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11
200:02:05,542 --> 00:02:07,960
3Some of us was
4in the Second Kansas Colored.
5
62
700:02:08,045 --> 00:02:10,588
8We fought the Rebs at
9Jenkins' Ferry last April
10
113
1200:02:10,714 --> 00:02:12,394
13just after they killed every Negro soldier
14
154
1600:02:12,508 --> 00:02:14,217
17they captured at Poison Springs.
18
195
2000:02:15,219 --> 00:02:17,011
21So at Jenkins' Ferry,
22
236
2400:02:17,221 --> 00:02:19,764
25we decided warn't takin'
26no Reb prisoners.
27
287
2900:02:19,890 --> 00:02:22,517
30And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive.
31
328
3300:02:23,227 --> 00:02:25,186
34The ones of us that didn't die that day,
35
369
3700:02:25,270 --> 00:02:28,064
38we joined up with
39the 116th U.S. Colored, sir,
40
4110
4200:02:28,190 --> 00:02:29,774
43from Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
44
4511
4600:02:30,526 --> 00:02:32,777
47What's your name, soldier?
48
4912
5000:02:32,903 --> 00:02:35,029
51Private. Harold Green, sir.
52
5313
5400:02:36,448 --> 00:02:38,074
55I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir.
56
5714
5800:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,284
59Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry.
60
6115
6200:02:40,452 --> 00:02:42,453
63We're waiting over there.
64
6516
6600:02:42,704 --> 00:02:44,247
67We're leaving our horses behind
68
6917
7000:02:44,373 --> 00:02:45,934
71and shipping out with the 24th Infantry
72
7318
7400:02:46,041 --> 00:02:48,876
75for the assault next week on Wilmington.
76
7719
7800:02:51,046 --> 00:02:53,381
79How long
80have you been a soldier?
81
8220
8300:02:53,966 --> 00:02:55,550
84Two years, sir.
85
8621
8700:02:56,051 --> 00:02:57,969
88The Second Kansas
89Colored Infantry,
90
9122
9200:02:58,095 --> 00:03:00,388
93they fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry.
94
9523
9600:03:00,764 --> 00:03:01,973
97That's right, sir.
98
9924
10000:03:02,099 --> 00:03:03,779
101They killed
102a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir.
103
10425
10500:03:03,892 --> 00:03:05,685
106They were very brave.
107
10826
10900:03:06,103 --> 00:03:09,272
110And making $3 less each month
111than white soldiers.
112
11327
11400:03:09,439 --> 00:03:10,606
115Us Second Kansas boys...
116
11728
11800:03:10,691 --> 00:03:13,985
119Another $3 subtracted
120from our pay for our uniforms.
121
12229
12300:03:14,278 --> 00:03:15,528
124That was true, yes sir,
125but that's changed.
126
12730
12800:03:15,612 --> 00:03:18,781
129Equal pay now, but still
130no commissioned Negro officers.
131
13231
13300:03:18,866 --> 00:03:20,867
134I'm aware of that,
135Corporal Clark.
136
13732
13800:03:20,951 --> 00:03:22,952
139Yes, sir.
140That's good that you're aware, sir...
141
14233
14300:03:23,287 --> 00:03:24,287
144Do you think the Wilmington attack...
145
14634
14700:03:24,371 --> 00:03:26,914
148Now that white people
149have accustomed themselves
150
15135
15200:03:26,999 --> 00:03:28,749
153to seeing Negro men with guns
154
15536
15600:03:28,834 --> 00:03:30,001
157fighting on their behalf,
158
15937
16000:03:30,127 --> 00:03:31,419
161and now that they can tolerate
162
16338
16400:03:31,503 --> 00:03:33,754
165Negro soldiers getting equal pay
166
16739
16800:03:33,839 --> 00:03:36,382
169maybe in a few years,
170they can abide the idea
171
17240
17300:03:36,466 --> 00:03:38,759
174of Negro lieutenants and captains.
175
17641
17700:03:38,844 --> 00:03:41,470
178In fifty years, maybe a Negro colonel.
179
18042
18100:03:42,222 --> 00:03:44,807
182In a hundred years, the vote.
183
18443
18500:03:48,353 --> 00:03:51,397
186What will you do after the war,
187Corporal Clark?
188
18944
19000:03:52,816 --> 00:03:54,150
191Work, sir.
192
19345
19400:03:54,860 --> 00:03:57,028
195Perhaps you'll hire me.
196
19746
19800:03:57,154 --> 00:03:58,654
199Perhaps I will.
200
20147
20200:03:59,156 --> 00:04:00,781
203But you should know, sir,
204
20548
20600:04:00,866 --> 00:04:02,992
207that I get sick at the smell of boot black
208
20949
21000:04:03,076 --> 00:04:04,994
211and I cannot cut hair.
212
21350
21400:04:05,662 --> 00:04:07,371
215I've yet to find a man could cut mine
216
21751
21800:04:07,456 --> 00:04:09,790
219so that it'd make any difference.
220
22152
22200:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,440
223You got springy hair
224for a white man.
225
22653
22700:04:11,460 --> 00:04:12,710
228Yes, I do.
229
23054
23100:04:12,794 --> 00:04:15,046
232My last barber hanged himself.
233
23455
23500:04:17,007 --> 00:04:18,966
236And the one before that.
237
23856
23900:04:19,134 --> 00:04:20,718
240Left me his scissors in his will.
241
24257
24300:04:24,306 --> 00:04:25,348
244President Lincoln, sir.
245
24658
24700:04:25,432 --> 00:04:26,432
248Good evening, boys.
249
25059
25100:04:26,516 --> 00:04:28,100
252We saw you, and...
253
25460
25500:04:28,268 --> 00:04:30,019
256- We were at...
257- We was at Gettysburg.
258
25961
26000:04:30,103 --> 00:04:31,771
261You boys fight at Gettysburg?
262
26362
26400:04:31,855 --> 00:04:33,981
265No, didn't fight there,
266we just signed up last month.
267
26863
26900:04:34,399 --> 00:04:36,275
270We saw him two years ago
271at the cemetery dedication.
272
27364
27400:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,362
275Yeah. We heard you speak...
276Goddamn.
277
27865
27900:04:39,529 --> 00:04:40,988
280Hey, how tall are you, anyway?
281
28266
28300:04:41,073 --> 00:04:42,406
284Jeez, shut up.
285
28667
28700:04:42,866 --> 00:04:44,033
288Could you hear what I said?
289
29068
29100:04:44,117 --> 00:04:45,368
292No, sir. Not much.
293
29469
29500:04:45,577 --> 00:04:46,619
296It was...
297
29870
29900:04:46,703 --> 00:04:48,162
300"Four score and seven years ago,"
301
30271
30300:04:48,246 --> 00:04:50,087
304"our fathers brought forth
305from this continent"
306
30772
30800:04:50,165 --> 00:04:51,624
309"a new nation, conceived in liberty"
310
31173
31200:04:51,708 --> 00:04:52,917
313"and dedicated to the proposition"
314
31574
31600:04:53,001 --> 00:04:54,585
317"that all men are created equal."
318
31975
32000:04:55,170 --> 00:04:56,671
321That's good. Thank you.
322
32376
32400:04:56,838 --> 00:04:58,547
325"Now we are engaged
326in a great civil war,"
327
32877
32900:04:58,632 --> 00:05:00,383
330"testing whether that nation
331or any nation"
332
33378
33400:05:00,467 --> 00:05:01,801
335"so conceived and so dedicated,"
336
33779
33800:05:01,885 --> 00:05:03,052
339"can long endure."
340
34180
34200:05:04,471 --> 00:05:06,351
343"We are met on a great
344battlefield of that war."
345
34681
34700:05:06,556 --> 00:05:07,556
348That's good, thank you.
349
35082
35100:05:07,641 --> 00:05:08,641
352"We come to dedicate"
353
35483
35500:05:08,725 --> 00:05:09,892
356"a portion of that field"
357
35884
35900:05:09,977 --> 00:05:11,560
360"as a final resting place
361for those who here"
362
36385
36400:05:11,645 --> 00:05:13,938
365"gave their lives
366that that nation might live."
367
36886
36900:05:14,022 --> 00:05:17,066
370His uncles, they died
371on the second day of fighting.
372
37387
37400:05:17,150 --> 00:05:18,651
375I know the last part. It is...
376
37788
37800:05:18,735 --> 00:05:20,653
379Company up! Moving out!
380
38189
38200:05:21,154 --> 00:05:23,489
383You boys best go
384and find your company.
385
38690
38700:05:23,573 --> 00:05:25,491
388- And thank you.
389- Thank you, sir.
390
39191
39200:05:25,575 --> 00:05:27,576
393- God bless you.
394- God bless you, too.
395
39692
39700:05:27,661 --> 00:05:29,161
398God bless you.
399
40093
40100:05:41,925 --> 00:05:44,844
402"That we here highly resolve
403that these dead"
404
40594
40600:05:44,928 --> 00:05:47,054
407"shall not have died in vain."
408
40995
41000:05:47,889 --> 00:05:50,016
411"That this nation, under God,"
412
41396
41400:05:50,225 --> 00:05:52,560
415"shall have a new birth of freedom"
416
41797
41800:05:53,228 --> 00:05:56,522
419"and that government
420of the people, by the people,"
421
42298
42300:05:56,898 --> 00:05:58,524
424"for the people"
425
42699
42700:05:58,608 --> 00:06:01,110
428"shall not perish from the earth."
429
430100
43100:06:29,097 --> 00:06:31,057
432It's nighttime.
433
434101
43500:06:31,975 --> 00:06:34,977
436Ship's moved by some terribie power
437
438102
43900:06:35,645 --> 00:06:37,563
440at a terrific speed.
441
442103
44300:06:38,523 --> 00:06:40,399
444And though it's imperceptible
445in the darkness,
446
447104
44800:06:40,484 --> 00:06:43,569
449I have an intuition that
450we're headed towards a shore.
451
452105
45300:06:43,653 --> 00:06:46,447
454No one else seems to be
455aboard the vessel.
456
457106
45800:06:46,656 --> 00:06:50,993
459I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness.
460
461107
46200:06:52,037 --> 00:06:53,954
463"I could be bounded in a nutshell"
464
465108
46600:06:54,039 --> 00:06:56,916
467"and count myself
468a king of infinite space"
469
470109
47100:06:57,459 --> 00:06:59,376
472"were it not that I have bad dreams."
473
474110
47500:07:01,838 --> 00:07:03,598
476I reckon it's the speed
477that's strange to me.
478
479111
48000:07:03,673 --> 00:07:06,300
481I'm used to going at a deliberate pace.
482
483112
48400:07:08,887 --> 00:07:10,179
485I should spare you, Molly.
486
487113
48800:07:10,263 --> 00:07:12,431
489I shouldn't tell you my dreams.
490
491114
49200:07:12,516 --> 00:07:15,184
493I don't want to be spared if you aren't.
494
495115
49600:07:15,393 --> 00:07:17,186
497And you spare me nothing.
498
499116
50000:07:19,731 --> 00:07:21,273
501Perhaps it's...
502
503117
50400:07:22,192 --> 00:07:24,819
505It's the assault on Wilmington Port.
506
507118
50800:07:25,695 --> 00:07:28,280
509You dream about the ship
510before a battle, usually.
511
512119
51300:07:28,907 --> 00:07:30,574
514How's the coconut?
515
516120
51700:07:31,701 --> 00:07:33,410
518Beyond description.
519
520121
52100:07:35,038 --> 00:07:37,331
522Almost two years, nothing mends.
523
524122
52500:07:38,542 --> 00:07:40,668
526Another casualty of the war.
527
528123
52900:07:43,171 --> 00:07:45,172
530Who wants to listen to a useless woman
531
532124
53300:07:45,257 --> 00:07:47,258
534grouse about her carriage accident?
535
536125
53700:07:47,342 --> 00:07:48,968
538- I do.
539- Stuff.
540
541126
54200:07:50,095 --> 00:07:51,971
543You tell me dreams, that's all.
544
545127
54600:07:52,055 --> 00:07:53,806
547I'm your soothsayer.
548
549128
55000:07:54,099 --> 00:07:55,641
551That's all I am to you anymore.
552
553129
55400:07:55,725 --> 00:07:57,685
555I'm not to be trusted
556
557130
55800:07:58,979 --> 00:08:01,772
559even if it was not a carriage accident.
560
561131
56200:08:02,357 --> 00:08:04,650
563Even if it was
564an attempted assassination.
565
566132
56700:08:04,734 --> 00:08:05,943
568It was most probably an accident.
569
570133
57100:08:06,027 --> 00:08:09,572
572It was an assassin
573whose intended target was you.
574
575134
57600:08:11,408 --> 00:08:14,618
577How are the plans coming along
578for the big shindy?
579
580135
58100:08:15,245 --> 00:08:17,288
582I don't want to talk about parties.
583
584136
58500:08:17,414 --> 00:08:19,165
586You don't care about parties.
587
588137
58900:08:19,249 --> 00:08:22,668
590Not much, but they're
591a necessary hindrance.
592
593138
59400:08:28,216 --> 00:08:29,425
595I know.
596
597139
59800:08:30,886 --> 00:08:33,053
599I know what it's about, the ship.
600
601140
60200:08:35,599 --> 00:08:39,560
603It's not Wilmington Port.
604It's not a military campaign.
605
606141
60700:08:41,396 --> 00:08:43,981
608It's the amendment to abolish slavery.
609
610142
61100:08:44,691 --> 00:08:45,816
612Why else would you force me
613
614143
61500:08:45,901 --> 00:08:48,110
616to invite demented radicals
617into my home?
618
619144
62000:08:51,948 --> 00:08:53,616
621You're going to try to get
622the amendment passed
623
624145
62500:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,326
626in the House of Representatives
627
628146
62900:08:55,619 --> 00:08:57,077
630before the term ends?
631
632147
63300:08:57,162 --> 00:08:58,412
634Before the Inauguration?
635
636148
63700:08:58,496 --> 00:09:00,998
638Don't spend too much money
639on the flubdubs.
640
641149
64200:09:03,501 --> 00:09:05,753
643No one is loved as much as you.
644
645150
64600:09:06,630 --> 00:09:10,007
647No one's ever been loved
648so much by the people.
649
650151
65100:09:10,091 --> 00:09:11,967
652You might do anything now.
653
654152
65500:09:12,093 --> 00:09:14,553
656Don't... Don't waste that power
657
658153
65900:09:14,638 --> 00:09:16,722
660on an amendment bill
661that's sure of defeat.
662
663154
66400:09:20,268 --> 00:09:23,812
665Did you remember Robert's
666coming home for the reception?
667
668155
66900:09:28,109 --> 00:09:29,860
670I knew you'd forget.
671
672156
67300:09:35,283 --> 00:09:37,701
674That's the ship you're sailing on,
675
676157
67700:09:37,786 --> 00:09:39,828
678the 13th Amendment.
679
680158
68100:09:40,247 --> 00:09:42,998
682You needn't tell me I'm right.
683I know I am.
684
685159
68600:09:45,710 --> 00:09:47,419
687Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley.
688
689160
69000:09:47,504 --> 00:09:50,464
691Well, she needs this
692for the grand reception.
693
694161
69500:09:54,803 --> 00:09:56,345
696It's slow work.
697
698162
69900:09:57,889 --> 00:09:59,265
700Good night.
701
702163
70300:10:02,102 --> 00:10:04,103
704Did you tell her a dream?
705
706164
70700:11:37,906 --> 00:11:39,406
708Papa.
709
710165
71100:11:40,116 --> 00:11:41,784
712Papa, I want to see Willie.
713
714166
71500:11:41,951 --> 00:11:44,119
716Me, too, Taddie, but we can't.
717
718167
71900:11:44,454 --> 00:11:45,621
720Why not?
721
722168
72300:11:45,747 --> 00:11:46,997
724Willie's gone.
725
726169
72700:11:47,082 --> 00:11:49,375
728It's three years now he's gone.
729
730170
73100:12:19,531 --> 00:12:22,491
732The part assigned to me
733is to raise the flag.
734
735171
73600:12:23,743 --> 00:12:28,539
737Which, if there be no fault
738in the machinery, I will do.
739
740172
74100:12:29,874 --> 00:12:31,375
742And when up
743
744173
74500:12:32,085 --> 00:12:34,837
746it'll be for the people to keep it up.
747
748174
74900:12:40,802 --> 00:12:42,428
750That's my speech.
751
752175
75300:12:45,223 --> 00:12:47,558
754We are coming, Father Abraham
755
756176
75700:12:47,642 --> 00:12:50,144
758Three hundred thousand more
759
760177
76100:12:50,228 --> 00:12:52,479
762From Mississippi's winding stream
763
764178
76500:12:52,564 --> 00:12:54,815
766And from New England's shore
767
768179
76900:12:54,899 --> 00:12:56,942
770We leave our plow and workshops
771
772180
77300:12:57,026 --> 00:12:58,068
774Our wives...
775
776181
77700:12:58,736 --> 00:13:02,239
778Even if every Republican
779in the House votes yes,
780
781182
78200:13:02,532 --> 00:13:05,075
783far from guaranteed.
784Since when has our party
785
786183
78700:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,411
788unanimously supported anything?
789
790184
79100:13:08,204 --> 00:13:11,248
792But say all our fellow Republicans
793vote for it.
794
795185
79600:13:12,083 --> 00:13:14,168
797We'd still be twenty votes short.
798
799186
80000:13:14,335 --> 00:13:15,335
801Only twenty?
802
803187
80400:13:15,462 --> 00:13:16,503
805"Only twenty?"
806
807188
80800:13:16,588 --> 00:13:17,838
809We can find twenty votes.
810
811189
81200:13:17,964 --> 00:13:20,799
813Twenty House Democrats
814who'll vote to abolish slavery?
815
816190
81700:13:20,884 --> 00:13:22,009
818In my opinion...
819
820191
82100:13:22,093 --> 00:13:24,094
822To which I always listen.
823
824192
82500:13:24,262 --> 00:13:27,097
826- Or pretend to.
827- With all three of my ears.
828
829193
83000:13:28,766 --> 00:13:30,100
831We'll win the war soon.
832
833194
83400:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,227
835It's inevitable, isn't it?
836
837195
83800:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,563
839Well, it ain't won yet.
840
841196
84200:13:34,939 --> 00:13:38,400
843You'll begin your second term
844with semi-divine stature.
845
846197
84700:13:38,818 --> 00:13:41,278
848Imagine the possibilities
849peace will bring.
850
851198
85200:13:41,362 --> 00:13:43,405
853Why tarnish your invaluable luster
854
855199
85600:13:43,490 --> 00:13:44,698
857with a battle in the House?
858
859200
86000:13:44,782 --> 00:13:46,492
861It's a rat's nest in there.
862
863201
86400:13:46,576 --> 00:13:49,161
865It's the same gang of
866talentless hicks and hacks
867
868202
86900:13:49,245 --> 00:13:51,580
870who rejected the amendment
87110 months ago.
872
873203
87400:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,040
875We'll lose.
876
877204
87800:13:55,084 --> 00:13:57,002
879I like our chances now.
880
881205
88200:13:58,463 --> 00:14:01,340
883Well, consider the obstacles
884that we'd face.
885
886206
88700:14:02,258 --> 00:14:04,218
888The aforementioned two-thirds majority
889
890207
89100:14:04,302 --> 00:14:05,969
892needed to pass an amendment.
893
894208
89500:14:06,054 --> 00:14:09,389
896We have a Republican majority,
897but barely more than 50%.
898
899209
90000:14:09,474 --> 00:14:10,807
901Fifty-six.
902
903210
90400:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,854
905We need Democratic support.
906There's none to be had.
907
908211
90900:14:15,939 --> 00:14:17,773
910Since the House
911last voted on the amendment,
912
913212
91400:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,233
915there's been an election.
916
917213
91800:14:19,317 --> 00:14:20,692
919Sixty-four Democrats
920
921214
92200:14:20,777 --> 00:14:23,195
923lost their House seats in November.
924
925215
92600:14:23,488 --> 00:14:25,781
927That's 64 Democrats
928looking for work come March.
929
930216
93100:14:25,865 --> 00:14:26,949
932I know.
933
934217
93500:14:27,033 --> 00:14:28,534
936They don't need to
937worry about re-election.
938
939218
94000:14:28,618 --> 00:14:30,058
941They can vote however it suits them.
942
943219
94400:14:30,078 --> 00:14:33,330
945But we can't buy the vote
946for the amendment.
947
948220
94900:14:33,414 --> 00:14:35,374
950It's too important.
951
952221
95300:14:35,458 --> 00:14:37,584
954I said nothing of buying anything.
955
956222
95700:14:37,669 --> 00:14:40,003
958We need twenty votes was all I said.
959
960223
96100:14:40,171 --> 00:14:43,549
962Start of my second term,
963plenty of positions to fill.
964
965224
96600:14:47,804 --> 00:14:48,971
967Mr. President, may I present
968
969225
97000:14:49,055 --> 00:14:51,139
971Mr. and Mrs. Jolly
972who've come from Missouri...
973
974226
97500:14:51,224 --> 00:14:53,267
976From Jeff City, President.
977
978227
97900:14:53,518 --> 00:14:54,851
980Mr. Jolly.
981
982228
98300:14:55,812 --> 00:14:56,979
984Ma'am.
985
986229
98700:14:57,230 --> 00:14:59,856
988And this here by the fire
989is Secretary of State Seward.
990
991230
99200:15:03,236 --> 00:15:04,570
993Jeff City?
994
995231
99600:15:07,699 --> 00:15:11,410
997I heard tell once
998of a Jefferson City lawyer
999
1000232
100100:15:12,453 --> 00:15:14,288
1002who had a parrot
1003
1004233
100500:15:14,706 --> 00:15:16,915
1006that'd wake him
1007each morning, crying out,
1008
1009234
101000:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,543
1011"Today is the day the world shall end,"
1012
1013235
101400:15:19,627 --> 00:15:21,712
1015"as scripture has foretold."
1016
1017236
101800:15:23,047 --> 00:15:24,590
1019And one day...
1020
1021237
102200:15:25,675 --> 00:15:27,593
1023the lawyer shot him,
1024
1025238
102600:15:27,927 --> 00:15:30,762
1027for the sake of peace and quiet,
1028I presume.
1029
1030239
103100:15:30,972 --> 00:15:33,599
1032Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least,
1033
1034240
103500:15:33,850 --> 00:15:35,350
1036his prophecy.
1037
1038241
103900:15:44,319 --> 00:15:46,820
1040There's only one toll booth in Jeff City,
1041
1042242
104300:15:46,904 --> 00:15:48,447
1044to the southwest
1045
1046243
104700:15:48,531 --> 00:15:51,074
1048and this man
1049Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla
1050
1051244
105200:15:51,159 --> 00:15:53,368
1053been in illegal possession
1054for near two yar
1055
1056245
105700:15:53,453 --> 00:15:55,704
1058since your man General Schofield
1059
1060246
106100:15:55,788 --> 00:15:57,331
1062set him up there.
1063
1064247
106500:15:57,498 --> 00:15:59,458
1066But President Monroe give that toll gate
1067
1068248
106900:15:59,542 --> 00:16:00,834
1070to my granpap
1071
1072249
107300:16:00,918 --> 00:16:02,711
1074and Quincy Adams
1075
1076250
107700:16:02,795 --> 00:16:04,379
1078give my pap a letter
1079
1080251
108100:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,214
1082saying it's our'n for keeps.
1083
1084252
108500:16:06,424 --> 00:16:08,175
1086Mrs. Jolly got the...
1087
1088253
108900:16:08,259 --> 00:16:10,344
1090Show Mr. Lincoln
1091the Quincy Adams letter.
1092
1093254
109400:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,638
1095That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly.
1096
1097255
109800:16:12,722 --> 00:16:14,122
1099Just tell me what you want from me.
1100
1101256
110200:16:16,517 --> 00:16:19,394
1103Mr. Jolly's emphysema
1104don't care for cigars.
1105
1106257
110700:16:20,271 --> 00:16:22,856
1108Madame, do you know
1109about the proposed
1110
1111258
111200:16:22,940 --> 00:16:23,982
111313th Amendment of the Constitution?
1114
1115259
111600:16:24,067 --> 00:16:25,942
1117Yes, sir, everybody knows of it.
1118
1119260
112000:16:26,235 --> 00:16:27,694
1121The President favors it.
1122
1123261
112400:16:27,779 --> 00:16:29,321
1125- Do you?
1126- We do.
1127
1128262
112900:16:29,447 --> 00:16:31,406
1130You know that it abolishes slavery?
1131
1132263
113300:16:31,491 --> 00:16:32,658
1134Yes, sir, I know it.
1135
1136264
113700:16:32,742 --> 00:16:34,951
1138And is that why you favor it?
1139
1140265
114100:16:35,411 --> 00:16:38,330
1142What I favor is ending the war.
1143
1144266
114500:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,668
1146Once we do away with slavery,
1147the Rebs'll quit fighting
1148
1149267
115000:16:43,169 --> 00:16:45,337
1151since slavery's what they're fighting for.
1152
1153268
115400:16:45,421 --> 00:16:48,006
1155Mr. Lincoln, you always says so.
1156
1157269
115800:16:49,801 --> 00:16:51,426
1159With the amendment, slavery's ended.
1160
1161270
116200:16:51,511 --> 00:16:53,637
1163And they'll give up.
1164The war can finish then.
1165
1166271
116700:16:54,639 --> 00:16:58,141
1168If the war finished first,
1169before we end slavery...
1170
1171272
117200:16:58,226 --> 00:17:00,644
1173President Lincoln
1174says the war won't stop
1175
1176273
117700:17:00,728 --> 00:17:02,729
1178unless we finish slavery.
1179
1180274
118100:17:03,314 --> 00:17:04,856
1182But if it did.
1183
1184275
118500:17:04,941 --> 00:17:06,858
1186The South is exhausted.
1187
1188276
118900:17:07,443 --> 00:17:10,195
1190If they run out of bullets and men
1191
1192277
119300:17:11,114 --> 00:17:13,365
1194would you still want your...
1195
1196278
119700:17:13,783 --> 00:17:15,534
1198Who's your Representative?
1199
1200279
120100:17:15,618 --> 00:17:18,078
1202Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton.
1203
1204280
120500:17:18,162 --> 00:17:19,413
1206"Beanpole" Burton.
1207
1208281
120900:17:19,497 --> 00:17:21,540
1210I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir.
1211
1212282
121300:17:21,624 --> 00:17:22,666
1214A Republican,
1215
1216283
121700:17:22,750 --> 00:17:25,836
1218undecided on the question
1219of the amendment, I believe.
1220
1221284
122200:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,546
1223Perhaps you could call on him
1224
1225285
122600:17:27,630 --> 00:17:29,548
1227and inform him of your enthusiasm.
1228
1229286
123000:17:29,924 --> 00:17:30,966
1231Yeah.
1232
1233287
123400:17:31,050 --> 00:17:32,592
1235Madame.
1236
1237288
123800:17:32,969 --> 00:17:35,554
1239If the Rebels surrendered next week
1240
1241289
124200:17:36,013 --> 00:17:38,432
1243would you, at the end of this month
1244
1245290
124600:17:39,684 --> 00:17:41,101
1247want Congressman Burton to vote
1248
1249291
125000:17:41,185 --> 00:17:43,103
1251for the 13th Amendment?
1252
1253292
125400:17:45,982 --> 00:17:48,859
1255If that was how it was,
1256no more war and all
1257
1258293
125900:17:48,943 --> 00:17:51,236
1260I reckon Mr. Jolly
1261much prefer not to have
1262
1263294
126400:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,238
1265Congress pass the amendment.
1266
1267295
126800:17:54,198 --> 00:17:56,116
1269And...
1270
1271296
127200:17:57,326 --> 00:17:58,869
1273why is that?
1274
1275297
127600:18:00,288 --> 00:18:01,329
1277Niggers.
1278
1279298
128000:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,206
1281If he don't have to
1282let some Alabama coon
1283
1284299
128500:18:03,291 --> 00:18:04,374
1286come up to Missouri
1287
1288300
128900:18:04,459 --> 00:18:05,834
1290steal his chickens and his job,
1291
1292301
129300:18:05,918 --> 00:18:07,753
1294we'd much prefer that.
1295
1296302
129700:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,465
1298The people.
1299
1300303
130100:18:11,549 --> 00:18:13,884
1302I begin to see why
1303you're in such a great hurry
1304
1305304
130600:18:13,968 --> 00:18:15,051
1307to put it through.
1308
1309305
131000:18:15,136 --> 00:18:17,429
1311Would you let me study this letter, sir,
1312
1313306
131400:18:17,513 --> 00:18:18,513
1315about the toll booth?
1316
1317307
131800:18:19,390 --> 00:18:21,475
1319Come back to me in the morning
1320
1321308
132200:18:21,559 --> 00:18:24,102
1323and we'll consider what the law says.
1324
1325309
132600:18:25,563 --> 00:18:27,189
1327You be sure to
1328
1329310
133000:18:27,690 --> 00:18:29,441
1331visit Beanpole.
1332
1333311
133400:18:30,193 --> 00:18:33,570
1335Tell him that you support
1336passage of the amendment
1337
1338312
133900:18:33,654 --> 00:18:35,739
1340as a military necessity.
1341
1342313
134300:18:36,574 --> 00:18:37,741
1344Thank you.
1345
1346314
134700:18:39,452 --> 00:18:41,953
1348Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment.
