?

I want a word alone
with the President.

Good night,
Mr. President.

Good night, gentlemen.

Good night.

First, Lincoln tried to block me.

Now it's you.

Well, that's a poor substitute,

but... now me.

Stevens,
why did you want
to see me alone?

To tell you that since
you've turned me down,

I fear I'll have to turn you out.

Impeachment?

You know the house
would prefer charges
of high crimes

and misdemeanors against you

anytime I say.

I hope that never happens.

Fortunately,
it takes a 2/3 vote
of the Senate

to sustain a conviction.

That's the constitution.

You're a great stickler
for the constitution,
aren't you?

Well, you might
as well know, then,
we can get you out

by strictly constitutional means.

Why aren't you more reasonable?

And when there's no Vice President,

the man who succeeds
an impeached President

is the acting
presiding officer
of the Senate.

Right, right.

Well, they'll never
put me out to put
Jim waters in.

Well, that is kind of
funny, at that.

The Senate would
never have elected him
to pound that gavel

if they realized
that it might make him
President.

I have infinite faith
in the people.

Oh, this country isn't
ruled by a plebiscite.

Congress would be against you

and the money power
and the press...

Yes, every power
would be against me...

Except the common people
that Abe Lincoln said
the lord must have loved

because he made so many of them.

Go ahead, then, take the stump.

Swing around the circle.

Make your speeches to the people...

Only you get
all het-up.

You don't make very good speeches.

Yes, and you'd rig the press
and pack my meetings.

Well...

We're not likely to meet
socially anymore,

so I have to tell you
that nothing
would make me do

what I fear I have to do,

no personal
or party interests,
just one thing:

The safety of our country,

which your policies would destroy.

You have the impudence
to sit there and tell me

you're doing this
to save the country?

Why, you hypocrite,
if you weren't
a cripple,

I'd pick you up
and throw you through
that bay window

right out on
the white house lawn,
wheelchair and all!

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

You know, most people
think that drink
is your weakness,

on account of
that thing that happened
at the inauguration.

But I know better.
It's temper.

I've got to see
Mr. Stevens at once.

You can't, sir.

He's sick, Mr. secretary.
The doctor just left...

now, don't argue with me.

Thad, he's turned me out.
The tailor turned me out.

You've got to do
something to help me.

Now, sir, Mr. Stevens
is a very sick man.

You can't be
bothering him.
I won't let you.

Mr. Stevens,
you've got to rest.

Oh, Addie, what do
they care whether
I live or die,

as long as I hold a job?

Now, please, sir,
don't say nothing
about dying.

There it is, thad.
Read it.

Run along, Addie.

If'n you get
the lung fever,
don't blame me.

I done told you,
the doctor, he say you've
got to get your rest.

So the tailor threw you out, huh?

And after all
the trouble we took
to have that bill passed

that he couldn't fire
any of Lincoln's cabinet

without the express
consent of the Senate.

He's violated a law
passed over his own veto.

That's going to cost him
the presidency.

I've got him just where I want him.

Now, you go back
and stay in your office.

But I've been dismissed.

You don't think I'm
going to let him do a
thing like that to you?

Now, you go and get some troops

and a couple of
Cannon to protect
the building...

troops? Cannon?

Sure. And just
stay in office.

You mean, never leave it?

Leave it?
No, of course not!

You just stay, stay, and stay.

You better get a bed
and some canned food,

because in all
probability, you'll be
there for 3 or 4 months.

But after Johnson's out

and Jim waters is President,

then you can go home
and get all cleaned up.

I'll do exactly as you say.

Ah, it's amazing what
privations a politician
will endure

just to stay in office.

Here's the last report
on the cabinet meeting,

and that's the last bit
of what you call "spying"
I'll have to do for you.

You never can tell.
I might want you

to spy on Jim waters
when he's President.

Addie! Addie!

Yes, sir?
Come here!

Yes, sir, Mr. Stevens!

