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Some of us was
in the Second Kansas Colored.
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We fought the Rebs at
Jenkins' Ferry last April
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just after they killed every Negro soldier
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they captured at Poison Springs.
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So at Jenkins' Ferry,
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we decided warn't takin'
no Reb prisoners.
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And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive.
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The ones of us that didn't die that day,
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we joined up with
the 116th U.S. Colored, sir,
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from Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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What's your name, soldier?
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Private. Harold Green, sir.
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I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir.
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Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry.
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We're waiting over there.
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We're leaving our horses behind
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and shipping outwith the 24th Infantry
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for the assault next week on Wilmington.
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How long
have you been a soldier?
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Two years, sir.
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The Second Kansas
Colored Infantry,
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they fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry.
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That's right, sir.
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They killed
a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir.
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They were very brave.
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And making $3 less each month
than white soldiers.
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Us Second Kansas boys...
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Another $3 subtracted
from our pay for our uniforms.
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That was true, yes sir,
but that's changed.
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Equal pay now, but still
no commissioned Negro officers.
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I'm aware of that,
Corporal Clark.
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Yes, sir.
That's good that you're aware, sir...
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Do you think the Wilmington attack...
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Now that white people
have accustomed themselves
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to seeing Negro men with guns
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fighting on their behalf,
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and now that they can tolerate
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Negro soldiers getting equal pay
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maybe in a few years,
they can abide the idea
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of Negro lieutenants and captains.
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In fifty years, maybe a Negro colonel.
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In a hundred years, the vote.
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What will you do after the war,
Corporal Clark?
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Work, sir.
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- Hm.
- Perhaps you'll hire me.
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Perhaps I will.
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But you should know, sir,
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that I get sick at the smell of boot black
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and I cannot cut hair.
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I've yet to find a man could cut mine
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so that it'd make any difference.
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You got springy hair
for a white man.
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Yes, I do.
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My last barber hanged himself.
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And the one before that.
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Left me his scissors in his will.
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President Lincoln, sir.
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Good evening, boys.
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We saw you, and...
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- We were at...
- We was at Gettysburg.
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You boys fight at Gettysburg?
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No, didn't fight there,
we just signed up last month.
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We saw him two years ago
at the cemetery dedication.
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Yeah. We heard you speak...
Goddamn.
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Uh, hey, how tall are you, anyway?
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Aw, jeez, shut up.
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Could you hear what I said?
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No, sir. Not much.
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It was...
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"Four score and seven years ago,
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our fathers brought forth
from this continent
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a new nation, conceived in liberty
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and dedicated to the proposition
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that all men are created equal."
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That's good. Thank you.
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"Now we are engaged
in a great civil war,
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testing whether that nation
or any nation
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so conceived and so dedicated,
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can long endure."
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"We are met on a great
battlefield of that war."
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That's good, thank you.
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"We come to dedicate
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a portion of that field
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as a final resting place
for those who here
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gave their lives
that that nation might live."
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His uncles, they died
on the second day of fighting.
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I know the last part. It is, uh...
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Company up! Moving out!
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You boys best go
and find your company.
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- And thank you.
- Thank you, sir.
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- God bless you.
- God bless you, too.
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God bless you.
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"That we here highly resolve
that these dead
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shall not have died in vain."
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"That this nation, under God,
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shall have a new birth of freedom
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and that government
of the people, by the people,
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for the people
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shall not perish from the earth."
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It's nighttime.
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Ship's moved by some terrible power
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at a terrific speed.
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And though it's imperceptible
in the darkness,
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I have an intuition that
we're headed towards a shore.
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No one else seems to be
aboard the vessel.
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I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness.
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"I could be bounded in a nutshell
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and count myself
a king of infinite space
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were it not that I have bad dreams."
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Hmm.
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I reckon it's the speed
that's strange to me.
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I'm used to going at a deliberate pace.
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I should spare you, Molly.
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I shouldn't tell you my dreams.
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I don't want to be spared if you aren't.
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And you spare me nothing.
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Perhaps it's...
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It's the assault on Wilmington Port.
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You dream about the ship
before a battle, usually.
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How's the coconut?
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Beyond description.
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Almost two years, nothing mends.
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Another casualty of the war.
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Who wants to listen to a useless woman
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grouse about her carriage accident?
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- I do.
- Stuff.
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You tell me dreams, that's all.
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I'm your soothsayer.
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That's all I am to you anymore.
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I'm not to be trusted
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even if it was not a carriage accident.
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Even if it was
an attempted assassination.
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It was most probably an accident.
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It was an assassin
whose intended target was you.
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How are the plans coming along
for the big shindy?
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I don't want to talk about parties.
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You don't care about parties.
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Not much, but they're
a necessary hindrance.
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I know.
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I know what it's about, the ship.
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It's not Wilmington Port.
It's not a military campaign.
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It's the amendment to abolish slavery.
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Why else would you force me
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to invite demented radicals
into my home?
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You're going to try to get
the amendment passed
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in the House of Representatives
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before the term ends?
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Before the Inauguration?
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Don't spend too much money
on the flubdubs.
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No one is loved as much as you.
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No one's ever been loved
so much by the people.
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You might do anything now.
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Don't... Don't waste that power
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on an amendment bill
that's sure of defeat.
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Did you remember Robert's
coming home for the reception?
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Mm?
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I knew you'd forget.
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That's the ship you're sailing on,
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the 13th Amendment.
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You needn't tell me I'm right.
I know I am.
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- Oh!
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Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley.
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Well, she needs this
for the grand reception.
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It's slow work.
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Good night.
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Did you tell her a dream?
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- Papa.
- Mm-hmm.
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Papa, I want to see Willie.
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Me, too, Taddie, but we can't.
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Why not?
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Willie's gone.
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It's three years now he's gone.
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The part assigned to me
is to raise the flag.
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Which, if there be no fault
in the machinery, I will do.
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And when up
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it'll be for the people to keep it up.
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That's my speech.
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♪ We are coming, Father Abraham ♪
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♪ Three hundred thousand more ♪
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♪ From Mississippi's winding stream ♪
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♪ And from New England's shore ♪
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♪ We leave our plow and workshops ♪
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♪ Our wives... ♪♪
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Even if every Republican
in the House votes yes,
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far from guaranteed.
Since when has our party
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unanimously supported anything?
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But say all our fellow Republicans
vote for it.
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We'd still be twenty votes short.
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Only twenty?
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"Only twenty?"
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We can find twenty votes.
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Twenty House Democrats
who'll vote to abolish slavery?
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In my opinion...
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To which I always listen.
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- Or pretend to.
- With all three of my ears.
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We'll win the war soon.
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It's inevitable, isn't it?
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Well, it ain't won yet.
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You'll begin your second term
with semi-divine stature.
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Imagine the possibilities
peace will bring.
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Why tarnish your invaluable luster
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with a battle in the House?
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It's a rat's nest in there.
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It's the same gang of
talentless hicks and hacks
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who rejected the amendment
10 months ago.
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We'll lose.
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I like our chances now.
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Well, consider the obstacles
that we'd face.
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The aforementioned two-thirds majority
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needed to pass an amendment.
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We have a Republican majority,
but barely more than 50%.
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Fifty-six.
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We need Democratic support.
There's none to be had.
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Since the House
last voted on the amendment,
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there's been an election.
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Sixty-four Democrats
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lost their House seats in November.
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That's 64 Democrats
looking for work come March.
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I know.
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They don't need to
worry about re-election.
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They can vote however it suits them.
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But we can't buy the vote
for the amendment.
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- It's too important.
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I said nothing of buying anything.
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We need twenty votes was all I said.
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Start of my second term,
plenty of positions to fill.
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Mr. President, may I present
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Mr. and Mrs. Jolly
who've come from Missouri...
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From Jeff City, President.
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Mr. Jolly.
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Ma'am.
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And this here by the fire
is Secretary of State Seward.
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Jeff City?
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I heard tell once
of a Jefferson City lawyer
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who had a parrot
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that'd wake him
each morning, crying out,
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"Today is the day the world shall end,
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as scripture has foretold."
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And, uh, one day
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the lawyer shot him,
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for the sake of peace and quiet,
I presume.
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Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least,
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his prophecy.
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There's only one toll booth in Jeff City,
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to the southwest
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and this man
Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla
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been in illegal possession
for near two yar
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since your man General Schofield
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set him up there.
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But President Monroe give that toll gate
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to my grandpap
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and Quincy Adams
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give my pap a letter
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saying it's our'n for keeps.
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Mrs. Jolly got the...
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Show Mr. Lincoln
the Quincy Adams letter.
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That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly.
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Just tell me what you want from me.
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Mr. Jolly's emphysema
don't care for cigars.
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Madame, do you know
about the proposed
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13th Amendment of the Constitution?
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Yes, sir, everybody knows of it.
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The President favors it.
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- Do you?
- We do.
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You know that it abolishes slavery?
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Yes, sir, I know it.
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And is that why you favor it?
268
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What I favor is ending the war.
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Once we do away with slavery,
the Rebs'll quit fighting
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since slavery's what they're fighting for.
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Mr. Lincoln, you always says so.
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With the amendment, slavery's ended.
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And they'll give up.
The war can finish then.
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If the war finished first,
before we end slavery...
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President Lincoln
says the war won't stop
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unless we finish slavery.
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But if it did.
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The South is exhausted.
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If they run out of bullets and men
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would you still want your...
281
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Who's your Representative?
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Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton.
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"Beanpole" Burton.
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I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir.
285
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A Republican,
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undecided on the question
of the amendment, I believe.
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Perhaps you could call on him
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and inform him of your enthusiasm.
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Yeah.
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Madame.
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If the Rebels surrendered next week
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would you, at the end of this month
293
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want Congressman Burton to vote
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for the 13th Amendment?
295
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If that was how it was,
no more war and all
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I reckon Mr. Jolly
much prefer not to have
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Congress pass the amendment.
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Hmm. And, uh
299
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why is that?
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Niggers.
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If he don't have to
let some Alabama coon
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come up to Missouri
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steal his chickens and his job,
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we'd much prefer that.
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The people.
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I begin to see why
you're in such a great hurry
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to put it through.
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Would you let me study this letter, sir,
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about the toll booth?
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Come back to me in the morning
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and we'll consider what the law says.
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You be sure to
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visit Beanpole.
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Tell him that you support
passage of the amendment
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as a military necessity.
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Thank you.
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00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:41,764
Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment.
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If procuring votes
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with offers of employment
is what you intend
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I'll fetch a friend from Albany
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who can supply the skulky men
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00:19:26,798 --> 00:19:28,869
gifted at this kind of shady work
323
00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:30,275
and spare me the indignity
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of actually speaking to Democrats.
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Spare you the exposure and liability.
326
00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:40,847
Pardon me, that's a distress signal
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which I am bound,
by solemn oath, to respond to.
328
00:19:48,487 --> 00:19:50,207
Tom Pendel took away
the glass camera plates
329
00:19:50,322 --> 00:19:52,233
of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over
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00:19:52,357 --> 00:19:54,064
because Tom says Mama says
they're too distressing.
331
00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:55,365
You had nightmares all night long.
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I'll have worse nightmares
if you don't let me look
333
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at the plates again.
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00:20:00,432 --> 00:20:01,672
Perhaps.
335
00:20:03,535 --> 00:20:05,310
You can't afford a single defection
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from anyone in the party.
337
00:20:06,672 --> 00:20:09,175
Not even a single Republican
absent when they vote.
338
00:20:09,274 --> 00:20:11,481
You know who you've got to see.
339
00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:16,193
Send over to Blair House.
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00:20:18,784 --> 00:20:22,596
Ask Preston Blair
can I call on him around 5:00.
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00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:24,667
God help you.
342
00:20:25,457 --> 00:20:27,698
God alone knows
what he'll ask you to give him.
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00:20:29,328 --> 00:20:31,171
If the Blairs tell them to,
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no Republican will balk
at voting for the amendment.
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00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,345
No conservative Republican
is what you mean.
346
00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:38,745
All Republicans
ought to be conservative.
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00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:40,209
I founded this party,
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00:20:40,339 --> 00:20:42,410
in my own goddamn home, to be a
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conservative anti-slavery party,
350
00:20:44,943 --> 00:20:47,150
not a hobbyhorse for
goddamn radical abolitionists.
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00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:49,021
Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy.
352
00:20:49,114 --> 00:20:50,889
You'll frighten the child.
353
00:20:51,016 --> 00:20:52,927
You need us to keep
the conservative side
354
00:20:53,051 --> 00:20:54,359
of the party in the traces
355
00:20:54,453 --> 00:20:55,761
while you diddle the radicals
356
00:20:55,887 --> 00:20:57,992
and bundle up
with Thaddeus Stevens's gang!
357
00:20:58,090 --> 00:20:59,398
You need our help!
358
00:20:59,524 --> 00:21:01,026
Yes, sir, I do.
359
00:21:01,293 --> 00:21:02,704
Well, what do we get?
360
00:21:02,794 --> 00:21:04,239
Whoa! Blunt!
361
00:21:04,696 --> 00:21:07,540
Your manners, Monty,
must be why Mr. Lincoln
362
00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:09,507
pushed you out of his Cabinet.
363
00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:11,080
- I wasn't pushed!
- Oh, of course you weren't.
364
00:21:11,203 --> 00:21:12,682
He was pushed out to
placate the damn radicals!
365
00:21:12,771 --> 00:21:17,083
- I agreed to resign.
- Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy.
366
00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:22,384
Oh. You don't mind, boy, do you?
367
00:21:22,714 --> 00:21:24,557
He spends his days with soldiers.
368
00:21:24,650 --> 00:21:25,628
They taught me a song.
369
00:21:25,917 --> 00:21:27,191
Did they?
370
00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:30,631
Soldiers know all manner of songs.
371
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,102
How's your brother Bob?
372
00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:34,363
He's at school now, but he's coming
373
00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:36,132
to visit in four days for the shindy.
374
00:21:36,261 --> 00:21:38,366
At school. Ain't that fine?
375
00:21:38,730 --> 00:21:40,232
Good he's not in the Army.
376
00:21:40,332 --> 00:21:42,209
He wants to be,
but Mama said he cannot.
377
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:44,212
Dangerous life, soldiering.
378
00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,216
Your mama is wise
to keep him clean out of that.
379
00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:50,446
Now, your daddy knows that what I want
380
00:21:50,575 --> 00:21:53,385
in return for all the help I can give him
381
00:21:53,912 --> 00:21:56,256
is to go down to Richmond,
like he said I could
382
00:21:56,348 --> 00:21:58,589
as soon as Savannah fell
383
00:21:59,117 --> 00:22:01,119
and talk to Jefferson Davis.
384
00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:04,100
Now give me terms
I can offer to Jefferson Davis
385
00:22:04,356 --> 00:22:06,632
to start negotiating for peace.
386
00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:07,860
He'll talk to me.
387
00:22:08,093 --> 00:22:10,505
Conservative members of your party
388
00:22:10,629 --> 00:22:14,236
want you to listen
to overtures from Richmond.
389
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,336
That above all!
390
00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:20,309
They'll vote for this rash
and dangerous amendment
391
00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:23,784
only if every other possibility
is exhausted.
392
00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:26,913
Our Republicans ain't abolitionists.
393
00:22:27,546 --> 00:22:30,493
We can't tell our people
they can vote yes
394
00:22:30,716 --> 00:22:31,922
on abolishing slavery
395
00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:35,021
unless at the same time we can tell them
396
00:22:35,287 --> 00:22:38,029
that you're seeking a negotiated peace.
397
00:22:46,231 --> 00:22:48,939
Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond.
398
00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:50,805
Get him drunk so he can sleep.
399
00:22:50,902 --> 00:22:52,279
Yes, ma'am.
400
00:22:52,804 --> 00:22:54,181
Here, Daddy.
401
00:22:54,639 --> 00:22:55,674
Oh.
402
00:22:55,974 --> 00:22:57,954
- Thank you.
- Yes, sir, all right.
403
00:22:58,543 --> 00:22:59,647
Where's my hat?
404
00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:01,349
Leo has your hat.
405
00:23:01,546 --> 00:23:02,786
All right?
406
00:23:04,249 --> 00:23:05,728
Go make peace.
407
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:20,232
Thunder forth, God of War.
408
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,814
We'll commence our assault
on Wilmington from the sea.
409
00:23:29,508 --> 00:23:30,816
Why is this burnt?
410
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:33,313
Was the boy playing with it?
411
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,653
It got took by a breeze
several nights back.
412
00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:37,385
This is an official War Department map.
413
00:23:37,716 --> 00:23:39,320
And the entire Cabinet's waiting
414
00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:40,488
to hear what it portends.
415
00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:41,620
A bombardment.
416
00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:45,062
From the largest fleet
the Navy has ever assembled.
417
00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:47,568
Old Neptune, shake thy hoary locks!
418
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:49,668
Fifty-eight ships are under way,
419
00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:52,071
of every tonnage and firing range.
420
00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:54,471
We'll keep up a steady barrage.
421
00:23:55,033 --> 00:23:56,313
Our first target is Fort Fisher.
422
00:23:56,401 --> 00:23:58,039
It defends Wilmington Port.
423
00:23:58,170 --> 00:24:00,081
A steady barrage?
424
00:24:00,739 --> 00:24:02,741
A hundred shells a minute.
425
00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:04,877
Till they surrender.
426
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,953
- Dear God.
427
00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,419
Wilmington's
their last open seaport, therefore...
428
00:24:10,549 --> 00:24:13,155
Wilmington falls, Richmond falls after.
429
00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:16,933
And the war is done.
430
00:24:18,089 --> 00:24:19,363
Hear, hear!
431
00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:21,495
Then why, if I might ask
432
00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:22,833
are we not concentrating
433
00:24:22,928 --> 00:24:25,067
the nation's attention on Wilmington?
434
00:24:25,197 --> 00:24:27,507
Why, instead, are we
reading in the Herald
435
00:24:28,266 --> 00:24:29,574
that the anti-slavery amendment
436
00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:32,682
is being precipitated onto
the House floor for debate?
437
00:24:32,871 --> 00:24:33,872
Because your eagerness,
438
00:24:33,972 --> 00:24:35,610
in what seems an unwarranted intrusion
439
00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:38,277
of the executive into
legislative prerogatives,
440
00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:40,219
is compelling it to what's...
441
00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:43,287
To what's likely to be
its premature demise.
442
00:24:43,415 --> 00:24:44,393
Hear, hear!
443
00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:46,087
You signed
the Emancipation Proclamation.
444
00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:47,196
You've done all that could be done.
445
00:24:47,285 --> 00:24:48,525
The Emancipation Proclamation's
446
00:24:48,587 --> 00:24:50,624
merely a war measure.
After the war, the courts...
447
00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:52,462
When Edward Bates
was Attorney General,
448
00:24:52,591 --> 00:24:53,763
he felt confident enough
to let you sign it!
449
00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:55,894
Different lawyers, different opinions.
450
00:24:55,994 --> 00:24:58,474
It frees slaves
as a military exigent. Not...
451
00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:02,237
I don't recall Edward Bates
being any too certain about
452
00:25:02,634 --> 00:25:05,046
the legality of my proclamation.
453
00:25:06,638 --> 00:25:08,413
Just it wasn't downright criminal.
454
00:25:10,442 --> 00:25:12,251
Somewheres in between.
455
00:25:13,812 --> 00:25:14,790
Mm.
456
00:25:15,914 --> 00:25:18,622
Back when I rode
the legal circuit in Illinois,
457
00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:21,060
I defended a woman from Metamora
458
00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:22,927
named Melissa Goings.
459
00:25:23,822 --> 00:25:25,768
Seventy-seven years old.
460
00:25:26,491 --> 00:25:29,563
They said she'd murdered
her husband. He was 83.
461
00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:32,137
He was choking her
462
00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:35,969
and she grabbed ahold
of a stick of firewood
463
00:25:36,101 --> 00:25:38,672
and fractured his skull and he died.
464
00:25:39,838 --> 00:25:41,647
In his will, he wrote,
465
00:25:43,942 --> 00:25:46,115
"I expect she has killed me."
466
00:25:49,848 --> 00:25:52,488
"If I get over it, I will have revenge."
467
00:25:57,956 --> 00:25:59,867
No one was keen to see her convicted,
468
00:25:59,991 --> 00:26:02,198
he was that kind of husband.
469
00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:04,599
I asked the prosecuting attorney
470
00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:07,870
if I might have a short conference
with my client.
471
00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:11,206
She and I went into a room
in the courthouse,
472
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,178
but I alone emerged.
473
00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:15,378
The window in the room
was found to be wide open.
474
00:26:15,507 --> 00:26:19,045
It was believed the old lady
may have climbed out of it.
475
00:26:20,812 --> 00:26:22,485
I told the bailiff,
476
00:26:23,315 --> 00:26:24,350
right before I left her in the room
477
00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:25,517
she asked me where she could get
478
00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:28,460
a good drink of water,
and I told her, Tennessee.
479
00:26:31,323 --> 00:26:33,860
Mrs. Goings was seen no more
in Metamora.
480
00:26:33,992 --> 00:26:36,165
Enough justice had been done.
481
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,235
They even forgave
the bondsman her bail.
482
00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:41,699
I'm afraid I don't see...
483
00:26:41,766 --> 00:26:43,211
I decided
484
00:26:44,502 --> 00:26:47,506
that the Constitution
gives me war powers
485
00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:49,981
but no one knows just exactly
486
00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:52,077
what those powers are.
487
00:26:53,011 --> 00:26:54,149
Some say they don't exist.
488
00:26:54,245 --> 00:26:55,883
I don't know. I decided
489
00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:58,221
I needed them to exist to uphold my oath
490
00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,557
to protect the Constitution.
