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(THUNDER RUMBLING)
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(MEN CLAMORING)
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(YELLING)
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(SCREAMING)
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(GROANING)
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MAN: Some of us was
in the Second Kansas Colored.
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We fought the Rebs at
Jenkins' Ferry last April
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just after they killed every Negro soldier
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they captured at Poison Springs.
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So at Jenkins' Ferry,
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we decided warn't takin'
no Reb prisoners.
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And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive.
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The ones of us that didn't die that day,
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we joined up with
the 116th U.S. Colored, sir,
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from Camp Nelson, Kentucky.
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LINCOLN: What's your name, soldier?
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Private. Harold Green, sir.
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I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir.
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Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry.
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We're waiting over there.
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We're leaving our horses behind
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and shipping outwith the 24th Infantry
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for the assault next week on Wilmington.
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LINCOLN: How long
have you been a soldier?
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Two years, sir.
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LINCOLN: The Second Kansas
Colored Infantry,
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they fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry.
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That's right, sir.
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They killed
a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir.
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They were very brave.
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And making $3 less each month
than white soldiers.
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Us Second Kansas boys...
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Another $3 subtracted
from our pay for our uniforms.
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That was true, yes sir,
but that's changed.
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Equal pay now, but still
no commissioned Negro officers.
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LINCOLN: I'm aware of that,
Corporal Clark.
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Yes, sir.
That's good that you're aware, sir...
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Do you think the Wilmington attack...
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Now that white people
have accustomed themselves
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to seeing Negro men with guns
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fighting on their behalf,
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and now that they can tolerate
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Negro soldiers getting equal pay
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maybe in a few years,
they can abide the idea
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of Negro lieutenants and captains.
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In fifty years, maybe a Negro colonel.
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In a hundred years, the vote.
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What will you do after the war,
Corporal Clark?
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Work, sir.
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- Hm.
- Perhaps you'll hire me.
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Perhaps I will.
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But you should know, sir,
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that I get sick at the smell of boot black
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and I cannot cut hair.
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I've yet to find a man could cut mine
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so that it'd make any difference.
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IRA: You got springy hair
for a white man.
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Yes, I do.
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My last barber hanged himself.
(CHUCKLES)
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And the one before that.
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Left me his scissors in his will.
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(CHUCKLES)
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YOUNG MAN 1: President Lincoln, sir.
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Good evening, boys.
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YOUNG MAN 2: We saw you, and...
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- We were at...
- We was at Gettysburg.
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You boys fight at Gettysburg?
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No, didn't fight there,
we just signed up last month.
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We saw him two years ago
at the cemetery dedication.
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Yeah. We heard you speak...
(STAMMERING) Goddamn.
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Uh, hey, how tall are you, anyway?
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Aw, jeez, shut up.
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Could you hear what I said?
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YOUNG MAN 1: No, sir. Not much.
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It was...
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"Four score and seven years ago,
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our fathers brought forth
from this continent
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a new nation, conceived in liberty
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and dedicated to the proposition
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that all men are created equal."
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That's good. Thank you.
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"Now we are engaged
in a great civil war,
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testing whether that nation
or any nation
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so conceived and so dedicated,
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can long endure."
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(STAMMERING)
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"We are met on a great
battlefield of that war."
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That's good, thank you.
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YOUNG MAN 2: "We come to dedicate
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a portion of that field
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as a final resting place
for those who here
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gave their lives
that that nation might live."
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His uncles, they died
on the second day of fighting.
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I know the last part. It is, uh...
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OFFICER: Company up! Moving out!
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You boys best go
and find your company.
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- And thank you.
- Thank you, sir.
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- God bless you.
- God bless you, too.
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God bless you.
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"That we here highly resolve
that these dead
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shall not have died in vain."
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"That this nation, under God,
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shall have a new birth of freedom
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and that government
of the people, by the people,
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for the people
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shall not perish from the earth."
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LINCOLN: It's nighttime.
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Ship's moved by some terrible power
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at a terrific speed.
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And though it's imperceptible
in the darkness,
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I have an intuition that
we're headed towards a shore.
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No one else seems to be
aboard the vessel.
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I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness.
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"I could be bounded in a nutshell
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and count myself
a king of infinite space
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were it not that I have bad dreams."
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Hmm.
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I reckon it's the speed
that's strange to me.
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I'm used to going at a deliberate pace.
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I should spare you, Molly.
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I shouldn't tell you my dreams.
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I don't want to be spared if you aren't.
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And you spare me nothing.
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Perhaps it's...
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It's the assault on Wilmington Port.
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You dream about the ship
before a battle, usually.
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How's the coconut?
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Beyond description.
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Almost two years, nothing mends.
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Another casualty of the war.
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Who wants to listen to a useless woman
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grouse about her carriage accident?
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- I do.
- Stuff.
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You tell me dreams, that's all.
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I'm your soothsayer.
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That's all I am to you anymore.
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I'm not to be trusted
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even if it was not a carriage accident.
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Even if it was
an attempted assassination.
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It was most probably an accident.
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It was an assassin
whose intended target was you.
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How are the plans coming along
for the big shindy?
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I don't want to talk about parties.
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You don't care about parties.
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Not much, but they're
a necessary hindrance.
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(LINCOLN SIGHS)
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I know.
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I know what it's about, the ship.
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It's not Wilmington Port.
It's not a military campaign.
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It's the amendment to abolish slavery.
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Why else would you force me
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to invite demented radicals
into my home?
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You're going to try to get
the amendment passed
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in the House of Representatives
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before the term ends?
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Before the Inauguration?
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Don't spend too much money
on the flubdubs.
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No one is loved as much as you.
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No one's ever been loved
so much by the people.
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You might do anything now.
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Don't... Don't waste that power
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on an amendment bill
that's sure of defeat.
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Did you remember Robert's
coming home for the reception?
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Mm?
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I knew you'd forget.
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That's the ship you're sailing on,
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the 13th Amendment.
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You needn't tell me I'm right.
I know I am.
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(DOOR CREAKING)
- Oh!
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Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley.
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Well, she needs this
for the grand reception.
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It's slow work.
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Good night.
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Did you tell her a dream?
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(DOOR OPENS)
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(KISSES)
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- Papa.
- Mm-hmm.
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Papa, I want to see Willie.
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LINCOLN: Me, too, Taddie, but we can't.
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TAD: Why not?
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LINCOLN: Willie's gone.
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It's three years now he's gone.
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(PLAYING A MARCH)
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(MUSIC STOPS)
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The part assigned to me
is to raise the flag.
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Which, if there be no fault
in the machinery, I will do.
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And when up
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it'll be for the people to keep it up.
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That's my speech.
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(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
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(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)
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ALL: (SINGING)
♪ We are coming, Father Abraham ♪
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♪ Three hundred thousand more ♪
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♪ From Mississippi's winding stream ♪
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♪ And from New England's shore ♪
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♪ We leave our plow and workshops ♪
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♪ Our wives... ♪♪
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Even if every Republican
in the House votes yes,
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far from guaranteed.
Since when has our party
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unanimously supported anything?
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But say all our fellow Republicans
vote for it.
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We'd still be twenty votes short.
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Only twenty?
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(LAUGHS) "Only twenty?"
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We can find twenty votes.
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Twenty House Democrats
who'll vote to abolish slavery?
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In my opinion...
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To which I always listen.
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- Or pretend to.
- With all three of my ears.
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We'll win the war soon.
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It's inevitable, isn't it?
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Well, it ain't won yet.
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You'll begin your second term
with semi-divine stature.
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Imagine the possibilities
peace will bring.
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Why tarnish your invaluable luster
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with a battle in the House?
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It's a rat's nest in there.
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It's the same gang of
talentless hicks and hacks
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who rejected the amendment
10 months ago.
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We'll lose.
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I like our chances now.
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Well, consider the obstacles
that we'd face.
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The aforementioned two-thirds majority
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needed to pass an amendment.
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We have a Republican majority,
but barely more than 50%.
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Fifty-six.
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We need Democratic support.
There's none to be had.
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Since the House
last voted on the amendment,
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there's been an election.
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Sixty-four Democrats
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lost their House seats in November.
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That's 64 Democrats
looking for work come March.
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I know.
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They don't need to
worry about re-election.
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They can vote however it suits them.
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But we can't buy the vote
for the amendment.
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- It's too important.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
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I said nothing of buying anything.
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We need twenty votes was all I said.
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Start of my second term,
plenty of positions to fill.
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(CROWD OUTSIDE CLAMORING)
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Mr. President, may I present
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Mr. and Mrs. Jolly
who've come from Missouri...
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From Jeff City, President.
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Mr. Jolly.
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Ma'am.
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And this here by the fire
is Secretary of State Seward.
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(DOOR CLOSES)
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Jeff City?
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I heard tell once
of a Jefferson City lawyer
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who had a parrot
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that'd wake him
each morning, crying out,
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"Today is the day the world shall end,
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as scripture has foretold."
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And, uh, one day
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the lawyer shot him,
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for the sake of peace and quiet,
I presume.
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Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least,
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his prophecy.
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There's only one toll booth in Jeff City,
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to the southwest
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and this man
Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla
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been in illegal possession
for near two yar
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since your man General Schofield
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set him up there.
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But President Monroe give that toll gate
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to my grandpap
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and Quincy Adams
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(CLEARS THROAT) give my pap a letter
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saying it's our'n for keeps.
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Mrs. Jolly got the...
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Show Mr. Lincoln
the Quincy Adams letter.
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That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly.
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Just tell me what you want from me.
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(COUGHS)
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Mr. Jolly's emphysema
don't care for cigars.
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Madame, do you know
about the proposed
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13th Amendment of the Constitution?
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Yes, sir, everybody knows of it.
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The President favors it.
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- Do you?
- We do.
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You know that it abolishes slavery?
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Yes, sir, I know it.
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And is that why you favor it?
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What I favor is ending the war.
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Once we do away with slavery,
the Rebs'll quit fighting
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since slavery's what they're fighting for.
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Mr. Lincoln, you always says so.
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With the amendment, slavery's ended.