Order my carriage.

Tonight, in this rain?
No, sir! You'll get
your death of...

order my carriage!

If'n you go out
in this rain and
get the lung fever...

get me my crutches!

Yes, sir.

Telling me
what I can do and
what I can't do.

Yes, sir.

I'll do what I want.

I'll die when I feel like it.

The President will see you now.

What's this about
some amnesty idea
of yours, Johnson?

So your spy in my cabinet
told you that, too.

Well, after you
broke up my meetings,

I got to wondering
whether I had any
powers left at all,

if I hadn't better resign
and go back home.

Oh, cut the cackle.

And then I remembered a power
vested in the President
by the constitution

that even congress
can't touch, Stevens.

Maybe you can guess what it is.

A power congress can't touch?

Yes. Lincoln
would've got around
to that before now,

but I had to wait till
things settled down a bit.

You wouldn't dare.

That's right,
you've guessed it...
the pardoning power.

I'm going to sign something now,

and I'm glad
you came over here
to watch me do it.

Here at this desk where
Lincoln freed the slaves,

I now free their former masters.

This proclamation
pardons all and restores
full citizenship

to all who fought
for the lost cause

in the war between the states.

All? Did you say all?

All.

Not Jeff Davis?

Jeff Davis, too.

Lee?

Oh, yes, Lee, as well.

Well, you're right...
you have the power.

Congress can't stop you.

Now every rebel snake in the south

will crawl out
of its hidden den
into the daylight.

Johnson, what you've
just done tonight...

And what you plan to do...

Means a new civil war.

You honestly believe that,
don't you?

You know I do.

I haven't long to live.

Just kept alive for
the day of retribution
and justice

so I could die happy,
knowing I'd bequeathed
the country peace.

Peace?

You call revenge, confiscation,

and disfranchisement peace?

Have you no pity
for those 4 million

injured, depressed,
hopeless colored people

under bondage for two centuries?

I want the two races
to live together
peacefully,

to respect one another.

Your way of making
slaves of the whites

would put that off another century.

Johnson, if you
withdraw this thing...

For the sake of peace,
I'll quash the impeachment.

So you'd drop the impeachment.

Yeah.

Well, Stevens,
I decline
your offer...

But I want to tell you one thing.

I never really
understood you
until this minute.

I always thought you wanted

a puppet President you could boss.

I called you
a hypocrite,
but you're not.

You're a very Sincere man...

And that's
what makes you
so dangerous.

You have
the sincerity and
will and force.

You have the drive
of a great fanatic.

You'll not Rob me
of all I've lived for.

You'll not ruin the country
with another war.

I'll live long enough to stop that.

My policies will go through

with you out of the way...

Even if I'm not here to see it.

Stevens... what's
the matter with you?

You'd better let me
get you some coffee.

Huh? No.

I'll crush you, Johnson.

I'll save our country yet.

Stevens.

Stevens! Major crooks!

Mr. President.

What happened?

Get a doctor.

Uhh...

Would you deny any other
tailor his day in court
if you were his lawyers?

If I took refuge in your
technicalities and cowered
here in the white house

while you fellows fought
for me in the Senate,

what could Stevens call me?

Whatever he calls you,
Mr. President,

he mustn't spatter you
with mud and filth while
you sit there in person.

Yes, like a man in the dock.

A President is more
than a man. He's a symbol
of the whole nation.

And that's why, for
the sake of the dignity
of your office...

you can't fool me!
You're afraid if
I went down there,

Stevens and his gang would bait me

in making a howling
jackass of myself.

That's your real reason
for trying to keep me from
going to my own trial.

Well, I choose to face
my enemies in person.

I'm going to the capitol.
Come along, gentlemen.

Andrew...

Wish me luck, Eliza.

There's no hurry, Andrew.

Why sit down there alone
in the President's room

fidgeting until they summon you?

The President will
drive to the Senate
a little later.