1349
1350315
135100:19:20,576 --> 00:19:21,618
1352If procuring votes
1353
1354316
135500:19:21,702 --> 00:19:23,662
1356with offers of employment
1357is what you intend
1358
1359317
136000:19:23,746 --> 00:19:24,996
1361I'll fetch a friend from Albany
1362
1363318
136400:19:25,081 --> 00:19:26,873
1365who can supply the skulky men
1366
1367319
136800:19:26,958 --> 00:19:29,084
1369gifted at this kind of shady work
1370
1371320
137200:19:29,168 --> 00:19:30,460
1373and spare me the indignity
1374
1375321
137600:19:30,545 --> 00:19:33,004
1377of actually speaking to Democrats.
1378
1379322
138000:19:33,089 --> 00:19:35,632
1381Spare you the exposure and liability.
1382
1383323
138400:19:38,469 --> 00:19:41,054
1385Pardon me, that's a distress signal
1386
1387324
138800:19:41,305 --> 00:19:44,933
1389which I am bound,
1390by solemn oath, to respond to.
1391
1392325
139300:19:48,646 --> 00:19:50,397
1394Tom Pendel took away
1395the glass camera plates
1396
1397326
139800:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,440
1399of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over
1400
1401327
140200:19:52,525 --> 00:19:54,276
1403because Tom says Mama says
1404they're too distressing.
1405
1406328
140700:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,569
1408You had nightmares all night long.
1409
1410329
141100:19:55,653 --> 00:19:57,445
1412I'll have worse nightmares
1413if you don't let me look
1414
1415330
141600:19:57,530 --> 00:19:59,322
1417at the plates again.
1418
1419331
142000:20:00,616 --> 00:20:01,867
1421Perhaps.
1422
1423332
142400:20:03,703 --> 00:20:05,495
1425You can't afford a single defection
1426
1427333
142800:20:05,580 --> 00:20:06,746
1429from anyone in the party.
1430
1431334
143200:20:06,831 --> 00:20:09,374
1433Not even a single Republican
1434absent when they vote.
1435
1436335
143700:20:09,458 --> 00:20:11,668
1438You know who you've got to see.
1439
1440336
144100:20:14,380 --> 00:20:16,381
1442Send over to Blair House.
1443
1444337
144500:20:18,968 --> 00:20:22,804
1446Ask Preston Blair
1447can I call on him around 5:00.
1448
1449338
145000:20:23,389 --> 00:20:24,848
1451God help you.
1452
1453339
145400:20:25,641 --> 00:20:27,893
1455God alone knows
1456what he'll ask you to give him.
1457
1458340
145900:20:29,478 --> 00:20:31,354
1460If the Blaire tell them to,
1461
1462341
146300:20:31,439 --> 00:20:33,857
1464no Republican will balk
1465at voting for the amendment.
1466
1467342
146800:20:34,066 --> 00:20:36,526
1469No conservative Republican
1470is what you mean.
1471
1472343
147300:20:36,611 --> 00:20:38,945
1474All Republicans
1475ought to be conservative.
1476
1477344
147800:20:39,238 --> 00:20:40,405
1479I founded this party,
1480
1481345
148200:20:40,489 --> 00:20:42,616
1483in my own goddamn home, to be a
1484
1485346
148600:20:42,700 --> 00:20:45,035
1487conservative anti-slavery party,
1488
1489347
149000:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,329
1491not a hobbyhorse for
1492goddamn radical abolitionists.
1493
1494348
149500:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,205
1496Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy.
1497
1498349
149900:20:49,290 --> 00:20:51,082
1500You'll frighten the child.
1501
1502350
150300:20:51,167 --> 00:20:53,126
1504You need us to keep
1505the conservative side
1506
1507351
150800:20:53,210 --> 00:20:54,544
1509of the party in the traces
1510
1511352
151200:20:54,629 --> 00:20:55,962
1513while you diddle the radicals
1514
1515353
151600:20:56,047 --> 00:20:58,173
1517and bundle up
1518with Thaddeus Stevens's gang!
1519
1520354
152100:20:58,257 --> 00:20:59,591
1522You need our help!
1523
1524355
152500:20:59,675 --> 00:21:01,217
1526Yes, sir, I do.
1527
1528356
152900:21:01,469 --> 00:21:02,886
1530Well, what do we get?
1531
1532357
153300:21:02,970 --> 00:21:04,429
1534Blunt!
1535
1536358
153700:21:04,847 --> 00:21:07,724
1538Your manners, Monty,
1539must be why Mr. Lincoln
1540
1541359
154200:21:07,934 --> 00:21:09,684
1543pushed you out of his Cabinet.
1544
1545360
154600:21:09,769 --> 00:21:11,269
1547- I wasn't pushed!
1548- Oh, of course you weren't.
1549
1550361
155100:21:11,354 --> 00:21:12,854
1552He was pushed out to
1553placate the damn radicals!
1554
1555362
155600:21:12,939 --> 00:21:17,275
1557- I agreed to resign.
1558- Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy.
1559
1560363
156100:21:19,445 --> 00:21:22,572
1562You don't mind, boy, do you?
1563
1564364
156500:21:22,865 --> 00:21:24,741
1566He spends his days with soldiers.
1567
1568365
156900:21:24,825 --> 00:21:25,825
1570They taught me a song.
1571
1572366
157300:21:26,077 --> 00:21:27,369
1574Did they?
1575
1576367
157700:21:28,454 --> 00:21:30,830
1578Soldiers know all manner of songs.
1579
1580368
158100:21:31,791 --> 00:21:33,291
1582How's your brother Bob?
1583
1584369
158500:21:33,376 --> 00:21:34,542
1586He's at school now, but he's coming
1587
1588370
158900:21:34,627 --> 00:21:36,336
1590to visit in four days for the shindy.
1591
1592371
159300:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,546
1594At school. Ain't that fine?
1595
1596372
159700:21:38,881 --> 00:21:40,423
1598Good he's not in the Army.
1599
1600373
160100:21:40,508 --> 00:21:42,384
1602He wants to be,
1603but Mama said he cannot.
1604
1605374
160600:21:42,468 --> 00:21:44,386
1607Dangerous life, soldiering.
1608
1609375
161000:21:44,470 --> 00:21:47,389
1611Your mama is wise
1612to keep him clean out of that.
1613
1614376
161500:21:47,473 --> 00:21:50,642
1616Now, your daddy knows that what I want
1617
1618377
161900:21:50,726 --> 00:21:53,561
1620in return for all the help I can give him
1621
1622378
162300:21:54,063 --> 00:21:56,439
1624is to go down to Richmond,
1625like he said I could
1626
1627379
162800:21:56,524 --> 00:21:58,775
1629as soon as Savannah fell
1630
1631380
163200:21:59,276 --> 00:22:01,319
1633and talk to Jefferson Davis.
1634
1635381
163600:22:01,779 --> 00:22:04,280
1637Now give me terms
1638I can offer to Jefferson Davis
1639
1640382
164100:22:04,532 --> 00:22:06,825
1642to start negotiating for peace.
1643
1644383
164500:22:06,993 --> 00:22:08,076
1646He'll talk to me.
1647
1648384
164900:22:08,244 --> 00:22:10,704
1650Conservative members of your party
1651
1652385
165300:22:10,788 --> 00:22:14,416
1654want you to listen
1655to overtures from Richmond.
1656
1657386
165800:22:14,959 --> 00:22:16,543
1659That above all!
1660
1661387
166200:22:17,336 --> 00:22:20,505
1663They'll vote for this rash
1664and dangerous amendment
1665
1666388
166700:22:20,589 --> 00:22:23,967
1668only if every other possibility
1669is exhausted.
1670
1671389
167200:22:24,552 --> 00:22:27,095
1673Our Republicans ain't abolitionists.
1674
1675390
167600:22:27,722 --> 00:22:30,682
1677We can't tell our people
1678they can vote yes
1679
1680391
168100:22:30,891 --> 00:22:32,100
1682on abolishing slavery
1683
1684392
168500:22:32,184 --> 00:22:35,228
1686unless at the same time we can tell them
1687
1688393
168900:22:35,438 --> 00:22:38,231
1690that you're seeking a negotiated peace.
1691
1692394
169300:22:46,407 --> 00:22:49,117
1694Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond.
1695
1696395
169700:22:49,326 --> 00:22:50,994
1698Get him drunk so he can sleep.
1699
1700396
170100:22:51,078 --> 00:22:52,454
1702Yes, ma'am.
1703
1704397
170500:22:52,955 --> 00:22:54,372
1706Here, Daddy.
1707
1708398
170900:22:56,125 --> 00:22:58,126
1710- Thank you.
1711- Yes, sir, all right.
1712
1713399
171400:22:58,711 --> 00:22:59,836
1715Where's my hat?
1716
1717400
171800:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,546
1719Leo has your hat.
1720
1721401
172200:23:01,714 --> 00:23:02,964
1723All right?
1724
1725402
172600:23:04,425 --> 00:23:05,925
1727Go make peace.
1728
1729403
173000:23:18,397 --> 00:23:20,440
1731Thunder forth, God of War.
1732
1733404
173400:23:22,568 --> 00:23:25,987
1735We'll commence our assault
1736on Wilmington from the sea.
1737
1738405
173900:23:29,658 --> 00:23:30,992
1740Why is this burnt?
1741
1742406
174300:23:31,911 --> 00:23:33,495
1744Was the boy playing with it?
1745
1746407
174700:23:33,579 --> 00:23:35,830
1748It got took by a breeze
1749several nights back.
1750
1751408
175200:23:35,915 --> 00:23:37,582
1753This is an official War Department map.
1754
1755409
175600:23:37,875 --> 00:23:39,501
1757And the entire Cabinet's waiting
1758
1759410
176000:23:39,585 --> 00:23:40,668
1761to hear what it portends.
1762
1763411
176400:23:40,753 --> 00:23:41,836
1765A bombardment.
1766
1767412
176800:23:42,505 --> 00:23:45,256
1769From the largest fleet
1770the Navy has ever assembled.
1771
1772413
177300:23:45,341 --> 00:23:47,759
1774Old Neptune, shake thy hoary locks!
1775
1776414
177700:23:48,010 --> 00:23:49,844
1778Fifty-eight ships are under way,
1779
1780415
178100:23:49,929 --> 00:23:52,263
1782of every tonnage and firing range.
1783
1784416
178500:23:52,389 --> 00:23:54,682
1786We'll keep up a steady barrage.
1787
1788417
178900:23:55,184 --> 00:23:56,476
1790Our first target is Fort Fisher.
1791
1792418
179300:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,228
1794It defends Wilmington Port.
1795
1796419
179700:23:58,354 --> 00:24:00,271
1798A steady barrage?
1799
1800420
180100:24:00,898 --> 00:24:02,941
1802A hundred shells a minute.
1803
1804421
180500:24:04,026 --> 00:24:05,068
1806Till they surrender.
1807
1808422
180900:24:05,778 --> 00:24:07,153
1810Dear God.
1811
1812423
181300:24:07,446 --> 00:24:10,615
1814Wilmington's
1815their last open seaport, therefore...
1816
1817424
181800:24:10,699 --> 00:24:13,368
1819Wilmington falls, Richmond falls after.
1820
1821425
182200:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,122
1823And the war is done.
1824
1825426
182600:24:18,249 --> 00:24:19,541
1827Hear, hear!
1828
1829427
183000:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,668
1831Then why, if I might ask
1832
1833428
183400:24:21,752 --> 00:24:23,002
1835are we not concentrating
1836
1837429
183800:24:23,087 --> 00:24:25,255
1839the nation's attention on Wilmington?
1840
1841430
184200:24:25,381 --> 00:24:27,715
1843Why, instead, are we
1844reading in the Herald
1845
1846431
184700:24:28,425 --> 00:24:29,759
1848that the anti-slavery amendment
1849
1850432
185100:24:29,885 --> 00:24:32,887
1852is being precipitated onto
1853the House floor for debate?
1854
1855433
185600:24:33,055 --> 00:24:34,055
1857Because your eagerness,
1858
1859434
186000:24:34,140 --> 00:24:35,807
1861in what seems an unwarranted intrusion
1862
1863435
186400:24:35,891 --> 00:24:38,476
1865of the executive into
1866legislative prerogatives,
1867
1868436
186900:24:38,561 --> 00:24:40,395
1870is compelling it to what's...
1871
1872437
187300:24:40,729 --> 00:24:43,481
1874To what's likely to be
1875its premature demise.
1876
1877438
187800:24:43,566 --> 00:24:44,566
1879Hear, hear!
1880
1881439
188200:24:44,650 --> 00:24:46,276
1883You signed
1884the Emancipation Proclamation.
1885
1886440
188700:24:46,402 --> 00:24:47,360
1888You've done all that could be done.
1889
1890441
189100:24:47,444 --> 00:24:48,684
1892The Emancipation Proclamation's
1893
1894442
189500:24:48,737 --> 00:24:50,822
1896merely a war measure.
1897After the war, the courts...
1898
1899443
190000:24:50,906 --> 00:24:52,657
1901When Edward Bates
1902was Attorney General,
1903
1904444
190500:24:52,741 --> 00:24:53,950
1906he felt confident enough
1907to let you sign it!
1908
1909445
191000:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,077
1911Different lawyers, different opinions.
1912
1913446
191400:24:56,162 --> 00:24:58,663
1915It frees slaves
1916as a military exigent. Not...
1917
1918447
191900:24:58,789 --> 00:25:02,417
1920I don't recall Edward Bates
1921being any too certain about
1922
1923448
192400:25:02,793 --> 00:25:05,253
1925the legality of my proclamation.
1926
1927449
192800:25:06,797 --> 00:25:08,590
1929Just it wasn't downright criminal.
1930
1931450
193200:25:10,593 --> 00:25:12,427
1933Somewheres in between.
1934
1935451
193600:25:16,098 --> 00:25:18,808
1937Back when I rode
1938the legal circuit in Illinois,
1939
1940452
194100:25:18,934 --> 00:25:21,227
1942I defended a woman from Metamora
1943
1944453
194500:25:21,312 --> 00:25:23,104
1946named Melissa Goings.
1947
1948454
194900:25:23,981 --> 00:25:25,940
1950Seventy-seven years old.
1951
1952455
195300:25:26,650 --> 00:25:29,777
1954They said she'd murdered
1955her husband. He was 83.
1956
1957456
195800:25:30,529 --> 00:25:32,322
1959He was choking her
1960
1961457
196200:25:33,115 --> 00:25:36,159
1963and she grabbed a hold
1964of a stick of firewood
1965
1966458
196700:25:36,285 --> 00:25:38,870
1968and fractured his skull and he died.
1969
1970459
197100:25:39,997 --> 00:25:41,831
1972In his will, he wrote,
1973
1974460
197500:25:44,126 --> 00:25:46,294
1976"I expect she has killed me."
1977
1978461
197900:25:50,007 --> 00:25:52,675
1980"If I get over it, I will have revenge."
1981
1982462
198300:25:58,140 --> 00:26:00,058
1984No one was keen to see her convicted,
1985
1986463
198700:26:00,142 --> 00:26:02,393
1988he was that kind of husband.
1989
1990464
199100:26:03,145 --> 00:26:04,771
1992I asked the prosecuting attorney
1993
1994465
199500:26:04,855 --> 00:26:08,066
1996if I might have a short conference
1997with my client.
1998
1999466
200000:26:08,234 --> 00:26:11,402
2001She and I went into a room
2002in the courthouse,
2003
2004467
200500:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,363
2006but I alone emerged.
2007
2008468
200900:26:13,864 --> 00:26:15,573
2010The window in the room
2011was found to be wide open.
2012
2013469
201400:26:15,658 --> 00:26:19,244
2015It was believed the old lady
2016may have climbed out of it.
2017
2018470
201900:26:20,996 --> 00:26:22,664
2020I told the bailiff,
2021
2022471
202300:26:23,499 --> 00:26:24,540
2024right before I left her in the room
2025
2026472
202700:26:24,667 --> 00:26:25,708
2028she asked me where she could get
2029
2030473
203100:26:25,834 --> 00:26:28,628
2032a good drink of water,
2033and I told her, Tennessee.
2034
2035474
203600:26:31,507 --> 00:26:34,050
2037Mrs. Goings was seen no more
2038in Metamora.
2039
2040475
204100:26:34,176 --> 00:26:36,344
2042Enough justice had been done.
2043
2044476
204500:26:36,762 --> 00:26:39,430
2046They even forgave
2047the bondsman her bail.
2048
2049477
205000:26:40,849 --> 00:26:41,849
2051I'm afraid I don't see...
2052
2053478
205400:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,393
2055I decided
2056
2057479
205800:26:44,687 --> 00:26:47,689
2059that the Constitution
2060gives me war powers
2061
2062480
206300:26:48,857 --> 00:26:50,149
2064but no one knows just exactly
2065
2066481
206700:26:50,234 --> 00:26:52,277
2068what those powers are.
2069
2070482
207100:26:53,195 --> 00:26:54,320
2072Some say they don't exist.
2073
2074483
207500:26:54,405 --> 00:26:56,072
2076I don't know. I decided
2077
2078484
207900:26:56,198 --> 00:26:58,408
2080I needed them to exist to uphold my oath
2081
2082485
208300:26:58,534 --> 00:27:00,743
2084to protect the Constitution.
2085
2086486
208700:27:01,036 --> 00:27:02,704
2088Which I decided meant I could take
2089
2090487
209100:27:02,788 --> 00:27:04,664
2092the Rebels' slaves from them
2093
2094488
209500:27:04,748 --> 00:27:07,125
2096as property confiscated in war.
2097
2098489
209900:27:07,710 --> 00:27:09,836
2100That might recommend
2101to suspicion that I agree
2102
2103490
210400:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,160
2105with the Rebs that their slaves
2106
2107491
210800:27:11,213 --> 00:27:12,297
2109are property in the first place.
2110
2111492
211200:27:12,381 --> 00:27:14,632
2113Of course, I don't. Never have.
2114
2115493
211600:27:16,051 --> 00:27:17,593
2117I'm glad to see any man free,
2118
2119494
212000:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,887
2121and if calling a man property
2122
2123495
212400:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,264
2125or war contraband
2126
2127496
212800:27:21,390 --> 00:27:24,600
2129does the trick,
2130why I caught at the opportunity.
2131
2132497
213300:27:25,561 --> 00:27:28,229
2134Now here's where it gets truly slippery.
2135
2136498
213700:27:28,564 --> 00:27:31,357
2138I use the law allowing for the seizure
2139
2140499
214100:27:31,442 --> 00:27:32,525
2142of property in a war
2143
2144500
214500:27:32,609 --> 00:27:34,068
2146knowing it applies only to the property
2147
2148501
214900:27:34,153 --> 00:27:36,821
2150of governments and citizens
2151of belligerent nations.
2152
2153502
215400:27:36,905 --> 00:27:39,240
2155Well, the South ain't a nation.
2156
2157503
215800:27:39,408 --> 00:27:41,993
2159That's why I can't negotiate with them.
2160
2161504
216200:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,912
2163So if, in fact, the Negroes are property,
2164
2165505
216600:27:44,997 --> 00:27:46,289
2167according to the law,
2168
2169506
217000:27:46,415 --> 00:27:48,291
2171have I the right to take
2172the Rebels' property
2173
2174507
217500:27:48,417 --> 00:27:50,209
2176from them, if I insist they're rebels only
2177
2178508
217900:27:50,294 --> 00:27:53,254
2180and not citizens of a belligerent country?
2181
2182509
218300:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,006
2184And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't
2185
2186510
218700:27:55,090 --> 00:27:57,925
2188our actual Southern states in rebellion
2189
2190511
219100:27:58,427 --> 00:28:00,762
2192but only the rebels living in those states,
2193
2194512
219500:28:00,846 --> 00:28:04,182
2196the laws of which states remain in force.
2197
2198513
219900:28:05,601 --> 00:28:08,311
2200"The laws of which states
2201remain in force."
2202
2203514
220400:28:08,437 --> 00:28:10,557
2205That means that since it's
2206states' laws that determine
2207
2208515
220900:28:10,606 --> 00:28:13,066
2210whether Negroes can be sold as slaves,
2211
2212516
221300:28:13,150 --> 00:28:14,650
2214as property,
2215
2216517
221700:28:15,110 --> 00:28:17,487
2218the federal government
2219doesn't have a say in that.
2220
2221518
222200:28:17,613 --> 00:28:19,197
2223At least not yet.
2224
2225519
222600:28:19,782 --> 00:28:23,034
2227Then Negroes in those states
2228are slaves,
2229
2230520
223100:28:23,118 --> 00:28:24,118
2232hence property,
2233
2234521
223500:28:24,203 --> 00:28:26,371
2236hence my war powers
2237allow me to confiscate them
2238
2239522
224000:28:26,455 --> 00:28:28,706
2241as such, so I confiscate them.
2242
2243523
224400:28:29,333 --> 00:28:30,958
2245But if I'm a respecter of states' laws,
2246
2247524
224800:28:31,043 --> 00:28:32,418
2249how then can I legally free them
2250
2251525
225200:28:32,503 --> 00:28:34,796
2253with my Proclamation as I done?
2254
2255526
225600:28:35,672 --> 00:28:38,049
2257Unless I'm canceling states' laws?
2258
2259527
226000:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,139
2261I felt the war demanded it.
2262
2263528
226400:28:46,016 --> 00:28:47,809
2265My oath demanded it.
2266
2267529
226800:28:48,977 --> 00:28:50,520
2269I felt right with myself,
2270
2271530
227200:28:50,646 --> 00:28:52,897
2273and I hoped it was legal to do it.
2274
2275531
227600:28:52,981 --> 00:28:54,649
2277I'm hoping still.
2278
2279532
228000:28:56,402 --> 00:29:00,405
2281Two years ago, I proclaimed
2282these people emancipated.
2283
2284533
228500:29:00,656 --> 00:29:04,826
2286"Then, thenceforward and forever free."
2287
2288534
228900:29:06,537 --> 00:29:08,287
2290Now let's say the courts
2291decide I had no authority
2292
2293535
229400:29:08,372 --> 00:29:10,998
2295to do it. They might well decide that.
2296
2297536
229800:29:11,333 --> 00:29:13,126
2299Say there's no amendment
2300abolishing slavery,
2301
2302537
230300:29:13,210 --> 00:29:14,669
2304say it's after the war
2305
2306538
230700:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,712
2308and I can no longer use my war powers
2309
2310539
231100:29:16,839 --> 00:29:18,589
2312to just ignore the courts' decisions
2313
2314540
231500:29:18,674 --> 00:29:21,134
2316like I sometimes felt I had to do.
2317
2318541
231900:29:21,218 --> 00:29:24,762
2320Might those people I freed
2321be ordered back into slavery?
2322
2323542
232400:29:28,684 --> 00:29:29,892
2325That's why I'd like to get
2326
2327543
232800:29:30,018 --> 00:29:31,978
2329the 13th Amendment through the House,
2330
2331544
233200:29:32,062 --> 00:29:34,188
2333on its way to ratification by the states.
2334
2335545
233600:29:34,273 --> 00:29:35,982
2337Wrap the whole slavery thing up,
2338
2339546
234000:29:36,066 --> 00:29:38,860
2341forever and aye,
2342as soon as I'm able. Now!
2343
2344547
234500:29:38,944 --> 00:29:40,403
2346End of this month.
2347
2348548
234900:29:40,529 --> 00:29:42,196
2350And I'd like you to stand behind me
2351
2352549
235300:29:42,281 --> 00:29:45,116
2354like my Cabinet's most always done.
2355
2356550
235700:29:53,417 --> 00:29:55,209
2358As the preacher said,
2359
2360551
236100:29:56,044 --> 00:29:58,254
2362"I could write shorter sermons,"
2363
2364552
236500:29:58,422 --> 00:30:01,257
2366"but once I start, I get too lazy to stop."
2367
2368553
236900:30:06,555 --> 00:30:08,181
2370It seems to me, sir, you're describing
2371
2372554
237300:30:08,265 --> 00:30:10,183
2374precisely the sort of dictator
2375
2376555
237700:30:10,267 --> 00:30:12,059
2378the Democrats
2379have been howling about.
2380
2381556
238200:30:12,227 --> 00:30:14,020
2383Dictators
2384aren't susceptible to law.
2385
2386557
238700:30:14,104 --> 00:30:15,605
2388Neither is he.
2389He just said as much.
2390
2391558
239200:30:15,731 --> 00:30:17,398
2393Ignoring the courts?
2394Twisting meanings?
2395
2396559
239700:30:17,483 --> 00:30:19,400
2398What reins him in from... From...
2399
2400560
240100:30:19,485 --> 00:30:21,986
2402Well, the people do that, I suppose.
2403
2404561
240500:30:23,238 --> 00:30:25,698
2406I signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
2407
2408562
240900:30:25,782 --> 00:30:28,784
2410what, a year and a half
2411before my second election?
2412
2413563
241400:30:28,911 --> 00:30:30,661
2415I felt I was within my power to do it,
2416
2417564
241800:30:30,746 --> 00:30:34,248
2419however, I also felt that
2420I might be wrong about that.
2421
2422565
242300:30:34,416 --> 00:30:35,541
2424I knew the people would tell me.
2425
2426566
242700:30:35,626 --> 00:30:37,293
2428I gave them a year and a half
2429to think about it,
2430
2431567
243200:30:37,419 --> 00:30:38,711
2433and they re-elected me.
2434
2435568
243600:30:38,795 --> 00:30:40,671
2437And come February the first,
2438
2439569
244000:30:40,756 --> 00:30:43,591
2441I intend to sign the 13th Amendment!
2442
2443570
244400:30:54,937 --> 00:30:57,188
2445Well, Mr. Representative Ashley.
2446
2447571
244800:30:57,814 --> 00:30:59,357
2449Tell us the news from the Hill.
2450
2451572
245200:30:59,441 --> 00:31:00,483
2453Well, the news...
2454
2455573
245600:31:00,609 --> 00:31:02,568
2457Why, for instance, is this thus,
2458
2459574
246000:31:02,653 --> 00:31:04,487
2461and what is the reason
2462for this thusness?
2463
2464575
246500:31:04,613 --> 00:31:07,198
2466James, we want you to bring
2467the anti-slavery amendment
2468
2469576
247000:31:07,282 --> 00:31:08,282
2471to the floor for debate,
2472
2473577
247400:31:08,367 --> 00:31:09,825
2475- immediately.
2476- Excuse me, what?
2477
2478578
247900:31:10,285 --> 00:31:12,662
2480You are the amendment's manager,
2481are you not?
2482
2483579
248400:31:12,788 --> 00:31:13,955
2485I am, of course, but...
2486
2487580
248800:31:14,039 --> 00:31:16,832
2489Then we're counting
2490on robust radical support
2491
2492581
249300:31:16,959 --> 00:31:18,584
2494so tell Mr. Stevens we expect him
2495
2496582
249700:31:18,669 --> 00:31:19,919
2498to put his back into it.
2499
2500583
250100:31:20,003 --> 00:31:21,087
2502It's not going to be easy, but...
2503
2504584
250500:31:21,171 --> 00:31:22,797
2506It's impossible.
2507
2508585
250900:31:23,298 --> 00:31:24,590
2510No. I am sorry, no.
2511
2512586
251300:31:24,675 --> 00:31:28,010
2514We can't organize anything
2515immediately in the House.
2516
2517587
251800:31:28,303 --> 00:31:29,595
2519I have been canvassing the Democrats
2520
2521588
252200:31:29,680 --> 00:31:30,721
2523since the election,
2524
2525589
252600:31:30,806 --> 00:31:32,265
2527in case any of them have softened
2528
2529590
253000:31:32,349 --> 00:31:34,058
2531after they got walloped, but
2532
2533591
253400:31:34,142 --> 00:31:35,893
2535they have stiffened,
2536if anything, Mr. Secretary.
2537
2538592
253900:31:35,978 --> 00:31:37,103
2540There aren't nearly enough votes.
2541
2542593
254300:31:37,187 --> 00:31:39,230
2544We're whalers, Mr. Ashley.
2545
2546594
254700:31:41,692 --> 00:31:45,653
2548Whalers? As in... Whales?
2549
2550595
255100:31:45,737 --> 00:31:48,155
2552We've been chasing this whale
2553for a long time.
2554
2555596
255600:31:48,699 --> 00:31:50,199
2557And we finally placed a harpoon
2558
2559597
256000:31:50,325 --> 00:31:51,367
2561in the monster's back.
2562
2563598
256400:31:51,493 --> 00:31:53,494
2565It's in, James. It's in.
2566
2567599
256800:31:53,579 --> 00:31:56,163
2569We finish the deed now. We can't wait.
2570
2571600
257200:31:56,248 --> 00:31:59,500
2573Or with one flop of his tail,
2574he'll smash the boat
2575
2576601
257700:31:59,585 --> 00:32:01,711
2578and send us all to eternity.
2579
2580602
258100:32:01,837 --> 00:32:04,130
2582On the 31 st of this month, of this year,
2583
2584603
258500:32:04,214 --> 00:32:06,549
2586put the amendment up for a vote.
2587
2588604
258900:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,052
2590Whalers?
2591
2592605
259300:32:10,262 --> 00:32:11,304
2594That's what he said.
2595
2596606
259700:32:11,388 --> 00:32:14,056
2598The man's never been near
2599a whale ship in his life.
2600
2601607
260200:32:15,726 --> 00:32:17,727
2603Withdraw radical support.
2604
2605608
260600:32:18,562 --> 00:32:20,313
2607Force him to abandon this scheme,
2608
2609609
261000:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,189
2611whatever he's up to.
2612
2613610
261400:32:22,899 --> 00:32:25,359
2615He drags his feet
2616about everything,
2617
2618611
261900:32:25,444 --> 00:32:27,528
2620Lincoln... Why this urgency?
2621
2622612
262300:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,614
2624We got it through the Senate
2625without difficulty
2626
2627613
262800:32:29,698 --> 00:32:30,906
2629because we had the numbers.