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And they'll give up.
The war can finish then.
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If the war finished first,
before we end slavery...
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President Lincoln
says the war won't stop
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unless we finish slavery.
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But if it did.
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The South is exhausted.
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If they run out of bullets and men
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would you still want your...
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Who's your Representative?
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Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton.
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"Beanpole" Burton.
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I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir.
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A Republican,
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undecided on the question
of the amendment, I believe.
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Perhaps you could call on him
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and inform him of your enthusiasm.
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Yeah.
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SEWARD: Madame.
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If the Rebels surrendered next week
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would you, at the end of this month
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want Congressman Burton to vote
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for the 13th Amendment?
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If that was how it was,
no more war and all
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I reckon Mr. Jolly
much prefer not to have
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Congress pass the amendment.
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SEWARD: Hmm. And, uh
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why is that?
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Niggers.
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If he don't have to
let some Alabama coon
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come up to Missouri
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steal his chickens and his job,
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we'd much prefer that.
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The people.
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I begin to see why
you're in such a great hurry
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to put it through.
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Would you let me study this letter, sir,
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about the toll booth?
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Come back to me in the morning
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and we'll consider what the law says.
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You be sure to
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visit Beanpole.
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Tell him that you support
passage of the amendment
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as a military necessity.
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NICOLAY: Thank you.
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Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment.
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(CROWD CLAMORING)
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(DOOR CLOSES)
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If procuring votes
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with offers of employment
is what you intend
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I'll fetch a friend from Albany
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who can supply the skulky men
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gifted at this kind of shady work
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and spare me the indignity
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of actually speaking to Democrats.
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Spare you the exposure and liability.
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(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
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Pardon me, that's a distress signal
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which I am bound,
by solemn oath, to respond to.
348
00:19:48,487 --> 00:19:50,207
Tom Pendel took away
the glass camera plates
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of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over
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because Tom says Mama says
they're too distressing.
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You had nightmares all night long.
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I'll have worse nightmares
if you don't let me look
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at the plates again.
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00:20:00,432 --> 00:20:01,672
Perhaps.
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00:20:03,535 --> 00:20:05,310
You can't afford a single defection
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from anyone in the party.
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Not even a single Republican
absent when they vote.
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00:20:09,274 --> 00:20:11,481
You know who you've got to see.
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Send over to Blair House.
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00:20:18,784 --> 00:20:22,596
Ask Preston Blair
can I call on him around 5:00.
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00:20:23,222 --> 00:20:24,667
God help you.
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God alone knows
what he'll ask you to give him.
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If the Blairs tell them to,
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no Republican will balk
at voting for the amendment.
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00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,345
No conservative Republican
is what you mean.
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All Republicans
ought to be conservative.
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I founded this party,
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in my own goddamn home, to be a
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conservative anti-slavery party,
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not a hobbyhorse for
goddamn radical abolitionists.
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Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy.
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You'll frighten the child.
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You need us to keep
the conservative side
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of the party in the traces
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while you diddle the radicals
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and bundle up
with Thaddeus Stevens's gang!
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00:20:58,090 --> 00:20:59,398
You need our help!
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00:20:59,524 --> 00:21:01,026
Yes, sir, I do.
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00:21:01,293 --> 00:21:02,704
Well, what do we get?
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Whoa! Blunt!
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Your manners, Monty,
must be why Mr. Lincoln
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pushed you out of his Cabinet.
383
00:21:09,601 --> 00:21:11,080
- I wasn't pushed!
- Oh, of course you weren't.
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He was pushed out to
placate the damn radicals!
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00:21:12,771 --> 00:21:17,083
- I agreed to resign.
- Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy.
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00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:22,384
Oh. You don't mind, boy, do you?
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00:21:22,714 --> 00:21:24,557
He spends his days with soldiers.
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They taught me a song.
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Did they? (LAUGHS)
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Soldiers know all manner of songs.
391
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,102
How's your brother Bob?
392
00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:34,363
He's at school now, but he's coming
393
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to visit in four days for the shindy.
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At school. Ain't that fine?
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00:21:38,730 --> 00:21:40,232
Good he's not in the Army.
396
00:21:40,332 --> 00:21:42,209
He wants to be,
but Mama said he cannot.
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Dangerous life, soldiering.
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00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,216
Your mama is wise
to keep him clean out of that.
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00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:50,446
Now, your daddy knows that what I want
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in return for all the help I can give him
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is to go down to Richmond,
like he said I could
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00:21:56,348 --> 00:21:58,589
as soon as Savannah fell
403
00:21:59,117 --> 00:22:01,119
and talk to Jefferson Davis.
404
00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:04,100
Now give me terms
I can offer to Jefferson Davis
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00:22:04,356 --> 00:22:06,632
to start negotiating for peace.
406
00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:07,860
He'll talk to me.
407
00:22:08,093 --> 00:22:10,505
Conservative members of your party
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00:22:10,629 --> 00:22:14,236
want you to listen
to overtures from Richmond.
409
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,336
That above all!
410
00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:20,309
They'll vote for this rash
and dangerous amendment
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00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:23,784
only if every other possibility
is exhausted.
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00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:26,913
Our Republicans ain't abolitionists.
413
00:22:27,546 --> 00:22:30,493
We can't tell our people
they can vote yes
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00:22:30,716 --> 00:22:31,922
on abolishing slavery
415
00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:35,021
unless at the same time we can tell them
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00:22:35,287 --> 00:22:38,029
that you're seeking a negotiated peace.
417
00:22:46,231 --> 00:22:48,939
Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond.
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00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:50,805
Get him drunk so he can sleep.
419
00:22:50,902 --> 00:22:52,279
Yes, ma'am.
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00:22:52,804 --> 00:22:54,181
Here, Daddy.
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00:22:54,639 --> 00:22:55,674
Oh.
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00:22:55,974 --> 00:22:57,954
- Thank you.
- Yes, sir, all right.
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00:22:58,543 --> 00:22:59,647
Where's my hat?
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00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:01,349
Leo has your hat.
425
00:23:01,546 --> 00:23:02,786
All right?
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00:23:04,249 --> 00:23:05,728
Go make peace.
427
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:20,232
Thunder forth, God of War.
428
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:25,814
We'll commence our assault
on Wilmington from the sea.
429
00:23:29,508 --> 00:23:30,816
Why is this burnt?
430
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:33,313
Was the boy playing with it?
431
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,653
It got took by a breeze
several nights back.
432
00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:37,385
This is an official War Department map.
433
00:23:37,716 --> 00:23:39,320
And the entire Cabinet's waiting
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00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:40,488
to hear what it portends.
435
00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:41,620
WELLES: A bombardment.
436
00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:45,062
From the largest fleet
the Navy has ever assembled.
437
00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:47,568
Old Neptune, shake thy hoary locks!
438
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:49,668
Fifty-eight ships are under way,
439
00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:52,071
of every tonnage and firing range.
440
00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:54,471
STANTON: We'll keep up
a steady barrage.
441
00:23:55,033 --> 00:23:56,313
Our first target is Fort Fisher.
442
00:23:56,401 --> 00:23:58,039
It defends Wilmington Port.
443
00:23:58,170 --> 00:24:00,081
SPEED: A steady barrage?
444
00:24:00,739 --> 00:24:02,741
A hundred shells a minute.
445
00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:04,877
Till they surrender.
446
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,953
- Dear God.
(ALL MURMURING)
447
00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,419
LINCOLN: Wilmington's
their last open seaport, therefore...
448
00:24:10,549 --> 00:24:13,155
Wilmington falls, Richmond falls after.
449
00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:16,933
And the war is done.
450
00:24:18,089 --> 00:24:19,363
MEN: Hear, hear!
451
00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:21,495
Then why, if I might ask
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00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:22,833
are we not concentrating
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00:24:22,928 --> 00:24:25,067
the nation's attention on Wilmington?
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00:24:25,197 --> 00:24:27,507
Why, instead, are we
reading in the Herald
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00:24:28,266 --> 00:24:29,574
that the anti-slavery amendment
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00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:32,682
is being precipitated onto
the House floor for debate?
457
00:24:32,871 --> 00:24:33,872
Because your eagerness,
458
00:24:33,972 --> 00:24:35,610
in what seems an unwarranted intrusion
459
00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:38,277
of the executive into
legislative prerogatives,
460
00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:40,219
is compelling it to what's...
461
00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:43,287
To what's likely to be
its premature demise.
462
00:24:43,415 --> 00:24:44,393
MEN: Hear, hear!
463
00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:46,087
You signed
the Emancipation Proclamation.
464
00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:47,196
You've done all that could be done.
465
00:24:47,285 --> 00:24:48,525
The Emancipation Proclamation's
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merely a war measure.
After the war, the courts...
467
00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:52,462
When Edward Bates
was Attorney General,
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00:24:52,591 --> 00:24:53,763
he felt confident enough
to let you sign it!
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00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:55,894
Different lawyers, different opinions.
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00:24:55,994 --> 00:24:58,474
It frees slaves
as a military exigent. Not...
471
00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:02,237
I don't recall Edward Bates
being any too certain about
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00:25:02,634 --> 00:25:05,046
the legality of my proclamation.
473
00:25:06,638 --> 00:25:08,413
Just it wasn't downright criminal.
474
00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,986
(ALL CHUCKLING)
475
00:25:10,442 --> 00:25:12,251
Somewheres in between.
476
00:25:13,812 --> 00:25:14,790
Mm.
477
00:25:15,914 --> 00:25:18,622
Back when I rode
the legal circuit in Illinois,
478
00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:21,060
I defended a woman from Metamora
479
00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:22,927
named Melissa Goings.
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00:25:23,822 --> 00:25:25,768
Seventy-seven years old.
481
00:25:26,491 --> 00:25:29,563
They said she'd murdered
her husband. He was 83.
482
00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:32,137
He was choking her
483
00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:35,969
and she grabbed ahold
of a stick of firewood
484
00:25:36,101 --> 00:25:38,672
and fractured his skull and he died.