Will I have time?

Oh, yes, Mr. President.
The preliminaries
and the swearing-in

will take another hour or so.

You see?

Reserved seats.

Reserved seats.
Huh.

It's like walking
into Ford's theatre

knowing what's going to happen.

Yes, another
assassination
of the President.

Any statement for
the a.P., Mr. Stevens?

Don't quote me, but
I think I got the tailor
just where I want him.

But for quotation?

"The days
of the tyrant are
numbered." Unquote.

The country's
greatly disturbed
about your illness.

Tell the country I'm all right.

I just had
a stroke, that's all.
No further statement.

Thank you, Mr. Stevens.

Who's going to carry me
about when you two boys
are dead and gone?

The President
of the Senate pro tempore

recognizes the spokesman
for the house of
representatives.

In the name of the house
of representatives

and of all the people
of the United States,

we do impeach Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

for high crimes and misdemeanors.

We shall exhibit our
articles of impeachment

and make them good.

In fulfillment
of the mandate laid down

in article one, section 3
of the constitution,

the Chief Justice of
the supreme court shall
preside over the Senate

when, as now,
this body is called to sit as
a high court of justice

in judgment upon the President
of the United States.

The honorable Chief Justice!

Your honor.

The chair recognizes
Mr. Stevens.

Mr. Chief Justice,

before the 11 articles
of impeachment
are formally read,

let me state
to the Senate
and the country

the essence of our indictment.

We do not intend
to cite the obvious fact

that Andrew Johnson is unmindful

of the dignity of his office...

his disgraceful speeches of rage,

if not intoxication.

We will confine ourselves

to the constitution and the law.

Now, in a public speech,
the President of
the United States

suggested hanging
certain elected
representatives

of the people, including myself.

He has denied,
also in a public speech,

that this congress
is a lawful body.

He has termed us an "illegal rump"

because we refuse
to admit what he terms

"legally elected representatives

of states in the American union,"

meaning unreconstructed rebels.

Now, our main case, however,

is based on his violation of a law

passed over his veto by congress:

The tenure of office act.

Now, everyone in
the country knows that

that forbids
a President to dismiss
from his cabinet

any member who was
belonged to the cabinet

of a President who died in office.

Now, in so doing,

Andrew Johnson, who
was sworn to maintain
the constitution,

created
the highest possible
constitutional crime.

If this is condoned,
congress will be powerless.

It will be ruled over by
an irresponsible tyrant.

So the house of representatives,
by solemn resolution,

has instructed us, its managers,
to demand that the Senate,

as made mandatory
by the constitution,

forthwith summon and do
justice upon the accused,
Andrew Johnson.

Hear ye! Hear ye!
Hear ye!

All persons
are commanded
to keep silent

while the Senate
of the United States
is sitting for the trial

of the articles of impeachment.

Summon the accused.

Andrew Johnson,
President of
the United States,

appear and answer the
articles of impeachment
exhibited against you

by the house of representatives
of the United States.

Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson!

What's this mean, thad?

Ahh, Johnson isn't coming.

Mr. Chief Justice,
the President desires
to be represented

throughout this trial
solely by his council.

Mr. Chief Justice,

the President
has been summoned
and refused to appear.

This action defies
the Senate, congress,

and the whole American people.

We demand that
he be brought
before this tribunal

and stand his trial
like any other man
accused of crime.

The constitution does not
require the presence of
the respondent.

The chair rules that he may,
at his wish, be represented
by council.

The clerk will now read
the articles of impeachment

exhibited against Andrew Johnson
by the house of representatives.

"Whereas Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,

has been accused of conduct..."

Well, blackstone,
it's good to see you.

Andy.

Come on in here now and sit down.

Oh, I, uh,

I wanted to, uh...
wanted to thank you

for calming down
the folks back home.

Sit down, sit down.

Well, what's on your mind, now?

Things ain't so good
down there, Andy.

What, in greeneville?