2630
2631614
263200:32:31,033 --> 00:32:33,534
2633Come December, you'll have
2634the same in the House.
2635
2636615
263700:32:33,619 --> 00:32:35,619
2638The amendment will be
2639the easy work of 10 minutes.
2640
2641616
264200:32:35,621 --> 00:32:37,141
2643He's using the threat of the amendment
2644
2645617
264600:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,205
2647to frighten the Rebels
2648into an immediate surrender.
2649
2650618
265100:32:39,207 --> 00:32:41,042
2652I imagine we'd rejoice to see that.
2653
2654619
265500:32:41,209 --> 00:32:43,085
2656Will you rejoice
2657when the Southern states
2658
2659620
266000:32:43,211 --> 00:32:44,837
2661have rejoined the Union pell-mell,
2662
2663621
266400:32:44,921 --> 00:32:46,881
2665as Lincoln intends them to,
2666and one by one,
2667
2668622
266900:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,445
2670each refuses to ratify the amendment?
2671
2672623
267300:32:48,717 --> 00:32:50,551
2674If we pass it, which we won't.
2675
2676624
267700:32:50,636 --> 00:32:53,888
2678Why are we cooperating with him?
2679
2680625
268100:32:54,723 --> 00:32:57,475
2682We all know what he's doing
2683and we all know what he'll do.
2684
2685626
268600:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,728
2687We can't offer up abolition's
2688best legal prayer
2689
2690627
269100:33:01,229 --> 00:33:02,271
2692to his games and tricks.
2693
2694628
269500:33:02,397 --> 00:33:03,856
2696He said he'd welcome the South back
2697
2698629
269900:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,149
2700with all its slaves in chains.
2701
2702630
270300:33:05,233 --> 00:33:07,610
2704Three years ago he said that,
2705to calm the border states.
2706
2707631
270800:33:07,736 --> 00:33:09,278
2709I don't!
2710
2711632
271200:33:11,823 --> 00:33:14,200
2713You said we all know
2714what he'll do. I don't know.
2715
2716633
271700:33:14,284 --> 00:33:15,576
2718You know he isn't to be trusted.
2719
2720634
272100:33:15,661 --> 00:33:16,994
2722Trust?
2723
2724635
272500:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,704
2726I'm sorry, I was under
2727the misapprehension
2728
2729636
273000:33:18,789 --> 00:33:21,499
2731that your chosen profession was politics.
2732
2733637
273400:33:21,583 --> 00:33:23,959
2735I never trusted the President,
2736never trusted anyone,
2737
2738638
273900:33:24,086 --> 00:33:25,795
2740but hasn't he surprised you?
2741
2742639
274300:33:25,921 --> 00:33:28,047
2744No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn't.
2745
2746640
274700:33:28,131 --> 00:33:30,591
2748Nothing surprises you, Asa,
2749
2750641
275100:33:31,009 --> 00:33:33,135
2752therefore nothing about you
2753is surprising.
2754
2755642
275600:33:33,261 --> 00:33:35,012
2757Perhaps that is why your constituents
2758
2759643
276000:33:35,097 --> 00:33:37,765
2761did not re-elect you to the coming term.
2762
2763644
276400:33:39,142 --> 00:33:40,476
2765It's late.
2766
2767645
276800:33:40,602 --> 00:33:41,811
2769I'm old.
2770
2771646
277200:33:42,938 --> 00:33:44,438
2773I'm going home.
2774
2775647
277600:33:48,318 --> 00:33:50,611
2777Lincoln, the inveterate dawdler.
2778
2779648
278000:33:51,113 --> 00:33:52,863
2781Lincoln, the Southerner.
2782
2783649
278400:33:52,948 --> 00:33:55,950
2785Lincoln, the capitulating compromiser,
2786
2787650
278800:33:56,785 --> 00:33:59,453
2789our adversary, and
2790
2791651
279200:34:00,288 --> 00:34:04,041
2793leader of the godforsaken
2794Republican party.
2795
2796652
279700:34:04,126 --> 00:34:05,334
2798Our party.
2799
2800653
280100:34:05,460 --> 00:34:08,838
2802Abraham Lincoln has asked us
2803to work with him
2804
2805654
280600:34:08,964 --> 00:34:12,466
2807to accomplish the death
2808of slavery in America.
2809
2810655
281100:34:13,844 --> 00:34:16,053
2812Retain, even in opposition
2813
2814656
281500:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,849
2816your capacity for astonishment.
2817
2818657
281900:34:26,148 --> 00:34:28,607
2820The President is never
2821to be mentioned. Nor I.
2822
2823658
282400:34:28,692 --> 00:34:30,317
2825You're paid for your discretion.
2826
2827659
282800:34:30,861 --> 00:34:32,301
2829Hell, you can have that for nothing.
2830
2831660
283200:34:32,362 --> 00:34:35,072
2833What we need money for
2834is bribes, to speed things up.
2835
2836661
283700:34:35,157 --> 00:34:36,949
2838No, nothing strictly illegal.
2839
2840662
284100:34:37,033 --> 00:34:38,743
2842It's not illegal to bribe Congressmen,
2843
2844663
284500:34:38,827 --> 00:34:40,244
2846they'd starve otherwise.
2847
2848664
284900:34:40,328 --> 00:34:43,831
2850I have explained to Mr. Bilbo
2851and Mr. Latham that
2852
2853665
285400:34:43,915 --> 00:34:45,624
2855we are offering patronage jobs
2856
2857666
285800:34:45,709 --> 00:34:46,834
2859to the Dems who vote yes.
2860
2861667
286200:34:47,335 --> 00:34:49,670
2863- Jobs and nothing more.
2864- That's correct.
2865
2866668
286700:34:49,838 --> 00:34:50,880
2868Congressmen come cheap.
2869
2870669
287100:34:51,006 --> 00:34:53,174
2872Few thousand bucks
2873will buy you all you need.
2874
2875670
287600:34:53,258 --> 00:34:55,551
2877The President would be unhappy
2878to hear you did that.
2879
2880671
288100:34:55,677 --> 00:34:58,053
2882Will he be unhappy if we lose?
2883
2884672
288500:34:58,597 --> 00:35:00,639
2886The money I managed to raise
2887for this endeavor
2888
2889673
289000:35:00,724 --> 00:35:03,392
2891is only for your fees,
2892your food and lodging.
2893
2894674
289500:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,480
2896If that squirrel-infested attic
2897
2898675
289900:35:07,564 --> 00:35:08,898
2900you've quartered us in is any measure,
2901
2902676
290300:35:09,024 --> 00:35:10,649
2904you ain't raised much.
2905
2906677
290700:35:10,734 --> 00:35:11,859
2908Shall we get to work?
2909
2910678
291100:35:15,447 --> 00:35:18,032
2912The House recognizes Fernando Wood,
2913
2914679
291500:35:19,534 --> 00:35:22,536
2916the honorable Representative
2917from New York.
2918
2919680
292000:35:26,249 --> 00:35:27,750
2921Estimable colleagues.
2922
2923681
292400:35:28,877 --> 00:35:31,295
2925Two bloody years ago this month
2926
2927682
292800:35:32,214 --> 00:35:33,214
2929His Highness,
2930
2931683
293200:35:33,298 --> 00:35:35,716
2933King Abraham Africanus the First,
2934
2935684
293600:35:37,260 --> 00:35:39,553
2937our great usurping Caesar,
2938
2939685
294000:35:39,930 --> 00:35:43,307
2941violator of habeas corpus
2942and freedom of the press,
2943
2944686
294500:35:43,391 --> 00:35:44,472
2946abuser of states' rights...
2947
2948687
294900:35:44,559 --> 00:35:47,436
2950If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,
2951
2952688
295300:35:47,562 --> 00:35:49,396
2954he'd have had your empty head
2955
2956689
295700:35:49,481 --> 00:35:51,148
2958impaled on a pike!
2959
2960690
296100:35:53,944 --> 00:35:56,028
2962And the country better for it!
2963
2964691
296500:35:56,279 --> 00:35:58,739
2966Radical Republican autocrat,
2967
2968692
296900:35:59,074 --> 00:36:02,076
2970ruling by fiat and martial law,
2971
2972693
297300:36:02,786 --> 00:36:05,412
2974affixed his name to his heinous and illicit
2975
2976694
297700:36:05,497 --> 00:36:07,623
2978Emancipation Proclamation
2979
2980695
298100:36:07,916 --> 00:36:10,835
2982promising it would hasten
2983the end of the war,
2984
2985696
298600:36:10,919 --> 00:36:14,255
2987which yet rages on and on.
2988
2989697
299000:36:15,841 --> 00:36:17,967
2991He claimed, as tyrants do
2992
2993698
299400:36:18,510 --> 00:36:20,177
2995that the war's emergencies
2996
2997699
299800:36:20,262 --> 00:36:22,763
2999permitted him to turn our army into...
3000
3001700
300200:36:23,014 --> 00:36:26,600
3003The New York delegation is
3004looking decidedly uninspired.
3005
3006701
300700:36:27,102 --> 00:36:30,312
3008And radical Republicanism's
3009abolitionist fanaticism!
3010
3011702
301200:36:34,442 --> 00:36:36,694
3013His Emancipation Proclamation
3014
3015703
301600:36:37,112 --> 00:36:39,697
3017has obliterated millions of dollars...
3018
3019704
302000:36:40,949 --> 00:36:42,741
3021Over in Pennsylvania,
3022
3023705
302400:36:42,826 --> 00:36:45,286
3025who's the sweaty man eating his thumb?
3026
3027706
302800:36:45,370 --> 00:36:47,788
3029Unknown to me. Seems jumpy.
3030
3031707
303200:36:48,498 --> 00:36:50,040
3033Perhaps he'll jump.
3034
3035708
303600:36:54,337 --> 00:36:57,047
3037But all that was not enough
3038for this dictator,
3039
3040709
304100:36:57,132 --> 00:36:59,341
3042who now seeks to insinuate...
3043
3044710
304500:36:59,467 --> 00:37:00,634
3046Jesus.
3047
3048711
304900:37:01,303 --> 00:37:02,845
3050When's this son of liberty
3051sum-a-bitch gonna sit down?
3052
3053712
305400:37:02,971 --> 00:37:05,132
3055John Ellis is gonna break
3056his watch if he doesn't stop.
3057
3058713
305900:37:06,308 --> 00:37:09,226
3060We are once again asked, nay
3061
3062714
306300:37:09,311 --> 00:37:12,730
3064commanded, to consider
3065a proposed 13th Amendment
3066
3067715
306800:37:14,316 --> 00:37:16,609
3069which, if passed,
3070shall set at immediate liberty
3071
3072716
307300:37:16,693 --> 00:37:18,444
3074four million coloreds while manacling
3075
3076717
307700:37:18,528 --> 00:37:20,863
3078the limbs of the white race in America.
3079
3080718
308100:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,656
3082If it is passed,
3083
3084719
308500:37:23,533 --> 00:37:25,034
3086but it shall not pass!
3087
3088720
308900:37:30,832 --> 00:37:31,790
3090What's more interesting
3091
3092721
309300:37:31,875 --> 00:37:32,875
3094is how dismal and disgruntled
3095
3096722
309700:37:33,001 --> 00:37:34,335
3098Mr. Yeaman appears.
3099
3100723
310100:37:35,503 --> 00:37:37,338
3102Every member of this House...
3103
3104724
310500:37:37,547 --> 00:37:38,827
3106He should be cheering right now.
3107
3108725
310900:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,341
3110Looks like he ate a bad oyster.
3111
3112726
311300:37:40,425 --> 00:37:42,593
3114Party and
3115the constituents it serves
3116
3117727
311800:37:42,677 --> 00:37:43,844
3119shall oppose...
3120
3121728
312200:37:44,554 --> 00:37:47,306
3123Point of order,
3124Mr. Speaker, if you please.
3125
3126729
312700:37:47,390 --> 00:37:49,141
3128Mr. Speaker, I still have the floor.
3129
3130730
313100:37:49,225 --> 00:37:50,309
3132And the gentleman from Pennsylvania
3133
3134731
313500:37:50,393 --> 00:37:51,644
3136is out of order!
3137
3138732
313900:37:51,728 --> 00:37:53,604
3140When will Mr. Wood conclude
3141his interminable gabble?
3142
3143733
314400:37:53,688 --> 00:37:55,856
3145Some of us breathe oxygen
3146
3147734
314800:37:56,358 --> 00:37:59,151
3149and we find the mephitic
3150fumes of his oratory
3151
3152735
315300:37:59,235 --> 00:38:02,529
3154a lethal challenge
3155to our pulmonary capabilities!
3156
3157736
315800:38:05,742 --> 00:38:08,202
3159We shall oppose this amendment,
3160
3161737
316200:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,871
3163and any legislation that
3164so affronts natural law
3165
3166738
316700:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,540
3168insulting to God as to man!
3169
3170739
317100:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,043
3172Congress must never declare equal
3173
3174740
317500:38:16,127 --> 00:38:18,379
3176those whom God created unequal!
3177
3178741
317900:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,679
3180Slavery is the only insult to natural law,
3181
3182742
318300:38:26,763 --> 00:38:28,555
3184you fatuous nincompoop!
3185
3186743
318700:38:29,766 --> 00:38:32,476
3188Order!
3189
3190744
319100:38:33,311 --> 00:38:35,479
3192Procedure, Mr. Speaker.
3193
3194745
319500:38:35,730 --> 00:38:37,189
3196Mr. Wood has the floor.
3197
3198746
319900:38:37,273 --> 00:38:38,649
3200Instruct us,
3201
3202747
320300:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,234
3204oh, Great Commoner.
3205
3206748
320700:38:40,318 --> 00:38:42,736
3208What is unnatural, in your opinion?
3209
3210749
321100:38:43,113 --> 00:38:45,114
3212Niggrahs casting ballots?
3213
3214750
321500:38:45,240 --> 00:38:46,782
3216Niggrah representatives?
3217
3218751
321900:38:46,908 --> 00:38:48,909
3220Is that natural, Stevens?
3221
3222752
322300:38:49,327 --> 00:38:50,828
3224Intermarriage?
3225
3226753
322700:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,123
3228What violates natural law?
3229
3230754
323100:38:54,290 --> 00:38:56,834
3232Slavery and you.
3233
3234755
323500:38:57,502 --> 00:38:59,920
3236Pendleton, you insult God!
3237
3238756
323900:39:01,923 --> 00:39:03,173
3240You unnatural noise.
3241
3242757
324300:39:08,096 --> 00:39:10,431
3244Mr. Colfax, please, use your gavel!
3245
3246758
324700:39:10,765 --> 00:39:12,057
3248- You are out of order!
3249- Order in the Cabinet!
3250
3251759
325200:39:12,142 --> 00:39:13,142
3253Instruct the Sergeant-at-Arms
3254
3255760
325600:39:13,268 --> 00:39:14,226
3257to suppress this!
3258
3259761
326000:39:14,310 --> 00:39:15,436
3261We are in session!
3262
3263762
326400:39:15,562 --> 00:39:17,521
3265Please don't encourage this!
3266
3267763
326800:39:17,605 --> 00:39:19,231
3269Don't encourage this!
3270
3271764
327200:39:24,279 --> 00:39:26,238
3273You're back! You're back! You're back!
3274
3275765
327600:39:27,449 --> 00:39:29,408
3277I am. The goat got big.
3278
3279766
328000:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,952
3281Help me get one of these to my room.
3282
3283767
328400:39:32,078 --> 00:39:33,912
3285- She in there?
3286- She's asleep, probably.
3287
3288768
328900:39:33,997 --> 00:39:35,497
3290- You need help, sir?
3291- No, sir.
3292
3293769
329400:39:35,623 --> 00:39:36,582
3295They went to see Avonia Jones last night
3296
3297770
329800:39:36,666 --> 00:39:37,875
3299in a play about Israelites.
3300
3301771
330200:39:37,959 --> 00:39:39,710
3303Could you bring your pa this letter I writ
3304
3305772
330600:39:39,794 --> 00:39:41,034
3307about my insolvency proceeding?
3308
3309773
331000:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,213
3311Deliver your own goddamn petition.
3312
3313774
331400:39:43,298 --> 00:39:44,423
3315There's a new book. Sam Beckwith
3316
3317775
331800:39:44,507 --> 00:39:45,799
3319says it's about finches
3320and finches' beaks,
3321
3322776
332300:39:45,925 --> 00:39:46,925
3324about how they change.
3325
3326777
332700:39:47,510 --> 00:39:48,552
3328He's here.
3329
3330778
333100:39:48,636 --> 00:39:51,138
3332He's here! Mrs. Cuthbert, he's here!
3333
3334779
333500:39:51,681 --> 00:39:53,098
3336- Robbie.
3337- Hi, Mom.
3338
3339780
334000:39:53,183 --> 00:39:54,516
3341- Oh, Robbie.
3342- Hey.
3343
3344781
334500:39:54,642 --> 00:39:55,809
3346- Robbie.
3347- Hey.
3348
3349782
335000:39:59,856 --> 00:40:02,191
3351You're only staying a few days,
3352why'd you pack all that?
3353
3354783
335500:40:02,317 --> 00:40:03,901
3356Well, I don't know how long...
3357
3358784
335900:40:03,985 --> 00:40:05,346
3360Go tell your father Robert's home.
3361
3362785
336300:40:05,653 --> 00:40:08,238
3364Mr. Nicolay says Daddy's
3365secluded with Mr. Blair.
3366
3367786
336800:40:08,323 --> 00:40:09,948
3369Tell him anyway.
3370
3371787
337200:40:12,285 --> 00:40:13,994
3373Did you forget to eat?
3374
3375788
337600:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,788
3377- Exactly like him.
3378- No.
3379
3380789
338100:40:16,039 --> 00:40:18,874
3382You'll linger a few days extra
3383after the reception
3384
3385790
338600:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,542
3387before you go back to school.
3388
3389791
339000:40:20,668 --> 00:40:22,669
3391Well, I don't know
3392if I'm going to go back...
3393
3394792
339500:40:22,796 --> 00:40:26,006
3396We'll fatten you up
3397before you return to Boston.
3398
3399793
340000:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,051
3401- All right, Mom.
3402- All right.
3403
3404794
340500:40:30,470 --> 00:40:31,762
3406Oh, Robbie.
3407
3408795
340900:40:32,514 --> 00:40:35,349
3410Jefferson Davis is sending
3411three delegates.
3412
3413796
341400:40:35,642 --> 00:40:37,851
3415Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.
3416
3417797
341800:40:39,062 --> 00:40:41,271
3419Vice President of the Confederacy,
3420
3421798
342200:40:41,356 --> 00:40:43,148
3423the former Secretary of State
3424
3425799
342600:40:43,233 --> 00:40:45,818
3427and their Assistant Secretary of War.
3428
3429800
343000:40:46,194 --> 00:40:49,029
3431They're coming in earnest
3432to propose peace.
3433
3434801
343500:40:50,865 --> 00:40:53,826
3436I know this is unwelcome news for you.
3437
3438802
343900:40:54,327 --> 00:40:55,702
3440Now hear me.
3441
3442803
344300:40:56,913 --> 00:40:59,748
3444I went to Richmond to talk to traitors.
3445
3446804
344700:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,418
3448To smile at and plead with traitors
3449
3450805
345100:41:04,504 --> 00:41:07,339
3452because it'll be spring in two months.
3453
3454806
345500:41:08,007 --> 00:41:09,842
3456The roads will be passable,
3457
3458807
345900:41:09,926 --> 00:41:12,219
3460the spring slaughter commences.
3461
3462808
346300:41:13,221 --> 00:41:15,222
3464Four bloody springs now.
3465
3466809
346700:41:17,225 --> 00:41:18,892
3468Think of my Frank,
3469
3470810
347100:41:19,519 --> 00:41:21,728
3472whom you've taken to your heart.
3473
3474811
347500:41:21,855 --> 00:41:24,690
3476How you'll blame yourself
3477if the war takes my son
3478
3479812
348000:41:24,774 --> 00:41:27,276
3481as it's taken multitudes of sons.
3482
3483813
348400:41:29,028 --> 00:41:31,321
3485Think of all the boys who will die
3486
3487814
348800:41:31,406 --> 00:41:33,365
3489if you don't make peace.
3490
3491815
349200:41:33,449 --> 00:41:35,367
3493You must talk with these men.
3494
3495816
349600:41:35,451 --> 00:41:36,827
3497I intend to, Preston.
3498
3499817
350000:41:36,911 --> 00:41:38,996
3501In return, I must ask you to support
3502our push for the amendment...
3503
3504818
350500:41:39,080 --> 00:41:40,664
3506No, this is not horse trading.
3507
3508819
350900:41:41,916 --> 00:41:42,916
3510Not now!
3511
3512820
351300:41:43,585 --> 00:41:45,419
3514Bob. I'm sorry.
3515
3516821
351700:41:46,379 --> 00:41:47,379
3518- Welcome home.
3519- Thank you, sir.
3520
3521822
352200:41:47,463 --> 00:41:49,590
3523Looking fit, Robert.
3524Harvard agrees with you.
3525
3526823
352700:41:49,716 --> 00:41:50,924
3528- Mr. Blair.
3529- Fit and rested.
3530
3531824
353200:41:51,050 --> 00:41:53,969
3533Could you give us a moment,
3534please, Robert? Thank you.
3535
3536825
353700:41:55,638 --> 00:41:58,807
3538I will procure your votes for you,
3539as I promised.
3540
3541826
354200:41:59,726 --> 00:42:03,061
3543You have always kept your word to me.
3544
3545827
354600:42:04,230 --> 00:42:06,440
3547Those Southern men are coming.
3548
3549828
355000:42:07,275 --> 00:42:10,110
3551I beg you, in the name
3552of gentle Christ, sir.
3553
3554829
355500:42:10,236 --> 00:42:11,236
3556I understand.
3557
3558830
355900:42:11,321 --> 00:42:13,030
3560Talk peace with these men.
3561
3562831
356300:42:13,114 --> 00:42:14,948
3564I understand, Preston.
3565
3566832
356700:42:17,577 --> 00:42:19,411
3568We have one abstention so far.
3569
3570833
357100:42:19,495 --> 00:42:20,621
3572Jacob Graylor.
3573
3574834
357500:42:20,747 --> 00:42:22,748
3576He'd like to be
3577Federal Revenue Assessor
3578
3579835
358000:42:22,832 --> 00:42:24,583
3581for the 5th District of Pennsylvania.
3582
3583836
358400:42:25,001 --> 00:42:26,835
3585So the total of Representatives
3586
3587837
358800:42:26,961 --> 00:42:30,047
3589voting three weeks from today
3590is reduced to 182,
3591
3592838
359300:42:30,131 --> 00:42:32,049
3594which means 122 yes votes
3595
3596839
359700:42:32,133 --> 00:42:34,134
3598to reach the requisite
3599two-thirds of the House.
3600
3601840
360200:42:34,260 --> 00:42:36,929
3603Assuming all Republicans
3604vote for the amendment.
3605
3606841
360700:42:39,307 --> 00:42:41,725
3608Then despite our abstention,
3609
3610842
361100:42:41,809 --> 00:42:43,393
3612to reach a two-thirds majority,
3613
3614843
361500:42:43,478 --> 00:42:45,229
3616we remain twenty yeses short.
3617
3618844
361900:42:45,313 --> 00:42:46,355
3620For which we're seeking
3621
3622845
362300:42:46,481 --> 00:42:48,982
3624from among 64 lame duck Democrats.
3625
3626846
362700:42:49,442 --> 00:42:53,654
3628Fully 39 of these we deem
3629unredeemable no votes.
3630
3631847
363200:42:55,949 --> 00:42:57,991
3633The kind that hates niggers.
3634
3635848
363600:42:58,451 --> 00:43:00,661
3637Hates God for makin' niggers.
3638
3639849
364000:43:00,995 --> 00:43:03,747
3641The Good Lord on high
3642would despair of their souls.
3643
3644850
364500:43:03,831 --> 00:43:06,959
3646Thank you for that
3647pithy explanation, Mr. Bilbo.
3648
3649851
365000:43:07,085 --> 00:43:08,752
3651We've abandoned these 39 to
3652
3653852
365400:43:08,836 --> 00:43:10,504
3655the devil that possesses them.
3656
3657853
365800:43:10,588 --> 00:43:11,588
3659We would...
3660
3661854
366200:43:12,924 --> 00:43:16,426
3663The remaining lame ducks, on whom
3664we've been working with a purpose.
3665
3666855
366700:43:17,345 --> 00:43:18,428
3668Charles Hanson.
3669
3670856
367100:43:18,805 --> 00:43:20,180
3672Congressman.
3673
3674857
367500:43:21,516 --> 00:43:23,600
3676My colleagues and I would like
3677a moment of your time.
3678
3679858
368000:43:23,685 --> 00:43:25,477
3681I wonder if you've given much thought...
3682
3683859
368400:43:26,104 --> 00:43:27,354
3685Giles Stuart.
3686
3687860
368800:43:32,694 --> 00:43:34,194
3689Rather clumsy.
3690
3691861
369200:43:46,708 --> 00:43:48,292
3693Nelson Merrick.
3694
3695862
369600:43:54,882 --> 00:43:55,882
3697Homer Benson.
3698
3699863
370000:44:01,889 --> 00:44:03,557
3701My name is Richard Schell.
3702
3703864
370400:44:03,641 --> 00:44:06,059
3705I wanted you to have a look
3706at this prospectus here.
3707
3708865
370900:44:07,895 --> 00:44:09,062
3710And lastly,
3711
3712866
371300:44:10,982 --> 00:44:13,150
3714Clay Hawkins. Of Ohio.
3715
3716867
371700:44:14,068 --> 00:44:16,153
3718Tax Collector for the Western Reserve.
3719
3720868
372100:44:16,237 --> 00:44:17,821
3722That pays handsomely.
3723
3724869
372500:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,656
3726Don't just reach
3727for the highest branches,
3728
3729870
373000:44:19,741 --> 00:44:21,575
3731they sway in every breeze.
3732
3733871
373400:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,077
3735Assistant Port Inspector in Morristown
3736
3737872
373800:44:24,203 --> 00:44:25,662
3739looks like the ticket to me.
3740
3741873
374200:44:25,747 --> 00:44:27,581
3743Boats, they, they make me sick.
3744
3745874
374600:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,708
3747So just stand on the dock.
3748
3749875
375000:44:30,001 --> 00:44:32,586
3751Let the Assistant Assistant
3752Port Inspector's stomach
3753
3754876
375500:44:32,712 --> 00:44:34,004
3756go weak.
3757
3758877
375900:44:36,090 --> 00:44:37,924
3760And, lastly,
3761Democratic yes vote
3762
3763878
376400:44:38,009 --> 00:44:39,926
3765number six, Hawkins.
3766
3767879
376800:44:40,011 --> 00:44:41,011
3769From Ohio.
3770
3771880
377200:44:41,095 --> 00:44:42,179
3773Six?
3774
3775881
377600:44:42,263 --> 00:44:43,847
3777Well, thus far.
3778
3779882
378000:44:43,931 --> 00:44:46,058
3781Plus Graylor's abstention.
3782
3783883
378400:44:46,517 --> 00:44:48,935
3785- From tiny acorns and so on.
3786- What did Hawkins get?
3787
3788884
378900:44:49,062 --> 00:44:51,188
3790Postmaster of the Millersburg
3791Post Office.
3792
3793885
379400:44:51,272 --> 00:44:52,606
3795He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?
3796
3797886
379800:44:52,690 --> 00:44:54,941
3799Well, he wanted Tax Collector
3800of the Western Reserve.
3801
3802887
380300:44:55,026 --> 00:44:57,146
3804First term Congressman
3805who couldn't manage reelection.
3806
3807888
380800:44:57,195 --> 00:44:58,278
3809I felt it unseemly
3810
3811889
381200:44:58,363 --> 00:44:59,863
3813and they bargained him down
3814to Postmaster.
3815
3816890
381700:44:59,947 --> 00:45:01,365
3818Scatter them over several
3819rounds of appointments
3820
3821891
382200:45:01,449 --> 00:45:02,866
3823so no one notices, then burn this ledger,
3824
3825892
382600:45:02,950 --> 00:45:05,035
3827please, after you're done.
3828
3829893
383000:45:08,081 --> 00:45:10,374
3831Time for my public opinion bath.
3832
3833894
383400:45:10,541 --> 00:45:11,792
3835Might as well let them in.
3836
3837895
383800:45:13,753 --> 00:45:15,921
3839Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis.
3840
3841896
384200:45:16,964 --> 00:45:18,465
3843Thirteen to go.
3844
3845897
384600:45:19,634 --> 00:45:21,134
3847One last item.
3848
3849898
385000:45:21,636 --> 00:45:23,428
3851An absurdity, but
3852
3853899
385400:45:24,472 --> 00:45:26,807
3855my associates report that
3856among the Representatives
3857
3858900
385900:45:26,933 --> 00:45:29,476
3860a fantastical rumor's bruited about,
3861
3862901
386300:45:29,977 --> 00:45:32,437
3864which I immediately disavowed,
3865
3866902
386700:45:32,897 --> 00:45:34,898
3868that you'd allowed
3869bleary old Preston Blair
3870
3871903
387200:45:34,982 --> 00:45:36,066
3873to sojourn to Richmond
3874
3875904
387600:45:36,150 --> 00:45:38,235
3877to invite Jeff Davis
3878to send commissioners
3879
3880905
388100:45:38,319 --> 00:45:40,904
3882up to Washington with a peace plan.
3883
3884906
388500:45:44,492 --> 00:45:47,244
3886I, of course, told them
3887that you would never.
3888
3889907
389000:45:47,328 --> 00:45:50,163
3891Not without consulting me, you wouldn't.