491
00:27:00,852 --> 00:27:02,525
Which I decided meant I could take
492
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,498
the Rebels' slaves from them
493
00:27:04,589 --> 00:27:06,933
as property confiscated in war.
494
00:27:07,525 --> 00:27:09,664
That might recommend
to suspicion that I agree
495
00:27:09,761 --> 00:27:11,001
with the Rebs that their slaves
496
00:27:11,029 --> 00:27:12,099
are property in the first place.
497
00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:14,437
Of course, I don't. Never have.
498
00:27:15,867 --> 00:27:17,403
I'm glad to see any man free,
499
00:27:17,535 --> 00:27:19,708
and if calling a man property
500
00:27:19,804 --> 00:27:21,078
or war contraband
501
00:27:21,206 --> 00:27:24,415
does the trick,
why I caught at the opportunity.
502
00:27:25,410 --> 00:27:28,050
Now here's where it gets truly slippery.
503
00:27:28,413 --> 00:27:31,189
I use the law allowing for the seizure
504
00:27:31,282 --> 00:27:32,352
of property in a war
505
00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:33,895
knowing it applies only to the property
506
00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:36,625
of governments and citizens
of belligerent nations.
507
00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:39,031
Well, the South ain't a nation.
508
00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:41,795
That's why I can't negotiate with them.
509
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,736
So if, in fact, the Negroes are property,
510
00:27:44,829 --> 00:27:46,103
according to the law,
511
00:27:46,231 --> 00:27:48,108
have I the right to take
the Rebels' property
512
00:27:48,233 --> 00:27:50,042
from them, if I insist they're rebels only
513
00:27:50,135 --> 00:27:53,082
and not citizens of a belligerent country?
514
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:54,817
And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't
515
00:27:54,939 --> 00:27:57,715
our actual Southern states in rebellion
516
00:27:58,243 --> 00:28:00,587
but only the rebels living in those states,
517
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:03,990
the laws of which states remain in force.
518
00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:08,124
"The laws of which states
remain in force."
519
00:28:08,253 --> 00:28:10,373
That means that since it's
states' laws that determine
520
00:28:10,455 --> 00:28:12,901
whether Negroes can be sold as slaves,
521
00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:14,470
as property,
522
00:28:14,926 --> 00:28:17,304
the federal government
doesn't have a say in that.
523
00:28:17,429 --> 00:28:18,999
At least not yet.
524
00:28:19,631 --> 00:28:22,840
Then Negroes in those states
are slaves,
525
00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:23,945
hence property,
526
00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:26,174
hence my war powers
allow me to confiscate them
527
00:28:26,304 --> 00:28:28,511
as such, so I confiscate them.
528
00:28:29,174 --> 00:28:30,778
But if I'm a respecter of states' laws,
529
00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:32,252
how then can I legally free them
530
00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:34,619
with my Proclamation as I done?
531
00:28:35,513 --> 00:28:37,857
Unless I'm canceling states' laws?
532
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:44,958
I felt the war demanded it.
533
00:28:45,857 --> 00:28:47,598
My oath demanded it.
534
00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:50,329
I felt right with myself,
535
00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:52,703
and I hoped it was legal to do it.
536
00:28:52,831 --> 00:28:54,435
I'm hoping still.
537
00:28:56,234 --> 00:29:00,205
Two years ago, I proclaimed
these people emancipated.
538
00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:04,647
"Then, thenceforward and forever free."
539
00:29:06,377 --> 00:29:08,118
Now let's say the courts
decide I had no authority
540
00:29:08,213 --> 00:29:10,784
to do it. They might well decide that.
541
00:29:11,182 --> 00:29:12,957
Say there's no amendment
abolishing slavery,
542
00:29:13,051 --> 00:29:14,496
say it's after the war
543
00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:16,532
and I can no longer use my war powers
544
00:29:16,654 --> 00:29:18,395
to just ignore the courts' decisions
545
00:29:18,523 --> 00:29:20,969
like I sometimes felt I had to do.
546
00:29:21,059 --> 00:29:24,563
Might those people I freed
be ordered back into slavery?
547
00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:29,705
That's why I'd like to get
548
00:29:29,834 --> 00:29:31,814
the 13th Amendment through the House,
549
00:29:31,903 --> 00:29:34,008
on its way to ratification by the states.
550
00:29:34,105 --> 00:29:35,812
Wrap the whole slavery thing up,
551
00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:38,683
forever and aye,
as soon as I'm able. Now!
552
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:40,222
End of this month.
553
00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,018
And I'd like you to stand behind me
554
00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:44,923
like my Cabinet's most always done.
555
00:29:53,258 --> 00:29:55,033
As the preacher said,
556
00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:58,067
"I could write shorter sermons,
557
00:29:58,263 --> 00:30:01,073
but once I start, I get too lazy to stop."
558
00:30:06,404 --> 00:30:08,008
It seems to me, sir, you're describing
559
00:30:08,106 --> 00:30:10,017
precisely the sort of dictator
560
00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:11,849
the Democrats
have been howling about.
561
00:30:12,043 --> 00:30:13,852
Dictators
aren't susceptible to law.
562
00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,424
Neither is he.
He just said as much.
563
00:30:15,547 --> 00:30:17,220
Ignoring the courts?
Twisting meanings?
564
00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:19,226
What reins him in from... From...
565
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:21,797
Well, the people do that, I suppose.
566
00:30:23,087 --> 00:30:25,533
I signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
567
00:30:25,623 --> 00:30:28,604
what, a year and a half
before my second election?
568
00:30:28,726 --> 00:30:30,467
I felt I was within my power to do it,
569
00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:34,042
however, I also felt that
I might be wrong about that.
570
00:30:34,265 --> 00:30:35,369
I knew the people would tell me.
571
00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,104
I gave them a year and a half
to think about it,
572
00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:38,543
and they re-elected me.
573
00:30:38,636 --> 00:30:40,479
And come February the first,
574
00:30:40,605 --> 00:30:43,381
I intend to sign the 13th Amendment!
575
00:30:54,752 --> 00:30:56,993
Well, Mr. Representative Ashley.
576
00:30:57,655 --> 00:30:59,157
Tell us the news from the Hill.
577
00:30:59,290 --> 00:31:00,291
Ah, well, the news...
578
00:31:00,425 --> 00:31:02,405
Why, for instance, is this thus,
579
00:31:02,493 --> 00:31:04,302
and what is the reason
for this thusness?
580
00:31:04,429 --> 00:31:07,000
James, we want you to bring
the anti-slavery amendment
581
00:31:07,131 --> 00:31:08,109
to the floor for debate,
582
00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:09,644
- immediately.
- Excuse me, what?
583
00:31:10,101 --> 00:31:12,479
You are the amendment's manager,
are you not?
584
00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:13,776
I am, of course, but...
585
00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:16,648
Then we're counting
on robust radical support
586
00:31:16,774 --> 00:31:18,412
so tell Mr. Stevens we expect him
587
00:31:18,509 --> 00:31:19,749
to put his back into it.
588
00:31:19,844 --> 00:31:20,914
It's not going to be easy, but...
589
00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:22,582
It's impossible.
590
00:31:23,114 --> 00:31:24,422
No. I am sorry, no.
591
00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:27,826
We can't organize anything
immediately in the House.
592
00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:29,427
I have been canvassing the Democrats
593
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:30,521
since the election,
594
00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:32,100
in case any of them have softened
595
00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:33,863
after they got walloped, but
596
00:31:33,992 --> 00:31:35,699
they have stiffened,
if anything, Mr. Secretary.
597
00:31:35,827 --> 00:31:36,931
There aren't nearly enough votes.
598
00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:39,030
We're Whalers, Mr. Ashley.
599
00:31:41,532 --> 00:31:45,480
Whalers? As in, uh... Whales?
600
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,948
We've been chasing this whale
for a long time.
601
00:31:48,539 --> 00:31:50,018
And we finally placed a harpoon
602
00:31:50,141 --> 00:31:51,176
in the monster's back.
603
00:31:51,309 --> 00:31:53,289
It's in, James. It's in.
604
00:31:53,411 --> 00:31:55,982
We finish the deed now. We can't wait.
605
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,323
Or with one flop of his tail,
he'll smash the boat
606
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:01,522
and send us all to eternity.
607
00:32:01,686 --> 00:32:03,962
On the 31st of this month, of this year,
608
00:32:04,055 --> 00:32:06,365
put the amendment up for a vote.
609
00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:09,866
Whalers?
610
00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:11,129
That's what he said.
611
00:32:11,229 --> 00:32:13,869
The man's never been near
a whale ship in his life.
612
00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:17,546
Withdraw radical support.
613
00:32:18,403 --> 00:32:20,144
Force him to abandon this scheme,
614
00:32:20,238 --> 00:32:21,979
whatever he's up to.
615
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:25,186
He drags his feet
about everything,
616
00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:27,313
Lincoln... Why this urgency?
617
00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,417
We got it through the Senate
without difficulty
618
00:32:29,547 --> 00:32:30,719
because we had the numbers.
619
00:32:30,848 --> 00:32:33,351
Come December, you'll have
the same in the House.
620
00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:35,411
The amendment will be
the easy work of 10 minutes.
621
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:36,973
He's using the threat of the amendment
622
00:32:37,055 --> 00:32:39,055
to frighten the Rebels
into an immediate surrender.
623
00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:40,832
I imagine we'd rejoice to see that.
624
00:32:41,025 --> 00:32:42,902
Will you rejoice
when the Southern states
625
00:32:43,027 --> 00:32:44,665
have rejoined the Union pell-mell,
626
00:32:44,762 --> 00:32:46,708
as Lincoln intends them to,
and one by one,
627
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,278
each refuses to ratify the amendment?
628
00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:50,376
If we pass it, which we won't.
629
00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:53,677
Why are we cooperating with him?
630
00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:57,281
We all know what he's doing
and we all know what he'll do.
631
00:32:57,408 --> 00:33:00,548
We can't offer up abolition's
best legal prayer
632
00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:02,080
to his games and tricks.
633
00:33:02,213 --> 00:33:03,692
He said he'd welcome the South back
634
00:33:03,781 --> 00:33:04,981
with all its slaves in chains.
635
00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:07,427
Three years ago he said that,
to calm the border states.
636
00:33:07,552 --> 00:33:09,088
I don't!
637
00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:14,034
You said we all know
what he'll do. I don't know.
638
00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:15,405
You know he isn't to be trusted.
639
00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:16,801
Trust? Oh.
640
00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:18,531
I'm sorry, I was under
the misapprehension
641
00:33:18,629 --> 00:33:21,303
that your chosen profession was politics.
642
00:33:21,432 --> 00:33:23,776
I never trusted the President,
never trusted anyone,
643
00:33:23,901 --> 00:33:25,608
but hasn't he surprised you?
644
00:33:25,737 --> 00:33:27,876
No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn't.
645
00:33:27,972 --> 00:33:30,384
Nothing surprises you, Asa,
646
00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:32,947
therefore nothing about you
is surprising.
647
00:33:33,077 --> 00:33:34,818
Perhaps that is why your constituents
648
00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,586
did not re-elect you to the coming term.
649
00:33:38,983 --> 00:33:40,291
It's late.
650
00:33:40,418 --> 00:33:41,624
I'm old.
651
00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:44,256
I'm going home.
652
00:33:48,159 --> 00:33:50,435
Lincoln, the inveterate dawdler.
653
00:33:50,928 --> 00:33:52,669
Lincoln, the Southerner.
654
00:33:52,797 --> 00:33:55,744
Lincoln, the capitulating compromiser,
655
00:33:56,634 --> 00:33:59,274
our adversary, and
656
00:34:00,104 --> 00:34:03,847
leader of the godforsaken
Republican party.
657
00:34:03,975 --> 00:34:05,147
Our party.
658
00:34:05,276 --> 00:34:08,655
Abraham Lincoln has asked us
to work with him
659
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:12,250
to accomplish the death
of slavery in America.
660
00:34:13,684 --> 00:34:15,857
Retain, even in opposition
661
00:34:17,321 --> 00:34:19,665
your capacity for astonishment.
662
00:34:25,963 --> 00:34:28,443
The President is never
to be mentioned. Nor I.
663
00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,103
You're paid for your discretion.
664
00:34:30,701 --> 00:34:32,141
Hell, you can have that for nothing.
665
00:34:32,203 --> 00:34:34,877
What we need money for
is bribes, to speed things up.
666
00:34:35,006 --> 00:34:36,781
No, nothing strictly illegal.
667
00:34:36,874 --> 00:34:38,547
It's not illegal to bribe Congressmen,
668
00:34:38,676 --> 00:34:40,053
they'd starve otherwise.
669
00:34:40,178 --> 00:34:43,648
I have explained to Mr. Bilbo
and Mr. Latham that
670
00:34:43,748 --> 00:34:45,455
we are offering patronage jobs
671
00:34:45,550 --> 00:34:46,654
to the Dems who vote yes.
672
00:34:47,151 --> 00:34:49,461
- Jobs and nothing more.
- That's correct.
673
00:34:49,654 --> 00:34:50,689
Congressmen come cheap.
674
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:52,995
Few thousand bucks
will buy you all you need.
675
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,367
The President would be unhappy
to hear you did that.
676
00:34:55,493 --> 00:34:57,871
Will he be unhappy if we lose?
677
00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:00,466
The money I managed to raise
for this endeavor
678
00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:03,205
is only for your fees,
your food and lodging.
679
00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:05,008
Uh-huh.
680
00:35:05,403 --> 00:35:07,314
If that squirrel-infested attic
681
00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:08,713
you've quartered us in is any measure,
682
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,478
you ain't raised much.
683
00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:11,679
Shall we get to work?
684
00:35:15,279 --> 00:35:17,816
The House recognizes Fernando Wood,
685
00:35:19,383 --> 00:35:22,364
the honorable Representative
from New York.
686
00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:27,569
Estimable colleagues.
687
00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:31,105
Two bloody years ago this month
688
00:35:32,029 --> 00:35:33,030
His Highness,
689
00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,543
King Abraham Africanus the First,
690
00:35:37,101 --> 00:35:39,342
our great usurping Caesar,
691
00:35:39,770 --> 00:35:43,115
violator of habeas corpus
and freedom of the press,
692
00:35:43,241 --> 00:35:44,322
abuser of states' rights...
693
00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:47,254
If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,
694
00:35:47,378 --> 00:35:49,221
he'd have had your empty head
695
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:50,951
impaled on a pike!
696
00:35:53,784 --> 00:35:55,821
And the country better for it!
697
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,532
Radical Republican autocrat,
698
00:35:58,923 --> 00:36:01,870
ruling by fiat and martial law,
699
00:36:02,627 --> 00:36:05,233
affixed his name to his heinous and illicit
700
00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:07,434
Emancipation Proclamation
701
00:36:07,732 --> 00:36:10,645
promising it would hasten
the end of the war,
702
00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:14,079
which yet rages on and on.
703
00:36:15,673 --> 00:36:17,778
He claimed, as tyrants do
704
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:19,980
that the war's emergencies
705
00:36:20,111 --> 00:36:22,591
permitted him to turn our army into...
706
00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:26,385
The New York delegation is
looking decidedly uninspired.
707
00:36:26,951 --> 00:36:30,125
...and radical Republicanism's
abolitionist fanaticism!
708
00:36:34,258 --> 00:36:36,499
His Emancipation Proclamation
709
00:36:36,928 --> 00:36:39,499
has obliterated millions of dollars...
710
00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:42,574
Over in Pennsylvania,
711
00:36:42,667 --> 00:36:45,113
who's the sweaty man eating his thumb?
712
00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:47,615
Unknown to me.
Seems jumpy.
713
00:36:48,339 --> 00:36:49,841
Perhaps he'll jump.
714
00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:56,852
But all that was not enough
for this dictator,
715
00:36:56,981 --> 00:36:59,154
who now seeks to insinuate...
716
00:36:59,283 --> 00:37:00,421
Jesus.
717
00:37:01,118 --> 00:37:02,654
When's this son of liberty
sum-a-bitch gonna sit down?
718
00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:04,948
John Ellis is gonna break
his watch if he doesn't stop.
719
00:37:06,123 --> 00:37:09,036
We are once again asked, nay
720
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,539
commanded, to consider
a proposed 13th Amendment
721
00:37:14,165 --> 00:37:16,441
which, if passed,
shall set at immediate liberty
722
00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:18,275
four million coloreds while manacling
723
00:37:18,369 --> 00:37:20,679
the limbs of the white race in America.
724
00:37:20,805 --> 00:37:22,443
If it is passed,
725
00:37:23,374 --> 00:37:24,853
but it shall not pass!
726
00:37:30,648 --> 00:37:31,626
What's more interesting
727
00:37:31,716 --> 00:37:32,694
is how dismal and disgruntled
728
00:37:32,817 --> 00:37:34,160
Mr. Yeaman appears.
729
00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:37,128
Every member of this House...
730
00:37:37,388 --> 00:37:38,526
He should be cheering right now.
731
00:37:38,656 --> 00:37:40,158
Looks like he ate a bad oyster.
732
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:42,397
...Party and
the constituents it serves
733
00:37:42,526 --> 00:37:43,664
shall oppose...
734
00:37:44,395 --> 00:37:47,137
Point of order,
Mr. Speaker, if you please.
735
00:37:47,231 --> 00:37:48,972
Mr. Speaker, I still have the floor.
736
00:37:49,066 --> 00:37:50,136
And the gentleman from Pennsylvania
737
00:37:50,234 --> 00:37:51,474
is out of order!
738
00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:53,412
When will Mr. Wood conclude
his interminable gabble?
739
00:37:53,537 --> 00:37:55,642
Some of us breathe oxygen
740
00:37:56,173 --> 00:37:58,983
and we find the mephitic
fumes of his oratory
741
00:37:59,076 --> 00:38:02,353
a lethal challenge
to our pulmonary capabilities!
742
00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:08,029
We shall oppose this amendment,
743
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,656
and any legislation that
so affronts natural law
744
00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:13,363
insulting to God as to man!
745
00:38:13,591 --> 00:38:15,867
Congress must never declare equal
746
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,201
those whom God created unequal!
747
00:38:23,734 --> 00:38:26,510
Slavery is the only insult to natural law,
748
00:38:26,604 --> 00:38:28,379
you fatuous nincompoop!
749
00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:32,281
Order!
750
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,283
Procedure, Mr. Speaker.
751
00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:37,025
Mr. Wood has the floor.
752
00:38:37,114 --> 00:38:38,457
Instruct us,
753
00:38:38,582 --> 00:38:40,061
oh, Great Commoner.
754
00:38:40,151 --> 00:38:42,563
What is unnatural, in your opinion?
755
00:38:42,953 --> 00:38:44,933
Niggrahs casting ballots?
756
00:38:45,056 --> 00:38:46,592
Niggrah representatives?
757
00:38:46,724 --> 00:38:48,704
Is that natural, Stevens?
758
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,639
Intermarriage?
759
00:38:51,929 --> 00:38:53,931
What violates natural law?
760
00:38:54,131 --> 00:38:56,634
Slavery and you.
761
00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:59,713
Pendleton, you insult God!
762
00:39:01,739 --> 00:39:02,979
You unnatural noise.
763
00:39:07,912 --> 00:39:10,256
Mr. Colfax, please, use your gavel!
764
00:39:10,581 --> 00:39:11,889
- You are out of order!
- Order in the Cabinet!
765
00:39:11,982 --> 00:39:12,960
Instruct the Sergeant-at-Arms
766
00:39:13,084 --> 00:39:14,062
to suppress this!
767
00:39:14,151 --> 00:39:15,255
We are in session!
768
00:39:15,386 --> 00:39:17,366
- Please don't encourage this!
769
00:39:17,455 --> 00:39:19,025
Don't encourage this!
770
00:39:24,128 --> 00:39:26,074
You're back! You're back! You're back!
771
00:39:27,298 --> 00:39:29,209
I am. The goat got big.
772
00:39:29,467 --> 00:39:31,777
Help me get one of these to my room.
773
00:39:31,902 --> 00:39:33,745
- She in there?
- She's asleep, probably.
774
00:39:33,838 --> 00:39:35,317
- You need help, sir?
- No, sir.
775
00:39:35,439 --> 00:39:36,417
They went to see Avonia Jones last night
776
00:39:36,507 --> 00:39:37,713
in a play about Israelites.
777
00:39:37,808 --> 00:39:39,549
Could you bring your pa this letter I writ
778
00:39:39,643 --> 00:39:40,883
about my insolvency proceeding?
779
00:39:40,911 --> 00:39:43,050
Deliver your own goddamn petition.
780
00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:44,251
There's a new book. Sam Beckwith
781
00:39:44,348 --> 00:39:45,622
says it's about finches
and finches' beaks,
782
00:39:45,750 --> 00:39:46,728
about how they change.
783
00:39:47,351 --> 00:39:48,386
He's here.
784
00:39:48,486 --> 00:39:50,966
He's here! Mrs. Cuthbert, he's here!
785
00:39:51,522 --> 00:39:52,933
- Robbie.
- Hi, Mom.
786
00:39:53,023 --> 00:39:54,331
- Oh, Robbie.
- Hey.
787
00:39:54,458 --> 00:39:55,630
- Robbie.
- Hey.
788
00:39:56,127 --> 00:39:57,128
Oh.
789
00:39:59,697 --> 00:40:02,007
You're only staying a few days,
Why'd you pack all that?
790
00:40:02,133 --> 00:40:03,737
Well, I don't know how long...
791
00:40:03,834 --> 00:40:05,195
Go tell your father Robert's home.