The Senate.

Sitting there at
my trial every day,

listening to the way
they kick me around

kind of makes you sore, huh?

It sure does, Andy.

Now blackstone,
here's the way
I figure:

Out of 54 votes, they need 36

to get the 2/3 for conviction.

Now we only need 19 for acquittal,

and we know we got
16 to start with.

Wish I knew
where those other 3
were coming from.

Why, from honest
senators who
really believe

that I violated the constitution

when I got rid
of that spy
in my cabinet.

But they'll switch
when they hear
the truth

from the other cabinet members.

You go on
back there now and
listen to our side.

Andy...

What I come up here for to tell you

before anybody else did was, uh...

They ain't gonna let
your witnesses testify.

Who won't?

The Chief Justice?

That's not possible.
He's an honest man.

Oh, he ruled for you, all right,

but the Senate
overruled him
on every point.

Now, now, Andy...

don't fly off the handle.

Well, I expected
everything but this.

Accusations of drunkenness!

Galleries packed with my enemies

howling and yelling against me!

Even that old charge in congress

that I conspired to murder Lincoln!

But I never expected this!

Well, I'll... I'll
issue a statement to
the country right now.

It's too late, Andy.

They're gonna start
voting right soon.

I should have gone
down there and stood up
to them in the beginning.

This is no state trial.
It's a criminal conspiracy!

They're... they're doing
this to me

because I'm trying to
carry out his policies.

They'd be doing it to him,
too, if he were alive
and in my shoes!

They'd be trying to destroy the...

Andrew!

People all over Washington
are gonna hear me shouting!

People all over this country are
gonna hear me shouting!

Those senators up on that hill
are gonna hear me shouting!

Once more I must caution
the galleries to keep quiet.

Mr. Chief Justice,

the case for
the house of
representatives

and the people of
the United States
is concluded.

After the closing speech
for the defense has been made,

vote will be taken upon
the guilt or innocence

of the President of
the United States.

Mr. Chief Justice...

the President!

The President?

Mr. President, this is
highly inadvisable.

You should have notified us.

I've been waiting
a long time for this.

Mr. Chief Justice,
the closing speech
for the defense

will be made
at his own desire
by the respondent.

That will be in order.

He'll blow up higher than a kite

and cook his own goose.

Mr. Chief Justice...

will the President
please be seated?

After repeated warnings,

the chair now orders
the attendants to
clear the galleries.

Clear the galleries!

Mr. Chief Justice,
I protest against
your order

to exclude
the people from
this chamber

where their fate is
about to be decided.

There's an organized
focus of disorder.

The ruling of the chair must stand.

I move the
galleries be
not cleared!

I second the motion!

Those in favor of
overruling the chair,

respond by saying aye.

Aye!
aye!
aye!

Contrary, no.

No.
no.
no.

The ayes have it.

The galleries will not be cleared.

The Chief Justice
of the United States

must now decline to
preside over this body

while an organized clique
denies respectful hearing

to the President of
the United States.

Article 1,
section 3 of the
constitution says

the Chief Justice must preside

when the President is impeached.

True. But I must decline
to continue to do so,

on the grounds that it
was obviously the intent
of the constitution

to place the Chief Justice
in the chair in order to
insure a fair trial.

Under the constitution,
this trial cannot proceed

without the Chief Justice
in the chair.

Of course, a way out of
the difficulty might be found

if the galleries would
cease these interruptions.

Now that order has been restored,

the President will proceed.

Mr. Chief Justice.

If, as has been charged,

I have sometimes not
been mindful enough

of the dignity of my office,

I am certainly mindful of it now.

I kept away from my own trial,

following the best
advice I know of,

to avoid the sort of
rough-and-tumble

that would heat up
not only this body

but the whole country
to a fever point

where riot and bloodshed
might have swept our people.

I am charged with the high crime...

or is it a misdemeanor?

Of making speeches
in a state of mingled
intoxication and rage.

