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- Some of us was
- in the Second Kansas Colored.
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- 00:02:08,045 --> 00:02:10,588
- 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.
- 7
- 00:02:19,890 --> 00:02:22,517
- 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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- 00:02:30,526 --> 00:02:32,777
- What's your name, soldier?
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- 00:02:32,903 --> 00:02:35,029
- Private. Harold Green, sir.
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- 00:02:36,448 --> 00:02:38,074
- I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir.
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- 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,284
- Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry.
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- 00:02:40,452 --> 00:02:42,453
- We're waiting over there.
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- 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:44,247
- We're leaving our horses behind
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- 00:02:44,373 --> 00:02:45,934
- and shipping out with the 24th Infantry
- 18
- 00:02:46,041 --> 00:02:48,876
- for the assault next week on Wilmington.
- 19
- 00:02:51,046 --> 00:02:53,381
- How long
- have you been a soldier?
- 20
- 00:02:53,966 --> 00:02:55,550
- Two years, sir.
- 21
- 00:02:56,051 --> 00:02:57,969
- The Second Kansas
- Colored Infantry,
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- 00:02:58,095 --> 00:03:00,388
- they fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry.
- 23
- 00:03:00,764 --> 00:03:01,973
- That's right, sir.
- 24
- 00:03:02,099 --> 00:03:03,779
- They killed
- a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir.
- 25
- 00:03:03,892 --> 00:03:05,685
- They were very brave.
- 26
- 00:03:06,103 --> 00:03:09,272
- And making $3 less each month
- than white soldiers.
- 27
- 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:10,606
- Us Second Kansas boys...
- 28
- 00:03:10,691 --> 00:03:13,985
- Another $3 subtracted
- from our pay for our uniforms.
- 29
- 00:03:14,278 --> 00:03:15,528
- That was true, yes sir,
- but that's changed.
- 30
- 00:03:15,612 --> 00:03:18,781
- Equal pay now, but still
- no commissioned Negro officers.
- 31
- 00:03:18,866 --> 00:03:20,867
- I'm aware of that,
- Corporal Clark.
- 32
- 00:03:20,951 --> 00:03:22,952
- Yes, sir.
- That's good that you're aware, sir...
- 33
- 00:03:23,287 --> 00:03:24,287
- Do you think the Wilmington attack...
- 34
- 00:03:24,371 --> 00:03:26,914
- Now that white people
- have accustomed themselves
- 35
- 00:03:26,999 --> 00:03:28,749
- to seeing Negro men with guns
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- 00:03:28,834 --> 00:03:30,001
- fighting on their behalf,
- 37
- 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:31,419
- and now that they can tolerate
- 38
- 00:03:31,503 --> 00:03:33,754
- Negro soldiers getting equal pay
- 39
- 00:03:33,839 --> 00:03:36,382
- maybe in a few years,
- they can abide the idea
- 40
- 00:03:36,466 --> 00:03:38,759
- of Negro lieutenants and captains.
- 41
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- In fifty years, maybe a Negro colonel.
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- 00:03:42,222 --> 00:03:44,807
- In a hundred years, the vote.
- 43
- 00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:51,397
- What will you do after the war,
- Corporal Clark?
- 44
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- Work, sir.
- 45
- 00:03:54,860 --> 00:03:57,028
- Perhaps you'll hire me.
- 46
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- Perhaps I will.
- 47
- 00:03:59,156 --> 00:04:00,781
- But you should know, sir,
- 48
- 00:04:00,866 --> 00:04:02,992
- that I get sick at the smell of boot black
- 49
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- and I cannot cut hair.
- 50
- 00:04:05,662 --> 00:04:07,371
- I've yet to find a man could cut mine
- 51
- 00:04:07,456 --> 00:04:09,790
- so that it'd make any difference.
- 52
- 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,440
- You got springy hair
- for a white man.
- 53
- 00:04:11,460 --> 00:04:12,710
- Yes, I do.
- 54
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- My last barber hanged himself.
- 55
- 00:04:17,007 --> 00:04:18,966
- And the one before that.
- 56
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- Left me his scissors in his will.
- 57
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- President Lincoln, sir.
- 58
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- Good evening, boys.
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- We saw you, and...
- 60
- 00:04:28,268 --> 00:04:30,019
- - We were at...
- - We was at Gettysburg.
- 61
- 00:04:30,103 --> 00:04:31,771
- You boys fight at Gettysburg?
- 62
- 00:04:31,855 --> 00:04:33,981
- No, didn't fight there,
- we just signed up last month.
- 63
- 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:36,275
- We saw him two years ago
- at the cemetery dedication.
- 64
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- Yeah. We heard you speak...
- Goddamn.
- 65
- 00:04:39,529 --> 00:04:40,988
- Hey, how tall are you, anyway?
- 66
- 00:04:41,073 --> 00:04:42,406
- Jeez, shut up.
- 67
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- Could you hear what I said?
- 68
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- No, sir. Not much.
- 69
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- It was...
- 70
- 00:04:46,703 --> 00:04:48,162
- "Four score and seven years ago,"
- 71
- 00:04:48,246 --> 00:04:50,087
- "our fathers brought forth
- from this continent"
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- "a new nation, conceived in liberty"
- 73
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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.
- 76
- 00:04:56,838 --> 00:04:58,547
- "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."
- 80
- 00:05:04,471 --> 00:05:06,351
- "We are met on a great
- battlefield of that war."
- 81
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- That's good, thank you.
- 82
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- "We come to dedicate"
- 83
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- "a portion of that field"
- 84
- 00:05:09,977 --> 00:05:11,560
- "as a final resting place
- for those who here"
- 85
- 00:05:11,645 --> 00:05:13,938
- "gave their lives
- that that nation might live."
- 86
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- His uncles, they died
- on the second day of fighting.
- 87
- 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:18,651
- I know the last part. It is...
- 88
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- Company up! Moving out!
- 89
- 00:05:21,154 --> 00:05:23,489
- You boys best go
- and find your company.
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- 00:05:23,573 --> 00:05:25,491
- - And thank you.
- - Thank you, sir.
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- 00:05:25,575 --> 00:05:27,576
- - God bless you.
- - God bless you, too.
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- God bless you.
- 93
- 00:05:41,925 --> 00:05:44,844
- "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"
- 97
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- "and that government
- of the people, by the people,"
- 98
- 00:05:56,898 --> 00:05:58,524
- "for the people"
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- 00:05:58,608 --> 00:06:01,110
- "shall not perish from the earth."
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- 00:06:29,097 --> 00:06:31,057
- It's nighttime.
- 101
- 00:06:31,975 --> 00:06:34,977
- Ship's moved by some terribie power
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- 00:06:35,645 --> 00:06:37,563
- at a terrific speed.
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- 00:06:38,523 --> 00:06:40,399
- 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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- 00:06:43,653 --> 00:06:46,447
- No one else seems to be
- aboard the vessel.
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- 00:06:46,656 --> 00:06:50,993
- I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness.
- 107
- 00:06:52,037 --> 00:06:53,954
- "I could be bounded in a nutshell"
- 108
- 00:06:54,039 --> 00:06:56,916
- "and count myself
- a king of infinite space"
- 109
- 00:06:57,459 --> 00:06:59,376
- "were it not that I have bad dreams."
- 110
- 00:07:01,838 --> 00:07:03,598
- I reckon it's the speed
- that's strange to me.
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- 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:06,300
- I'm used to going at a deliberate pace.
- 112
- 00:07:08,887 --> 00:07:10,179
- I should spare you, Molly.
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- 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:12,431
- I shouldn't tell you my dreams.
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- I don't want to be spared if you aren't.
- 115
- 00:07:15,393 --> 00:07:17,186
- And you spare me nothing.
- 116
- 00:07:19,731 --> 00:07:21,273
- Perhaps it's...
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- 00:07:22,192 --> 00:07:24,819
- It's the assault on Wilmington Port.
- 118
- 00:07:25,695 --> 00:07:28,280
- You dream about the ship
- before a battle, usually.
- 119
- 00:07:28,907 --> 00:07:30,574
- How's the coconut?
- 120
- 00:07:31,701 --> 00:07:33,410
- Beyond description.
- 121
- 00:07:35,038 --> 00:07:37,331
- Almost two years, nothing mends.
- 122
- 00:07:38,542 --> 00:07:40,668
- Another casualty of the war.
- 123
- 00:07:43,171 --> 00:07:45,172
- Who wants to listen to a useless woman
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- 00:07:45,257 --> 00:07:47,258
- grouse about her carriage accident?
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- - I do.
- - Stuff.
- 126
- 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:51,971
- You tell me dreams, that's all.
- 127
- 00:07:52,055 --> 00:07:53,806
- I'm your soothsayer.
- 128
- 00:07:54,099 --> 00:07:55,641
- That's all I am to you anymore.
- 129
- 00:07:55,725 --> 00:07:57,685
- I'm not to be trusted
- 130
- 00:07:58,979 --> 00:08:01,772
- even if it was not a carriage accident.
- 131
- 00:08:02,357 --> 00:08:04,650
- Even if it was
- an attempted assassination.
- 132
- 00:08:04,734 --> 00:08:05,943
- It was most probably an accident.
- 133
- 00:08:06,027 --> 00:08:09,572
- It was an assassin
- whose intended target was you.
- 134
- 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:14,618
- How are the plans coming along
- for the big shindy?
- 135
- 00:08:15,245 --> 00:08:17,288
- I don't want to talk about parties.
- 136
- 00:08:17,414 --> 00:08:19,165
- You don't care about parties.
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- 00:08:19,249 --> 00:08:22,668
- Not much, but they're
- a necessary hindrance.
- 138
- 00:08:28,216 --> 00:08:29,425
- I know.
- 139
- 00:08:30,886 --> 00:08:33,053
- I know what it's about, the ship.
- 140
- 00:08:35,599 --> 00:08:39,560
- It's not Wilmington Port.
- It's not a military campaign.
- 141
- 00:08:41,396 --> 00:08:43,981
- It's the amendment to abolish slavery.
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- 00:08:44,691 --> 00:08:45,816
- Why else would you force me
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- 00:08:45,901 --> 00:08:48,110
- to invite demented radicals
- into my home?
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- 00:08:51,948 --> 00:08:53,616
- You're going to try to get
- the amendment passed
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- 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:55,326
- in the House of Representatives
- 146
- 00:08:55,619 --> 00:08:57,077
- before the term ends?
- 147
- 00:08:57,162 --> 00:08:58,412
- Before the Inauguration?
- 148
- 00:08:58,496 --> 00:09:00,998
- Don't spend too much money
- on the flubdubs.
- 149
- 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:05,753
- No one is loved as much as you.
- 150
- 00:09:06,630 --> 00:09:10,007
- No one's ever been loved
- so much by the people.
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- 00:09:10,091 --> 00:09:11,967
- You might do anything now.
- 152
- 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:14,553
- Don't... Don't waste that power
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- 00:09:14,638 --> 00:09:16,722
- on an amendment bill
- that's sure of defeat.
- 154
- 00:09:20,268 --> 00:09:23,812
- Did you remember Robert's
- coming home for the reception?
- 155
- 00:09:28,109 --> 00:09:29,860
- I knew you'd forget.
- 156
- 00:09:35,283 --> 00:09:37,701
- That's the ship you're sailing on,
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- the 13th Amendment.
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- 00:09:40,247 --> 00:09:42,998
- You needn't tell me I'm right.
- I know I am.
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- 00:09:45,710 --> 00:09:47,419
- Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley.
- 160
- 00:09:47,504 --> 00:09:50,464
- Well, she needs this
- for the grand reception.
- 161
- 00:09:54,803 --> 00:09:56,345
- It's slow work.
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- 00:09:57,889 --> 00:09:59,265
- Good night.
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- 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:04,103
- Did you tell her a dream?
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- 00:11:37,906 --> 00:11:39,406
- Papa.
- 165
- 00:11:40,116 --> 00:11:41,784
- Papa, I want to see Willie.
- 166
- 00:11:41,951 --> 00:11:44,119
- Me, too, Taddie, but we can't.
- 167
- 00:11:44,454 --> 00:11:45,621
- Why not?
- 168
- 00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:46,997
- Willie's gone.
- 169
- 00:11:47,082 --> 00:11:49,375
- It's three years now he's gone.
- 170
- 00:12:19,531 --> 00:12:22,491
- The part assigned to me
- is to raise the flag.
- 171
- 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:28,539
- Which, if there be no fault
- in the machinery, I will do.
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- 00:12:29,874 --> 00:12:31,375
- And when up
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- 00:12:32,085 --> 00:12:34,837
- it'll be for the people to keep it up.
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- 00:12:40,802 --> 00:12:42,428
- That's my speech.
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- 00:12:45,223 --> 00:12:47,558
- We are coming, Father Abraham
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- 00:12:47,642 --> 00:12:50,144
- Three hundred thousand more
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- 00:12:50,228 --> 00:12:52,479
- From Mississippi's winding stream
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- 00:12:52,564 --> 00:12:54,815
- And from New England's shore
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- 00:12:54,899 --> 00:12:56,942
- We leave our plow and workshops
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- 00:12:57,026 --> 00:12:58,068
- Our wives...
- 181
- 00:12:58,736 --> 00:13:02,239
- Even if every Republican
- in the House votes yes,
- 182
- 00:13:02,532 --> 00:13:05,075
- far from guaranteed.
- Since when has our party
- 183
- 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,411
- unanimously supported anything?
- 184
- 00:13:08,204 --> 00:13:11,248
- But say all our fellow Republicans
- vote for it.
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- 00:13:12,083 --> 00:13:14,168
- We'd still be twenty votes short.
- 186
- 00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:15,335
- Only twenty?
- 187
- 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:16,503
- "Only twenty?"
- 188
- 00:13:16,588 --> 00:13:17,838
- We can find twenty votes.
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- 00:13:17,964 --> 00:13:20,799
- Twenty House Democrats
- who'll vote to abolish slavery?
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- 00:13:20,884 --> 00:13:22,009
- In my opinion...
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- 00:13:22,093 --> 00:13:24,094
- To which I always listen.
- 192
- 00:13:24,262 --> 00:13:27,097
- - Or pretend to.
- - With all three of my ears.
- 193
- 00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:30,100
- We'll win the war soon.
- 194
- 00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,227
- It's inevitable, isn't it?
- 195
- 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,563
- Well, it ain't won yet.
- 196
- 00:13:34,939 --> 00:13:38,400
- You'll begin your second term
- with semi-divine stature.
- 197
- 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:41,278
- Imagine the possibilities
- peace will bring.
- 198
- 00:13:41,362 --> 00:13:43,405
- Why tarnish your invaluable luster
- 199
- 00:13:43,490 --> 00:13:44,698
- with a battle in the House?
- 200
- 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:46,492
- It's a rat's nest in there.
- 201
- 00:13:46,576 --> 00:13:49,161
- It's the same gang of
- talentless hicks and hacks
- 202
- 00:13:49,245 --> 00:13:51,580
- who rejected the amendment
- 10 months ago.
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- 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,040
- We'll lose.
- 204
- 00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:57,002
- I like our chances now.
- 205
- 00:13:58,463 --> 00:14:01,340
- Well, consider the obstacles
- that we'd face.
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- 00:14:02,258 --> 00:14:04,218
- The aforementioned two-thirds majority
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- 00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:05,969
- needed to pass an amendment.
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- 00:14:06,054 --> 00:14:09,389
- We have a Republican majority,
- but barely more than 50%.
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- 00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:10,807
- Fifty-six.
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- 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,854
- We need Democratic support.
- There's none to be had.
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- 00:14:15,939 --> 00:14:17,773
- Since the House
- last voted on the amendment,
- 212
- 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,233
- there's been an election.
- 213
- 00:14:19,317 --> 00:14:20,692
- Sixty-four Democrats
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- 00:14:20,777 --> 00:14:23,195
- lost their House seats in November.
- 215
- 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:25,781
- That's 64 Democrats
- looking for work come March.
- 216
- 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:26,949
- I know.
- 217
- 00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:28,534
- They don't need to
- worry about re-election.
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- 00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:30,058
- They can vote however it suits them.
- 219
- 00:14:30,078 --> 00:14:33,330
- But we can't buy the vote
- for the amendment.
- 220
- 00:14:33,414 --> 00:14:35,374
- It's too important.
- 221
- 00:14:35,458 --> 00:14:37,584
- I said nothing of buying anything.
- 222
- 00:14:37,669 --> 00:14:40,003
- We need twenty votes was all I said.
- 223
- 00:14:40,171 --> 00:14:43,549
- Start of my second term,
- plenty of positions to fill.
- 224
- 00:14:47,804 --> 00:14:48,971
- Mr. President, may I present
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- 00:14:49,055 --> 00:14:51,139
- Mr. and Mrs. Jolly
- who've come from Missouri...
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- 00:14:51,224 --> 00:14:53,267
- From Jeff City, President.
- 227
- 00:14:53,518 --> 00:14:54,851
- Mr. Jolly.
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- 00:14:55,812 --> 00:14:56,979
- Ma'am.
- 229
- 00:14:57,230 --> 00:14:59,856
- And this here by the fire
- is Secretary of State Seward.
- 230
- 00:15:03,236 --> 00:15:04,570
- Jeff City?
- 231
- 00:15:07,699 --> 00:15:11,410
- I heard tell once
- of a Jefferson City lawyer
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- 00:15:12,453 --> 00:15:14,288
- who had a parrot
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- 00:15:14,706 --> 00:15:16,915
- that'd wake him
- each morning, crying out,
- 234
- 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,543
- "Today is the day the world shall end,"
- 235
- 00:15:19,627 --> 00:15:21,712
- "as scripture has foretold."
- 236
- 00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:24,590
- And one day...
- 237
- 00:15:25,675 --> 00:15:27,593
- the lawyer shot him,
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- 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:30,762
- for the sake of peace and quiet,
- I presume.
- 239
- 00:15:30,972 --> 00:15:33,599
- Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least,
- 240
- 00:15:33,850 --> 00:15:35,350
- his prophecy.
- 241
- 00:15:44,319 --> 00:15:46,820
- There's only one toll booth in Jeff City,
- 242
- 00:15:46,904 --> 00:15:48,447
- to the southwest
- 243
- 00:15:48,531 --> 00:15:51,074
- and this man
- Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla
- 244
- 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:53,368
- been in illegal possession
- for near two yar
- 245
- 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:55,704
- since your man General Schofield
- 246
- 00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:57,331
- set him up there.
- 247
- 00:15:57,498 --> 00:15:59,458
- But President Monroe give that toll gate
- 248
- 00:15:59,542 --> 00:16:00,834
- to my granpap
- 249
- 00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:02,711
- and Quincy Adams
- 250
- 00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:04,379
- give my pap a letter
- 251
- 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,214
- saying it's our'n for keeps.
- 252
- 00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:08,175
- Mrs. Jolly got the...
- 253
- 00:16:08,259 --> 00:16:10,344
- Show Mr. Lincoln
- the Quincy Adams letter.
- 254
- 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,638
- That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly.
- 255
- 00:16:12,722 --> 00:16:14,122
- Just tell me what you want from me.
- 256
- 00:16:16,517 --> 00:16:19,394
- Mr. Jolly's emphysema
- don't care for cigars.
- 257
- 00:16:20,271 --> 00:16:22,856
- Madame, do you know
- about the proposed
- 258
- 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:23,982
- 13th Amendment of the Constitution?
- 259
- 00:16:24,067 --> 00:16:25,942
- Yes, sir, everybody knows of it.
- 260
- 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:27,694
- The President favors it.
- 261
- 00:16:27,779 --> 00:16:29,321
- - Do you?
- - We do.
- 262
- 00:16:29,447 --> 00:16:31,406
- You know that it abolishes slavery?
- 263
- 00:16:31,491 --> 00:16:32,658
- Yes, sir, I know it.
- 264
- 00:16:32,742 --> 00:16:34,951
- And is that why you favor it?
- 265
- 00:16:35,411 --> 00:16:38,330
- What I favor is ending the war.
- 266
- 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,668
- Once we do away with slavery,
- the Rebs'll quit fighting
- 267
- 00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:45,337
- since slavery's what they're fighting for.
- 268
- 00:16:45,421 --> 00:16:48,006
- Mr. Lincoln, you always says so.
- 269
- 00:16:49,801 --> 00:16:51,426
- With the amendment, slavery's ended.
- 270
- 00:16:51,511 --> 00:16:53,637
- And they'll give up.
- The war can finish then.
- 271
- 00:16:54,639 --> 00:16:58,141
- If the war finished first,
- before we end slavery...
- 272
- 00:16:58,226 --> 00:17:00,644
- President Lincoln
- says the war won't stop
- 273
- 00:17:00,728 --> 00:17:02,729
- unless we finish slavery.
- 274
- 00:17:03,314 --> 00:17:04,856
- But if it did.
- 275
- 00:17:04,941 --> 00:17:06,858
- The South is exhausted.
- 276
- 00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:10,195
- If they run out of bullets and men
- 277
- 00:17:11,114 --> 00:17:13,365
- would you still want your...
- 278
- 00:17:13,783 --> 00:17:15,534
- Who's your Representative?
- 279
- 00:17:15,618 --> 00:17:18,078
- Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton.
- 280
- 00:17:18,162 --> 00:17:19,413
- "Beanpole" Burton.
- 281
- 00:17:19,497 --> 00:17:21,540
- I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir.
- 282
- 00:17:21,624 --> 00:17:22,666
- A Republican,
- 283
- 00:17:22,750 --> 00:17:25,836
- undecided on the question
- of the amendment, I believe.
- 284
- 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:27,546
- Perhaps you could call on him
- 285
- 00:17:27,630 --> 00:17:29,548
- and inform him of your enthusiasm.
- 286
- 00:17:29,924 --> 00:17:30,966
- Yeah.
- 287
- 00:17:31,050 --> 00:17:32,592
- Madame.
- 288
- 00:17:32,969 --> 00:17:35,554
- If the Rebels surrendered next week
- 289
- 00:17:36,013 --> 00:17:38,432
- would you, at the end of this month
- 290
- 00:17:39,684 --> 00:17:41,101
- want Congressman Burton to vote
- 291
- 00:17:41,185 --> 00:17:43,103
- for the 13th Amendment?
- 292
- 00:17:45,982 --> 00:17:48,859
- If that was how it was,
- no more war and all
- 293
- 00:17:48,943 --> 00:17:51,236
- I reckon Mr. Jolly
- much prefer not to have
- 294
- 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,238
- Congress pass the amendment.
- 295
- 00:17:54,198 --> 00:17:56,116
- And...
- 296
- 00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:58,869
- why is that?
- 297
- 00:18:00,288 --> 00:18:01,329
- Niggers.
- 298
- 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,206
- If he don't have to
- let some Alabama coon
- 299
- 00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:04,374
- come up to Missouri
- 300
- 00:18:04,459 --> 00:18:05,834
- steal his chickens and his job,
- 301
- 00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:07,753
- we'd much prefer that.
- 302
- 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,465
- The people.
- 303
- 00:18:11,549 --> 00:18:13,884
- I begin to see why
- you're in such a great hurry
- 304
- 00:18:13,968 --> 00:18:15,051
- to put it through.
- 305
- 00:18:15,136 --> 00:18:17,429
- Would you let me study this letter, sir,
- 306
- 00:18:17,513 --> 00:18:18,513
- about the toll booth?
- 307
- 00:18:19,390 --> 00:18:21,475
- Come back to me in the morning
- 308
- 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:24,102
- and we'll consider what the law says.
- 309
- 00:18:25,563 --> 00:18:27,189
- You be sure to
- 310
- 00:18:27,690 --> 00:18:29,441
- visit Beanpole.
- 311
- 00:18:30,193 --> 00:18:33,570
- Tell him that you support
- passage of the amendment
- 312
- 00:18:33,654 --> 00:18:35,739
- as a military necessity.
- 313
- 00:18:36,574 --> 00:18:37,741
- Thank you.
- 314
- 00:18:39,452 --> 00:18:41,953
- Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment.
- 315
- 00:19:20,576 --> 00:19:21,618
- If procuring votes
- 316
- 00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:23,662
- with offers of employment
- is what you intend
- 317
- 00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:24,996
- I'll fetch a friend from Albany
- 318
- 00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:26,873
- who can supply the skulky men
- 319
- 00:19:26,958 --> 00:19:29,084
- gifted at this kind of shady work
- 320
- 00:19:29,168 --> 00:19:30,460
- and spare me the indignity
- 321
- 00:19:30,545 --> 00:19:33,004
- of actually speaking to Democrats.
- 322
- 00:19:33,089 --> 00:19:35,632
- Spare you the exposure and liability.
- 323
- 00:19:38,469 --> 00:19:41,054
- Pardon me, that's a distress signal
- 324
- 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:44,933
- which I am bound,
- by solemn oath, to respond to.
- 325
- 00:19:48,646 --> 00:19:50,397
- Tom Pendel took away
- the glass camera plates
- 326
- 00:19:50,481 --> 00:19:52,440
- of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over
- 327
- 00:19:52,525 --> 00:19:54,276
- because Tom says Mama says
- they're too distressing.
- 328
- 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,569
- You had nightmares all night long.
- 329
- 00:19:55,653 --> 00:19:57,445
- I'll have worse nightmares
- if you don't let me look
- 330
- 00:19:57,530 --> 00:19:59,322
- at the plates again.
- 331
- 00:20:00,616 --> 00:20:01,867
- Perhaps.
- 332
- 00:20:03,703 --> 00:20:05,495
- You can't afford a single defection
- 333
- 00:20:05,580 --> 00:20:06,746
- from anyone in the party.
- 334
- 00:20:06,831 --> 00:20:09,374
- Not even a single Republican
- absent when they vote.
- 335
- 00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:11,668
- You know who you've got to see.
- 336
- 00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:16,381
- Send over to Blair House.
- 337
- 00:20:18,968 --> 00:20:22,804
- Ask Preston Blair
- can I call on him around 5:00.
- 338
- 00:20:23,389 --> 00:20:24,848
- God help you.
- 339
- 00:20:25,641 --> 00:20:27,893
- God alone knows
- what he'll ask you to give him.
- 340
- 00:20:29,478 --> 00:20:31,354
- If the Blaire tell them to,
- 341
- 00:20:31,439 --> 00:20:33,857
- no Republican will balk
- at voting for the amendment.
- 342
- 00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:36,526
- No conservative Republican
- is what you mean.
- 343
- 00:20:36,611 --> 00:20:38,945
- All Republicans
- ought to be conservative.