792
00:40:05,503 --> 00:40:08,074
Mr. Nicolay says Daddy's
secluded with Mr. Blair.
793
00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:09,742
Tell him anyway.
794
00:40:12,109 --> 00:40:13,816
- Did you forget to eat?
795
00:40:13,944 --> 00:40:15,582
- Exactly like him.
- No.
796
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,690
You'll linger a few days extra
after the reception
797
00:40:18,816 --> 00:40:20,352
before you go back to school.
798
00:40:20,484 --> 00:40:22,486
Well, I don't know
if I'm going to go back...
799
00:40:22,620 --> 00:40:25,829
We'll fatten you up
before you return to Boston.
800
00:40:26,824 --> 00:40:28,861
- All right, Mom.
- All right.
801
00:40:30,294 --> 00:40:31,637
Oh, Robbie.
802
00:40:32,329 --> 00:40:35,139
Jefferson Davis is sending
three delegates.
803
00:40:35,466 --> 00:40:37,673
Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.
804
00:40:38,903 --> 00:40:41,110
Vice President of the Confederacy,
805
00:40:41,205 --> 00:40:42,980
the former Secretary of State
806
00:40:43,073 --> 00:40:45,610
and their Assistant Secretary of War.
807
00:40:46,043 --> 00:40:48,853
They're coming in earnest
to propose peace.
808
00:40:50,714 --> 00:40:53,627
I know this is unwelcome news for you.
809
00:40:54,151 --> 00:40:55,528
Now hear me.
810
00:40:56,754 --> 00:40:59,564
I went to Richmond to talk to traitors.
811
00:41:00,691 --> 00:41:03,228
To smile at and plead with traitors
812
00:41:04,328 --> 00:41:07,138
because it'll be spring in two months.
813
00:41:07,832 --> 00:41:09,675
The roads will be passable,
814
00:41:09,767 --> 00:41:12,008
the spring slaughter commences.
815
00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:15,016
Four bloody springs now.
816
00:41:17,074 --> 00:41:18,712
Think of my Frank,
817
00:41:19,343 --> 00:41:21,550
whom you've taken to your heart.
818
00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:24,523
How you'll blame yourself
if the war takes my son
819
00:41:24,615 --> 00:41:27,095
as it's taken multitudes of sons.
820
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:31,163
Think of all the boys who will die
821
00:41:31,255 --> 00:41:33,201
if you don't make peace.
822
00:41:33,290 --> 00:41:35,201
You must talk with these men.
823
00:41:35,292 --> 00:41:36,669
I intend to, Preston.
824
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,797
In return, I must ask you to support
our push for the amendment...
825
00:41:38,896 --> 00:41:40,500
No, this is not horse trading.
826
00:41:41,732 --> 00:41:42,710
Not now!
827
00:41:43,434 --> 00:41:45,243
Bob. I'm sorry.
828
00:41:46,203 --> 00:41:47,204
- Welcome home.
- Thank you, sir.
829
00:41:47,304 --> 00:41:49,409
Looking fit, Robert.
Harvard agrees with you.
830
00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:50,746
- Mr. Blair.
- Fit and rested.
831
00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:53,788
Could you give us a moment,
please, Robert? Thank you.
832
00:41:55,479 --> 00:41:58,619
I will procure your votes for you,
as I promised.
833
00:41:59,550 --> 00:42:02,861
You have always kept your word to me.
834
00:42:04,054 --> 00:42:06,261
Those Southern men are coming.
835
00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:09,934
I beg you, in the name
of gentle Christ, sir.
836
00:42:10,060 --> 00:42:11,061
I understand.
837
00:42:11,161 --> 00:42:12,868
Talk peace with these men.
838
00:42:12,963 --> 00:42:14,772
I understand, Preston.
839
00:42:17,401 --> 00:42:19,244
We have one abstention so far.
840
00:42:19,336 --> 00:42:20,440
Jacob Graylor.
841
00:42:20,571 --> 00:42:22,573
He'd like to be
Federal Revenue Assessor
842
00:42:22,673 --> 00:42:24,380
for the 5th District of Pennsylvania.
843
00:42:24,842 --> 00:42:26,651
So the total of Representatives
844
00:42:26,777 --> 00:42:29,883
voting three weeks from today
is reduced to 182,
845
00:42:29,980 --> 00:42:31,891
which means 122 yes votes
846
00:42:31,982 --> 00:42:33,962
to reach the requisite
two-thirds of the House.
847
00:42:34,084 --> 00:42:36,724
Assuming all Republicans
vote for the amendment.
848
00:42:39,156 --> 00:42:41,568
Then despite our abstention,
849
00:42:41,659 --> 00:42:43,229
to reach a two-thirds majority,
850
00:42:43,327 --> 00:42:45,068
we remain twenty yeses short.
851
00:42:45,162 --> 00:42:46,163
For which we're seeking
852
00:42:46,297 --> 00:42:48,800
from among 64 lame duck Democrats.
853
00:42:49,266 --> 00:42:53,442
Fully 39 of these we deem
unredeemable no votes.
854
00:42:55,773 --> 00:42:57,810
The kind that hates niggers.
855
00:42:58,275 --> 00:43:00,448
Hates God for makin' niggers.
856
00:43:00,811 --> 00:43:03,587
The Good Lord on high
would despair of their souls.
857
00:43:03,681 --> 00:43:06,753
Thank you for that
pithy explanation, Mr. Bilbo.
858
00:43:06,917 --> 00:43:08,555
We've abandoned these 39 to
859
00:43:08,652 --> 00:43:10,290
the devil that possesses them.
860
00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:11,399
We would...
861
00:43:12,756 --> 00:43:16,226
The remaining lame ducks, on whom
we've been working with a purpose.
862
00:43:17,161 --> 00:43:18,231
Charles Hanson.
863
00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:20,006
Congressman.
864
00:43:21,332 --> 00:43:23,437
My colleagues and I would like
a moment of your time.
865
00:43:23,534 --> 00:43:25,275
I wonder if you've given much thought...
866
00:43:25,936 --> 00:43:27,176
Giles Stuart.
867
00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:34,022
Rather clumsy.
868
00:43:46,557 --> 00:43:48,093
Nelson Merrick.
869
00:43:54,698 --> 00:43:55,699
Homer Benson.
870
00:44:01,705 --> 00:44:03,343
My name is Richard Schell.
871
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:05,852
I wanted you to have a look
at this prospectus here.
872
00:44:07,745 --> 00:44:08,883
And lastly,
873
00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:12,953
Clay Hawkins. Of Ohio.
874
00:44:13,884 --> 00:44:15,989
Tax Collector for the Western Reserve.
875
00:44:16,086 --> 00:44:17,622
That pays handsomely.
876
00:44:17,721 --> 00:44:19,496
Don't just reach
for the highest branches,
877
00:44:19,590 --> 00:44:21,399
they sway in every breeze.
878
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:23,903
Assistant Port Inspector in Morristown
879
00:44:24,028 --> 00:44:25,473
looks like the ticket to me.
880
00:44:25,562 --> 00:44:27,371
Boats, they, they make me sick.
881
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:29,500
So just stand on the dock.
882
00:44:29,833 --> 00:44:32,404
Let the Assistant Assistant
Port Inspector's stomach
883
00:44:32,536 --> 00:44:33,810
go weak.
884
00:44:35,939 --> 00:44:37,714
And, lastly,
Democratic yes vote
885
00:44:37,841 --> 00:44:39,718
number six, Hawkins.
886
00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:40,844
From Ohio.
887
00:44:40,944 --> 00:44:42,014
Six?
888
00:44:42,112 --> 00:44:43,682
Well, thus far.
889
00:44:43,781 --> 00:44:45,852
Plus Graylor's abstention.
890
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:48,762
- From tiny acorns and so on.
- What did Hawkins get?
891
00:44:48,886 --> 00:44:50,991
Postmaster of the Millersburg
Post Office.
892
00:44:51,088 --> 00:44:52,396
He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?
893
00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:54,730
Well, he wanted Tax Collector
of the Western Reserve.
894
00:44:54,858 --> 00:44:56,978
First term Congressman
who couldn't manage reelection.
895
00:44:57,027 --> 00:44:58,062
I felt it unseemly
896
00:44:58,195 --> 00:44:59,674
and they bargained him down
to Postmaster.
897
00:44:59,763 --> 00:45:01,174
Scatter them over several
rounds of appointments
898
00:45:01,265 --> 00:45:02,710
so no one notices, then burn this ledger,
899
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,837
please, after you're done.
900
00:45:07,905 --> 00:45:10,181
Time for my public opinion bath.
901
00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:11,614
Might as well let them in.
902
00:45:13,577 --> 00:45:15,716
Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis.
903
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:18,282
Thirteen to go.
904
00:45:19,483 --> 00:45:20,962
One last item.
905
00:45:21,485 --> 00:45:23,226
An absurdity, but
906
00:45:24,321 --> 00:45:26,631
my associates report that
among the Representatives
907
00:45:26,757 --> 00:45:29,294
a fantastical rumor's bruited about,
908
00:45:29,827 --> 00:45:32,239
which I immediately disavowed,
909
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:34,732
that you'd allowed
bleary old Preston Blair
910
00:45:34,832 --> 00:45:35,902
to sojourn to Richmond
911
00:45:35,999 --> 00:45:38,036
to invite Jeff Davis
to send commissioners
912
00:45:38,135 --> 00:45:40,706
up to Washington with a peace plan.
913
00:45:44,341 --> 00:45:47,049
I, of course, told them
that you would never.
914
00:45:47,144 --> 00:45:49,954
Not without consulting me, you wouldn't.
915
00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:52,955
Because why on earth would you?
916
00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:21,081
Much obliged.
917
00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:29,179
Why wasn't I consulted?
918
00:47:29,279 --> 00:47:30,758
I'm Secretary of State.
919
00:47:30,914 --> 00:47:34,418
And you informally send
a reactionary dotard to...
920
00:47:35,886 --> 00:47:37,263
What will happen, do you imagine,
921
00:47:37,387 --> 00:47:39,890
when these
peace commissioners arrive?
922
00:47:40,057 --> 00:47:41,058
We'll hear them out.
923
00:47:41,391 --> 00:47:42,836
Oh. Splendid.
924
00:47:43,227 --> 00:47:44,501
And next, the Democrats will invite them
925
00:47:44,595 --> 00:47:46,097
up to hearings on the Hill.
926
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:48,767
And the newspapers...
Oh, the newspapers.
927
00:47:48,899 --> 00:47:50,276
The newspapers will ask,
928
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,175
"Why risk enraging the Confederacy
929
00:47:52,269 --> 00:47:53,269
over the issue of slavery
930
00:47:53,370 --> 00:47:55,714
when they're here to make peace?"
931
00:47:57,207 --> 00:47:59,744
We'll lose every Democrat we've got,
932
00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:01,478
more than likely
conservative Republicans
933
00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:03,115
will join them, and all our work,
934
00:48:03,247 --> 00:48:05,523
all our preparing the ground for the vote
935
00:48:05,616 --> 00:48:06,754
laid waste for naught.
936
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:08,644
The Blairs promised support
for the amendment
937
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,720
if we listen to these people.
938
00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:11,629
Oh, the Blairs promise, do they?
939
00:48:11,755 --> 00:48:12,790
You think they'll keep their promise
940
00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:13,924
once we've heard these delegates
941
00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:15,934
and refused them,
which we will have to do,
942
00:48:16,059 --> 00:48:17,561
since their proposal most certainly
943
00:48:17,661 --> 00:48:18,935
will be predicated on
944
00:48:19,062 --> 00:48:20,598
keeping their slaves!
945
00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:23,234
What hope for
any Democratic votes, Willum,
946
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:25,571
if word gets out that
I've refused a chance
947
00:48:25,669 --> 00:48:27,307
to end the war?
948
00:48:27,771 --> 00:48:29,546
You think word won't get out?
949
00:48:30,574 --> 00:48:32,053
In Washington?
950
00:48:33,810 --> 00:48:35,850
It's either the amendment
or this Confederate peace.
951
00:48:35,946 --> 00:48:37,721
You cannot have both.
952
00:48:38,515 --> 00:48:41,155
"If you can look into the seeds of time,"
953
00:48:41,985 --> 00:48:45,091
"And say which grain will grow
and which will not,"
954
00:48:45,188 --> 00:48:46,292
"Speak then to me."
955
00:48:46,423 --> 00:48:47,959
A disaster. This is a disaster.
956
00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:50,401
Time is a great thickener
of things, Willum.
957
00:48:50,494 --> 00:48:52,269
Yes, I suppose it is.
958
00:48:52,796 --> 00:48:54,798
Actually, I have no idea
what you mean by that.
959
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,809
Get me 13 votes.
960
00:48:59,803 --> 00:49:02,113
Them fellas from Richmond
ain't here yet.
961
00:49:23,327 --> 00:49:25,671
You drafted
half the men in Boston.
962
00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:28,606
What do you think
their families think about me?
963
00:49:28,699 --> 00:49:30,610
The only reason they don't
throw things and spit on me
964
00:49:30,701 --> 00:49:32,180
is 'cause you're so popular.
965
00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:36,011
I can't concentrate on,
on British Mercantile Law.
966
00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:38,278
I don't care about British Mercantile Law.
967
00:49:40,510 --> 00:49:42,148
I might not even want to be a lawyer.
968
00:49:43,947 --> 00:49:47,326
It's a sturdy profession.
And a useful one.
969
00:49:47,417 --> 00:49:52,389
Yes, and I want to be useful,
but now, not afterwards.
970
00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:54,229
I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade.
971
00:49:54,358 --> 00:49:55,359
They never fit right.
972
00:49:55,459 --> 00:49:57,666
The missus will have you
wear them. Don't think...
973
00:49:57,761 --> 00:49:59,707
You're delaying,
that's your favorite tactic.
974
00:49:59,796 --> 00:50:01,673
- Be useful...
- You won't tell me no,
975
00:50:01,765 --> 00:50:03,608
but the war will be over in
a month, and you know it will.
976
00:50:03,734 --> 00:50:06,340
I've found that prophesying
977
00:50:07,237 --> 00:50:10,946
is one of life's
less profitable occupations.
978
00:50:12,743 --> 00:50:14,882
Why do some slaves
cost more than others?
979
00:50:14,978 --> 00:50:16,286
Uh, if they're still young and healthy,
980
00:50:16,413 --> 00:50:17,915
or if the women can
still conceive, they pay more.
981
00:50:18,048 --> 00:50:20,688
Put them back in the box, you scoundrel.
982
00:50:22,152 --> 00:50:24,029
We'll return them to Mr. Gardner's studio
983
00:50:24,121 --> 00:50:25,623
day after next.
984
00:50:26,723 --> 00:50:28,464
Be careful with them now.
985
00:50:29,326 --> 00:50:31,067
These things should have
stayed on the calf.
986
00:50:31,161 --> 00:50:35,541
When you were a slave,
Mr. Slade, did they beat you?
987
00:50:35,632 --> 00:50:37,134
I was born a free man.
988
00:50:37,267 --> 00:50:40,077
Nobody beat me
except I beat them right back.
989
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:43,217
Mr. Lincoln...
990
00:50:43,306 --> 00:50:47,254
Mrs. Keckley was a slave.
Ask her if she was beaten.
991
00:50:47,344 --> 00:50:49,119
- Were you...
- Tad.
992
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:50,714
I was beaten with a fire shovel
993
00:50:50,814 --> 00:50:52,088
when I was younger than you.
994
00:50:52,182 --> 00:50:54,992
You should go to Mrs. Lincoln.
She's in Willie's room.
995
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:57,325
She never goes in there.
996
00:50:57,454 --> 00:51:00,833
The reception line is already
stretching out the door.
997
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,766
See, I'll be the only man
over 15 and under 65
998
00:51:05,862 --> 00:51:07,899
in this whole place not in uniform.
999
00:51:07,998 --> 00:51:09,443
I'm under 15.
1000
00:51:30,153 --> 00:51:32,133
My head hurts so.
1001
00:51:35,625 --> 00:51:38,333
I prayed for death the night Willie died.
1002
00:51:39,529 --> 00:51:42,669
My headaches are how I know
I didn't get my wish.
1003
00:51:45,235 --> 00:51:48,682
How to endure the long afternoon
1004
00:51:48,805 --> 00:51:50,216
and deep into the night.
1005
00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:51,512
I know.
1006
00:51:51,641 --> 00:51:54,781
Trying not to think about him.
How will I manage?
1007
00:51:54,878 --> 00:51:56,721
- Somehow. You will.
- Somehow?
1008
00:51:56,847 --> 00:51:57,825
Oh.
1009
00:51:57,981 --> 00:51:59,961
Somehow. Somehow.
1010
00:52:02,219 --> 00:52:03,630
Every party.
1011
00:52:04,321 --> 00:52:05,561
Every...
1012
00:52:08,658 --> 00:52:09,966
And now
1013
00:52:11,361 --> 00:52:14,240
four years more in this terrible house,
1014
00:52:14,364 --> 00:52:16,139
reproaching us.
1015
00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:19,840
He was a very sick little boy.
1016
00:52:19,936 --> 00:52:22,348
We should have canceled
that reception, shouldn't we?
1017
00:52:22,439 --> 00:52:23,850
We didn't know how sick he was.
1018
00:52:23,940 --> 00:52:25,476
I knew. I knew.
1019
00:52:26,610 --> 00:52:28,920
I saw that night he was dying.
1020
00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:32,424
Three years ago,
the war was going so badly.
1021
00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:35,223
We had to put on a face.
1022
00:52:35,352 --> 00:52:36,831
But I saw Willie was dying.
1023
00:52:36,987 --> 00:52:38,489
Molly...
1024
00:52:38,588 --> 00:52:40,329
I saw him.
1025
00:52:42,792 --> 00:52:44,271
It's too hard.
1026
00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:51,574
Too hard.
1027
00:52:58,942 --> 00:53:01,047
Oh, gracious saints!
1028
00:53:13,757 --> 00:53:16,636
She's just ten feet yonder.
I'd like to keep my job.
1029
00:53:16,726 --> 00:53:18,327
- How nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
1030
00:53:18,495 --> 00:53:21,635
Senator Sumner.
It's been much too long.
1031
00:53:21,765 --> 00:53:23,369
"Oh, who can look
on that celestial face..."
1032
00:53:23,466 --> 00:53:24,444
And?
1033
00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:26,047
James Ashley, ma'am.
We've met several times.
1034
00:53:26,136 --> 00:53:27,809
Praise heavens, praise heavens.
1035
00:53:27,938 --> 00:53:30,111
Just when I had abandoned
hope of amusement,
1036
00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:31,480
it's the Chairman of the House Ways
1037
00:53:31,608 --> 00:53:33,485
- and Means Committee.
- Mrs. Lincoln.
1038
00:53:33,944 --> 00:53:36,220
Madame President, if you please.
1039
00:53:38,415 --> 00:53:40,053
Don't convene another subcommittee
1040
00:53:40,150 --> 00:53:41,254
to investigate me, sir.
1041
00:53:41,351 --> 00:53:43,160
I'm teasing. Smile, Senator Wade.
1042
00:53:43,286 --> 00:53:45,129
I believe I am smiling, Mrs. Lincoln.
1043
00:53:45,255 --> 00:53:46,427
As long as your household accounts
1044
00:53:46,523 --> 00:53:48,332
are in order, madam,
1045
00:53:48,458 --> 00:53:50,768
we'll have no need to investigate them.
1046
00:53:50,860 --> 00:53:53,739
You have always taken such a lively,
1047
00:53:53,830 --> 00:53:57,642
even prosecutorial interest
in my household accounts.
1048
00:53:57,767 --> 00:54:00,407
Your household accounts have
always been so interesting.
1049
00:54:00,503 --> 00:54:02,505
Yes, thank you. It's true.
1050
00:54:03,139 --> 00:54:05,483
The miracles I have wrought
1051
00:54:05,609 --> 00:54:08,112
out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices,
1052
00:54:08,211 --> 00:54:09,781
but I had to.
1053
00:54:11,047 --> 00:54:12,993
Four years ago, when
the President and I arrived,
1054
00:54:13,116 --> 00:54:14,595
this was pure pigsty.
1055
00:54:14,684 --> 00:54:16,630
Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets.
1056
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:20,258
Mushrooms, green as the moon,
sprouting from the ceilings.
1057
00:54:20,390 --> 00:54:23,633
And a pauper's pittance
allotted for improvements.
1058
00:54:23,727 --> 00:54:26,674
As if your committee joined
with all of Washington
1059
00:54:26,796 --> 00:54:28,275
awaiting in what you anticipated
1060
00:54:28,365 --> 00:54:30,811
would be our comfort in squalor.
1061
00:54:31,301 --> 00:54:33,611
Further proof that my husband and I
1062
00:54:33,703 --> 00:54:35,376
were prairie primitives
1063
00:54:35,505 --> 00:54:38,543
unsuited to the position to
which an error of the people,
1064
00:54:38,675 --> 00:54:42,145
a flaw in the Democratic
process had elevated us.
1065
00:54:42,245 --> 00:54:45,158
The past is the past. It's a new year now
1066
00:54:45,248 --> 00:54:49,355
and we are all getting along,
or so they tell me.
1067
00:54:49,486 --> 00:54:51,625
I gather we are working together.
1068
00:54:51,721 --> 00:54:53,701
The White House and the other House,
1069
00:54:53,823 --> 00:54:55,063
hatching little plans together.
1070
00:54:55,191 --> 00:54:56,192
- Mother.
- What?
1071
00:54:56,326 --> 00:54:58,397
- You're creating a bottleneck.
- Oh.
1072
00:54:58,528 --> 00:55:00,337
Oh, I'm detaining you.