You were drunk inauguration day!

You know you were!

The attendants will
remove the interrupter!

Please, Mr. Chief Justice,

I... i want that man
to hear my answer.

Very well.

I have a letter in my pocket.

I didn't bring it down here
to read to the Senate.

I have it with me because
I always carry it.

It's my most precious possession.

I shall now read a few
lines from this letter

as my only reference
now or ever to what my...

My friend in the gallery
has touched upon.

"You ornery old galoot,

"if only you took a drink
now and then,

"you would know enough about
liquor not to fire yourself up

"with Brandy on an empty stomach
when you're sick.

"I know you only went through
the ceremony for me

"because I asked you to.

"Don't worry at what they say.

"In hitting at you
they are hitting at me,

and I don't mind."

This letter is dated
from the white house

march 5, 1865.

I just heard that the Senate
had refused to hear the evidence

of my cabinet.

Gentlemen, prepare to prove that
my removal of a cabinet member

was solely intended
to test the constitutionality

of the tenure of office act
before the supreme court.

So... i won't deny that I was
a little hot under the collar
when I left the white house.

But the ride down Pennsylvania
Avenue cooled me off.

And I came to realize
that the crime for which
I am being tried here

is not contained in
the flimsy charges

trumped up in the articles
of impeachment.

It appears to have been
one of misunderstanding.

I thought the war had ended.

No enemy confronted us
on any field.

The hand of friendship
was stretched out,
and I clasped it.

Is forgiveness a crime?

My enemies think so.
They're not willing to forgive.

For senators
in this crowded chamber,

there still stand 20 empty desks.

Why are those desks empty?

Where are the senators
who should be sitting at them?

They have been lawfully elected,
but they're not here.

Why?

The man most responsible
for the fact that we are
still at war,

although the guns are silent,

sits there at that table.

I wish to say that he is
a Sincere man.

It is his honest belief

that by pardoning
the confederate leaders,

I made inevitable
another civil war.

He hates the south
with such consuming passion

that he thinks, as he has said,

that it must be kept in
subjugation and slavery
for the next 100 years.

If I am removed from office,

the new President,

who shares the sentiments
of Mr. Stevens,

will set up a junta

that will be no government
of United States,

but a self-perpetuating,
corrupt tyranny

based upon bayonets,
confiscation,
and disfranchisement.

Abraham Lincoln fought this war
to restore the union.

Long ago, the fighting stopped.

But while those desks remain empty,

there is no union.

Senators, while we were
fighting one another,

a European tyrant,

master of the strongest army
in the world,

seized our sister Republic
of Mexico.

If we continue a divided nation,
the day will come

when still stronger armies
and fleets from overseas

will conquer and enslave
not only our central and
south American brethren,

but ourselves as well.

As our forefathers knew,

united we stand, divided we fall.

Senators, the issue before you
and before the whole country

is not my faith as an individual.

It is the issue of union
or disunion,

and upon its solution depends,

for our descendants
if not ourselves,

this nation's survival

or its destruction.

The event is in the hands of god.

Order must be maintained
in the galleries.

The clerk will now call the roll.

Mr. Albert.

Mr. senator Albert,
how say you?

Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

guilty or not guilty?

Guilty.

What goes on?

It's huyler.
He's fainted.

Go get a doctor!
We can't do without him!

Mr. Arnold.

Mr. senator Arnold,
how say you?

Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

guilty or not guilty?

Not guilty.

Mr. President.

Andrew, Andrew.

Oh, Andrew.

As my husband,

you've always held
my love and respect,

but today you really
stand forth for me.

The President of the United States.

Well, Eliza, I'm glad
to hear you say that,

since I'm not likely
to hold this job

for more than a couple
of minutes longer.

Well, if that should be true,

nothing, nothing in your presidency

has become you so much

as your leaving it.

Then this means
if you can vote huyler...

we'll vote him.