3892
3893908
389400:45:50,915 --> 00:45:53,166
3895Because why on earth would you?
3896
3897909
389800:47:19,837 --> 00:47:21,254
3899Much obliged.
3900
3901910
390200:47:28,346 --> 00:47:29,346
3903Why wasn't I consulted?
3904
3905911
390600:47:29,430 --> 00:47:30,931
3907I'm Secretary of State.
3908
3909912
391000:47:31,098 --> 00:47:34,601
3911And you informally send
3912a reactionary dotard to...
3913
3914913
391500:47:36,062 --> 00:47:37,437
3916What will happen, do you imagine,
3917
3918914
391900:47:37,563 --> 00:47:40,106
3920when these
3921peace commissioners arrive?
3922
3923915
392400:47:40,233 --> 00:47:41,274
3925We'll hear them out.
3926
3927916
392800:47:41,567 --> 00:47:43,026
3929Splendid.
3930
3931917
393200:47:43,402 --> 00:47:44,694
3933And next, the Democrats will invite them
3934
3935918
393600:47:44,779 --> 00:47:46,279
3937up to hearings on the Hill.
3938
3939919
394000:47:46,405 --> 00:47:48,949
3941And the newspapers...
3942Oh, the newspapers.
3943
3944920
394500:47:49,075 --> 00:47:50,450
3946The newspapers will ask,
3947
3948921
394900:47:50,576 --> 00:47:52,369
3950"Why risk enraging the Confederacy"
3951
3952922
395300:47:52,453 --> 00:47:53,534
3954"over the issue of slavery"
3955
3956923
395700:47:53,538 --> 00:47:55,914
3958"when they're here to make peace?"
3959
3960924
396100:47:57,375 --> 00:47:59,960
3962We'll lose every Democrat we've got,
3963
3964925
396500:48:00,044 --> 00:48:01,645
3966more than likely
3967conservative Republicans
3968
3969926
397000:48:01,712 --> 00:48:03,296
3971will join them, and all our work,
3972
3973927
397400:48:03,422 --> 00:48:05,715
3975all our preparing the ground for the vote
3976
3977928
397800:48:05,800 --> 00:48:06,967
3979laid waste for naught.
3980
3981929
398200:48:07,051 --> 00:48:08,811
3983The Blaire promised support
3984for the amendment
3985
3986930
398700:48:08,886 --> 00:48:09,886
3988if we listen to these people.
3989
3990931
399100:48:09,971 --> 00:48:11,805
3992Oh, the Blaire promise, do they?
3993
3994932
399500:48:11,931 --> 00:48:12,973
3996You think they'll keep their promise
3997
3998933
399900:48:13,099 --> 00:48:14,140
4000once we've heard these delegates
4001
4002934
400300:48:14,225 --> 00:48:16,142
4004and refused them,
4005which we will have to do,
4006
4007935
400800:48:16,227 --> 00:48:17,727
4009since their proposal most certainly
4010
4011936
401200:48:17,812 --> 00:48:19,145
4013will be predicated on
4014
4015937
401600:48:19,230 --> 00:48:20,814
4017keeping their slaves!
4018
4019938
402000:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,441
4021What hope for
4022any Democratic votes, Willum,
4023
4024939
402500:48:23,651 --> 00:48:25,735
4026if word gets out that
4027I've refused a chance
4028
4029940
403000:48:25,820 --> 00:48:27,487
4031to end the war?
4032
4033941
403400:48:27,947 --> 00:48:29,739
4035You think word won't get out?
4036
4037942
403800:48:30,741 --> 00:48:32,242
4039In Washington?
4040
4041943
404200:48:33,995 --> 00:48:36,035
4043It's either the amendment
4044or this Confederate peace.
4045
4046944
404700:48:36,122 --> 00:48:37,914
4048You cannot have both.
4049
4050945
405100:48:38,666 --> 00:48:41,334
4052"If you can look into the seeds of time,."
4053
4054946
405500:48:42,169 --> 00:48:45,255
4056"And say which grain will grow
4057and which will not,"
4058
4059947
406000:48:45,339 --> 00:48:46,506
4061"Speak then to me."
4062
4063948
406400:48:46,591 --> 00:48:48,174
4065A disaster. This is a disaster.
4066
4067949
406800:48:48,259 --> 00:48:50,594
4069Time is a great thickener
4070of things, Willum.
4071
4072950
407300:48:50,678 --> 00:48:52,470
4074Yes, I suppose it is.
4075
4076951
407700:48:52,972 --> 00:48:55,015
4078Actually, I have no idea
4079what you mean by that.
4080
4081952
408200:48:57,184 --> 00:48:59,019
4083Get me 13 votes.
4084
4085953
408600:48:59,979 --> 00:49:02,314
4087Them fellas from Richmond
4088ain't here yet.
4089
4090954
409100:49:23,502 --> 00:49:25,879
4092You drafted
4093half the men in Boston.
4094
4095955
409600:49:25,963 --> 00:49:28,798
4097What do you think
4098their families think about me?
4099
4100956
410100:49:28,883 --> 00:49:30,800
4102The only reason they don't
4103throw things and spit on me
4104
4105957
410600:49:30,885 --> 00:49:32,385
4107is 'cause you're so popular.
4108
4109958
411000:49:32,470 --> 00:49:36,222
4111I can't concentrate on,
4112on British Mercantile Law.
4113
4114959
411500:49:36,307 --> 00:49:38,475
4116I don't care about British Mercantile Law.
4117
4118960
411900:49:40,686 --> 00:49:42,354
4120I might not even want to be a lawyer.
4121
4122961
412300:49:44,106 --> 00:49:47,484
4124It's a sturdy profession.
4125And a useful one.
4126
4127962
412800:49:47,568 --> 00:49:52,572
4129Yes, and I want to be useful,
4130but now, not afterwards.
4131
4132963
413300:49:52,657 --> 00:49:54,407
4134I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade.
4135
4136964
413700:49:54,492 --> 00:49:55,492
4138They never fit right.
4139
4140965
414100:49:55,576 --> 00:49:57,827
4142The missus will have you
4143wear them. Don't think...
4144
4145966
414600:49:57,912 --> 00:49:59,829
4147You're delaying,
4148that's your favorite tactic.
4149
4150967
415100:49:59,914 --> 00:50:01,831
4152- Be useful...
4153- You won't tell me no,
4154
4155968
415600:50:01,916 --> 00:50:03,750
4157but the war will be over in
4158a month, and you know it will.
4159
4160969
416100:50:03,876 --> 00:50:06,503
4162I've found that prophesying
4163
4164970
416500:50:07,380 --> 00:50:11,091
4166is one of life's
4167less profitable occupations.
4168
4169971
417000:50:12,885 --> 00:50:15,011
4171Why do some slaves
4172cost more than others?
4173
4174972
417500:50:15,096 --> 00:50:16,496
4176If they're still young and healthy,
4177
4178973
417900:50:16,555 --> 00:50:18,098
4180or if the women can
4181still conceive, they pay more.
4182
4183974
418400:50:18,182 --> 00:50:20,850
4185Put them back in the box, you scoundrel.
4186
4187975
418800:50:22,269 --> 00:50:24,187
4189We'll return them to Mr. Gardner's studio
4190
4191976
419200:50:24,271 --> 00:50:25,772
4193day after next.
4194
4195977
419600:50:26,857 --> 00:50:28,608
4197Be careful with them now.
4198
4199978
420000:50:29,443 --> 00:50:31,194
4201These things should have
4202stayed on the calf.
4203
4204979
420500:50:31,278 --> 00:50:35,699
4206When you were a slave,
4207Mr. Slade, did they beat you?
4208
4209980
421000:50:35,783 --> 00:50:37,283
4211I was born a free man.
4212
4213981
421400:50:37,410 --> 00:50:40,203
4215Nobody beat me
4216except I beat them right back.
4217
4218982
421900:50:42,373 --> 00:50:43,373
4220Mr. Lincoln...
4221
4222983
422300:50:43,457 --> 00:50:47,377
4224Mrs. Keckley was a slave.
4225Ask her if she was beaten.
4226
4227984
422800:50:47,461 --> 00:50:49,295
4229- Were you...
4230- Tad.
4231
4232985
423300:50:49,797 --> 00:50:50,880
4234I was beaten with a fire shovel
4235
4236986
423700:50:50,965 --> 00:50:52,215
4238when I was younger than you.
4239
4240987
424100:50:52,299 --> 00:50:55,135
4242You should go to Mrs. Lincoln.
4243She's in Willie's room.
4244
4245988
424600:50:56,262 --> 00:50:57,470
4247She never goes in there.
4248
4249989
425000:50:57,596 --> 00:51:00,974
4251The reception line is already
4252stretching out the door.
4253
4254990
425500:51:03,310 --> 00:51:05,895
4256See, I'll be the only man
4257over 15 and under 65
4258
4259991
426000:51:05,980 --> 00:51:08,064
4261in this whole place not in uniform.
4262
4263992
426400:51:08,149 --> 00:51:09,607
4265I'm under 15.
4266
4267993
426800:51:30,296 --> 00:51:32,297
4269My head hurts so.
4270
4271994
427200:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,511
4273I prayed for death the night Willie died.
4274
4275995
427600:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,849
4277My headaches are how I know
4278I didn't get my wish.
4279
4280996
428100:51:45,352 --> 00:51:48,855
4282How to endure the long afternoon
4283
4284997
428500:51:48,939 --> 00:51:50,356
4286and deep into the night.
4287
4288998
428900:51:50,483 --> 00:51:51,691
4290I know.
4291
4292999
429300:51:51,776 --> 00:51:54,944
4294Trying not to think about him.
4295How will I manage?
4296
42971000
429800:51:55,029 --> 00:51:56,863
4299- Somehow. You will.
4300- Somehow?
4301
43021001
430300:51:58,073 --> 00:52:00,116
4304Somehow. Somehow.
4305
43061002
430700:52:02,369 --> 00:52:03,787
4308Every party.
4309
43101003
431100:52:04,455 --> 00:52:05,705
4312Every...
4313
43141004
431500:52:08,793 --> 00:52:10,126
4316And now
4317
43181005
431900:52:11,504 --> 00:52:14,380
4320four years more in this terrible house,
4321
43221006
432300:52:14,507 --> 00:52:16,299
4324reproaching us.
4325
43261007
432700:52:17,843 --> 00:52:19,969
4328He was a very sick little boy.
4329
43301008
433100:52:20,054 --> 00:52:22,472
4332We should have canceled
4333that reception, shouldn't we?
4334
43351009
433600:52:22,556 --> 00:52:23,973
4337We didn't know how sick he was.
4338
43391010
434000:52:24,058 --> 00:52:25,642
4341I knew. I knew.
4342
43431011
434400:52:26,727 --> 00:52:29,062
4345I saw that night he was dying.
4346
43471012
434800:52:29,188 --> 00:52:32,565
4349Three years ago,
4350the war was going so badly.
4351
43521013
435300:52:32,691 --> 00:52:35,401
4354We had to put on a face.
4355
43561014
435700:52:35,486 --> 00:52:36,986
4358But I saw Willie was dying.
4359
43601015
436100:52:37,112 --> 00:52:38,655
4362Molly...
4363
43641016
436500:52:38,739 --> 00:52:40,490
4366I saw him.
4367
43681017
436900:52:42,910 --> 00:52:44,410
4370It's too hard.
4371
43721018
437300:52:50,417 --> 00:52:51,751
4374Too hard.
4375
43761019
437700:52:59,093 --> 00:53:01,177
4378Oh, gracious saints!
4379
43801020
438100:53:13,899 --> 00:53:16,776
4382She's just ten feet yonder.
4383I'd like to keep my job.
4384
43851021
438600:53:16,861 --> 00:53:18,462
4387- How nice to see you.
4388- Nice to see you.
4389
43901022
439100:53:18,612 --> 00:53:21,781
4392Senator Sumner.
4393It's been much too long.
4394
43951023
439600:53:21,907 --> 00:53:23,533
4397"Oh, who can look
4398on that celestial face..."
4399
44001024
440100:53:23,617 --> 00:53:24,617
4402And?
4403
44041025
440500:53:24,702 --> 00:53:26,202
4406James Ashley, ma'am.
4407We've met several times.
4408
44091026
441000:53:26,287 --> 00:53:27,954
4411Praise heavens, praise heavens.
4412
44131027
441400:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,290
4415Just when I had abandoned
4416hope of amusement,
4417
44181028
441900:53:30,374 --> 00:53:31,624
4420it's the Chairman of the House Ways
4421
44221029
442300:53:31,750 --> 00:53:33,626
4424- and Means Committee.
4425- Mrs. Lincoln.
4426
44271030
442800:53:34,086 --> 00:53:36,379
4429Madame President, if you please.
4430
44311031
443200:53:38,549 --> 00:53:40,216
4433Don't convene another subcommittee
4434
44351032
443600:53:40,301 --> 00:53:41,384
4437to investigate me, sir.
4438
44391033
444000:53:41,468 --> 00:53:43,303
4441I'm teasing. Smile, Senator Wade.
4442
44431034
444400:53:43,429 --> 00:53:45,305
4445I believe I am smiling, Mrs. Lincoln.
4446
44471035
444800:53:45,389 --> 00:53:46,556
4449As long as your household accounts
4450
44511036
445200:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,474
4453are in order, madam,
4454
44551037
445600:53:48,601 --> 00:53:50,894
4457we'll have no need to investigate them.
4458
44591038
446000:53:50,978 --> 00:53:53,897
4461You have always taken such a lively,
4462
44631039
446400:53:53,981 --> 00:53:57,817
4465even prosecutorial interest
4466in my household accounts.
4467
44681040
446900:53:57,902 --> 00:54:00,570
4470Your household accounts have
4471always been so interesting.
4472
44731041
447400:54:00,654 --> 00:54:02,655
4475Yes, thank you. It's true.
4476
44771042
447800:54:03,282 --> 00:54:05,658
4479The miracles I have wrought
4480
44811043
448200:54:05,743 --> 00:54:08,244
4483out of fertilizer bills
4484and cutlery invoices,
4485
44861044
448700:54:08,329 --> 00:54:09,954
4488but I had to.
4489
44901045
449100:54:11,165 --> 00:54:13,166
4492Four years ago, when
4493the President and I arrived,
4494
44951046
449600:54:13,250 --> 00:54:14,751
4497this was pure pigsty.
4498
44991047
450000:54:14,835 --> 00:54:16,753
4501Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets.
4502
45031048
450400:54:16,837 --> 00:54:20,423
4505Mushrooms, green as the moon,
4506sprouting from the ceilings.
4507
45081049
450900:54:20,507 --> 00:54:23,760
4510And a pauper's pittance
4511allotted for improvements.
4512
45131050
451400:54:23,844 --> 00:54:26,846
4515As if your committee joined
4516with all of Washington
4517
45181051
451900:54:26,931 --> 00:54:28,431
4520awaiting in what you anticipated
4521
45221052
452300:54:28,515 --> 00:54:30,975
4524would be our comfort in squalor.
4525
45261053
452700:54:31,435 --> 00:54:33,770
4528Further proof that my husband and I
4529
45301054
453100:54:33,854 --> 00:54:35,521
4532were prairie primitives
4533
45341055
453500:54:35,648 --> 00:54:38,691
4536unsuited to the position to
4537which an error of the people,
4538
45391056
454000:54:38,817 --> 00:54:42,278
4541a flaw in the Democratic
4542process had elevated us.
4543
45441057
454500:54:42,363 --> 00:54:45,281
4546The past is the past. It's a new year now
4547
45481058
454900:54:45,366 --> 00:54:49,535
4550and we are all getting along,
4551or so they tell me.
4552
45531059
455400:54:49,620 --> 00:54:51,788
4555I gather we are working together.
4556
45571060
455800:54:51,872 --> 00:54:53,873
4559The White House and the other House,
4560
45611061
456200:54:53,958 --> 00:54:55,208
4563hatching little plans together.
4564
45651062
456600:54:55,334 --> 00:54:56,376
4567- Mother.
4568- What?
4569
45701063
457100:54:56,460 --> 00:54:58,544
4572You're creating a bottleneck.
4573
45741064
457500:54:58,671 --> 00:55:00,505
4576Oh, I'm detaining you.
4577
45781065
457900:55:01,215 --> 00:55:04,050
4580And more importantly,
4581the people behind you.
4582
45831066
458400:55:04,843 --> 00:55:07,470
4585How the people love my husband.
4586
45871067
458800:55:08,055 --> 00:55:12,058
4589They flock to see him by
4590their thousands on public days.
4591
45921068
459300:55:12,559 --> 00:55:15,561
4594They will never love you
4595the way they love him.
4596
45971069
459800:55:16,689 --> 00:55:19,816
4599How difficult it must be
4600for you to know that
4601
46021070
460300:55:19,900 --> 00:55:22,568
4604and yet how important to remember it.
4605
46061071
460700:55:33,163 --> 00:55:35,999
4608Since we have the floor
4609next in the debate,
4610
46111072
461200:55:36,083 --> 00:55:38,418
4613I thought I'd suggest you might
4614
46151073
461600:55:39,086 --> 00:55:41,004
4617temper your contribution
4618
46191074
462000:55:41,088 --> 00:55:44,090
4621so as not to frighten
4622our conservative friends.
4623
46241075
462500:55:44,174 --> 00:55:46,259
4626Ashley insists you're ensuring approval
4627
46281076
462900:55:46,343 --> 00:55:48,261
4630by dispensing patronage
4631
46321077
463300:55:48,345 --> 00:55:51,014
4634to otherwise undeserving Democrats.
4635
46361078
463700:55:51,098 --> 00:55:52,932
4638I can't ensure a single damn thing
4639
46401079
464100:55:53,058 --> 00:55:54,684
4642if you scare the whole House silly
4643
46441080
464500:55:54,768 --> 00:55:56,519
4646with talk of land appropriations
4647
46481081
464900:55:56,603 --> 00:55:58,521
4650and revolutionary tribunals.
4651
46521082
465300:55:58,605 --> 00:56:01,024
4654When the war ends, I intend to
4655
46561083
465700:56:01,108 --> 00:56:05,903
4658push for full equality,
4659the Negro vote, and much more.
4660
46611084
466200:56:06,613 --> 00:56:08,322
4663Congress shall mandate the seizure
4664
46651085
466600:56:08,449 --> 00:56:09,949
4667of every foot of Rebel land
4668
46691086
467000:56:10,075 --> 00:56:12,618
4671and every dollar of their property.
4672
46731087
467400:56:13,954 --> 00:56:15,496
4675We'll use their confiscated wealth
4676
46771088
467800:56:15,622 --> 00:56:17,540
4679to establish hundreds of thousands
4680
46811089
468200:56:17,624 --> 00:56:19,167
4683of free Negro farmers
4684
46851090
468600:56:19,293 --> 00:56:21,919
4687and, at their side,
4688soldiers armed to occupy
4689
46901091
469100:56:22,004 --> 00:56:23,629
4692and transform the heritage of traitors.
4693
46941092
469500:56:25,257 --> 00:56:26,716
4696We'll build up a land down there
4697
46981093
469900:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,969
4700of free men and free women
4701and free children and freedom.
4702
47031094
470400:56:31,638 --> 00:56:34,807
4705The nation needs to know
4706that we have such plans.
4707
47081095
470900:56:35,642 --> 00:56:38,519
4710That's the untempered version
4711of reconstruction.
4712
47131096
471400:56:40,647 --> 00:56:42,315
4715It is not...
4716
47171097
471800:56:42,441 --> 00:56:44,984
4719It's not quite exactly what I intend.
4720
47211098
472200:56:47,321 --> 00:56:50,698
4723But we shall oppose one another
4724in the course of time.
4725
47261099
472700:56:50,824 --> 00:56:52,867
4728Now we're working together,
4729and I'm asking you...
4730
47311100
473200:56:52,993 --> 00:56:54,202
4733For patience, I expect.
4734
47351101
473600:56:54,328 --> 00:56:56,037
4737When the people disagree,
4738bringing them together
4739
47401102
474100:56:56,163 --> 00:56:58,664
4742requires going slow
4743until they're ready to...
4744
47451103
474600:56:58,791 --> 00:57:00,833
4747Shit on the people and what they want
4748
47491104
475000:57:00,959 --> 00:57:01,918
4751and what they're ready for.
4752
47531105
475400:57:02,002 --> 00:57:03,211
4755I don't give a goddamn about the people
4756
47571106
475800:57:03,337 --> 00:57:04,545
4759and what they want.
4760
47611107
476200:57:04,671 --> 00:57:05,797
4763This is the face of someone
4764
47651108
476600:57:05,881 --> 00:57:07,256
4767who has fought long and hard
4768
47691109
477000:57:07,341 --> 00:57:08,466
4771for the good of the people
4772
47731110
477400:57:08,550 --> 00:57:11,219
4775without caring much for any of them.
4776
47771111
477800:57:11,345 --> 00:57:13,054
4779And I look a lot worse without my wig.
4780
47811112
478200:57:14,348 --> 00:57:17,850
4783The people elected me
4784to represent them,
4785
47861113
478700:57:17,976 --> 00:57:20,645
4788to lead them, and I lead.
4789You ought to try it.
4790
47911114
479200:57:23,357 --> 00:57:26,484
4793I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens
4794
47951115
479600:57:26,568 --> 00:57:30,363
4797and I have tried to profit
4798from the example of it, but
4799
48001116
480100:57:31,365 --> 00:57:32,406
4802if I'd listened to you,
4803
48041117
480500:57:32,533 --> 00:57:33,894
4806I'd have declared every slave free
4807
48081118
480900:57:33,992 --> 00:57:36,494
4810the minute the first shell
4811struck Fort Sumter.
4812
48131119
481400:57:36,578 --> 00:57:38,121
4815And the border states
4816would have gone over
4817
48181120
481900:57:38,205 --> 00:57:40,373
4820to the Confederacy,
4821the war would have been lost
4822
48231121
482400:57:40,499 --> 00:57:41,874
4825and the Union along with it,
4826
48271122
482800:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,918
4829and instead of abolishing slavery
4830
48311123
483200:57:44,044 --> 00:57:45,711
4833as we hope to do in two weeks,
4834
48351124
483600:57:45,838 --> 00:57:48,381
4837we'd be watching,
4838helpless as infants, as it spread
4839
48401125
484100:57:48,507 --> 00:57:50,591
4842from the American South
4843into South America.
4844
48451126
484600:57:50,717 --> 00:57:53,511
4847Oh, how you have longed
4848to say that to me.
4849
48501127
485100:57:54,388 --> 00:57:56,097
4852You claim you trust them,
4853
48541128
485500:57:56,223 --> 00:57:58,558
4856but you know what the people are.
4857
48581129
485900:57:59,393 --> 00:58:02,145
4860You know that the inner compass,
4861
48621130
486300:58:02,229 --> 00:58:04,730
4864that should direct the soul
4865towards justice
4866
48671131
486800:58:04,857 --> 00:58:08,442
4869has ossified in white men
4870and women, North and South,
4871
48721132
487300:58:08,569 --> 00:58:10,319
4874unto utter uselessness,
4875
48761133
487700:58:10,404 --> 00:58:12,613
4878through tolerating the evil of slavery.
4879
48801134
488100:58:12,739 --> 00:58:14,782
4882White people cannot bear the thought
4883
48841135
488500:58:14,908 --> 00:58:16,742
4886of sharing this country's
4887infinite abundance
4888
48891136
489000:58:16,869 --> 00:58:18,411
4891with Negroes.
4892
48931137
489400:58:20,747 --> 00:58:23,749
4895A compass, I learned
4896when I was surveying,
4897
48981138
489900:58:24,418 --> 00:58:27,587
4900it'll point you true north
4901from where you're standing.
4902
49031139
490400:58:27,713 --> 00:58:29,505
4905But it's got no advice about
4906
49071140
490800:58:29,590 --> 00:58:32,216
4909the swamps and deserts and chasms
4910
49111141
491200:58:32,301 --> 00:58:34,844
4913that you'll encounter along the way.
4914
49151142
491600:58:34,928 --> 00:58:36,345
4917If in pursuit of your destination,
4918
49191143
492000:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,347
4921you plunge ahead,
4922heedless of obstacles
4923
49241144
492500:58:38,432 --> 00:58:41,893
4926and achieve nothing more
4927than to sink in a swamp,
4928
49291145
493000:58:43,270 --> 00:58:45,646
4931what's the use of knowing true north?
4932
49331146
493400:59:01,955 --> 00:59:05,291
4935Robert's going to plead
4936with us to let him enlist.
4937
49381147
493900:59:07,836 --> 00:59:11,964
4940Make time to talk to Robbie.
4941You only have time for Tad.
4942
49431148
494400:59:12,049 --> 00:59:13,507
4945Tad is young.
4946
49471149
494800:59:13,967 --> 00:59:17,720
4949So is Robert. Too young for the Army.
4950
49511150
495200:59:17,804 --> 00:59:20,806
4953Plenty of boys younger
4954than Robert signing up.
4955
49561151
495700:59:23,810 --> 00:59:25,478
4958Don't take Robbie.
4959
49601152
496100:59:26,188 --> 00:59:27,939
4962Don't let me lose my son.
4963
49641153
496500:59:29,149 --> 00:59:31,859
4966Go away! We're occupied!
4967
49681154
496900:59:35,697 --> 00:59:36,948
4970Secretary Stanton has sent over
4971
49721155
497300:59:37,032 --> 00:59:38,593
4974to tell you that as of half an hour ago
4975
49761156
497700:59:38,617 --> 00:59:40,993
4978the shelling of Wilmington Harbor
4979has commenced.
4980
49811157
498200:59:46,041 --> 00:59:48,876
4983They cannot possibly maintain
4984under this kind of an assault.
4985
49861158
498700:59:49,002 --> 00:59:51,462
4988Terry has got 10,000 men
4989surrounding the goddamn port.
4990
49911159
499200:59:51,546 --> 00:59:52,546
4993Why doesn't he answer...
4994
49951160
499600:59:52,673 --> 00:59:54,590
4997Fort Fisher is a mountain
4998of a building, Edwin.
4999
50001161
500100:59:54,675 --> 00:59:55,758
5002It's the largest fort they have, sir.
5003
50041162
500500:59:55,842 --> 00:59:57,718
5006Twenty-two big Seacoast guns
5007on each rampart.
5008
50091163
501000:59:57,803 --> 00:59:59,095
5011They've been reinforcing it
5012for the last two years.
5013
50141164
501500:59:59,179 --> 01:00:01,264
5016They've taken 17,000 shells
5017since yesterday!
5018
50191165
502001:00:01,348 --> 01:00:03,975
5021I want to hear Fort Fisher is ours
5022
50231166
502401:00:04,059 --> 01:00:05,268
5025and Wilmington has fallen.
5026
50271167
502801:00:05,352 --> 01:00:06,852
5029Send another damn cable!
5030
50311168
503201:00:06,979 --> 01:00:09,563
5033The problem's their
5034commander, Whiting!
5035
50361169
503701:00:10,357 --> 01:00:11,774
5038He engineered the fortress himself,
5039
50401170
504101:00:11,858 --> 01:00:12,939
5042the damn thing's his child.
5043
50441171
504501:00:13,026 --> 01:00:15,361
5046He'll defend it till
5047his every last man is gone.
5048
50491172
505001:00:15,487 --> 01:00:17,905
5051"Come on out, you old rat!"
5052
50531173
505401:00:19,992 --> 01:00:23,953
5055That's
5056what Ethan Allen called out
5057
50581174
505901:00:24,037 --> 01:00:27,581
5060to the commander
5061of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.
5062
50631175
506401:00:27,708 --> 01:00:29,750
5065"Come on out, you old rat!"
5066
50671176
506801:00:30,877 --> 01:00:32,086
5069Of course, there were only
5070
50711177
507201:00:32,212 --> 01:00:34,588
507340 odd Redcoats at Ticonderoga.
5074
50751178
507601:00:35,841 --> 01:00:39,510
5077There is one Ethan Allen story
5078that I'm very partial to.
5079
50801179
508101:00:39,594 --> 01:00:42,096
5082No, you're going to tell a story.
5083
50841180
508501:00:42,723 --> 01:00:45,141
5086I don't believe that I can bear
5087
50881181
508901:00:45,225 --> 01:00:47,225
5090to listen to another one
5091of your stories right now.
5092
50931182
509401:00:47,894 --> 01:00:50,771
5095I need the B&O sideyard
5096schedules for Alexandria!
5097
50981183
509901:00:50,897 --> 01:00:52,315
5100I asked for them this morning!
5101
51021184
510301:00:52,399 --> 01:00:56,986
5104It was
5105right after the Revolution,
5106
51071185
510801:00:57,070 --> 01:00:59,447
5109right after peace had been concluded.
5110
51111186
511201:00:59,573 --> 01:01:02,491
5113And Ethan Allen went to London
5114
51151187
511601:01:02,576 --> 01:01:04,243
5117to help our new country
5118
51191188
512001:01:04,369 --> 01:01:06,746
5121conduct its business with the King.
5122
51231189
512401:01:07,706 --> 01:01:10,374
5125The English sneered
5126at how rough we are
5127
51281190
512901:01:10,459 --> 01:01:12,793
5130and rude and simple-minded,
5131and on like that,
5132
51331191
513401:01:12,919 --> 01:01:13,878
5135everywhere he went
5136
51371192
513801:01:13,962 --> 01:01:16,922
5139till one day he was invited
5140to the townhouse
5141
51421193
514301:01:17,049 --> 01:01:18,966
5144of a great English lord.