1073
00:55:01,064 --> 00:55:03,908
And more importantly,
the people behind you.
1074
00:55:04,701 --> 00:55:07,307
How the people love my husband.
1075
00:55:07,937 --> 00:55:11,908
They flock to see him by
their thousands on public days.
1076
00:55:12,409 --> 00:55:15,413
They will never love you
the way they love him.
1077
00:55:16,546 --> 00:55:19,686
How difficult it must be
for you to know that
1078
00:55:19,783 --> 00:55:22,423
and yet how important to remember it.
1079
00:55:33,029 --> 00:55:35,839
Since we have the floor
next in the debate,
1080
00:55:35,932 --> 00:55:38,276
I thought I'd suggest you might
1081
00:55:38,935 --> 00:55:40,846
temper your contribution
1082
00:55:40,937 --> 00:55:43,918
so as not to frighten
our conservative friends.
1083
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,077
Ashley insists you're ensuring approval
1084
00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:48,086
by dispensing patronage
1085
00:55:48,211 --> 00:55:50,851
to otherwise undeserving Democrats.
1086
00:55:50,947 --> 00:55:52,790
I can't ensure a single damn thing
1087
00:55:52,916 --> 00:55:54,554
if you scare the whole House silly
1088
00:55:54,651 --> 00:55:56,392
with talk of land appropriations
1089
00:55:56,486 --> 00:55:58,397
and revolutionary tribunals.
1090
00:55:58,488 --> 00:56:00,866
When the war ends, I intend to
1091
00:56:00,990 --> 00:56:05,735
push for full equality,
the Negro vote, and much more.
1092
00:56:06,463 --> 00:56:08,170
Congress shall mandate the seizure
1093
00:56:08,298 --> 00:56:09,800
of every foot of Rebel land
1094
00:56:09,933 --> 00:56:12,470
and every dollar of their property.
1095
00:56:13,837 --> 00:56:15,339
We'll use their confiscated wealth
1096
00:56:15,472 --> 00:56:17,418
to establish hundreds of thousands
1097
00:56:17,507 --> 00:56:19,009
of free Negro farmers
1098
00:56:19,142 --> 00:56:21,782
and, at their side,
soldiers armed to occupy
1099
00:56:21,878 --> 00:56:23,448
and transform the heritage of traitors.
1100
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:26,594
We'll build up a land down there
1101
00:56:26,683 --> 00:56:29,789
of free men and free women
and free children and freedom.
1102
00:56:31,521 --> 00:56:34,661
The nation needs to know
that we have such plans.
1103
00:56:35,525 --> 00:56:38,369
That's the untempered version
of reconstruction.
1104
00:56:40,530 --> 00:56:42,168
It is not...
1105
00:56:42,298 --> 00:56:44,801
It's not quite exactly what I intend.
1106
00:56:47,170 --> 00:56:50,549
But we shall oppose one another
in the course of time.
1107
00:56:50,673 --> 00:56:52,710
Now we're working together,
and I'm asking you...
1108
00:56:52,842 --> 00:56:54,048
For patience, I expect.
1109
00:56:54,177 --> 00:56:55,884
When the people disagree,
bringing them together
1110
00:56:56,012 --> 00:56:58,515
requires going slow
until they're ready to...
1111
00:56:58,648 --> 00:57:00,685
Shit on the people and what they want
1112
00:57:00,817 --> 00:57:01,795
and what they're ready for.
1113
00:57:01,885 --> 00:57:03,057
I don't give a goddamn about the people
1114
00:57:03,186 --> 00:57:04,392
and what they want.
1115
00:57:04,521 --> 00:57:05,659
This is the face of someone
1116
00:57:05,755 --> 00:57:07,132
who has fought long and hard
1117
00:57:07,223 --> 00:57:08,327
for the good of the people
1118
00:57:08,425 --> 00:57:11,065
without caring much for any of them.
1119
00:57:11,194 --> 00:57:12,901
And I look a lot worse without my wig.
1120
00:57:14,197 --> 00:57:17,701
The people elected me
to represent them,
1121
00:57:17,834 --> 00:57:20,474
to lead them, and I lead.
You ought to try it.
1122
00:57:23,206 --> 00:57:26,346
I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens
1123
00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:30,186
and I have tried to profit
from the example of it, but
1124
00:57:31,247 --> 00:57:32,248
if I'd listened to you,
1125
00:57:32,382 --> 00:57:33,743
I'd have declared every slave free
1126
00:57:33,850 --> 00:57:36,353
the minute the first shell
struck Fort Sumter.
1127
00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:37,989
And the border states
would have gone over
1128
00:57:38,087 --> 00:57:40,226
to the Confederacy,
the war would have been lost
1129
00:57:40,356 --> 00:57:41,733
and the Union along with it,
1130
00:57:41,858 --> 00:57:43,769
and instead of abolishing slavery
1131
00:57:43,893 --> 00:57:45,566
as we hope to do in two weeks,
1132
00:57:45,695 --> 00:57:48,232
we'd be watching,
helpless as infants, as it spread
1133
00:57:48,364 --> 00:57:50,435
from the American South
into South America.
1134
00:57:50,567 --> 00:57:53,343
Oh, how you have longed
to say that to me.
1135
00:57:54,270 --> 00:57:55,943
You claim you trust them,
1136
00:57:56,072 --> 00:57:58,382
but you know what the people are.
1137
00:57:59,242 --> 00:58:02,018
You know that the inner compass,
1138
00:58:02,111 --> 00:58:04,591
that should direct the soul
towards justice
1139
00:58:04,714 --> 00:58:08,287
has ossified in white men
and women, North and South,
1140
00:58:08,418 --> 00:58:10,193
unto utter uselessness,
1141
00:58:10,286 --> 00:58:12,459
through tolerating the evil of slavery.
1142
00:58:12,589 --> 00:58:14,626
White people cannot bear the thought
1143
00:58:14,757 --> 00:58:16,600
of sharing this country's
infinite abundance
1144
00:58:16,726 --> 00:58:18,262
with Negroes.
1145
00:58:20,597 --> 00:58:23,601
A compass, I learned
when I was surveying,
1146
00:58:24,300 --> 00:58:27,440
it'll point you true north
from where you're standing.
1147
00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:29,379
But it's got no advice about
1148
00:58:29,472 --> 00:58:32,078
the swamps and deserts and chasms
1149
00:58:32,175 --> 00:58:34,712
that you'll encounter along the way.
1150
00:58:34,811 --> 00:58:36,222
If in pursuit of your destination,
1151
00:58:36,312 --> 00:58:38,223
you plunge ahead,
heedless of obstacles
1152
00:58:38,314 --> 00:58:41,727
and achieve nothing more
than to sink in a swamp,
1153
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:45,497
what's the use of knowing true north?
1154
00:59:01,804 --> 00:59:05,149
Robert's going to plead
with us to let him enlist.
1155
00:59:07,710 --> 00:59:11,817
Make time to talk to Robbie.
You only have time for Tad.
1156
00:59:11,915 --> 00:59:13,360
Tad is young.
1157
00:59:13,850 --> 00:59:17,559
So is Robert. Too young for the Army.
1158
00:59:17,687 --> 00:59:20,668
Plenty of boys younger
than Robert signing up.
1159
00:59:23,693 --> 00:59:25,331
Don't take Robbie.
1160
00:59:26,062 --> 00:59:27,803
Don't let me lose my son.
1161
00:59:28,998 --> 00:59:31,706
Go away! We're occupied!
1162
00:59:35,572 --> 00:59:36,812
Secretary Stanton has sent over
1163
00:59:36,906 --> 00:59:38,467
to tell you that as of half an hour ago
1164
00:59:38,474 --> 00:59:40,818
the shelling of Wilmington Harbor
has commenced.
1165
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:48,722
They cannot possibly maintain
under this kind of an assault.
1166
00:59:48,851 --> 00:59:51,331
Terry has got 10,000 men
surrounding the goddamn port.
1167
00:59:51,421 --> 00:59:52,399
Why doesn't he answer...
1168
00:59:52,522 --> 00:59:54,468
Fort Fisher is a mountain
of a building, Edwin.
1169
00:59:54,557 --> 00:59:55,627
It's the largest fort they have, sir.
1170
00:59:55,725 --> 00:59:57,568
Twenty-two big Seacoast guns
on each rampart.
1171
00:59:57,660 --> 00:59:58,934
They've been reinforcing it
for the last two years.
1172
00:59:59,028 --> 01:00:01,133
They've taken 17,000 shells
since yesterday!
1173
01:00:01,230 --> 01:00:03,836
I want to hear Fort Fisher is ours
1174
01:00:03,933 --> 01:00:05,139
and Wilmington has fallen.
1175
01:00:05,234 --> 01:00:06,713
Send another damn cable!
1176
01:00:06,836 --> 01:00:09,407
The problem's their
commander, Whiting!
1177
01:00:10,206 --> 01:00:11,651
He engineered the fortress himself,
1178
01:00:11,741 --> 01:00:12,822
the damn thing's his child.
1179
01:00:12,875 --> 01:00:15,219
He'll defend it till
his every last man is gone.
1180
01:00:15,345 --> 01:00:17,757
"Come on out, you old rat!"
1181
01:00:19,849 --> 01:00:23,820
That's
what Ethan Allen called out
1182
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,424
to the commander
of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.
1183
01:00:27,557 --> 01:00:29,594
"Come on out, you old rat!"
1184
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:31,932
Of course, there were only
1185
01:00:32,061 --> 01:00:34,439
40 odd Redcoats at Ticonderoga.
1186
01:00:35,698 --> 01:00:39,373
There is one Ethan Allen story
that I'm very partial to.
1187
01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:41,949
No, you're going to tell a story.
1188
01:00:42,605 --> 01:00:45,017
I don't believe that I can bear
1189
01:00:45,108 --> 01:00:47,108
to listen to another one
of your stories right now.
1190
01:00:47,777 --> 01:00:50,621
I need the B&O sideyard
schedules for Alexandria!
1191
01:00:50,747 --> 01:00:52,192
I asked for them this morning!
1192
01:00:52,281 --> 01:00:56,855
It was
right after the Revolution,
1193
01:00:56,953 --> 01:00:59,297
right after peace had been concluded.
1194
01:00:59,422 --> 01:01:02,369
And Ethan Allen went to London
1195
01:01:02,458 --> 01:01:04,096
to help our new country
1196
01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:06,605
conduct its business with the King.
1197
01:01:07,563 --> 01:01:10,237
The English sneered
at how rough we are
1198
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:12,643
and rude and simple-minded,
and on like that,
1199
01:01:12,769 --> 01:01:13,747
everywhere he went
1200
01:01:13,836 --> 01:01:16,783
till one day he was invited
to the townhouse
1201
01:01:16,906 --> 01:01:18,817
of a great English lord.
1202
01:01:21,144 --> 01:01:24,091
Dinner was served
and beverages imbibed,
1203
01:01:24,914 --> 01:01:27,258
time passed, as happens, and
1204
01:01:27,350 --> 01:01:29,956
Mr. Allen found he needed the privy.
1205
01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:34,092
He was grateful to be directed thence.
1206
01:01:37,827 --> 01:01:39,898
- Relieved, you might say.
1207
01:01:41,964 --> 01:01:44,638
Now, Mr. Allen discovered
1208
01:01:45,501 --> 01:01:46,775
on entering the water closet,
1209
01:01:46,869 --> 01:01:49,440
that the only decoration therein
1210
01:01:49,539 --> 01:01:50,072
was a portrait of George Washington.
1211
01:01:50,073 --> 01:01:52,144
Was a portrait of George Washington.
1212
01:01:55,645 --> 01:01:58,023
Ethan Allen done what he came to do,
1213
01:01:58,147 --> 01:02:00,457
and returned to the drawing room.
1214
01:02:01,184 --> 01:02:03,289
His host and the others
were disappointed
1215
01:02:03,386 --> 01:02:05,423
when he didn't mention
Washington's portrait.
1216
01:02:05,521 --> 01:02:08,127
Finally, His Lordship couldn't
resist and asked Mr. Allen
1217
01:02:08,224 --> 01:02:09,984
had he noticed it,
the picture of Washington.
1218
01:02:10,026 --> 01:02:11,471
He had.
1219
01:02:11,561 --> 01:02:13,201
Well, what did he think of its placement,
1220
01:02:13,229 --> 01:02:16,267
did it seem appropriately
located to Mr. Allen?
1221
01:02:16,365 --> 01:02:18,436
Mr. Allen said it did.
1222
01:02:18,534 --> 01:02:20,207
His host was astounded.
1223
01:02:20,336 --> 01:02:22,338
"Appropriate?"
1224
01:02:22,472 --> 01:02:25,351
"George Washington's likeness
in a water closet?"
1225
01:02:25,475 --> 01:02:28,820
"Yes," said Mr. Allen.
"Where it'll do good service.
1226
01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:31,699
"The whole world knows nothing
will make an Englishman
1227
01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:33,989
shit quicker than the sight
of George Washington."
1228
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:40,367
I love that story.
1229
01:03:07,183 --> 01:03:09,390
Fort Fisher is ours. We've taken the port.
1230
01:03:09,519 --> 01:03:11,021
And Wilmington?
1231
01:03:13,156 --> 01:03:14,226
We've taken the fort,
1232
01:03:14,357 --> 01:03:16,633
but the city of Wilmington
has not surrendered.
1233
01:03:17,493 --> 01:03:19,200
How many casualties?
1234
01:03:31,574 --> 01:03:33,520
- Heavy losses.
- And more to come.
1235
01:03:33,609 --> 01:03:36,180
It sours the national mood.
It might suffice...
1236
01:03:36,279 --> 01:03:38,156
To what? To bring this down?
1237
01:03:38,247 --> 01:03:40,727
Not in a fight like this.
This is to the death.
1238
01:03:40,850 --> 01:03:42,386
That's gruesome.
1239
01:03:42,718 --> 01:03:45,198
Are you despairing or merely lazy?
1240
01:03:45,288 --> 01:03:48,394
This fight is for
the United States of America.
1241
01:03:48,524 --> 01:03:51,437
Nothing "suffices." A rumor? Nothing.
1242
01:03:51,561 --> 01:03:54,405
They're not lazy.
They're busily buying votes
1243
01:03:54,530 --> 01:03:57,773
while we hope to be saved
by "the national mood"?
1244
01:04:03,773 --> 01:04:07,380
Before this blood is dry, when
Stevens next takes the floor,
1245
01:04:07,476 --> 01:04:09,217
taunt him. You excel at that.
1246
01:04:09,312 --> 01:04:11,383
Get him to proclaim what
we all know he believes
1247
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,084
in his coal-colored heart.
1248
01:04:13,216 --> 01:04:15,890
That this vote is meant
to set the black race on high,
1249
01:04:15,985 --> 01:04:16,963
to niggerate America...
1250
01:04:17,086 --> 01:04:19,464
George, please, stay on course.
1251
01:04:20,323 --> 01:04:22,428
Bring Stevens to full froth.
1252
01:04:23,292 --> 01:04:25,033
I can ensure that every newspaperman
1253
01:04:25,127 --> 01:04:26,470
from Louisville to San Francisco
1254
01:04:26,596 --> 01:04:28,473
will be here to witness it and print it.
1255
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,710
The floor belongs to
the mellifluent gentleman
1256
01:04:33,803 --> 01:04:36,283
from Kentucky, Mr. George Yeaman.
1257
01:04:42,144 --> 01:04:44,249
I thank you, Speaker Colfax.
1258
01:04:52,054 --> 01:04:55,797
Although I am disgusted by slavery,
1259
01:04:59,962 --> 01:05:02,533
I rise on this sad and solemn day
1260
01:05:03,199 --> 01:05:06,339
to announce that
I'm opposed to the amendment.
1261
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,653
We must consider what
will become of colored folk
1262
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:18,624
if four million are, in one instant, set free.
1263
01:05:19,048 --> 01:05:20,220
They'll be free, George,
1264
01:05:20,349 --> 01:05:22,192
that's what will become of them.
1265
01:05:23,452 --> 01:05:24,453
Think how splendid
1266
01:05:25,488 --> 01:05:27,365
if Mr. Yeaman switched.
1267
01:05:27,490 --> 01:05:30,300
Too publicly against us.
He can't change course now.
1268
01:05:30,393 --> 01:05:33,499
Not for some miserable
little job, anyways.
1269
01:05:33,596 --> 01:05:36,736
And we will be forced to enfranchise
1270
01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:39,142
the men of the colored race.
1271
01:05:39,235 --> 01:05:41,306
It would be inhuman not to.
1272
01:05:42,071 --> 01:05:45,678
Now who among us is prepared
to give Negroes the vote?
1273
01:05:47,143 --> 01:05:48,383
And, and,
1274
01:05:48,511 --> 01:05:50,718
what shall follow upon that?
1275
01:05:51,514 --> 01:05:53,516
Universal enfranchisement?
1276
01:05:54,884 --> 01:05:55,919
Votes for women?
1277
01:06:03,693 --> 01:06:04,831
We...
1278
01:06:07,430 --> 01:06:08,431
Bless my eyes.
1279
01:06:08,564 --> 01:06:11,135
If it isn't the Postmaster
of Millersburg, Ohio.
1280
01:06:13,202 --> 01:06:16,240
Mr. LeClerk felt honor-bound
to inform us
1281
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,249
of your disgusting betrayal.
1282
01:06:20,443 --> 01:06:22,081
Your prostitution.
1283
01:06:23,212 --> 01:06:25,556
Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins?
1284
01:06:26,882 --> 01:06:27,816
Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
1285
01:06:27,817 --> 01:06:29,194
Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
1286
01:06:32,054 --> 01:06:33,032
If my neighbors hear
1287
01:06:33,122 --> 01:06:34,294
that I voted yes for nigger freedom
1288
01:06:34,423 --> 01:06:35,823
and no to peace, they will kill me.
1289
01:06:35,925 --> 01:06:36,960
A deal is a deal.
1290
01:06:37,093 --> 01:06:38,629
You men know better
than to piss your pants
1291
01:06:38,761 --> 01:06:40,206
just 'cause there's talk
about peace talks.
1292
01:06:40,296 --> 01:06:42,207
- Look, I'll find another job!
- My neighbors in Nashville,
1293
01:06:42,298 --> 01:06:43,899
they found out I was loyal to the Union,
1294
01:06:43,933 --> 01:06:45,310
they came after me with gelding knives.
1295
01:06:45,434 --> 01:06:46,936
- I'll find another job.
- You do right, Clay Hawkins.
1296
01:06:47,069 --> 01:06:50,380
I want to do right! But I got no courage!
1297
01:06:50,473 --> 01:06:52,111
Wait. You wanted...
What was it?
1298
01:06:52,241 --> 01:06:54,050
A tax man for the Western Reserve?
1299
01:06:54,143 --> 01:06:55,952
Hell, you can have the whole
state of Ohio if you want...
1300
01:06:56,078 --> 01:06:57,557
Oh, crap.
1301
01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:01,657
Eleven votes?
1302
01:07:01,784 --> 01:07:03,957
Two days ago, we had twelve.
What happened?
1303
01:07:04,086 --> 01:07:05,064
There are defections in the ranks.
1304
01:07:05,154 --> 01:07:06,132
It's the goddamn rumors
1305
01:07:06,255 --> 01:07:07,233
regarding the Richmond delegation.
1306
01:07:07,323 --> 01:07:08,301
- Yes. The peace offer.
- Groundless.
1307
01:07:08,424 --> 01:07:10,995
- And yet the rumors persist.
- They are ruining us.
1308
01:07:11,127 --> 01:07:13,164
Among the few
remaining Representatives
1309
01:07:13,295 --> 01:07:14,831
who seem remotely plausible,
1310
01:07:14,964 --> 01:07:17,444
there is a perceptible
increase in resistance.
1311
01:07:17,533 --> 01:07:19,137
Resistance, hell.
1312
01:07:19,835 --> 01:07:22,145
Thingamabob Hollister,
Dem from Indiana.
1313
01:07:22,271 --> 01:07:24,979
I approached him,
sumbitch near to murdered me.
1314
01:07:25,107 --> 01:07:27,986
Colorado Territory... What's this one?
1315
01:07:28,511 --> 01:07:31,651
Job description... Taxpayers and...
1316
01:07:31,781 --> 01:07:33,522
Oh, shit! Cracky!
1317
01:07:42,691 --> 01:07:45,433
Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Goddamn!
1318
01:07:51,567 --> 01:07:54,173
- Perhaps you pushed too hard.
- I push nobody.
1319
01:07:54,637 --> 01:07:56,878
Perhaps we need reinforcements.
1320
01:07:57,339 --> 01:07:59,546
If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities,
1321
01:07:59,675 --> 01:08:02,121
who do you think is going to
give a genuine solid shit
1322
01:08:02,211 --> 01:08:03,281
to free slaves?
1323
01:08:03,379 --> 01:08:04,619
Get back to it.
1324
01:08:05,514 --> 01:08:07,221
And gentlemen, good day.
1325
01:08:08,417 --> 01:08:09,987
We are at an impasse.
1326
01:08:10,086 --> 01:08:12,396
Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.
1327
01:08:12,521 --> 01:08:13,721
Tell us what you expect of us.
1328
01:08:14,023 --> 01:08:15,730
I expect you to do your work.
1329
01:08:15,858 --> 01:08:17,360
And have sufficient sense and taste
1330
01:08:17,493 --> 01:08:19,973
not to presume to instruct the President.
1331
01:08:20,062 --> 01:08:21,040
Or me.
1332
01:08:21,931 --> 01:08:24,673
Is there a Confederate offer, or not?
1333
01:08:40,716 --> 01:08:42,354
Gentlemen.