485
00:25:39,838 --> 00:25:41,647
In his will, he wrote,
486
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,783
(CHUCKLES)
487
00:25:43,942 --> 00:25:46,115
"I expect she has killed me."
488
00:25:46,511 --> 00:25:48,513
(ALL LAUGHING)
489
00:25:49,848 --> 00:25:52,488
"If I get over it, I will have revenge."
490
00:25:52,817 --> 00:25:54,262
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
491
00:25:57,956 --> 00:25:59,867
No one was keen to see her convicted,
492
00:25:59,991 --> 00:26:02,198
he was that kind of husband.
493
00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:04,599
I asked the prosecuting attorney
494
00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:07,870
if I might have a short conference
with my client.
495
00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:11,206
She and I went into a room
in the courthouse,
496
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,178
but I alone emerged.
497
00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:15,378
The window in the room
was found to be wide open.
498
00:26:15,507 --> 00:26:19,045
It was believed the old lady
may have climbed out of it.
499
00:26:20,812 --> 00:26:22,485
(CHUCKLING) I told the bailiff,
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00:26:23,315 --> 00:26:24,350
right before I left her in the room
501
00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:25,517
she asked me where she could get
502
00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:28,460
a good drink of water,
and I told her, Tennessee.
503
00:26:28,553 --> 00:26:30,032
(MEN LAUGHING)
504
00:26:31,323 --> 00:26:33,860
Mrs. Goings was seen no more
in Metamora.
505
00:26:33,992 --> 00:26:36,165
Enough justice had been done.
506
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,235
They even forgave
the bondsman her bail.
507
00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:41,677
USHER: I'm afraid I don't see...
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00:26:41,766 --> 00:26:43,211
I decided
509
00:26:44,502 --> 00:26:47,506
that the Constitution
gives me war powers
510
00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:49,981
but no one knows just exactly
511
00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:52,077
what those powers are.
512
00:26:53,011 --> 00:26:54,149
Some say they don't exist.
513
00:26:54,245 --> 00:26:55,883
I don't know. I decided
514
00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:58,221
I needed them to exist to uphold my oath
515
00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,557
to protect the Constitution.
516
00:27:00,852 --> 00:27:02,525
Which I decided meant I could take
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00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:04,498
the Rebels' slaves from them
518
00:27:04,589 --> 00:27:06,933
as property confiscated in war.
519
00:27:07,525 --> 00:27:09,664
That might recommend
to suspicion that I agree
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00:27:09,761 --> 00:27:11,001
with the Rebs that their slaves
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00:27:11,029 --> 00:27:12,099
are property in the first place.
522
00:27:12,230 --> 00:27:14,437
Of course, I don't. Never have.
523
00:27:15,867 --> 00:27:17,403
I'm glad to see any man free,
524
00:27:17,535 --> 00:27:19,708
and if calling a man property
525
00:27:19,804 --> 00:27:21,078
or war contraband
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00:27:21,206 --> 00:27:24,415
does the trick,
why I caught at the opportunity.
527
00:27:25,410 --> 00:27:28,050
Now here's where it gets truly slippery.
528
00:27:28,413 --> 00:27:31,189
I use the law allowing for the seizure
529
00:27:31,282 --> 00:27:32,352
of property in a war
530
00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:33,895
knowing it applies only to the property
531
00:27:33,985 --> 00:27:36,625
of governments and citizens
of belligerent nations.
532
00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:39,031
Well, the South ain't a nation.
533
00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:41,795
That's why I can't negotiate with them.
534
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,736
So if, in fact, the Negroes are property,
535
00:27:44,829 --> 00:27:46,103
according to the law,
536
00:27:46,231 --> 00:27:48,108
have I the right to take
the Rebels' property
537
00:27:48,233 --> 00:27:50,042
from them, if I insist they're rebels only
538
00:27:50,135 --> 00:27:53,082
and not citizens of a belligerent country?
539
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:54,817
And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't
540
00:27:54,939 --> 00:27:57,715
our actual Southern states in rebellion
541
00:27:58,243 --> 00:28:00,587
but only the rebels living in those states,
542
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:03,990
the laws of which states remain in force.
543
00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:08,124
"The laws of which states
remain in force."
544
00:28:08,253 --> 00:28:10,373
That means that since it's
states' laws that determine
545
00:28:10,455 --> 00:28:12,901
whether Negroes can be sold as slaves,
546
00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:14,470
as property,
547
00:28:14,926 --> 00:28:17,304
the federal government
doesn't have a say in that.
548
00:28:17,429 --> 00:28:18,999
At least not yet.
549
00:28:19,631 --> 00:28:22,840
Then Negroes in those states
are slaves,
550
00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:23,945
hence property,
551
00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:26,174
hence my war powers
allow me to confiscate them
552
00:28:26,304 --> 00:28:28,511
as such, so I confiscate them.
553
00:28:29,174 --> 00:28:30,778
But if I'm a respecter of states' laws,
554
00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:32,252
how then can I legally free them
555
00:28:32,343 --> 00:28:34,619
with my Proclamation as I done?
556
00:28:35,513 --> 00:28:37,857
Unless I'm canceling states' laws?
557
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:44,958
I felt the war demanded it.
558
00:28:45,857 --> 00:28:47,598
My oath demanded it.
559
00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:50,329
I felt right with myself,
560
00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:52,703
and I hoped it was legal to do it.
561
00:28:52,831 --> 00:28:54,435
I'm hoping still.
562
00:28:56,234 --> 00:29:00,205
Two years ago, I proclaimed
these people emancipated.
563
00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:04,647
"Then, thenceforward and forever free."
564
00:29:06,377 --> 00:29:08,118
Now let's say the courts
decide I had no authority
565
00:29:08,213 --> 00:29:10,784
to do it. They might well decide that.
566
00:29:11,182 --> 00:29:12,957
Say there's no amendment
abolishing slavery,
567
00:29:13,051 --> 00:29:14,496
say it's after the war
568
00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:16,532
and I can no longer use my war powers
569
00:29:16,654 --> 00:29:18,395
to just ignore the courts' decisions
570
00:29:18,523 --> 00:29:20,969
like I sometimes felt I had to do.
571
00:29:21,059 --> 00:29:24,563
Might those people I freed
be ordered back into slavery?
572
00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:29,705
That's why I'd like to get
573
00:29:29,834 --> 00:29:31,814
the 13th Amendment through the House,
574
00:29:31,903 --> 00:29:34,008
on its way to ratification by the states.
575
00:29:34,105 --> 00:29:35,812
Wrap the whole slavery thing up,
576
00:29:35,907 --> 00:29:38,683
forever and aye,
as soon as I'm able. Now!
577
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:40,222
End of this month.
578
00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,018
And I'd like you to stand behind me
579
00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:44,923
like my Cabinet's most always done.
580
00:29:53,258 --> 00:29:55,033
As the preacher said,
581
00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:58,067
"I could write shorter sermons,
582
00:29:58,263 --> 00:30:01,073
but once I start, I get too lazy to stop."
583
00:30:01,199 --> 00:30:02,234
(MEN CHUCKLING)
584
00:30:06,404 --> 00:30:08,008
It seems to me, sir, you're describing
585
00:30:08,106 --> 00:30:10,017
precisely the sort of dictator
586
00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:11,849
the Democrats
have been howling about.
587
00:30:12,043 --> 00:30:13,852
SPEED: Dictators
aren't susceptible to law.
588
00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,424
USHER: Neither is he.
He just said as much.
589
00:30:15,547 --> 00:30:17,220
Ignoring the courts?
Twisting meanings?
590
00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:19,226
What reins him in from... From...
591
00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:21,797
Well, the people do that, I suppose.
592
00:30:23,087 --> 00:30:25,533
I signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
593
00:30:25,623 --> 00:30:28,604
what, a year and a half
before my second election?
594
00:30:28,726 --> 00:30:30,467
I felt I was within my power to do it,
595
00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:34,042
however, I also felt that
I might be wrong about that.
596
00:30:34,265 --> 00:30:35,369
I knew the people would tell me.
597
00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,104
I gave them a year and a half
to think about it,
598
00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:38,543
and they re-elected me.
599
00:30:38,636 --> 00:30:40,479
And come February the first,
600
00:30:40,605 --> 00:30:43,381
I intend to sign the 13th Amendment!
601
00:30:44,242 --> 00:30:45,220
(PEN CLATTERS ON TABLE)
602
00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:50,083
(CROWD CLAMORING)
603
00:30:53,284 --> 00:30:54,262
(DOOR CLOSES)
604
00:30:54,752 --> 00:30:56,993
Well, Mr. Representative Ashley.
605
00:30:57,655 --> 00:30:59,157
Tell us the news from the Hill.
606
00:30:59,290 --> 00:31:00,291
ASHLEY: Ah, well, the news...
607
00:31:00,425 --> 00:31:02,405
Why, for instance, is this thus,
608
00:31:02,493 --> 00:31:04,302
and what is the reason
for this thusness?
609
00:31:04,429 --> 00:31:07,000
James, we want you to bring
the anti-slavery amendment
610
00:31:07,131 --> 00:31:08,109
to the floor for debate,
611
00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:09,644
- immediately.
- Excuse me, what?
612
00:31:10,101 --> 00:31:12,479
You are the amendment's manager,
are you not?
613
00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:13,776
I am, of course, but...
614
00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:16,648
Then we're counting
on robust radical support
615
00:31:16,774 --> 00:31:18,412
so tell Mr. Stevens we expect him
616
00:31:18,509 --> 00:31:19,749
to put his back into it.
617
00:31:19,844 --> 00:31:20,914
It's not going to be easy, but...
618
00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:22,582
It's impossible.
619
00:31:23,114 --> 00:31:24,422
No. I am sorry, no.
620
00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:27,826
We can't organize anything
immediately in the House.
621
00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:29,427
I have been canvassing the Democrats
622
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:30,521
since the election,
623
00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:32,100
in case any of them have softened
624
00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:33,863
after they got walloped, but
625
00:31:33,992 --> 00:31:35,699
they have stiffened,
if anything, Mr. Secretary.
626
00:31:35,827 --> 00:31:36,931
There aren't nearly enough votes.