5145
51461194
514701:01:21,261 --> 01:01:24,263
5148Dinner was served
5149and beverages imbibed,
5150
51511195
515201:01:25,057 --> 01:01:27,391
5153time passed, as happens, and
5154
51551196
515601:01:27,476 --> 01:01:30,102
5157Mr. Allen found he needed the privy.
5158
51591197
516001:01:31,646 --> 01:01:34,273
5161He was grateful to be directed thence.
5162
51631198
516401:01:37,944 --> 01:01:40,029
5165Relieved, you might say.
5166
51671199
516801:01:42,115 --> 01:01:44,784
5169Now, Mr. Allen discovered
5170
51711200
517201:01:45,619 --> 01:01:46,911
5173on entering the water closet,
5174
51751201
517601:01:46,995 --> 01:01:49,580
5177that the only decoration therein
5178
51791202
518001:01:49,664 --> 01:01:52,291
5181was a portrait of George Washington.
5182
51831203
518401:01:55,796 --> 01:01:58,172
5185Ethan Allen done what he came to do,
5186
51871204
518801:01:58,298 --> 01:02:00,633
5189and returned to the drawing room.
5190
51911205
519201:02:01,301 --> 01:02:03,427
5193His host and the others
5194were disappointed
5195
51961206
519701:02:03,512 --> 01:02:05,554
5198when he didn't mention
5199Washington's portrait.
5200
52011207
520201:02:05,639 --> 01:02:08,265
5203Finally, His Lordship couldn't
5204resist and asked Mr. Allen
5205
52061208
520701:02:08,350 --> 01:02:10,110
5208had he noticed it,
5209the picture of Washington.
5210
52111209
521201:02:10,143 --> 01:02:11,602
5213He had.
5214
52151210
521601:02:11,686 --> 01:02:13,326
5217Well, what did he think of its placement,
5218
52191211
522001:02:13,355 --> 01:02:16,399
5221did it seem appropriately
5222located to Mr. Allen?
5223
52241212
522501:02:16,483 --> 01:02:18,567
5226Mr. Allen said it did.
5227
52281213
522901:02:18,652 --> 01:02:20,361
5230His host was astounded.
5231
52321214
523301:02:20,487 --> 01:02:22,488
5234"Appropriate?"
5235
52361215
523701:02:22,614 --> 01:02:25,491
5238"George Washington's likeness
5239in a water closet?"
5240
52411216
524201:02:25,617 --> 01:02:28,994
5243"Yes," said Mr. Allen.
5244"Where it'll do good service.
5245
52461217
524701:02:29,704 --> 01:02:31,865
5248"The whole world knows nothing
5249will make an Englishman"
5250
52511218
525201:02:31,873 --> 01:02:34,125
5253"shit quicker than the sight
5254of George Washington."
5255
52561219
525701:02:38,547 --> 01:02:40,506
5258I love that story.
5259
52601220
526101:03:07,325 --> 01:03:09,535
5262Fort Fisher is ours. We've taken the port.
5263
52641221
526501:03:09,661 --> 01:03:11,203
5266And Wilmington?
5267
52681222
526901:03:13,290 --> 01:03:14,373
5270We've taken the fort,
5271
52721223
527301:03:14,499 --> 01:03:16,792
5274but the city of Wilmington
5275has not surrendered.
5276
52771224
527801:03:17,627 --> 01:03:19,378
5279How many casualties?
5280
52811225
528201:03:31,725 --> 01:03:33,642
5283- Heavy losses.
5284- And more to come.
5285
52861226
528701:03:33,727 --> 01:03:36,312
5288It sours the national mood.
5289It might suffice...
5290
52911227
529201:03:36,396 --> 01:03:38,314
5293To what? To bring this down?
5294
52951228
529601:03:38,398 --> 01:03:40,900
5297Not in a fight like this.
5298This is to the death.
5299
53001229
530101:03:40,984 --> 01:03:42,568
5302That's gruesome.
5303
53041230
530501:03:42,861 --> 01:03:45,321
5306Are you despairing or merely lazy?
5307
53081231
530901:03:45,405 --> 01:03:48,574
5310This fight is for
5311the United States of America.
5312
53131232
531401:03:48,658 --> 01:03:51,577
5315Nothing "suffices." A rumor? Nothing.
5316
53171233
531801:03:51,703 --> 01:03:54,580
5319They're not lazy.
5320They're busily buying votes
5321
53221234
532301:03:54,664 --> 01:03:57,917
5324while we hope to be saved
5325by "the national mood"?
5326
53271235
532801:04:03,924 --> 01:04:07,510
5329Before this blood is dry, when
5330Stevens next takes the floor,
5331
53321236
533301:04:07,594 --> 01:04:09,345
5334taunt him. You excel at that.
5335
53361237
533701:04:09,429 --> 01:04:11,514
5338Get him to proclaim what
5339we all know he believes
5340
53411238
534201:04:11,598 --> 01:04:13,265
5343in his coal-colored heart.
5344
53451239
534601:04:13,350 --> 01:04:16,018
5347That this vote is meant
5348to set the black race on high,
5349
53501240
535101:04:16,102 --> 01:04:17,102
5352to niggerate America...
5353
53541241
535501:04:17,229 --> 01:04:19,605
5356George, please, stay on course.
5357
53581242
535901:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,608
5360Bring Stevens to full froth.
5361
53621243
536301:04:23,443 --> 01:04:25,194
5364I can ensure that every newspaperman
5365
53661244
536701:04:25,278 --> 01:04:26,612
5368from Louisville to San Francisco
5369
53701245
537101:04:26,738 --> 01:04:28,614
5372will be here to witness it and print it.
5373
53741246
537501:04:31,535 --> 01:04:33,869
5376The floor belongs to
5377the mellifluent gentleman
5378
53791247
538001:04:33,954 --> 01:04:36,455
5381from Kentucky, Mr. George Yeaman.
5382
53831248
538401:04:42,295 --> 01:04:44,421
5385I thank you, Speaker Colfax.
5386
53871249
538801:04:52,180 --> 01:04:55,933
5389Although I am disgusted by slavery,
5390
53911250
539201:05:00,105 --> 01:05:02,690
5393I rise on this sad and solemn day
5394
53951251
539601:05:03,316 --> 01:05:06,485
5397to announce that
5398I'm opposed to the amendment.
5399
54001252
540101:05:11,366 --> 01:05:14,785
5402We must consider what
5403will become of colored folk
5404
54051253
540601:05:14,869 --> 01:05:18,789
5407if four million are, in
5408one instant, set free.
5409
54101254
541101:05:19,165 --> 01:05:20,374
5412They'll be free, George,
5413
54141255
541501:05:20,500 --> 01:05:22,334
5416that's what will become of them.
5417
54181256
541901:05:23,587 --> 01:05:24,628
5420Think how splendid
5421
54221257
542301:05:25,630 --> 01:05:27,506
5424if Mr. Yeaman switched.
5425
54261258
542701:05:27,632 --> 01:05:30,426
5428Too publicly against us.
5429He can't change course now.
5430
54311259
543201:05:30,510 --> 01:05:33,637
5433Not for some miserable
5434little job, anyways.
5435
54361260
543701:05:33,722 --> 01:05:36,890
5438And we will be forced to enfranchise
5439
54401261
544101:05:37,017 --> 01:05:39,268
5442the men of the colored race.
5443
54441262
544501:05:39,352 --> 01:05:41,478
5446It would be inhuman not to.
5447
54481263
544901:05:42,188 --> 01:05:45,816
5450Now who among us is prepared
5451to give Negroes the vote?
5452
54531264
545401:05:47,277 --> 01:05:48,527
5455And, and,
5456
54571265
545801:05:48,653 --> 01:05:50,863
5459what shall follow upon that?
5460
54611266
546201:05:51,656 --> 01:05:53,699
5463Universal enfranchisement?
5464
54651267
546601:05:55,035 --> 01:05:56,076
5467Votes for women?
5468
54691268
547001:06:03,835 --> 01:06:05,002
5471We...
5472
54731269
547401:06:07,547 --> 01:06:08,589
5475Bless my eyes.
5476
54771270
547801:06:08,715 --> 01:06:11,300
5479If it isn't the Postmaster
5480of Millersburg, Ohio.
5481
54821271
548301:06:13,345 --> 01:06:16,388
5484Mr. LeClerk felt honor-bound
5485to inform us
5486
54871272
548801:06:17,557 --> 01:06:19,391
5489of your disgusting betrayal.
5490
54911273
549201:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,227
5493Your prostitution.
5494
54951274
549601:06:23,355 --> 01:06:25,731
5497Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins?
5498
54991275
550001:06:27,025 --> 01:06:29,360
5501Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
5502
55031276
550401:06:32,197 --> 01:06:33,155
5505If my neighbors hear
5506
55071277
550801:06:33,239 --> 01:06:34,448
5509that I voted yes for nigger freedom
5510
55111278
551201:06:34,574 --> 01:06:35,974
5513and no to peace, they will kill me.
5514
55151279
551601:06:36,076 --> 01:06:37,117
5517A deal is a deal.
5518
55191280
552001:06:37,243 --> 01:06:38,786
5521You men know better
5522than to piss your pants
5523
55241281
552501:06:38,912 --> 01:06:40,329
5526just 'cause there's talk
5527about peace talks.
5528
55291282
553001:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,331
5531- Look, I'll find another job!
5532- My neighbors in Nashville,
5533
55341283
553501:06:42,415 --> 01:06:44,016
5536they found out I was loyal to the Union,
5537
55381284
553901:06:44,084 --> 01:06:45,459
5540they came after me with gelding knives.
5541
55421285
554301:06:45,585 --> 01:06:47,086
5544- I'll find another job.
5545- You do right, Clay Hawkins.
5546
55471286
554801:06:47,212 --> 01:06:50,506
5549I want to do right! But I got no courage!
5550
55511287
555201:06:50,590 --> 01:06:52,257
5553Wait. You wanted...
5554What was it?
5555
55561288
555701:06:52,384 --> 01:06:54,176
5558A tax man for the Western Reserve?
5559
55601289
556101:06:54,260 --> 01:06:56,095
5562Hell, you can have the whole
5563state of Ohio if you want...
5564
55651290
556601:06:56,221 --> 01:06:57,721
5567Oh, crap.
5568
55691291
557001:07:00,475 --> 01:07:01,809
5571Eleven votes?
5572
55731292
557401:07:01,935 --> 01:07:04,103
5575Two days ago, we had twelve.
5576What happened?
5577
55781293
557901:07:04,229 --> 01:07:05,187
5580There are defections in the ranks.
5581
55821294
558301:07:05,271 --> 01:07:06,271
5584It's the goddamn rumors
5585
55861295
558701:07:06,398 --> 01:07:07,356
5588regarding the Richmond delegation.
5589
55901296
559101:07:07,440 --> 01:07:08,440
5592- Yes. The peace offer.
5593- Groundless.
5594
55951297
559601:07:08,566 --> 01:07:11,151
5597- And yet the rumors persist.
5598- They are ruining us.
5599
56001298
560101:07:11,277 --> 01:07:13,320
5602Among the few
5603remaining Representatives
5604
56051299
560601:07:13,446 --> 01:07:14,988
5607who seem remotely plausible,
5608
56091300
561001:07:15,115 --> 01:07:17,574
5611there is a perceptible
5612increase in resistance.
5613
56141301
561501:07:17,659 --> 01:07:19,284
5616Resistance, hell.
5617
56181302
561901:07:19,953 --> 01:07:22,287
5620Thingamabob Hollister,
5621Dem from Indiana.
5622
56231303
562401:07:22,414 --> 01:07:25,124
5625I approached him,
5626sumbitch near to murdered me.
5627
56281304
562901:07:25,250 --> 01:07:28,127
5630Colorado Territory... What's this one?
5631
56321305
563301:07:28,628 --> 01:07:31,797
5634Job description... Taxpayers and...
5635
56361306
563701:07:31,923 --> 01:07:33,674
5638Oh, shit! Cracky!
5639
56401307
564101:07:42,809 --> 01:07:45,602
5642Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Goddamn!
5643
56441308
564501:07:51,693 --> 01:07:54,319
5646- Perhaps you pushed too hard.
5647- I push nobody.
5648
56491309
565001:07:54,779 --> 01:07:57,030
5651Perhaps we need reinforcements.
5652
56531310
565401:07:57,490 --> 01:07:59,700
5655If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities,
5656
56571311
565801:07:59,826 --> 01:08:02,244
5659who do you think is going to
5660give a genuine solid shit
5661
56621312
566301:08:02,328 --> 01:08:03,412
5664to free slaves?
5665
56661313
566701:08:03,496 --> 01:08:04,788
5668Get back to it.
5669
56701314
567101:08:05,665 --> 01:08:07,374
5672And gentlemen, good day.
5673
56741315
567501:08:08,543 --> 01:08:10,127
5676We are at an impasse.
5677
56781316
567901:08:10,211 --> 01:08:12,546
5680Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.
5681
56821317
568301:08:12,672 --> 01:08:13,872
5684Tell us what you expect of us.
5685
56861318
568701:08:14,174 --> 01:08:15,883
5688I expect you to do your work.
5689
56901319
569101:08:16,009 --> 01:08:17,509
5692And have sufficient sense and taste
5693
56941320
569501:08:17,635 --> 01:08:20,095
5696not to presume to instruct the President.
5697
56981321
569901:08:20,180 --> 01:08:21,180
5700Or me.
5701
57021322
570301:08:22,056 --> 01:08:24,850
5704Is there a Confederate offer, or not?
5705
57061323
570701:08:40,867 --> 01:08:42,534
5708Gentlemen.
5709
57101324
571101:08:44,829 --> 01:08:47,247
5712I suggest you work some changes
5713to your proposal
5714
57151325
571601:08:47,373 --> 01:08:49,374
5717before you give it to the President.
5718
57191326
572001:08:49,501 --> 01:08:51,543
5721We're eager to be on our way
5722to Washington.
5723
57241327
572501:08:51,669 --> 01:08:53,837
5726Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?
5727
57281328
572901:08:53,922 --> 01:08:57,883
5730It says "securing peace
5731for our two countries"
5732
57331329
573401:08:58,009 --> 01:08:59,551
5735and it goes on like that.
5736
57371330
573801:09:00,428 --> 01:09:02,596
5739- I don't...
5740- There is just one country.
5741
57421331
574301:09:02,722 --> 01:09:05,057
5744You and I, we're citizens of that country.
5745
57461332
574701:09:05,391 --> 01:09:08,393
5748I'm fighting to protect it
5749from armed rebels.
5750
57511333
575201:09:09,020 --> 01:09:10,187
5753From you.
5754
57551334
575601:09:10,271 --> 01:09:12,189
5757But Mr. Blair, he told us,
5758
57591335
576001:09:12,273 --> 01:09:14,650
5761he told President
5762Jefferson Davis that we...
5763
57641336
576501:09:14,734 --> 01:09:17,277
5766A private citizen like Preston Blair
5767
57681337
576901:09:17,403 --> 01:09:18,445
5770can say what he pleases,
5771
57721338
577301:09:18,571 --> 01:09:21,365
5774since he has no authority over anything.
5775
57761339
577701:09:21,449 --> 01:09:25,035
5778If you want to discuss peace
5779with President Lincoln,
5780
57811340
578201:09:26,079 --> 01:09:27,913
5783consider revisions.
5784
57851341
578601:09:28,414 --> 01:09:29,957
5787If we're not to discuss
5788
57891342
579001:09:30,083 --> 01:09:32,501
5791a truce between warring nations,
5792
57931343
579401:09:32,585 --> 01:09:34,545
5795what in heaven's name can we discuss?
5796
57971344
579801:09:35,588 --> 01:09:37,256
5799Terms of surrender.
5800
58011345
580201:09:39,759 --> 01:09:41,844
5803"Office United States
5804Military Telegraph,"
5805
58061346
580701:09:41,928 --> 01:09:42,928
5808"War Department."
5809
58101347
581101:09:43,054 --> 01:09:45,430
5812"For Abraham Lincoln,
5813President of the United States."
5814
58151348
581601:09:45,557 --> 01:09:47,766
5817"January 20, 1865."
5818
58191349
582001:09:48,268 --> 01:09:50,561
5821"I will state confidentially
5822that I am convinced"
5823
58241350
582501:09:50,645 --> 01:09:52,938
5826"upon conversation
5827with these commissioners"
5828
58291351
583001:09:53,064 --> 01:09:54,523
5831"that their intentions are good"
5832
58331352
583401:09:54,607 --> 01:09:57,943
5835"and their desire sincere
5836to restore peace and union."
5837
58381353
583901:09:58,611 --> 01:10:00,445
5840"I fear now they're going back"
5841
58421354
584301:10:00,572 --> 01:10:03,532
5844"without any expression
5845of interest from anyone"
5846
58471355
584801:10:03,616 --> 01:10:07,160
5849"in authority, Mr. Lincoln,
5850will have a bad influence."
5851
58521356
585301:10:08,454 --> 01:10:11,456
5854"I will be sorry should
5855it prove impossible for you"
5856
58571357
585801:10:11,583 --> 01:10:13,125
5859"to have an interview with them."
5860
58611358
586201:10:13,251 --> 01:10:15,502
5863"I am awaiting your instructions."
5864
58651359
586601:10:17,338 --> 01:10:19,548
5867"U.S. Grant, Lieutenant General,"
5868
58691360
587001:10:19,632 --> 01:10:21,258
5871"Commanding Armies, United States."
5872
58731361
587401:10:23,303 --> 01:10:25,512
5875After four years of war, and
5876
58771362
587801:10:26,764 --> 01:10:29,308
5879near 600,000 lives lost,
5880
58811363
588201:10:29,434 --> 01:10:32,185
5883he believes we can end this war now.
5884
58851364
588601:10:35,857 --> 01:10:38,692
5887My trust in him is marrow deep.
5888
58891365
589001:10:44,949 --> 01:10:47,826
5891You could bring the delegates
5892to Washington.
5893
58941366
589501:10:48,119 --> 01:10:50,329
5896In exchange for the South's
5897immediate surrender,
5898
58991367
590001:10:50,455 --> 01:10:53,373
5901we could promise them
5902the amendment's defeat.
5903
59041368
590501:10:54,709 --> 01:10:59,379
5906They'd agree, don't you think?
5907We'd end the war. This week.
5908
59091369
591001:11:01,716 --> 01:11:03,258
5911Or, if you could manage
5912
59131370
591401:11:03,343 --> 01:11:06,470
5915without seeming to do it, to...
5916
59171371
591801:11:10,558 --> 01:11:12,684
5919The peace delegation
5920might encounter delays
5921
59221372
592301:11:12,810 --> 01:11:14,728
5924as they travel up the James River.
5925
59261373
592701:11:14,854 --> 01:11:17,189
5928Particularly with the fighting
5929around Wilmington.
5930
59311374
593201:11:24,072 --> 01:11:25,489
5933Within ten days' time,
5934
59351375
593601:11:25,573 --> 01:11:28,200
5937we might pass the 13th Amendment.
5938
59391376
594001:12:10,785 --> 01:12:13,078
5941Here's a 16-year-old boy,
5942
59431377
594401:12:13,204 --> 01:12:14,746
5945they're going to hang him.
5946
59471378
594801:12:14,872 --> 01:12:17,582
5949He's with the Fifteenth
5950Indiana Cavalry near Bulford.
5951
59521379
595301:12:17,709 --> 01:12:20,627
5954It seems he lamed his horse
5955to avoid battle.
5956
59571380
595801:12:22,547 --> 01:12:24,006
5959I don't think even Stanton
5960would complain
5961
59621381
596301:12:24,090 --> 01:12:25,090
5964if I pardoned him.
5965
59661382
596701:12:25,216 --> 01:12:26,537
5968You think Stanton would complain?
5969
59701383
597101:12:26,551 --> 01:12:29,636
5972I don't know, sir.
5973I don't know who you're...
5974
59751384
597601:12:29,762 --> 01:12:32,139
5977- What time is it?
5978- It's 3:40 in the morning.
5979
59801385
598101:12:32,265 --> 01:12:35,726
5982Don't let him pardon any more deserters.
5983
59841386
598501:12:35,810 --> 01:12:38,520
5986Mr. Stanton thinks you pardon too many.
5987
59881387
598901:12:38,604 --> 01:12:40,244
5990He's generally apoplectic on the subject.
5991
59921388
599301:12:40,273 --> 01:12:41,815
5994He oughtn't have done that,
5995crippled his horse.
5996
59971389
599801:12:41,941 --> 01:12:43,191
5999That was cruel, but you don't just hang
6000
60011390
600201:12:43,276 --> 01:12:44,276
6003a 16-year-old boy for that...
6004
60051391
600601:12:44,402 --> 01:12:45,562
6007Ask the horse what he thinks.
6008
60091392
601001:12:45,611 --> 01:12:49,239
6011For cruelty. There'd be
6012no 16-year-old boys left.
6013
60141393
601501:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,135
6016Grant wants me to bring
6017the secesh delegates
6018
60191394
602001:13:10,261 --> 01:13:11,762
6021to Washington.
6022
60231395
602401:13:14,140 --> 01:13:16,433
6025So there are secesh delegates?
6026
60271396
602801:13:17,143 --> 01:13:19,394
6029He was afraid, that's all it was.
6030
60311397
603201:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,439
6033I don't care to hang a boy
6034for being frightened, either.
6035
60361398
603701:13:23,024 --> 01:13:25,108
6038What good would it do him?
6039
60401399
604101:13:39,832 --> 01:13:42,167
6042War's nearly done, ain't that so?
6043
60441400
604501:13:45,505 --> 01:13:47,672
6046What use is one more corpse?
6047
60481401
604901:13:49,884 --> 01:13:51,510
6050Any more corpses?
6051
60521402
605301:14:00,645 --> 01:14:02,521
6054Do you need company?
6055
60561403
605701:14:02,647 --> 01:14:05,524
6058In times like this,
6059I'm best alone.
6060
60611404
606201:14:44,355 --> 01:14:48,567
6063"Lieutenant General
6064Ulysses S. Grant, City Point."
6065
60661405
606701:14:49,944 --> 01:14:52,154
6068"I have read your words with interest."
6069
60701406
607101:14:52,238 --> 01:14:53,238
6072"I ask that,"
6073
60741407
607501:14:53,364 --> 01:14:55,740
6076"regardless of any action
6077I take in the matter"
6078
60791408
608001:14:55,867 --> 01:14:58,910
6081"of the visit of
6082the Richmond commissioners"
6083
60841409
608501:14:59,912 --> 01:15:01,496
6086"you maintain among your troops"
6087
60881410
608901:15:01,581 --> 01:15:04,416
6090"military preparedness for battle"
6091
60921411
609301:15:05,418 --> 01:15:07,711
6094"as you have done until now."
6095
60961412
609701:15:13,801 --> 01:15:16,303
6098"Have Captain Saunders convey
6099the commissioners to me
6100
61011413
610201:15:16,429 --> 01:15:18,096
6103"here in Washington.
6104
61051414
610601:15:19,557 --> 01:15:21,600
6107"A. Lincoln." And the date.
6108
61091415
611001:15:21,767 --> 01:15:23,101
6111Yes, sir.
6112
61131416
611401:15:27,148 --> 01:15:28,982
6115Shall I transmit, sir?
6116
61171417
611801:15:32,612 --> 01:15:34,905
6119You think we choose to be born?
6120
61211418
612201:15:40,661 --> 01:15:42,412
6123I don't suppose so.
6124
61251419
612601:15:43,748 --> 01:15:46,583
6127Are we fitted to the times
6128we're born into?
6129
61301420
613101:15:48,461 --> 01:15:50,128
6132Well, I don't know about myself.
6133
61341421
613501:15:51,130 --> 01:15:52,631
6136You may be,
6137
61381422
613901:15:53,466 --> 01:15:55,008
6140sir. Fitted.
6141
61421423
614301:15:59,138 --> 01:16:00,805
6144What do you reckon?
6145
61461424
614701:16:02,767 --> 01:16:04,809
6148Well, I'm an engineer.
6149
61501425
615101:16:07,438 --> 01:16:09,356
6152I reckon there's machinery,
6153
61541426
615501:16:09,482 --> 01:16:12,359
6156but no one's done the fitting.
6157
61581427
615901:16:15,821 --> 01:16:17,530
6160You're an engineer.
6161
61621428
616301:16:17,865 --> 01:16:21,451
6164You must know Euclid's axioms
6165and common notions.
6166
61671429
616801:16:23,663 --> 01:16:25,497
6169I must have in school, but...
6170
61711430
617201:16:25,623 --> 01:16:26,823
6173I never had much of schooling,
6174
61751431
617601:16:26,874 --> 01:16:29,793
6177but I read Euclid
6178in an old book I borrowed.
6179
61801432
618101:16:30,628 --> 01:16:33,213
6182Little enough ever found its way in here,
6183
61841433
618501:16:33,339 --> 01:16:35,674
6186but once learnt, it stayed learnt.
6187
61881434
618901:16:38,552 --> 01:16:41,304
6190Euclid's first common notion is this,
6191
61921435
619301:16:41,973 --> 01:16:44,266
6194"Things which are equal
6195to the same thing"
6196
61971436
619801:16:44,350 --> 01:16:47,227
6199"are equal to each other."
6200
62011437
620201:16:48,896 --> 01:16:51,231
6203That's a rule of mathematical reasoning.
6204
62051438
620601:16:51,357 --> 01:16:53,608
6207It's true because it works.
6208
62091439
621001:16:53,693 --> 01:16:55,860
6211Has done and always will do.
6212
62131440
621401:16:58,155 --> 01:17:00,657
6215In his book...
6216
62171441
621801:17:01,701 --> 01:17:04,202
6219Euclid says this is "self-evident."
6220
62211442
622201:17:05,162 --> 01:17:06,121
6223You see? There it is,
6224
62251443
622601:17:06,205 --> 01:17:08,873
6227even in that 2,000-year-old book
6228
62291444
623001:17:09,000 --> 01:17:10,542
6231of mechanical law.
6232
62331445
623401:17:10,668 --> 01:17:12,585
6235It is a self-evident truth
6236
62371446
623801:17:12,712 --> 01:17:15,755
6239that things which are equal
6240to the same thing
6241
62421447
624301:17:15,881 --> 01:17:18,091
6244are equal to each other.
6245
62461448
624701:17:21,178 --> 01:17:23,054
6248We begin with equality.
6249
62501449
625101:17:24,515 --> 01:17:26,057
6252That's the origin, isn't it?
6253
62541450
625501:17:26,183 --> 01:17:29,060
6256That's balance. That's... That's fairness.
6257
62581451
625901:17:33,733 --> 01:17:35,692
6260That's justice.
6261
62621452
626301:17:42,742 --> 01:17:44,451
6264Just read me back the last sentence
6265
62661453
626701:17:44,577 --> 01:17:46,786
6268of the telegram, please.
6269
62701454
627101:17:47,413 --> 01:17:49,539
6272"Have Captain Saunders convey
6273the commissioners to me"
6274
62751455
627601:17:49,623 --> 01:17:50,623
6277"here in Washington."
6278
62791456
628001:17:51,375 --> 01:17:53,960
6281A slight emendation,
6282if you would, Sam.
6283
62841457
628501:17:57,465 --> 01:17:59,215
6286"Have Captain Saunders
6287convey the gentlemen"
6288
62891458
629001:17:59,300 --> 01:18:00,550
6291"aboard the River Queen"
6292
62931459
629401:18:01,385 --> 01:18:05,096
6295"as far as Hampton Roads, Virginia,"
6296
62971460
629801:18:05,473 --> 01:18:07,557
6299"and there wait until"
6300
63011461
630201:18:10,227 --> 01:18:12,645
6303"further advice from me."
6304
63051462
630601:18:15,107 --> 01:18:17,317
6307"Do not proceed to Washington."
6308
63091463
631001:19:02,822 --> 01:19:05,281
6311The World, the Herald,
6312the Times,
6313
63141464
631501:19:05,366 --> 01:19:07,325
6316New York, Chicago,
6317
63181465
631901:19:07,660 --> 01:19:09,536
6320the Journal of Commerce,
6321
63221466
632301:19:09,662 --> 01:19:11,204
6324even your hometown paper's here.
6325
63261467
632701:19:11,330 --> 01:19:14,791
6328Say you believe only in
6329legal equality for all races,
6330
63311468
633201:19:14,875 --> 01:19:16,251
6333not racial equality.
6334
63351469
633601:19:16,335 --> 01:19:18,002
6337I beg you, sir.
6338
63391470
634001:19:18,337 --> 01:19:21,506
6341Compromise. Or you risk it all.
6342
63431471
634401:19:43,195 --> 01:19:45,238
6345I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens,
6346
63471472
634801:19:45,364 --> 01:19:47,240
6349and you must answer me.
6350
63511473
635201:19:47,992 --> 01:19:50,326
6353Do you or do you not
6354hold that the precept
6355
63561474
635701:19:50,411 --> 01:19:53,872
6358that "All men are created equal"
6359is meant literally?
6360
63611475
636201:19:59,503 --> 01:20:02,297
6363Is that not the true purpose
6364of the amendment?
6365
63661476
636701:20:02,381 --> 01:20:05,258
6368To promote your ultimate
6369and ardent dream to elevate...
6370
63711477
637201:20:05,384 --> 01:20:07,760
6373The true purpose
6374of the amendment, Mr. Wood,
6375
63761478
637701:20:07,887 --> 01:20:09,637
6378you perfectly named,
6379
63801479
638101:20:09,722 --> 01:20:11,890
6382brainless obstructive object...
6383
63841480
638501:20:13,267 --> 01:20:16,561
6386Now you have always insisted,
6387Mr. Stevens,
6388
63891481
639001:20:17,396 --> 01:20:20,940
6391that Negroes are the same
6392as white men are.