- 344
- 00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:40,405
- I founded this party,
- 345
- 00:20:40,489 --> 00:20:42,616
- in my own goddamn home, to be a
- 346
- 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:45,035
- conservative anti-slavery party,
- 347
- 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,329
- not a hobbyhorse for
- goddamn radical abolitionists.
- 348
- 00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,205
- Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy.
- 349
- 00:20:49,290 --> 00:20:51,082
- You'll frighten the child.
- 350
- 00:20:51,167 --> 00:20:53,126
- You need us to keep
- the conservative side
- 351
- 00:20:53,210 --> 00:20:54,544
- of the party in the traces
- 352
- 00:20:54,629 --> 00:20:55,962
- while you diddle the radicals
- 353
- 00:20:56,047 --> 00:20:58,173
- and bundle up
- with Thaddeus Stevens's gang!
- 354
- 00:20:58,257 --> 00:20:59,591
- You need our help!
- 355
- 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:01,217
- Yes, sir, I do.
- 356
- 00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:02,886
- Well, what do we get?
- 357
- 00:21:02,970 --> 00:21:04,429
- Blunt!
- 358
- 00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:07,724
- Your manners, Monty,
- must be why Mr. Lincoln
- 359
- 00:21:07,934 --> 00:21:09,684
- pushed you out of his Cabinet.
- 360
- 00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:11,269
- - I wasn't pushed!
- - Oh, of course you weren't.
- 361
- 00:21:11,354 --> 00:21:12,854
- He was pushed out to
- placate the damn radicals!
- 362
- 00:21:12,939 --> 00:21:17,275
- - I agreed to resign.
- - Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy.
- 363
- 00:21:19,445 --> 00:21:22,572
- You don't mind, boy, do you?
- 364
- 00:21:22,865 --> 00:21:24,741
- He spends his days with soldiers.
- 365
- 00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:25,825
- They taught me a song.
- 366
- 00:21:26,077 --> 00:21:27,369
- Did they?
- 367
- 00:21:28,454 --> 00:21:30,830
- Soldiers know all manner of songs.
- 368
- 00:21:31,791 --> 00:21:33,291
- How's your brother Bob?
- 369
- 00:21:33,376 --> 00:21:34,542
- He's at school now, but he's coming
- 370
- 00:21:34,627 --> 00:21:36,336
- to visit in four days for the shindy.
- 371
- 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,546
- At school. Ain't that fine?
- 372
- 00:21:38,881 --> 00:21:40,423
- Good he's not in the Army.
- 373
- 00:21:40,508 --> 00:21:42,384
- He wants to be,
- but Mama said he cannot.
- 374
- 00:21:42,468 --> 00:21:44,386
- Dangerous life, soldiering.
- 375
- 00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:47,389
- Your mama is wise
- to keep him clean out of that.
- 376
- 00:21:47,473 --> 00:21:50,642
- Now, your daddy knows that what I want
- 377
- 00:21:50,726 --> 00:21:53,561
- in return for all the help I can give him
- 378
- 00:21:54,063 --> 00:21:56,439
- is to go down to Richmond,
- like he said I could
- 379
- 00:21:56,524 --> 00:21:58,775
- as soon as Savannah fell
- 380
- 00:21:59,276 --> 00:22:01,319
- and talk to Jefferson Davis.
- 381
- 00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:04,280
- Now give me terms
- I can offer to Jefferson Davis
- 382
- 00:22:04,532 --> 00:22:06,825
- to start negotiating for peace.
- 383
- 00:22:06,993 --> 00:22:08,076
- He'll talk to me.
- 384
- 00:22:08,244 --> 00:22:10,704
- Conservative members of your party
- 385
- 00:22:10,788 --> 00:22:14,416
- want you to listen
- to overtures from Richmond.
- 386
- 00:22:14,959 --> 00:22:16,543
- That above all!
- 387
- 00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:20,505
- They'll vote for this rash
- and dangerous amendment
- 388
- 00:22:20,589 --> 00:22:23,967
- only if every other possibility
- is exhausted.
- 389
- 00:22:24,552 --> 00:22:27,095
- Our Republicans ain't abolitionists.
- 390
- 00:22:27,722 --> 00:22:30,682
- We can't tell our people
- they can vote yes
- 391
- 00:22:30,891 --> 00:22:32,100
- on abolishing slavery
- 392
- 00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:35,228
- unless at the same time we can tell them
- 393
- 00:22:35,438 --> 00:22:38,231
- that you're seeking a negotiated peace.
- 394
- 00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:49,117
- Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond.
- 395
- 00:22:49,326 --> 00:22:50,994
- Get him drunk so he can sleep.
- 396
- 00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:52,454
- Yes, ma'am.
- 397
- 00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:54,372
- Here, Daddy.
- 398
- 00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:58,126
- - Thank you.
- - Yes, sir, all right.
- 399
- 00:22:58,711 --> 00:22:59,836
- Where's my hat?
- 400
- 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,546
- Leo has your hat.
- 401
- 00:23:01,714 --> 00:23:02,964
- All right?
- 402
- 00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:05,925
- Go make peace.
- 403
- 00:23:18,397 --> 00:23:20,440
- Thunder forth, God of War.
- 404
- 00:23:22,568 --> 00:23:25,987
- We'll commence our assault
- on Wilmington from the sea.
- 405
- 00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:30,992
- Why is this burnt?
- 406
- 00:23:31,911 --> 00:23:33,495
- Was the boy playing with it?
- 407
- 00:23:33,579 --> 00:23:35,830
- It got took by a breeze
- several nights back.
- 408
- 00:23:35,915 --> 00:23:37,582
- This is an official War Department map.
- 409
- 00:23:37,875 --> 00:23:39,501
- And the entire Cabinet's waiting
- 410
- 00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:40,668
- to hear what it portends.
- 411
- 00:23:40,753 --> 00:23:41,836
- A bombardment.
- 412
- 00:23:42,505 --> 00:23:45,256
- From the largest fleet
- the Navy has ever assembled.
- 413
- 00:23:45,341 --> 00:23:47,759
- Old Neptune, shake thy hoary locks!
- 414
- 00:23:48,010 --> 00:23:49,844
- Fifty-eight ships are under way,
- 415
- 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:52,263
- of every tonnage and firing range.
- 416
- 00:23:52,389 --> 00:23:54,682
- We'll keep up a steady barrage.
- 417
- 00:23:55,184 --> 00:23:56,476
- Our first target is Fort Fisher.
- 418
- 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,228
- It defends Wilmington Port.
- 419
- 00:23:58,354 --> 00:24:00,271
- A steady barrage?
- 420
- 00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:02,941
- A hundred shells a minute.
- 421
- 00:24:04,026 --> 00:24:05,068
- Till they surrender.
- 422
- 00:24:05,778 --> 00:24:07,153
- Dear God.
- 423
- 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:10,615
- Wilmington's
- their last open seaport, therefore...
- 424
- 00:24:10,699 --> 00:24:13,368
- Wilmington falls, Richmond falls after.
- 425
- 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,122
- And the war is done.
- 426
- 00:24:18,249 --> 00:24:19,541
- Hear, hear!
- 427
- 00:24:19,625 --> 00:24:21,668
- Then why, if I might ask
- 428
- 00:24:21,752 --> 00:24:23,002
- are we not concentrating
- 429
- 00:24:23,087 --> 00:24:25,255
- the nation's attention on Wilmington?
- 430
- 00:24:25,381 --> 00:24:27,715
- Why, instead, are we
- reading in the Herald
- 431
- 00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:29,759
- that the anti-slavery amendment
- 432
- 00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:32,887
- is being precipitated onto
- the House floor for debate?
- 433
- 00:24:33,055 --> 00:24:34,055
- Because your eagerness,
- 434
- 00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:35,807
- in what seems an unwarranted intrusion
- 435
- 00:24:35,891 --> 00:24:38,476
- of the executive into
- legislative prerogatives,
- 436
- 00:24:38,561 --> 00:24:40,395
- is compelling it to what's...
- 437
- 00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:43,481
- To what's likely to be
- its premature demise.
- 438
- 00:24:43,566 --> 00:24:44,566
- Hear, hear!
- 439
- 00:24:44,650 --> 00:24:46,276
- You signed
- the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 440
- 00:24:46,402 --> 00:24:47,360
- You've done all that could be done.
- 441
- 00:24:47,444 --> 00:24:48,684
- The Emancipation Proclamation's
- 442
- 00:24:48,737 --> 00:24:50,822
- merely a war measure.
- After the war, the courts...
- 443
- 00:24:50,906 --> 00:24:52,657
- When Edward Bates
- was Attorney General,
- 444
- 00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:53,950
- he felt confident enough
- to let you sign it!
- 445
- 00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,077
- Different lawyers, different opinions.
- 446
- 00:24:56,162 --> 00:24:58,663
- It frees slaves
- as a military exigent. Not...
- 447
- 00:24:58,789 --> 00:25:02,417
- I don't recall Edward Bates
- being any too certain about
- 448
- 00:25:02,793 --> 00:25:05,253
- the legality of my proclamation.
- 449
- 00:25:06,797 --> 00:25:08,590
- Just it wasn't downright criminal.
- 450
- 00:25:10,593 --> 00:25:12,427
- Somewheres in between.
- 451
- 00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:18,808
- Back when I rode
- the legal circuit in Illinois,
- 452
- 00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:21,227
- I defended a woman from Metamora
- 453
- 00:25:21,312 --> 00:25:23,104
- named Melissa Goings.
- 454
- 00:25:23,981 --> 00:25:25,940
- Seventy-seven years old.
- 455
- 00:25:26,650 --> 00:25:29,777
- They said she'd murdered
- her husband. He was 83.
- 456
- 00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:32,322
- He was choking her
- 457
- 00:25:33,115 --> 00:25:36,159
- and she grabbed a hold
- of a stick of firewood
- 458
- 00:25:36,285 --> 00:25:38,870
- and fractured his skull and he died.
- 459
- 00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:41,831
- In his will, he wrote,
- 460
- 00:25:44,126 --> 00:25:46,294
- "I expect she has killed me."
- 461
- 00:25:50,007 --> 00:25:52,675
- "If I get over it, I will have revenge."
- 462
- 00:25:58,140 --> 00:26:00,058
- No one was keen to see her convicted,
- 463
- 00:26:00,142 --> 00:26:02,393
- he was that kind of husband.
- 464
- 00:26:03,145 --> 00:26:04,771
- I asked the prosecuting attorney
- 465
- 00:26:04,855 --> 00:26:08,066
- if I might have a short conference
- with my client.
- 466
- 00:26:08,234 --> 00:26:11,402
- She and I went into a room
- in the courthouse,
- 467
- 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,363
- but I alone emerged.
- 468
- 00:26:13,864 --> 00:26:15,573
- The window in the room
- was found to be wide open.
- 469
- 00:26:15,658 --> 00:26:19,244
- It was believed the old lady
- may have climbed out of it.
- 470
- 00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:22,664
- I told the bailiff,
- 471
- 00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:24,540
- right before I left her in the room
- 472
- 00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:25,708
- she asked me where she could get
- 473
- 00:26:25,834 --> 00:26:28,628
- a good drink of water,
- and I told her, Tennessee.
- 474
- 00:26:31,507 --> 00:26:34,050
- Mrs. Goings was seen no more
- in Metamora.
- 475
- 00:26:34,176 --> 00:26:36,344
- Enough justice had been done.
- 476
- 00:26:36,762 --> 00:26:39,430
- They even forgave
- the bondsman her bail.
- 477
- 00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:41,849
- I'm afraid I don't see...
- 478
- 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,393
- I decided
- 479
- 00:26:44,687 --> 00:26:47,689
- that the Constitution
- gives me war powers
- 480
- 00:26:48,857 --> 00:26:50,149
- but no one knows just exactly
- 481
- 00:26:50,234 --> 00:26:52,277
- what those powers are.
- 482
- 00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:54,320
- Some say they don't exist.
- 483
- 00:26:54,405 --> 00:26:56,072
- I don't know. I decided
- 484
- 00:26:56,198 --> 00:26:58,408
- I needed them to exist to uphold my oath
- 485
- 00:26:58,534 --> 00:27:00,743
- to protect the Constitution.
- 486
- 00:27:01,036 --> 00:27:02,704
- Which I decided meant I could take
- 487
- 00:27:02,788 --> 00:27:04,664
- the Rebels' slaves from them
- 488
- 00:27:04,748 --> 00:27:07,125
- as property confiscated in war.
- 489
- 00:27:07,710 --> 00:27:09,836
- That might recommend
- to suspicion that I agree
- 490
- 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,160
- with the Rebs that their slaves
- 491
- 00:27:11,213 --> 00:27:12,297
- are property in the first place.
- 492
- 00:27:12,381 --> 00:27:14,632
- Of course, I don't. Never have.
- 493
- 00:27:16,051 --> 00:27:17,593
- I'm glad to see any man free,
- 494
- 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,887
- and if calling a man property
- 495
- 00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:21,264
- or war contraband
- 496
- 00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:24,600
- does the trick,
- why I caught at the opportunity.
- 497
- 00:27:25,561 --> 00:27:28,229
- Now here's where it gets truly slippery.
- 498
- 00:27:28,564 --> 00:27:31,357
- I use the law allowing for the seizure
- 499
- 00:27:31,442 --> 00:27:32,525
- of property in a war
- 500
- 00:27:32,609 --> 00:27:34,068
- knowing it applies only to the property
- 501
- 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:36,821
- of governments and citizens
- of belligerent nations.
- 502
- 00:27:36,905 --> 00:27:39,240
- Well, the South ain't a nation.
- 503
- 00:27:39,408 --> 00:27:41,993
- That's why I can't negotiate with them.
- 504
- 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,912
- So if, in fact, the Negroes are property,
- 505
- 00:27:44,997 --> 00:27:46,289
- according to the law,
- 506
- 00:27:46,415 --> 00:27:48,291
- have I the right to take
- the Rebels' property
- 507
- 00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:50,209
- from them, if I insist they're rebels only
- 508
- 00:27:50,294 --> 00:27:53,254
- and not citizens of a belligerent country?
- 509
- 00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,006
- And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't
- 510
- 00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:57,925
- our actual Southern states in rebellion
- 511
- 00:27:58,427 --> 00:28:00,762
- but only the rebels living in those states,
- 512
- 00:28:00,846 --> 00:28:04,182
- the laws of which states remain in force.
- 513
- 00:28:05,601 --> 00:28:08,311
- "The laws of which states
- remain in force."
- 514
- 00:28:08,437 --> 00:28:10,557
- That means that since it's
- states' laws that determine
- 515
- 00:28:10,606 --> 00:28:13,066
- whether Negroes can be sold as slaves,
- 516
- 00:28:13,150 --> 00:28:14,650
- as property,
- 517
- 00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:17,487
- the federal government
- doesn't have a say in that.
- 518
- 00:28:17,613 --> 00:28:19,197
- At least not yet.
- 519
- 00:28:19,782 --> 00:28:23,034
- Then Negroes in those states
- are slaves,
- 520
- 00:28:23,118 --> 00:28:24,118
- hence property,
- 521
- 00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:26,371
- hence my war powers
- allow me to confiscate them
- 522
- 00:28:26,455 --> 00:28:28,706
- as such, so I confiscate them.
- 523
- 00:28:29,333 --> 00:28:30,958
- But if I'm a respecter of states' laws,
- 524
- 00:28:31,043 --> 00:28:32,418
- how then can I legally free them
- 525
- 00:28:32,503 --> 00:28:34,796
- with my Proclamation as I done?
- 526
- 00:28:35,672 --> 00:28:38,049
- Unless I'm canceling states' laws?
- 527
- 00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,139
- I felt the war demanded it.
- 528
- 00:28:46,016 --> 00:28:47,809
- My oath demanded it.
- 529
- 00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:50,520
- I felt right with myself,
- 530
- 00:28:50,646 --> 00:28:52,897
- and I hoped it was legal to do it.
- 531
- 00:28:52,981 --> 00:28:54,649
- I'm hoping still.
- 532
- 00:28:56,402 --> 00:29:00,405
- Two years ago, I proclaimed
- these people emancipated.
- 533
- 00:29:00,656 --> 00:29:04,826
- "Then, thenceforward and forever free."
- 534
- 00:29:06,537 --> 00:29:08,287
- Now let's say the courts
- decide I had no authority
- 535
- 00:29:08,372 --> 00:29:10,998
- to do it. They might well decide that.
- 536
- 00:29:11,333 --> 00:29:13,126
- Say there's no amendment
- abolishing slavery,
- 537
- 00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:14,669
- say it's after the war
- 538
- 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,712
- and I can no longer use my war powers
- 539
- 00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:18,589
- to just ignore the courts' decisions
- 540
- 00:29:18,674 --> 00:29:21,134
- like I sometimes felt I had to do.
- 541
- 00:29:21,218 --> 00:29:24,762
- Might those people I freed
- be ordered back into slavery?
- 542
- 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:29,892
- That's why I'd like to get
- 543
- 00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:31,978
- the 13th Amendment through the House,
- 544
- 00:29:32,062 --> 00:29:34,188
- on its way to ratification by the states.
- 545
- 00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:35,982
- Wrap the whole slavery thing up,
- 546
- 00:29:36,066 --> 00:29:38,860
- forever and aye,
- as soon as I'm able. Now!
- 547
- 00:29:38,944 --> 00:29:40,403
- End of this month.
- 548
- 00:29:40,529 --> 00:29:42,196
- And I'd like you to stand behind me
- 549
- 00:29:42,281 --> 00:29:45,116
- like my Cabinet's most always done.
- 550
- 00:29:53,417 --> 00:29:55,209
- As the preacher said,
- 551
- 00:29:56,044 --> 00:29:58,254
- "I could write shorter sermons,"
- 552
- 00:29:58,422 --> 00:30:01,257
- "but once I start, I get too lazy to stop."
- 553
- 00:30:06,555 --> 00:30:08,181
- It seems to me, sir, you're describing
- 554
- 00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:10,183
- precisely the sort of dictator
- 555
- 00:30:10,267 --> 00:30:12,059
- the Democrats
- have been howling about.
- 556
- 00:30:12,227 --> 00:30:14,020
- Dictators
- aren't susceptible to law.
- 557
- 00:30:14,104 --> 00:30:15,605
- Neither is he.
- He just said as much.
- 558
- 00:30:15,731 --> 00:30:17,398
- Ignoring the courts?
- Twisting meanings?
- 559
- 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:19,400
- What reins him in from... From...
- 560
- 00:30:19,485 --> 00:30:21,986
- Well, the people do that, I suppose.
- 561
- 00:30:23,238 --> 00:30:25,698
- I signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
- 562
- 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:28,784
- what, a year and a half
- before my second election?
- 563
- 00:30:28,911 --> 00:30:30,661
- I felt I was within my power to do it,
- 564
- 00:30:30,746 --> 00:30:34,248
- however, I also felt that
- I might be wrong about that.
- 565
- 00:30:34,416 --> 00:30:35,541
- I knew the people would tell me.
- 566
- 00:30:35,626 --> 00:30:37,293
- I gave them a year and a half
- to think about it,
- 567
- 00:30:37,419 --> 00:30:38,711
- and they re-elected me.
- 568
- 00:30:38,795 --> 00:30:40,671
- And come February the first,
- 569
- 00:30:40,756 --> 00:30:43,591
- I intend to sign the 13th Amendment!
- 570
- 00:30:54,937 --> 00:30:57,188
- Well, Mr. Representative Ashley.
- 571
- 00:30:57,814 --> 00:30:59,357
- Tell us the news from the Hill.
- 572
- 00:30:59,441 --> 00:31:00,483
- Well, the news...
- 573
- 00:31:00,609 --> 00:31:02,568
- Why, for instance, is this thus,
- 574
- 00:31:02,653 --> 00:31:04,487
- and what is the reason
- for this thusness?
- 575
- 00:31:04,613 --> 00:31:07,198
- James, we want you to bring
- the anti-slavery amendment
- 576
- 00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:08,282
- to the floor for debate,
- 577
- 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:09,825
- - immediately.
- - Excuse me, what?
- 578
- 00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:12,662
- You are the amendment's manager,
- are you not?
- 579
- 00:31:12,788 --> 00:31:13,955
- I am, of course, but...
- 580
- 00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:16,832
- Then we're counting
- on robust radical support
- 581
- 00:31:16,959 --> 00:31:18,584
- so tell Mr. Stevens we expect him
- 582
- 00:31:18,669 --> 00:31:19,919
- to put his back into it.
- 583
- 00:31:20,003 --> 00:31:21,087
- It's not going to be easy, but...
- 584
- 00:31:21,171 --> 00:31:22,797
- It's impossible.
- 585
- 00:31:23,298 --> 00:31:24,590
- No. I am sorry, no.
- 586
- 00:31:24,675 --> 00:31:28,010
- We can't organize anything
- immediately in the House.
- 587
- 00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:29,595
- I have been canvassing the Democrats
- 588
- 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:30,721
- since the election,
- 589
- 00:31:30,806 --> 00:31:32,265
- in case any of them have softened
- 590
- 00:31:32,349 --> 00:31:34,058
- after they got walloped, but
- 591
- 00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:35,893
- they have stiffened,
- if anything, Mr. Secretary.
- 592
- 00:31:35,978 --> 00:31:37,103
- There aren't nearly enough votes.
- 593
- 00:31:37,187 --> 00:31:39,230
- We're whalers, Mr. Ashley.
- 594
- 00:31:41,692 --> 00:31:45,653
- Whalers? As in... Whales?
- 595
- 00:31:45,737 --> 00:31:48,155
- We've been chasing this whale
- for a long time.
- 596
- 00:31:48,699 --> 00:31:50,199
- And we finally placed a harpoon
- 597
- 00:31:50,325 --> 00:31:51,367
- in the monster's back.
- 598
- 00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:53,494
- It's in, James. It's in.
- 599
- 00:31:53,579 --> 00:31:56,163
- We finish the deed now. We can't wait.
- 600
- 00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:59,500
- Or with one flop of his tail,
- he'll smash the boat
- 601
- 00:31:59,585 --> 00:32:01,711
- and send us all to eternity.
- 602
- 00:32:01,837 --> 00:32:04,130
- On the 31 st of this month, of this year,
- 603
- 00:32:04,214 --> 00:32:06,549
- put the amendment up for a vote.
- 604
- 00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:10,052
- Whalers?
- 605
- 00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:11,304
- That's what he said.
- 606
- 00:32:11,388 --> 00:32:14,056
- The man's never been near
- a whale ship in his life.
- 607
- 00:32:15,726 --> 00:32:17,727
- Withdraw radical support.
- 608
- 00:32:18,562 --> 00:32:20,313
- Force him to abandon this scheme,
- 609
- 00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,189
- whatever he's up to.
- 610
- 00:32:22,899 --> 00:32:25,359
- He drags his feet
- about everything,
- 611
- 00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:27,528
- Lincoln... Why this urgency?
- 612
- 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:29,614
- We got it through the Senate
- without difficulty
- 613
- 00:32:29,698 --> 00:32:30,906
- because we had the numbers.
- 614
- 00:32:31,033 --> 00:32:33,534
- Come December, you'll have
- the same in the House.
- 615
- 00:32:33,619 --> 00:32:35,619
- The amendment will be
- the easy work of 10 minutes.
- 616
- 00:32:35,621 --> 00:32:37,141
- He's using the threat of the amendment
- 617
- 00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,205
- to frighten the Rebels
- into an immediate surrender.
- 618
- 00:32:39,207 --> 00:32:41,042
- I imagine we'd rejoice to see that.
- 619
- 00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:43,085
- Will you rejoice
- when the Southern states
- 620
- 00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:44,837
- have rejoined the Union pell-mell,
- 621
- 00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:46,881
- as Lincoln intends them to,
- and one by one,
- 622
- 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,445
- each refuses to ratify the amendment?
- 623
- 00:32:48,717 --> 00:32:50,551
- If we pass it, which we won't.
- 624
- 00:32:50,636 --> 00:32:53,888
- Why are we cooperating with him?
- 625
- 00:32:54,723 --> 00:32:57,475
- We all know what he's doing
- and we all know what he'll do.
- 626
- 00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,728
- We can't offer up abolition's
- best legal prayer
- 627
- 00:33:01,229 --> 00:33:02,271
- to his games and tricks.
- 628
- 00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:03,856
- He said he'd welcome the South back
- 629
- 00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,149
- with all its slaves in chains.
- 630
- 00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:07,610
- Three years ago he said that,
- to calm the border states.
- 631
- 00:33:07,736 --> 00:33:09,278
- I don't!
- 632
- 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:14,200
- You said we all know
- what he'll do. I don't know.
- 633
- 00:33:14,284 --> 00:33:15,576
- You know he isn't to be trusted.
- 634
- 00:33:15,661 --> 00:33:16,994
- Trust?
- 635
- 00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,704
- I'm sorry, I was under
- the misapprehension
- 636
- 00:33:18,789 --> 00:33:21,499
- that your chosen profession was politics.
- 637
- 00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:23,959
- I never trusted the President,
- never trusted anyone,
- 638
- 00:33:24,086 --> 00:33:25,795
- but hasn't he surprised you?
- 639
- 00:33:25,921 --> 00:33:28,047
- No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn't.
- 640
- 00:33:28,131 --> 00:33:30,591
- Nothing surprises you, Asa,
- 641
- 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:33,135
- therefore nothing about you
- is surprising.
- 642
- 00:33:33,261 --> 00:33:35,012
- Perhaps that is why your constituents
- 643
- 00:33:35,097 --> 00:33:37,765
- did not re-elect you to the coming term.
- 644
- 00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:40,476
- It's late.
- 645
- 00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:41,811
- I'm old.
- 646
- 00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:44,438
- I'm going home.
- 647
- 00:33:48,318 --> 00:33:50,611
- Lincoln, the inveterate dawdler.
- 648
- 00:33:51,113 --> 00:33:52,863
- Lincoln, the Southerner.
- 649
- 00:33:52,948 --> 00:33:55,950
- Lincoln, the capitulating compromiser,
- 650
- 00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:59,453
- our adversary, and
- 651
- 00:34:00,288 --> 00:34:04,041
- leader of the godforsaken
- Republican party.
- 652
- 00:34:04,126 --> 00:34:05,334
- Our party.
- 653
- 00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:08,838
- Abraham Lincoln has asked us
- to work with him
- 654
- 00:34:08,964 --> 00:34:12,466
- to accomplish the death
- of slavery in America.
- 655
- 00:34:13,844 --> 00:34:16,053
- Retain, even in opposition
- 656
- 00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,849
- your capacity for astonishment.
- 657
- 00:34:26,148 --> 00:34:28,607
- The President is never
- to be mentioned. Nor I.