627
00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:39,030
We're Whalers, Mr. Ashley.
628
00:31:41,532 --> 00:31:45,480
Whalers? As in, uh... Whales?
629
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,948
We've been chasing this whale
for a long time.
630
00:31:48,539 --> 00:31:50,018
And we finally placed a harpoon
631
00:31:50,141 --> 00:31:51,176
in the monster's back.
632
00:31:51,309 --> 00:31:53,289
It's in, James. It's in.
633
00:31:53,411 --> 00:31:55,982
We finish the deed now. We can't wait.
634
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,323
Or with one flop of his tail,
he'll smash the boat
635
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:01,522
and send us all to eternity.
636
00:32:01,686 --> 00:32:03,962
On the 31st of this month, of this year,
637
00:32:04,055 --> 00:32:06,365
put the amendment up for a vote.
638
00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:09,866
Whalers?
639
00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:11,129
That's what he said.
640
00:32:11,229 --> 00:32:13,869
The man's never been near
a whale ship in his life.
641
00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:17,546
Withdraw radical support.
642
00:32:18,403 --> 00:32:20,144
Force him to abandon this scheme,
643
00:32:20,238 --> 00:32:21,979
whatever he's up to.
644
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:25,186
(STAMMERING) He drags his feet
about everything,
645
00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:27,313
Lincoln... Why this urgency?
646
00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,417
We got it through the Senate
without difficulty
647
00:32:29,547 --> 00:32:30,719
because we had the numbers.
648
00:32:30,848 --> 00:32:33,351
Come December, you'll have
the same in the House.
649
00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:35,411
The amendment will be
the easy work of 10 minutes.
650
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:36,973
He's using the threat of the amendment
651
00:32:37,055 --> 00:32:39,055
to frighten the Rebels
into an immediate surrender.
652
00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:40,832
I imagine we'd rejoice to see that.
653
00:32:41,025 --> 00:32:42,902
Will you rejoice
when the Southern states
654
00:32:43,027 --> 00:32:44,665
have rejoined the Union pell-mell,
655
00:32:44,762 --> 00:32:46,708
as Lincoln intends them to,
and one by one,
656
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,278
each refuses to ratify the amendment?
657
00:32:48,533 --> 00:32:50,376
If we pass it, which we won't.
658
00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:53,677
Why are we cooperating with him?
659
00:32:54,539 --> 00:32:57,281
We all know what he's doing
and we all know what he'll do.
660
00:32:57,408 --> 00:33:00,548
We can't offer up abolition's
best legal prayer
661
00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:02,080
to his games and tricks.
662
00:33:02,213 --> 00:33:03,692
He said he'd welcome the South back
663
00:33:03,781 --> 00:33:04,981
with all its slaves in chains.
664
00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:07,427
Three years ago he said that,
to calm the border states.
665
00:33:07,552 --> 00:33:09,088
STEVENS: I don't!
666
00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:14,034
You said we all know
what he'll do. I don't know.
667
00:33:14,125 --> 00:33:15,405
You know he isn't to be trusted.
668
00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:16,801
Trust? Oh.
669
00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:18,531
I'm sorry, I was under
the misapprehension
670
00:33:18,629 --> 00:33:21,303
that your chosen profession was politics.
671
00:33:21,432 --> 00:33:23,776
I never trusted the President,
never trusted anyone,
672
00:33:23,901 --> 00:33:25,608
but hasn't he surprised you?
673
00:33:25,737 --> 00:33:27,876
ASA: No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn't.
674
00:33:27,972 --> 00:33:30,384
(SIGHS) Nothing surprises you, Asa,
675
00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:32,947
therefore nothing about you
is surprising.
676
00:33:33,077 --> 00:33:34,818
Perhaps that is why your constituents
677
00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,586
did not re-elect you to the coming term.
678
00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:38,660
(CHUCKLES)
679
00:33:38,983 --> 00:33:40,291
It's late.
680
00:33:40,418 --> 00:33:41,624
I'm old.
681
00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:44,256
I'm going home.
682
00:33:48,159 --> 00:33:50,435
Lincoln, the inveterate dawdler.
683
00:33:50,928 --> 00:33:52,669
Lincoln, the Southerner.
684
00:33:52,797 --> 00:33:55,744
Lincoln, the capitulating compromiser,
685
00:33:56,634 --> 00:33:59,274
our adversary, and
686
00:34:00,104 --> 00:34:03,847
leader of the godforsaken
Republican party.
687
00:34:03,975 --> 00:34:05,147
Our party.
688
00:34:05,276 --> 00:34:08,655
Abraham Lincoln has asked us
to work with him
689
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:12,250
to accomplish the death
of slavery in America.
690
00:34:13,684 --> 00:34:15,857
Retain, even in opposition
691
00:34:17,321 --> 00:34:19,665
your capacity for astonishment.
692
00:34:25,963 --> 00:34:28,443
The President is never
to be mentioned. Nor I.
693
00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,103
You're paid for your discretion.
694
00:34:30,701 --> 00:34:32,141
Hell, you can have that for nothing.
695
00:34:32,203 --> 00:34:34,877
What we need money for
is bribes, to speed things up.
696
00:34:35,006 --> 00:34:36,781
SEWARD: No, nothing strictly illegal.
697
00:34:36,874 --> 00:34:38,547
It's not illegal to bribe Congressmen,
698
00:34:38,676 --> 00:34:40,053
they'd starve otherwise.
699
00:34:40,178 --> 00:34:43,648
I have explained to Mr. Bilbo
and Mr. Latham that
700
00:34:43,748 --> 00:34:45,455
we are offering patronage jobs
701
00:34:45,550 --> 00:34:46,654
to the Dems who vote yes.
702
00:34:47,151 --> 00:34:49,461
- Jobs and nothing more.
- That's correct.
703
00:34:49,654 --> 00:34:50,689
Congressmen come cheap.
704
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:52,995
Few thousand bucks
will buy you all you need.
705
00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,367
The President would be unhappy
to hear you did that.
706
00:34:55,493 --> 00:34:57,871
(CHUCKLES)
Will he be unhappy if we lose?
707
00:34:58,429 --> 00:35:00,466
The money I managed to raise
for this endeavor
708
00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:03,205
is only for your fees,
your food and lodging.
709
00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:05,008
Uh-huh.
710
00:35:05,403 --> 00:35:07,314
If that squirrel-infested attic
711
00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:08,713
you've quartered us in is any measure,
712
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,478
you ain't raised much.
713
00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:11,679
Shall we get to work?
714
00:35:13,778 --> 00:35:15,189
(GAVEL BANGING)
715
00:35:15,279 --> 00:35:17,816
The House recognizes Fernando Wood,
716
00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:19,257
(ALL CLAMORING)
717
00:35:19,383 --> 00:35:22,364
the honorable Representative
from New York.
718
00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:27,569
Estimable colleagues.
719
00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:31,105
Two bloody years ago this month
720
00:35:32,029 --> 00:35:33,030
His Highness,
721
00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,543
King Abraham Africanus the First,
722
00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:37,002
(MEN CLAMORING)
723
00:35:37,101 --> 00:35:39,342
our great usurping Caesar,
724
00:35:39,770 --> 00:35:43,115
violator of habeas corpus
and freedom of the press,
725
00:35:43,241 --> 00:35:44,322
abuser of states' rights...
726
00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:47,254
If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,
727
00:35:47,378 --> 00:35:49,221
he'd have had your empty head
728
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:50,951
impaled on a pike!
729
00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:53,352
(MEN CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
730
00:35:53,784 --> 00:35:55,821
And the country better for it!
731
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,532
Radical Republican autocrat,
732
00:35:58,923 --> 00:36:01,870
ruling by fiat and martial law,
733
00:36:02,627 --> 00:36:05,233
affixed his name to his heinous and illicit
734
00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:07,434
Emancipation Proclamation
735
00:36:07,732 --> 00:36:10,645
promising it would hasten
the end of the war,
736
00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:14,079
which yet rages on and on.
737
00:36:15,673 --> 00:36:17,778
He claimed, as tyrants do
738
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:19,980
that the war's emergencies
739
00:36:20,111 --> 00:36:22,591
permitted him to turn our army into...
740
00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:26,385
The New York delegation is
looking decidedly uninspired.
741
00:36:26,951 --> 00:36:30,125
...and radical Republicanism's
abolitionist fanaticism!
742
00:36:30,254 --> 00:36:31,756
(MEN CLAMORING)
743
00:36:34,258 --> 00:36:36,499
His Emancipation Proclamation
744
00:36:36,928 --> 00:36:39,499
has obliterated millions of dollars...
745
00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:42,574
Over in Pennsylvania,
746
00:36:42,667 --> 00:36:45,113
who's the sweaty man eating his thumb?
747
00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:47,615
LATHAM: Unknown to me.
Seems jumpy.
748
00:36:48,339 --> 00:36:49,841
Perhaps he'll jump.
749
00:36:50,808 --> 00:36:52,344
(MEN CLAMORING)
750
00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:56,852
But all that was not enough
for this dictator,
751
00:36:56,981 --> 00:36:59,154
who now seeks to insinuate...
752
00:36:59,283 --> 00:37:00,421
Jesus.
753
00:37:01,118 --> 00:37:02,654
When's this son of liberty
sum-a-bitch gonna sit down?
754
00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:04,948
John Ellis is gonna break
his watch if he doesn't stop.
755
00:37:06,123 --> 00:37:09,036
WOOD: We are once again asked, nay
756
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,539
commanded, to consider
a proposed 13th Amendment
757
00:37:12,830 --> 00:37:14,036
(MEN CLAMORING)
758
00:37:14,165 --> 00:37:16,441
which, if passed,
shall set at immediate liberty
759
00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:18,275
four million coloreds while manacling
760
00:37:18,369 --> 00:37:20,679
the limbs of the white race in America.
761
00:37:20,805 --> 00:37:22,443
If it is passed,
762
00:37:23,374 --> 00:37:24,853
but it shall not pass!