We're gonna
carry him in,
drag him in.

The voting's nearly over.

Come on.

Man, even with Howard,
the whole thing turns on me.

Just think what it means,
asking me to make
myself President

with my own single vote...
judge in my own cause.

Stevens isn't
asking you.
He's telling you.

But he agreed
the dignified thing
was for me to sit there

and just answer "present"
when they called my name.

He told you that when he thought

we could win without you.

What will the country
say if the case
turns on my vote?

What will history say?

Mr. senator Vincent,
how say you?

Is the...
guilty.

Senator Vincent,

is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

guilty or not guilty?

Guilty.

Mr. waters.

Mr. senator waters,
how say you?

Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

guilty or not guilty?

Guilty.

Good old Jim.

We're still one short.

Well, huyler can still
vote if he gets here

before the acquittal's announced.

He's unconscious.

Well, bring him to.

We mustn't lose
the country by one vote.

I think we're safe.

I'm must go and tell him.

Not so fast.

The formalities will
take another minute.

We might still lose

if they get huyler in here to vote.

Upon the roll call,

53 votes were cast,

and one senator did not
answer to his name.

Under the constitution...

Huyler just came to.

They're dragging him in here.

Hurry up. I'll keep
the Chief Justice

from finishing the announcement.

...necessary
for conviction.

Mr. Chief Justice,

in the name of
the house of
representatives

and of the people of
the United States,
I protest!

Senator huyler has
publicly announced

he was going to vote guilty!

The manager is out of order.

Senator huyler must vote.

His vote
is necessary to
save the country.

Would you throw the
nation into chaos

and start
a new civil war on
a point of order?

Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

has been adjudged guilty
by 35 senators.

If this outrage
is consummated
on this floor,

guns and knives
will be brought
into play

within the hour...

on every street corner,

in every city,
town, and Hamlet in
the United States!

You stand in most
gross contempt, sir!

Remove Mr. Stevens
from the floor.

Senator huyler's
vote should be
counted, anyhow.

Everyone knows
it was pledged
against Johnson.

A new civil war,
that's what
you're starting...

a new civil war.

This is the most
gross miscarriage
of justice

in human history.

If the Chief Justice
pronounces those words

that are even now
trembling on his tongue,

the only hope for
the salvation of this...

Here's huyler!

There you are, huyler.

Good, old boy.

I knew we could count on you.

Mr. Chief Justice,
the roll call was completed.

The President stands
acquitted by one vote.

Mr. Chief Justice,

under the rules,
any senator who
appears on the floor

before the result
has been announced

has the right to vote!

The chair had not completed
the announcement.

The clerk will call
senator huyler's name.

Mr. huyler.

Mr. senator huyler,
how say you?

Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,

President of the United States,

guilty or not guilty?

The senator need not rise.

My...

My vote is pledged.

I say...

Not guilty.

You're acquitted, sir.

Andrew! Andrew!

35 to 19.

Senator huyler's vote.

One vote!

Mr. President,
congratulations!

35 to 19!

Huyler decided it.

You should have seen
thad Stevens' face!

On behalf of President Grant,

of the Senate,
and of the entire nation,

the chair extends welcome
to the new senator elect.

Before the gentleman
from Tennessee is
escorted to the bar

to take the oath of office,

the Senate would welcome
a few remarks

from the only former
President to be elected
a member of this body

after he left the white house.

Mr. President.

Senators.

My... my fellow
Americans.

When I last occupied this...

this seat in 1861,

I was surrounded by empty desks.

Now I see that they
are no longer vacant.

Virginia and the carolinas,
Alabama, Louisiana,

and Texas, Mississippi, Florida,
Arkansas, and Georgia.

You are all back in the fold

as Tennessee stands here
in your midst.

I...

I see as I greet you
who sit here about me

that what Lincoln fought for,
lived for...

And died for, at long last,
has come to pass...

The union of these states.

One and inseparable.

Now and forever.

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