- 658
- 00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:30,317
- You're paid for your discretion.
- 659
- 00:34:30,861 --> 00:34:32,301
- Hell, you can have that for nothing.
- 660
- 00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:35,072
- What we need money for
- is bribes, to speed things up.
- 661
- 00:34:35,157 --> 00:34:36,949
- No, nothing strictly illegal.
- 662
- 00:34:37,033 --> 00:34:38,743
- It's not illegal to bribe Congressmen,
- 663
- 00:34:38,827 --> 00:34:40,244
- they'd starve otherwise.
- 664
- 00:34:40,328 --> 00:34:43,831
- I have explained to Mr. Bilbo
- and Mr. Latham that
- 665
- 00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:45,624
- we are offering patronage jobs
- 666
- 00:34:45,709 --> 00:34:46,834
- to the Dems who vote yes.
- 667
- 00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:49,670
- - Jobs and nothing more.
- - That's correct.
- 668
- 00:34:49,838 --> 00:34:50,880
- Congressmen come cheap.
- 669
- 00:34:51,006 --> 00:34:53,174
- Few thousand bucks
- will buy you all you need.
- 670
- 00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:55,551
- The President would be unhappy
- to hear you did that.
- 671
- 00:34:55,677 --> 00:34:58,053
- Will he be unhappy if we lose?
- 672
- 00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:00,639
- The money I managed to raise
- for this endeavor
- 673
- 00:35:00,724 --> 00:35:03,392
- is only for your fees,
- your food and lodging.
- 674
- 00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,480
- If that squirrel-infested attic
- 675
- 00:35:07,564 --> 00:35:08,898
- you've quartered us in is any measure,
- 676
- 00:35:09,024 --> 00:35:10,649
- you ain't raised much.
- 677
- 00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:11,859
- Shall we get to work?
- 678
- 00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:18,032
- The House recognizes Fernando Wood,
- 679
- 00:35:19,534 --> 00:35:22,536
- the honorable Representative
- from New York.
- 680
- 00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:27,750
- Estimable colleagues.
- 681
- 00:35:28,877 --> 00:35:31,295
- Two bloody years ago this month
- 682
- 00:35:32,214 --> 00:35:33,214
- His Highness,
- 683
- 00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:35,716
- King Abraham Africanus the First,
- 684
- 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:39,553
- our great usurping Caesar,
- 685
- 00:35:39,930 --> 00:35:43,307
- violator of habeas corpus
- and freedom of the press,
- 686
- 00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:44,472
- abuser of states' rights...
- 687
- 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:47,436
- If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,
- 688
- 00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:49,396
- he'd have had your empty head
- 689
- 00:35:49,481 --> 00:35:51,148
- impaled on a pike!
- 690
- 00:35:53,944 --> 00:35:56,028
- And the country better for it!
- 691
- 00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:58,739
- Radical Republican autocrat,
- 692
- 00:35:59,074 --> 00:36:02,076
- ruling by fiat and martial law,
- 693
- 00:36:02,786 --> 00:36:05,412
- affixed his name to his heinous and illicit
- 694
- 00:36:05,497 --> 00:36:07,623
- Emancipation Proclamation
- 695
- 00:36:07,916 --> 00:36:10,835
- promising it would hasten
- the end of the war,
- 696
- 00:36:10,919 --> 00:36:14,255
- which yet rages on and on.
- 697
- 00:36:15,841 --> 00:36:17,967
- He claimed, as tyrants do
- 698
- 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:20,177
- that the war's emergencies
- 699
- 00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:22,763
- permitted him to turn our army into...
- 700
- 00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:26,600
- The New York delegation is
- looking decidedly uninspired.
- 701
- 00:36:27,102 --> 00:36:30,312
- And radical Republicanism's
- abolitionist fanaticism!
- 702
- 00:36:34,442 --> 00:36:36,694
- His Emancipation Proclamation
- 703
- 00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:39,697
- has obliterated millions of dollars...
- 704
- 00:36:40,949 --> 00:36:42,741
- Over in Pennsylvania,
- 705
- 00:36:42,826 --> 00:36:45,286
- who's the sweaty man eating his thumb?
- 706
- 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:47,788
- Unknown to me. Seems jumpy.
- 707
- 00:36:48,498 --> 00:36:50,040
- Perhaps he'll jump.
- 708
- 00:36:54,337 --> 00:36:57,047
- But all that was not enough
- for this dictator,
- 709
- 00:36:57,132 --> 00:36:59,341
- who now seeks to insinuate...
- 710
- 00:36:59,467 --> 00:37:00,634
- Jesus.
- 711
- 00:37:01,303 --> 00:37:02,845
- When's this son of liberty
- sum-a-bitch gonna sit down?
- 712
- 00:37:02,971 --> 00:37:05,132
- John Ellis is gonna break
- his watch if he doesn't stop.
- 713
- 00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:09,226
- We are once again asked, nay
- 714
- 00:37:09,311 --> 00:37:12,730
- commanded, to consider
- a proposed 13th Amendment
- 715
- 00:37:14,316 --> 00:37:16,609
- which, if passed,
- shall set at immediate liberty
- 716
- 00:37:16,693 --> 00:37:18,444
- four million coloreds while manacling
- 717
- 00:37:18,528 --> 00:37:20,863
- the limbs of the white race in America.
- 718
- 00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,656
- If it is passed,
- 719
- 00:37:23,533 --> 00:37:25,034
- but it shall not pass!
- 720
- 00:37:30,832 --> 00:37:31,790
- What's more interesting
- 721
- 00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:32,875
- is how dismal and disgruntled
- 722
- 00:37:33,001 --> 00:37:34,335
- Mr. Yeaman appears.
- 723
- 00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:37,338
- Every member of this House...
- 724
- 00:37:37,547 --> 00:37:38,827
- He should be cheering right now.
- 725
- 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,341
- Looks like he ate a bad oyster.
- 726
- 00:37:40,425 --> 00:37:42,593
- Party and
- the constituents it serves
- 727
- 00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:43,844
- shall oppose...
- 728
- 00:37:44,554 --> 00:37:47,306
- Point of order,
- Mr. Speaker, if you please.
- 729
- 00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:49,141
- Mr. Speaker, I still have the floor.
- 730
- 00:37:49,225 --> 00:37:50,309
- And the gentleman from Pennsylvania
- 731
- 00:37:50,393 --> 00:37:51,644
- is out of order!
- 732
- 00:37:51,728 --> 00:37:53,604
- When will Mr. Wood conclude
- his interminable gabble?
- 733
- 00:37:53,688 --> 00:37:55,856
- Some of us breathe oxygen
- 734
- 00:37:56,358 --> 00:37:59,151
- and we find the mephitic
- fumes of his oratory
- 735
- 00:37:59,235 --> 00:38:02,529
- a lethal challenge
- to our pulmonary capabilities!
- 736
- 00:38:05,742 --> 00:38:08,202
- We shall oppose this amendment,
- 737
- 00:38:08,286 --> 00:38:10,871
- and any legislation that
- so affronts natural law
- 738
- 00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,540
- insulting to God as to man!
- 739
- 00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,043
- Congress must never declare equal
- 740
- 00:38:16,127 --> 00:38:18,379
- those whom God created unequal!
- 741
- 00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,679
- Slavery is the only insult to natural law,
- 742
- 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:28,555
- you fatuous nincompoop!
- 743
- 00:38:29,766 --> 00:38:32,476
- Order!
- 744
- 00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:35,479
- Procedure, Mr. Speaker.
- 745
- 00:38:35,730 --> 00:38:37,189
- Mr. Wood has the floor.
- 746
- 00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:38,649
- Instruct us,
- 747
- 00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,234
- oh, Great Commoner.
- 748
- 00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:42,736
- What is unnatural, in your opinion?
- 749
- 00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:45,114
- Niggrahs casting ballots?
- 750
- 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:46,782
- Niggrah representatives?
- 751
- 00:38:46,908 --> 00:38:48,909
- Is that natural, Stevens?
- 752
- 00:38:49,327 --> 00:38:50,828
- Intermarriage?
- 753
- 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,123
- What violates natural law?
- 754
- 00:38:54,290 --> 00:38:56,834
- Slavery and you.
- 755
- 00:38:57,502 --> 00:38:59,920
- Pendleton, you insult God!
- 756
- 00:39:01,923 --> 00:39:03,173
- You unnatural noise.
- 757
- 00:39:08,096 --> 00:39:10,431
- Mr. Colfax, please, use your gavel!
- 758
- 00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:12,057
- - You are out of order!
- - Order in the Cabinet!
- 759
- 00:39:12,142 --> 00:39:13,142
- Instruct the Sergeant-at-Arms
- 760
- 00:39:13,268 --> 00:39:14,226
- to suppress this!
- 761
- 00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:15,436
- We are in session!
- 762
- 00:39:15,562 --> 00:39:17,521
- Please don't encourage this!
- 763
- 00:39:17,605 --> 00:39:19,231
- Don't encourage this!
- 764
- 00:39:24,279 --> 00:39:26,238
- You're back! You're back! You're back!
- 765
- 00:39:27,449 --> 00:39:29,408
- I am. The goat got big.
- 766
- 00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,952
- Help me get one of these to my room.
- 767
- 00:39:32,078 --> 00:39:33,912
- - She in there?
- - She's asleep, probably.
- 768
- 00:39:33,997 --> 00:39:35,497
- - You need help, sir?
- - No, sir.
- 769
- 00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:36,582
- They went to see Avonia Jones last night
- 770
- 00:39:36,666 --> 00:39:37,875
- in a play about Israelites.
- 771
- 00:39:37,959 --> 00:39:39,710
- Could you bring your pa this letter I writ
- 772
- 00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:41,034
- about my insolvency proceeding?
- 773
- 00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,213
- Deliver your own goddamn petition.
- 774
- 00:39:43,298 --> 00:39:44,423
- There's a new book. Sam Beckwith
- 775
- 00:39:44,507 --> 00:39:45,799
- says it's about finches
- and finches' beaks,
- 776
- 00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:46,925
- about how they change.
- 777
- 00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:48,552
- He's here.
- 778
- 00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:51,138
- He's here! Mrs. Cuthbert, he's here!
- 779
- 00:39:51,681 --> 00:39:53,098
- - Robbie.
- - Hi, Mom.
- 780
- 00:39:53,183 --> 00:39:54,516
- - Oh, Robbie.
- - Hey.
- 781
- 00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:55,809
- - Robbie.
- - Hey.
- 782
- 00:39:59,856 --> 00:40:02,191
- You're only staying a few days,
- why'd you pack all that?
- 783
- 00:40:02,317 --> 00:40:03,901
- Well, I don't know how long...
- 784
- 00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:05,346
- Go tell your father Robert's home.
- 785
- 00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:08,238
- Mr. Nicolay says Daddy's
- secluded with Mr. Blair.
- 786
- 00:40:08,323 --> 00:40:09,948
- Tell him anyway.
- 787
- 00:40:12,285 --> 00:40:13,994
- Did you forget to eat?
- 788
- 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,788
- - Exactly like him.
- - No.
- 789
- 00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:18,874
- You'll linger a few days extra
- after the reception
- 790
- 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,542
- before you go back to school.
- 791
- 00:40:20,668 --> 00:40:22,669
- Well, I don't know
- if I'm going to go back...
- 792
- 00:40:22,796 --> 00:40:26,006
- We'll fatten you up
- before you return to Boston.
- 793
- 00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,051
- - All right, Mom.
- - All right.
- 794
- 00:40:30,470 --> 00:40:31,762
- Oh, Robbie.
- 795
- 00:40:32,514 --> 00:40:35,349
- Jefferson Davis is sending
- three delegates.
- 796
- 00:40:35,642 --> 00:40:37,851
- Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.
- 797
- 00:40:39,062 --> 00:40:41,271
- Vice President of the Confederacy,
- 798
- 00:40:41,356 --> 00:40:43,148
- the former Secretary of State
- 799
- 00:40:43,233 --> 00:40:45,818
- and their Assistant Secretary of War.
- 800
- 00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:49,029
- They're coming in earnest
- to propose peace.
- 801
- 00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:53,826
- I know this is unwelcome news for you.
- 802
- 00:40:54,327 --> 00:40:55,702
- Now hear me.
- 803
- 00:40:56,913 --> 00:40:59,748
- I went to Richmond to talk to traitors.
- 804
- 00:41:00,875 --> 00:41:03,418
- To smile at and plead with traitors
- 805
- 00:41:04,504 --> 00:41:07,339
- because it'll be spring in two months.
- 806
- 00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:09,842
- The roads will be passable,
- 807
- 00:41:09,926 --> 00:41:12,219
- the spring slaughter commences.
- 808
- 00:41:13,221 --> 00:41:15,222
- Four bloody springs now.
- 809
- 00:41:17,225 --> 00:41:18,892
- Think of my Frank,
- 810
- 00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:21,728
- whom you've taken to your heart.
- 811
- 00:41:21,855 --> 00:41:24,690
- How you'll blame yourself
- if the war takes my son
- 812
- 00:41:24,774 --> 00:41:27,276
- as it's taken multitudes of sons.
- 813
- 00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:31,321
- Think of all the boys who will die
- 814
- 00:41:31,406 --> 00:41:33,365
- if you don't make peace.
- 815
- 00:41:33,449 --> 00:41:35,367
- You must talk with these men.
- 816
- 00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:36,827
- I intend to, Preston.
- 817
- 00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:38,996
- In return, I must ask you to support
- our push for the amendment...
- 818
- 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:40,664
- No, this is not horse trading.
- 819
- 00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:42,916
- Not now!
- 820
- 00:41:43,585 --> 00:41:45,419
- Bob. I'm sorry.
- 821
- 00:41:46,379 --> 00:41:47,379
- - Welcome home.
- - Thank you, sir.
- 822
- 00:41:47,463 --> 00:41:49,590
- Looking fit, Robert.
- Harvard agrees with you.
- 823
- 00:41:49,716 --> 00:41:50,924
- - Mr. Blair.
- - Fit and rested.
- 824
- 00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:53,969
- Could you give us a moment,
- please, Robert? Thank you.
- 825
- 00:41:55,638 --> 00:41:58,807
- I will procure your votes for you,
- as I promised.
- 826
- 00:41:59,726 --> 00:42:03,061
- You have always kept your word to me.
- 827
- 00:42:04,230 --> 00:42:06,440
- Those Southern men are coming.
- 828
- 00:42:07,275 --> 00:42:10,110
- I beg you, in the name
- of gentle Christ, sir.
- 829
- 00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:11,236
- I understand.
- 830
- 00:42:11,321 --> 00:42:13,030
- Talk peace with these men.
- 831
- 00:42:13,114 --> 00:42:14,948
- I understand, Preston.
- 832
- 00:42:17,577 --> 00:42:19,411
- We have one abstention so far.
- 833
- 00:42:19,495 --> 00:42:20,621
- Jacob Graylor.
- 834
- 00:42:20,747 --> 00:42:22,748
- He'd like to be
- Federal Revenue Assessor
- 835
- 00:42:22,832 --> 00:42:24,583
- for the 5th District of Pennsylvania.
- 836
- 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:26,835
- So the total of Representatives
- 837
- 00:42:26,961 --> 00:42:30,047
- voting three weeks from today
- is reduced to 182,
- 838
- 00:42:30,131 --> 00:42:32,049
- which means 122 yes votes
- 839
- 00:42:32,133 --> 00:42:34,134
- to reach the requisite
- two-thirds of the House.
- 840
- 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:36,929
- Assuming all Republicans
- vote for the amendment.
- 841
- 00:42:39,307 --> 00:42:41,725
- Then despite our abstention,
- 842
- 00:42:41,809 --> 00:42:43,393
- to reach a two-thirds majority,
- 843
- 00:42:43,478 --> 00:42:45,229
- we remain twenty yeses short.
- 844
- 00:42:45,313 --> 00:42:46,355
- For which we're seeking
- 845
- 00:42:46,481 --> 00:42:48,982
- from among 64 lame duck Democrats.
- 846
- 00:42:49,442 --> 00:42:53,654
- Fully 39 of these we deem
- unredeemable no votes.
- 847
- 00:42:55,949 --> 00:42:57,991
- The kind that hates niggers.
- 848
- 00:42:58,451 --> 00:43:00,661
- Hates God for makin' niggers.
- 849
- 00:43:00,995 --> 00:43:03,747
- The Good Lord on high
- would despair of their souls.
- 850
- 00:43:03,831 --> 00:43:06,959
- Thank you for that
- pithy explanation, Mr. Bilbo.
- 851
- 00:43:07,085 --> 00:43:08,752
- We've abandoned these 39 to
- 852
- 00:43:08,836 --> 00:43:10,504
- the devil that possesses them.
- 853
- 00:43:10,588 --> 00:43:11,588
- We would...
- 854
- 00:43:12,924 --> 00:43:16,426
- The remaining lame ducks, on whom
- we've been working with a purpose.
- 855
- 00:43:17,345 --> 00:43:18,428
- Charles Hanson.
- 856
- 00:43:18,805 --> 00:43:20,180
- Congressman.
- 857
- 00:43:21,516 --> 00:43:23,600
- My colleagues and I would like
- a moment of your time.
- 858
- 00:43:23,685 --> 00:43:25,477
- I wonder if you've given much thought...
- 859
- 00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:27,354
- Giles Stuart.
- 860
- 00:43:32,694 --> 00:43:34,194
- Rather clumsy.
- 861
- 00:43:46,708 --> 00:43:48,292
- Nelson Merrick.
- 862
- 00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:55,882
- Homer Benson.
- 863
- 00:44:01,889 --> 00:44:03,557
- My name is Richard Schell.
- 864
- 00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:06,059
- I wanted you to have a look
- at this prospectus here.
- 865
- 00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:09,062
- And lastly,
- 866
- 00:44:10,982 --> 00:44:13,150
- Clay Hawkins. Of Ohio.
- 867
- 00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:16,153
- Tax Collector for the Western Reserve.
- 868
- 00:44:16,237 --> 00:44:17,821
- That pays handsomely.
- 869
- 00:44:17,905 --> 00:44:19,656
- Don't just reach
- for the highest branches,
- 870
- 00:44:19,741 --> 00:44:21,575
- they sway in every breeze.
- 871
- 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,077
- Assistant Port Inspector in Morristown
- 872
- 00:44:24,203 --> 00:44:25,662
- looks like the ticket to me.
- 873
- 00:44:25,747 --> 00:44:27,581
- Boats, they, they make me sick.
- 874
- 00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,708
- So just stand on the dock.
- 875
- 00:44:30,001 --> 00:44:32,586
- Let the Assistant Assistant
- Port Inspector's stomach
- 876
- 00:44:32,712 --> 00:44:34,004
- go weak.
- 877
- 00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:37,924
- And, lastly,
- Democratic yes vote
- 878
- 00:44:38,009 --> 00:44:39,926
- number six, Hawkins.
- 879
- 00:44:40,011 --> 00:44:41,011
- From Ohio.
- 880
- 00:44:41,095 --> 00:44:42,179
- Six?
- 881
- 00:44:42,263 --> 00:44:43,847
- Well, thus far.
- 882
- 00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:46,058
- Plus Graylor's abstention.
- 883
- 00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:48,935
- - From tiny acorns and so on.
- - What did Hawkins get?
- 884
- 00:44:49,062 --> 00:44:51,188
- Postmaster of the Millersburg
- Post Office.
- 885
- 00:44:51,272 --> 00:44:52,606
- He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?
- 886
- 00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:54,941
- Well, he wanted Tax Collector
- of the Western Reserve.
- 887
- 00:44:55,026 --> 00:44:57,146
- First term Congressman
- who couldn't manage reelection.
- 888
- 00:44:57,195 --> 00:44:58,278
- I felt it unseemly
- 889
- 00:44:58,363 --> 00:44:59,863
- and they bargained him down
- to Postmaster.
- 890
- 00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:01,365
- Scatter them over several
- rounds of appointments
- 891
- 00:45:01,449 --> 00:45:02,866
- so no one notices, then burn this ledger,
- 892
- 00:45:02,950 --> 00:45:05,035
- please, after you're done.
- 893
- 00:45:08,081 --> 00:45:10,374
- Time for my public opinion bath.
- 894
- 00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:11,792
- Might as well let them in.
- 895
- 00:45:13,753 --> 00:45:15,921
- Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis.
- 896
- 00:45:16,964 --> 00:45:18,465
- Thirteen to go.
- 897
- 00:45:19,634 --> 00:45:21,134
- One last item.
- 898
- 00:45:21,636 --> 00:45:23,428
- An absurdity, but
- 899
- 00:45:24,472 --> 00:45:26,807
- my associates report that
- among the Representatives
- 900
- 00:45:26,933 --> 00:45:29,476
- a fantastical rumor's bruited about,
- 901
- 00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:32,437
- which I immediately disavowed,
- 902
- 00:45:32,897 --> 00:45:34,898
- that you'd allowed
- bleary old Preston Blair
- 903
- 00:45:34,982 --> 00:45:36,066
- to sojourn to Richmond
- 904
- 00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:38,235
- to invite Jeff Davis
- to send commissioners
- 905
- 00:45:38,319 --> 00:45:40,904
- up to Washington with a peace plan.
- 906
- 00:45:44,492 --> 00:45:47,244
- I, of course, told them
- that you would never.
- 907
- 00:45:47,328 --> 00:45:50,163
- Not without consulting me, you wouldn't.
- 908
- 00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:53,166
- Because why on earth would you?
- 909
- 00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:21,254
- Much obliged.
- 910
- 00:47:28,346 --> 00:47:29,346
- Why wasn't I consulted?
- 911
- 00:47:29,430 --> 00:47:30,931
- I'm Secretary of State.
- 912
- 00:47:31,098 --> 00:47:34,601
- And you informally send
- a reactionary dotard to...
- 913
- 00:47:36,062 --> 00:47:37,437
- What will happen, do you imagine,
- 914
- 00:47:37,563 --> 00:47:40,106
- when these
- peace commissioners arrive?
- 915
- 00:47:40,233 --> 00:47:41,274
- We'll hear them out.
- 916
- 00:47:41,567 --> 00:47:43,026
- Splendid.
- 917
- 00:47:43,402 --> 00:47:44,694
- And next, the Democrats will invite them
- 918
- 00:47:44,779 --> 00:47:46,279
- up to hearings on the Hill.
- 919
- 00:47:46,405 --> 00:47:48,949
- And the newspapers...
- Oh, the newspapers.
- 920
- 00:47:49,075 --> 00:47:50,450
- The newspapers will ask,
- 921
- 00:47:50,576 --> 00:47:52,369
- "Why risk enraging the Confederacy"
- 922
- 00:47:52,453 --> 00:47:53,534
- "over the issue of slavery"
- 923
- 00:47:53,538 --> 00:47:55,914
- "when they're here to make peace?"
- 924
- 00:47:57,375 --> 00:47:59,960
- We'll lose every Democrat we've got,
- 925
- 00:48:00,044 --> 00:48:01,645
- more than likely
- conservative Republicans
- 926
- 00:48:01,712 --> 00:48:03,296
- will join them, and all our work,
- 927
- 00:48:03,422 --> 00:48:05,715
- all our preparing the ground for the vote
- 928
- 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:06,967
- laid waste for naught.
- 929
- 00:48:07,051 --> 00:48:08,811
- The Blaire promised support
- for the amendment
- 930
- 00:48:08,886 --> 00:48:09,886
- if we listen to these people.
- 931
- 00:48:09,971 --> 00:48:11,805
- Oh, the Blaire promise, do they?
- 932
- 00:48:11,931 --> 00:48:12,973
- You think they'll keep their promise
- 933
- 00:48:13,099 --> 00:48:14,140
- once we've heard these delegates
- 934
- 00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:16,142
- and refused them,
- which we will have to do,
- 935
- 00:48:16,227 --> 00:48:17,727
- since their proposal most certainly
- 936
- 00:48:17,812 --> 00:48:19,145
- will be predicated on
- 937
- 00:48:19,230 --> 00:48:20,814
- keeping their slaves!
- 938
- 00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,441
- What hope for
- any Democratic votes, Willum,
- 939
- 00:48:23,651 --> 00:48:25,735
- if word gets out that
- I've refused a chance
- 940
- 00:48:25,820 --> 00:48:27,487
- to end the war?
- 941
- 00:48:27,947 --> 00:48:29,739
- You think word won't get out?
- 942
- 00:48:30,741 --> 00:48:32,242
- In Washington?
- 943
- 00:48:33,995 --> 00:48:36,035
- It's either the amendment
- or this Confederate peace.
- 944
- 00:48:36,122 --> 00:48:37,914
- You cannot have both.
- 945
- 00:48:38,666 --> 00:48:41,334
- "If you can look into the seeds of time,."
- 946
- 00:48:42,169 --> 00:48:45,255
- "And say which grain will grow
- and which will not,"
- 947
- 00:48:45,339 --> 00:48:46,506
- "Speak then to me."
- 948
- 00:48:46,591 --> 00:48:48,174
- A disaster. This is a disaster.
- 949
- 00:48:48,259 --> 00:48:50,594
- Time is a great thickener
- of things, Willum.
- 950
- 00:48:50,678 --> 00:48:52,470
- Yes, I suppose it is.
- 951
- 00:48:52,972 --> 00:48:55,015
- Actually, I have no idea
- what you mean by that.
- 952
- 00:48:57,184 --> 00:48:59,019
- Get me 13 votes.
- 953
- 00:48:59,979 --> 00:49:02,314
- Them fellas from Richmond
- ain't here yet.
- 954
- 00:49:23,502 --> 00:49:25,879
- You drafted
- half the men in Boston.
- 955
- 00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:28,798
- What do you think
- their families think about me?
- 956
- 00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:30,800
- The only reason they don't
- throw things and spit on me
- 957
- 00:49:30,885 --> 00:49:32,385
- is 'cause you're so popular.
- 958
- 00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:36,222
- I can't concentrate on,
- on British Mercantile Law.
- 959
- 00:49:36,307 --> 00:49:38,475
- I don't care about British Mercantile Law.
- 960
- 00:49:40,686 --> 00:49:42,354
- I might not even want to be a lawyer.
- 961
- 00:49:44,106 --> 00:49:47,484
- It's a sturdy profession.
- And a useful one.
- 962
- 00:49:47,568 --> 00:49:52,572
- Yes, and I want to be useful,
- but now, not afterwards.
- 963
- 00:49:52,657 --> 00:49:54,407
- I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade.
- 964
- 00:49:54,492 --> 00:49:55,492
- They never fit right.
- 965
- 00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:57,827
- The missus will have you
- wear them. Don't think...