763
00:37:24,976 --> 00:37:26,097
(MEN CHEERING AND CLAMORING)
764
00:37:30,648 --> 00:37:31,626
What's more interesting
765
00:37:31,716 --> 00:37:32,694
is how dismal and disgruntled
766
00:37:32,817 --> 00:37:34,160
Mr. Yeaman appears.
767
00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:37,128
WOOD: Every member of this House...
768
00:37:37,388 --> 00:37:38,526
He should be cheering right now.
769
00:37:38,656 --> 00:37:40,158
Looks like he ate a bad oyster.
770
00:37:40,258 --> 00:37:42,397
WOOD: ...Party and
the constituents it serves
771
00:37:42,526 --> 00:37:43,664
shall oppose...
772
00:37:44,395 --> 00:37:47,137
Point of order,
Mr. Speaker, if you please.
773
00:37:47,231 --> 00:37:48,972
Mr. Speaker, I still have the floor.
774
00:37:49,066 --> 00:37:50,136
And the gentleman from Pennsylvania
775
00:37:50,234 --> 00:37:51,474
is out of order!
776
00:37:51,569 --> 00:37:53,412
When will Mr. Wood conclude
his interminable gabble?
777
00:37:53,537 --> 00:37:55,642
Some of us breathe oxygen
778
00:37:56,173 --> 00:37:58,983
and we find the mephitic
fumes of his oratory
779
00:37:59,076 --> 00:38:02,353
a lethal challenge
to our pulmonary capabilities!
780
00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:04,016
(MEN LAUGHING)
781
00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:08,029
We shall oppose this amendment,
782
00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,656
and any legislation that
so affronts natural law
783
00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:13,363
insulting to God as to man!
784
00:38:13,591 --> 00:38:15,867
Congress must never declare equal
785
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,201
those whom God created unequal!
786
00:38:18,296 --> 00:38:19,274
(MEN CHEERING)
787
00:38:23,734 --> 00:38:26,510
Slavery is the only insult to natural law,
788
00:38:26,604 --> 00:38:28,379
you fatuous nincompoop!
789
00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:29,553
(MEN LAUGHING AND CHEERING)
790
00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:32,281
Order!
791
00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,283
Procedure, Mr. Speaker.
792
00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:37,025
Mr. Wood has the floor.
793
00:38:37,114 --> 00:38:38,457
Instruct us,
794
00:38:38,582 --> 00:38:40,061
oh, Great Commoner.
795
00:38:40,151 --> 00:38:42,563
What is unnatural, in your opinion?
796
00:38:42,953 --> 00:38:44,933
Niggrahs casting ballots?
797
00:38:45,056 --> 00:38:46,592
Niggrah representatives?
798
00:38:46,724 --> 00:38:48,704
Is that natural, Stevens?
799
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,639
Intermarriage?
800
00:38:50,761 --> 00:38:51,796
(MEN CLAMORING)
801
00:38:51,929 --> 00:38:53,931
What violates natural law?
802
00:38:54,131 --> 00:38:56,634
Slavery and you.
803
00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:59,713
Pendleton, you insult God!
804
00:39:01,739 --> 00:39:02,979
You unnatural noise.
805
00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:05,787
(MEN LAUGHING AND CHEERING)
806
00:39:07,912 --> 00:39:10,256
Mr. Colfax, please, use your gavel!
807
00:39:10,581 --> 00:39:11,889
- You are out of order!
- Order in the Cabinet!
808
00:39:11,982 --> 00:39:12,960
ASHLEY: Instruct the Sergeant-at-Arms
809
00:39:13,084 --> 00:39:14,062
to suppress this!
810
00:39:14,151 --> 00:39:15,255
We are in session!
811
00:39:15,386 --> 00:39:17,366
- Please don't encourage this!
(GOAT BLEATS)
812
00:39:17,455 --> 00:39:19,025
Don't encourage this!
813
00:39:19,924 --> 00:39:20,925
(LAUGHS)
814
00:39:24,128 --> 00:39:26,074
You're back! You're back! You're back!
815
00:39:26,163 --> 00:39:27,198
(LAUGHS)
816
00:39:27,298 --> 00:39:29,209
I am. The goat got big.
817
00:39:29,467 --> 00:39:31,777
Help me get one of these to my room.
818
00:39:31,902 --> 00:39:33,745
- She in there?
- She's asleep, probably.
819
00:39:33,838 --> 00:39:35,317
- You need help, sir?
- No, sir.
820
00:39:35,439 --> 00:39:36,417
They went to see Avonia Jones last night
821
00:39:36,507 --> 00:39:37,713
in a play about Israelites.
822
00:39:37,808 --> 00:39:39,549
Could you bring your pa this letter I writ
823
00:39:39,643 --> 00:39:40,883
about my insolvency proceeding?
824
00:39:40,911 --> 00:39:43,050
Deliver your own goddamn petition.
825
00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:44,251
There's a new book. Sam Beckwith
826
00:39:44,348 --> 00:39:45,622
says it's about finches
and finches' beaks,
827
00:39:45,750 --> 00:39:46,728
about how they change.
828
00:39:47,351 --> 00:39:48,386
(WHISPERS) He's here.
829
00:39:48,486 --> 00:39:50,966
He's here! Mrs. Cuthbert, he's here!
830
00:39:51,522 --> 00:39:52,933
- Robbie.
- Hi, Mom.
831
00:39:53,023 --> 00:39:54,331
- Oh, Robbie.
- Hey.
832
00:39:54,458 --> 00:39:55,630
- Robbie.
- Hey.
833
00:39:56,127 --> 00:39:57,128
Oh.
834
00:39:58,028 --> 00:39:59,598
(TAD CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
835
00:39:59,697 --> 00:40:02,007
You're only staying a few days,
Why'd you pack all that?
836
00:40:02,133 --> 00:40:03,737
Well, I don't know how long...
837
00:40:03,834 --> 00:40:05,195
Go tell your father Robert's home.
838
00:40:05,503 --> 00:40:08,074
Mr. Nicolay says Daddy's
secluded with Mr. Blair.
839
00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:09,742
Tell him anyway.
840
00:40:12,109 --> 00:40:13,816
- Did you forget to eat?
(CHUCKLES)
841
00:40:13,944 --> 00:40:15,582
- Exactly like him.
- No.
842
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,690
You'll linger a few days extra
after the reception
843
00:40:18,816 --> 00:40:20,352
before you go back to school.
844
00:40:20,484 --> 00:40:22,486
Well, I don't know
if I'm going to go back...
845
00:40:22,620 --> 00:40:25,829
We'll fatten you up
before you return to Boston.
846
00:40:26,824 --> 00:40:28,861
- All right, Mom.
- All right.
847
00:40:30,294 --> 00:40:31,637
Oh, Robbie.
848
00:40:32,329 --> 00:40:35,139
Jefferson Davis is sending
three delegates.
849
00:40:35,466 --> 00:40:37,673
Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.
850
00:40:38,903 --> 00:40:41,110
Vice President of the Confederacy,
851
00:40:41,205 --> 00:40:42,980
the former Secretary of State
852
00:40:43,073 --> 00:40:45,610
and their Assistant Secretary of War.
853
00:40:46,043 --> 00:40:48,853
They're coming in earnest
to propose peace.
854
00:40:50,714 --> 00:40:53,627
I know this is unwelcome news for you.
855
00:40:54,151 --> 00:40:55,528
Now hear me.
856
00:40:56,754 --> 00:40:59,564
I went to Richmond to talk to traitors.
857
00:41:00,691 --> 00:41:03,228
To smile at and plead with traitors
858
00:41:04,328 --> 00:41:07,138
because it'll be spring in two months.
859
00:41:07,832 --> 00:41:09,675
The roads will be passable,
860
00:41:09,767 --> 00:41:12,008
the spring slaughter commences.
861
00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:15,016
Four bloody springs now.
862
00:41:17,074 --> 00:41:18,712
Think of my Frank,
863
00:41:19,343 --> 00:41:21,550
whom you've taken to your heart.
864
00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:24,523
How you'll blame yourself
if the war takes my son
865
00:41:24,615 --> 00:41:27,095
as it's taken multitudes of sons.
866
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:31,163
Think of all the boys who will die
867
00:41:31,255 --> 00:41:33,201
if you don't make peace.
868
00:41:33,290 --> 00:41:35,201
You must talk with these men.
869
00:41:35,292 --> 00:41:36,669
I intend to, Preston.
870
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,797
In return, I must ask you to support
our push for the amendment...
871
00:41:38,896 --> 00:41:40,500
No, this is not horse trading.
872
00:41:40,598 --> 00:41:41,576
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
873
00:41:41,732 --> 00:41:42,710
Not now!
874
00:41:43,434 --> 00:41:45,243
Bob. I'm sorry.
875
00:41:46,203 --> 00:41:47,204
- Welcome home.
- Thank you, sir.
876
00:41:47,304 --> 00:41:49,409
Looking fit, Robert.
Harvard agrees with you.
877
00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:50,746
- Mr. Blair.
- Fit and rested.
878
00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:53,788
Could you give us a moment,
please, Robert? Thank you.
879
00:41:55,479 --> 00:41:58,619
I will procure your votes for you,
as I promised.
880
00:41:59,550 --> 00:42:02,861
You have always kept your word to me.
881
00:42:04,054 --> 00:42:06,261
Those Southern men are coming.
882
00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:09,934
I beg you, in the name
of gentle Christ, sir.
883
00:42:10,060 --> 00:42:11,061
I understand.
884
00:42:11,161 --> 00:42:12,868
Talk peace with these men.
885
00:42:12,963 --> 00:42:14,772
I understand, Preston.
886
00:42:17,401 --> 00:42:19,244
LATHAM: We have
one abstention so far.
887
00:42:19,336 --> 00:42:20,440
SCHELL: Jacob Graylor.
888
00:42:20,571 --> 00:42:22,573
He'd like to be
Federal Revenue Assessor
889
00:42:22,673 --> 00:42:24,380
for the 5th District of Pennsylvania.