6393
63941482
639501:20:21,859 --> 01:20:24,402
6396The true purpose of the amendment...
6397
63981483
639901:20:52,806 --> 01:20:54,224
6400I don't hold with equality in all things,
6401
64021484
640301:20:54,308 --> 01:20:56,434
6404only with equality before the law.
6405Nothing more.
6406
64071485
640801:20:58,229 --> 01:21:00,813
6409That's... That's not so.
6410
64111486
641201:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,859
6413You believe that Negroes are
6414entirely equal to white men.
6415
64161487
641701:21:04,944 --> 01:21:06,224
6418You've said it a thousand times!
6419
64201488
642101:21:06,278 --> 01:21:08,571
6422For shame! For shame!
6423
64241489
642501:21:08,656 --> 01:21:11,491
6426Stop prevaricating and
6427answer Representative Wood!
6428
64291490
643001:21:11,742 --> 01:21:13,785
6431I don't hold with equality in all things,
6432
64331491
643401:21:13,869 --> 01:21:14,911
6435only with equality before the law.
6436
64371492
643801:21:14,995 --> 01:21:17,914
6439After the decades of fervent advocacy...
6440
64411493
644201:21:18,290 --> 01:21:19,958
6443He's answered your questions!
6444
64451494
644601:21:20,084 --> 01:21:21,885
6447This amendment's
6448not to do with race equality.
6449
64501495
645101:21:21,919 --> 01:21:25,046
6452I don't hold with equality in all things,
6453
64541496
645501:21:25,130 --> 01:21:28,758
6456only with equality before
6457the law, and nothing more!
6458
64591497
646001:21:28,842 --> 01:21:31,052
6461Who'd ever have guessed
6462that old nightmare
6463
64641498
646501:21:31,136 --> 01:21:32,971
6466capable of such control?
6467
64681499
646901:21:33,097 --> 01:21:34,889
6470He might make a politician someday.
6471
64721500
647301:21:34,974 --> 01:21:36,224
6474I need to go.
6475
64761501
647701:21:36,308 --> 01:21:37,809
6478Mrs. Keckley.
6479
64801502
648101:21:40,604 --> 01:21:43,314
6482Your frantic attempt to delude us now
6483
64841503
648501:21:43,440 --> 01:21:44,983
6486is unworthy of a representative.
6487
64881504
648901:21:45,109 --> 01:21:47,151
6490It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
6491
64921505
649301:21:51,448 --> 01:21:53,908
6494How can I hold that
6495all men are created equal
6496
64971506
649801:21:53,993 --> 01:21:57,078
6499when here before me stands, stinking,
6500
65011507
650201:21:57,162 --> 01:22:00,748
6503the moral carcass of
6504the gentleman from Ohio, proof
6505
65061508
650701:22:00,833 --> 01:22:03,334
6508that some men are inferior,
6509
65101509
651101:22:03,460 --> 01:22:05,962
6512endowed by their Maker with dim wits,
6513
65141510
651501:22:06,046 --> 01:22:08,006
6516impermeable to reason,
6517
65181511
651901:22:08,132 --> 01:22:11,175
6520with cold, pallid slime in their veins
6521
65221512
652301:22:11,302 --> 01:22:13,636
6524instead of hot, red blood!
6525
65261513
652701:22:13,721 --> 01:22:17,473
6528You are more reptile than man, George!
6529
65301514
653101:22:17,558 --> 01:22:19,892
6532So low and flat that the foot of man
6533
65341515
653501:22:20,019 --> 01:22:21,352
6536is incapable of crushing you.
6537
65381516
653901:22:21,478 --> 01:22:23,229
6540How dare you?
6541
65421517
654301:22:23,355 --> 01:22:26,441
6544Yet even you, Pendleton,
6545
65461518
654701:22:27,693 --> 01:22:29,444
6548who should have been
6549gibbeted for treason
6550
65511519
655201:22:29,528 --> 01:22:30,570
6553long before today.
6554
65551520
655601:22:30,696 --> 01:22:33,156
6557Even worthless, unworthy you
6558
65591521
656001:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,242
6561ought to be treated equally
6562before the law!
6563
65641522
656501:22:38,037 --> 01:22:41,748
6566And so again, sir, again
6567and again and again I say,
6568
65691523
657001:22:41,874 --> 01:22:44,959
6571I do not hold with equality in all things,
6572
65731524
657401:22:45,044 --> 01:22:47,295
6575only with equality before the law.
6576
65771525
657801:22:51,216 --> 01:22:54,302
6579Mr. Speaker, will you permit
6580this vile, boorish man
6581
65821526
658301:22:54,386 --> 01:22:56,888
6584to slander and to threaten me?
6585
65861527
658701:22:57,097 --> 01:22:58,556
6588And to reduce these proceedings
6589
65901528
659101:22:58,682 --> 01:23:01,934
6592on this most important matter
6593into an anarchic
6594
65951529
659601:23:02,561 --> 01:23:04,854
6597and tawdry burlesque?
6598
65991530
660001:23:29,088 --> 01:23:32,548
6601You asked if ever I was surprised.
6602
66031531
660401:23:33,050 --> 01:23:35,718
6605Today, Mr. Stevens,
6606
66071532
660801:23:35,886 --> 01:23:36,886
6609I was surprised.
6610
66111533
661201:23:37,763 --> 01:23:41,391
6613You've led the battle for
6614race equality for 30 years.
6615
66161534
661701:23:46,730 --> 01:23:49,899
6618The basis of every hope for
6619this country's future life,
6620
66211535
662201:23:49,983 --> 01:23:53,027
6623you denied Negro equality.
6624I'm nauseated.
6625
66261536
662701:23:53,112 --> 01:23:55,697
6628You refused to say that all humans are...
6629
66301537
663101:23:55,781 --> 01:23:57,573
6632Well, human.
6633
66341538
663501:23:58,283 --> 01:24:00,702
6636Have you lost your very soul,
6637Mr. Stevens?
6638
66391539
664001:24:01,036 --> 01:24:02,286
6641Is there nothing you won't say?
6642
66431540
664401:24:02,371 --> 01:24:04,038
6645I'm sorry you're nauseous, Asa.
6646
66471541
664801:24:04,123 --> 01:24:05,790
6649That must be unpleasant.
6650
66511542
665201:24:06,959 --> 01:24:08,292
6653I want the amendment to pass,
6654
66551543
665601:24:08,377 --> 01:24:10,294
6657so that the Constitution's first
6658
66591544
666001:24:10,421 --> 01:24:11,796
6661and only mention of slavery
6662
66631545
666401:24:11,880 --> 01:24:14,048
6665is its absolute prohibition.
6666
66671546
666801:24:14,133 --> 01:24:16,467
6669For this amendment, for which
6670I have worked all my life
6671
66721547
667301:24:16,593 --> 01:24:19,220
6674and for which countless
6675colored men and women
6676
66771548
667801:24:19,304 --> 01:24:20,388
6679have fought and died
6680
66811549
668201:24:20,472 --> 01:24:23,474
6683and now hundreds
6684of thousands of soldiers...
6685
66861550
668701:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,143
6688No, sir, no.
6689
66901551
669101:24:26,145 --> 01:24:29,313
6692It seems there's very nearly
6693nothing I won't say.
6694
66951552
669601:25:00,304 --> 01:25:01,929
6697I'm not going in.
6698
66991553
670001:25:07,019 --> 01:25:09,312
6701You said you wanted to help me.
6702
67031554
670401:25:09,772 --> 01:25:13,524
6705But this is just a clumsy attempt
6706to discourage me.
6707
67081555
670901:25:13,650 --> 01:25:16,027
6710I've been to Army hospitals.
6711I've seen surgeries.
6712
67131556
671401:25:16,111 --> 01:25:19,030
6715I went and visited
6716the malaria barges with Mama.
6717
67181557
671901:25:19,156 --> 01:25:21,032
6720She told me she didn't take you inside.
6721
67221558
672301:25:21,116 --> 01:25:22,533
6724I snuck in afterwards.
6725
67261559
672701:25:22,659 --> 01:25:24,952
6728I've seen what it's like.
6729This changes nothing.
6730
67311560
673201:25:27,790 --> 01:25:29,165
6733Well, at all rate, son,
6734
67351561
673601:25:29,249 --> 01:25:31,083
6737I'm happy to have your company.
6738
67391562
674001:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,426
6741- Good morning, Jim.
6742- Hello, Mr. President.
6743
67441563
674501:25:40,511 --> 01:25:42,345
6746- Good to see you again.
6747- Good to see you.
6748
67491564
675001:25:43,514 --> 01:25:47,099
6751Well, boys, first question.
6752You getting enough to eat?
6753
67541565
675501:25:47,392 --> 01:25:48,434
6756Hello, sir.
6757
67581566
675901:25:48,519 --> 01:25:49,919
6760- What's your name, soldier?
6761- Robert.
6762
67631567
676401:25:49,978 --> 01:25:52,480
6765- Good to meet you, Robert.
6766- Nice to meet you.
6767
67681568
676901:25:52,564 --> 01:25:53,645
6770- What's your name?
6771- Kevin.
6772
67731569
677401:25:53,649 --> 01:25:54,690
6775Tell me your names as I go past.
6776
67771570
677801:25:54,775 --> 01:25:56,150
6779I'd like to know who I'm talking to. Kevin.
6780
67811571
678201:25:56,235 --> 01:25:59,111
6783- Mr. President. John.
6784- John. I've seen you before.
6785
67861572
678701:25:59,196 --> 01:26:00,279
6788Mr. President.
6789
67901573
679101:26:01,031 --> 01:26:02,240
6792Make sure you get some steak.
6793
67941574
679501:26:02,324 --> 01:26:03,844
6796I wouldn't mind one myself, right now.
6797
67981575
679901:27:19,276 --> 01:27:20,735
6800What's the matter, Bob?
6801
68021576
680301:27:27,075 --> 01:27:29,035
6804I have to do this, and I will do it.
6805
68061577
680701:27:29,119 --> 01:27:30,494
6808And I don't need
6809your permission to enlist.
6810
68111578
681201:27:30,579 --> 01:27:34,498
6813That same speech has been made
6814by how many sons
6815
68161579
681701:27:34,583 --> 01:27:37,126
6818to how many fathers
6819since the war began?
6820
68211580
682201:27:37,210 --> 01:27:38,419
6823"I don't need your damn permission,"
6824
68251581
682601:27:38,503 --> 01:27:41,047
6827"you miserable old goat,
6828I'm gonna enlist anyhow."
6829
68301582
683101:27:41,173 --> 01:27:42,173
6832And what wouldn't those
6833
68341583
683501:27:42,299 --> 01:27:43,591
6836numberless fathers have given
6837
68381584
683901:27:43,675 --> 01:27:45,509
6840to be able to say to their sons
6841
68421585
684301:27:45,636 --> 01:27:48,846
6844as I now say to mine,
6845"I'm Commander in Chief."
6846
68471586
684801:27:49,806 --> 01:27:51,223
6849So, in point of fact,
6850without my permission
6851
68521587
685301:27:51,350 --> 01:27:54,393
6854you ain't enlisting
6855in nothing nowhere, young man.
6856
68571588
685801:27:54,519 --> 01:27:56,979
6859It's Mama you're scared of,
6860it's not me getting killed.
6861
68621589
686301:28:04,863 --> 01:28:07,490
6864I have to do this! And I will!
6865
68661590
686701:28:08,367 --> 01:28:11,035
6868Or I will feel ashamed of myself
6869for the rest of my life!
6870
68711591
687201:28:11,161 --> 01:28:13,120
6873Whether or not you fought
6874is what's gonna matter,
6875
68761592
687701:28:13,205 --> 01:28:15,915
6878and not just to other people,
6879but to myself!
6880
68811593
688201:28:16,041 --> 01:28:17,541
6883I won't be you, Pa, I can't do that,
6884
68851594
688601:28:17,668 --> 01:28:19,877
6887but I don't want to be nothing!
6888
68891595
689001:28:23,256 --> 01:28:24,882
6891I can't lose you.
6892
68931596
689401:28:31,139 --> 01:28:32,974
6895He'll be fine, Molly.
6896
68971597
689801:28:33,058 --> 01:28:35,393
6899City Point's a way back
6900from the front lines
6901
69021598
690301:28:35,477 --> 01:28:36,477
6904and the fighting.
6905
69061599
690701:28:37,020 --> 01:28:40,398
6908He'll be an adjutant, running
6909messages for General Grant.
6910
69111600
691201:28:41,525 --> 01:28:43,651
6913The war will take our son.
6914
69151601
691601:28:43,735 --> 01:28:46,320
6917A sniper, or a shrapnel shell, a typhus
6918
69191602
692001:28:46,405 --> 01:28:47,405
6921same as took Willie.
6922
69231603
692401:28:47,531 --> 01:28:50,908
6925It takes hundreds of boys a day.
6926He'll die uselessly.
6927
69281604
692901:28:51,034 --> 01:28:53,411
6930And how will I ever forgive you?
6931
69321605
693301:28:54,413 --> 01:28:56,914
6934Most men, their firstborn
6935is their favorite.
6936
69371606
693801:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,667
6939You've always blamed Robert
6940for being born.
6941
69421607
694301:28:59,751 --> 01:29:01,085
6944For trapping you in a marriage
6945
69461608
694701:29:01,169 --> 01:29:02,753
6948that's only ever given you grief
6949
69501609
695101:29:02,879 --> 01:29:05,006
6952- and caused you regret.
6953- That's simply not true.
6954
69551610
695601:29:05,090 --> 01:29:06,757
6957And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor's
6958
69591611
696001:29:06,883 --> 01:29:09,176
6961on your hands same as Grant,
6962God help us.
6963
69641612
696501:29:09,553 --> 01:29:11,762
6966We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood
6967
69681613
696901:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,098
6970you've sanctioned,
6971the uncountable corpses!
6972
69731614
697401:29:14,182 --> 01:29:16,934
6975We'll be made to pay
6976with our son's dear blood!
6977
69781615
697901:29:17,060 --> 01:29:18,602
6980Just this once, Mrs. Lincoln,
6981
69821616
698301:29:18,687 --> 01:29:21,439
6984I demand of you to try
6985and take the liberal
6986
69871617
698801:29:21,565 --> 01:29:23,441
6989and not the selfish point of view.
6990
69911618
699201:29:23,567 --> 01:29:24,775
6993Robert will never forgive himself.
6994
69951619
699601:29:24,901 --> 01:29:26,444
6997You imagine he'll forgive us
6998
69991620
700001:29:26,528 --> 01:29:30,114
7001if we continue to stifle
7002this very natural ambition?
7003
70041621
700501:29:31,199 --> 01:29:33,409
7006And if I refuse to take the high road?
7007
70081622
700901:29:36,246 --> 01:29:39,582
7010If I won't pick up the rough old cross,
7011
70121623
701301:29:39,958 --> 01:29:42,793
7014will you threaten me again
7015with the madhouse?
7016
70171624
701801:29:42,878 --> 01:29:46,380
7019As you did when I couldn't
7020stop crying over Willie.
7021
70221625
702301:29:46,465 --> 01:29:48,883
7024When I showed you what heartbreak,
7025
70261626
702701:29:48,967 --> 01:29:51,635
7028real heartbreak, looked like.
7029
70301627
703101:29:51,720 --> 01:29:53,220
7032And you hadn't the courage
7033
70341628
703501:29:53,305 --> 01:29:55,389
7036- to countenance, to help me!
7037- That's right, that's right...
7038
70391629
704001:29:55,474 --> 01:29:57,725
7041When you refused so much
7042as to comfort Tad,
7043
70441630
704501:29:57,809 --> 01:29:59,977
7046a child who was not only sick,
7047dangerously sick,
7048
70491631
705001:30:00,062 --> 01:30:01,062
7051but beside himself with grief!
7052
70531632
705401:30:01,146 --> 01:30:03,314
7055I was holding him in my arms
7056when he died.
7057
70581633
705901:30:03,440 --> 01:30:05,900
7060But your grief, your grief,
7061your inexhaustible grief!
7062
70631634
706401:30:05,984 --> 01:30:07,860
7065How dare you throw that up at me?
7066
70671635
706801:30:07,944 --> 01:30:09,153
7069And his mother wouldn't let him near her
7070
70711636
707201:30:09,237 --> 01:30:10,488
7073because she's screaming
7074from morning to night!
7075
70761637
707701:30:10,572 --> 01:30:12,615
7078I couldn't risk him
7079seeing how angry I was!
7080
70811638
708201:30:12,699 --> 01:30:14,158
7083Pacing the halls, howling at shadows
7084
70851639
708601:30:14,242 --> 01:30:15,826
7087and furniture and ghosts!
7088
70891640
709001:30:16,995 --> 01:30:18,996
7091I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,
7092
70931641
709401:30:19,081 --> 01:30:20,831
7095for everybody's goddamn sake,
7096
70971642
709801:30:20,957 --> 01:30:22,597
7099I should have clapped you
7100in the madhouse!
7101
71021643
710301:30:22,667 --> 01:30:24,126
7104Then do it!
7105
71061644
710701:30:25,170 --> 01:30:27,004
7108Do it! Don't you threaten me!
7109
71101645
711101:30:27,130 --> 01:30:29,507
7112You do it this time. Lock me away.
7113
71141646
711501:30:29,591 --> 01:30:31,634
7116You'll have to, I swear,
7117
71181647
711901:30:32,010 --> 01:30:34,095
7120if Robert is killed.
7121
71221648
712301:30:52,823 --> 01:30:55,199
7124I couldn't tolerate you
7125grieving so for Willie
7126
71271649
712801:30:55,325 --> 01:30:57,952
7129because I couldn't permit it in myself.
7130
71311650
713201:30:58,537 --> 01:31:00,538
7133Though I wanted to, Mary.
7134
71351651
713601:31:01,498 --> 01:31:03,374
7137I wanted to crawl under the earth,
7138
71391652
714001:31:03,500 --> 01:31:05,709
7141into the vault, with his coffin.
7142
71431653
714401:31:07,129 --> 01:31:10,714
7145And I still do. Every day I do.
7146
71471654
714801:31:11,216 --> 01:31:13,801
7149Don't speak to me about grief.
7150
71511655
715201:31:23,061 --> 01:31:26,814
7153I must make my decisions,
7154Bob must make his, you yours.
7155
71561656
715701:31:26,898 --> 01:31:30,317
7158And bear what we must.
7159Hold and carry what we must.
7160
71611657
716201:31:30,402 --> 01:31:34,071
7163What I carry within me,
7164you must allow me to do it.
7165
71661658
716701:31:34,197 --> 01:31:37,074
7168Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary,
7169
71701659
717101:31:37,200 --> 01:31:40,744
7172you alone may lighten this burden.
7173
71741660
717501:31:42,539 --> 01:31:43,914
7176Or render it intolerable.
7177
71781661
717901:31:44,416 --> 01:31:45,916
7180As you choose.
7181
71821662
718301:32:07,731 --> 01:32:09,690
7184You think I'm ignorant
7185of what you're up to
7186
71871663
718801:32:09,774 --> 01:32:10,934
7189because you haven't discussed
7190
71911664
719201:32:10,942 --> 01:32:13,277
7193this scheme with me
7194as you ought to have done?
7195
71961665
719701:32:13,361 --> 01:32:16,197
7198When have I ever been
7199so easily bamboozled?
7200
72011666
720201:32:16,573 --> 01:32:17,865
7203I believe you when you insist
7204
72051667
720601:32:17,949 --> 01:32:19,450
7207that amending the Constitution
7208
72091668
721001:32:19,576 --> 01:32:21,535
7211and abolishing slavery will end this war.
7212
72131669
721401:32:21,620 --> 01:32:23,954
7215And since you are
7216sending my son into the war,
7217
72181670
721901:32:24,080 --> 01:32:27,124
7220woe unto you if you fail
7221to pass the amendment.
7222
72231671
722401:32:30,295 --> 01:32:33,297
7225Seward doesn't want me
7226leaving big muddy footprints
7227
72281672
722901:32:33,423 --> 01:32:34,924
7230all over town.
7231
72321673
723301:32:38,637 --> 01:32:40,721
7234No one has ever lived
7235who knows better than you
7236
72371674
723801:32:40,805 --> 01:32:42,890
7239the proper placement of footfalls
7240
72411675
724201:32:42,974 --> 01:32:44,892
7243on treacherous paths.
7244
72451676
724601:32:44,976 --> 01:32:47,728
7247Seward can't do it. You must.
7248
72491677
725001:32:48,480 --> 01:32:52,149
7251Because if you fail to acquire
7252the necessary votes,
7253
72541678
725501:32:52,234 --> 01:32:55,110
7256woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.
7257
72581679
725901:33:09,459 --> 01:33:10,793
7260Thank you.
7261
72621680
726301:33:16,967 --> 01:33:19,802
7264I know the vote is only four days away.
7265
72661681
726701:33:20,428 --> 01:33:22,096
7268I know you're concerned.
7269
72701682
727101:33:22,180 --> 01:33:24,265
7272Thank you for your concern over this.
7273
72741683
727501:33:25,183 --> 01:33:27,977
7276And I want you to know,
7277they'll approve it.
7278
72791684
728001:33:29,312 --> 01:33:31,021
7281God will see to it.
7282
72831685
728401:33:32,816 --> 01:33:34,858
7285I don't envy Him his task.
7286
72871686
728801:33:36,611 --> 01:33:39,029
7289He may wish He'd chosen
7290an instrument for His purpose
7291
72921687
729301:33:39,155 --> 01:33:42,157
7294more wieldy than
7295the House of Representatives.
7296
72971688
729801:33:43,368 --> 01:33:45,202
7299Then you'll see to it.
7300
73011689
730201:33:47,372 --> 01:33:50,791
7303Are you afraid of what
7304lies ahead for your people
7305
73061690
730701:33:50,875 --> 01:33:52,376
7308if we succeed?
7309
73101691
731101:33:53,878 --> 01:33:56,171
7312White people don't want us here.
7313
73141692
731501:33:56,548 --> 01:33:58,966
7316- Many don't.
7317- What about you?
7318
73191693
732001:34:04,389 --> 01:34:06,682
7321I don't know you, Mrs. Keckley.
7322
73231694
732401:34:07,684 --> 01:34:09,059
7325Any of you.
7326
73271695
732801:34:10,520 --> 01:34:13,522
7329You're familiar to me, as all people are,
7330
73311696
733201:34:14,816 --> 01:34:17,818
7333unaccommodated, poor, bare,
7334forked creatures,
7335
73361697
733701:34:17,902 --> 01:34:19,570
7338such as we all are.
7339
73401698
734101:34:20,864 --> 01:34:23,574
7342You have a right to expect what I expect.
7343
73441699
734501:34:24,075 --> 01:34:26,076
7346And likely our expectations
7347
73481700
734901:34:26,161 --> 01:34:28,662
7350are not incomprehensible to each other.
7351
73521701
735301:34:32,250 --> 01:34:34,501
7354I assume I'll get used to you.
7355
73561702
735701:34:35,670 --> 01:34:37,588
7358Now what you are to the nation,
7359
73601703
736101:34:38,757 --> 01:34:41,258
7362what'll become of you
7363once slavery's day is done,
7364
73651704
736601:34:41,593 --> 01:34:43,385
7367I don't know.
7368
73691705
737001:34:45,013 --> 01:34:47,598
7371What my people are to be, I can't say.
7372
73731706
737401:34:49,768 --> 01:34:52,853
7375Negroes have been fighting
7376and dying for freedom
7377
73781707
737901:34:53,438 --> 01:34:55,939
7380since the first of us was a slave.
7381
73821708
738301:34:56,024 --> 01:34:59,526
7384I never heard any ask
7385what freedom would bring.
7386
73871709
738801:35:01,654 --> 01:35:03,280
7389Freedom is first.
7390
73911710
739201:35:06,117 --> 01:35:07,534
7393As for me,
7394
73951711
739601:35:08,953 --> 01:35:11,622
7397my son died fighting for the Union,
7398
73991712
740001:35:12,832 --> 01:35:14,875
7401wearing the Union blue.
7402
74031713
740401:35:15,460 --> 01:35:17,211
7405For freedom he died.
7406
74071714
740801:35:19,297 --> 01:35:21,006
7409And I'm his mother.
7410
74111715
741201:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,136
7413That's what I am
7414to the nation, Mr. Lincoln.
7415
74161716
741701:35:30,475 --> 01:35:32,226
7418What else must I be?
7419
74201717
742101:35:41,653 --> 01:35:43,570
7422My whole hand's gonna be proud
7423in about five seconds.
7424
74251718
742601:35:43,655 --> 01:35:45,239
7427Let's see how proud you can be.
7428
74291719
743001:35:46,408 --> 01:35:48,992
7431Go away. That watch fob, is that gold?
7432
74331720
743401:35:49,077 --> 01:35:50,661
7435You keep your eyes off my fob.
7436
74371721
743801:35:50,745 --> 01:35:52,955
7439Gentlemen, you have a visitor.
7440
74411722
744201:35:53,039 --> 01:35:55,165
7443- Goddamn!
7444- Hey, Bill.
7445
74461723
744701:35:57,335 --> 01:35:58,961
7448Well, I'll be fucked.
7449
74501724
745101:35:59,045 --> 01:36:00,504
7452I wouldn't bet against it.
7453
74541725
745501:36:00,588 --> 01:36:01,755
7456Mr...?
7457
74581726
745901:36:02,507 --> 01:36:03,924
7460W. N. Bilbo.
7461
74621727
746301:36:04,008 --> 01:36:06,093
7464Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen.
7465
74661728
746701:36:06,177 --> 01:36:07,177
7468Sir.
7469
74701729
747101:36:07,554 --> 01:36:09,054
7472Why are you here? No offense,
7473
74741730
747501:36:09,180 --> 01:36:12,474
7476but Mr. Seward's banished
7477the very mention of your name.
7478
74791731
748001:36:12,559 --> 01:36:14,239
7481He won't even let us use fifty cent pieces
7482
74831732
748401:36:14,352 --> 01:36:16,186
7485'cause they've got your face on 'em.
7486
74871733
748801:36:16,938 --> 01:36:19,523
7489The Secretary of State here
7490tells me that you got
7491
74921734
749301:36:19,607 --> 01:36:22,067
749411 Democrats in the bag.
7495That's encouraging.
7496
74971735
749801:36:22,193 --> 01:36:25,904
7499Oh, you've got no cause
7500to be encouraged, sir.
7501
75021736
750301:36:27,115 --> 01:36:29,241
7504Are we being fired?
7505
75061737
750701:36:30,618 --> 01:36:34,538
7508"We have heard the chimes
7509at midnight, Master Shallow."
7510
75111738
751201:36:35,540 --> 01:36:36,999
7513I'm here to alert you boys
7514
75151739
751601:36:37,083 --> 01:36:40,210
7517that the great day of reckoning
7518is nigh upon us.
7519
75201740
752101:36:40,628 --> 01:36:42,546
7522The Democrats we've yet to bag, sir,
7523
75241741
752501:36:42,630 --> 01:36:45,382
7526the patronage jobs simply won't bag 'em.
7527
75281742
752901:36:45,467 --> 01:36:48,093
7530They require more convincing,
7531Mr. President.
7532
75331743
753401:36:49,721 --> 01:36:52,598
7535Do me a favor, will you?
7536
75371744
753801:36:52,724 --> 01:36:53,765
7539Sure.
7540
75411745
754201:36:53,892 --> 01:36:55,893
7543It snagged my eye
7544in the paper this morning
7545
75461746
754701:36:55,977 --> 01:36:57,394
7548that the Governor Curtin
7549
75501747
755101:36:57,479 --> 01:36:59,813
7552is set to declare a winner in the disputed
7553
75541748
755501:36:59,898 --> 01:37:00,898
7556Congressional election for the...
7557
75581749
755901:37:00,982 --> 01:37:02,149
7560Pennsylvania 16th District.
7561
75621750
756301:37:02,567 --> 01:37:05,319
7564District.
7565What a joy to be comprehended.
7566
75671751
756801:37:05,403 --> 01:37:07,988
7569Hop on a train to Philadel,
7570call on the Governor...
7571
75721752
757301:37:08,072 --> 01:37:09,448
7574Send Latham. Or Schell.
7575
75761753
757701:37:09,574 --> 01:37:11,533
7578No, he'll do fine.
7579Just polish yourself up first.
7580
75811754
758201:37:13,495 --> 01:37:15,579
7583The incumbent is claiming
7584he won it. Name of...
7585
75861755
758701:37:15,663 --> 01:37:16,705
7588Coffroth.
7589
75901756
759101:37:16,789 --> 01:37:17,956
7592- That's him.
7593- Coffroth.
7594
75951757
759601:37:18,082 --> 01:37:19,958
7597- He's a Democrat.
7598- I understand that.
7599
76001758
760101:37:20,627 --> 01:37:22,753
7602- Silly name.
7603- A little bit silly.
7604
76051759
760601:37:23,296 --> 01:37:26,215
7607Tell Governor Curtin
7608it'd be much appreciated
7609
76101760
761101:37:26,299 --> 01:37:28,926
7612if he'd invite
7613the House of Representatives
7614
76151761
761601:37:29,010 --> 01:37:30,052
7617to decide who won.
7618
76191762
762001:37:30,136 --> 01:37:32,763
7621He's entitled to do that.
7622He'll agree to it.
7623
76241763
762501:37:32,847 --> 01:37:35,140
7626Then advise Coffroth
7627
76281764
762901:37:35,266 --> 01:37:37,601
7630if he hopes to retain his seat,
7631
76321765
763301:37:37,685 --> 01:37:39,978
7634then he'd better pay a visit
7635to Thaddeus Stevens.
7636
76371766
763801:37:40,104 --> 01:37:41,688
7639Well, pity poor Coffroth.