- 966
- 00:49:57,912 --> 00:49:59,829
- You're delaying,
- that's your favorite tactic.
- 967
- 00:49:59,914 --> 00:50:01,831
- - Be useful...
- - You won't tell me no,
- 968
- 00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:03,750
- but the war will be over in
- a month, and you know it will.
- 969
- 00:50:03,876 --> 00:50:06,503
- I've found that prophesying
- 970
- 00:50:07,380 --> 00:50:11,091
- is one of life's
- less profitable occupations.
- 971
- 00:50:12,885 --> 00:50:15,011
- Why do some slaves
- cost more than others?
- 972
- 00:50:15,096 --> 00:50:16,496
- If they're still young and healthy,
- 973
- 00:50:16,555 --> 00:50:18,098
- or if the women can
- still conceive, they pay more.
- 974
- 00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:20,850
- Put them back in the box, you scoundrel.
- 975
- 00:50:22,269 --> 00:50:24,187
- We'll return them to Mr. Gardner's studio
- 976
- 00:50:24,271 --> 00:50:25,772
- day after next.
- 977
- 00:50:26,857 --> 00:50:28,608
- Be careful with them now.
- 978
- 00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:31,194
- These things should have
- stayed on the calf.
- 979
- 00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:35,699
- When you were a slave,
- Mr. Slade, did they beat you?
- 980
- 00:50:35,783 --> 00:50:37,283
- I was born a free man.
- 981
- 00:50:37,410 --> 00:50:40,203
- Nobody beat me
- except I beat them right back.
- 982
- 00:50:42,373 --> 00:50:43,373
- Mr. Lincoln...
- 983
- 00:50:43,457 --> 00:50:47,377
- Mrs. Keckley was a slave.
- Ask her if she was beaten.
- 984
- 00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:49,295
- - Were you...
- - Tad.
- 985
- 00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:50,880
- I was beaten with a fire shovel
- 986
- 00:50:50,965 --> 00:50:52,215
- when I was younger than you.
- 987
- 00:50:52,299 --> 00:50:55,135
- You should go to Mrs. Lincoln.
- She's in Willie's room.
- 988
- 00:50:56,262 --> 00:50:57,470
- She never goes in there.
- 989
- 00:50:57,596 --> 00:51:00,974
- The reception line is already
- stretching out the door.
- 990
- 00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:05,895
- See, I'll be the only man
- over 15 and under 65
- 991
- 00:51:05,980 --> 00:51:08,064
- in this whole place not in uniform.
- 992
- 00:51:08,149 --> 00:51:09,607
- I'm under 15.
- 993
- 00:51:30,296 --> 00:51:32,297
- My head hurts so.
- 994
- 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,511
- I prayed for death the night Willie died.
- 995
- 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,849
- My headaches are how I know
- I didn't get my wish.
- 996
- 00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:48,855
- How to endure the long afternoon
- 997
- 00:51:48,939 --> 00:51:50,356
- and deep into the night.
- 998
- 00:51:50,483 --> 00:51:51,691
- I know.
- 999
- 00:51:51,776 --> 00:51:54,944
- Trying not to think about him.
- How will I manage?
- 1000
- 00:51:55,029 --> 00:51:56,863
- - Somehow. You will.
- - Somehow?
- 1001
- 00:51:58,073 --> 00:52:00,116
- Somehow. Somehow.
- 1002
- 00:52:02,369 --> 00:52:03,787
- Every party.
- 1003
- 00:52:04,455 --> 00:52:05,705
- Every...
- 1004
- 00:52:08,793 --> 00:52:10,126
- And now
- 1005
- 00:52:11,504 --> 00:52:14,380
- four years more in this terrible house,
- 1006
- 00:52:14,507 --> 00:52:16,299
- reproaching us.
- 1007
- 00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:19,969
- He was a very sick little boy.
- 1008
- 00:52:20,054 --> 00:52:22,472
- We should have canceled
- that reception, shouldn't we?
- 1009
- 00:52:22,556 --> 00:52:23,973
- We didn't know how sick he was.
- 1010
- 00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:25,642
- I knew. I knew.
- 1011
- 00:52:26,727 --> 00:52:29,062
- I saw that night he was dying.
- 1012
- 00:52:29,188 --> 00:52:32,565
- Three years ago,
- the war was going so badly.
- 1013
- 00:52:32,691 --> 00:52:35,401
- We had to put on a face.
- 1014
- 00:52:35,486 --> 00:52:36,986
- But I saw Willie was dying.
- 1015
- 00:52:37,112 --> 00:52:38,655
- Molly...
- 1016
- 00:52:38,739 --> 00:52:40,490
- I saw him.
- 1017
- 00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:44,410
- It's too hard.
- 1018
- 00:52:50,417 --> 00:52:51,751
- Too hard.
- 1019
- 00:52:59,093 --> 00:53:01,177
- Oh, gracious saints!
- 1020
- 00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:16,776
- She's just ten feet yonder.
- I'd like to keep my job.
- 1021
- 00:53:16,861 --> 00:53:18,462
- - How nice to see you.
- - Nice to see you.
- 1022
- 00:53:18,612 --> 00:53:21,781
- Senator Sumner.
- It's been much too long.
- 1023
- 00:53:21,907 --> 00:53:23,533
- "Oh, who can look
- on that celestial face..."
- 1024
- 00:53:23,617 --> 00:53:24,617
- And?
- 1025
- 00:53:24,702 --> 00:53:26,202
- James Ashley, ma'am.
- We've met several times.
- 1026
- 00:53:26,287 --> 00:53:27,954
- Praise heavens, praise heavens.
- 1027
- 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,290
- Just when I had abandoned
- hope of amusement,
- 1028
- 00:53:30,374 --> 00:53:31,624
- it's the Chairman of the House Ways
- 1029
- 00:53:31,750 --> 00:53:33,626
- - and Means Committee.
- - Mrs. Lincoln.
- 1030
- 00:53:34,086 --> 00:53:36,379
- Madame President, if you please.
- 1031
- 00:53:38,549 --> 00:53:40,216
- Don't convene another subcommittee
- 1032
- 00:53:40,301 --> 00:53:41,384
- to investigate me, sir.
- 1033
- 00:53:41,468 --> 00:53:43,303
- I'm teasing. Smile, Senator Wade.
- 1034
- 00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:45,305
- I believe I am smiling, Mrs. Lincoln.
- 1035
- 00:53:45,389 --> 00:53:46,556
- As long as your household accounts
- 1036
- 00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,474
- are in order, madam,
- 1037
- 00:53:48,601 --> 00:53:50,894
- we'll have no need to investigate them.
- 1038
- 00:53:50,978 --> 00:53:53,897
- You have always taken such a lively,
- 1039
- 00:53:53,981 --> 00:53:57,817
- even prosecutorial interest
- in my household accounts.
- 1040
- 00:53:57,902 --> 00:54:00,570
- Your household accounts have
- always been so interesting.
- 1041
- 00:54:00,654 --> 00:54:02,655
- Yes, thank you. It's true.
- 1042
- 00:54:03,282 --> 00:54:05,658
- The miracles I have wrought
- 1043
- 00:54:05,743 --> 00:54:08,244
- out of fertilizer bills
- and cutlery invoices,
- 1044
- 00:54:08,329 --> 00:54:09,954
- but I had to.
- 1045
- 00:54:11,165 --> 00:54:13,166
- Four years ago, when
- the President and I arrived,
- 1046
- 00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:14,751
- this was pure pigsty.
- 1047
- 00:54:14,835 --> 00:54:16,753
- Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets.
- 1048
- 00:54:16,837 --> 00:54:20,423
- Mushrooms, green as the moon,
- sprouting from the ceilings.
- 1049
- 00:54:20,507 --> 00:54:23,760
- And a pauper's pittance
- allotted for improvements.
- 1050
- 00:54:23,844 --> 00:54:26,846
- As if your committee joined
- with all of Washington
- 1051
- 00:54:26,931 --> 00:54:28,431
- awaiting in what you anticipated
- 1052
- 00:54:28,515 --> 00:54:30,975
- would be our comfort in squalor.
- 1053
- 00:54:31,435 --> 00:54:33,770
- Further proof that my husband and I
- 1054
- 00:54:33,854 --> 00:54:35,521
- were prairie primitives
- 1055
- 00:54:35,648 --> 00:54:38,691
- unsuited to the position to
- which an error of the people,
- 1056
- 00:54:38,817 --> 00:54:42,278
- a flaw in the Democratic
- process had elevated us.
- 1057
- 00:54:42,363 --> 00:54:45,281
- The past is the past. It's a new year now
- 1058
- 00:54:45,366 --> 00:54:49,535
- and we are all getting along,
- or so they tell me.
- 1059
- 00:54:49,620 --> 00:54:51,788
- I gather we are working together.
- 1060
- 00:54:51,872 --> 00:54:53,873
- The White House and the other House,
- 1061
- 00:54:53,958 --> 00:54:55,208
- hatching little plans together.
- 1062
- 00:54:55,334 --> 00:54:56,376
- - Mother.
- - What?
- 1063
- 00:54:56,460 --> 00:54:58,544
- You're creating a bottleneck.
- 1064
- 00:54:58,671 --> 00:55:00,505
- Oh, I'm detaining you.
- 1065
- 00:55:01,215 --> 00:55:04,050
- And more importantly,
- the people behind you.
- 1066
- 00:55:04,843 --> 00:55:07,470
- How the people love my husband.
- 1067
- 00:55:08,055 --> 00:55:12,058
- They flock to see him by
- their thousands on public days.
- 1068
- 00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:15,561
- They will never love you
- the way they love him.
- 1069
- 00:55:16,689 --> 00:55:19,816
- How difficult it must be
- for you to know that
- 1070
- 00:55:19,900 --> 00:55:22,568
- and yet how important to remember it.
- 1071
- 00:55:33,163 --> 00:55:35,999
- Since we have the floor
- next in the debate,
- 1072
- 00:55:36,083 --> 00:55:38,418
- I thought I'd suggest you might
- 1073
- 00:55:39,086 --> 00:55:41,004
- temper your contribution
- 1074
- 00:55:41,088 --> 00:55:44,090
- so as not to frighten
- our conservative friends.
- 1075
- 00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:46,259
- Ashley insists you're ensuring approval
- 1076
- 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:48,261
- by dispensing patronage
- 1077
- 00:55:48,345 --> 00:55:51,014
- to otherwise undeserving Democrats.
- 1078
- 00:55:51,098 --> 00:55:52,932
- I can't ensure a single damn thing
- 1079
- 00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:54,684
- if you scare the whole House silly
- 1080
- 00:55:54,768 --> 00:55:56,519
- with talk of land appropriations
- 1081
- 00:55:56,603 --> 00:55:58,521
- and revolutionary tribunals.
- 1082
- 00:55:58,605 --> 00:56:01,024
- When the war ends, I intend to
- 1083
- 00:56:01,108 --> 00:56:05,903
- push for full equality,
- the Negro vote, and much more.
- 1084
- 00:56:06,613 --> 00:56:08,322
- Congress shall mandate the seizure
- 1085
- 00:56:08,449 --> 00:56:09,949
- of every foot of Rebel land
- 1086
- 00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:12,618
- and every dollar of their property.
- 1087
- 00:56:13,954 --> 00:56:15,496
- We'll use their confiscated wealth
- 1088
- 00:56:15,622 --> 00:56:17,540
- to establish hundreds of thousands
- 1089
- 00:56:17,624 --> 00:56:19,167
- of free Negro farmers
- 1090
- 00:56:19,293 --> 00:56:21,919
- and, at their side,
- soldiers armed to occupy
- 1091
- 00:56:22,004 --> 00:56:23,629
- and transform the heritage of traitors.
- 1092
- 00:56:25,257 --> 00:56:26,716
- We'll build up a land down there
- 1093
- 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,969
- of free men and free women
- and free children and freedom.
- 1094
- 00:56:31,638 --> 00:56:34,807
- The nation needs to know
- that we have such plans.
- 1095
- 00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:38,519
- That's the untempered version
- of reconstruction.
- 1096
- 00:56:40,647 --> 00:56:42,315
- It is not...
- 1097
- 00:56:42,441 --> 00:56:44,984
- It's not quite exactly what I intend.
- 1098
- 00:56:47,321 --> 00:56:50,698
- But we shall oppose one another
- in the course of time.
- 1099
- 00:56:50,824 --> 00:56:52,867
- Now we're working together,
- and I'm asking you...
- 1100
- 00:56:52,993 --> 00:56:54,202
- For patience, I expect.
- 1101
- 00:56:54,328 --> 00:56:56,037
- When the people disagree,
- bringing them together
- 1102
- 00:56:56,163 --> 00:56:58,664
- requires going slow
- until they're ready to...
- 1103
- 00:56:58,791 --> 00:57:00,833
- Shit on the people and what they want
- 1104
- 00:57:00,959 --> 00:57:01,918
- and what they're ready for.
- 1105
- 00:57:02,002 --> 00:57:03,211
- I don't give a goddamn about the people
- 1106
- 00:57:03,337 --> 00:57:04,545
- and what they want.
- 1107
- 00:57:04,671 --> 00:57:05,797
- This is the face of someone
- 1108
- 00:57:05,881 --> 00:57:07,256
- who has fought long and hard
- 1109
- 00:57:07,341 --> 00:57:08,466
- for the good of the people
- 1110
- 00:57:08,550 --> 00:57:11,219
- without caring much for any of them.
- 1111
- 00:57:11,345 --> 00:57:13,054
- And I look a lot worse without my wig.
- 1112
- 00:57:14,348 --> 00:57:17,850
- The people elected me
- to represent them,
- 1113
- 00:57:17,976 --> 00:57:20,645
- to lead them, and I lead.
- You ought to try it.
- 1114
- 00:57:23,357 --> 00:57:26,484
- I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens
- 1115
- 00:57:26,568 --> 00:57:30,363
- and I have tried to profit
- from the example of it, but
- 1116
- 00:57:31,365 --> 00:57:32,406
- if I'd listened to you,
- 1117
- 00:57:32,533 --> 00:57:33,894
- I'd have declared every slave free
- 1118
- 00:57:33,992 --> 00:57:36,494
- the minute the first shell
- struck Fort Sumter.
- 1119
- 00:57:36,578 --> 00:57:38,121
- And the border states
- would have gone over
- 1120
- 00:57:38,205 --> 00:57:40,373
- to the Confederacy,
- the war would have been lost
- 1121
- 00:57:40,499 --> 00:57:41,874
- and the Union along with it,
- 1122
- 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,918
- and instead of abolishing slavery
- 1123
- 00:57:44,044 --> 00:57:45,711
- as we hope to do in two weeks,
- 1124
- 00:57:45,838 --> 00:57:48,381
- we'd be watching,
- helpless as infants, as it spread
- 1125
- 00:57:48,507 --> 00:57:50,591
- from the American South
- into South America.
- 1126
- 00:57:50,717 --> 00:57:53,511
- Oh, how you have longed
- to say that to me.
- 1127
- 00:57:54,388 --> 00:57:56,097
- You claim you trust them,
- 1128
- 00:57:56,223 --> 00:57:58,558
- but you know what the people are.
- 1129
- 00:57:59,393 --> 00:58:02,145
- You know that the inner compass,
- 1130
- 00:58:02,229 --> 00:58:04,730
- that should direct the soul
- towards justice
- 1131
- 00:58:04,857 --> 00:58:08,442
- has ossified in white men
- and women, North and South,
- 1132
- 00:58:08,569 --> 00:58:10,319
- unto utter uselessness,
- 1133
- 00:58:10,404 --> 00:58:12,613
- through tolerating the evil of slavery.
- 1134
- 00:58:12,739 --> 00:58:14,782
- White people cannot bear the thought
- 1135
- 00:58:14,908 --> 00:58:16,742
- of sharing this country's
- infinite abundance
- 1136
- 00:58:16,869 --> 00:58:18,411
- with Negroes.
- 1137
- 00:58:20,747 --> 00:58:23,749
- A compass, I learned
- when I was surveying,
- 1138
- 00:58:24,418 --> 00:58:27,587
- it'll point you true north
- from where you're standing.
- 1139
- 00:58:27,713 --> 00:58:29,505
- But it's got no advice about
- 1140
- 00:58:29,590 --> 00:58:32,216
- the swamps and deserts and chasms
- 1141
- 00:58:32,301 --> 00:58:34,844
- that you'll encounter along the way.
- 1142
- 00:58:34,928 --> 00:58:36,345
- If in pursuit of your destination,
- 1143
- 00:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,347
- you plunge ahead,
- heedless of obstacles
- 1144
- 00:58:38,432 --> 00:58:41,893
- and achieve nothing more
- than to sink in a swamp,
- 1145
- 00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:45,646
- what's the use of knowing true north?
- 1146
- 00:59:01,955 --> 00:59:05,291
- Robert's going to plead
- with us to let him enlist.
- 1147
- 00:59:07,836 --> 00:59:11,964
- Make time to talk to Robbie.
- You only have time for Tad.
- 1148
- 00:59:12,049 --> 00:59:13,507
- Tad is young.
- 1149
- 00:59:13,967 --> 00:59:17,720
- So is Robert. Too young for the Army.
- 1150
- 00:59:17,804 --> 00:59:20,806
- Plenty of boys younger
- than Robert signing up.
- 1151
- 00:59:23,810 --> 00:59:25,478
- Don't take Robbie.
- 1152
- 00:59:26,188 --> 00:59:27,939
- Don't let me lose my son.
- 1153
- 00:59:29,149 --> 00:59:31,859
- Go away! We're occupied!
- 1154
- 00:59:35,697 --> 00:59:36,948
- Secretary Stanton has sent over
- 1155
- 00:59:37,032 --> 00:59:38,593
- to tell you that as of half an hour ago
- 1156
- 00:59:38,617 --> 00:59:40,993
- the shelling of Wilmington Harbor
- has commenced.
- 1157
- 00:59:46,041 --> 00:59:48,876
- They cannot possibly maintain
- under this kind of an assault.
- 1158
- 00:59:49,002 --> 00:59:51,462
- Terry has got 10,000 men
- surrounding the goddamn port.
- 1159
- 00:59:51,546 --> 00:59:52,546
- Why doesn't he answer...
- 1160
- 00:59:52,673 --> 00:59:54,590
- Fort Fisher is a mountain
- of a building, Edwin.
- 1161
- 00:59:54,675 --> 00:59:55,758
- It's the largest fort they have, sir.
- 1162
- 00:59:55,842 --> 00:59:57,718
- Twenty-two big Seacoast guns
- on each rampart.
- 1163
- 00:59:57,803 --> 00:59:59,095
- They've been reinforcing it
- for the last two years.
- 1164
- 00:59:59,179 --> 01:00:01,264
- They've taken 17,000 shells
- since yesterday!
- 1165
- 01:00:01,348 --> 01:00:03,975
- I want to hear Fort Fisher is ours
- 1166
- 01:00:04,059 --> 01:00:05,268
- and Wilmington has fallen.
- 1167
- 01:00:05,352 --> 01:00:06,852
- Send another damn cable!
- 1168
- 01:00:06,979 --> 01:00:09,563
- The problem's their
- commander, Whiting!
- 1169
- 01:00:10,357 --> 01:00:11,774
- He engineered the fortress himself,
- 1170
- 01:00:11,858 --> 01:00:12,939
- the damn thing's his child.
- 1171
- 01:00:13,026 --> 01:00:15,361
- He'll defend it till
- his every last man is gone.
- 1172
- 01:00:15,487 --> 01:00:17,905
- "Come on out, you old rat!"
- 1173
- 01:00:19,992 --> 01:00:23,953
- That's
- what Ethan Allen called out
- 1174
- 01:00:24,037 --> 01:00:27,581
- to the commander
- of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.
- 1175
- 01:00:27,708 --> 01:00:29,750
- "Come on out, you old rat!"
- 1176
- 01:00:30,877 --> 01:00:32,086
- Of course, there were only
- 1177
- 01:00:32,212 --> 01:00:34,588
- 40 odd Redcoats at Ticonderoga.
- 1178
- 01:00:35,841 --> 01:00:39,510
- There is one Ethan Allen story
- that I'm very partial to.
- 1179
- 01:00:39,594 --> 01:00:42,096
- No, you're going to tell a story.
- 1180
- 01:00:42,723 --> 01:00:45,141
- I don't believe that I can bear
- 1181
- 01:00:45,225 --> 01:00:47,225
- to listen to another one
- of your stories right now.
- 1182
- 01:00:47,894 --> 01:00:50,771
- I need the B&O sideyard
- schedules for Alexandria!
- 1183
- 01:00:50,897 --> 01:00:52,315
- I asked for them this morning!
- 1184
- 01:00:52,399 --> 01:00:56,986
- It was
- right after the Revolution,
- 1185
- 01:00:57,070 --> 01:00:59,447
- right after peace had been concluded.
- 1186
- 01:00:59,573 --> 01:01:02,491
- And Ethan Allen went to London
- 1187
- 01:01:02,576 --> 01:01:04,243
- to help our new country
- 1188
- 01:01:04,369 --> 01:01:06,746
- conduct its business with the King.
- 1189
- 01:01:07,706 --> 01:01:10,374
- The English sneered
- at how rough we are
- 1190
- 01:01:10,459 --> 01:01:12,793
- and rude and simple-minded,
- and on like that,
- 1191
- 01:01:12,919 --> 01:01:13,878
- everywhere he went
- 1192
- 01:01:13,962 --> 01:01:16,922
- till one day he was invited
- to the townhouse
- 1193
- 01:01:17,049 --> 01:01:18,966
- of a great English lord.
- 1194
- 01:01:21,261 --> 01:01:24,263
- Dinner was served
- and beverages imbibed,
- 1195
- 01:01:25,057 --> 01:01:27,391
- time passed, as happens, and
- 1196
- 01:01:27,476 --> 01:01:30,102
- Mr. Allen found he needed the privy.
- 1197
- 01:01:31,646 --> 01:01:34,273
- He was grateful to be directed thence.
- 1198
- 01:01:37,944 --> 01:01:40,029
- Relieved, you might say.
- 1199
- 01:01:42,115 --> 01:01:44,784
- Now, Mr. Allen discovered
- 1200
- 01:01:45,619 --> 01:01:46,911
- on entering the water closet,
- 1201
- 01:01:46,995 --> 01:01:49,580
- that the only decoration therein
- 1202
- 01:01:49,664 --> 01:01:52,291
- was a portrait of George Washington.
- 1203
- 01:01:55,796 --> 01:01:58,172
- Ethan Allen done what he came to do,
- 1204
- 01:01:58,298 --> 01:02:00,633
- and returned to the drawing room.
- 1205
- 01:02:01,301 --> 01:02:03,427
- His host and the others
- were disappointed
- 1206
- 01:02:03,512 --> 01:02:05,554
- when he didn't mention
- Washington's portrait.
- 1207
- 01:02:05,639 --> 01:02:08,265
- Finally, His Lordship couldn't
- resist and asked Mr. Allen
- 1208
- 01:02:08,350 --> 01:02:10,110
- had he noticed it,
- the picture of Washington.
- 1209
- 01:02:10,143 --> 01:02:11,602
- He had.
- 1210
- 01:02:11,686 --> 01:02:13,326
- Well, what did he think of its placement,
- 1211
- 01:02:13,355 --> 01:02:16,399
- did it seem appropriately
- located to Mr. Allen?
- 1212
- 01:02:16,483 --> 01:02:18,567
- Mr. Allen said it did.
- 1213
- 01:02:18,652 --> 01:02:20,361
- His host was astounded.
- 1214
- 01:02:20,487 --> 01:02:22,488
- "Appropriate?"
- 1215
- 01:02:22,614 --> 01:02:25,491
- "George Washington's likeness
- in a water closet?"
- 1216
- 01:02:25,617 --> 01:02:28,994
- "Yes," said Mr. Allen.
- "Where it'll do good service.
- 1217
- 01:02:29,704 --> 01:02:31,865
- "The whole world knows nothing
- will make an Englishman"
- 1218
- 01:02:31,873 --> 01:02:34,125
- "shit quicker than the sight
- of George Washington."
- 1219
- 01:02:38,547 --> 01:02:40,506
- I love that story.
- 1220
- 01:03:07,325 --> 01:03:09,535
- Fort Fisher is ours. We've taken the port.
- 1221
- 01:03:09,661 --> 01:03:11,203
- And Wilmington?
- 1222
- 01:03:13,290 --> 01:03:14,373
- We've taken the fort,
- 1223
- 01:03:14,499 --> 01:03:16,792
- but the city of Wilmington
- has not surrendered.
- 1224
- 01:03:17,627 --> 01:03:19,378
- How many casualties?
- 1225
- 01:03:31,725 --> 01:03:33,642
- - Heavy losses.
- - And more to come.
- 1226
- 01:03:33,727 --> 01:03:36,312
- It sours the national mood.
- It might suffice...
- 1227
- 01:03:36,396 --> 01:03:38,314
- To what? To bring this down?
- 1228
- 01:03:38,398 --> 01:03:40,900
- Not in a fight like this.
- This is to the death.
- 1229
- 01:03:40,984 --> 01:03:42,568
- That's gruesome.
- 1230
- 01:03:42,861 --> 01:03:45,321
- Are you despairing or merely lazy?
- 1231
- 01:03:45,405 --> 01:03:48,574
- This fight is for
- the United States of America.
- 1232
- 01:03:48,658 --> 01:03:51,577
- Nothing "suffices." A rumor? Nothing.
- 1233
- 01:03:51,703 --> 01:03:54,580
- They're not lazy.
- They're busily buying votes
- 1234
- 01:03:54,664 --> 01:03:57,917
- while we hope to be saved
- by "the national mood"?
- 1235
- 01:04:03,924 --> 01:04:07,510
- Before this blood is dry, when
- Stevens next takes the floor,
- 1236
- 01:04:07,594 --> 01:04:09,345
- taunt him. You excel at that.
- 1237
- 01:04:09,429 --> 01:04:11,514
- Get him to proclaim what
- we all know he believes
- 1238
- 01:04:11,598 --> 01:04:13,265
- in his coal-colored heart.
- 1239
- 01:04:13,350 --> 01:04:16,018
- That this vote is meant
- to set the black race on high,
- 1240
- 01:04:16,102 --> 01:04:17,102
- to niggerate America...
- 1241
- 01:04:17,229 --> 01:04:19,605
- George, please, stay on course.
- 1242
- 01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,608
- Bring Stevens to full froth.
- 1243
- 01:04:23,443 --> 01:04:25,194
- I can ensure that every newspaperman
- 1244
- 01:04:25,278 --> 01:04:26,612
- from Louisville to San Francisco
- 1245
- 01:04:26,738 --> 01:04:28,614
- will be here to witness it and print it.