890
00:42:24,842 --> 00:42:26,651
So the total of Representatives
891
00:42:26,777 --> 00:42:29,883
voting three weeks from today
is reduced to 182,
892
00:42:29,980 --> 00:42:31,891
which means 122 yes votes
893
00:42:31,982 --> 00:42:33,962
to reach the requisite
two-thirds of the House.
894
00:42:34,084 --> 00:42:36,724
Assuming all Republicans
vote for the amendment.
895
00:42:39,156 --> 00:42:41,568
Then despite our abstention,
896
00:42:41,659 --> 00:42:43,229
to reach a two-thirds majority,
897
00:42:43,327 --> 00:42:45,068
we remain twenty yeses short.
898
00:42:45,162 --> 00:42:46,163
For which we're seeking
899
00:42:46,297 --> 00:42:48,800
from among 64 lame duck Democrats.
900
00:42:49,266 --> 00:42:53,442
Fully 39 of these we deem
unredeemable no votes.
901
00:42:55,773 --> 00:42:57,810
The kind that hates niggers.
902
00:42:58,275 --> 00:43:00,448
Hates God for makin' niggers.
903
00:43:00,811 --> 00:43:03,587
The Good Lord on high
would despair of their souls.
904
00:43:03,681 --> 00:43:06,753
Thank you for that
pithy explanation, Mr. Bilbo.
905
00:43:06,917 --> 00:43:08,555
We've abandoned these 39 to
906
00:43:08,652 --> 00:43:10,290
the devil that possesses them.
907
00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:11,399
We would...
908
00:43:12,756 --> 00:43:16,226
The remaining lame ducks, on whom
we've been working with a purpose.
909
00:43:17,161 --> 00:43:18,231
Charles Hanson.
910
00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:20,006
Congressman.
911
00:43:21,332 --> 00:43:23,437
My colleagues and I would like
a moment of your time.
912
00:43:23,534 --> 00:43:25,275
I wonder if you've given much thought...
913
00:43:25,936 --> 00:43:27,176
Giles Stuart.
914
00:43:32,543 --> 00:43:34,022
Rather clumsy.
915
00:43:46,557 --> 00:43:48,093
LATHAM: Nelson Merrick.
916
00:43:54,698 --> 00:43:55,699
Homer Benson.
917
00:44:01,705 --> 00:44:03,343
My name is Richard Schell.
918
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:05,852
I wanted you to have a look
at this prospectus here.
919
00:44:07,745 --> 00:44:08,883
And lastly,
920
00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:12,953
Clay Hawkins. Of Ohio.
921
00:44:13,884 --> 00:44:15,989
Tax Collector for the Western Reserve.
922
00:44:16,086 --> 00:44:17,622
That pays handsomely.
923
00:44:17,721 --> 00:44:19,496
Don't just reach
for the highest branches,
924
00:44:19,590 --> 00:44:21,399
they sway in every breeze.
925
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:23,903
Assistant Port Inspector in Morristown
926
00:44:24,028 --> 00:44:25,473
looks like the ticket to me.
927
00:44:25,562 --> 00:44:27,371
Boats, they, they make me sick.
928
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:29,500
So just stand on the dock.
929
00:44:29,833 --> 00:44:32,404
Let the Assistant Assistant
Port Inspector's stomach
930
00:44:32,536 --> 00:44:33,810
go weak.
931
00:44:35,939 --> 00:44:37,714
SEWARD: And, lastly,
Democratic yes vote
932
00:44:37,841 --> 00:44:39,718
number six, Hawkins.
933
00:44:39,843 --> 00:44:40,844
From Ohio.
934
00:44:40,944 --> 00:44:42,014
Six?
935
00:44:42,112 --> 00:44:43,682
Well, thus far.
936
00:44:43,781 --> 00:44:45,852
Plus Graylor's abstention.
937
00:44:46,350 --> 00:44:48,762
- From tiny acorns and so on.
- What did Hawkins get?
938
00:44:48,886 --> 00:44:50,991
Postmaster of the Millersburg
Post Office.
939
00:44:51,088 --> 00:44:52,396
He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?
940
00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:54,730
Well, he wanted Tax Collector
of the Western Reserve.
941
00:44:54,858 --> 00:44:56,978
First term Congressman
who couldn't manage reelection.
942
00:44:57,027 --> 00:44:58,062
I felt it unseemly
943
00:44:58,195 --> 00:44:59,674
and they bargained him down
to Postmaster.
944
00:44:59,763 --> 00:45:01,174
Scatter them over several
rounds of appointments
945
00:45:01,265 --> 00:45:02,710
so no one notices, then burn this ledger,
946
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,837
please, after you're done.
947
00:45:07,905 --> 00:45:10,181
Time for my public opinion bath.
948
00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:11,614
Might as well let them in.
949
00:45:13,577 --> 00:45:15,716
Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis.
950
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:18,282
Thirteen to go.
951
00:45:19,483 --> 00:45:20,962
One last item.
952
00:45:21,485 --> 00:45:23,226
An absurdity, but
953
00:45:24,321 --> 00:45:26,631
my associates report that
among the Representatives
954
00:45:26,757 --> 00:45:29,294
a fantastical rumor's bruited about,
955
00:45:29,827 --> 00:45:32,239
which I immediately disavowed,
956
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:34,732
that you'd allowed
bleary old Preston Blair
957
00:45:34,832 --> 00:45:35,902
to sojourn to Richmond
958
00:45:35,999 --> 00:45:38,036
to invite Jeff Davis
to send commissioners
959
00:45:38,135 --> 00:45:40,706
up to Washington with a peace plan.
960
00:45:44,341 --> 00:45:47,049
I, of course, told them
that you would never.
961
00:45:47,144 --> 00:45:49,954
Not without consulting me, you wouldn't.
962
00:45:50,748 --> 00:45:52,955
Because why on earth would you?
963
00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:21,081
Much obliged.
964
00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:29,179
SEWARD: Why wasn't I consulted?
965
00:47:29,279 --> 00:47:30,758
I'm Secretary of State.
966
00:47:30,914 --> 00:47:34,418
And you informally send
a reactionary dotard to...
967
00:47:35,886 --> 00:47:37,263
What will happen, do you imagine,
968
00:47:37,387 --> 00:47:39,890
when these
peace commissioners arrive?
969
00:47:40,057 --> 00:47:41,058
We'll hear them out.
970
00:47:41,391 --> 00:47:42,836
Oh. Splendid.
971
00:47:43,227 --> 00:47:44,501
And next, the Democrats will invite them
972
00:47:44,595 --> 00:47:46,097
up to hearings on the Hill.
973
00:47:46,230 --> 00:47:48,767
And the newspapers...
Oh, the newspapers.
974
00:47:48,899 --> 00:47:50,276
The newspapers will ask,
975
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,175
"Why risk enraging the Confederacy
976
00:47:52,269 --> 00:47:53,269
over the issue of slavery
977
00:47:53,370 --> 00:47:55,714
when they're here to make peace?"
978
00:47:57,207 --> 00:47:59,744
We'll lose every Democrat we've got,
979
00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:01,478
more than likely
conservative Republicans
980
00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:03,115
will join them, and all our work,
981
00:48:03,247 --> 00:48:05,523
all our preparing the ground for the vote
982
00:48:05,616 --> 00:48:06,754
laid waste for naught.
983
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:08,644
The Blairs promised support
for the amendment
984
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:09,720
if we listen to these people.
985
00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:11,629
Oh, the Blairs promise, do they?
986
00:48:11,755 --> 00:48:12,790
You think they'll keep their promise
987
00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:13,924
once we've heard these delegates
988
00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:15,934
and refused them,
which we will have to do,
989
00:48:16,059 --> 00:48:17,561
since their proposal most certainly
990
00:48:17,661 --> 00:48:18,935
will be predicated on
991
00:48:19,062 --> 00:48:20,598
keeping their slaves!
992
00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:23,234
What hope for
any Democratic votes, Willum,
993
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:25,571
if word gets out that
I've refused a chance
994
00:48:25,669 --> 00:48:27,307
to end the war?
995
00:48:27,771 --> 00:48:29,546
You think word won't get out?
996
00:48:30,574 --> 00:48:32,053
In Washington?
997
00:48:33,810 --> 00:48:35,850
It's either the amendment
or this Confederate peace.
998
00:48:35,946 --> 00:48:37,721
You cannot have both.
999
00:48:38,515 --> 00:48:41,155
"If you can look into the seeds of time,"
1000
00:48:41,985 --> 00:48:45,091
"And say which grain will grow
and which will not,"
1001
00:48:45,188 --> 00:48:46,292
"Speak then to me."
1002
00:48:46,423 --> 00:48:47,959
A disaster. This is a disaster.
1003
00:48:48,091 --> 00:48:50,401
Time is a great thickener
of things, Willum.
1004
00:48:50,494 --> 00:48:52,269
Yes, I suppose it is.
1005
00:48:52,796 --> 00:48:54,798
Actually, I have no idea
what you mean by that.
1006
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,809
Get me 13 votes.
1007
00:48:59,803 --> 00:49:02,113
Them fellas from Richmond
ain't here yet.
1008
00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:03,774
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
1009
00:49:12,482 --> 00:49:14,155
(SHIP HORN BLOWING)
1010
00:49:23,327 --> 00:49:25,671
ROBERT: You drafted
half the men in Boston.
1011
00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:28,606
What do you think
their families think about me?
1012
00:49:28,699 --> 00:49:30,610
The only reason they don't
throw things and spit on me
1013
00:49:30,701 --> 00:49:32,180
is 'cause you're so popular.
1014
00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:36,011
I can't concentrate on,
on British Mercantile Law.
1015
00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:38,278
I don't care about British Mercantile Law.
1016
00:49:40,510 --> 00:49:42,148
I might not even want to be a lawyer.
1017
00:49:43,947 --> 00:49:47,326
It's a sturdy profession.
And a useful one.
1018
00:49:47,417 --> 00:49:52,389
Yes, and I want to be useful,
but now, not afterwards.
1019
00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:54,229
I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade.
1020
00:49:54,358 --> 00:49:55,359
They never fit right.
1021
00:49:55,459 --> 00:49:57,666
The missus will have you
wear them. Don't think...