1334
01:08:44,687 --> 01:08:47,099
I suggest you work some changes
to your proposal
1335
01:08:47,223 --> 01:08:49,225
before you give it to the President.
1336
01:08:49,358 --> 01:08:51,395
We're eager to be on our way
to Washington.
1337
01:08:51,527 --> 01:08:53,700
Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?
1338
01:08:53,796 --> 01:08:57,744
It says "securing peace
for our two countries"
1339
01:08:57,867 --> 01:08:59,369
and it goes on like that.
1340
01:09:00,302 --> 01:09:02,441
- I don't...
- There is just one country.
1341
01:09:02,571 --> 01:09:04,881
You and I, we're citizens of that country.
1342
01:09:05,274 --> 01:09:08,221
I'm fighting to protect it
from armed rebels.
1343
01:09:08,878 --> 01:09:10,050
From you.
1344
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:12,057
But Mr. Blair, he told us,
1345
01:09:12,148 --> 01:09:14,526
he told President
Jefferson Davis that we...
1346
01:09:14,617 --> 01:09:17,120
A private citizen like Preston Blair
1347
01:09:17,253 --> 01:09:18,288
can say what he pleases,
1348
01:09:18,420 --> 01:09:21,230
since he has no authority over anything.
1349
01:09:21,323 --> 01:09:24,861
If you want to discuss peace
with President Lincoln,
1350
01:09:25,961 --> 01:09:27,770
consider revisions.
1351
01:09:28,297 --> 01:09:29,799
If we're not to discuss
1352
01:09:29,932 --> 01:09:32,378
a truce between warring nations,
1353
01:09:32,468 --> 01:09:34,379
what in heaven's name can we discuss?
1354
01:09:35,437 --> 01:09:37,110
Terms of surrender.
1355
01:09:39,608 --> 01:09:41,713
"Office United States
Military Telegraph,
1356
01:09:41,810 --> 01:09:42,788
"War Department."
1357
01:09:42,912 --> 01:09:45,290
"For Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States."
1358
01:09:45,414 --> 01:09:47,587
January 20, 1865.
1359
01:09:48,150 --> 01:09:50,426
"I will state confidentially
that I am convinced
1360
01:09:50,519 --> 01:09:52,795
upon conversation
with these commissioners
1361
01:09:52,922 --> 01:09:54,401
that their intentions are good
1362
01:09:54,490 --> 01:09:57,767
and their desire sincere
to restore peace and union."
1363
01:09:58,460 --> 01:10:00,303
"I fear now they're going back
1364
01:10:00,429 --> 01:10:03,410
without any expression
of interest from anyone
1365
01:10:03,499 --> 01:10:07,003
in authority, Mr. Lincoln,
will have a bad influence."
1366
01:10:08,304 --> 01:10:11,308
"I will be sorry should
it prove impossible for you
1367
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:12,976
to have an interview with them."
1368
01:10:13,108 --> 01:10:15,349
"I am awaiting your instructions."
1369
01:10:17,213 --> 01:10:19,420
"U.S. Grant, Lieutenant General,
1370
01:10:19,515 --> 01:10:21,085
Commanding Armies, United States."
1371
01:10:23,152 --> 01:10:25,359
After four years of war, and
1372
01:10:26,622 --> 01:10:29,159
near 600,000 lives lost,
1373
01:10:29,291 --> 01:10:32,033
he believes we can end this war now.
1374
01:10:35,731 --> 01:10:38,541
My trust in him is marrow deep.
1375
01:10:44,807 --> 01:10:47,651
You could bring the delegates
to Washington.
1376
01:10:47,977 --> 01:10:50,184
In exchange for the South's
immediate surrender,
1377
01:10:50,312 --> 01:10:53,225
we could promise them
the amendment's defeat.
1378
01:10:54,583 --> 01:10:59,225
They'd agree, don't you think?
We'd end the war. This week.
1379
01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:03,126
Or, if you could manage
1380
01:11:03,225 --> 01:11:06,297
without seeming to do it, to, uh...
1381
01:11:10,432 --> 01:11:12,537
The peace delegation
might encounter delays
1382
01:11:12,668 --> 01:11:14,579
as they travel up the James River.
1383
01:11:14,703 --> 01:11:17,047
Particularly with the fighting
around Wilmington.
1384
01:11:23,946 --> 01:11:25,357
Within ten days' time,
1385
01:11:25,447 --> 01:11:28,053
we might pass the 13th Amendment.
1386
01:12:10,659 --> 01:12:12,935
Here's a 16-year-old boy,
1387
01:12:13,062 --> 01:12:14,598
they're going to hang him.
1388
01:12:14,730 --> 01:12:17,438
He's with the Fifteenth
Indiana Cavalry near Bulford.
1389
01:12:17,566 --> 01:12:20,479
It seems he lamed his horse
to avoid battle.
1390
01:12:22,404 --> 01:12:23,883
I don't think even Stanton
would complain
1391
01:12:23,972 --> 01:12:24,950
if I pardoned him.
1392
01:12:25,074 --> 01:12:26,395
You think Stanton would complain?
1393
01:12:26,408 --> 01:12:29,480
I don't know, sir.
I don't know who you're, uh...
1394
01:12:29,611 --> 01:12:31,989
- What time is it?
- It's 3:40 in the morning.
1395
01:12:32,114 --> 01:12:35,584
Don't let him pardon any more deserters.
1396
01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:38,392
Mr. Stanton thinks you pardon too many.
1397
01:12:38,487 --> 01:12:39,989
He's generally apoplectic on the subject.
1398
01:12:40,122 --> 01:12:41,658
He oughtn't have done that,
crippled his horse.
1399
01:12:41,790 --> 01:12:43,064
That was cruel, but you don't just hang
1400
01:12:43,158 --> 01:12:44,136
a 16-year-old boy for that...
1401
01:12:44,259 --> 01:12:45,419
Ask the horse what he thinks.
1402
01:12:45,494 --> 01:12:49,067
...for cruelty. There'd be
no 16-year-old boys left.
1403
01:13:07,683 --> 01:13:09,993
Grant wants me to bring
the secesh delegates
1404
01:13:10,119 --> 01:13:11,598
to Washington.
1405
01:13:14,022 --> 01:13:16,263
So there are secesh delegates?
1406
01:13:16,992 --> 01:13:19,268
He was afraid, that's all it was.
1407
01:13:19,361 --> 01:13:22,274
I don't care to hang a boy
for being frightened, either.
1408
01:13:22,898 --> 01:13:24,935
What good would it do him?
1409
01:13:39,681 --> 01:13:41,991
War's nearly done, ain't that so?
1410
01:13:45,387 --> 01:13:47,492
What use is one more corpse?
1411
01:13:49,758 --> 01:13:51,362
Any more corpses?
1412
01:14:00,502 --> 01:14:02,379
Do you need company?
1413
01:14:02,504 --> 01:14:05,348
In times like this,
I'm best alone.
1414
01:14:44,213 --> 01:14:48,423
"Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant, City Point."
1415
01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:52,025
"I have read your words with interest."
1416
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:53,098
"I ask that,
1417
01:14:53,222 --> 01:14:55,600
regardless of any action
I take in the matter
1418
01:14:55,724 --> 01:14:58,762
of the visit of
the Richmond commissioners
1419
01:14:59,795 --> 01:15:01,365
you maintain among your troops
1420
01:15:01,463 --> 01:15:04,239
military preparedness for battle
1421
01:15:05,300 --> 01:15:07,541
as you have done until now."
1422
01:15:13,675 --> 01:15:16,155
"Have Captain Saunders convey
the commissioners to me
1423
01:15:16,278 --> 01:15:17,951
here in Washington."
1424
01:15:19,414 --> 01:15:21,416
"A. Lincoln." And the date.
1425
01:15:21,650 --> 01:15:22,924
Yes, sir.
1426
01:15:27,022 --> 01:15:28,831
Shall I transmit, sir?
1427
01:15:32,494 --> 01:15:34,735
You think we choose to be born?
1428
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:42,243
I don't suppose so.
1429
01:15:43,605 --> 01:15:46,415
Are we fitted to the times
we're born into?
1430
01:15:48,310 --> 01:15:49,983
Well, I don't know about myself.
1431
01:15:51,013 --> 01:15:52,458
You may be,
1432
01:15:53,348 --> 01:15:54,850
sir. Fitted.
1433
01:15:59,021 --> 01:16:00,625
What do you reckon?
1434
01:16:02,624 --> 01:16:04,661
Well, I'm an engineer.
1435
01:16:07,296 --> 01:16:09,207
I reckon there's machinery,
1436
01:16:09,331 --> 01:16:12,210
but no one's done the fitting.
1437
01:16:15,704 --> 01:16:17,377
You're an engineer.
1438
01:16:17,739 --> 01:16:21,277
You must know Euclid's axioms
and common notions.
1439
01:16:23,545 --> 01:16:25,354
I must have in school, but...
1440
01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:26,680
I never had much of schooling,
1441
01:16:26,748 --> 01:16:29,627
but I read Euclid
in an old book I borrowed.
1442
01:16:30,485 --> 01:16:33,056
Little enough ever found its way in here,
1443
01:16:33,188 --> 01:16:35,532
but once learnt, it stayed learnt.
1444
01:16:38,427 --> 01:16:41,135
Euclid's first common notion is this,
1445
01:16:41,830 --> 01:16:44,140
"Things which are equal
to the same thing
1446
01:16:44,232 --> 01:16:47,076
are equal to each other."
1447
01:16:48,770 --> 01:16:51,080
That's a rule of mathematical reasoning.
1448
01:16:51,206 --> 01:16:53,482
It's true because it works.
1449
01:16:53,575 --> 01:16:55,680
Has done and always will do.
1450
01:16:58,013 --> 01:17:00,493
In his book, mmm,
1451
01:17:01,550 --> 01:17:04,030
Euclid says this is "self-evident."
1452
01:17:05,020 --> 01:17:05,998
You see? There it is,
1453
01:17:06,088 --> 01:17:08,728
even in that 2,000-year-old book
1454
01:17:08,857 --> 01:17:10,393
of mechanical law.
1455
01:17:10,525 --> 01:17:12,436
It is a self-evident truth
1456
01:17:12,561 --> 01:17:15,599
that things which are equal
to the same thing
1457
01:17:15,731 --> 01:17:17,938
are equal to each other.
1458
01:17:21,036 --> 01:17:22,913
We begin with equality.
1459
01:17:24,373 --> 01:17:25,909
That's the origin, isn't it?
1460
01:17:26,041 --> 01:17:28,885
That's balance. That's... That's fairness.
1461
01:17:33,582 --> 01:17:35,528
That's justice.
1462
01:17:42,591 --> 01:17:44,298
Just read me back the last sentence
1463
01:17:44,426 --> 01:17:46,633
of the telegram, please.
1464
01:17:47,295 --> 01:17:49,400
"Have Captain Saunders convey
the commissioners to me
1465
01:17:49,498 --> 01:17:50,476
here in Washington."
1466
01:17:51,233 --> 01:17:53,804
A slight emendation,
if you would, Sam.
1467
01:17:57,339 --> 01:17:59,080
"Have Captain Saunders
convey the gentlemen
1468
01:17:59,174 --> 01:18:00,380
aboard the River Queen
1469
01:18:01,243 --> 01:18:04,918
as far as Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1470
01:18:05,347 --> 01:18:07,384
and there wait until
1471
01:18:10,085 --> 01:18:12,497
further advice from me."
1472
01:18:14,956 --> 01:18:17,163
"Do not proceed to Washington."
1473
01:19:02,671 --> 01:19:05,151
The World, the Herald,
the Times,
1474
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:07,151
New York, Chicago,
1475
01:19:07,509 --> 01:19:09,386
the Journal of Commerce,
1476
01:19:09,511 --> 01:19:11,047
even your hometown paper's here.
1477
01:19:11,179 --> 01:19:14,649
Say you believe only in
legal equality for all races,
1478
01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:16,127
not racial equality.
1479
01:19:16,218 --> 01:19:17,856
I beg you, sir.
1480
01:19:18,220 --> 01:19:21,326
Compromise. Or you risk it all.
1481
01:19:43,044 --> 01:19:45,081
I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens,
1482
01:19:45,213 --> 01:19:47,090
and you must answer me.
1483
01:19:47,849 --> 01:19:50,193
Do you or do you not
hold that the precept
1484
01:19:50,285 --> 01:19:53,732
that "All men are created equal"
is meant literally?
1485
01:19:59,361 --> 01:20:02,171
Is that not the true purpose
of the amendment?
1486
01:20:02,264 --> 01:20:05,108
To promote your ultimate
and ardent dream to elevate...
1487
01:20:05,233 --> 01:20:07,611
The true purpose
of the amendment, Mr. Wood,
1488
01:20:07,736 --> 01:20:09,511
you perfectly named,
1489
01:20:09,604 --> 01:20:11,743
brainless obstructive object...
1490
01:20:13,141 --> 01:20:16,384
Now you have always insisted,
Mr. Stevens,
1491
01:20:17,245 --> 01:20:20,783
that Negroes are the same
as white men are.
1492
01:20:21,716 --> 01:20:24,219
The true purpose of the amendment...
1493
01:20:52,681 --> 01:20:54,092
I don't hold with equality in all things,
1494
01:20:54,182 --> 01:20:56,287
only with equality before the law.
Nothing more.
1495
01:20:58,086 --> 01:21:00,657
That's... That's not so.
1496
01:21:01,323 --> 01:21:04,736
You believe that Negroes are
entirely equal to white men.
1497
01:21:04,826 --> 01:21:06,106
You've said it a thousand times!
1498
01:21:06,127 --> 01:21:08,437
For shame! For shame!
1499
01:21:08,530 --> 01:21:11,340
Stop prevaricating and
answer Representative Wood!
1500
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:13,637
I don't hold with equality in all things,
1501
01:21:13,735 --> 01:21:14,770
only with equality before the law.
1502
01:21:14,870 --> 01:21:17,749
After the decades of fervent advocacy...
1503
01:21:18,173 --> 01:21:19,811
He's answered your questions!
1504
01:21:19,941 --> 01:21:21,742
This amendment's
not to do with race equality.
1505
01:21:21,776 --> 01:21:24,916
I don't hold with equality in all things,
1506
01:21:25,013 --> 01:21:28,620
only with equality before
the law, and nothing more!
1507
01:21:28,717 --> 01:21:30,924
Who'd ever have guessed
that old nightmare
1508
01:21:31,019 --> 01:21:32,828
capable of such control?
1509
01:21:32,954 --> 01:21:34,763
He might make a politician someday.
1510
01:21:34,856 --> 01:21:36,096
I need to go.
1511
01:21:36,191 --> 01:21:37,636
Mrs. Keckley.
1512
01:21:40,462 --> 01:21:43,170
Your frantic attempt to delude us now
1513
01:21:43,298 --> 01:21:44,834
is unworthy of a representative.
1514
01:21:44,966 --> 01:21:47,003
It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
1515
01:21:51,306 --> 01:21:53,786
How can I hold that
all men are created equal
1516
01:21:53,875 --> 01:21:56,947
when here before me stands, stinking,
1517
01:21:57,045 --> 01:22:00,618
the moral carcass of
the gentleman from Ohio, proof
1518
01:22:00,715 --> 01:22:03,195
that some men are inferior,
1519
01:22:03,318 --> 01:22:05,821
endowed by their Maker with dim wits,
1520
01:22:05,921 --> 01:22:07,867
impermeable to reason,
1521
01:22:07,989 --> 01:22:11,027
with cold, pallid slime in their veins
1522
01:22:11,159 --> 01:22:13,503
instead of hot, red blood!
1523
01:22:13,595 --> 01:22:17,338
You are more reptile than man, George!
1524
01:22:17,432 --> 01:22:19,742
So low and flat that the foot of man
1525
01:22:19,868 --> 01:22:21,211
is incapable of crushing you.
1526
01:22:21,336 --> 01:22:23,077
How dare you?
1527
01:22:23,204 --> 01:22:26,310
Yet even you, Pendleton,
1528
01:22:27,542 --> 01:22:29,317
who should have been
gibbeted for treason
1529
01:22:29,411 --> 01:22:30,412
long before today.
1530
01:22:30,545 --> 01:22:33,025
Even worthless, unworthy you
1531
01:22:33,114 --> 01:22:36,095
ought to be treated equally
before the law!
1532
01:22:37,919 --> 01:22:41,594
And so again, sir, again
and again and again I say,
1533
01:22:41,723 --> 01:22:44,829
I do not hold with equality in all things,
1534
01:22:44,926 --> 01:22:47,167
only with equality before the law.
1535
01:22:51,099 --> 01:22:54,171
Mr. Speaker, will you permit
this vile, boorish man
1536
01:22:54,269 --> 01:22:56,715
to slander and to threaten me?
1537
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:58,383
And to reduce these proceedings
1538
01:22:58,540 --> 01:23:01,783
on this most important matter
into an anarchic
1539
01:23:02,444 --> 01:23:04,685
and tawdry burlesque?
1540
01:23:28,970 --> 01:23:32,383
You asked if ever I was surprised.
1541
01:23:32,907 --> 01:23:35,547
Today, Mr. Stevens,
1542
01:23:35,744 --> 01:23:36,722
I was surprised.
1543
01:23:37,645 --> 01:23:41,218
You've led the battle for
race equality for 30 years.
1544
01:23:46,588 --> 01:23:49,762
The basis of every hope for
this country's future life,
1545
01:23:49,858 --> 01:23:52,896
you denied Negro equality.
I'm nauseated.
1546
01:23:52,994 --> 01:23:55,565
You refused to say that all humans are...
1547
01:23:55,663 --> 01:23:57,404
Well, human.
1548
01:23:58,166 --> 01:24:00,544
Have you lost your very soul,
Mr. Stevens?
1549
01:24:00,902 --> 01:24:02,142
Is there nothing you won't say?
1550
01:24:02,237 --> 01:24:03,910
I'm sorry you're nauseous, Asa.
1551
01:24:04,005 --> 01:24:05,609
That must be unpleasant.
1552
01:24:06,841 --> 01:24:08,115
I want the amendment to pass,
1553
01:24:08,243 --> 01:24:10,154
so that the Constitution's first
1554
01:24:10,278 --> 01:24:11,621
and only mention of slavery
1555
01:24:11,746 --> 01:24:13,919
is its absolute prohibition.
1556
01:24:14,015 --> 01:24:16,325
For this amendment, for which
I have worked all my life
1557
01:24:16,451 --> 01:24:19,057
and for which countless
colored men and women
1558
01:24:19,154 --> 01:24:20,258
have fought and died
1559
01:24:20,355 --> 01:24:23,336
and now hundreds
of thousands of soldiers...
1560
01:24:23,458 --> 01:24:24,994
No, sir, no.
1561
01:24:26,027 --> 01:24:29,167
It seems there's very nearly
nothing I won't say.
1562
01:25:00,158 --> 01:25:01,762
I'm not going in.
1563
01:25:06,898 --> 01:25:09,139
You said you wanted to help me.
1564
01:25:09,635 --> 01:25:13,378
But this is just a clumsy attempt
to discourage me.
1565
01:25:13,505 --> 01:25:15,849
I've been to Army hospitals.
I've seen surgeries.
1566
01:25:15,974 --> 01:25:18,887
I went and visited
the malaria barges with Mama.
1567
01:25:19,011 --> 01:25:20,854
She told me she didn't take you inside.
1568
01:25:20,979 --> 01:25:22,390
I snuck in afterwards.
1569
01:25:22,514 --> 01:25:24,790
I've seen what it's like.
This changes nothing.
1570
01:25:27,653 --> 01:25:28,996
Well, at all rate, son,
1571
01:25:29,121 --> 01:25:30,930
I'm happy to have your company.
1572
01:25:37,663 --> 01:25:40,269
- Good morning, Jim.
- Hello, Mr. President.
1573
01:25:40,365 --> 01:25:42,174
- Good to see you again.
- Good to see you.
1574
01:25:43,368 --> 01:25:46,941
Well, boys, first question.
You getting enough to eat?
1575
01:25:47,239 --> 01:25:48,274
Hello, sir.
1576
01:25:48,373 --> 01:25:49,716
- What's your name, soldier?
- Robert.
1577
01:25:49,841 --> 01:25:52,321
- Good to meet you, Robert.
- Nice to meet you.
1578
01:25:52,411 --> 01:25:53,492
- What's your name?
- Kevin.
1579
01:25:53,512 --> 01:25:54,513
Tell me your names as I go past.
1580
01:25:54,646 --> 01:25:55,989
I'd like to know who I'm talking to. Kevin.
1581
01:25:56,081 --> 01:25:58,960
- Mr. President. John.
- John. I've seen you before.
1582
01:25:59,051 --> 01:26:00,121
Mr. President.
1583
01:26:00,886 --> 01:26:02,058
Make sure you get some steak.
1584
01:26:02,187 --> 01:26:03,707
I wouldn't mind one myself, right now.
1585
01:27:19,131 --> 01:27:20,576
What's the matter, Bob?
1586
01:27:26,938 --> 01:27:28,884
I have to do this, and I will do it.
1587
01:27:28,974 --> 01:27:30,317
And I don't need
your permission to enlist.
1588
01:27:30,442 --> 01:27:34,322
That same speech has been made
by how many sons
1589
01:27:34,446 --> 01:27:36,949
to how many fathers
since the war began?
1590
01:27:37,082 --> 01:27:38,254
"I don't need your damn permission,
1591
01:27:38,350 --> 01:27:40,887
you miserable old goat,
I'm gonna enlist anyhow."