- 1246
- 01:04:31,535 --> 01:04:33,869
- The floor belongs to
- the mellifluent gentleman
- 1247
- 01:04:33,954 --> 01:04:36,455
- from Kentucky, Mr. George Yeaman.
- 1248
- 01:04:42,295 --> 01:04:44,421
- I thank you, Speaker Colfax.
- 1249
- 01:04:52,180 --> 01:04:55,933
- Although I am disgusted by slavery,
- 1250
- 01:05:00,105 --> 01:05:02,690
- I rise on this sad and solemn day
- 1251
- 01:05:03,316 --> 01:05:06,485
- to announce that
- I'm opposed to the amendment.
- 1252
- 01:05:11,366 --> 01:05:14,785
- We must consider what
- will become of colored folk
- 1253
- 01:05:14,869 --> 01:05:18,789
- if four million are, in
- one instant, set free.
- 1254
- 01:05:19,165 --> 01:05:20,374
- They'll be free, George,
- 1255
- 01:05:20,500 --> 01:05:22,334
- that's what will become of them.
- 1256
- 01:05:23,587 --> 01:05:24,628
- Think how splendid
- 1257
- 01:05:25,630 --> 01:05:27,506
- if Mr. Yeaman switched.
- 1258
- 01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:30,426
- Too publicly against us.
- He can't change course now.
- 1259
- 01:05:30,510 --> 01:05:33,637
- Not for some miserable
- little job, anyways.
- 1260
- 01:05:33,722 --> 01:05:36,890
- And we will be forced to enfranchise
- 1261
- 01:05:37,017 --> 01:05:39,268
- the men of the colored race.
- 1262
- 01:05:39,352 --> 01:05:41,478
- It would be inhuman not to.
- 1263
- 01:05:42,188 --> 01:05:45,816
- Now who among us is prepared
- to give Negroes the vote?
- 1264
- 01:05:47,277 --> 01:05:48,527
- And, and,
- 1265
- 01:05:48,653 --> 01:05:50,863
- what shall follow upon that?
- 1266
- 01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:53,699
- Universal enfranchisement?
- 1267
- 01:05:55,035 --> 01:05:56,076
- Votes for women?
- 1268
- 01:06:03,835 --> 01:06:05,002
- We...
- 1269
- 01:06:07,547 --> 01:06:08,589
- Bless my eyes.
- 1270
- 01:06:08,715 --> 01:06:11,300
- If it isn't the Postmaster
- of Millersburg, Ohio.
- 1271
- 01:06:13,345 --> 01:06:16,388
- Mr. LeClerk felt honor-bound
- to inform us
- 1272
- 01:06:17,557 --> 01:06:19,391
- of your disgusting betrayal.
- 1273
- 01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,227
- Your prostitution.
- 1274
- 01:06:23,355 --> 01:06:25,731
- Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins?
- 1275
- 01:06:27,025 --> 01:06:29,360
- Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
- 1276
- 01:06:32,197 --> 01:06:33,155
- If my neighbors hear
- 1277
- 01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:34,448
- that I voted yes for nigger freedom
- 1278
- 01:06:34,574 --> 01:06:35,974
- and no to peace, they will kill me.
- 1279
- 01:06:36,076 --> 01:06:37,117
- A deal is a deal.
- 1280
- 01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:38,786
- You men know better
- than to piss your pants
- 1281
- 01:06:38,912 --> 01:06:40,329
- just 'cause there's talk
- about peace talks.
- 1282
- 01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,331
- - Look, I'll find another job!
- - My neighbors in Nashville,
- 1283
- 01:06:42,415 --> 01:06:44,016
- they found out I was loyal to the Union,
- 1284
- 01:06:44,084 --> 01:06:45,459
- they came after me with gelding knives.
- 1285
- 01:06:45,585 --> 01:06:47,086
- - I'll find another job.
- - You do right, Clay Hawkins.
- 1286
- 01:06:47,212 --> 01:06:50,506
- I want to do right! But I got no courage!
- 1287
- 01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:52,257
- Wait. You wanted...
- What was it?
- 1288
- 01:06:52,384 --> 01:06:54,176
- A tax man for the Western Reserve?
- 1289
- 01:06:54,260 --> 01:06:56,095
- Hell, you can have the whole
- state of Ohio if you want...
- 1290
- 01:06:56,221 --> 01:06:57,721
- Oh, crap.
- 1291
- 01:07:00,475 --> 01:07:01,809
- Eleven votes?
- 1292
- 01:07:01,935 --> 01:07:04,103
- Two days ago, we had twelve.
- What happened?
- 1293
- 01:07:04,229 --> 01:07:05,187
- There are defections in the ranks.
- 1294
- 01:07:05,271 --> 01:07:06,271
- It's the goddamn rumors
- 1295
- 01:07:06,398 --> 01:07:07,356
- regarding the Richmond delegation.
- 1296
- 01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:08,440
- - Yes. The peace offer.
- - Groundless.
- 1297
- 01:07:08,566 --> 01:07:11,151
- - And yet the rumors persist.
- - They are ruining us.
- 1298
- 01:07:11,277 --> 01:07:13,320
- Among the few
- remaining Representatives
- 1299
- 01:07:13,446 --> 01:07:14,988
- who seem remotely plausible,
- 1300
- 01:07:15,115 --> 01:07:17,574
- there is a perceptible
- increase in resistance.
- 1301
- 01:07:17,659 --> 01:07:19,284
- Resistance, hell.
- 1302
- 01:07:19,953 --> 01:07:22,287
- Thingamabob Hollister,
- Dem from Indiana.
- 1303
- 01:07:22,414 --> 01:07:25,124
- I approached him,
- sumbitch near to murdered me.
- 1304
- 01:07:25,250 --> 01:07:28,127
- Colorado Territory... What's this one?
- 1305
- 01:07:28,628 --> 01:07:31,797
- Job description... Taxpayers and...
- 1306
- 01:07:31,923 --> 01:07:33,674
- Oh, shit! Cracky!
- 1307
- 01:07:42,809 --> 01:07:45,602
- Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Goddamn!
- 1308
- 01:07:51,693 --> 01:07:54,319
- - Perhaps you pushed too hard.
- - I push nobody.
- 1309
- 01:07:54,779 --> 01:07:57,030
- Perhaps we need reinforcements.
- 1310
- 01:07:57,490 --> 01:07:59,700
- If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities,
- 1311
- 01:07:59,826 --> 01:08:02,244
- who do you think is going to
- give a genuine solid shit
- 1312
- 01:08:02,328 --> 01:08:03,412
- to free slaves?
- 1313
- 01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:04,788
- Get back to it.
- 1314
- 01:08:05,665 --> 01:08:07,374
- And gentlemen, good day.
- 1315
- 01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:10,127
- We are at an impasse.
- 1316
- 01:08:10,211 --> 01:08:12,546
- Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.
- 1317
- 01:08:12,672 --> 01:08:13,872
- Tell us what you expect of us.
- 1318
- 01:08:14,174 --> 01:08:15,883
- I expect you to do your work.
- 1319
- 01:08:16,009 --> 01:08:17,509
- And have sufficient sense and taste
- 1320
- 01:08:17,635 --> 01:08:20,095
- not to presume to instruct the President.
- 1321
- 01:08:20,180 --> 01:08:21,180
- Or me.
- 1322
- 01:08:22,056 --> 01:08:24,850
- Is there a Confederate offer, or not?
- 1323
- 01:08:40,867 --> 01:08:42,534
- Gentlemen.
- 1324
- 01:08:44,829 --> 01:08:47,247
- I suggest you work some changes
- to your proposal
- 1325
- 01:08:47,373 --> 01:08:49,374
- before you give it to the President.
- 1326
- 01:08:49,501 --> 01:08:51,543
- We're eager to be on our way
- to Washington.
- 1327
- 01:08:51,669 --> 01:08:53,837
- Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?
- 1328
- 01:08:53,922 --> 01:08:57,883
- It says "securing peace
- for our two countries"
- 1329
- 01:08:58,009 --> 01:08:59,551
- and it goes on like that.
- 1330
- 01:09:00,428 --> 01:09:02,596
- - I don't...
- - There is just one country.
- 1331
- 01:09:02,722 --> 01:09:05,057
- You and I, we're citizens of that country.
- 1332
- 01:09:05,391 --> 01:09:08,393
- I'm fighting to protect it
- from armed rebels.
- 1333
- 01:09:09,020 --> 01:09:10,187
- From you.
- 1334
- 01:09:10,271 --> 01:09:12,189
- But Mr. Blair, he told us,
- 1335
- 01:09:12,273 --> 01:09:14,650
- he told President
- Jefferson Davis that we...
- 1336
- 01:09:14,734 --> 01:09:17,277
- A private citizen like Preston Blair
- 1337
- 01:09:17,403 --> 01:09:18,445
- can say what he pleases,
- 1338
- 01:09:18,571 --> 01:09:21,365
- since he has no authority over anything.
- 1339
- 01:09:21,449 --> 01:09:25,035
- If you want to discuss peace
- with President Lincoln,
- 1340
- 01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:27,913
- consider revisions.
- 1341
- 01:09:28,414 --> 01:09:29,957
- If we're not to discuss
- 1342
- 01:09:30,083 --> 01:09:32,501
- a truce between warring nations,
- 1343
- 01:09:32,585 --> 01:09:34,545
- what in heaven's name can we discuss?
- 1344
- 01:09:35,588 --> 01:09:37,256
- Terms of surrender.
- 1345
- 01:09:39,759 --> 01:09:41,844
- "Office United States
- Military Telegraph,"
- 1346
- 01:09:41,928 --> 01:09:42,928
- "War Department."
- 1347
- 01:09:43,054 --> 01:09:45,430
- "For Abraham Lincoln,
- President of the United States."
- 1348
- 01:09:45,557 --> 01:09:47,766
- "January 20, 1865."
- 1349
- 01:09:48,268 --> 01:09:50,561
- "I will state confidentially
- that I am convinced"
- 1350
- 01:09:50,645 --> 01:09:52,938
- "upon conversation
- with these commissioners"
- 1351
- 01:09:53,064 --> 01:09:54,523
- "that their intentions are good"
- 1352
- 01:09:54,607 --> 01:09:57,943
- "and their desire sincere
- to restore peace and union."
- 1353
- 01:09:58,611 --> 01:10:00,445
- "I fear now they're going back"
- 1354
- 01:10:00,572 --> 01:10:03,532
- "without any expression
- of interest from anyone"
- 1355
- 01:10:03,616 --> 01:10:07,160
- "in authority, Mr. Lincoln,
- will have a bad influence."
- 1356
- 01:10:08,454 --> 01:10:11,456
- "I will be sorry should
- it prove impossible for you"
- 1357
- 01:10:11,583 --> 01:10:13,125
- "to have an interview with them."
- 1358
- 01:10:13,251 --> 01:10:15,502
- "I am awaiting your instructions."
- 1359
- 01:10:17,338 --> 01:10:19,548
- "U.S. Grant, Lieutenant General,"
- 1360
- 01:10:19,632 --> 01:10:21,258
- "Commanding Armies, United States."
- 1361
- 01:10:23,303 --> 01:10:25,512
- After four years of war, and
- 1362
- 01:10:26,764 --> 01:10:29,308
- near 600,000 lives lost,
- 1363
- 01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:32,185
- he believes we can end this war now.
- 1364
- 01:10:35,857 --> 01:10:38,692
- My trust in him is marrow deep.
- 1365
- 01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:47,826
- You could bring the delegates
- to Washington.
- 1366
- 01:10:48,119 --> 01:10:50,329
- In exchange for the South's
- immediate surrender,
- 1367
- 01:10:50,455 --> 01:10:53,373
- we could promise them
- the amendment's defeat.
- 1368
- 01:10:54,709 --> 01:10:59,379
- They'd agree, don't you think?
- We'd end the war. This week.
- 1369
- 01:11:01,716 --> 01:11:03,258
- Or, if you could manage
- 1370
- 01:11:03,343 --> 01:11:06,470
- without seeming to do it, to...
- 1371
- 01:11:10,558 --> 01:11:12,684
- The peace delegation
- might encounter delays
- 1372
- 01:11:12,810 --> 01:11:14,728
- as they travel up the James River.
- 1373
- 01:11:14,854 --> 01:11:17,189
- Particularly with the fighting
- around Wilmington.
- 1374
- 01:11:24,072 --> 01:11:25,489
- Within ten days' time,
- 1375
- 01:11:25,573 --> 01:11:28,200
- we might pass the 13th Amendment.
- 1376
- 01:12:10,785 --> 01:12:13,078
- Here's a 16-year-old boy,
- 1377
- 01:12:13,204 --> 01:12:14,746
- they're going to hang him.
- 1378
- 01:12:14,872 --> 01:12:17,582
- He's with the Fifteenth
- Indiana Cavalry near Bulford.
- 1379
- 01:12:17,709 --> 01:12:20,627
- It seems he lamed his horse
- to avoid battle.
- 1380
- 01:12:22,547 --> 01:12:24,006
- I don't think even Stanton
- would complain
- 1381
- 01:12:24,090 --> 01:12:25,090
- if I pardoned him.
- 1382
- 01:12:25,216 --> 01:12:26,537
- You think Stanton would complain?
- 1383
- 01:12:26,551 --> 01:12:29,636
- I don't know, sir.
- I don't know who you're...
- 1384
- 01:12:29,762 --> 01:12:32,139
- - What time is it?
- - It's 3:40 in the morning.
- 1385
- 01:12:32,265 --> 01:12:35,726
- Don't let him pardon any more deserters.
- 1386
- 01:12:35,810 --> 01:12:38,520
- Mr. Stanton thinks you pardon too many.
- 1387
- 01:12:38,604 --> 01:12:40,244
- He's generally apoplectic on the subject.
- 1388
- 01:12:40,273 --> 01:12:41,815
- He oughtn't have done that,
- crippled his horse.
- 1389
- 01:12:41,941 --> 01:12:43,191
- That was cruel, but you don't just hang
- 1390
- 01:12:43,276 --> 01:12:44,276
- a 16-year-old boy for that...
- 1391
- 01:12:44,402 --> 01:12:45,562
- Ask the horse what he thinks.
- 1392
- 01:12:45,611 --> 01:12:49,239
- For cruelty. There'd be
- no 16-year-old boys left.
- 1393
- 01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,135
- Grant wants me to bring
- the secesh delegates
- 1394
- 01:13:10,261 --> 01:13:11,762
- to Washington.
- 1395
- 01:13:14,140 --> 01:13:16,433
- So there are secesh delegates?
- 1396
- 01:13:17,143 --> 01:13:19,394
- He was afraid, that's all it was.
- 1397
- 01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,439
- I don't care to hang a boy
- for being frightened, either.
- 1398
- 01:13:23,024 --> 01:13:25,108
- What good would it do him?
- 1399
- 01:13:39,832 --> 01:13:42,167
- War's nearly done, ain't that so?
- 1400
- 01:13:45,505 --> 01:13:47,672
- What use is one more corpse?
- 1401
- 01:13:49,884 --> 01:13:51,510
- Any more corpses?
- 1402
- 01:14:00,645 --> 01:14:02,521
- Do you need company?
- 1403
- 01:14:02,647 --> 01:14:05,524
- In times like this,
- I'm best alone.
- 1404
- 01:14:44,355 --> 01:14:48,567
- "Lieutenant General
- Ulysses S. Grant, City Point."
- 1405
- 01:14:49,944 --> 01:14:52,154
- "I have read your words with interest."
- 1406
- 01:14:52,238 --> 01:14:53,238
- "I ask that,"
- 1407
- 01:14:53,364 --> 01:14:55,740
- "regardless of any action
- I take in the matter"
- 1408
- 01:14:55,867 --> 01:14:58,910
- "of the visit of
- the Richmond commissioners"
- 1409
- 01:14:59,912 --> 01:15:01,496
- "you maintain among your troops"
- 1410
- 01:15:01,581 --> 01:15:04,416
- "military preparedness for battle"
- 1411
- 01:15:05,418 --> 01:15:07,711
- "as you have done until now."
- 1412
- 01:15:13,801 --> 01:15:16,303
- "Have Captain Saunders convey
- the commissioners to me
- 1413
- 01:15:16,429 --> 01:15:18,096
- "here in Washington.
- 1414
- 01:15:19,557 --> 01:15:21,600
- "A. Lincoln." And the date.
- 1415
- 01:15:21,767 --> 01:15:23,101
- Yes, sir.
- 1416
- 01:15:27,148 --> 01:15:28,982
- Shall I transmit, sir?
- 1417
- 01:15:32,612 --> 01:15:34,905
- You think we choose to be born?
- 1418
- 01:15:40,661 --> 01:15:42,412
- I don't suppose so.
- 1419
- 01:15:43,748 --> 01:15:46,583
- Are we fitted to the times
- we're born into?
- 1420
- 01:15:48,461 --> 01:15:50,128
- Well, I don't know about myself.
- 1421
- 01:15:51,130 --> 01:15:52,631
- You may be,
- 1422
- 01:15:53,466 --> 01:15:55,008
- sir. Fitted.
- 1423
- 01:15:59,138 --> 01:16:00,805
- What do you reckon?
- 1424
- 01:16:02,767 --> 01:16:04,809
- Well, I'm an engineer.
- 1425
- 01:16:07,438 --> 01:16:09,356
- I reckon there's machinery,
- 1426
- 01:16:09,482 --> 01:16:12,359
- but no one's done the fitting.
- 1427
- 01:16:15,821 --> 01:16:17,530
- You're an engineer.
- 1428
- 01:16:17,865 --> 01:16:21,451
- You must know Euclid's axioms
- and common notions.
- 1429
- 01:16:23,663 --> 01:16:25,497
- I must have in school, but...
- 1430
- 01:16:25,623 --> 01:16:26,823
- I never had much of schooling,
- 1431
- 01:16:26,874 --> 01:16:29,793
- but I read Euclid
- in an old book I borrowed.
- 1432
- 01:16:30,628 --> 01:16:33,213
- Little enough ever found its way in here,
- 1433
- 01:16:33,339 --> 01:16:35,674
- but once learnt, it stayed learnt.
- 1434
- 01:16:38,552 --> 01:16:41,304
- Euclid's first common notion is this,
- 1435
- 01:16:41,973 --> 01:16:44,266
- "Things which are equal
- to the same thing"
- 1436
- 01:16:44,350 --> 01:16:47,227
- "are equal to each other."
- 1437
- 01:16:48,896 --> 01:16:51,231
- That's a rule of mathematical reasoning.
- 1438
- 01:16:51,357 --> 01:16:53,608
- It's true because it works.
- 1439
- 01:16:53,693 --> 01:16:55,860
- Has done and always will do.
- 1440
- 01:16:58,155 --> 01:17:00,657
- In his book...
- 1441
- 01:17:01,701 --> 01:17:04,202
- Euclid says this is "self-evident."
- 1442
- 01:17:05,162 --> 01:17:06,121
- You see? There it is,
- 1443
- 01:17:06,205 --> 01:17:08,873
- even in that 2,000-year-old book
- 1444
- 01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:10,542
- of mechanical law.
- 1445
- 01:17:10,668 --> 01:17:12,585
- It is a self-evident truth
- 1446
- 01:17:12,712 --> 01:17:15,755
- that things which are equal
- to the same thing
- 1447
- 01:17:15,881 --> 01:17:18,091
- are equal to each other.
- 1448
- 01:17:21,178 --> 01:17:23,054
- We begin with equality.
- 1449
- 01:17:24,515 --> 01:17:26,057
- That's the origin, isn't it?
- 1450
- 01:17:26,183 --> 01:17:29,060
- That's balance. That's... That's fairness.
- 1451
- 01:17:33,733 --> 01:17:35,692
- That's justice.
- 1452
- 01:17:42,742 --> 01:17:44,451
- Just read me back the last sentence
- 1453
- 01:17:44,577 --> 01:17:46,786
- of the telegram, please.
- 1454
- 01:17:47,413 --> 01:17:49,539
- "Have Captain Saunders convey
- the commissioners to me"
- 1455
- 01:17:49,623 --> 01:17:50,623
- "here in Washington."
- 1456
- 01:17:51,375 --> 01:17:53,960
- A slight emendation,
- if you would, Sam.
- 1457
- 01:17:57,465 --> 01:17:59,215
- "Have Captain Saunders
- convey the gentlemen"
- 1458
- 01:17:59,300 --> 01:18:00,550
- "aboard the River Queen"
- 1459
- 01:18:01,385 --> 01:18:05,096
- "as far as Hampton Roads, Virginia,"
- 1460
- 01:18:05,473 --> 01:18:07,557
- "and there wait until"
- 1461
- 01:18:10,227 --> 01:18:12,645
- "further advice from me."
- 1462
- 01:18:15,107 --> 01:18:17,317
- "Do not proceed to Washington."
- 1463
- 01:19:02,822 --> 01:19:05,281
- The World, the Herald,
- the Times,
- 1464
- 01:19:05,366 --> 01:19:07,325
- New York, Chicago,
- 1465
- 01:19:07,660 --> 01:19:09,536
- the Journal of Commerce,
- 1466
- 01:19:09,662 --> 01:19:11,204
- even your hometown paper's here.
- 1467
- 01:19:11,330 --> 01:19:14,791
- Say you believe only in
- legal equality for all races,
- 1468
- 01:19:14,875 --> 01:19:16,251
- not racial equality.
- 1469
- 01:19:16,335 --> 01:19:18,002
- I beg you, sir.
- 1470
- 01:19:18,337 --> 01:19:21,506
- Compromise. Or you risk it all.
- 1471
- 01:19:43,195 --> 01:19:45,238
- I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens,
- 1472
- 01:19:45,364 --> 01:19:47,240
- and you must answer me.
- 1473
- 01:19:47,992 --> 01:19:50,326
- Do you or do you not
- hold that the precept
- 1474
- 01:19:50,411 --> 01:19:53,872
- that "All men are created equal"
- is meant literally?
- 1475
- 01:19:59,503 --> 01:20:02,297
- Is that not the true purpose
- of the amendment?
- 1476
- 01:20:02,381 --> 01:20:05,258
- To promote your ultimate
- and ardent dream to elevate...
- 1477
- 01:20:05,384 --> 01:20:07,760
- The true purpose
- of the amendment, Mr. Wood,
- 1478
- 01:20:07,887 --> 01:20:09,637
- you perfectly named,
- 1479
- 01:20:09,722 --> 01:20:11,890
- brainless obstructive object...
- 1480
- 01:20:13,267 --> 01:20:16,561
- Now you have always insisted,
- Mr. Stevens,
- 1481
- 01:20:17,396 --> 01:20:20,940
- that Negroes are the same
- as white men are.
- 1482
- 01:20:21,859 --> 01:20:24,402
- The true purpose of the amendment...
- 1483
- 01:20:52,806 --> 01:20:54,224
- I don't hold with equality in all things,
- 1484
- 01:20:54,308 --> 01:20:56,434
- only with equality before the law.
- Nothing more.
- 1485
- 01:20:58,229 --> 01:21:00,813
- That's... That's not so.
- 1486
- 01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:04,859
- You believe that Negroes are
- entirely equal to white men.
- 1487
- 01:21:04,944 --> 01:21:06,224
- You've said it a thousand times!
- 1488
- 01:21:06,278 --> 01:21:08,571
- For shame! For shame!
- 1489
- 01:21:08,656 --> 01:21:11,491
- Stop prevaricating and
- answer Representative Wood!
- 1490
- 01:21:11,742 --> 01:21:13,785
- I don't hold with equality in all things,
- 1491
- 01:21:13,869 --> 01:21:14,911
- only with equality before the law.
- 1492
- 01:21:14,995 --> 01:21:17,914
- After the decades of fervent advocacy...
- 1493
- 01:21:18,290 --> 01:21:19,958
- He's answered your questions!
- 1494
- 01:21:20,084 --> 01:21:21,885
- This amendment's
- not to do with race equality.
- 1495
- 01:21:21,919 --> 01:21:25,046
- I don't hold with equality in all things,
- 1496
- 01:21:25,130 --> 01:21:28,758
- only with equality before
- the law, and nothing more!
- 1497
- 01:21:28,842 --> 01:21:31,052
- Who'd ever have guessed
- that old nightmare
- 1498
- 01:21:31,136 --> 01:21:32,971
- capable of such control?
- 1499
- 01:21:33,097 --> 01:21:34,889
- He might make a politician someday.
- 1500
- 01:21:34,974 --> 01:21:36,224
- I need to go.
- 1501
- 01:21:36,308 --> 01:21:37,809
- Mrs. Keckley.
- 1502
- 01:21:40,604 --> 01:21:43,314
- Your frantic attempt to delude us now
- 1503
- 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:44,983
- is unworthy of a representative.
- 1504
- 01:21:45,109 --> 01:21:47,151
- It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
- 1505
- 01:21:51,448 --> 01:21:53,908
- How can I hold that
- all men are created equal
- 1506
- 01:21:53,993 --> 01:21:57,078
- when here before me stands, stinking,
- 1507
- 01:21:57,162 --> 01:22:00,748
- the moral carcass of
- the gentleman from Ohio, proof
- 1508
- 01:22:00,833 --> 01:22:03,334
- that some men are inferior,
- 1509
- 01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:05,962
- endowed by their Maker with dim wits,
- 1510
- 01:22:06,046 --> 01:22:08,006
- impermeable to reason,
- 1511
- 01:22:08,132 --> 01:22:11,175
- with cold, pallid slime in their veins
- 1512
- 01:22:11,302 --> 01:22:13,636
- instead of hot, red blood!
- 1513
- 01:22:13,721 --> 01:22:17,473
- You are more reptile than man, George!
- 1514
- 01:22:17,558 --> 01:22:19,892
- So low and flat that the foot of man
- 1515
- 01:22:20,019 --> 01:22:21,352
- is incapable of crushing you.
- 1516
- 01:22:21,478 --> 01:22:23,229
- How dare you?
- 1517
- 01:22:23,355 --> 01:22:26,441
- Yet even you, Pendleton,
- 1518
- 01:22:27,693 --> 01:22:29,444
- who should have been
- gibbeted for treason
- 1519
- 01:22:29,528 --> 01:22:30,570
- long before today.
- 1520
- 01:22:30,696 --> 01:22:33,156
- Even worthless, unworthy you
- 1521
- 01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,242
- ought to be treated equally
- before the law!
- 1522
- 01:22:38,037 --> 01:22:41,748
- And so again, sir, again
- and again and again I say,
- 1523
- 01:22:41,874 --> 01:22:44,959
- I do not hold with equality in all things,
- 1524
- 01:22:45,044 --> 01:22:47,295
- only with equality before the law.