1022
00:49:57,761 --> 00:49:59,707
You're delaying,
that's your favorite tactic.
1023
00:49:59,796 --> 00:50:01,673
- Be useful...
- You won't tell me no,
1024
00:50:01,765 --> 00:50:03,608
but the war will be over in
a month, and you know it will.
1025
00:50:03,734 --> 00:50:06,340
I've found that prophesying
1026
00:50:07,237 --> 00:50:10,946
is one of life's
less profitable occupations.
1027
00:50:11,074 --> 00:50:12,052
(CHUCKLING)
1028
00:50:12,743 --> 00:50:14,882
Why do some slaves
cost more than others?
1029
00:50:14,978 --> 00:50:16,286
Uh, if they're still young and healthy,
1030
00:50:16,413 --> 00:50:17,915
or if the women can
still conceive, they pay more.
1031
00:50:18,048 --> 00:50:20,688
Put them back in the box, you scoundrel.
1032
00:50:22,152 --> 00:50:24,029
We'll return them to Mr. Gardner's studio
1033
00:50:24,121 --> 00:50:25,623
day after next.
1034
00:50:26,723 --> 00:50:28,464
Be careful with them now.
1035
00:50:29,326 --> 00:50:31,067
These things should have
stayed on the calf.
1036
00:50:31,161 --> 00:50:35,541
When you were a slave,
Mr. Slade, did they beat you?
1037
00:50:35,632 --> 00:50:37,134
I was born a free man.
1038
00:50:37,267 --> 00:50:40,077
Nobody beat me
except I beat them right back.
1039
00:50:40,170 --> 00:50:42,116
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
1040
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:43,217
Mr. Lincoln...
1041
00:50:43,306 --> 00:50:47,254
Mrs. Keckley was a slave.
Ask her if she was beaten.
1042
00:50:47,344 --> 00:50:49,119
TAD: - Were you...
- Tad.
1043
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:50,714
KECKLEY: I was beaten
with a fire shovel
1044
00:50:50,814 --> 00:50:52,088
when I was younger than you.
1045
00:50:52,182 --> 00:50:54,992
You should go to Mrs. Lincoln.
She's in Willie's room.
1046
00:50:56,119 --> 00:50:57,325
She never goes in there.
1047
00:50:57,454 --> 00:51:00,833
The reception line is already
stretching out the door.
1048
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,766
See, I'll be the only man
over 15 and under 65
1049
00:51:05,862 --> 00:51:07,899
in this whole place not in uniform.
1050
00:51:07,998 --> 00:51:09,443
I'm under 15.
1051
00:51:30,153 --> 00:51:32,133
My head hurts so.
1052
00:51:35,625 --> 00:51:38,333
I prayed for death the night Willie died.
1053
00:51:39,529 --> 00:51:42,669
My headaches are how I know
I didn't get my wish.
1054
00:51:45,235 --> 00:51:48,682
How to endure the long afternoon
1055
00:51:48,805 --> 00:51:50,216
and deep into the night.
1056
00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:51,512
I know.
1057
00:51:51,641 --> 00:51:54,781
Trying not to think about him.
How will I manage?
1058
00:51:54,878 --> 00:51:56,721
- Somehow. You will.
- Somehow?
1059
00:51:56,847 --> 00:51:57,825
Oh.
1060
00:51:57,981 --> 00:51:59,961
Somehow. Somehow.
1061
00:52:02,219 --> 00:52:03,630
Every party.
1062
00:52:04,321 --> 00:52:05,561
Every...
1063
00:52:08,658 --> 00:52:09,966
And now
1064
00:52:11,361 --> 00:52:14,240
four years more in this terrible house,
1065
00:52:14,364 --> 00:52:16,139
reproaching us.
1066
00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:19,840
He was a very sick little boy.
1067
00:52:19,936 --> 00:52:22,348
We should have canceled
that reception, shouldn't we?
1068
00:52:22,439 --> 00:52:23,850
We didn't know how sick he was.
1069
00:52:23,940 --> 00:52:25,476
I knew. I knew.
1070
00:52:26,610 --> 00:52:28,920
I saw that night
(VOICE BREAKING) he was dying.
1071
00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:32,424
Three years ago,
the war was going so badly.
1072
00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:35,223
We had to put on a face.
1073
00:52:35,352 --> 00:52:36,831
(VOICE BREAKING)
But I saw Willie was dying.
1074
00:52:36,987 --> 00:52:38,489
Molly...
1075
00:52:38,588 --> 00:52:40,329
(SOBBING) I saw him.
1076
00:52:42,792 --> 00:52:44,271
It's too hard.
1077
00:52:47,931 --> 00:52:48,909
(KISSES)
1078
00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:51,574
Too hard.
1079
00:52:57,307 --> 00:52:58,868
(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(LAUGHING)
1080
00:52:58,942 --> 00:53:01,047
Oh, gracious saints!
1081
00:53:01,144 --> 00:53:02,851
(INDISTINCT)
1082
00:53:13,757 --> 00:53:16,636
She's just ten feet yonder.
I'd like to keep my job.
1083
00:53:16,726 --> 00:53:18,327
- How nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
1084
00:53:18,495 --> 00:53:21,635
Senator Sumner.
It's been much too long.
1085
00:53:21,765 --> 00:53:23,369
"Oh, who can look
on that celestial face..."
1086
00:53:23,466 --> 00:53:24,444
And?
1087
00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:26,047
James Ashley, ma'am.
We've met several times.
1088
00:53:26,136 --> 00:53:27,809
Praise heavens, praise heavens.
1089
00:53:27,938 --> 00:53:30,111
Just when I had abandoned
hope of amusement,
1090
00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:31,480
it's the Chairman of the House Ways
1091
00:53:31,608 --> 00:53:33,485
- and Means Committee.
- Mrs. Lincoln.
1092
00:53:33,944 --> 00:53:36,220
Madame President, if you please.
1093
00:53:36,813 --> 00:53:38,292
(LAUGHS)
1094
00:53:38,415 --> 00:53:40,053
Don't convene another subcommittee
1095
00:53:40,150 --> 00:53:41,254
to investigate me, sir.
1096
00:53:41,351 --> 00:53:43,160
I'm teasing. Smile, Senator Wade.
1097
00:53:43,286 --> 00:53:45,129
I believe I am smiling, Mrs. Lincoln.
1098
00:53:45,255 --> 00:53:46,427
As long as your household accounts
1099
00:53:46,523 --> 00:53:48,332
are in order, madam,
1100
00:53:48,458 --> 00:53:50,768
we'll have no need to investigate them.
1101
00:53:50,860 --> 00:53:53,739
You have always taken such a lively,
1102
00:53:53,830 --> 00:53:57,642
even prosecutorial interest
in my household accounts.
1103
00:53:57,767 --> 00:54:00,407
Your household accounts have
always been so interesting.
1104
00:54:00,503 --> 00:54:02,505
Yes, thank you. It's true.
1105
00:54:03,139 --> 00:54:05,483
The miracles I have wrought
1106
00:54:05,609 --> 00:54:08,112
out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices,
1107
00:54:08,211 --> 00:54:09,781
but I had to.
1108
00:54:11,047 --> 00:54:12,993
Four years ago, when
the President and I arrived,
1109
00:54:13,116 --> 00:54:14,595
this was pure pigsty.
1110
00:54:14,684 --> 00:54:16,630
Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets.
1111
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:20,258
Mushrooms, green as the moon,
sprouting from the ceilings.
1112
00:54:20,390 --> 00:54:23,633
And a pauper's pittance
allotted for improvements.
1113
00:54:23,727 --> 00:54:26,674
As if your committee joined
with all of Washington
1114
00:54:26,796 --> 00:54:28,275
awaiting in what you anticipated
1115
00:54:28,365 --> 00:54:30,811
would be our comfort in squalor.
1116
00:54:31,301 --> 00:54:33,611
Further proof that my husband and I
1117
00:54:33,703 --> 00:54:35,376
were prairie primitives
1118
00:54:35,505 --> 00:54:38,543
unsuited to the position to
which an error of the people,
1119
00:54:38,675 --> 00:54:42,145
a flaw in the Democratic
process had elevated us.
1120
00:54:42,245 --> 00:54:45,158
The past is the past. It's a new year now
1121
00:54:45,248 --> 00:54:49,355
and we are all getting along,
or so they tell me.
1122
00:54:49,486 --> 00:54:51,625
I gather we are working together.
1123
00:54:51,721 --> 00:54:53,701
The White House and the other House,
1124
00:54:53,823 --> 00:54:55,063
hatching little plans together.
1125
00:54:55,191 --> 00:54:56,192
ROBERT: - Mother.
- What?
1126
00:54:56,326 --> 00:54:58,397
- You're creating a bottleneck.
- Oh.
1127
00:54:58,528 --> 00:55:00,337
Oh, I'm detaining you.
1128
00:55:01,064 --> 00:55:03,908
And more importantly,
the people behind you.
1129
00:55:04,701 --> 00:55:07,307
How the people love my husband.
1130
00:55:07,937 --> 00:55:11,908
They flock to see him by
their thousands on public days.
1131
00:55:12,409 --> 00:55:15,413
They will never love you
the way they love him.
1132
00:55:16,546 --> 00:55:19,686
How difficult it must be
for you to know that
1133
00:55:19,783 --> 00:55:22,423
and yet how important to remember it.
1134
00:55:33,029 --> 00:55:35,839
Since we have the floor
next in the debate,
1135
00:55:35,932 --> 00:55:38,276
I thought I'd suggest you might
1136
00:55:38,935 --> 00:55:40,846
temper your contribution
1137
00:55:40,937 --> 00:55:43,918
so as not to frighten
our conservative friends.
1138
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,077
Ashley insists you're ensuring approval
1139
00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:48,086
by dispensing patronage
1140
00:55:48,211 --> 00:55:50,851
to otherwise undeserving Democrats.