7640
76411767
764201:37:43,983 --> 01:37:45,275
7643It opens!
7644
76451768
764601:37:52,283 --> 01:37:53,659
7647You are Canfrey?
7648
76491769
765001:37:55,662 --> 01:37:58,830
7651Coffroth, Mr. Stevens.
7652Alexander Coffroth.
7653
76541770
765501:37:58,957 --> 01:38:01,875
7656Are we representatives
7657of the same state?
7658
76591771
766001:38:01,960 --> 01:38:03,919
7661Yes, sir.
7662We sit only three desks apart.
7663
76641772
766501:38:04,003 --> 01:38:05,837
7666I haven't noticed you.
7667
76681773
766901:38:06,464 --> 01:38:09,466
7670I'm a Republican and you,
7671Coughdrop, are a Democrat?
7672
76731774
767401:38:09,551 --> 01:38:12,928
7675Well... I... that is to say...
7676
76771775
767801:38:13,012 --> 01:38:15,013
7679The modern travesty
7680of Thomas Jefferson's
7681
76821776
768301:38:15,139 --> 01:38:16,265
7684political organization
7685
76861777
768701:38:16,349 --> 01:38:18,100
7688to which you've attached
7689yourself like a barnacle
7690
76911778
769201:38:18,184 --> 01:38:21,478
7693has the effrontery to call
7694itself the Democratic Party.
7695
76961779
769701:38:21,563 --> 01:38:24,523
7698You are a Democrat.
7699What's the matter with you?
7700
77011780
770201:38:24,649 --> 01:38:26,233
7703Are you wicked?
7704
77051781
770601:38:26,317 --> 01:38:27,901
7707- Well, I felt...
7708- Never mind.
7709
77101782
771101:38:27,986 --> 01:38:30,237
7712Coffsnot, you were
7713ignominiously trounced
7714
77151783
771601:38:30,321 --> 01:38:31,863
7717at the hustings in November's election
7718
77191784
772001:38:31,990 --> 01:38:33,949
7721by your worthy challenger,
7722a Republican.
7723
77241785
772501:38:34,033 --> 01:38:35,909
7726No, sir, I was not trounced.
7727
77281786
772901:38:35,994 --> 01:38:37,995
7730He wants to steal my seat.
7731I didn't lose the election.
7732
77331787
773401:38:38,079 --> 01:38:39,538
7735What difference does it make
7736if you lost or not?
7737
77381788
773901:38:39,664 --> 01:38:43,834
7740The governor of our state
7741is... A Democrat?
7742
77431789
774401:38:45,003 --> 01:38:47,337
7745No, he's, he's a...
7746
77471790
774801:38:49,382 --> 01:38:52,676
7749Re-...
7750
77511791
775201:38:53,761 --> 01:38:56,013
7753- ...-pub-...-lic-...
7754- ...-pub-...-lic-...
7755
77561792
775701:38:56,097 --> 01:38:57,639
7758- ...-can.
7759- ...-can. Republican.
7760
77611793
776201:38:57,724 --> 01:38:59,933
7763I know what he is.
7764This is a rhetorical exercise.
7765
77661794
776701:39:00,018 --> 01:39:01,898
7768And Congress is controlled
7769by what party? Yours?
7770
77711795
777201:39:04,397 --> 01:39:06,189
7773Your party was beaten.
7774
77751796
777601:39:06,274 --> 01:39:08,817
7777Your challenger's party
7778now controls the House
7779
77801797
778101:39:08,901 --> 01:39:11,612
7782and hence the House
7783Committee on Elections,
7784
77851798
778601:39:11,696 --> 01:39:14,156
7787so you have been beaten.
7788
77891799
779001:39:14,240 --> 01:39:17,159
7791You shall shortly be sent home
7792in disgrace. Unless...
7793
77941800
779501:39:17,243 --> 01:39:18,324
7796I know what I must do, sir.
7797
77981801
779901:39:18,369 --> 01:39:20,621
7800I will immediately become
7801a Republican and vote yes...
7802
78031802
780401:39:20,705 --> 01:39:21,705
7805No!
7806
78071803
780801:39:22,457 --> 01:39:24,875
7809Coffroth will vote yes,
7810
78111804
781201:39:25,460 --> 01:39:26,918
7813but Coffroth will remain a Democrat
7814
78151805
781601:39:27,045 --> 01:39:28,003
7817until after he does so.
7818
78191806
782001:39:28,087 --> 01:39:29,671
7821Why wait to switch? I'm happy to...
7822
78231807
782401:39:29,756 --> 01:39:32,007
7825We want to show the amendment
7826has bipartisan support,
7827
78281808
782901:39:32,091 --> 01:39:34,051
7830you idiot. Early in the next Congress,
7831
78321809
783301:39:34,135 --> 01:39:36,386
7834when I tell you to do so,
7835you will switch parties.
7836
78371810
783801:39:36,471 --> 01:39:40,015
7839Now congratulations
7840on your victory, and get out.
7841
78421811
784301:39:40,099 --> 01:39:42,559
7844Now, give me the names
7845
78461812
784701:39:42,644 --> 01:39:44,603
7848of whoever else you've been hunting.
7849
78501813
785101:39:44,937 --> 01:39:46,229
7852Hell.
7853
78541814
785501:39:46,606 --> 01:39:47,648
7856George Yeaman.
7857
78581815
785901:39:47,732 --> 01:39:49,149
7860Yes. Yeaman.
7861
78621816
786301:39:49,901 --> 01:39:51,360
7864Among others.
7865
78661817
786701:39:51,444 --> 01:39:53,070
7868- But Yeaman, that'd count.
7869- Yeah.
7870
78711818
787201:39:53,154 --> 01:39:54,946
7873Y-E-A-M-A-N.
7874
78751819
787601:39:55,406 --> 01:39:56,740
7877I got it.
7878
78791820
788001:39:57,617 --> 01:39:58,700
7881Kentucky.
7882
78831821
788401:40:01,663 --> 01:40:04,706
7885I can't vote for
7886the amendment, Mr. Lincoln.
7887
78881822
788901:40:12,256 --> 01:40:14,424
7890I saw a barge once, Mr. Yeaman,
7891
78921823
789301:40:15,093 --> 01:40:17,427
7894filled with colored men in chains
7895
78961824
789701:40:17,553 --> 01:40:18,762
7898heading down the Mississippi
7899
79001825
790101:40:18,888 --> 01:40:20,764
7902to the New Orleans slave markets.
7903
79041826
790501:40:22,225 --> 01:40:23,433
7906It sickened me.
7907
79081827
790901:40:24,769 --> 01:40:27,229
7910And more than that,
7911it brought a shadow down.
7912
79131828
791401:40:28,773 --> 01:40:31,108
7915A pall around my eyes.
7916
79171829
791801:40:32,777 --> 01:40:35,445
7919Slavery troubled me
7920as long as I can remember
7921
79221830
792301:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,490
7924in a way it never troubled my father,
7925
79261831
792701:40:39,492 --> 01:40:41,785
7928though he hated it, in his own fashion.
7929
79301832
793101:40:43,246 --> 01:40:45,163
7932He knew no smallholding dirt farmer
7933
79341833
793501:40:45,289 --> 01:40:46,957
7936could compete with slave plantations
7937
79381834
793901:40:47,083 --> 01:40:49,334
7940so he took us out from Kentucky
7941
79421835
794301:40:49,460 --> 01:40:50,669
7944to get away from 'em.
7945
79461836
794701:40:50,795 --> 01:40:52,587
7948He wanted Indiana kept free.
7949
79501837
795101:40:54,132 --> 01:40:55,799
7952He wasn't a kind man
7953
79541838
795501:40:57,427 --> 01:41:00,846
7956but there was a rough,
7957moral urge for fairness,
7958
79591839
796001:41:00,972 --> 01:41:02,305
7961for freedom in him.
7962
79631840
796401:41:03,349 --> 01:41:05,308
7965I learnt that from him, I suppose.
7966
79671841
796801:41:06,185 --> 01:41:07,519
7969If little else from him.
7970
79711842
797201:41:10,148 --> 01:41:12,357
7973We didn't care
7974for one another, Mr. Yeaman.
7975
79761843
797701:41:15,987 --> 01:41:17,571
7978Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
7979
79801844
798101:41:17,655 --> 01:41:20,741
7982Loving kindness, that most
7983ordinary thing, came to me
7984
79851845
798601:41:20,825 --> 01:41:22,993
7987from other sources. I'm grateful for that.
7988
79891846
799001:41:23,119 --> 01:41:25,954
7991Well, I hate it, too, sir.
7992
79931847
799401:41:27,331 --> 01:41:28,665
7995Slavery, but...
7996
79971848
799801:41:29,709 --> 01:41:32,627
7999But we're entirely unready
8000for emancipation.
8001
80021849
800301:41:33,171 --> 01:41:34,296
8004And there's too many questions...
8005
80061850
800701:41:34,380 --> 01:41:35,941
8008We're unready for peace, too, ain't we?
8009
80101851
801101:41:36,966 --> 01:41:39,176
8012Yeah, when it comes,
8013it'll present us with conundrums
8014
80151852
801601:41:39,302 --> 01:41:42,596
8017and dangers greater than
8018any we faced during the war,
8019
80201853
802101:41:42,680 --> 01:41:44,431
8022bloody as it's been.
8023
80241854
802501:41:44,515 --> 01:41:48,393
8026We'll have to extemporize and
8027experiment with what it is,
8028
80291855
803001:41:48,519 --> 01:41:49,644
8031when it is.
8032
80331856
803401:41:53,024 --> 01:41:54,691
8035I read your speech, George.
8036
80371857
803801:41:55,651 --> 01:41:57,319
8039Negroes and the vote,
8040
80411858
804201:41:58,404 --> 01:41:59,529
8043that's a puzzle.
8044
80451859
804601:42:00,406 --> 01:42:04,034
8047No, no. But, but, but Negroes can't
8048
80491860
805001:42:04,869 --> 01:42:07,913
8051vote, Mr. Lincoln.
8052
80531861
805401:42:09,165 --> 01:42:10,832
8055You're not suggesting
8056we enfranchise colored people?
8057
80581862
805901:42:11,000 --> 01:42:12,626
8060I'm asking only that
8061
80621863
806301:42:12,710 --> 01:42:16,546
8064you disenthrall yourself
8065from the slave powers.
8066
80671864
806801:42:18,090 --> 01:42:19,174
8069I'll let you know when
8070
80711865
807201:42:19,258 --> 01:42:20,898
8073there's an offer on my desk
8074for surrender.
8075
80761866
807701:42:21,010 --> 01:42:22,177
8078There's none before us now.
8079
80801867
808101:42:22,261 --> 01:42:23,386
8082What's before us now,
8083
80841868
808501:42:23,513 --> 01:42:26,223
8086that's the vote on the 13th Amendment.
8087
80881869
808901:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,851
8090And it's going to be so very close.
8091
80921870
809301:42:33,064 --> 01:42:35,023
8094You see what you can do.
8095
80961871
809701:42:44,367 --> 01:42:45,867
8098I can't make sense of it.
8099
81001872
810101:42:46,410 --> 01:42:48,370
8102What he died for.
8103
81041873
810501:42:50,957 --> 01:42:53,250
8106Mr. Lincoln, I hate them all.
8107
81081874
810901:42:53,376 --> 01:42:55,460
8110I do. All black people.
8111
81121875
811301:43:04,971 --> 01:43:07,222
8114I am a prejudiced man.
8115
81161876
811701:43:09,934 --> 01:43:11,810
8118Well, I'd change that in you if I could,
8119
81201877
812101:43:12,061 --> 01:43:13,436
8122but that's not why I come.
8123
81241878
812501:43:14,272 --> 01:43:15,939
8126I might be wrong, Mr. Hutton,
8127
81281879
812901:43:16,065 --> 01:43:19,442
8130but I expect colored people
8131most likely be free.
8132
81331880
813401:43:20,319 --> 01:43:21,570
8135And when that's so, it's simple truth
8136
81371881
813801:43:21,654 --> 01:43:23,655
8139that your brother's bravery
8140
81411882
814201:43:23,781 --> 01:43:25,615
8143and his death helped make it so.
8144
81451883
814601:43:27,285 --> 01:43:28,493
8147Only you can decide whether
8148
81491884
815001:43:28,619 --> 01:43:30,019
8151that's sense enough for you or not.
8152
81531885
815401:43:33,791 --> 01:43:35,584
8155My deepest sympathies to your family.
8156
81571886
815801:43:48,306 --> 01:43:50,849
8159We've managed our members
8160to a fare-thee-well.
8161
81621887
816301:43:52,143 --> 01:43:53,310
8164You've had no defections
8165
81661888
816701:43:53,436 --> 01:43:55,353
8168from the Republican right to trouble you.
8169
81701889
817101:43:56,647 --> 01:43:58,356
8172Whereas as to what you promised,
8173
81741890
817501:43:59,442 --> 01:44:01,443
8176where the hell are the commissioners?
8177
81781891
817901:44:02,361 --> 01:44:04,821
8180Oh, my God. It's true.
8181
81821892
818301:44:06,490 --> 01:44:08,783
8184You... You lied to me.
8185
81861893
818701:44:09,118 --> 01:44:12,579
8188Mr. Lincoln, you evaded
8189my request for a denial
8190
81911894
819201:44:12,663 --> 01:44:14,664
8193that there is a Confederate peace offer,
8194
81951895
819601:44:14,790 --> 01:44:16,625
8197because there is one!
8198
81991896
820001:44:16,959 --> 01:44:20,962
8201We are absolutely guaranteed
8202to lose the whole thing.
8203
82041897
820501:44:21,047 --> 01:44:23,965
8206We don't need a goddamn
8207abolition amendment!
8208
82091898
821001:44:24,550 --> 01:44:26,343
8211Leave the Constitution alone!
8212
82131899
821401:44:26,677 --> 01:44:27,877
8215What if the peace commissioners
8216
82171900
821801:44:27,887 --> 01:44:29,346
8219appear today, or worse...
8220
82211901
822201:44:32,808 --> 01:44:35,018
8223I can't listen to this anymore.
8224
82251902
822601:44:37,188 --> 01:44:40,148
8227I can't accomplish a goddamn thing
8228
82291903
823001:44:40,232 --> 01:44:42,734
8231of any human meaning or worth
8232
82331904
823401:44:42,860 --> 01:44:46,613
8235until we cure ourselves of slavery
8236
82371905
823801:44:46,697 --> 01:44:49,407
8239and end this pestilential war!
8240
82411906
824201:44:50,701 --> 01:44:53,328
8243And whether any of you
8244or anyone else knows it,
8245
82461907
824701:44:53,412 --> 01:44:55,372
8248I know I need this!
8249
82501908
825101:44:56,165 --> 01:44:58,833
8252This amendment is that cure!
8253
82541909
825501:45:02,171 --> 01:45:04,881
8256We are stepped out upon
8257the world stage now!
8258
82591910
826001:45:05,007 --> 01:45:06,216
8261Now!
8262
82631911
826401:45:06,884 --> 01:45:09,844
8265With the fate of human dignity
8266in our hands!
8267
82681912
826901:45:11,681 --> 01:45:14,224
8270Blood's been spilt to
8271afford us this moment!
8272
82731913
827401:45:14,433 --> 01:45:16,726
8275Now! Now! Now!
8276
82771914
827801:45:17,561 --> 01:45:20,605
8279And you grousle and heckle
8280and dodge about like
8281
82821915
828301:45:20,731 --> 01:45:22,691
8284pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!
8285
82861916
828701:45:23,901 --> 01:45:25,568
8288See what is before you.
8289
82901917
829101:45:26,529 --> 01:45:29,280
8292See the here and now, that's the
8293
82941918
829501:45:29,407 --> 01:45:32,450
8296hardest thing,
8297the only thing that accounts.
8298
82991919
830001:45:34,412 --> 01:45:38,498
8301Abolishing slavery
8302by constitutional provision
8303
83041920
830501:45:38,582 --> 01:45:42,377
8306settles the fate for all coming time
8307
83081921
830901:45:43,629 --> 01:45:46,631
8310not only of the millions now in bondage
8311
83121922
831301:45:48,759 --> 01:45:51,720
8314but of unborn millions to come.
8315
83161923
831701:45:53,264 --> 01:45:57,475
8318Two votes stand in its way.
8319These votes must be procured.
8320
83211924
832201:46:01,897 --> 01:46:06,484
8323We need two yeses,
8324three abstentions, or
8325
83261925
832701:46:06,610 --> 01:46:07,736
8328four yeses
8329
83301926
833101:46:07,820 --> 01:46:11,531
8332and one more abstention,
8333and the amendment will pass.
8334
83351927
833601:46:11,615 --> 01:46:13,216
8337You got a night, and a day, and a night,
8338
83391928
834001:46:13,242 --> 01:46:14,576
8341and several perfectly good hours.
8342
83431929
834401:46:14,660 --> 01:46:16,661
8345Now get the hell out of here and get 'em.
8346
83471930
834801:46:17,496 --> 01:46:18,997
8349Yes. But how?
8350
83511931
835201:46:21,250 --> 01:46:22,584
8353Buzzards' guts, man.
8354
83551932
835601:46:25,129 --> 01:46:29,299
8357I am the President of the
8358United States of America
8359
83601933
836101:46:30,009 --> 01:46:32,469
8362clothed in immense power.
8363
83641934
836501:46:34,972 --> 01:46:37,307
8366You will procure me these votes.
8367
83681935
836901:47:46,585 --> 01:47:49,379
8370We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen,
8371
83721936
837301:47:51,382 --> 01:47:53,758
8374first in the history of
8375this people's chamber,
8376
83771937
837801:47:55,219 --> 01:47:56,594
8379to your House.
8380
83811938
838201:48:21,412 --> 01:48:22,912
8383Mr. Ashley, the floor is yours.
8384
83851939
838601:48:31,505 --> 01:48:33,464
8387On the matter of the
8388joint resolution before us,
8389
83901940
839101:48:33,591 --> 01:48:34,712
8392presenting a 13th Amendment
8393
83941941
839501:48:34,758 --> 01:48:37,010
8396to our National Constitution,
8397
83981942
839901:48:37,094 --> 01:48:39,387
8400which was passed last year
8401by the Senate
8402
84031943
840401:48:39,471 --> 01:48:40,889
8405and which has been debated now
8406
84071944
840801:48:40,973 --> 01:48:43,516
8409by this estimable body
8410for the past several weeks,
8411
84121945
841301:48:44,602 --> 01:48:45,810
8414today we will vote.
8415
84161946
841701:48:51,275 --> 01:48:53,193
8418By mutual agreement,
8419
84201947
842101:48:53,277 --> 01:48:55,528
8422we shall hear brief, final statements,
8423
84241948
842501:48:57,114 --> 01:48:58,573
8426beginning with
8427
84281949
842901:48:58,657 --> 01:49:00,909
8430the honorable
8431George Pendleton of Ohio.
8432
84331950
843401:49:07,291 --> 01:49:08,625
8435I have just received
8436
84371951
843801:49:10,544 --> 01:49:11,628
8439confirmation
8440
84411952
844201:49:12,338 --> 01:49:14,714
8443of what previously has
8444been merely rumored.
8445
84461953
844701:49:14,798 --> 01:49:17,383
8448Affidavits from loyal citizens
8449
84501954
845101:49:17,468 --> 01:49:19,010
8452recently returned from Richmond.
8453
84541955
845501:49:19,136 --> 01:49:21,679
8456They testify that
8457commissioners have indeed
8458
84591956
846001:49:21,972 --> 01:49:23,264
8461come north and ought to have arrived
8462
84631957
846401:49:23,349 --> 01:49:25,225
8465by now in Washington City
8466
84671958
846801:49:25,309 --> 01:49:28,311
8469bearing an offer of immediate cessation
8470
84711959
847201:49:28,687 --> 01:49:29,854
8473of our civil war.
8474
84751960
847601:49:32,191 --> 01:49:33,316
8477Is it true, sir?
8478
84791961
848001:49:33,651 --> 01:49:35,902
8481Are there Confederate
8482commissioners in the capital?
8483
84841962
848501:49:35,986 --> 01:49:37,779
8486I have no idea where they are
8487or if they've arrived.
8488
84891963
849001:49:37,863 --> 01:49:38,988
8491They'll arrive.
8492
84931964
849401:49:39,323 --> 01:49:41,241
8495I appeal to
8496my fellow Democrats,
8497
84981965
849901:49:41,325 --> 01:49:43,493
8500to all Republican representatives
8501
85021966
850301:49:43,577 --> 01:49:44,994
8504who give a fig for peace,
8505
85061967
850701:49:45,329 --> 01:49:47,330
8508postpone this vote!
8509
85101968
851101:49:47,539 --> 01:49:48,665
8512Until we have answers
8513
85141969
851501:49:48,749 --> 01:49:49,916
8516from the President himself!
8517
85181970
851901:49:50,209 --> 01:49:51,209
8520Postpone the vote!
8521
85221971
852301:49:51,669 --> 01:49:54,045
8524Postpone the vote!
8525
85261972
852701:49:54,129 --> 01:50:00,301
8528Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
8529
85301973
853101:50:00,386 --> 01:50:03,429
8532Postpone the vote!
8533
85341974
853501:50:03,514 --> 01:50:05,139
8536- Postpone the vote!
8537- Gentlemen!
8538
85391975
854001:50:05,224 --> 01:50:06,641
8541Postpone the vote!
8542
85431976
854401:50:07,101 --> 01:50:12,313
8545Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
8546
85471977
854801:50:14,233 --> 01:50:16,109
8549I have made a motion!
8550
85511978
855201:50:16,193 --> 01:50:18,736
8553Does anyone care to second my motion?
8554
85551979
855601:50:30,874 --> 01:50:32,041
8557Gentlemen.
8558
85591980
856001:50:33,252 --> 01:50:34,836
8561The conservative faction
8562
85631981
856401:50:34,920 --> 01:50:37,046
8565of border and western Republicans
8566
85671982
856801:50:37,131 --> 01:50:39,340
8569cannot approve this amendment,
8570
85711983
857201:50:39,425 --> 01:50:41,509
8573about which we harbor grave doubts,
8574
85751984
857601:50:42,261 --> 01:50:45,805
8577if a peace offer is being
8578held hostage to its success.
8579
85801985
858101:50:46,765 --> 01:50:48,683
8582Joining together with
8583our Democratic colleagues,
8584
85851986
858601:50:48,767 --> 01:50:49,892
8587I second the motion
8588
85891987
859001:50:49,977 --> 01:50:51,394
8591to postpone.
8592
85931988
859401:50:51,478 --> 01:50:53,398
8595He must deny peace
8596commissioners are in the city.
8597
85981989
859901:50:53,439 --> 01:50:54,731
8600Quick, man. Quick.
8601
86021990
860301:51:44,406 --> 01:51:47,325
8604This is precisely
8605what Mr. Wood wishes me
8606
86071991
860801:51:47,409 --> 01:51:48,659
8609to respond to?
8610
86111992
861201:51:49,995 --> 01:51:51,746
8613Word for word, this is precisely
8614
86151993
861601:51:51,830 --> 01:51:53,706
8617the assurance that he demands of me?
8618
86191994
862001:51:54,208 --> 01:51:55,500
8621Yes, sir.
8622
86231995
862401:52:15,270 --> 01:52:16,771
8625Give this to Mr. Ashley.
8626
86271996
862801:52:20,275 --> 01:52:23,986
8629I feel I have to say,
8630Mr. Lincoln, that...
8631
86321997
863301:52:25,114 --> 01:52:26,614
8634Could you please just step outside?
8635
86361998
863701:52:26,990 --> 01:52:28,111
8638You want to have a chat now,
8639
86401999
864101:52:28,158 --> 01:52:29,283
8642with the whole of the
8643House of Representatives
8644
86452000
864601:52:29,368 --> 01:52:30,493
8647waiting on this?
8648
86492001
865001:52:31,120 --> 01:52:33,496
8651Making false representation
8652to Congress, is...
8653
86542002
865501:52:34,164 --> 01:52:35,748
8656- It's...
8657- It's impeachable,
8658
86592003
866001:52:35,833 --> 01:52:38,501
8661but I've made no such
8662false representation.
8663
86642004
866501:52:38,919 --> 01:52:40,169
8666But there are.
8667
86682005
866901:52:40,879 --> 01:52:42,319
8670There is a delegation from Richmond.
8671
86722006
867301:52:42,965 --> 01:52:44,298
8674Give me the note, Johnnie.
8675
86762007
867701:52:48,095 --> 01:52:49,887
8678Please, deliver that to Mr. Ashley.
8679
86802008
868101:53:09,199 --> 01:53:10,366
8682From the President.
8683
86842009
868501:53:11,285 --> 01:53:12,525
8686"So far as I know, there are no"
8687
86882010
868901:53:12,536 --> 01:53:13,953
8690"peace commissioners in the city"
8691
86922011
869301:53:14,037 --> 01:53:15,371
8694"nor are there likely to be."
8695
86962012
869701:53:16,665 --> 01:53:18,332
8698"So far as I know"?
8699
87002013
870101:53:19,710 --> 01:53:20,793
8702That means nothing.
8703
87042014
870501:53:22,254 --> 01:53:25,256
8706Are there commissioners from
8707the South, or aren't there?
8708
87092015
871001:53:26,675 --> 01:53:28,134
8711The President
8712has answered you, sir.
8713
87142016
871501:53:28,218 --> 01:53:29,510
8716Your peace offer is a fiction.
8717
87182017
871901:53:29,803 --> 01:53:30,970
8720That is not a denial.
8721
87222018
872301:53:31,847 --> 01:53:33,389
8724It is a lawyer's dodge!
8725
87262019
872701:53:34,850 --> 01:53:36,934
8728Mr. Haddam, is your faction satisfied?
8729
87302020
873101:53:39,813 --> 01:53:42,315
8732The conservative Republican
8733faction is satisfied.
8734
87352021
873601:53:42,399 --> 01:53:43,900
8737And we thank Mr. Lincoln.
8738
87392022
874001:53:45,152 --> 01:53:47,153
8741I move to table Mr. Wood's motion.
8742
87432023
874401:53:47,613 --> 01:53:48,654
8745Tabled!
8746
87472024
874801:53:52,159 --> 01:53:54,785
8749Mr. Colfax, I order the main question.
8750
87512025
875201:53:55,537 --> 01:53:57,371
8753A motion has been made to bring the bill
8754
87552026
875601:53:57,456 --> 01:53:59,373
8757for the 13th Amendment to a vote.
8758
87592027
876001:53:59,458 --> 01:54:00,500
8761Do I hear a second?
8762
87632028
876401:54:00,667 --> 01:54:01,834
8765I second the motion.
8766
87672029
876801:54:02,044 --> 01:54:04,295
8769So moved, so ordered.
8770
87712030
877201:54:05,005 --> 01:54:06,130
8773The Clerk will now...
8774
87752031
877601:54:06,215 --> 01:54:07,381
8777Quiet, please!
8778
87792032
878001:54:09,009 --> 01:54:11,302
8781The Clerk will now
8782call the roll for the voting.
8783
87842033
878501:54:17,392 --> 01:54:18,559
8786We begin with Connecticut.
8787
87882034
878901:54:18,852 --> 01:54:20,561
8790Mr. Augustus Benjamin,
8791
87922035
879301:54:20,646 --> 01:54:23,022
8794on the matter of this amendment,
8795how say you?
8796
87972036
879801:54:23,482 --> 01:54:24,565
8799Nay!
8800
88012037
880201:54:26,193 --> 01:54:27,693
8803Mr. Arthur Bentleigh.
8804
88052038
880601:54:28,278 --> 01:54:30,029
8807Nay!
8808
88092039
881001:54:33,450 --> 01:54:35,785
8811Mr. John Ellis, how say you?
8812
88132040
881401:54:36,203 --> 01:54:37,245
8815Aye!
8816
88172041
881801:54:37,329 --> 01:54:38,329
8819What!
8820
88212042
882201:54:45,045 --> 01:54:48,005
8823Missouri next. Mr. Walter Appleton.
8824
88252043
882601:54:48,966 --> 01:54:50,258
8827I vote no.
8828
88292044
883001:54:51,927 --> 01:54:53,177
8831Mr. Josiah Burton.
8832
88332045
883401:54:54,721 --> 01:54:58,516
8835Beanpole Burton is pleased to vote yea!
8836
88372046
883801:55:00,644 --> 01:55:01,978
8839The State of New Jersey.
8840
88412047
884201:55:02,062 --> 01:55:04,230
8843- Mr. Nehemiah Cleary.
8844- No!
8845
88462048
884701:55:07,067 --> 01:55:08,484
8848Mr. James Martinson.
8849
88502049
885101:55:09,111 --> 01:55:11,153
8852Mr. Martinson has delegated me
8853
88542050
885501:55:11,572 --> 01:55:13,322
8856to say he is indisposed.
8857
88582051
885901:55:14,199 --> 01:55:15,533
8860And he abstains.
8861
88622052
886301:55:17,953 --> 01:55:19,161
8864Mr. Austin J. Roberts.
8865
88662053
886701:55:19,413 --> 01:55:21,706
8868Also indisposed, also abstaining.
8869
88702054
887101:55:27,004 --> 01:55:28,296
8872Illinois concluded.
8873
88742055
887501:55:30,507 --> 01:55:32,717
8876Mr. Harold Hollister. How say you?
8877
88782056
887901:55:33,427 --> 01:55:34,468
8880No.
8881
88822057
888301:55:35,429 --> 01:55:36,721
8884Mr. Hutton.
8885
88862058
888701:55:37,973 --> 01:55:40,141
8888Mr. William Hutton. Cast your vote.