- 1525
- 01:22:51,216 --> 01:22:54,302
- Mr. Speaker, will you permit
- this vile, boorish man
- 1526
- 01:22:54,386 --> 01:22:56,888
- to slander and to threaten me?
- 1527
- 01:22:57,097 --> 01:22:58,556
- And to reduce these proceedings
- 1528
- 01:22:58,682 --> 01:23:01,934
- on this most important matter
- into an anarchic
- 1529
- 01:23:02,561 --> 01:23:04,854
- and tawdry burlesque?
- 1530
- 01:23:29,088 --> 01:23:32,548
- You asked if ever I was surprised.
- 1531
- 01:23:33,050 --> 01:23:35,718
- Today, Mr. Stevens,
- 1532
- 01:23:35,886 --> 01:23:36,886
- I was surprised.
- 1533
- 01:23:37,763 --> 01:23:41,391
- You've led the battle for
- race equality for 30 years.
- 1534
- 01:23:46,730 --> 01:23:49,899
- The basis of every hope for
- this country's future life,
- 1535
- 01:23:49,983 --> 01:23:53,027
- you denied Negro equality.
- I'm nauseated.
- 1536
- 01:23:53,112 --> 01:23:55,697
- You refused to say that all humans are...
- 1537
- 01:23:55,781 --> 01:23:57,573
- Well, human.
- 1538
- 01:23:58,283 --> 01:24:00,702
- Have you lost your very soul,
- Mr. Stevens?
- 1539
- 01:24:01,036 --> 01:24:02,286
- Is there nothing you won't say?
- 1540
- 01:24:02,371 --> 01:24:04,038
- I'm sorry you're nauseous, Asa.
- 1541
- 01:24:04,123 --> 01:24:05,790
- That must be unpleasant.
- 1542
- 01:24:06,959 --> 01:24:08,292
- I want the amendment to pass,
- 1543
- 01:24:08,377 --> 01:24:10,294
- so that the Constitution's first
- 1544
- 01:24:10,421 --> 01:24:11,796
- and only mention of slavery
- 1545
- 01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:14,048
- is its absolute prohibition.
- 1546
- 01:24:14,133 --> 01:24:16,467
- For this amendment, for which
- I have worked all my life
- 1547
- 01:24:16,593 --> 01:24:19,220
- and for which countless
- colored men and women
- 1548
- 01:24:19,304 --> 01:24:20,388
- have fought and died
- 1549
- 01:24:20,472 --> 01:24:23,474
- and now hundreds
- of thousands of soldiers...
- 1550
- 01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,143
- No, sir, no.
- 1551
- 01:24:26,145 --> 01:24:29,313
- It seems there's very nearly
- nothing I won't say.
- 1552
- 01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:01,929
- I'm not going in.
- 1553
- 01:25:07,019 --> 01:25:09,312
- You said you wanted to help me.
- 1554
- 01:25:09,772 --> 01:25:13,524
- But this is just a clumsy attempt
- to discourage me.
- 1555
- 01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:16,027
- I've been to Army hospitals.
- I've seen surgeries.
- 1556
- 01:25:16,111 --> 01:25:19,030
- I went and visited
- the malaria barges with Mama.
- 1557
- 01:25:19,156 --> 01:25:21,032
- She told me she didn't take you inside.
- 1558
- 01:25:21,116 --> 01:25:22,533
- I snuck in afterwards.
- 1559
- 01:25:22,659 --> 01:25:24,952
- I've seen what it's like.
- This changes nothing.
- 1560
- 01:25:27,790 --> 01:25:29,165
- Well, at all rate, son,
- 1561
- 01:25:29,249 --> 01:25:31,083
- I'm happy to have your company.
- 1562
- 01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,426
- - Good morning, Jim.
- - Hello, Mr. President.
- 1563
- 01:25:40,511 --> 01:25:42,345
- - Good to see you again.
- - Good to see you.
- 1564
- 01:25:43,514 --> 01:25:47,099
- Well, boys, first question.
- You getting enough to eat?
- 1565
- 01:25:47,392 --> 01:25:48,434
- Hello, sir.
- 1566
- 01:25:48,519 --> 01:25:49,919
- - What's your name, soldier?
- - Robert.
- 1567
- 01:25:49,978 --> 01:25:52,480
- - Good to meet you, Robert.
- - Nice to meet you.
- 1568
- 01:25:52,564 --> 01:25:53,645
- - What's your name?
- - Kevin.
- 1569
- 01:25:53,649 --> 01:25:54,690
- Tell me your names as I go past.
- 1570
- 01:25:54,775 --> 01:25:56,150
- I'd like to know who I'm talking to. Kevin.
- 1571
- 01:25:56,235 --> 01:25:59,111
- - Mr. President. John.
- - John. I've seen you before.
- 1572
- 01:25:59,196 --> 01:26:00,279
- Mr. President.
- 1573
- 01:26:01,031 --> 01:26:02,240
- Make sure you get some steak.
- 1574
- 01:26:02,324 --> 01:26:03,844
- I wouldn't mind one myself, right now.
- 1575
- 01:27:19,276 --> 01:27:20,735
- What's the matter, Bob?
- 1576
- 01:27:27,075 --> 01:27:29,035
- I have to do this, and I will do it.
- 1577
- 01:27:29,119 --> 01:27:30,494
- And I don't need
- your permission to enlist.
- 1578
- 01:27:30,579 --> 01:27:34,498
- That same speech has been made
- by how many sons
- 1579
- 01:27:34,583 --> 01:27:37,126
- to how many fathers
- since the war began?
- 1580
- 01:27:37,210 --> 01:27:38,419
- "I don't need your damn permission,"
- 1581
- 01:27:38,503 --> 01:27:41,047
- "you miserable old goat,
- I'm gonna enlist anyhow."
- 1582
- 01:27:41,173 --> 01:27:42,173
- And what wouldn't those
- 1583
- 01:27:42,299 --> 01:27:43,591
- numberless fathers have given
- 1584
- 01:27:43,675 --> 01:27:45,509
- to be able to say to their sons
- 1585
- 01:27:45,636 --> 01:27:48,846
- as I now say to mine,
- "I'm Commander in Chief."
- 1586
- 01:27:49,806 --> 01:27:51,223
- So, in point of fact,
- without my permission
- 1587
- 01:27:51,350 --> 01:27:54,393
- you ain't enlisting
- in nothing nowhere, young man.
- 1588
- 01:27:54,519 --> 01:27:56,979
- It's Mama you're scared of,
- it's not me getting killed.
- 1589
- 01:28:04,863 --> 01:28:07,490
- I have to do this! And I will!
- 1590
- 01:28:08,367 --> 01:28:11,035
- Or I will feel ashamed of myself
- for the rest of my life!
- 1591
- 01:28:11,161 --> 01:28:13,120
- Whether or not you fought
- is what's gonna matter,
- 1592
- 01:28:13,205 --> 01:28:15,915
- and not just to other people,
- but to myself!
- 1593
- 01:28:16,041 --> 01:28:17,541
- I won't be you, Pa, I can't do that,
- 1594
- 01:28:17,668 --> 01:28:19,877
- but I don't want to be nothing!
- 1595
- 01:28:23,256 --> 01:28:24,882
- I can't lose you.
- 1596
- 01:28:31,139 --> 01:28:32,974
- He'll be fine, Molly.
- 1597
- 01:28:33,058 --> 01:28:35,393
- City Point's a way back
- from the front lines
- 1598
- 01:28:35,477 --> 01:28:36,477
- and the fighting.
- 1599
- 01:28:37,020 --> 01:28:40,398
- He'll be an adjutant, running
- messages for General Grant.
- 1600
- 01:28:41,525 --> 01:28:43,651
- The war will take our son.
- 1601
- 01:28:43,735 --> 01:28:46,320
- A sniper, or a shrapnel shell, a typhus
- 1602
- 01:28:46,405 --> 01:28:47,405
- same as took Willie.
- 1603
- 01:28:47,531 --> 01:28:50,908
- It takes hundreds of boys a day.
- He'll die uselessly.
- 1604
- 01:28:51,034 --> 01:28:53,411
- And how will I ever forgive you?
- 1605
- 01:28:54,413 --> 01:28:56,914
- Most men, their firstborn
- is their favorite.
- 1606
- 01:28:57,040 --> 01:28:59,667
- You've always blamed Robert
- for being born.
- 1607
- 01:28:59,751 --> 01:29:01,085
- For trapping you in a marriage
- 1608
- 01:29:01,169 --> 01:29:02,753
- that's only ever given you grief
- 1609
- 01:29:02,879 --> 01:29:05,006
- - and caused you regret.
- - That's simply not true.
- 1610
- 01:29:05,090 --> 01:29:06,757
- And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor's
- 1611
- 01:29:06,883 --> 01:29:09,176
- on your hands same as Grant,
- God help us.
- 1612
- 01:29:09,553 --> 01:29:11,762
- We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood
- 1613
- 01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,098
- you've sanctioned,
- the uncountable corpses!
- 1614
- 01:29:14,182 --> 01:29:16,934
- We'll be made to pay
- with our son's dear blood!
- 1615
- 01:29:17,060 --> 01:29:18,602
- Just this once, Mrs. Lincoln,
- 1616
- 01:29:18,687 --> 01:29:21,439
- I demand of you to try
- and take the liberal
- 1617
- 01:29:21,565 --> 01:29:23,441
- and not the selfish point of view.
- 1618
- 01:29:23,567 --> 01:29:24,775
- Robert will never forgive himself.
- 1619
- 01:29:24,901 --> 01:29:26,444
- You imagine he'll forgive us
- 1620
- 01:29:26,528 --> 01:29:30,114
- if we continue to stifle
- this very natural ambition?
- 1621
- 01:29:31,199 --> 01:29:33,409
- And if I refuse to take the high road?
- 1622
- 01:29:36,246 --> 01:29:39,582
- If I won't pick up the rough old cross,
- 1623
- 01:29:39,958 --> 01:29:42,793
- will you threaten me again
- with the madhouse?
- 1624
- 01:29:42,878 --> 01:29:46,380
- As you did when I couldn't
- stop crying over Willie.
- 1625
- 01:29:46,465 --> 01:29:48,883
- When I showed you what heartbreak,
- 1626
- 01:29:48,967 --> 01:29:51,635
- real heartbreak, looked like.
- 1627
- 01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:53,220
- And you hadn't the courage
- 1628
- 01:29:53,305 --> 01:29:55,389
- - to countenance, to help me!
- - That's right, that's right...
- 1629
- 01:29:55,474 --> 01:29:57,725
- When you refused so much
- as to comfort Tad,
- 1630
- 01:29:57,809 --> 01:29:59,977
- a child who was not only sick,
- dangerously sick,
- 1631
- 01:30:00,062 --> 01:30:01,062
- but beside himself with grief!
- 1632
- 01:30:01,146 --> 01:30:03,314
- I was holding him in my arms
- when he died.
- 1633
- 01:30:03,440 --> 01:30:05,900
- But your grief, your grief,
- your inexhaustible grief!
- 1634
- 01:30:05,984 --> 01:30:07,860
- How dare you throw that up at me?
- 1635
- 01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:09,153
- And his mother wouldn't let him near her
- 1636
- 01:30:09,237 --> 01:30:10,488
- because she's screaming
- from morning to night!
- 1637
- 01:30:10,572 --> 01:30:12,615
- I couldn't risk him
- seeing how angry I was!
- 1638
- 01:30:12,699 --> 01:30:14,158
- Pacing the halls, howling at shadows
- 1639
- 01:30:14,242 --> 01:30:15,826
- and furniture and ghosts!
- 1640
- 01:30:16,995 --> 01:30:18,996
- I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,
- 1641
- 01:30:19,081 --> 01:30:20,831
- for everybody's goddamn sake,
- 1642
- 01:30:20,957 --> 01:30:22,597
- I should have clapped you
- in the madhouse!
- 1643
- 01:30:22,667 --> 01:30:24,126
- Then do it!
- 1644
- 01:30:25,170 --> 01:30:27,004
- Do it! Don't you threaten me!
- 1645
- 01:30:27,130 --> 01:30:29,507
- You do it this time. Lock me away.
- 1646
- 01:30:29,591 --> 01:30:31,634
- You'll have to, I swear,
- 1647
- 01:30:32,010 --> 01:30:34,095
- if Robert is killed.
- 1648
- 01:30:52,823 --> 01:30:55,199
- I couldn't tolerate you
- grieving so for Willie
- 1649
- 01:30:55,325 --> 01:30:57,952
- because I couldn't permit it in myself.
- 1650
- 01:30:58,537 --> 01:31:00,538
- Though I wanted to, Mary.
- 1651
- 01:31:01,498 --> 01:31:03,374
- I wanted to crawl under the earth,
- 1652
- 01:31:03,500 --> 01:31:05,709
- into the vault, with his coffin.
- 1653
- 01:31:07,129 --> 01:31:10,714
- And I still do. Every day I do.
- 1654
- 01:31:11,216 --> 01:31:13,801
- Don't speak to me about grief.
- 1655
- 01:31:23,061 --> 01:31:26,814
- I must make my decisions,
- Bob must make his, you yours.
- 1656
- 01:31:26,898 --> 01:31:30,317
- And bear what we must.
- Hold and carry what we must.
- 1657
- 01:31:30,402 --> 01:31:34,071
- What I carry within me,
- you must allow me to do it.
- 1658
- 01:31:34,197 --> 01:31:37,074
- Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary,
- 1659
- 01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:40,744
- you alone may lighten this burden.
- 1660
- 01:31:42,539 --> 01:31:43,914
- Or render it intolerable.
- 1661
- 01:31:44,416 --> 01:31:45,916
- As you choose.
- 1662
- 01:32:07,731 --> 01:32:09,690
- You think I'm ignorant
- of what you're up to
- 1663
- 01:32:09,774 --> 01:32:10,934
- because you haven't discussed
- 1664
- 01:32:10,942 --> 01:32:13,277
- this scheme with me
- as you ought to have done?
- 1665
- 01:32:13,361 --> 01:32:16,197
- When have I ever been
- so easily bamboozled?
- 1666
- 01:32:16,573 --> 01:32:17,865
- I believe you when you insist
- 1667
- 01:32:17,949 --> 01:32:19,450
- that amending the Constitution
- 1668
- 01:32:19,576 --> 01:32:21,535
- and abolishing slavery will end this war.
- 1669
- 01:32:21,620 --> 01:32:23,954
- And since you are
- sending my son into the war,
- 1670
- 01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:27,124
- woe unto you if you fail
- to pass the amendment.
- 1671
- 01:32:30,295 --> 01:32:33,297
- Seward doesn't want me
- leaving big muddy footprints
- 1672
- 01:32:33,423 --> 01:32:34,924
- all over town.
- 1673
- 01:32:38,637 --> 01:32:40,721
- No one has ever lived
- who knows better than you
- 1674
- 01:32:40,805 --> 01:32:42,890
- the proper placement of footfalls
- 1675
- 01:32:42,974 --> 01:32:44,892
- on treacherous paths.
- 1676
- 01:32:44,976 --> 01:32:47,728
- Seward can't do it. You must.
- 1677
- 01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:52,149
- Because if you fail to acquire
- the necessary votes,
- 1678
- 01:32:52,234 --> 01:32:55,110
- woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.
- 1679
- 01:33:09,459 --> 01:33:10,793
- Thank you.
- 1680
- 01:33:16,967 --> 01:33:19,802
- I know the vote is only four days away.
- 1681
- 01:33:20,428 --> 01:33:22,096
- I know you're concerned.
- 1682
- 01:33:22,180 --> 01:33:24,265
- Thank you for your concern over this.
- 1683
- 01:33:25,183 --> 01:33:27,977
- And I want you to know,
- they'll approve it.
- 1684
- 01:33:29,312 --> 01:33:31,021
- God will see to it.
- 1685
- 01:33:32,816 --> 01:33:34,858
- I don't envy Him his task.
- 1686
- 01:33:36,611 --> 01:33:39,029
- He may wish He'd chosen
- an instrument for His purpose
- 1687
- 01:33:39,155 --> 01:33:42,157
- more wieldy than
- the House of Representatives.
- 1688
- 01:33:43,368 --> 01:33:45,202
- Then you'll see to it.
- 1689
- 01:33:47,372 --> 01:33:50,791
- Are you afraid of what
- lies ahead for your people
- 1690
- 01:33:50,875 --> 01:33:52,376
- if we succeed?
- 1691
- 01:33:53,878 --> 01:33:56,171
- White people don't want us here.
- 1692
- 01:33:56,548 --> 01:33:58,966
- - Many don't.
- - What about you?
- 1693
- 01:34:04,389 --> 01:34:06,682
- I don't know you, Mrs. Keckley.
- 1694
- 01:34:07,684 --> 01:34:09,059
- Any of you.
- 1695
- 01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:13,522
- You're familiar to me, as all people are,
- 1696
- 01:34:14,816 --> 01:34:17,818
- unaccommodated, poor, bare,
- forked creatures,
- 1697
- 01:34:17,902 --> 01:34:19,570
- such as we all are.
- 1698
- 01:34:20,864 --> 01:34:23,574
- You have a right to expect what I expect.
- 1699
- 01:34:24,075 --> 01:34:26,076
- And likely our expectations
- 1700
- 01:34:26,161 --> 01:34:28,662
- are not incomprehensible to each other.
- 1701
- 01:34:32,250 --> 01:34:34,501
- I assume I'll get used to you.
- 1702
- 01:34:35,670 --> 01:34:37,588
- Now what you are to the nation,
- 1703
- 01:34:38,757 --> 01:34:41,258
- what'll become of you
- once slavery's day is done,
- 1704
- 01:34:41,593 --> 01:34:43,385
- I don't know.
- 1705
- 01:34:45,013 --> 01:34:47,598
- What my people are to be, I can't say.
- 1706
- 01:34:49,768 --> 01:34:52,853
- Negroes have been fighting
- and dying for freedom
- 1707
- 01:34:53,438 --> 01:34:55,939
- since the first of us was a slave.
- 1708
- 01:34:56,024 --> 01:34:59,526
- I never heard any ask
- what freedom would bring.
- 1709
- 01:35:01,654 --> 01:35:03,280
- Freedom is first.
- 1710
- 01:35:06,117 --> 01:35:07,534
- As for me,
- 1711
- 01:35:08,953 --> 01:35:11,622
- my son died fighting for the Union,
- 1712
- 01:35:12,832 --> 01:35:14,875
- wearing the Union blue.
- 1713
- 01:35:15,460 --> 01:35:17,211
- For freedom he died.
- 1714
- 01:35:19,297 --> 01:35:21,006
- And I'm his mother.
- 1715
- 01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,136
- That's what I am
- to the nation, Mr. Lincoln.
- 1716
- 01:35:30,475 --> 01:35:32,226
- What else must I be?
- 1717
- 01:35:41,653 --> 01:35:43,570
- My whole hand's gonna be proud
- in about five seconds.
- 1718
- 01:35:43,655 --> 01:35:45,239
- Let's see how proud you can be.
- 1719
- 01:35:46,408 --> 01:35:48,992
- Go away. That watch fob, is that gold?
- 1720
- 01:35:49,077 --> 01:35:50,661
- You keep your eyes off my fob.
- 1721
- 01:35:50,745 --> 01:35:52,955
- Gentlemen, you have a visitor.
- 1722
- 01:35:53,039 --> 01:35:55,165
- - Goddamn!
- - Hey, Bill.
- 1723
- 01:35:57,335 --> 01:35:58,961
- Well, I'll be fucked.
- 1724
- 01:35:59,045 --> 01:36:00,504
- I wouldn't bet against it.
- 1725
- 01:36:00,588 --> 01:36:01,755
- Mr...?
- 1726
- 01:36:02,507 --> 01:36:03,924
- W. N. Bilbo.
- 1727
- 01:36:04,008 --> 01:36:06,093
- Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen.
- 1728
- 01:36:06,177 --> 01:36:07,177
- Sir.
- 1729
- 01:36:07,554 --> 01:36:09,054
- Why are you here? No offense,
- 1730
- 01:36:09,180 --> 01:36:12,474
- but Mr. Seward's banished
- the very mention of your name.
- 1731
- 01:36:12,559 --> 01:36:14,239
- He won't even let us use fifty cent pieces
- 1732
- 01:36:14,352 --> 01:36:16,186
- 'cause they've got your face on 'em.
- 1733
- 01:36:16,938 --> 01:36:19,523
- The Secretary of State here
- tells me that you got
- 1734
- 01:36:19,607 --> 01:36:22,067
- 11 Democrats in the bag.
- That's encouraging.
- 1735
- 01:36:22,193 --> 01:36:25,904
- Oh, you've got no cause
- to be encouraged, sir.
- 1736
- 01:36:27,115 --> 01:36:29,241
- Are we being fired?
- 1737
- 01:36:30,618 --> 01:36:34,538
- "We have heard the chimes
- at midnight, Master Shallow."
- 1738
- 01:36:35,540 --> 01:36:36,999
- I'm here to alert you boys
- 1739
- 01:36:37,083 --> 01:36:40,210
- that the great day of reckoning
- is nigh upon us.
- 1740
- 01:36:40,628 --> 01:36:42,546
- The Democrats we've yet to bag, sir,
- 1741
- 01:36:42,630 --> 01:36:45,382
- the patronage jobs simply won't bag 'em.
- 1742
- 01:36:45,467 --> 01:36:48,093
- They require more convincing,
- Mr. President.
- 1743
- 01:36:49,721 --> 01:36:52,598
- Do me a favor, will you?
- 1744
- 01:36:52,724 --> 01:36:53,765
- Sure.
- 1745
- 01:36:53,892 --> 01:36:55,893
- It snagged my eye
- in the paper this morning
- 1746
- 01:36:55,977 --> 01:36:57,394
- that the Governor Curtin
- 1747
- 01:36:57,479 --> 01:36:59,813
- is set to declare a winner in the disputed
- 1748
- 01:36:59,898 --> 01:37:00,898
- Congressional election for the...
- 1749
- 01:37:00,982 --> 01:37:02,149
- Pennsylvania 16th District.
- 1750
- 01:37:02,567 --> 01:37:05,319
- District.
- What a joy to be comprehended.
- 1751
- 01:37:05,403 --> 01:37:07,988
- Hop on a train to Philadel,
- call on the Governor...
- 1752
- 01:37:08,072 --> 01:37:09,448
- Send Latham. Or Schell.
- 1753
- 01:37:09,574 --> 01:37:11,533
- No, he'll do fine.
- Just polish yourself up first.
- 1754
- 01:37:13,495 --> 01:37:15,579
- The incumbent is claiming
- he won it. Name of...
- 1755
- 01:37:15,663 --> 01:37:16,705
- Coffroth.
- 1756
- 01:37:16,789 --> 01:37:17,956
- - That's him.
- - Coffroth.
- 1757
- 01:37:18,082 --> 01:37:19,958
- - He's a Democrat.
- - I understand that.
- 1758
- 01:37:20,627 --> 01:37:22,753
- - Silly name.
- - A little bit silly.
- 1759
- 01:37:23,296 --> 01:37:26,215
- Tell Governor Curtin
- it'd be much appreciated
- 1760
- 01:37:26,299 --> 01:37:28,926
- if he'd invite
- the House of Representatives
- 1761
- 01:37:29,010 --> 01:37:30,052
- to decide who won.
- 1762
- 01:37:30,136 --> 01:37:32,763
- He's entitled to do that.
- He'll agree to it.
- 1763
- 01:37:32,847 --> 01:37:35,140
- Then advise Coffroth
- 1764
- 01:37:35,266 --> 01:37:37,601
- if he hopes to retain his seat,
- 1765
- 01:37:37,685 --> 01:37:39,978
- then he'd better pay a visit
- to Thaddeus Stevens.
- 1766
- 01:37:40,104 --> 01:37:41,688
- Well, pity poor Coffroth.
- 1767
- 01:37:43,983 --> 01:37:45,275
- It opens!
- 1768
- 01:37:52,283 --> 01:37:53,659
- You are Canfrey?
- 1769
- 01:37:55,662 --> 01:37:58,830
- Coffroth, Mr. Stevens.
- Alexander Coffroth.
- 1770
- 01:37:58,957 --> 01:38:01,875
- Are we representatives
- of the same state?
- 1771
- 01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:03,919
- Yes, sir.
- We sit only three desks apart.
- 1772
- 01:38:04,003 --> 01:38:05,837
- I haven't noticed you.
- 1773
- 01:38:06,464 --> 01:38:09,466
- I'm a Republican and you,
- Coughdrop, are a Democrat?
- 1774
- 01:38:09,551 --> 01:38:12,928
- Well... I... that is to say...
- 1775
- 01:38:13,012 --> 01:38:15,013
- The modern travesty
- of Thomas Jefferson's
- 1776
- 01:38:15,139 --> 01:38:16,265
- political organization
- 1777
- 01:38:16,349 --> 01:38:18,100
- to which you've attached
- yourself like a barnacle
- 1778
- 01:38:18,184 --> 01:38:21,478
- has the effrontery to call
- itself the Democratic Party.
- 1779
- 01:38:21,563 --> 01:38:24,523
- You are a Democrat.
- What's the matter with you?
- 1780
- 01:38:24,649 --> 01:38:26,233
- Are you wicked?
- 1781
- 01:38:26,317 --> 01:38:27,901
- - Well, I felt...
- - Never mind.
- 1782
- 01:38:27,986 --> 01:38:30,237
- Coffsnot, you were
- ignominiously trounced
- 1783
- 01:38:30,321 --> 01:38:31,863
- at the hustings in November's election
- 1784
- 01:38:31,990 --> 01:38:33,949
- by your worthy challenger,
- a Republican.
- 1785
- 01:38:34,033 --> 01:38:35,909
- No, sir, I was not trounced.
- 1786
- 01:38:35,994 --> 01:38:37,995
- He wants to steal my seat.
- I didn't lose the election.
- 1787
- 01:38:38,079 --> 01:38:39,538
- What difference does it make
- if you lost or not?
- 1788
- 01:38:39,664 --> 01:38:43,834
- The governor of our state
- is... A Democrat?
- 1789
- 01:38:45,003 --> 01:38:47,337
- No, he's, he's a...
- 1790
- 01:38:49,382 --> 01:38:52,676
- Re-...
- 1791
- 01:38:53,761 --> 01:38:56,013
- - ...-pub-...-lic-...
- - ...-pub-...-lic-...
- 1792
- 01:38:56,097 --> 01:38:57,639
- - ...-can.
- - ...-can. Republican.