1592
01:27:41,052 --> 01:27:42,030
And what wouldn't those
1593
01:27:42,154 --> 01:27:43,462
numberless fathers have given
1594
01:27:43,555 --> 01:27:45,364
to be able to say to their sons
1595
01:27:45,490 --> 01:27:48,664
as I now say to mine,
"I'm Commander in Chief."
1596
01:27:49,661 --> 01:27:51,072
So, in point of fact,
without my permission
1597
01:27:51,196 --> 01:27:54,234
you ain't enlisting
in nothing nowhere, young man.
1598
01:27:54,366 --> 01:27:56,812
It's Mama you're scared of,
it's not me getting killed.
1599
01:28:04,709 --> 01:28:07,315
I have to do this! And I will!
1600
01:28:08,246 --> 01:28:10,886
Or I will feel ashamed of myself
for the rest of my life!
1601
01:28:11,016 --> 01:28:12,996
Whether or not you fought
is what's gonna matter,
1602
01:28:13,084 --> 01:28:15,758
and not just to other people,
but to myself!
1603
01:28:15,887 --> 01:28:17,389
I won't be you, Pa, I can't do that,
1604
01:28:17,522 --> 01:28:19,729
but I don't want to be nothing!
1605
01:28:23,128 --> 01:28:24,732
I can't lose you.
1606
01:28:31,002 --> 01:28:32,811
He'll be fine, Molly.
1607
01:28:32,904 --> 01:28:35,214
City Point's a way back
from the front lines
1608
01:28:35,340 --> 01:28:36,318
and the fighting.
1609
01:28:36,875 --> 01:28:40,220
He'll be an adjutant, running
messages for General Grant.
1610
01:28:41,379 --> 01:28:43,518
The war will take our son.
1611
01:28:43,615 --> 01:28:46,186
A sniper, or a shrapnel shell, a typhus
1612
01:28:46,284 --> 01:28:47,262
same as took Willie.
1613
01:28:47,385 --> 01:28:50,764
It takes hundreds of boys a day.
He'll die uselessly.
1614
01:28:50,889 --> 01:28:53,233
And how will I ever forgive you?
1615
01:28:54,259 --> 01:28:56,762
Most men, their firstborn is their favorite.
1616
01:28:56,895 --> 01:28:59,501
You've always blamed Robert
for being born.
1617
01:28:59,598 --> 01:29:00,906
For trapping you in a marriage
1618
01:29:01,032 --> 01:29:02,602
that's only ever given you grief
1619
01:29:02,734 --> 01:29:04,839
- and caused you regret.
- That's simply not true.
1620
01:29:04,936 --> 01:29:06,609
And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor's
1621
01:29:06,738 --> 01:29:09,014
on your hands same as Grant,
God help us.
1622
01:29:09,407 --> 01:29:11,580
We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood
1623
01:29:11,710 --> 01:29:13,917
you've sanctioned,
the uncountable corpses!
1624
01:29:14,045 --> 01:29:16,787
We'll be made to pay
with our son's dear blood!
1625
01:29:16,915 --> 01:29:18,417
Just this once, Mrs. Lincoln,
1626
01:29:18,550 --> 01:29:21,292
I demand of you to try
and take the liberal
1627
01:29:21,419 --> 01:29:23,296
and not the selfish point of view.
1628
01:29:23,421 --> 01:29:24,627
Robert will never forgive himself.
1629
01:29:24,756 --> 01:29:26,258
You imagine he'll forgive us
1630
01:29:26,391 --> 01:29:29,964
if we continue to stifle
this very natural ambition?
1631
01:29:31,062 --> 01:29:33,235
And if I refuse to take the high road?
1632
01:29:36,101 --> 01:29:39,412
If I won't pick up the rough old cross,
1633
01:29:39,804 --> 01:29:42,614
will you threaten me again
with the madhouse?
1634
01:29:42,741 --> 01:29:46,211
As you did when I couldn't
stop crying over Willie.
1635
01:29:46,311 --> 01:29:48,757
When I showed you what heartbreak,
1636
01:29:48,847 --> 01:29:51,487
real heartbreak, looked like.
1637
01:29:51,583 --> 01:29:53,062
And you hadn't the courage
1638
01:29:53,151 --> 01:29:55,222
- to countenance, to help me!
- That's right, that's right...
1639
01:29:55,320 --> 01:29:57,596
When you refused so much
as to comfort Tad,
1640
01:29:57,689 --> 01:29:59,794
a child who was not only sick,
dangerously sick,
1641
01:29:59,925 --> 01:30:00,926
but beside himself with grief!
1642
01:30:01,026 --> 01:30:03,165
I was holding him in my arms
when he died.
1643
01:30:03,295 --> 01:30:05,741
But your grief, your grief,
your inexhaustible grief!
1644
01:30:05,864 --> 01:30:07,707
How dare you throw that up at me?
1645
01:30:07,799 --> 01:30:08,971
And his mother wouldn't let him near her
1646
01:30:09,100 --> 01:30:10,306
because she's screaming
from morning to night!
1647
01:30:10,435 --> 01:30:12,437
I couldn't risk him
seeing how angry I was!
1648
01:30:12,570 --> 01:30:14,015
Pacing the halls, howling at shadows
1649
01:30:14,105 --> 01:30:15,641
and furniture and ghosts!
1650
01:30:16,841 --> 01:30:18,821
I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,
1651
01:30:18,944 --> 01:30:20,685
for everybody's goddamn sake,
1652
01:30:20,812 --> 01:30:22,452
I should have clapped you
in the madhouse!
1653
01:30:22,547 --> 01:30:23,958
Then do it!
1654
01:30:25,050 --> 01:30:26,859
Do it! Don't you threaten me!
1655
01:30:26,985 --> 01:30:29,329
You do it this time. Lock me away.
1656
01:30:29,454 --> 01:30:31,456
You'll have to, I swear,
1657
01:30:31,856 --> 01:30:33,927
if Robert is killed.
1658
01:30:52,677 --> 01:30:55,055
I couldn't tolerate you
grieving so for Willie
1659
01:30:55,180 --> 01:30:57,786
because I couldn't permit it in myself.
1660
01:30:58,383 --> 01:31:00,363
Though I wanted to, Mary.
1661
01:31:01,353 --> 01:31:03,230
I wanted to crawl under the earth,
1662
01:31:03,355 --> 01:31:05,562
into the vault, with his coffin.
1663
01:31:06,992 --> 01:31:10,565
And I still do. Every day I do.
1664
01:31:11,096 --> 01:31:13,633
Don't speak to me about grief.
1665
01:31:22,941 --> 01:31:26,684
I must make my decisions,
Bob must make his, you yours.
1666
01:31:26,778 --> 01:31:30,157
And bear what we must.
Hold and carry what we must.
1667
01:31:30,248 --> 01:31:33,923
What I carry within me,
you must allow me to do it.
1668
01:31:34,052 --> 01:31:36,931
Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary,
1669
01:31:37,055 --> 01:31:40,593
you alone may lighten this burden.
1670
01:31:42,394 --> 01:31:43,771
Or render it intolerable.
1671
01:31:44,262 --> 01:31:45,741
As you choose.
1672
01:32:07,585 --> 01:32:09,565
You think I'm ignorant
of what you're up to
1673
01:32:09,654 --> 01:32:10,689
because you haven't discussed
1674
01:32:10,789 --> 01:32:13,099
this scheme with me
as you ought to have done?
1675
01:32:13,224 --> 01:32:16,034
When have I ever been
so easily bamboozled?
1676
01:32:16,428 --> 01:32:17,702
I believe you when you insist
1677
01:32:17,796 --> 01:32:19,298
that amending the Constitution
1678
01:32:19,431 --> 01:32:21,377
and abolishing slavery will end this war.
1679
01:32:21,466 --> 01:32:23,810
And since you are
sending my son into the war,
1680
01:32:23,935 --> 01:32:26,939
woe unto you if you fail
to pass the amendment.
1681
01:32:30,175 --> 01:32:33,156
Seward doesn't want me
leaving big muddy footprints
1682
01:32:33,278 --> 01:32:34,757
all over town.
1683
01:32:38,483 --> 01:32:40,554
No one has ever lived
who knows better than you
1684
01:32:40,652 --> 01:32:42,757
the proper placement of footfalls
1685
01:32:42,854 --> 01:32:44,731
on treacherous paths.
1686
01:32:44,823 --> 01:32:47,565
Seward can't do it. You must.
1687
01:32:48,359 --> 01:32:51,966
Because if you fail to acquire
the necessary votes,
1688
01:32:52,097 --> 01:32:54,941
woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.
1689
01:33:09,314 --> 01:33:10,622
Thank you.
1690
01:33:16,821 --> 01:33:19,631
I know the vote is only four days away.
1691
01:33:20,291 --> 01:33:21,929
I know you're concerned.
1692
01:33:22,026 --> 01:33:24,097
Thank you for your concern over this.
1693
01:33:25,029 --> 01:33:27,805
And I want you to know,
they'll approve it.
1694
01:33:29,167 --> 01:33:30,840
God will see to it.
1695
01:33:32,670 --> 01:33:34,672
I don't envy Him his task.
1696
01:33:36,474 --> 01:33:38,886
He may wish He'd chosen
an instrument for His purpose
1697
01:33:39,010 --> 01:33:41,991
more wieldy than
the House of Representatives.
1698
01:33:43,214 --> 01:33:45,023
Then you'll see to it.
1699
01:33:47,218 --> 01:33:50,665
Are you afraid of what
lies ahead for your people
1700
01:33:50,755 --> 01:33:52,234
if we succeed?
1701
01:33:53,725 --> 01:33:56,001
White people don't want us here.
1702
01:33:56,394 --> 01:33:58,806
- Many don't.
- What about you?
1703
01:34:04,269 --> 01:34:06,510
I don't know you, Mrs. Keckley.
1704
01:34:07,539 --> 01:34:08,882
Any of you.
1705
01:34:10,375 --> 01:34:13,356
You're familiar to me, as all people are,
1706
01:34:14,679 --> 01:34:17,660
unaccommodated, poor, bare,
forked creatures,
1707
01:34:17,749 --> 01:34:19,422
such as we all are.
1708
01:34:20,718 --> 01:34:23,426
You have a right to expect what I expect.
1709
01:34:23,922 --> 01:34:25,902
And likely our expectations
1710
01:34:26,024 --> 01:34:28,504
are not incomprehensible to each other.
1711
01:34:32,096 --> 01:34:34,337
I assume I'll get used to you.
1712
01:34:35,533 --> 01:34:37,410
Now what you are to the nation,
1713
01:34:38,603 --> 01:34:41,106
what'll become of you
once slavery's day is done,
1714
01:34:41,472 --> 01:34:43,213
I don't know.
1715
01:34:44,876 --> 01:34:47,413
What my people are to be, I can't say.
1716
01:34:49,614 --> 01:34:52,686
Negroes have been fighting
and dying for freedom
1717
01:34:53,284 --> 01:34:55,787
since the first of us was a slave.
1718
01:34:55,887 --> 01:34:59,357
I never heard any ask
what freedom would bring.
1719
01:35:01,526 --> 01:35:03,130
Freedom is first.
1720
01:35:05,997 --> 01:35:07,374
As for me,
1721
01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:11,440
my son died fighting for the Union,
1722
01:35:12,704 --> 01:35:14,706
wearing the Union blue.
1723
01:35:15,340 --> 01:35:17,047
For freedom he died.
1724
01:35:19,177 --> 01:35:20,850
And I'm his mother.
1725
01:35:23,081 --> 01:35:25,960
That's what I am
to the nation, Mr. Lincoln.
1726
01:35:30,355 --> 01:35:32,062
What else must I be?
1727
01:35:41,733 --> 01:35:43,406
My whole hand's gonna be proud
in about five seconds.
1728
01:35:43,534 --> 01:35:45,070
Let's see how proud you can be.
1729
01:35:46,271 --> 01:35:48,842
Go away. That watch fob, is that gold?
1730
01:35:48,940 --> 01:35:50,510
You keep your eyes off my fob.
1731
01:35:50,608 --> 01:35:52,815
Gentlemen, you have a visitor.
1732
01:35:52,910 --> 01:35:55,015
- Goddamn!
- Hey, Bill.
1733
01:35:57,215 --> 01:35:58,819
Well, I'll be fucked.
1734
01:35:58,916 --> 01:36:00,361
I wouldn't bet against it.
1735
01:36:00,451 --> 01:36:01,589
Mr, uh?
1736
01:36:02,353 --> 01:36:03,764
W. N. Bilbo.
1737
01:36:03,888 --> 01:36:05,925
Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen.
1738
01:36:06,024 --> 01:36:07,002
Sir.
1739
01:36:07,425 --> 01:36:08,904
Why are you here? No offense,
1740
01:36:09,027 --> 01:36:12,338
but Mr. Seward's banished
the very mention of your name.
1741
01:36:12,430 --> 01:36:14,110
He won't even let us use fifty cent pieces
1742
01:36:14,198 --> 01:36:16,007
'cause they've got your face on 'em.
1743
01:36:16,801 --> 01:36:19,372
The Secretary of State here
tells me that you got
1744
01:36:19,470 --> 01:36:21,916
11 Democrats in the bag.
That's encouraging.
1745
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:25,749
Oh, you've got no cause
to be encouraged, sir.
1746
01:36:26,978 --> 01:36:29,083
Are we being fired?
1747
01:36:30,481 --> 01:36:34,395
"We have heard the chimes
at midnight, Master Shallow."
1748
01:36:35,386 --> 01:36:36,865
I'm here to alert you boys
1749
01:36:36,954 --> 01:36:40,060
that the great day of reckoning
is nigh upon us.
1750
01:36:40,491 --> 01:36:42,402
The Democrats we've yet to bag, sir,
1751
01:36:42,493 --> 01:36:45,235
the patronage jobs simply won't bag 'em.
1752
01:36:45,330 --> 01:36:47,936
They require more convincing,
Mr. President.
1753
01:36:49,567 --> 01:36:52,446
Mm-hmm. Do me a favor, will you?
1754
01:36:52,603 --> 01:36:53,604
Sure.
1755
01:36:53,738 --> 01:36:55,740
It snagged my eye
in the paper this morning
1756
01:36:55,840 --> 01:36:57,251
that the Governor Curtin
1757
01:36:57,342 --> 01:36:59,652
is set to declare a winner in the disputed
1758
01:36:59,777 --> 01:37:00,755
Congressional election for the...
1759
01:37:00,845 --> 01:37:01,983
Pennsylvania 16th District.
1760
01:37:02,413 --> 01:37:05,155
District.
What a joy to be comprehended.
1761
01:37:05,283 --> 01:37:07,820
Hop on a train to Philadel,
call on the Governor...
1762
01:37:07,952 --> 01:37:09,295
Send Latham. Or Schell.
1763
01:37:09,420 --> 01:37:11,400
No, he'll do fine.
Just polish yourself up first.
1764
01:37:13,358 --> 01:37:15,429
The incumbent is claiming
he won it. Name of...
1765
01:37:15,526 --> 01:37:16,561
Coffroth.
1766
01:37:16,661 --> 01:37:17,799
- That's him.
- Coffroth.
1767
01:37:17,929 --> 01:37:19,806
- He's a Democrat.
- I understand that.
1768
01:37:20,498 --> 01:37:22,569
- Silly name.
- A little bit silly.
1769
01:37:23,167 --> 01:37:26,080
Uh, tell Governor Curtin
it'd be much appreciated
1770
01:37:26,170 --> 01:37:28,776
if he'd invite
the House of Representatives
1771
01:37:28,873 --> 01:37:29,908
to decide who won.
1772
01:37:30,007 --> 01:37:32,613
He's entitled to do that. He'll agree to it.
1773
01:37:32,710 --> 01:37:34,986
Then advise Coffroth
1774
01:37:35,113 --> 01:37:37,457
if he hopes to retain his seat,
1775
01:37:37,548 --> 01:37:39,824
then he'd better pay a visit
to Thaddeus Stevens.
1776
01:37:39,951 --> 01:37:41,521
Well, pity poor Coffroth.
1777
01:37:43,855 --> 01:37:45,129
It opens!
1778
01:37:52,130 --> 01:37:53,507
You are Canfrey?
1779
01:37:55,533 --> 01:37:58,673
Coffroth, Mr. Stevens.
Alexander Coffroth.
1780
01:37:58,803 --> 01:38:01,716
Are we representatives
of the same state?
1781
01:38:01,839 --> 01:38:03,839
Yes, sir.
We sit only three desks apart.
1782
01:38:03,875 --> 01:38:05,684
I haven't noticed you.
1783
01:38:06,344 --> 01:38:09,325
I'm a Republican and you,
Coughdrop, are a Democrat?
1784
01:38:09,414 --> 01:38:12,793
Well, uh, I, um,
that is to say...
1785
01:38:12,884 --> 01:38:14,864
The modern travesty
of Thomas Jefferson's
1786
01:38:14,986 --> 01:38:16,124
political organization
1787
01:38:16,220 --> 01:38:17,961
to which you've attached
yourself like a barnacle
1788
01:38:18,055 --> 01:38:21,332
has the effrontery to call
itself the Democratic Party.
1789
01:38:21,426 --> 01:38:24,373
You are a Democrat.
What's the matter with you?
1790
01:38:24,495 --> 01:38:26,065
Are you wicked?
1791
01:38:26,197 --> 01:38:27,733
- Well, I felt...
- Never mind.
1792
01:38:27,865 --> 01:38:30,072
Coff snot, you were
ignominiously trounced
1793
01:38:30,201 --> 01:38:31,721
at the hustings in November's election
1794
01:38:31,836 --> 01:38:33,816
by your worthy challenger,
a Republican.
1795
01:38:33,905 --> 01:38:35,748
No, sir, I was not trounced.
1796
01:38:35,873 --> 01:38:37,853
He wants to steal my seat.
I didn't lose the election.
1797
01:38:37,942 --> 01:38:39,387
What difference does it make
if you lost or not?
1798
01:38:39,510 --> 01:38:43,652
The governor of our state
is... A Democrat?
1799
01:38:44,882 --> 01:38:47,192
No, he's, he's a...
1800
01:38:49,253 --> 01:38:50,231
Re...
1801
01:38:51,289 --> 01:38:52,495
Re...
1802
01:38:53,624 --> 01:38:55,865
- ...pub... lic...
- ...pub... lic...
1803
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:57,496
- ...can.
- ...can. Republican.
1804
01:38:57,595 --> 01:38:59,768
I know what he is.
This is a rhetorical exercise.
1805
01:38:59,897 --> 01:39:01,777
And Congress is controlled
by what party? Yours?
1806
01:39:04,268 --> 01:39:06,043
Your party was beaten.
1807
01:39:06,137 --> 01:39:08,674
Your challenger's party
now controls the House
1808
01:39:08,773 --> 01:39:11,447
and hence the House
Committee on Elections,
1809
01:39:11,576 --> 01:39:14,022
so you have been beaten.
1810
01:39:14,111 --> 01:39:17,024
You shall shortly be sent home
in disgrace. Unless...
1811
01:39:17,114 --> 01:39:18,195
I know what I must do, sir.
1812
01:39:18,216 --> 01:39:20,457
I will immediately become
a Republican and vote yes...
1813
01:39:20,551 --> 01:39:21,529
No!
1814
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:24,698
Coffroth will vote yes,
1815
01:39:25,323 --> 01:39:26,768
but Coffroth will remain a Democrat
1816
01:39:26,891 --> 01:39:27,869
until after he does so.
1817
01:39:27,959 --> 01:39:29,529
Why wait to switch? I'm happy to...
1818
01:39:29,627 --> 01:39:31,868
We want to show the amendment
has bipartisan support,
1819
01:39:31,963 --> 01:39:33,909
you idiot. Early in the next Congress,
1820
01:39:33,998 --> 01:39:36,239
when I tell you to do so,
you will switch parties.
1821
01:39:36,334 --> 01:39:39,872
Now congratulations
on your victory, and get out.
1822
01:39:39,971 --> 01:39:42,417
Now, give me the names
1823
01:39:42,507 --> 01:39:44,453
of whoever else you've been hunting.
1824
01:39:44,809 --> 01:39:46,083
Aw, hell.
1825
01:39:46,477 --> 01:39:47,478
George Yeaman.
1826
01:39:47,612 --> 01:39:48,989
Yes. Yeaman.
1827
01:39:49,747 --> 01:39:51,226
Among others.
1828
01:39:51,315 --> 01:39:52,919
- But Yeaman, that'd count.
- Yeah.
1829
01:39:53,017 --> 01:39:54,792
Y-E-A-M-A-N.
1830
01:39:55,286 --> 01:39:56,560
I got it.
1831
01:39:57,488 --> 01:39:58,660
Kentucky.
1832
01:40:01,526 --> 01:40:04,530
I can't vote for
the amendment, Mr. Lincoln.
1833
01:40:12,136 --> 01:40:14,275
I saw a barge once, Mr. Yeaman,
1834
01:40:14,972 --> 01:40:17,282
filled with colored men in chains
1835
01:40:17,408 --> 01:40:18,614
heading down the Mississippi
1836
01:40:18,743 --> 01:40:20,620
to the New Orleans slave markets.
1837
01:40:22,079 --> 01:40:23,251
It sickened me.
1838
01:40:24,615 --> 01:40:27,061
And more than that,
it brought a shadow down.
1839
01:40:28,619 --> 01:40:30,929
A pall around my eyes.
1840
01:40:32,623 --> 01:40:35,263
Slavery troubled me
as long as I can remember
1841
01:40:36,127 --> 01:40:38,334
in a way it never troubled my father,
1842
01:40:39,363 --> 01:40:41,639
though he hated it, in his own fashion.