8889
88902059
889101:55:42,561 --> 01:55:45,146
8892William Hutton,
8893remembering at this moment
8894
88952060
889601:55:45,230 --> 01:55:47,106
8897his beloved brother Frederick
8898
88992061
890001:55:47,190 --> 01:55:49,525
8901votes against the amendment.
8902
89032062
890401:56:01,872 --> 01:56:02,997
8905Webster Allen votes no.
8906
89072063
890801:56:06,293 --> 01:56:07,501
8909Webster Allen,
8910
89112064
891201:56:07,586 --> 01:56:10,087
8913Illinois, Democrat,
8914
89152065
891601:56:10,172 --> 01:56:12,173
8917votes no.
8918
89192066
892001:56:13,925 --> 01:56:17,720
8921Halberd Law, Indiana, Democrat,
8922
89232067
892401:56:17,804 --> 01:56:19,221
8925votes no.
8926
89272068
892801:56:21,433 --> 01:56:24,894
8929Archibald Moran, yes.
8930
89312069
893201:56:27,648 --> 01:56:30,232
8933Ambrose Baylor, yes.
8934
89352070
893601:56:32,110 --> 01:56:34,779
8937Mr. Walter H. Washburn.
8938
89392071
894001:56:35,614 --> 01:56:36,781
8941Votes no.
8942
89432072
894401:56:40,535 --> 01:56:43,412
8945And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you?
8946
89472073
894801:56:55,425 --> 01:56:56,967
8949My vote ties us.
8950
89512074
895201:57:01,098 --> 01:57:02,139
8953Sir, Mr. Yeaman,
8954
89552075
895601:57:02,224 --> 01:57:03,933
8957I didn't hear your vote.
8958
89592076
896001:57:04,726 --> 01:57:07,561
8961I said "Aye", Mr. McPherson!
8962
89632077
896401:57:08,397 --> 01:57:09,438
8965Aye!
8966
89672078
896801:57:09,564 --> 01:57:10,564
8969Traitor!
8970
89712079
897201:57:10,691 --> 01:57:11,691
8973Order!
8974
89752080
897601:57:25,288 --> 01:57:26,789
8977Order in my chamber!
8978
89792081
898001:57:33,547 --> 01:57:36,382
8981Mr. McPherson, you may proceed.
8982
89832082
898401:57:39,761 --> 01:57:42,179
8985Mr. Clay R. Hawkins of Ohio.
8986
89872083
898801:57:52,399 --> 01:57:54,024
8989Goddamn it, I'm voting yes.
8990
89912084
899201:57:55,152 --> 01:57:57,069
8993I don't care, you shoot me dead!
8994
89952085
899601:57:57,154 --> 01:57:59,572
8997You shoot me dead! I am voting yes!
8998
89992086
900001:58:01,074 --> 01:58:02,450
9001Mr. Edwin F. LeClerk.
9002
90032087
900401:58:03,034 --> 01:58:04,034
9005No!
9006
90072088
900801:58:06,872 --> 01:58:10,040
9009Oh, to hell with it.
9010Shoot me dead, too! Yes!
9011
90122089
901301:58:13,378 --> 01:58:14,378
9014I mean...
9015
90162090
901701:58:15,130 --> 01:58:17,590
9018Abstention. Abstention!
9019
90202091
902101:58:21,970 --> 01:58:23,429
9022Spineless! No gender.
9023
90242092
902501:58:29,895 --> 01:58:31,353
9026Mr. Alexander Coffroth.
9027
90282093
902901:58:36,610 --> 01:58:38,611
9030I vote
9031
90322094
903301:58:39,362 --> 01:58:40,404
9034yes.
9035
90362095
903701:58:45,327 --> 01:58:46,410
9038Yea.
9039
90402096
904101:58:47,996 --> 01:58:49,538
9042James Brooks...
9043
90442097
904501:58:50,540 --> 01:58:51,749
9046Nay.
9047
90482098
904901:58:52,959 --> 01:58:54,418
9050Josiah Grenelle...
9051
90522099
905301:58:55,712 --> 01:58:56,921
9054Yea.
9055
90562100
905701:58:58,048 --> 01:58:59,215
9058Meyer Strauss...
9059
90602101
906101:59:00,550 --> 01:59:01,634
9062Nay.
9063
90642102
906501:59:02,302 --> 01:59:04,345
9066- Mr. Joseph Marstern.
9067- Nay.
9068
90692103
907001:59:04,429 --> 01:59:06,806
9071- Mr. Chilton A. Elliot.
9072- No!
9073
90742104
907501:59:07,307 --> 01:59:09,308
9076- Mr. Daniel G. Stuart.
9077- I vote yes.
9078
90792105
908001:59:09,684 --> 01:59:10,684
9081- Mr. Howard Guilfoyle.
9082- Yea.
9083
90842106
908501:59:10,811 --> 01:59:12,186
9086- John F. McKenzie.
9087- Yea.
9088
90892107
909001:59:12,354 --> 01:59:13,562
9091- Andrew E. Fink.
9092- Nay.
9093
90942108
909501:59:13,647 --> 01:59:15,189
9096- Mr. John A. Castle.
9097- Yea.
9098
90992109
910001:59:15,273 --> 01:59:16,649
9101- Mr. Hanready.
9102- Nay.
9103
91042110
910501:59:16,817 --> 01:59:18,234
9106- And Mr. Rufus Warren?
9107- Yea.
9108
91092111
911001:59:39,172 --> 01:59:40,923
9111The roll call concludes.
9112
91132112
911401:59:41,424 --> 01:59:43,592
9115The voting is completed. Now...
9116
91172113
911801:59:43,677 --> 01:59:46,428
9119Mr. Clerk, please call my name.
9120
91212114
912201:59:47,556 --> 01:59:48,764
9123I want to cast a vote.
9124
91252115
912601:59:48,849 --> 01:59:50,099
9127I object.
9128
91292116
913001:59:50,976 --> 01:59:52,351
9131The Speaker doesn't vote.
9132
91332117
913401:59:52,644 --> 01:59:54,812
9135The Speaker may vote if he so chooses.
9136
91372118
913801:59:55,230 --> 01:59:57,147
9139It is highly unusual, sir.
9140
91412119
914201:59:57,357 --> 01:59:58,983
9143This isn't usual, Mr. Pendleton.
9144
91452120
914601:59:59,067 --> 02:00:00,276
9147This is history.
9148
91492121
915002:00:02,737 --> 02:00:05,155
9151How does Mr. Schuyler Colfax vote?
9152
91532122
915402:00:09,995 --> 02:00:11,453
9155Aye, of course.
9156
91572123
915802:00:34,728 --> 02:00:35,978
9159The final vote.
9160
91612124
916202:00:37,814 --> 02:00:39,857
9163Eight absent or not voting.
9164
91652125
916602:00:41,776 --> 02:00:43,569
9167Fifty-six votes against.
9168
91692126
917002:00:44,821 --> 02:00:47,072
9171One hundred and nineteen votes for.
9172
91732127
917402:00:48,116 --> 02:00:49,825
9175With a margin of two votes...
9176
91772128
917802:01:38,625 --> 02:01:40,501
9179We chose great leadership.
9180
91812129
918202:01:54,599 --> 02:01:56,433
9183We'll rally round the flag, boys
9184
91852130
918602:01:56,518 --> 02:01:58,268
9187We'll rally once again
9188
91892131
919002:01:58,353 --> 02:02:00,354
9191Shouting the battle cry of freedom
9192
91932132
919402:02:01,773 --> 02:02:04,233
9195We will rally from the hillside
9196
91972133
919802:02:04,317 --> 02:02:06,235
9199We'll gather from the plain
9200
92012134
920202:02:06,319 --> 02:02:09,905
9203Shouting the battle cry of freedom
9204
92052135
920602:02:10,281 --> 02:02:14,535
9207The Union forever!
9208Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
9209
92102136
921102:02:14,619 --> 02:02:16,453
9212Down with the traitor
9213
92142137
921502:02:16,538 --> 02:02:18,247
9216And up with the star
9217
92182138
921902:02:18,456 --> 02:02:22,376
9220Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
9221
92222139
922302:02:22,669 --> 02:02:24,294
9224Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
9225
92262140
922702:02:24,379 --> 02:02:26,463
9228The bill, Mr. McPherson. May I?
9229
92302141
923102:02:28,925 --> 02:02:32,428
9232The Union forever!
9233Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
9234
92352142
923602:02:32,762 --> 02:02:35,305
9237That's, that's the official bill.
9238
92392143
924002:02:35,390 --> 02:02:37,433
9241I'll return it in the morning.
9242
92432144
924402:02:38,018 --> 02:02:39,393
9245Creased,
9246
92472145
924802:02:40,270 --> 02:02:41,270
9249but unharmed.
9250
92512146
925202:02:41,354 --> 02:02:45,024
9253Shouting the battle cry of freedom
9254
92552147
925602:02:45,108 --> 02:02:49,403
9257We are springing to the call
9258Of the loyal, true and brave
9259
92602148
926102:02:49,571 --> 02:02:50,932
9262Shouting the battle cry of freedom
9263
92642149
926502:02:53,158 --> 02:02:55,325
9266And we'll fill our vacant ranks
9267
92682150
926902:02:55,410 --> 02:02:57,327
9270With a million freemen more
9271
92722151
927302:02:58,204 --> 02:03:00,956
9274Shouting the battle cry of freedom
9275
92762152
927702:03:02,125 --> 02:03:03,667
9278The Union forever!
9279
92802153
928102:03:04,502 --> 02:03:06,003
9282Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
9283
92842154
928502:03:06,588 --> 02:03:10,007
9286Down with the traitor
9287And up with the star
9288
92892155
929002:03:31,946 --> 02:03:34,073
9291A gift for you.
9292
92932156
929402:03:38,411 --> 02:03:40,496
9295The greatest measure
9296of the 19th century,
9297
92982157
929902:03:40,580 --> 02:03:41,663
9300passed by corruption,
9301
93022158
930302:03:41,748 --> 02:03:45,000
9304aided and abetted by
9305the purest man in America.
9306
93072159
930802:04:03,645 --> 02:04:05,562
9309I wish you had been present.
9310
93112160
931202:04:06,356 --> 02:04:08,440
9313- I wish I'd been.
9314- It was a spectacle.
9315
93162161
931702:04:09,317 --> 02:04:11,777
9318You can't bring your
9319housekeeper to the House.
9320
93212162
932202:04:11,861 --> 02:04:13,862
9323I won't give them gossip.
9324
93252163
932602:04:13,947 --> 02:04:15,489
9327This is enough.
9328
93292164
933002:04:15,865 --> 02:04:16,990
9331This is...
9332
93332165
933402:04:18,660 --> 02:04:20,452
9335It's more than enough for now.
9336
93372166
933802:04:22,038 --> 02:04:23,747
9339Read it to me again, my love.
9340
93412167
934202:04:25,750 --> 02:04:27,626
9343- "Proposed..."
9344- And adopted.
9345
93462168
934702:04:27,710 --> 02:04:29,086
9348"Adopted,"
9349
93502169
935102:04:29,754 --> 02:04:30,879
9352"an amendment to"
9353
93542170
935502:04:30,964 --> 02:04:33,924
9356"the Constitution of the United States."
9357
93582171
935902:04:34,008 --> 02:04:35,425
9360"Section One."
9361
93622172
936302:04:35,844 --> 02:04:39,638
9364"Neither slavery nor
9365involuntary servitude"
9366
93672173
936802:04:39,722 --> 02:04:42,516
9369"except as a punishment for crime"
9370
93712174
937202:04:42,600 --> 02:04:46,061
9373"whereof the party shall
9374have been duly convicted"
9375
93762175
937702:04:46,604 --> 02:04:49,439
9378"shall exist within the United States"
9379
93802176
938102:04:49,941 --> 02:04:53,402
9382"or any place subject
9383to their jurisdiction."
9384
93852177
938602:04:53,486 --> 02:04:54,903
9387Section Two.
9388
93892178
939002:04:55,405 --> 02:04:59,575
9391"Congress shall have power
9392to enforce this amendment"
9393
93942179
939502:04:59,659 --> 02:05:01,660
9396"by appropriate legislation."
9397
93982180
939902:05:23,850 --> 02:05:25,058
9400Let me be blunt.
9401
94022181
940302:05:25,768 --> 02:05:27,436
9404Will the Southern states
9405
94062182
940702:05:27,520 --> 02:05:30,063
9408resume their former position
9409in the Union
9410
94112183
941202:05:30,148 --> 02:05:31,648
9413speedily enough to enable us
9414
94152184
941602:05:31,733 --> 02:05:34,318
9417to block ratification to this here
9418
94192185
942002:05:34,402 --> 02:05:35,569
942113th Amendment?
9422
94232186
942402:05:40,200 --> 02:05:41,742
9425I'd like peace immediately.
9426
94272187
942802:05:42,702 --> 02:05:44,119
9429Yes, and?
9430
94312188
943202:05:46,998 --> 02:05:49,583
9433I'd like your states restored to
9434
94352189
943602:05:49,667 --> 02:05:53,253
9437their practical relations
9438with the Union immediately.
9439
94402190
944102:05:56,007 --> 02:05:58,091
9442If this could be given to me in writing,
9443
94442191
944502:05:58,635 --> 02:06:00,552
9446as Vice President of the Confederacy,
9447
94482192
944902:06:00,637 --> 02:06:01,970
9450I'd bring that document
9451
94522193
945302:06:02,055 --> 02:06:03,889
9454with celerity, to Jefferson Davis.
9455
94562194
945702:06:06,559 --> 02:06:07,684
9458Surrender.
9459
94602195
946102:06:08,186 --> 02:06:10,520
9462And we can discuss reconstruction.
9463
94642196
946502:06:12,357 --> 02:06:13,941
9466Surrender won't be thought of.
9467
94682197
946902:06:14,734 --> 02:06:17,903
9470Unless you've assured us, in writing,
9471
94722198
947302:06:17,987 --> 02:06:20,697
9474that we'll be readmitted
9475in time to block this amendment.
9476
94772199
947802:06:21,282 --> 02:06:24,826
9479This is the arrogant demand
9480of a conqueror.
9481
94822200
948302:06:25,036 --> 02:06:27,913
9484You'll not be
9485a conquered people, Mr. Hunter.
9486
94872201
948802:06:27,997 --> 02:06:29,456
9489You will be citizens.
9490
94912202
949202:06:30,625 --> 02:06:32,209
9493Returned to the laws and
9494the guarantees of rights
9495
94962203
949702:06:32,293 --> 02:06:33,293
9498of the Constitution.
9499
95002204
950102:06:34,212 --> 02:06:36,880
9502Which now extinguishes slavery.
9503
95042205
950502:06:36,965 --> 02:06:39,716
9506And with it, our economy.
9507
95082206
950902:06:40,051 --> 02:06:41,412
9510All our laws will be determined by
9511
95122207
951302:06:41,469 --> 02:06:43,095
9514a Congress of vengeful Yankees.
9515
95162208
951702:06:43,888 --> 02:06:46,431
9518All our rights will be subject
9519to a Supreme Court
9520
95212209
952202:06:47,141 --> 02:06:49,142
9523benched by bloody Republican radicals.
9524
95252210
952602:06:49,811 --> 02:06:52,729
9527All our traditions will be obliterated.
9528
95292211
953002:06:53,690 --> 02:06:55,440
9531We won't know ourselves anymore.
9532
95332212
953402:06:57,485 --> 02:06:59,903
9535We ain't here to discuss reconstruction.
9536
95372213
953802:06:59,988 --> 02:07:02,364
9539We have no legal basis
9540for that discussion.
9541
95422214
954302:07:02,448 --> 02:07:04,074
9544But I don't want to deal falsely.
9545
95462215
954702:07:04,158 --> 02:07:06,702
9548The Northern states
9549will ratify, most of them.
9550
95512216
955202:07:06,786 --> 02:07:08,578
9553As I figure it, it remains for
9554two of the Southern states
9555
95562217
955702:07:08,663 --> 02:07:09,705
9558to do the same,
9559
95602218
956102:07:09,789 --> 02:07:11,456
9562even after all are readmitted.
9563
95642219
956502:07:11,541 --> 02:07:13,125
9566And I've been working on that.
9567
95682220
956902:07:14,085 --> 02:07:15,210
9570Tennessee and Louisiana.
9571
95722221
957302:07:15,628 --> 02:07:17,838
9574Arkansas, too, most likely.
9575It'll be ratified.
9576
95772222
957802:07:18,548 --> 02:07:21,300
9579Slavery, sir... It's done.
9580
95812223
958202:07:34,772 --> 02:07:37,524
9583If we submit ourselves to law, Alex,
9584
95852224
958602:07:38,276 --> 02:07:40,277
9587even submit to losing freedoms,
9588
95892225
959002:07:41,696 --> 02:07:43,864
9591the freedom to oppress, for instance
9592
95932226
959402:07:44,991 --> 02:07:46,783
9595we may discover other freedoms
9596
95972227
959802:07:46,909 --> 02:07:48,410
9599previously unknown to us.
9600
96012228
960202:07:49,495 --> 02:07:53,040
9603Had you kept faith
9604with the democratic process,
9605
96062229
960702:07:53,124 --> 02:07:54,583
9608as frustrating as that can be...
9609
96102230
961102:07:54,667 --> 02:07:55,917
9612Come, sir.
9613
96142231
961502:07:56,044 --> 02:07:58,545
9616Spare us, at least, these pieties.
9617
96182232
961902:07:59,505 --> 02:08:01,089
9620Did you defeat us with ballots?
9621
96222233
962302:08:02,550 --> 02:08:04,384
9624How have you held your Union together?
9625
96262234
962702:08:05,386 --> 02:08:06,595
9628Through democracy?
9629
96302235
963102:08:07,847 --> 02:08:09,598
9632How many hundreds
9633of thousands have died
9634
96352236
963602:08:09,682 --> 02:08:11,099
9637during your administration?
9638
96392237
964002:08:12,518 --> 02:08:15,145
9641Your Union, sir, is bonded
9642in cannon fire and death.
9643
96442238
964502:08:18,941 --> 02:08:20,359
9646It may be you're right.
9647
96482239
964902:08:24,781 --> 02:08:27,616
9650But say all we done is show the world
9651
96522240
965302:08:27,700 --> 02:08:29,868
9654that democracy isn't chaos.
9655
96562241
965702:08:32,538 --> 02:08:35,999
9658That there is a great, invisible strength
9659
96602242
966102:08:36,084 --> 02:08:37,459
9662in a people's union.
9663
96642243
966502:08:38,378 --> 02:08:42,255
9666Say we've shown that a people
9667can endure awful sacrifice
9668
96692244
967002:08:42,340 --> 02:08:44,007
9671and yet cohere.
9672
96732245
967402:08:44,634 --> 02:08:45,801
9675Mightn't that save at least
9676
96772246
967802:08:45,885 --> 02:08:48,136
9679the idea of democracy to aspire to?
9680
96812247
968202:08:49,597 --> 02:08:51,890
9683Eventually to become worthy of?
9684
96852248
968602:08:56,062 --> 02:08:57,979
9687At all rates, whatever may be proven
9688
96892249
969002:08:58,064 --> 02:09:00,273
9691by blood and sacrifice
9692
96932250
969402:09:00,358 --> 02:09:01,900
9695must have been proved by now.
9696
96972251
969802:09:12,286 --> 02:09:14,413
9699Shall we stop this bleeding?
9700
97012252
970202:10:53,054 --> 02:10:54,054
9703Once he surrenders,
9704
97052253
970602:10:54,138 --> 02:10:55,931
9707send his boys back to their homes
9708
97092254
971002:10:56,766 --> 02:10:58,391
9711and their farms, their shops.
9712
97132255
971402:11:00,311 --> 02:11:01,436
9715Yes, sir.
9716
97172256
971802:11:02,772 --> 02:11:03,772
9719As we discussed.
9720
97212257
972202:11:03,856 --> 02:11:06,066
9723Liberality all around, not punishment.
9724
97252258
972602:11:06,150 --> 02:11:07,234
9727I don't want that.
9728
97292259
973002:11:08,110 --> 02:11:10,987
9731And their leaders,
9732Jeff and the rest of them,
9733
97342260
973502:11:11,072 --> 02:11:12,364
9736they escape, leave the country
9737
97382261
973902:11:12,448 --> 02:11:14,950
9740while my back's turned,
9741that wouldn't upset me none.
9742
97432262
974402:11:16,285 --> 02:11:18,995
9745When peace comes,
9746it mustn't just be hangings.
9747
97482263
974902:11:25,461 --> 02:11:27,003
9750By outward appearance
9751
97522264
975302:11:28,756 --> 02:11:31,550
9754you're 10 years older
9755than you were a year ago.
9756
97572265
975802:11:34,887 --> 02:11:37,138
9759Some weariness has bit at my bones.
9760
97612266
976202:11:50,611 --> 02:11:52,904
9763I never seen the like of it before,
9764
97652267
976602:11:52,989 --> 02:11:54,489
9767what I seen today.
9768
97692268
977002:11:56,075 --> 02:11:57,909
9771Never seen the like of it before.
9772
97732269
977402:12:00,621 --> 02:12:02,163
9775You always knew that.
9776
97772270
977802:12:03,583 --> 02:12:05,125
9779What this was going to be.
9780
97812271
978202:12:06,961 --> 02:12:09,045
9783Intimate and ugly.
9784
97852272
978602:12:12,216 --> 02:12:13,717
9787You must have needed to see it close
9788
97892273
979002:12:13,801 --> 02:12:15,201
9791when you decided to come down here.
9792
97932274
979402:12:34,447 --> 02:12:38,116
9795We've made it possible for
9796one another to do terrible things.
9797
97982275
979902:12:40,494 --> 02:12:42,078
9800We've won the war.
9801
98022276
980302:12:43,080 --> 02:12:46,416
9804Now you have to lead us out of it.
9805
98062277
980702:14:18,467 --> 02:14:20,093
9808You have an itch to travel?
9809
98102278
981102:14:20,428 --> 02:14:22,262
9812I'd like that.
9813
98142279
981502:14:23,764 --> 02:14:26,015
9816To the West, by rail.
9817
98182280
981902:14:26,100 --> 02:14:27,475
9820Overseas.
9821
98222281
982302:14:29,645 --> 02:14:30,812
9824The Holy Land.
9825
98262282
982702:14:33,816 --> 02:14:35,442
9828Awfully pious for a man
9829
98302283
983102:14:35,526 --> 02:14:38,069
9832who takes his wife out
9833buggy-riding on Good Friday.
9834
98352284
983602:14:38,821 --> 02:14:39,988
9837Jerusalem.
9838
98392285
984002:14:40,573 --> 02:14:42,407
9841Where David and Solomon walked.
9842
98432286
984402:14:42,742 --> 02:14:46,202
9845I dream of walking in that ancient city.
9846
98472287
984802:14:52,501 --> 02:14:54,210
9849All anyone will remember of me
9850
98512288
985202:14:54,295 --> 02:14:56,963
9853is I was crazy and
9854I ruined your happiness.
9855
98562289
985702:14:57,715 --> 02:15:00,258
9858Anyone thinks that
9859doesn't understand, Molly.
9860
98612290
986202:15:04,138 --> 02:15:05,638
9863When they look at you,
9864
98652291
986602:15:07,141 --> 02:15:09,893
9867at what it cost to live
9868at the heart of this,
9869
98702292
987102:15:11,395 --> 02:15:13,646
9872they'll wonder at it.
9873They'll wonder at you.
9874
98752293
987602:15:13,731 --> 02:15:14,898
9877They should.
9878
98792294
988002:15:16,233 --> 02:15:17,442
9881But they should also look at
9882
98832295
988402:15:17,526 --> 02:15:19,068
9885the wretched woman by your side
9886
98872296
988802:15:19,153 --> 02:15:21,988
9889if they want to understand
9890what this was truly like.
9891
98922297
989302:15:23,115 --> 02:15:24,616
9894For the ordinary person.
9895
98962298
989702:15:25,659 --> 02:15:27,243
9898For anyone other than you.
9899
99002299
990102:15:27,411 --> 02:15:29,162
9902You must try to be happier.
9903
99042300
990502:15:30,122 --> 02:15:31,664
9906We must, both of us.
9907
99082301
990902:15:32,208 --> 02:15:34,417
9910We've been so miserable for so long.
9911
99122302
991302:15:44,094 --> 02:15:46,888
9914I did say some colored men...
9915
99162303
991702:15:46,972 --> 02:15:49,432
9918The intelligent, the educated, and the
9919
99202304
992102:15:49,517 --> 02:15:51,476
9922veterans. I qualified it.
9923
99242305
992502:15:51,560 --> 02:15:53,061
9926Mr. Stevens is furious.
9927
99282306
992902:15:53,145 --> 02:15:54,854
9930He wants to know why you qualified it.
9931
99322307
993302:15:54,939 --> 02:15:57,190
9934No one heard
9935the intelligent or educated part.
9936
99372308
993802:15:57,274 --> 02:15:59,317
9939All they heard was the first time
9940
99412309
994202:15:59,401 --> 02:16:02,111
9943any president has ever made mention
9944
99452310
994602:16:02,196 --> 02:16:03,530
9947of Negro voting.
9948
99492311
995002:16:03,906 --> 02:16:07,700
9951Still, I wish I'd mentioned it
9952in a better speech.
9953
99542312
995502:16:07,785 --> 02:16:09,536
9956Mr. Stevens also wants to know
9957
99582313
995902:16:09,620 --> 02:16:11,454
9960why you didn't make a better speech.
9961
99622314
996302:16:14,166 --> 02:16:15,458
9964Mrs. Lincoln is
9965waiting in the carriage.
9966
99672315
996802:16:15,584 --> 02:16:18,044
9969She wants me to remind you
9970of the hour, and that
9971
99722316
997302:16:18,128 --> 02:16:20,922
9974you'll have to pick up
9975Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.
9976
99772317
997802:16:24,426 --> 02:16:26,261
9979- Am I in trouble?
9980- No, sir.
9981
99822318
998302:16:26,762 --> 02:16:28,137
9984Thank you, Mr. Slade.
9985
99862319
998702:16:43,696 --> 02:16:45,154
9988I suppose it's time to go.
9989
99902320
999102:16:46,782 --> 02:16:48,408
9992Though I would rather stay.
9993
99942321
999502:18:18,207 --> 02:18:20,583
9996The President has been shot!
9997
99982322
999902:18:23,545 --> 02:18:24,796
10000The President
10001
100022323
1000302:18:24,880 --> 02:18:27,632
10004has been shot! At Ford's Theater!
10005
100062324
1000702:18:33,305 --> 02:18:35,515
10008No. No!
10009
100102325
1001102:19:09,508 --> 02:19:12,844
10012It's 7:22 in the morning.
10013
100142326
1001502:19:13,887 --> 02:19:15,596
10016Saturday, the 15th of April.
10017
100182327
1001902:19:15,681 --> 02:19:16,973
10020It's all over.
10021
100222328
1002302:19:17,057 --> 02:19:18,474
10024The President is no more.
10025
100262329
1002702:19:22,229 --> 02:19:24,188
10028Now he belongs to the ages.
10029
100302330
1003102:19:30,529 --> 02:19:32,280
10032Fondly do we hope,
10033
100342331
1003502:19:33,949 --> 02:19:35,992
10036fervently do we pray,
10037
100382332
1003902:19:37,536 --> 02:19:40,496
10040that this mighty scourge of war,
10041
100422333
1004302:19:40,581 --> 02:19:42,540
10044may speedily pass away.
10045
100462334
1004702:19:45,627 --> 02:19:48,171
10048Yet if God wills that it continue
10049
100502335
1005102:19:48,797 --> 02:19:51,132
10052until all the wealth piled
10053
100542336
1005502:19:51,216 --> 02:19:54,343
10056by the bondman's 250 years
10057
100582337
1005902:19:54,428 --> 02:19:57,472
10060of unrequited toil shall be sunk
10061
100622338
1006302:19:58,807 --> 02:20:02,894
10064and until every drop of blood
10065drawn with the lash
10066
100672339
1006802:20:02,978 --> 02:20:06,647
10069shall be paid by another
10070drawn with the sword
10071
100722340
1007302:20:07,941 --> 02:20:10,318
10074as was said 3,000 years ago,
10075
100762341
1007702:20:10,402 --> 02:20:12,612
10078so still it must be said,
10079
100802342
1008102:20:13,489 --> 02:20:15,323
10082"The judgments of the Lord"
10083
100842343
1008502:20:16,241 --> 02:20:20,620
10086"are true and righteous altogether."
10087
100882344
1008902:20:26,335 --> 02:20:28,044
10090With malice toward none,
10091
100922345
1009302:20:30,255 --> 02:20:32,298
10094with charity for all,
10095
100962346
1009702:20:33,967 --> 02:20:35,676
10098with firmness in the right,
10099
101002347
1010102:20:35,761 --> 02:20:38,054
10102as God gives us to see the right,
10103
101042348
1010502:20:38,138 --> 02:20:41,307
10106let us strive on to finish
10107the work we are in,
10108
101092349
1011002:20:42,059 --> 02:20:44,393
10111to bind up the nation's wounds,
10112
101132350
1011402:20:45,270 --> 02:20:46,729
10115to care
10116
101172351
1011802:20:47,064 --> 02:20:49,398
10119for him who shall have borne the battle
10120
101212352
1012202:20:50,692 --> 02:20:52,610
10123and for his widow
10124
101252353
1012602:20:53,237 --> 02:20:54,487
10127and his orphan,
10128
101292354
1013002:20:56,240 --> 02:21:00,409
10131to do all which may achieve and cherish
10132
101332355
1013402:21:01,578 --> 02:21:06,207
10135a just and a lasting peace
10136among ourselves