- 1793
- 01:38:57,724 --> 01:38:59,933
- I know what he is.
- This is a rhetorical exercise.
- 1794
- 01:39:00,018 --> 01:39:01,898
- And Congress is controlled
- by what party? Yours?
- 1795
- 01:39:04,397 --> 01:39:06,189
- Your party was beaten.
- 1796
- 01:39:06,274 --> 01:39:08,817
- Your challenger's party
- now controls the House
- 1797
- 01:39:08,901 --> 01:39:11,612
- and hence the House
- Committee on Elections,
- 1798
- 01:39:11,696 --> 01:39:14,156
- so you have been beaten.
- 1799
- 01:39:14,240 --> 01:39:17,159
- You shall shortly be sent home
- in disgrace. Unless...
- 1800
- 01:39:17,243 --> 01:39:18,324
- I know what I must do, sir.
- 1801
- 01:39:18,369 --> 01:39:20,621
- I will immediately become
- a Republican and vote yes...
- 1802
- 01:39:20,705 --> 01:39:21,705
- No!
- 1803
- 01:39:22,457 --> 01:39:24,875
- Coffroth will vote yes,
- 1804
- 01:39:25,460 --> 01:39:26,918
- but Coffroth will remain a Democrat
- 1805
- 01:39:27,045 --> 01:39:28,003
- until after he does so.
- 1806
- 01:39:28,087 --> 01:39:29,671
- Why wait to switch? I'm happy to...
- 1807
- 01:39:29,756 --> 01:39:32,007
- We want to show the amendment
- has bipartisan support,
- 1808
- 01:39:32,091 --> 01:39:34,051
- you idiot. Early in the next Congress,
- 1809
- 01:39:34,135 --> 01:39:36,386
- when I tell you to do so,
- you will switch parties.
- 1810
- 01:39:36,471 --> 01:39:40,015
- Now congratulations
- on your victory, and get out.
- 1811
- 01:39:40,099 --> 01:39:42,559
- Now, give me the names
- 1812
- 01:39:42,644 --> 01:39:44,603
- of whoever else you've been hunting.
- 1813
- 01:39:44,937 --> 01:39:46,229
- Hell.
- 1814
- 01:39:46,606 --> 01:39:47,648
- George Yeaman.
- 1815
- 01:39:47,732 --> 01:39:49,149
- Yes. Yeaman.
- 1816
- 01:39:49,901 --> 01:39:51,360
- Among others.
- 1817
- 01:39:51,444 --> 01:39:53,070
- - But Yeaman, that'd count.
- - Yeah.
- 1818
- 01:39:53,154 --> 01:39:54,946
- Y-E-A-M-A-N.
- 1819
- 01:39:55,406 --> 01:39:56,740
- I got it.
- 1820
- 01:39:57,617 --> 01:39:58,700
- Kentucky.
- 1821
- 01:40:01,663 --> 01:40:04,706
- I can't vote for
- the amendment, Mr. Lincoln.
- 1822
- 01:40:12,256 --> 01:40:14,424
- I saw a barge once, Mr. Yeaman,
- 1823
- 01:40:15,093 --> 01:40:17,427
- filled with colored men in chains
- 1824
- 01:40:17,553 --> 01:40:18,762
- heading down the Mississippi
- 1825
- 01:40:18,888 --> 01:40:20,764
- to the New Orleans slave markets.
- 1826
- 01:40:22,225 --> 01:40:23,433
- It sickened me.
- 1827
- 01:40:24,769 --> 01:40:27,229
- And more than that,
- it brought a shadow down.
- 1828
- 01:40:28,773 --> 01:40:31,108
- A pall around my eyes.
- 1829
- 01:40:32,777 --> 01:40:35,445
- Slavery troubled me
- as long as I can remember
- 1830
- 01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,490
- in a way it never troubled my father,
- 1831
- 01:40:39,492 --> 01:40:41,785
- though he hated it, in his own fashion.
- 1832
- 01:40:43,246 --> 01:40:45,163
- He knew no smallholding dirt farmer
- 1833
- 01:40:45,289 --> 01:40:46,957
- could compete with slave plantations
- 1834
- 01:40:47,083 --> 01:40:49,334
- so he took us out from Kentucky
- 1835
- 01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:50,669
- to get away from 'em.
- 1836
- 01:40:50,795 --> 01:40:52,587
- He wanted Indiana kept free.
- 1837
- 01:40:54,132 --> 01:40:55,799
- He wasn't a kind man
- 1838
- 01:40:57,427 --> 01:41:00,846
- but there was a rough,
- moral urge for fairness,
- 1839
- 01:41:00,972 --> 01:41:02,305
- for freedom in him.
- 1840
- 01:41:03,349 --> 01:41:05,308
- I learnt that from him, I suppose.
- 1841
- 01:41:06,185 --> 01:41:07,519
- If little else from him.
- 1842
- 01:41:10,148 --> 01:41:12,357
- We didn't care
- for one another, Mr. Yeaman.
- 1843
- 01:41:15,987 --> 01:41:17,571
- Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
- 1844
- 01:41:17,655 --> 01:41:20,741
- Loving kindness, that most
- ordinary thing, came to me
- 1845
- 01:41:20,825 --> 01:41:22,993
- from other sources. I'm grateful for that.
- 1846
- 01:41:23,119 --> 01:41:25,954
- Well, I hate it, too, sir.
- 1847
- 01:41:27,331 --> 01:41:28,665
- Slavery, but...
- 1848
- 01:41:29,709 --> 01:41:32,627
- But we're entirely unready
- for emancipation.
- 1849
- 01:41:33,171 --> 01:41:34,296
- And there's too many questions...
- 1850
- 01:41:34,380 --> 01:41:35,941
- We're unready for peace, too, ain't we?
- 1851
- 01:41:36,966 --> 01:41:39,176
- Yeah, when it comes,
- it'll present us with conundrums
- 1852
- 01:41:39,302 --> 01:41:42,596
- and dangers greater than
- any we faced during the war,
- 1853
- 01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:44,431
- bloody as it's been.
- 1854
- 01:41:44,515 --> 01:41:48,393
- We'll have to extemporize and
- experiment with what it is,
- 1855
- 01:41:48,519 --> 01:41:49,644
- when it is.
- 1856
- 01:41:53,024 --> 01:41:54,691
- I read your speech, George.
- 1857
- 01:41:55,651 --> 01:41:57,319
- Negroes and the vote,
- 1858
- 01:41:58,404 --> 01:41:59,529
- that's a puzzle.
- 1859
- 01:42:00,406 --> 01:42:04,034
- No, no. But, but, but Negroes can't
- 1860
- 01:42:04,869 --> 01:42:07,913
- vote, Mr. Lincoln.
- 1861
- 01:42:09,165 --> 01:42:10,832
- You're not suggesting
- we enfranchise colored people?
- 1862
- 01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:12,626
- I'm asking only that
- 1863
- 01:42:12,710 --> 01:42:16,546
- you disenthrall yourself
- from the slave powers.
- 1864
- 01:42:18,090 --> 01:42:19,174
- I'll let you know when
- 1865
- 01:42:19,258 --> 01:42:20,898
- there's an offer on my desk
- for surrender.
- 1866
- 01:42:21,010 --> 01:42:22,177
- There's none before us now.
- 1867
- 01:42:22,261 --> 01:42:23,386
- What's before us now,
- 1868
- 01:42:23,513 --> 01:42:26,223
- that's the vote on the 13th Amendment.
- 1869
- 01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,851
- And it's going to be so very close.
- 1870
- 01:42:33,064 --> 01:42:35,023
- You see what you can do.
- 1871
- 01:42:44,367 --> 01:42:45,867
- I can't make sense of it.
- 1872
- 01:42:46,410 --> 01:42:48,370
- What he died for.
- 1873
- 01:42:50,957 --> 01:42:53,250
- Mr. Lincoln, I hate them all.
- 1874
- 01:42:53,376 --> 01:42:55,460
- I do. All black people.
- 1875
- 01:43:04,971 --> 01:43:07,222
- I am a prejudiced man.
- 1876
- 01:43:09,934 --> 01:43:11,810
- Well, I'd change that in you if I could,
- 1877
- 01:43:12,061 --> 01:43:13,436
- but that's not why I come.
- 1878
- 01:43:14,272 --> 01:43:15,939
- I might be wrong, Mr. Hutton,
- 1879
- 01:43:16,065 --> 01:43:19,442
- but I expect colored people
- most likely be free.
- 1880
- 01:43:20,319 --> 01:43:21,570
- And when that's so, it's simple truth
- 1881
- 01:43:21,654 --> 01:43:23,655
- that your brother's bravery
- 1882
- 01:43:23,781 --> 01:43:25,615
- and his death helped make it so.
- 1883
- 01:43:27,285 --> 01:43:28,493
- Only you can decide whether
- 1884
- 01:43:28,619 --> 01:43:30,019
- that's sense enough for you or not.
- 1885
- 01:43:33,791 --> 01:43:35,584
- My deepest sympathies to your family.
- 1886
- 01:43:48,306 --> 01:43:50,849
- We've managed our members
- to a fare-thee-well.
- 1887
- 01:43:52,143 --> 01:43:53,310
- You've had no defections
- 1888
- 01:43:53,436 --> 01:43:55,353
- from the Republican right to trouble you.
- 1889
- 01:43:56,647 --> 01:43:58,356
- Whereas as to what you promised,
- 1890
- 01:43:59,442 --> 01:44:01,443
- where the hell are the commissioners?
- 1891
- 01:44:02,361 --> 01:44:04,821
- Oh, my God. It's true.
- 1892
- 01:44:06,490 --> 01:44:08,783
- You... You lied to me.
- 1893
- 01:44:09,118 --> 01:44:12,579
- Mr. Lincoln, you evaded
- my request for a denial
- 1894
- 01:44:12,663 --> 01:44:14,664
- that there is a Confederate peace offer,
- 1895
- 01:44:14,790 --> 01:44:16,625
- because there is one!
- 1896
- 01:44:16,959 --> 01:44:20,962
- We are absolutely guaranteed
- to lose the whole thing.
- 1897
- 01:44:21,047 --> 01:44:23,965
- We don't need a goddamn
- abolition amendment!
- 1898
- 01:44:24,550 --> 01:44:26,343
- Leave the Constitution alone!
- 1899
- 01:44:26,677 --> 01:44:27,877
- What if the peace commissioners
- 1900
- 01:44:27,887 --> 01:44:29,346
- appear today, or worse...
- 1901
- 01:44:32,808 --> 01:44:35,018
- I can't listen to this anymore.
- 1902
- 01:44:37,188 --> 01:44:40,148
- I can't accomplish a goddamn thing
- 1903
- 01:44:40,232 --> 01:44:42,734
- of any human meaning or worth
- 1904
- 01:44:42,860 --> 01:44:46,613
- until we cure ourselves of slavery
- 1905
- 01:44:46,697 --> 01:44:49,407
- and end this pestilential war!
- 1906
- 01:44:50,701 --> 01:44:53,328
- And whether any of you
- or anyone else knows it,
- 1907
- 01:44:53,412 --> 01:44:55,372
- I know I need this!
- 1908
- 01:44:56,165 --> 01:44:58,833
- This amendment is that cure!
- 1909
- 01:45:02,171 --> 01:45:04,881
- We are stepped out upon
- the world stage now!
- 1910
- 01:45:05,007 --> 01:45:06,216
- Now!
- 1911
- 01:45:06,884 --> 01:45:09,844
- With the fate of human dignity
- in our hands!
- 1912
- 01:45:11,681 --> 01:45:14,224
- Blood's been spilt to
- afford us this moment!
- 1913
- 01:45:14,433 --> 01:45:16,726
- Now! Now! Now!
- 1914
- 01:45:17,561 --> 01:45:20,605
- And you grousle and heckle
- and dodge about like
- 1915
- 01:45:20,731 --> 01:45:22,691
- pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!
- 1916
- 01:45:23,901 --> 01:45:25,568
- See what is before you.
- 1917
- 01:45:26,529 --> 01:45:29,280
- See the here and now, that's the
- 1918
- 01:45:29,407 --> 01:45:32,450
- hardest thing,
- the only thing that accounts.
- 1919
- 01:45:34,412 --> 01:45:38,498
- Abolishing slavery
- by constitutional provision
- 1920
- 01:45:38,582 --> 01:45:42,377
- settles the fate for all coming time
- 1921
- 01:45:43,629 --> 01:45:46,631
- not only of the millions now in bondage
- 1922
- 01:45:48,759 --> 01:45:51,720
- but of unborn millions to come.
- 1923
- 01:45:53,264 --> 01:45:57,475
- Two votes stand in its way.
- These votes must be procured.
- 1924
- 01:46:01,897 --> 01:46:06,484
- We need two yeses,
- three abstentions, or
- 1925
- 01:46:06,610 --> 01:46:07,736
- four yeses
- 1926
- 01:46:07,820 --> 01:46:11,531
- and one more abstention,
- and the amendment will pass.
- 1927
- 01:46:11,615 --> 01:46:13,216
- You got a night, and a day, and a night,
- 1928
- 01:46:13,242 --> 01:46:14,576
- and several perfectly good hours.
- 1929
- 01:46:14,660 --> 01:46:16,661
- Now get the hell out of here and get 'em.
- 1930
- 01:46:17,496 --> 01:46:18,997
- Yes. But how?
- 1931
- 01:46:21,250 --> 01:46:22,584
- Buzzards' guts, man.
- 1932
- 01:46:25,129 --> 01:46:29,299
- I am the President of the
- United States of America
- 1933
- 01:46:30,009 --> 01:46:32,469
- clothed in immense power.
- 1934
- 01:46:34,972 --> 01:46:37,307
- You will procure me these votes.
- 1935
- 01:47:46,585 --> 01:47:49,379
- We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen,
- 1936
- 01:47:51,382 --> 01:47:53,758
- first in the history of
- this people's chamber,
- 1937
- 01:47:55,219 --> 01:47:56,594
- to your House.
- 1938
- 01:48:21,412 --> 01:48:22,912
- Mr. Ashley, the floor is yours.
- 1939
- 01:48:31,505 --> 01:48:33,464
- On the matter of the
- joint resolution before us,
- 1940
- 01:48:33,591 --> 01:48:34,712
- presenting a 13th Amendment
- 1941
- 01:48:34,758 --> 01:48:37,010
- to our National Constitution,
- 1942
- 01:48:37,094 --> 01:48:39,387
- which was passed last year
- by the Senate
- 1943
- 01:48:39,471 --> 01:48:40,889
- and which has been debated now
- 1944
- 01:48:40,973 --> 01:48:43,516
- by this estimable body
- for the past several weeks,
- 1945
- 01:48:44,602 --> 01:48:45,810
- today we will vote.
- 1946
- 01:48:51,275 --> 01:48:53,193
- By mutual agreement,
- 1947
- 01:48:53,277 --> 01:48:55,528
- we shall hear brief, final statements,
- 1948
- 01:48:57,114 --> 01:48:58,573
- beginning with
- 1949
- 01:48:58,657 --> 01:49:00,909
- the honorable
- George Pendleton of Ohio.
- 1950
- 01:49:07,291 --> 01:49:08,625
- I have just received
- 1951
- 01:49:10,544 --> 01:49:11,628
- confirmation
- 1952
- 01:49:12,338 --> 01:49:14,714
- of what previously has
- been merely rumored.
- 1953
- 01:49:14,798 --> 01:49:17,383
- Affidavits from loyal citizens
- 1954
- 01:49:17,468 --> 01:49:19,010
- recently returned from Richmond.
- 1955
- 01:49:19,136 --> 01:49:21,679
- They testify that
- commissioners have indeed
- 1956
- 01:49:21,972 --> 01:49:23,264
- come north and ought to have arrived
- 1957
- 01:49:23,349 --> 01:49:25,225
- by now in Washington City
- 1958
- 01:49:25,309 --> 01:49:28,311
- bearing an offer of immediate cessation
- 1959
- 01:49:28,687 --> 01:49:29,854
- of our civil war.
- 1960
- 01:49:32,191 --> 01:49:33,316
- Is it true, sir?
- 1961
- 01:49:33,651 --> 01:49:35,902
- Are there Confederate
- commissioners in the capital?
- 1962
- 01:49:35,986 --> 01:49:37,779
- I have no idea where they are
- or if they've arrived.
- 1963
- 01:49:37,863 --> 01:49:38,988
- They'll arrive.
- 1964
- 01:49:39,323 --> 01:49:41,241
- I appeal to
- my fellow Democrats,
- 1965
- 01:49:41,325 --> 01:49:43,493
- to all Republican representatives
- 1966
- 01:49:43,577 --> 01:49:44,994
- who give a fig for peace,
- 1967
- 01:49:45,329 --> 01:49:47,330
- postpone this vote!
- 1968
- 01:49:47,539 --> 01:49:48,665
- Until we have answers
- 1969
- 01:49:48,749 --> 01:49:49,916
- from the President himself!
- 1970
- 01:49:50,209 --> 01:49:51,209
- Postpone the vote!
- 1971
- 01:49:51,669 --> 01:49:54,045
- Postpone the vote!
- 1972
- 01:49:54,129 --> 01:50:00,301
- Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
- 1973
- 01:50:00,386 --> 01:50:03,429
- Postpone the vote!
- 1974
- 01:50:03,514 --> 01:50:05,139
- - Postpone the vote!
- - Gentlemen!
- 1975
- 01:50:05,224 --> 01:50:06,641
- Postpone the vote!
- 1976
- 01:50:07,101 --> 01:50:12,313
- Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
- 1977
- 01:50:14,233 --> 01:50:16,109
- I have made a motion!
- 1978
- 01:50:16,193 --> 01:50:18,736
- Does anyone care to second my motion?
- 1979
- 01:50:30,874 --> 01:50:32,041
- Gentlemen.
- 1980
- 01:50:33,252 --> 01:50:34,836
- The conservative faction
- 1981
- 01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:37,046
- of border and western Republicans
- 1982
- 01:50:37,131 --> 01:50:39,340
- cannot approve this amendment,
- 1983
- 01:50:39,425 --> 01:50:41,509
- about which we harbor grave doubts,
- 1984
- 01:50:42,261 --> 01:50:45,805
- if a peace offer is being
- held hostage to its success.
- 1985
- 01:50:46,765 --> 01:50:48,683
- Joining together with
- our Democratic colleagues,
- 1986
- 01:50:48,767 --> 01:50:49,892
- I second the motion
- 1987
- 01:50:49,977 --> 01:50:51,394
- to postpone.
- 1988
- 01:50:51,478 --> 01:50:53,398
- He must deny peace
- commissioners are in the city.
- 1989
- 01:50:53,439 --> 01:50:54,731
- Quick, man. Quick.
- 1990
- 01:51:44,406 --> 01:51:47,325
- This is precisely
- what Mr. Wood wishes me
- 1991
- 01:51:47,409 --> 01:51:48,659
- to respond to?
- 1992
- 01:51:49,995 --> 01:51:51,746
- Word for word, this is precisely
- 1993
- 01:51:51,830 --> 01:51:53,706
- the assurance that he demands of me?
- 1994
- 01:51:54,208 --> 01:51:55,500
- Yes, sir.
- 1995
- 01:52:15,270 --> 01:52:16,771
- Give this to Mr. Ashley.
- 1996
- 01:52:20,275 --> 01:52:23,986
- I feel I have to say,
- Mr. Lincoln, that...
- 1997
- 01:52:25,114 --> 01:52:26,614
- Could you please just step outside?
- 1998
- 01:52:26,990 --> 01:52:28,111
- You want to have a chat now,
- 1999
- 01:52:28,158 --> 01:52:29,283
- with the whole of the
- House of Representatives
- 2000
- 01:52:29,368 --> 01:52:30,493
- waiting on this?
- 2001
- 01:52:31,120 --> 01:52:33,496
- Making false representation
- to Congress, is...
- 2002
- 01:52:34,164 --> 01:52:35,748
- - It's...
- - It's impeachable,
- 2003
- 01:52:35,833 --> 01:52:38,501
- but I've made no such
- false representation.
- 2004
- 01:52:38,919 --> 01:52:40,169
- But there are.
- 2005
- 01:52:40,879 --> 01:52:42,319
- There is a delegation from Richmond.
- 2006
- 01:52:42,965 --> 01:52:44,298
- Give me the note, Johnnie.
- 2007
- 01:52:48,095 --> 01:52:49,887
- Please, deliver that to Mr. Ashley.
- 2008
- 01:53:09,199 --> 01:53:10,366
- From the President.
- 2009
- 01:53:11,285 --> 01:53:12,525
- "So far as I know, there are no"
- 2010
- 01:53:12,536 --> 01:53:13,953
- "peace commissioners in the city"
- 2011
- 01:53:14,037 --> 01:53:15,371
- "nor are there likely to be."
- 2012
- 01:53:16,665 --> 01:53:18,332
- "So far as I know"?
- 2013
- 01:53:19,710 --> 01:53:20,793
- That means nothing.
- 2014
- 01:53:22,254 --> 01:53:25,256
- Are there commissioners from
- the South, or aren't there?
- 2015
- 01:53:26,675 --> 01:53:28,134
- The President
- has answered you, sir.
- 2016
- 01:53:28,218 --> 01:53:29,510
- Your peace offer is a fiction.
- 2017
- 01:53:29,803 --> 01:53:30,970
- That is not a denial.
- 2018
- 01:53:31,847 --> 01:53:33,389
- It is a lawyer's dodge!
- 2019
- 01:53:34,850 --> 01:53:36,934
- Mr. Haddam, is your faction satisfied?
- 2020
- 01:53:39,813 --> 01:53:42,315
- The conservative Republican
- faction is satisfied.
- 2021
- 01:53:42,399 --> 01:53:43,900
- And we thank Mr. Lincoln.
- 2022
- 01:53:45,152 --> 01:53:47,153
- I move to table Mr. Wood's motion.
- 2023
- 01:53:47,613 --> 01:53:48,654
- Tabled!
- 2024
- 01:53:52,159 --> 01:53:54,785
- Mr. Colfax, I order the main question.
- 2025
- 01:53:55,537 --> 01:53:57,371
- A motion has been made to bring the bill
- 2026
- 01:53:57,456 --> 01:53:59,373
- for the 13th Amendment to a vote.
- 2027
- 01:53:59,458 --> 01:54:00,500
- Do I hear a second?
- 2028
- 01:54:00,667 --> 01:54:01,834
- I second the motion.
- 2029
- 01:54:02,044 --> 01:54:04,295
- So moved, so ordered.
- 2030
- 01:54:05,005 --> 01:54:06,130
- The Clerk will now...
- 2031
- 01:54:06,215 --> 01:54:07,381
- Quiet, please!
- 2032
- 01:54:09,009 --> 01:54:11,302
- The Clerk will now
- call the roll for the voting.
- 2033
- 01:54:17,392 --> 01:54:18,559
- We begin with Connecticut.
- 2034
- 01:54:18,852 --> 01:54:20,561
- Mr. Augustus Benjamin,
- 2035
- 01:54:20,646 --> 01:54:23,022
- on the matter of this amendment,
- how say you?
- 2036
- 01:54:23,482 --> 01:54:24,565
- Nay!
- 2037
- 01:54:26,193 --> 01:54:27,693
- Mr. Arthur Bentleigh.
- 2038
- 01:54:28,278 --> 01:54:30,029
- Nay!
- 2039
- 01:54:33,450 --> 01:54:35,785
- Mr. John Ellis, how say you?
- 2040
- 01:54:36,203 --> 01:54:37,245
- Aye!
- 2041
- 01:54:37,329 --> 01:54:38,329
- What!
- 2042
- 01:54:45,045 --> 01:54:48,005
- Missouri next. Mr. Walter Appleton.
- 2043
- 01:54:48,966 --> 01:54:50,258
- I vote no.
- 2044
- 01:54:51,927 --> 01:54:53,177
- Mr. Josiah Burton.
- 2045
- 01:54:54,721 --> 01:54:58,516
- Beanpole Burton is pleased to vote yea!
- 2046
- 01:55:00,644 --> 01:55:01,978
- The State of New Jersey.
- 2047
- 01:55:02,062 --> 01:55:04,230
- - Mr. Nehemiah Cleary.
- - No!
- 2048
- 01:55:07,067 --> 01:55:08,484
- Mr. James Martinson.
- 2049
- 01:55:09,111 --> 01:55:11,153
- Mr. Martinson has delegated me
- 2050
- 01:55:11,572 --> 01:55:13,322
- to say he is indisposed.
- 2051
- 01:55:14,199 --> 01:55:15,533
- And he abstains.
- 2052
- 01:55:17,953 --> 01:55:19,161
- Mr. Austin J. Roberts.
- 2053
- 01:55:19,413 --> 01:55:21,706
- Also indisposed, also abstaining.
- 2054
- 01:55:27,004 --> 01:55:28,296
- Illinois concluded.
- 2055
- 01:55:30,507 --> 01:55:32,717
- Mr. Harold Hollister. How say you?
- 2056
- 01:55:33,427 --> 01:55:34,468
- No.
- 2057
- 01:55:35,429 --> 01:55:36,721
- Mr. Hutton.
- 2058
- 01:55:37,973 --> 01:55:40,141
- Mr. William Hutton. Cast your vote.
- 2059
- 01:55:42,561 --> 01:55:45,146
- William Hutton,
- remembering at this moment
- 2060
- 01:55:45,230 --> 01:55:47,106
- his beloved brother Frederick
- 2061
- 01:55:47,190 --> 01:55:49,525
- votes against the amendment.
- 2062
- 01:56:01,872 --> 01:56:02,997
- Webster Allen votes no.
- 2063
- 01:56:06,293 --> 01:56:07,501
- Webster Allen,
- 2064
- 01:56:07,586 --> 01:56:10,087
- Illinois, Democrat,
- 2065
- 01:56:10,172 --> 01:56:12,173
- votes no.
- 2066
- 01:56:13,925 --> 01:56:17,720
- Halberd Law, Indiana, Democrat,
- 2067
- 01:56:17,804 --> 01:56:19,221
- votes no.
- 2068
- 01:56:21,433 --> 01:56:24,894
- Archibald Moran, yes.
- 2069
- 01:56:27,648 --> 01:56:30,232
- Ambrose Baylor, yes.
- 2070
- 01:56:32,110 --> 01:56:34,779
- Mr. Walter H. Washburn.
- 2071
- 01:56:35,614 --> 01:56:36,781
- Votes no.
- 2072
- 01:56:40,535 --> 01:56:43,412
- And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you?
- 2073
- 01:56:55,425 --> 01:56:56,967
- My vote ties us.