1843
01:40:43,100 --> 01:40:45,011
He knew no smallholding dirt farmer
1844
01:40:45,136 --> 01:40:46,809
could compete with slave plantations
1845
01:40:46,938 --> 01:40:49,179
so he took us out from Kentucky
1846
01:40:49,307 --> 01:40:50,513
to get away from 'em.
1847
01:40:50,641 --> 01:40:52,416
He wanted Indiana kept free.
1848
01:40:54,011 --> 01:40:55,649
He wasn't a kind man
1849
01:40:57,281 --> 01:41:00,694
but there was a rough,
moral urge for fairness,
1850
01:41:00,818 --> 01:41:02,126
for freedom in him.
1851
01:41:03,220 --> 01:41:05,131
I learnt that from him, I suppose.
1852
01:41:06,057 --> 01:41:07,365
If little else from him.
1853
01:41:09,994 --> 01:41:12,201
We didn't care
for one another, Mr. Yeaman.
1854
01:41:15,833 --> 01:41:17,437
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
1855
01:41:17,602 --> 01:41:20,606
Loving kindness, that most
ordinary thing, came to me
1856
01:41:20,705 --> 01:41:22,844
from other sources. I'm grateful for that.
1857
01:41:22,974 --> 01:41:25,784
Well, I hate it, too, sir.
1858
01:41:27,178 --> 01:41:28,486
Slavery, but...
1859
01:41:29,580 --> 01:41:32,459
But we're entirely unready
for emancipation.
1860
01:41:33,017 --> 01:41:34,155
And there's too many questions...
1861
01:41:34,251 --> 01:41:35,812
We're unready for peace, too, ain't we?
1862
01:41:36,821 --> 01:41:39,028
Yeah, when it comes,
it'll present us with conundrums
1863
01:41:39,156 --> 01:41:42,467
and dangers greater than
any we faced during the war,
1864
01:41:42,560 --> 01:41:44,301
bloody as it's been.
1865
01:41:44,395 --> 01:41:48,241
We'll have to extemporize and
experiment with what it is,
1866
01:41:48,366 --> 01:41:49,470
when it is.
1867
01:41:52,870 --> 01:41:54,508
I read your speech, George.
1868
01:41:55,506 --> 01:41:57,144
Negroes and the vote,
1869
01:41:58,275 --> 01:41:59,379
that's a puzzle.
1870
01:42:00,277 --> 01:42:03,850
No, no. But, but, but Negroes can't
1871
01:42:04,749 --> 01:42:07,753
uh, vote, Mr. Lincoln.
1872
01:42:09,020 --> 01:42:10,658
You're not suggesting
we enfranchise colored people?
1873
01:42:10,855 --> 01:42:12,493
I'm asking only that
1874
01:42:12,590 --> 01:42:16,402
you disenthrall yourself
from the slave powers.
1875
01:42:17,962 --> 01:42:19,032
I'll let you know when
1876
01:42:19,130 --> 01:42:20,770
there's an offer on my desk
for surrender.
1877
01:42:20,865 --> 01:42:22,037
There's none before us now.
1878
01:42:22,133 --> 01:42:23,237
What's before us now,
1879
01:42:23,367 --> 01:42:26,075
that's the vote on the 13th Amendment.
1880
01:42:27,471 --> 01:42:29,678
And it's going to be so very close.
1881
01:42:32,910 --> 01:42:34,856
You see what you can do.
1882
01:42:44,221 --> 01:42:45,700
I can't make sense of it.
1883
01:42:46,257 --> 01:42:48,203
What he died for.
1884
01:42:50,828 --> 01:42:53,104
Mr. Lincoln, I hate them all.
1885
01:42:53,230 --> 01:42:55,301
I do. All black people.
1886
01:43:04,842 --> 01:43:07,049
I am a prejudiced man.
1887
01:43:09,780 --> 01:43:11,657
Well, I'd change that in you if I could,
1888
01:43:11,916 --> 01:43:13,293
but that's not why I come.
1889
01:43:14,118 --> 01:43:15,791
I might be wrong, Mr. Hutton,
1890
01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:19,299
but I expect colored people
most likely be free.
1891
01:43:20,191 --> 01:43:21,431
And when that's so, it's simple truth
1892
01:43:21,525 --> 01:43:23,505
that your brother's bravery
1893
01:43:23,627 --> 01:43:25,436
and his death helped make it so.
1894
01:43:27,131 --> 01:43:28,337
Only you can decide whether
1895
01:43:28,466 --> 01:43:29,866
that's sense enough for you or not.
1896
01:43:33,637 --> 01:43:35,412
My deepest sympathies to your family.
1897
01:43:48,152 --> 01:43:50,689
We've managed our members
to a fare-thee-well.
1898
01:43:52,022 --> 01:43:53,160
You've had no defections
1899
01:43:53,290 --> 01:43:55,201
from the Republican right to trouble you.
1900
01:43:56,527 --> 01:43:58,200
Whereas as to what you promised,
1901
01:43:59,296 --> 01:44:01,276
where the hell are the commissioners?
1902
01:44:02,233 --> 01:44:04,679
Oh, my God. It's true.
1903
01:44:06,370 --> 01:44:08,611
You... You lied to me.
1904
01:44:08,973 --> 01:44:12,443
Mr. Lincoln, you evaded
my request for a denial
1905
01:44:12,543 --> 01:44:14,523
that there is a Confederate peace offer,
1906
01:44:14,645 --> 01:44:16,454
because there is one!
1907
01:44:16,814 --> 01:44:20,785
We are absolutely guaranteed
to lose the whole thing.
1908
01:44:20,918 --> 01:44:23,797
We don't need a goddamn
abolition amendment!
1909
01:44:24,421 --> 01:44:26,196
Leave the Constitution alone!
1910
01:44:26,557 --> 01:44:27,757
What if the peace commissioners
1911
01:44:27,758 --> 01:44:29,203
appear today, or worse...
1912
01:44:32,663 --> 01:44:34,836
I can't listen to this anymore.
1913
01:44:37,067 --> 01:44:40,014
I can't accomplish a goddamn thing
1914
01:44:40,104 --> 01:44:42,584
of any human meaning or worth
1915
01:44:42,706 --> 01:44:46,483
until we cure ourselves of slavery
1916
01:44:46,577 --> 01:44:49,251
and end this pestilential war!
1917
01:44:50,581 --> 01:44:53,187
And whether any of you
or anyone else knows it,
1918
01:44:53,284 --> 01:44:55,230
I know I need this!
1919
01:44:56,020 --> 01:44:58,660
This amendment is that cure!
1920
01:45:02,026 --> 01:45:04,734
We are stepped out upon
the world stage now!
1921
01:45:04,862 --> 01:45:06,068
Now!
1922
01:45:06,730 --> 01:45:09,677
With the fate of human dignity
in our hands!
1923
01:45:11,535 --> 01:45:14,038
Blood's been spilt to
afford us this moment!
1924
01:45:14,305 --> 01:45:16,581
Now! Now! Now!
1925
01:45:17,408 --> 01:45:20,446
And you grousle and heckle
and dodge about like
1926
01:45:20,611 --> 01:45:22,522
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!
1927
01:45:23,781 --> 01:45:25,385
See what is before you.
1928
01:45:26,383 --> 01:45:29,125
See the here and now, that's the
1929
01:45:29,253 --> 01:45:32,291
hardest thing,
the only thing that accounts.
1930
01:45:34,291 --> 01:45:38,364
Abolishing slavery
by constitutional provision
1931
01:45:38,462 --> 01:45:42,205
settles the fate for all coming time
1932
01:45:43,500 --> 01:45:46,481
not only of the millions now in bondage
1933
01:45:48,606 --> 01:45:51,553
but of unborn millions to come.
1934
01:45:53,143 --> 01:45:57,319
Two votes stand in its way.
These votes must be procured.
1935
01:46:01,752 --> 01:46:06,326
We need two yeses,
three abstentions, or
1936
01:46:06,457 --> 01:46:07,595
four yeses
1937
01:46:07,691 --> 01:46:11,366
and one more abstention,
and the amendment will pass.
1938
01:46:11,462 --> 01:46:13,063
You got a night, and a day, and a night,
1939
01:46:13,097 --> 01:46:14,440
and several perfectly good hours.
1940
01:46:14,531 --> 01:46:16,511
Now get the hell out of here and get 'em.
1941
01:46:17,368 --> 01:46:18,847
Yes. But how?
1942
01:46:21,105 --> 01:46:22,413
Buzzards' guts, man.
1943
01:46:25,009 --> 01:46:29,116
I am the President of the
United States of America
1944
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:32,326
clothed in immense power.
1945
01:46:34,818 --> 01:46:37,128
You will procure me these votes.
1946
01:47:46,457 --> 01:47:49,233
We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen,
1947
01:47:51,228 --> 01:47:53,606
first in the history of
this people's chamber,
1948
01:47:55,099 --> 01:47:56,442
to your House.
1949
01:48:21,258 --> 01:48:22,819
Mr. Ashley, the floor is yours.
1950
01:48:31,368 --> 01:48:33,314
On the matter of the
joint resolution before us,
1951
01:48:33,437 --> 01:48:34,518
presenting a 13th Amendment
1952
01:48:34,638 --> 01:48:36,845
to our National Constitution,
1953
01:48:36,974 --> 01:48:39,250
which was passed last year
by the Senate
1954
01:48:39,343 --> 01:48:40,754
and which has been debated now
1955
01:48:40,844 --> 01:48:43,347
by this estimable body
for the past several weeks,
1956
01:48:44,448 --> 01:48:45,654
today we will vote.
1957
01:48:51,155 --> 01:48:53,032
By mutual agreement,
1958
01:48:53,157 --> 01:48:55,364
we shall hear brief, final statements,
1959
01:48:56,994 --> 01:48:58,439
beginning with
1960
01:48:58,529 --> 01:49:00,770
the honorable
George Pendleton of Ohio.
1961
01:49:07,137 --> 01:49:08,445
I have just received
1962
01:49:10,407 --> 01:49:11,477
confirmation
1963
01:49:12,209 --> 01:49:14,553
of what previously has
been merely rumored.
1964
01:49:14,678 --> 01:49:17,215
Affidavits from loyal citizens
1965
01:49:17,347 --> 01:49:18,849
recently returned from Richmond.
1966
01:49:18,982 --> 01:49:21,519
They testify that
commissioners have indeed
1967
01:49:21,852 --> 01:49:23,126
come north and ought to have arrived
1968
01:49:23,220 --> 01:49:25,063
by now in Washington City
1969
01:49:25,189 --> 01:49:28,136
bearing an offer of immediate cessation
1970
01:49:28,559 --> 01:49:29,697
of our civil war.
1971
01:49:32,062 --> 01:49:33,132
Is it true, sir?
1972
01:49:33,497 --> 01:49:35,738
Are there Confederate
commissioners in the capital?
1973
01:49:35,866 --> 01:49:37,641
I have no idea where they are
or if they've arrived.
1974
01:49:37,734 --> 01:49:38,804
They'll arrive.
1975
01:49:39,169 --> 01:49:41,080
I appeal to
my fellow Democrats,
1976
01:49:41,205 --> 01:49:43,344
to all Republican representatives
1977
01:49:43,440 --> 01:49:44,851
who give a fig for peace,
1978
01:49:45,209 --> 01:49:47,189
postpone this vote!
1979
01:49:47,411 --> 01:49:48,481
Until we have answers
1980
01:49:48,612 --> 01:49:49,750
from the President himself!
1981
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:51,058
Postpone the vote!
1982
01:49:51,515 --> 01:49:53,927
Postpone the vote!
1983
01:49:54,017 --> 01:49:56,827
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
1984
01:49:57,287 --> 01:50:00,166
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
1985
01:50:00,290 --> 01:50:01,496
Postpone the vote!
1986
01:50:01,792 --> 01:50:03,294
Postpone the vote!
1987
01:50:03,427 --> 01:50:05,107
- Postpone the vote!
- Gentlemen!
1988
01:50:05,129 --> 01:50:06,506
Postpone the vote!
1989
01:50:06,997 --> 01:50:09,671
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
1990
01:50:10,334 --> 01:50:12,177
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
1991
01:50:14,138 --> 01:50:15,981
I have made a motion!
1992
01:50:16,073 --> 01:50:18,610
Does anyone care to second my motion?
1993
01:50:30,787 --> 01:50:31,925
Gentlemen.
1994
01:50:33,157 --> 01:50:34,693
The conservative faction
1995
01:50:34,825 --> 01:50:36,930
of border and western Republicans
1996
01:50:37,027 --> 01:50:39,200
cannot approve this amendment,
1997
01:50:39,329 --> 01:50:41,366
about which we harbor grave doubts,
1998
01:50:42,166 --> 01:50:45,670
if a peace offer is being
held hostage to its success.
1999
01:50:46,670 --> 01:50:48,550
Joining together with
our Democratic colleagues,
2000
01:50:48,672 --> 01:50:49,776
I second the motion
2001
01:50:49,873 --> 01:50:51,284
to postpone.
2002
01:50:51,375 --> 01:50:53,295
He must deny peace
commissioners are in the city.
2003
01:50:53,343 --> 01:50:54,617
Quick, man. Quick.
2004
01:51:44,294 --> 01:51:47,207
This is precisely
what Mr. Wood wishes me
2005
01:51:47,297 --> 01:51:48,537
to respond to?
2006
01:51:49,900 --> 01:51:51,607
Word for word, this is precisely
2007
01:51:51,735 --> 01:51:53,578
the assurance that he demands of me?
2008
01:51:54,104 --> 01:51:55,378
Yes, sir.
2009
01:52:15,158 --> 01:52:16,637
Give this to Mr. Ashley.
2010
01:52:20,163 --> 01:52:23,872
Uh, I feel I have to say,
Mr. Lincoln, that...
2011
01:52:25,002 --> 01:52:26,481
Could you please just step outside?
2012
01:52:26,903 --> 01:52:28,024
You want to have a chat now,
2013
01:52:28,071 --> 01:52:29,141
with the whole of the
House of Representatives
2014
01:52:29,273 --> 01:52:30,377
waiting on this?
2015
01:52:31,008 --> 01:52:33,386
Making false representation
to Congress, is...
2016
01:52:34,077 --> 01:52:35,613
- It's...
- It's impeachable,
2017
01:52:35,746 --> 01:52:38,386
but I've made no such
false representation.
2018
01:52:38,815 --> 01:52:40,055
But there are.
2019
01:52:40,784 --> 01:52:42,224
There is a delegation from Richmond.
2020
01:52:42,853 --> 01:52:44,161
Give me the note, Johnnie.
2021
01:52:47,991 --> 01:52:49,766
Please, deliver that to Mr. Ashley.
2022
01:53:09,112 --> 01:53:10,250
From the President.
2023
01:53:11,181 --> 01:53:12,421
"So far as I know, there are no
2024
01:53:12,449 --> 01:53:13,826
peace commissioners in the city
2025
01:53:13,950 --> 01:53:15,258
nor are there likely to be."
2026
01:53:16,553 --> 01:53:18,191
"So far as I know"?
2027
01:53:19,623 --> 01:53:20,658
That means nothing.
2028
01:53:22,159 --> 01:53:25,140
Are there commissioners from
the South, or aren't there?
2029
01:53:26,563 --> 01:53:28,008
The President
has answered you, sir.
2030
01:53:28,131 --> 01:53:29,371
Your peace offer is a fiction.
2031
01:53:29,700 --> 01:53:30,838
That is not a denial.
2032
01:53:31,735 --> 01:53:33,271
It is a lawyer's dodge!
2033
01:53:34,738 --> 01:53:36,809
Mr. Haddam, is your faction satisfied?
2034
01:53:39,710 --> 01:53:42,190
The conservative Republican
faction is satisfied.
2035
01:53:42,312 --> 01:53:43,791
And we thank Mr. Lincoln.
2036
01:53:45,048 --> 01:53:47,028
I move to table Mr. Wood's motion.
2037
01:53:47,517 --> 01:53:48,518
Tabled!
2038
01:53:52,055 --> 01:53:54,661
Mr. Colfax, I order the main question.
2039
01:53:55,425 --> 01:53:57,234
A motion has been made to bring the bill
2040
01:53:57,361 --> 01:53:59,238
for the 13th Amendment to a vote.
2041
01:53:59,363 --> 01:54:00,364
Do I hear a second?
2042
01:54:00,564 --> 01:54:01,702
I second the motion.
2043
01:54:01,932 --> 01:54:04,173
So moved, so ordered.
2044
01:54:04,901 --> 01:54:06,005
The Clerk will now...
2045
01:54:06,103 --> 01:54:07,241
Quiet, please!
2046
01:54:08,905 --> 01:54:11,181
The Clerk will now
call the roll for the voting.
2047
01:54:17,280 --> 01:54:18,418
We begin with Connecticut.
2048
01:54:18,749 --> 01:54:20,422
Mr. Augustus Benjamin,
2049
01:54:20,550 --> 01:54:22,894
on the matter of this amendment,
how say you?
2050
01:54:23,387 --> 01:54:24,422
Nay!
2051
01:54:26,089 --> 01:54:27,568
Mr. Arthur Bentleigh.
2052
01:54:28,191 --> 01:54:29,898
Nay!
2053
01:54:33,363 --> 01:54:35,673
Mr. John Ellis, how say you?
2054
01:54:36,099 --> 01:54:37,100
Aye!
2055
01:54:37,234 --> 01:54:38,212
- What!
2056
01:54:44,941 --> 01:54:47,888
Missouri next. Mr. Walter Appleton.
2057
01:54:48,879 --> 01:54:50,119
I vote no.
2058
01:54:51,815 --> 01:54:53,055
Mr. Josiah Burton.
2059
01:54:54,618 --> 01:54:58,395
Beanpole Burton is pleased to vote yea!
2060
01:55:00,557 --> 01:55:01,865
The State of New Jersey.
2061
01:55:01,958 --> 01:55:04,097
- Mr. Nehemiah Cleary.
- No!
2062
01:55:06,963 --> 01:55:08,374
Mr. James Martinson.
2063
01:55:08,999 --> 01:55:11,036
Mr. Martinson has delegated me
2064
01:55:11,468 --> 01:55:13,209
to say he is indisposed.
2065
01:55:14,104 --> 01:55:15,412
And he abstains.
2066
01:55:17,841 --> 01:55:19,047
Mr. Austin J. Roberts.
2067
01:55:19,309 --> 01:55:21,585
Also indisposed, also abstaining.
2068
01:55:26,917 --> 01:55:28,157
Illinois concluded.
2069
01:55:30,420 --> 01:55:32,593
Mr. Harold Hollister. How say you?
2070
01:55:33,323 --> 01:55:34,324
No.
2071
01:55:35,325 --> 01:55:36,599
Mr. Hutton.
2072
01:55:37,861 --> 01:55:40,000
Mr. William Hutton. Cast your vote.
2073
01:55:42,466 --> 01:55:45,003
William Hutton,
remembering at this moment
2074
01:55:45,135 --> 01:55:46,978
his beloved brother Frederick
2075
01:55:47,103 --> 01:55:49,413
votes against the amendment.
2076
01:56:01,785 --> 01:56:02,855
Webster Allen votes no.
2077
01:56:06,189 --> 01:56:07,361
- Webster Allen,
2078
01:56:07,491 --> 01:56:09,971
Illinois, Democrat,
2079
01:56:10,060 --> 01:56:12,040
votes no.
2080
01:56:13,830 --> 01:56:17,607
Halberd Law, Indiana, Democrat,
2081
01:56:17,701 --> 01:56:19,112
votes no.
2082
01:56:21,338 --> 01:56:24,785
Archibald Moran, yes.
2083
01:56:27,544 --> 01:56:30,115
Ambrose Baylor, yes.
2084
01:56:32,015 --> 01:56:34,655
Mr. Walter H. Washburn.
2085
01:56:35,519 --> 01:56:36,657
Votes no.
2086
01:56:40,423 --> 01:56:43,267
And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you?
2087
01:56:55,305 --> 01:56:56,841
My vote ties us.
2088
01:57:00,977 --> 01:57:02,012
Sir, Mr. Yeaman,
2089
01:57:02,112 --> 01:57:03,785
I didn't hear your vote.
2090
01:57:04,614 --> 01:57:07,424
I said "Aye", Mr. McPherson!
2091
01:57:08,285 --> 01:57:09,286
Aye!
2092
01:57:09,452 --> 01:57:10,430
Traitor!
2093
01:57:10,587 --> 01:57:11,565
Order!
2094
01:57:25,168 --> 01:57:26,647
Order in my chamber!
2095
01:57:33,443 --> 01:57:36,253
Mr. McPherson, you may proceed.
2096
01:57:39,649 --> 01:57:42,061
Mr. Clay R. Hawkins of Ohio.
2097
01:57:52,295 --> 01:57:54,136
- Goddamn it, I'm voting yes.
2098
01:57:55,031 --> 01:57:56,942
I don't care, you shoot me dead!
2099
01:57:57,033 --> 01:57:59,445
You shoot me dead! I am voting yes!
2100
01:58:00,971 --> 01:58:02,314
Mr. Edwin F. LeClerk.
2101
01:58:02,939 --> 01:58:03,917
No!
2102
01:58:06,776 --> 01:58:09,916
Oh, to hell with it.
Shoot me dead, too! Yes!
2103
01:58:13,283 --> 01:58:14,261
I mean...
2104
01:58:15,018 --> 01:58:17,464
Abstention. Abstention!
2105
01:58:21,858 --> 01:58:23,303
Spineless! No gender.
2106
01:58:29,799 --> 01:58:31,210
Mr. Alexander Coffroth.
2107
01:58:36,506 --> 01:58:38,486
I vote
2108
01:58:39,242 --> 01:58:40,277
Yes.
2109
01:58:45,215 --> 01:58:46,285
Yea.
2110
01:58:47,884 --> 01:58:49,386
James Brooks...
2111
01:58:50,420 --> 01:58:51,626
Nay.
2112
01:58:52,856 --> 01:58:54,301
Josiah Grenelle...
2113
01:58:55,592 --> 01:58:56,798
Yea.
2114
01:58:57,927 --> 01:58:59,065
Meyer Strauss...
2115
01:59:00,430 --> 01:59:01,500
Nay.
2116
01:59:02,198 --> 01:59:04,200
- Mr. Joseph Marstern.
- Nay.
2117
01:59:04,334 --> 01:59:06,678
- Mr. Chilton A. Elliot.
- No!
2118
01:59:07,203 --> 01:59:09,183
- Mr. Daniel G. Stuart.
- I vote yes.
2119
01:59:09,572 --> 01:59:10,550
- Mr. Howard Guilfoyle.
- Yea.
2120
01:59:10,707 --> 01:59:12,050
- John F. McKenzie.
- Yea.
2121
01:59:12,242 --> 01:59:13,482
- Andrew E. Fink.
- Nay.
2122
01:59:13,543 --> 01:59:15,045
- Mr. John A. Castle.
- Yea.
2123
01:59:15,178 --> 01:59:16,521
- Mr. Hanready.
- Nay.
2124
01:59:16,713 --> 01:59:18,193
- And Mr. Rufus Warren?
- Yea.
2125
01:59:39,069 --> 01:59:40,776
The roll call concludes.
2126
01:59:41,304 --> 01:59:43,443
The voting is completed. Now...
2127
01:59:43,573 --> 01:59:46,281
Mr. Clerk, please call my name.
2128
01:59:47,444 --> 01:59:48,616
I want to cast a vote.
2129
01:59:48,745 --> 01:59:49,951
I object.
2130
01:59:50,880 --> 01:59:52,223
The Speaker doesn't vote.
2131
01:59:52,549 --> 01:59:54,688
The Speaker may vote if he so chooses.
2132
01:59:55,118 --> 01:59:57,029
It is highly unusual, sir.
2133
01:59:57,253 --> 01:59:58,857
This isn't usual, Mr. Pendleton.
2134
01:59:58,955 --> 02:00:00,127
This is history.
2135
02:00:02,625 --> 02:00:05,037
How does Mr. Schuyler Colfax vote?
2136
02:00:09,899 --> 02:00:11,310
Aye, of course.
2137
02:00:34,624 --> 02:00:35,830
The final vote.
2138
02:00:37,694 --> 02:00:39,731
Eight absent or not voting.
2139
02:00:41,664 --> 02:00:43,439
Fifty-six votes against.
2140
02:00:44,701 --> 02:00:46,942
One hundred and nineteen votes for.
2141
02:00:48,004 --> 02:00:49,677
With a margin of two votes...
2142
02:01:38,521 --> 02:01:40,364
We chose great leadership.
2143
02:01:54,504 --> 02:01:56,345
♪ We'll rally round the flag, boys ♪
2144
02:01:56,406 --> 02:01:58,147
♪ We'll rally once again ♪
2145
02:01:58,241 --> 02:02:00,221
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
2146
02:02:01,678 --> 02:02:04,090
♪ We will rally from the hillside ♪
2147
02:02:04,214 --> 02:02:06,091
♪ We'll gather from the plain ♪
2148
02:02:06,216 --> 02:02:09,754
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
2149
02:02:10,186 --> 02:02:14,396
♪ The Union forever! ♪
♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪
2150
02:02:14,524 --> 02:02:16,333
♪ Down with the traitor ♪
2151
02:02:16,426 --> 02:02:18,099
♪ And up with the star ♪
2152
02:02:18,361 --> 02:02:22,241
♪ Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom! ♪
2153
02:02:22,565 --> 02:02:24,169
Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
2154
02:02:24,267 --> 02:02:26,338
The bill, Mr. McPherson. May I?
2155
02:02:28,805 --> 02:02:32,275
♪ The Union forever! ♪
♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪
2156
02:02:32,642 --> 02:02:35,179
That's, that's the official bill.
2157
02:02:35,278 --> 02:02:37,280
I'll return it in the morning.
2158
02:02:37,914 --> 02:02:39,257
Creased,
2159
02:02:40,149 --> 02:02:41,127
but unharmed.
2160
02:02:41,251 --> 02:02:44,892
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
2161
02:02:44,988 --> 02:02:49,266
♪ We are springing to the call ♪
♪ Of the loyal, true and brave ♪
2162
02:02:49,459 --> 02:02:50,979
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
2163
02:02:53,062 --> 02:02:55,201
♪ And we'll fill our vacant ranks ♪
2164
02:02:55,298 --> 02:02:57,209
♪ With a million freemen more ♪
2165
02:02:58,101 --> 02:03:00,809
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
2166
02:03:02,005 --> 02:03:03,541
♪ The Union forever! ♪
2167
02:03:04,407 --> 02:03:05,886
♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪
2168
02:03:06,476 --> 02:03:09,889
♪ Down with the traitor ♪
♪ And up with the star ♪♪
2169
02:03:31,834 --> 02:03:33,939
A gift for you.
2170
02:03:38,308 --> 02:03:40,345
The greatest measure
of the 19th century,
2171
02:03:40,476 --> 02:03:41,511
passed by corruption,
2172
02:03:41,644 --> 02:03:44,853
aided and abetted by
the purest man in America.
2173
02:04:03,533 --> 02:04:05,444
I wish you had been present.
2174
02:04:06,235 --> 02:04:08,306
- I wish I'd been.
- It was a spectacle.
2175
02:04:09,205 --> 02:04:11,651
You can't bring your
housekeeper to the House.
2176
02:04:11,741 --> 02:04:13,721
I won't give them gossip.
2177
02:04:13,843 --> 02:04:15,345
This is enough.
2178
02:04:15,745 --> 02:04:16,849
This is...
2179
02:04:18,548 --> 02:04:20,323
It's more than enough for now.
2180
02:04:21,918 --> 02:04:23,625
Read it to me again, my love.
2181
02:04:25,655 --> 02:04:27,498
- "Proposed..."
- And adopted.
2182
02:04:27,590 --> 02:04:28,967
"Adopted,
2183
02:04:29,659 --> 02:04:30,729
an amendment to
2184
02:04:30,860 --> 02:04:33,807
the Constitution of the United States."
2185
02:04:33,896 --> 02:04:35,307
Section One.
2186
02:04:35,732 --> 02:04:39,509
"Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude
2187
02:04:39,602 --> 02:04:42,378
except as a punishment for crime
2188
02:04:42,505 --> 02:04:45,918
whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted
2189
02:04:46,509 --> 02:04:49,319
shall exist within the United States
2190
02:04:49,846 --> 02:04:53,259
or any place subject
to their jurisdiction."
2191
02:04:53,383 --> 02:04:54,760
Section Two.
2192
02:04:55,284 --> 02:04:59,426
"Congress shall have power
to enforce this amendment
2193
02:04:59,555 --> 02:05:01,535
by appropriate legislation."
2194
02:05:23,746 --> 02:05:24,918
Let me be blunt.
2195
02:05:25,648 --> 02:05:27,286
Will the Southern states
2196
02:05:27,417 --> 02:05:29,920
resume their former position
in the Union
2197
02:05:30,053 --> 02:05:31,532
speedily enough to enable us
2198
02:05:31,621 --> 02:05:34,192
to block ratification to this here
2199
02:05:34,290 --> 02:05:35,428
13th Amendment?
2200
02:05:40,096 --> 02:05:41,598
I'd like peace immediately.
2201
02:05:42,598 --> 02:05:43,975
Yes, and?
2202
02:05:46,903 --> 02:05:49,440
I'd like your states restored to
2203
02:05:49,572 --> 02:05:53,110
their practical relations
with the Union immediately.
2204
02:05:55,912 --> 02:05:57,949
If this could be given to me in writing,
2205
02:05:58,514 --> 02:06:00,425
as Vice President of the Confederacy,
2206
02:06:00,516 --> 02:06:01,824
I'd bring that document
2207
02:06:01,951 --> 02:06:03,760
with celerity, to Jefferson Davis.
2208
02:06:06,456 --> 02:06:07,560
Surrender.
2209
02:06:08,091 --> 02:06:10,401
And we can discuss reconstruction.
2210
02:06:12,261 --> 02:06:13,797
Surrender won't be thought of.
2211
02:06:14,630 --> 02:06:17,770
Unless you've assured us, in writing,
2212
02:06:17,867 --> 02:06:20,575
that we'll be readmitted
in time to block this amendment.
2213
02:06:21,170 --> 02:06:24,674
This is the arrogant demand
of a conqueror.
2214
02:06:24,941 --> 02:06:27,785
You'll not be
a conquered people, Mr. Hunter.
2215
02:06:27,877 --> 02:06:29,322
You will be citizens.
2216
02:06:30,513 --> 02:06:32,083
Returned to the laws and
the guarantees of rights
2217
02:06:32,181 --> 02:06:33,159
of the Constitution.
2218
02:06:34,117 --> 02:06:36,757
Which now extinguishes slavery.
2219
02:06:36,853 --> 02:06:39,595
And with it, our economy.
2220
02:06:39,956 --> 02:06:41,317
All our laws will be determined by
2221
02:06:41,357 --> 02:06:42,961
a Congress of vengeful Yankees.
2222
02:06:43,793 --> 02:06:46,296
All our rights will be subject
to a Supreme Court
2223
02:06:47,029 --> 02:06:49,009
benched by bloody Republican radicals.
2224
02:06:49,699 --> 02:06:52,612
All our traditions will be obliterated.
2225
02:06:53,569 --> 02:06:55,310
We won't know ourselves anymore.
2226
02:06:57,373 --> 02:06:59,785
We ain't here to discuss reconstruction.
2227
02:06:59,876 --> 02:07:02,220
We have no legal basis
for that discussion.
2228
02:07:02,345 --> 02:07:03,949
But I don't want to deal falsely.
2229
02:07:04,046 --> 02:07:06,549
The Northern states
will ratify, most of them.
2230
02:07:06,682 --> 02:07:08,457
As I figure it, it remains for
two of the Southern states
2231
02:07:08,551 --> 02:07:09,552
to do the same,
2232
02:07:09,685 --> 02:07:11,323
even after all are readmitted.
2233
02:07:11,420 --> 02:07:12,990
And I've been working on that.
2234
02:07:13,990 --> 02:07:15,060
Tennessee and Louisiana.
2235
02:07:15,525 --> 02:07:17,698
Arkansas, too, most likely.
It'll be ratified.
2236
02:07:18,427 --> 02:07:21,169
Slavery, sir... It's done.
2237
02:07:34,677 --> 02:07:37,385
If we submit ourselves to law, Alex,
2238
02:07:38,181 --> 02:07:40,161
even submit to losing freedoms,
2239
02:07:41,584 --> 02:07:43,723
the freedom to oppress, for instance
2240
02:07:44,887 --> 02:07:46,662
we may discover other freedoms
2241
02:07:46,822 --> 02:07:48,301
previously unknown to us.
2242
02:07:49,392 --> 02:07:52,896
Had you kept faith
with the democratic process,
2243
02:07:53,029 --> 02:07:54,440
as frustrating as that can be...
2244
02:07:54,564 --> 02:07:55,770
Come, sir.
2245
02:07:55,932 --> 02:07:58,412
Spare us, at least, these pieties.
2246
02:07:59,402 --> 02:08:00,938
Did you defeat us with ballots?
2247
02:08:02,438 --> 02:08:04,247
How have you held your Union together?
2248
02:08:05,274 --> 02:08:06,446
Through democracy?
2249
02:08:07,743 --> 02:08:09,450
How many hundreds
of thousands have died
2250
02:08:09,579 --> 02:08:10,956
during your administration?
2251
02:08:12,415 --> 02:08:15,021
Your Union, sir, is bonded
in cannon fire and death.
2252
02:08:18,821 --> 02:08:20,232
It may be you're right.
2253
02:08:24,660 --> 02:08:27,470
But say all we done is show the world
2254
02:08:27,597 --> 02:08:29,736
that democracy isn't chaos.
2255
02:08:32,435 --> 02:08:35,882
That there is a great, invisible strength
2256
02:08:35,972 --> 02:08:37,315
in a people's union.
2257
02:08:38,274 --> 02:08:42,120
Say we've shown that a people
can endure awful sacrifice
2258
02:08:42,245 --> 02:08:43,883
and yet cohere.
2259
02:08:44,513 --> 02:08:45,651
Mightn't that save at least
2260
02:08:45,781 --> 02:08:47,988
the idea of democracy to aspire to?
2261
02:08:49,485 --> 02:08:51,761
Eventually to become worthy of?
2262
02:08:55,958 --> 02:08:57,835
At all rates, whatever may be proven
2263
02:08:57,960 --> 02:09:00,133
by blood and sacrifice
2264
02:09:00,263 --> 02:09:01,765
must have been proved by now.
2265
02:09:12,174 --> 02:09:14,279
Shall we stop this bleeding?
2266
02:10:52,942 --> 02:10:53,920
Once he surrenders,
2267
02:10:54,043 --> 02:10:55,784
send his boys back to their homes
2268
02:10:56,645 --> 02:10:58,249
and their farms, their shops.
2269
02:11:00,216 --> 02:11:01,286
Yes, sir.
2270
02:11:02,651 --> 02:11:03,629
As we discussed.
2271
02:11:03,753 --> 02:11:05,926
Liberality all around, not punishment.
2272
02:11:06,055 --> 02:11:07,090
I don't want that.
2273
02:11:07,990 --> 02:11:10,869
And their leaders,
Jeff and the rest of them,
2274
02:11:10,960 --> 02:11:12,234
they escape, leave the country
2275
02:11:12,328 --> 02:11:14,808
while my back's turned,
that wouldn't upset me none.
2276
02:11:16,165 --> 02:11:18,873
When peace comes,
it mustn't just be hangings.
2277
02:11:25,341 --> 02:11:26,877
By outward appearance
2278
02:11:28,644 --> 02:11:31,420
you're 10 years older
than you were a year ago.
2279
02:11:31,981 --> 02:11:33,085
Hmm.
2280
02:11:34,784 --> 02:11:36,991
Some weariness has bit at my bones.
2281
02:11:50,499 --> 02:11:52,775
I never seen the like of it before,
2282
02:11:52,868 --> 02:11:54,347
what I seen today.
2283
02:11:55,971 --> 02:11:57,780
Never seen the like of it before.
2284
02:12:00,509 --> 02:12:02,011
You always knew that.
2285
02:12:03,479 --> 02:12:04,981
What this was going to be.
2286
02:12:06,849 --> 02:12:08,920
Intimate and ugly.
2287
02:12:12,121 --> 02:12:13,600
You must have needed to see it close
2288
02:12:13,689 --> 02:12:15,089
when you decided to come down here.
2289
02:12:16,125 --> 02:12:17,160
Hmm.
2290
02:12:34,343 --> 02:12:37,984
We've made it possible for
one another to do terrible things.
2291
02:12:40,382 --> 02:12:41,952
We've won the war.
2292
02:12:42,985 --> 02:12:46,296
Now you have to lead us out of it.
2293
02:14:18,347 --> 02:14:19,951
You have an itch to travel?
2294
02:14:20,316 --> 02:14:22,125
Mm-hmm. I'd like that.
2295
02:14:23,652 --> 02:14:25,893
To the West, by rail.
2296
02:14:25,988 --> 02:14:27,331
Overseas.
2297
02:14:29,525 --> 02:14:30,663
The Holy Land.
2298
02:14:33,696 --> 02:14:35,300
Awfully pious for a man
2299
02:14:35,431 --> 02:14:37,934
who takes his wife out
buggy-riding on Good Friday.
2300
02:14:38,701 --> 02:14:39,839
Jerusalem.
2301
02:14:40,469 --> 02:14:42,278
Where David and Solomon walked.
2302
02:14:42,638 --> 02:14:46,085
I dream of walking in that ancient city.
2303
02:14:52,381 --> 02:14:54,088
All anyone will remember of me
2304
02:14:54,183 --> 02:14:56,823
is I was crazy and
I ruined your happiness.
2305
02:14:57,620 --> 02:15:00,123
Anyone thinks that
doesn't understand, Molly.
2306
02:15:04,026 --> 02:15:05,505
When they look at you,
2307
02:15:07,029 --> 02:15:09,771
at what it cost to live at the heart of this,
2308
02:15:11,300 --> 02:15:13,507
they'll wonder at it.
They'll wonder at you.
2309
02:15:13,636 --> 02:15:14,774
They should.
2310
02:15:16,138 --> 02:15:17,310
But they should also look at
2311
02:15:17,406 --> 02:15:18,942
the wretched woman by your side
2312
02:15:19,041 --> 02:15:21,851
if they want to understand
what this was truly like.
2313
02:15:23,012 --> 02:15:24,491
For the ordinary person.
2314
02:15:25,547 --> 02:15:27,117
For anyone other than you.
2315
02:15:27,316 --> 02:15:29,023
You must try to be happier.
2316
02:15:30,019 --> 02:15:31,521
We must, both of us.
2317
02:15:32,087 --> 02:15:34,294
We've been so miserable for so long.
2318
02:15:43,999 --> 02:15:46,775
I did say some colored men...
2319
02:15:46,869 --> 02:15:49,315
The intelligent, the educated, and the
2320
02:15:49,405 --> 02:15:51,351
veterans. I qualified it.
2321
02:15:51,473 --> 02:15:52,952
Mr. Stevens is furious.
2322
02:15:53,042 --> 02:15:54,715
He wants to know why you qualified it.
2323
02:15:54,843 --> 02:15:57,050
No one heard
the intelligent or educated part.
2324
02:15:57,179 --> 02:15:59,181
All they heard was the first time
2325
02:15:59,314 --> 02:16:01,988
any president has ever made mention
2326
02:16:02,084 --> 02:16:03,392
of Negro voting.
2327
02:16:03,819 --> 02:16:07,562
Still, I wish I'd mentioned it
in a better speech.
2328
02:16:07,690 --> 02:16:09,397
Mr. Stevens also wants to know
2329
02:16:09,525 --> 02:16:11,334
why you didn't make a better speech.
2330
02:16:14,063 --> 02:16:15,337
Mrs. Lincoln is
waiting in the carriage.
2331
02:16:15,464 --> 02:16:17,910
She wants me to remind you
of the hour, and that
2332
02:16:18,033 --> 02:16:20,775
you'll have to pick up
Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.
2333
02:16:24,339 --> 02:16:26,148
- Am I in trouble?
- No, sir.
2334
02:16:26,675 --> 02:16:28,018
Thank you, Mr. Slade.
2335
02:16:43,592 --> 02:16:45,037
I suppose it's time to go.
2336
02:16:46,662 --> 02:16:48,266
Though I would rather stay.
2337
02:18:18,086 --> 02:18:20,464
The President has been shot!
2338
02:18:23,458 --> 02:18:24,664
The President
2339
02:18:24,793 --> 02:18:27,501
has been shot! At Ford's Theater!
2340
02:18:33,202 --> 02:18:35,375
No. No!
2341
02:19:09,404 --> 02:19:12,715
It's 7:22 in the morning.
2342
02:19:13,775 --> 02:19:15,482
Saturday, the 15th of April.
2343
02:19:15,577 --> 02:19:16,851
It's all over.
2344
02:19:16,945 --> 02:19:18,356
The President is no more.
2345
02:19:22,117 --> 02:19:24,063
Now he belongs to the ages.
2346
02:19:30,425 --> 02:19:32,166
Fondly do we hope,
2347
02:19:33,862 --> 02:19:35,864
fervently do we pray,
2348
02:19:37,432 --> 02:19:40,379
that this mighty scourge of war,
2349
02:19:40,469 --> 02:19:42,415
may speedily pass away.
2350
02:19:45,540 --> 02:19:48,043
Yet if God wills that it continue
2351
02:19:48,710 --> 02:19:51,020
until all the wealth piled
2352
02:19:51,113 --> 02:19:54,219
by the bondman's 250 years
2353
02:19:54,316 --> 02:19:57,354
of unrequited toil shall be sunk
2354
02:19:58,720 --> 02:20:02,759
and until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash
2355
02:20:02,891 --> 02:20:06,532
shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword
2356
02:20:07,829 --> 02:20:10,207
as was said 3,000 years ago,
2357
02:20:10,299 --> 02:20:12,472
so still it must be said,
2358
02:20:13,402 --> 02:20:15,211
"The judgments of the Lord
2359
02:20:16,138 --> 02:20:20,484
are true and righteous altogether."
2360
02:20:26,248 --> 02:20:27,921
With malice toward none,
2361
02:20:30,152 --> 02:20:32,154
with charity for all,
2362
02:20:33,855 --> 02:20:35,562
with firmness in the right,
2363
02:20:35,657 --> 02:20:37,933
as God gives us to see the right,
2364
02:20:38,026 --> 02:20:41,166
let us strive on to finish
the work we are in,
2365
02:20:41,964 --> 02:20:44,274
to bind up the nation's wounds,
2366
02:20:45,167 --> 02:20:46,612
to care
2367
02:20:46,969 --> 02:20:49,279
for him who shall have borne the battle
2368
02:20:50,605 --> 02:20:52,482
and for his widow
2369
02:20:53,141 --> 02:20:54,347
and his orphan,
2370
02:20:56,144 --> 02:21:00,286
to do all which may achieve and cherish
2371
02:21:01,483 --> 02:21:06,091
a just and a lasting peace
among ourselves
2372
02:21:07,522 --> 02:21:09,524
and with all nations.