- 2074
- 01:57:01,098 --> 01:57:02,139
- Sir, Mr. Yeaman,
- 2075
- 01:57:02,224 --> 01:57:03,933
- I didn't hear your vote.
- 2076
- 01:57:04,726 --> 01:57:07,561
- I said "Aye", Mr. McPherson!
- 2077
- 01:57:08,397 --> 01:57:09,438
- Aye!
- 2078
- 01:57:09,564 --> 01:57:10,564
- Traitor!
- 2079
- 01:57:10,691 --> 01:57:11,691
- Order!
- 2080
- 01:57:25,288 --> 01:57:26,789
- Order in my chamber!
- 2081
- 01:57:33,547 --> 01:57:36,382
- Mr. McPherson, you may proceed.
- 2082
- 01:57:39,761 --> 01:57:42,179
- Mr. Clay R. Hawkins of Ohio.
- 2083
- 01:57:52,399 --> 01:57:54,024
- Goddamn it, I'm voting yes.
- 2084
- 01:57:55,152 --> 01:57:57,069
- I don't care, you shoot me dead!
- 2085
- 01:57:57,154 --> 01:57:59,572
- You shoot me dead! I am voting yes!
- 2086
- 01:58:01,074 --> 01:58:02,450
- Mr. Edwin F. LeClerk.
- 2087
- 01:58:03,034 --> 01:58:04,034
- No!
- 2088
- 01:58:06,872 --> 01:58:10,040
- Oh, to hell with it.
- Shoot me dead, too! Yes!
- 2089
- 01:58:13,378 --> 01:58:14,378
- I mean...
- 2090
- 01:58:15,130 --> 01:58:17,590
- Abstention. Abstention!
- 2091
- 01:58:21,970 --> 01:58:23,429
- Spineless! No gender.
- 2092
- 01:58:29,895 --> 01:58:31,353
- Mr. Alexander Coffroth.
- 2093
- 01:58:36,610 --> 01:58:38,611
- I vote
- 2094
- 01:58:39,362 --> 01:58:40,404
- yes.
- 2095
- 01:58:45,327 --> 01:58:46,410
- Yea.
- 2096
- 01:58:47,996 --> 01:58:49,538
- James Brooks...
- 2097
- 01:58:50,540 --> 01:58:51,749
- Nay.
- 2098
- 01:58:52,959 --> 01:58:54,418
- Josiah Grenelle...
- 2099
- 01:58:55,712 --> 01:58:56,921
- Yea.
- 2100
- 01:58:58,048 --> 01:58:59,215
- Meyer Strauss...
- 2101
- 01:59:00,550 --> 01:59:01,634
- Nay.
- 2102
- 01:59:02,302 --> 01:59:04,345
- - Mr. Joseph Marstern.
- - Nay.
- 2103
- 01:59:04,429 --> 01:59:06,806
- - Mr. Chilton A. Elliot.
- - No!
- 2104
- 01:59:07,307 --> 01:59:09,308
- - Mr. Daniel G. Stuart.
- - I vote yes.
- 2105
- 01:59:09,684 --> 01:59:10,684
- - Mr. Howard Guilfoyle.
- - Yea.
- 2106
- 01:59:10,811 --> 01:59:12,186
- - John F. McKenzie.
- - Yea.
- 2107
- 01:59:12,354 --> 01:59:13,562
- - Andrew E. Fink.
- - Nay.
- 2108
- 01:59:13,647 --> 01:59:15,189
- - Mr. John A. Castle.
- - Yea.
- 2109
- 01:59:15,273 --> 01:59:16,649
- - Mr. Hanready.
- - Nay.
- 2110
- 01:59:16,817 --> 01:59:18,234
- - And Mr. Rufus Warren?
- - Yea.
- 2111
- 01:59:39,172 --> 01:59:40,923
- The roll call concludes.
- 2112
- 01:59:41,424 --> 01:59:43,592
- The voting is completed. Now...
- 2113
- 01:59:43,677 --> 01:59:46,428
- Mr. Clerk, please call my name.
- 2114
- 01:59:47,556 --> 01:59:48,764
- I want to cast a vote.
- 2115
- 01:59:48,849 --> 01:59:50,099
- I object.
- 2116
- 01:59:50,976 --> 01:59:52,351
- The Speaker doesn't vote.
- 2117
- 01:59:52,644 --> 01:59:54,812
- The Speaker may vote if he so chooses.
- 2118
- 01:59:55,230 --> 01:59:57,147
- It is highly unusual, sir.
- 2119
- 01:59:57,357 --> 01:59:58,983
- This isn't usual, Mr. Pendleton.
- 2120
- 01:59:59,067 --> 02:00:00,276
- This is history.
- 2121
- 02:00:02,737 --> 02:00:05,155
- How does Mr. Schuyler Colfax vote?
- 2122
- 02:00:09,995 --> 02:00:11,453
- Aye, of course.
- 2123
- 02:00:34,728 --> 02:00:35,978
- The final vote.
- 2124
- 02:00:37,814 --> 02:00:39,857
- Eight absent or not voting.
- 2125
- 02:00:41,776 --> 02:00:43,569
- Fifty-six votes against.
- 2126
- 02:00:44,821 --> 02:00:47,072
- One hundred and nineteen votes for.
- 2127
- 02:00:48,116 --> 02:00:49,825
- With a margin of two votes...
- 2128
- 02:01:38,625 --> 02:01:40,501
- We chose great leadership.
- 2129
- 02:01:54,599 --> 02:01:56,433
- We'll rally round the flag, boys
- 2130
- 02:01:56,518 --> 02:01:58,268
- We'll rally once again
- 2131
- 02:01:58,353 --> 02:02:00,354
- Shouting the battle cry of freedom
- 2132
- 02:02:01,773 --> 02:02:04,233
- We will rally from the hillside
- 2133
- 02:02:04,317 --> 02:02:06,235
- We'll gather from the plain
- 2134
- 02:02:06,319 --> 02:02:09,905
- Shouting the battle cry of freedom
- 2135
- 02:02:10,281 --> 02:02:14,535
- The Union forever!
- Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
- 2136
- 02:02:14,619 --> 02:02:16,453
- Down with the traitor
- 2137
- 02:02:16,538 --> 02:02:18,247
- And up with the star
- 2138
- 02:02:18,456 --> 02:02:22,376
- Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
- 2139
- 02:02:22,669 --> 02:02:24,294
- Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
- 2140
- 02:02:24,379 --> 02:02:26,463
- The bill, Mr. McPherson. May I?
- 2141
- 02:02:28,925 --> 02:02:32,428
- The Union forever!
- Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
- 2142
- 02:02:32,762 --> 02:02:35,305
- That's, that's the official bill.
- 2143
- 02:02:35,390 --> 02:02:37,433
- I'll return it in the morning.
- 2144
- 02:02:38,018 --> 02:02:39,393
- Creased,
- 2145
- 02:02:40,270 --> 02:02:41,270
- but unharmed.
- 2146
- 02:02:41,354 --> 02:02:45,024
- Shouting the battle cry of freedom
- 2147
- 02:02:45,108 --> 02:02:49,403
- We are springing to the call
- Of the loyal, true and brave
- 2148
- 02:02:49,571 --> 02:02:50,932
- Shouting the battle cry of freedom
- 2149
- 02:02:53,158 --> 02:02:55,325
- And we'll fill our vacant ranks
- 2150
- 02:02:55,410 --> 02:02:57,327
- With a million freemen more
- 2151
- 02:02:58,204 --> 02:03:00,956
- Shouting the battle cry of freedom
- 2152
- 02:03:02,125 --> 02:03:03,667
- The Union forever!
- 2153
- 02:03:04,502 --> 02:03:06,003
- Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
- 2154
- 02:03:06,588 --> 02:03:10,007
- Down with the traitor
- And up with the star
- 2155
- 02:03:31,946 --> 02:03:34,073
- A gift for you.
- 2156
- 02:03:38,411 --> 02:03:40,496
- The greatest measure
- of the 19th century,
- 2157
- 02:03:40,580 --> 02:03:41,663
- passed by corruption,
- 2158
- 02:03:41,748 --> 02:03:45,000
- aided and abetted by
- the purest man in America.
- 2159
- 02:04:03,645 --> 02:04:05,562
- I wish you had been present.
- 2160
- 02:04:06,356 --> 02:04:08,440
- - I wish I'd been.
- - It was a spectacle.
- 2161
- 02:04:09,317 --> 02:04:11,777
- You can't bring your
- housekeeper to the House.
- 2162
- 02:04:11,861 --> 02:04:13,862
- I won't give them gossip.
- 2163
- 02:04:13,947 --> 02:04:15,489
- This is enough.
- 2164
- 02:04:15,865 --> 02:04:16,990
- This is...
- 2165
- 02:04:18,660 --> 02:04:20,452
- It's more than enough for now.
- 2166
- 02:04:22,038 --> 02:04:23,747
- Read it to me again, my love.
- 2167
- 02:04:25,750 --> 02:04:27,626
- - "Proposed..."
- - And adopted.
- 2168
- 02:04:27,710 --> 02:04:29,086
- "Adopted,"
- 2169
- 02:04:29,754 --> 02:04:30,879
- "an amendment to"
- 2170
- 02:04:30,964 --> 02:04:33,924
- "the Constitution of the United States."
- 2171
- 02:04:34,008 --> 02:04:35,425
- "Section One."
- 2172
- 02:04:35,844 --> 02:04:39,638
- "Neither slavery nor
- involuntary servitude"
- 2173
- 02:04:39,722 --> 02:04:42,516
- "except as a punishment for crime"
- 2174
- 02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:46,061
- "whereof the party shall
- have been duly convicted"
- 2175
- 02:04:46,604 --> 02:04:49,439
- "shall exist within the United States"
- 2176
- 02:04:49,941 --> 02:04:53,402
- "or any place subject
- to their jurisdiction."
- 2177
- 02:04:53,486 --> 02:04:54,903
- Section Two.
- 2178
- 02:04:55,405 --> 02:04:59,575
- "Congress shall have power
- to enforce this amendment"
- 2179
- 02:04:59,659 --> 02:05:01,660
- "by appropriate legislation."
- 2180
- 02:05:23,850 --> 02:05:25,058
- Let me be blunt.
- 2181
- 02:05:25,768 --> 02:05:27,436
- Will the Southern states
- 2182
- 02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:30,063
- resume their former position
- in the Union
- 2183
- 02:05:30,148 --> 02:05:31,648
- speedily enough to enable us
- 2184
- 02:05:31,733 --> 02:05:34,318
- to block ratification to this here
- 2185
- 02:05:34,402 --> 02:05:35,569
- 13th Amendment?
- 2186
- 02:05:40,200 --> 02:05:41,742
- I'd like peace immediately.
- 2187
- 02:05:42,702 --> 02:05:44,119
- Yes, and?
- 2188
- 02:05:46,998 --> 02:05:49,583
- I'd like your states restored to
- 2189
- 02:05:49,667 --> 02:05:53,253
- their practical relations
- with the Union immediately.
- 2190
- 02:05:56,007 --> 02:05:58,091
- If this could be given to me in writing,
- 2191
- 02:05:58,635 --> 02:06:00,552
- as Vice President of the Confederacy,
- 2192
- 02:06:00,637 --> 02:06:01,970
- I'd bring that document
- 2193
- 02:06:02,055 --> 02:06:03,889
- with celerity, to Jefferson Davis.
- 2194
- 02:06:06,559 --> 02:06:07,684
- Surrender.
- 2195
- 02:06:08,186 --> 02:06:10,520
- And we can discuss reconstruction.
- 2196
- 02:06:12,357 --> 02:06:13,941
- Surrender won't be thought of.
- 2197
- 02:06:14,734 --> 02:06:17,903
- Unless you've assured us, in writing,
- 2198
- 02:06:17,987 --> 02:06:20,697
- that we'll be readmitted
- in time to block this amendment.
- 2199
- 02:06:21,282 --> 02:06:24,826
- This is the arrogant demand
- of a conqueror.
- 2200
- 02:06:25,036 --> 02:06:27,913
- You'll not be
- a conquered people, Mr. Hunter.
- 2201
- 02:06:27,997 --> 02:06:29,456
- You will be citizens.
- 2202
- 02:06:30,625 --> 02:06:32,209
- Returned to the laws and
- the guarantees of rights
- 2203
- 02:06:32,293 --> 02:06:33,293
- of the Constitution.
- 2204
- 02:06:34,212 --> 02:06:36,880
- Which now extinguishes slavery.
- 2205
- 02:06:36,965 --> 02:06:39,716
- And with it, our economy.
- 2206
- 02:06:40,051 --> 02:06:41,412
- All our laws will be determined by
- 2207
- 02:06:41,469 --> 02:06:43,095
- a Congress of vengeful Yankees.
- 2208
- 02:06:43,888 --> 02:06:46,431
- All our rights will be subject
- to a Supreme Court
- 2209
- 02:06:47,141 --> 02:06:49,142
- benched by bloody Republican radicals.
- 2210
- 02:06:49,811 --> 02:06:52,729
- All our traditions will be obliterated.
- 2211
- 02:06:53,690 --> 02:06:55,440
- We won't know ourselves anymore.
- 2212
- 02:06:57,485 --> 02:06:59,903
- We ain't here to discuss reconstruction.
- 2213
- 02:06:59,988 --> 02:07:02,364
- We have no legal basis
- for that discussion.
- 2214
- 02:07:02,448 --> 02:07:04,074
- But I don't want to deal falsely.
- 2215
- 02:07:04,158 --> 02:07:06,702
- The Northern states
- will ratify, most of them.
- 2216
- 02:07:06,786 --> 02:07:08,578
- As I figure it, it remains for
- two of the Southern states
- 2217
- 02:07:08,663 --> 02:07:09,705
- to do the same,
- 2218
- 02:07:09,789 --> 02:07:11,456
- even after all are readmitted.
- 2219
- 02:07:11,541 --> 02:07:13,125
- And I've been working on that.
- 2220
- 02:07:14,085 --> 02:07:15,210
- Tennessee and Louisiana.
- 2221
- 02:07:15,628 --> 02:07:17,838
- Arkansas, too, most likely.
- It'll be ratified.
- 2222
- 02:07:18,548 --> 02:07:21,300
- Slavery, sir... It's done.
- 2223
- 02:07:34,772 --> 02:07:37,524
- If we submit ourselves to law, Alex,
- 2224
- 02:07:38,276 --> 02:07:40,277
- even submit to losing freedoms,
- 2225
- 02:07:41,696 --> 02:07:43,864
- the freedom to oppress, for instance
- 2226
- 02:07:44,991 --> 02:07:46,783
- we may discover other freedoms
- 2227
- 02:07:46,909 --> 02:07:48,410
- previously unknown to us.
- 2228
- 02:07:49,495 --> 02:07:53,040
- Had you kept faith
- with the democratic process,
- 2229
- 02:07:53,124 --> 02:07:54,583
- as frustrating as that can be...
- 2230
- 02:07:54,667 --> 02:07:55,917
- Come, sir.
- 2231
- 02:07:56,044 --> 02:07:58,545
- Spare us, at least, these pieties.
- 2232
- 02:07:59,505 --> 02:08:01,089
- Did you defeat us with ballots?
- 2233
- 02:08:02,550 --> 02:08:04,384
- How have you held your Union together?
- 2234
- 02:08:05,386 --> 02:08:06,595
- Through democracy?
- 2235
- 02:08:07,847 --> 02:08:09,598
- How many hundreds
- of thousands have died
- 2236
- 02:08:09,682 --> 02:08:11,099
- during your administration?
- 2237
- 02:08:12,518 --> 02:08:15,145
- Your Union, sir, is bonded
- in cannon fire and death.
- 2238
- 02:08:18,941 --> 02:08:20,359
- It may be you're right.
- 2239
- 02:08:24,781 --> 02:08:27,616
- But say all we done is show the world
- 2240
- 02:08:27,700 --> 02:08:29,868
- that democracy isn't chaos.
- 2241
- 02:08:32,538 --> 02:08:35,999
- That there is a great, invisible strength
- 2242
- 02:08:36,084 --> 02:08:37,459
- in a people's union.
- 2243
- 02:08:38,378 --> 02:08:42,255
- Say we've shown that a people
- can endure awful sacrifice
- 2244
- 02:08:42,340 --> 02:08:44,007
- and yet cohere.
- 2245
- 02:08:44,634 --> 02:08:45,801
- Mightn't that save at least
- 2246
- 02:08:45,885 --> 02:08:48,136
- the idea of democracy to aspire to?
- 2247
- 02:08:49,597 --> 02:08:51,890
- Eventually to become worthy of?
- 2248
- 02:08:56,062 --> 02:08:57,979
- At all rates, whatever may be proven
- 2249
- 02:08:58,064 --> 02:09:00,273
- by blood and sacrifice
- 2250
- 02:09:00,358 --> 02:09:01,900
- must have been proved by now.
- 2251
- 02:09:12,286 --> 02:09:14,413
- Shall we stop this bleeding?
- 2252
- 02:10:53,054 --> 02:10:54,054
- Once he surrenders,
- 2253
- 02:10:54,138 --> 02:10:55,931
- send his boys back to their homes
- 2254
- 02:10:56,766 --> 02:10:58,391
- and their farms, their shops.
- 2255
- 02:11:00,311 --> 02:11:01,436
- Yes, sir.
- 2256
- 02:11:02,772 --> 02:11:03,772
- As we discussed.
- 2257
- 02:11:03,856 --> 02:11:06,066
- Liberality all around, not punishment.
- 2258
- 02:11:06,150 --> 02:11:07,234
- I don't want that.
- 2259
- 02:11:08,110 --> 02:11:10,987
- And their leaders,
- Jeff and the rest of them,
- 2260
- 02:11:11,072 --> 02:11:12,364
- they escape, leave the country
- 2261
- 02:11:12,448 --> 02:11:14,950
- while my back's turned,
- that wouldn't upset me none.
- 2262
- 02:11:16,285 --> 02:11:18,995
- When peace comes,
- it mustn't just be hangings.
- 2263
- 02:11:25,461 --> 02:11:27,003
- By outward appearance
- 2264
- 02:11:28,756 --> 02:11:31,550
- you're 10 years older
- than you were a year ago.
- 2265
- 02:11:34,887 --> 02:11:37,138
- Some weariness has bit at my bones.
- 2266
- 02:11:50,611 --> 02:11:52,904
- I never seen the like of it before,
- 2267
- 02:11:52,989 --> 02:11:54,489
- what I seen today.
- 2268
- 02:11:56,075 --> 02:11:57,909
- Never seen the like of it before.
- 2269
- 02:12:00,621 --> 02:12:02,163
- You always knew that.
- 2270
- 02:12:03,583 --> 02:12:05,125
- What this was going to be.
- 2271
- 02:12:06,961 --> 02:12:09,045
- Intimate and ugly.
- 2272
- 02:12:12,216 --> 02:12:13,717
- You must have needed to see it close
- 2273
- 02:12:13,801 --> 02:12:15,201
- when you decided to come down here.
- 2274
- 02:12:34,447 --> 02:12:38,116
- We've made it possible for
- one another to do terrible things.
- 2275
- 02:12:40,494 --> 02:12:42,078
- We've won the war.
- 2276
- 02:12:43,080 --> 02:12:46,416
- Now you have to lead us out of it.
- 2277
- 02:14:18,467 --> 02:14:20,093
- You have an itch to travel?
- 2278
- 02:14:20,428 --> 02:14:22,262
- I'd like that.
- 2279
- 02:14:23,764 --> 02:14:26,015
- To the West, by rail.
- 2280
- 02:14:26,100 --> 02:14:27,475
- Overseas.
- 2281
- 02:14:29,645 --> 02:14:30,812
- The Holy Land.
- 2282
- 02:14:33,816 --> 02:14:35,442
- Awfully pious for a man
- 2283
- 02:14:35,526 --> 02:14:38,069
- who takes his wife out
- buggy-riding on Good Friday.
- 2284
- 02:14:38,821 --> 02:14:39,988
- Jerusalem.
- 2285
- 02:14:40,573 --> 02:14:42,407
- Where David and Solomon walked.
- 2286
- 02:14:42,742 --> 02:14:46,202
- I dream of walking in that ancient city.
- 2287
- 02:14:52,501 --> 02:14:54,210
- All anyone will remember of me
- 2288
- 02:14:54,295 --> 02:14:56,963
- is I was crazy and
- I ruined your happiness.
- 2289
- 02:14:57,715 --> 02:15:00,258
- Anyone thinks that
- doesn't understand, Molly.
- 2290
- 02:15:04,138 --> 02:15:05,638
- When they look at you,
- 2291
- 02:15:07,141 --> 02:15:09,893
- at what it cost to live
- at the heart of this,
- 2292
- 02:15:11,395 --> 02:15:13,646
- they'll wonder at it.
- They'll wonder at you.
- 2293
- 02:15:13,731 --> 02:15:14,898
- They should.
- 2294
- 02:15:16,233 --> 02:15:17,442
- But they should also look at
- 2295
- 02:15:17,526 --> 02:15:19,068
- the wretched woman by your side
- 2296
- 02:15:19,153 --> 02:15:21,988
- if they want to understand
- what this was truly like.
- 2297
- 02:15:23,115 --> 02:15:24,616
- For the ordinary person.
- 2298
- 02:15:25,659 --> 02:15:27,243
- For anyone other than you.
- 2299
- 02:15:27,411 --> 02:15:29,162
- You must try to be happier.
- 2300
- 02:15:30,122 --> 02:15:31,664
- We must, both of us.
- 2301
- 02:15:32,208 --> 02:15:34,417
- We've been so miserable for so long.
- 2302
- 02:15:44,094 --> 02:15:46,888
- I did say some colored men...
- 2303
- 02:15:46,972 --> 02:15:49,432
- The intelligent, the educated, and the
- 2304
- 02:15:49,517 --> 02:15:51,476
- veterans. I qualified it.
- 2305
- 02:15:51,560 --> 02:15:53,061
- Mr. Stevens is furious.
- 2306
- 02:15:53,145 --> 02:15:54,854
- He wants to know why you qualified it.
- 2307
- 02:15:54,939 --> 02:15:57,190
- No one heard
- the intelligent or educated part.
- 2308
- 02:15:57,274 --> 02:15:59,317
- All they heard was the first time
- 2309
- 02:15:59,401 --> 02:16:02,111
- any president has ever made mention
- 2310
- 02:16:02,196 --> 02:16:03,530
- of Negro voting.
- 2311
- 02:16:03,906 --> 02:16:07,700
- Still, I wish I'd mentioned it
- in a better speech.
- 2312
- 02:16:07,785 --> 02:16:09,536
- Mr. Stevens also wants to know
- 2313
- 02:16:09,620 --> 02:16:11,454
- why you didn't make a better speech.
- 2314
- 02:16:14,166 --> 02:16:15,458
- Mrs. Lincoln is
- waiting in the carriage.
- 2315
- 02:16:15,584 --> 02:16:18,044
- She wants me to remind you
- of the hour, and that
- 2316
- 02:16:18,128 --> 02:16:20,922
- you'll have to pick up
- Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.
- 2317
- 02:16:24,426 --> 02:16:26,261
- - Am I in trouble?
- - No, sir.
- 2318
- 02:16:26,762 --> 02:16:28,137
- Thank you, Mr. Slade.
- 2319
- 02:16:43,696 --> 02:16:45,154
- I suppose it's time to go.
- 2320
- 02:16:46,782 --> 02:16:48,408
- Though I would rather stay.
- 2321
- 02:18:18,207 --> 02:18:20,583
- The President has been shot!
- 2322
- 02:18:23,545 --> 02:18:24,796
- The President
- 2323
- 02:18:24,880 --> 02:18:27,632
- has been shot! At Ford's Theater!
- 2324
- 02:18:33,305 --> 02:18:35,515
- No. No!
- 2325
- 02:19:09,508 --> 02:19:12,844
- It's 7:22 in the morning.
- 2326
- 02:19:13,887 --> 02:19:15,596
- Saturday, the 15th of April.
- 2327
- 02:19:15,681 --> 02:19:16,973
- It's all over.
- 2328
- 02:19:17,057 --> 02:19:18,474
- The President is no more.
- 2329
- 02:19:22,229 --> 02:19:24,188
- Now he belongs to the ages.
- 2330
- 02:19:30,529 --> 02:19:32,280
- Fondly do we hope,
- 2331
- 02:19:33,949 --> 02:19:35,992
- fervently do we pray,
- 2332
- 02:19:37,536 --> 02:19:40,496
- that this mighty scourge of war,
- 2333
- 02:19:40,581 --> 02:19:42,540
- may speedily pass away.
- 2334
- 02:19:45,627 --> 02:19:48,171
- Yet if God wills that it continue
- 2335
- 02:19:48,797 --> 02:19:51,132
- until all the wealth piled
- 2336
- 02:19:51,216 --> 02:19:54,343
- by the bondman's 250 years
- 2337
- 02:19:54,428 --> 02:19:57,472
- of unrequited toil shall be sunk
- 2338
- 02:19:58,807 --> 02:20:02,894
- and until every drop of blood
- drawn with the lash
- 2339
- 02:20:02,978 --> 02:20:06,647
- shall be paid by another
- drawn with the sword
- 2340
- 02:20:07,941 --> 02:20:10,318
- as was said 3,000 years ago,
- 2341
- 02:20:10,402 --> 02:20:12,612
- so still it must be said,
- 2342
- 02:20:13,489 --> 02:20:15,323
- "The judgments of the Lord"
- 2343
- 02:20:16,241 --> 02:20:20,620
- "are true and righteous altogether."
- 2344
- 02:20:26,335 --> 02:20:28,044
- With malice toward none,
- 2345
- 02:20:30,255 --> 02:20:32,298
- with charity for all,
- 2346
- 02:20:33,967 --> 02:20:35,676
- with firmness in the right,
- 2347
- 02:20:35,761 --> 02:20:38,054
- as God gives us to see the right,
- 2348
- 02:20:38,138 --> 02:20:41,307
- let us strive on to finish
- the work we are in,
- 2349
- 02:20:42,059 --> 02:20:44,393
- to bind up the nation's wounds,
- 2350
- 02:20:45,270 --> 02:20:46,729
- to care
- 2351
- 02:20:47,064 --> 02:20:49,398
- for him who shall have borne the battle
- 2352
- 02:20:50,692 --> 02:20:52,610
- and for his widow
- 2353
- 02:20:53,237 --> 02:20:54,487
- and his orphan,
- 2354
- 02:20:56,240 --> 02:21:00,409
- to do all which may achieve and cherish
- 2355
- 02:21:01,578 --> 02:21:06,207
- a just and a lasting peace
- among ourselves
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