1141
00:55:50,947 --> 00:55:52,790
I can't ensure a single damn thing
1142
00:55:52,916 --> 00:55:54,554
if you scare the whole House silly
1143
00:55:54,651 --> 00:55:56,392
with talk of land appropriations
1144
00:55:56,486 --> 00:55:58,397
and revolutionary tribunals.
1145
00:55:58,488 --> 00:56:00,866
When the war ends, I intend to
1146
00:56:00,990 --> 00:56:05,735
push for full equality,
the Negro vote, and much more.
1147
00:56:06,463 --> 00:56:08,170
Congress shall mandate the seizure
1148
00:56:08,298 --> 00:56:09,800
of every foot of Rebel land
1149
00:56:09,933 --> 00:56:12,470
and every dollar of their property.
1150
00:56:13,837 --> 00:56:15,339
We'll use their confiscated wealth
1151
00:56:15,472 --> 00:56:17,418
to establish hundreds of thousands
1152
00:56:17,507 --> 00:56:19,009
of free Negro farmers
1153
00:56:19,142 --> 00:56:21,782
and, at their side,
soldiers armed to occupy
1154
00:56:21,878 --> 00:56:23,448
and transform the heritage of traitors.
1155
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:26,594
We'll build up a land down there
1156
00:56:26,683 --> 00:56:29,789
of free men and free women
and free children and freedom.
1157
00:56:31,521 --> 00:56:34,661
The nation needs to know
that we have such plans.
1158
00:56:35,525 --> 00:56:38,369
That's the untempered version
of reconstruction.
1159
00:56:40,530 --> 00:56:42,168
(CHUCKLING) It is not...
1160
00:56:42,298 --> 00:56:44,801
It's not quite exactly what I intend.
1161
00:56:47,170 --> 00:56:50,549
But we shall oppose one another
in the course of time.
1162
00:56:50,673 --> 00:56:52,710
Now we're working together,
and I'm asking you...
1163
00:56:52,842 --> 00:56:54,048
For patience, I expect.
1164
00:56:54,177 --> 00:56:55,884
When the people disagree,
bringing them together
1165
00:56:56,012 --> 00:56:58,515
requires going slow
until they're ready to...
1166
00:56:58,648 --> 00:57:00,685
Shit on the people and what they want
1167
00:57:00,817 --> 00:57:01,795
and what they're ready for.
1168
00:57:01,885 --> 00:57:03,057
I don't give a goddamn about the people
1169
00:57:03,186 --> 00:57:04,392
and what they want.
1170
00:57:04,521 --> 00:57:05,659
This is the face of someone
1171
00:57:05,755 --> 00:57:07,132
who has fought long and hard
1172
00:57:07,223 --> 00:57:08,327
for the good of the people
1173
00:57:08,425 --> 00:57:11,065
without caring much for any of them.
1174
00:57:11,194 --> 00:57:12,901
And I look a lot worse without my wig.
1175
00:57:14,197 --> 00:57:17,701
The people elected me
to represent them,
1176
00:57:17,834 --> 00:57:20,474
to lead them, and I lead.
You ought to try it.
1177
00:57:23,206 --> 00:57:26,346
I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens
1178
00:57:26,443 --> 00:57:30,186
and I have tried to profit
from the example of it, but
1179
00:57:31,247 --> 00:57:32,248
if I'd listened to you,
1180
00:57:32,382 --> 00:57:33,743
I'd have declared every slave free
1181
00:57:33,850 --> 00:57:36,353
the minute the first shell
struck Fort Sumter.
1182
00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:37,989
And the border states
would have gone over
1183
00:57:38,087 --> 00:57:40,226
to the Confederacy,
the war would have been lost
1184
00:57:40,356 --> 00:57:41,733
and the Union along with it,
1185
00:57:41,858 --> 00:57:43,769
and instead of abolishing slavery
1186
00:57:43,893 --> 00:57:45,566
as we hope to do in two weeks,
1187
00:57:45,695 --> 00:57:48,232
we'd be watching,
helpless as infants, as it spread
1188
00:57:48,364 --> 00:57:50,435
from the American South
into South America.
1189
00:57:50,567 --> 00:57:53,343
Oh, how you have longed
to say that to me.
1190
00:57:54,270 --> 00:57:55,943
You claim you trust them,
1191
00:57:56,072 --> 00:57:58,382
but you know what the people are.
1192
00:57:59,242 --> 00:58:02,018
You know that the inner compass,
1193
00:58:02,111 --> 00:58:04,591
that should direct the soul
towards justice
1194
00:58:04,714 --> 00:58:08,287
has ossified in white men
and women, North and South,
1195
00:58:08,418 --> 00:58:10,193
unto utter uselessness,
1196
00:58:10,286 --> 00:58:12,459
through tolerating the evil of slavery.
1197
00:58:12,589 --> 00:58:14,626
White people cannot bear the thought
1198
00:58:14,757 --> 00:58:16,600
of sharing this country's
infinite abundance
1199
00:58:16,726 --> 00:58:18,262
with Negroes.
1200
00:58:20,597 --> 00:58:23,601
A compass, I learned
when I was surveying,
1201
00:58:24,300 --> 00:58:27,440
it'll point you true north
from where you're standing.
1202
00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:29,379
But it's got no advice about
1203
00:58:29,472 --> 00:58:32,078
the swamps and deserts and chasms
1204
00:58:32,175 --> 00:58:34,712
that you'll encounter along the way.
1205
00:58:34,811 --> 00:58:36,222
If in pursuit of your destination,
1206
00:58:36,312 --> 00:58:38,223
you plunge ahead,
heedless of obstacles
1207
00:58:38,314 --> 00:58:41,727
and achieve nothing more
than to sink in a swamp,
1208
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:45,497
what's the use of knowing true north?
1209
00:59:01,804 --> 00:59:05,149
Robert's going to plead
with us to let him enlist.
1210
00:59:07,710 --> 00:59:11,817
Make time to talk to Robbie.
You only have time for Tad.
1211
00:59:11,915 --> 00:59:13,360
Tad is young.
1212
00:59:13,850 --> 00:59:17,559
So is Robert. Too young for the Army.
1213
00:59:17,687 --> 00:59:20,668
Plenty of boys younger
than Robert signing up.
1214
00:59:23,693 --> 00:59:25,331
Don't take Robbie.
1215
00:59:26,062 --> 00:59:27,803
Don't let me lose my son.
1216
00:59:27,897 --> 00:59:28,875
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
1217
00:59:28,998 --> 00:59:31,706
Go away! We're occupied!
1218
00:59:35,572 --> 00:59:36,812
Secretary Stanton has sent over
1219
00:59:36,906 --> 00:59:38,467
to tell you that as of half an hour ago
1220
00:59:38,474 --> 00:59:40,818
the shelling of Wilmington Harbor
has commenced.
1221
00:59:44,013 --> 00:59:45,720
(DOOR CLOSING)
1222
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:48,722
They cannot possibly maintain
under this kind of an assault.
1223
00:59:48,851 --> 00:59:51,331
Terry has got 10,000 men
surrounding the goddamn port.
1224
00:59:51,421 --> 00:59:52,399
Why doesn't he answer...
1225
00:59:52,522 --> 00:59:54,468
Fort Fisher is a mountain
of a building, Edwin.
1226
00:59:54,557 --> 00:59:55,627
It's the largest fort they have, sir.
1227
00:59:55,725 --> 00:59:57,568
Twenty-two big Seacoast guns
on each rampart.
1228
00:59:57,660 --> 00:59:58,934
They've been reinforcing it
for the last two years.
1229
00:59:59,028 --> 01:00:01,133
They've taken 17,000 shells
since yesterday!
1230
01:00:01,230 --> 01:00:03,836
I want to hear Fort Fisher is ours
1231
01:00:03,933 --> 01:00:05,139
and Wilmington has fallen.
1232
01:00:05,234 --> 01:00:06,713
Send another damn cable!
1233
01:00:06,836 --> 01:00:09,407
The problem's their
commander, Whiting!
1234
01:00:10,206 --> 01:00:11,651
He engineered the fortress himself,
1235
01:00:11,741 --> 01:00:12,822
the damn thing's his child.
1236
01:00:12,875 --> 01:00:15,219
He'll defend it till
his every last man is gone.
1237
01:00:15,345 --> 01:00:17,757
LINCOLN: "Come on out, you old rat!"
1238
01:00:19,849 --> 01:00:23,820
(CHUCKLES) That's
what Ethan Allen called out
1239
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,424
to the commander
of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.
1240
01:00:27,557 --> 01:00:29,594
"Come on out, you old rat!"
1241
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:31,932
(SIGHS) Of course, there were only
1242
01:00:32,061 --> 01:00:34,439
40 odd Redcoats at Ticonderoga.
1243
01:00:35,698 --> 01:00:39,373
There is one Ethan Allen story
that I'm very partial to.
1244
01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:41,949
No, you're going to tell a story.
1245
01:00:42,605 --> 01:00:45,017
I don't believe that I can bear
1246
01:00:45,108 --> 01:00:47,108
to listen to another one
of your stories right now.
1247
01:00:47,777 --> 01:00:50,621
I need the B&O sideyard
schedules for Alexandria!
1248
01:00:50,747 --> 01:00:52,192
I asked for them this morning!
1249
01:00:52,281 --> 01:00:56,855
(LAUGHING) It was
right after the Revolution,
1250
01:00:56,953 --> 01:00:59,297
right after peace had been concluded.
1251
01:00:59,422 --> 01:01:02,369
And Ethan Allen went to London
1252
01:01:02,458 --> 01:01:04,096
to help our new country
1253
01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:06,605
conduct its business with the King.
1254
01:01:07,563 --> 01:01:10,237
The English sneered
at how rough we are
1255
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:12,643
and rude and simple-minded,
and on like that,
1256
01:01:12,769 --> 01:01:13,747
everywhere he went
1257
01:01:13,836 --> 01:01:16,783
till one day he was invited
to the townhouse
1258
01:01:16,906 --> 01:01:18,817
of a great English lord.
1259
01:01:21,144 --> 01:01:24,091
Dinner was served
and beverages imbibed,
1260
01:01:24,914 --> 01:01:27,258
time passed, as happens, and
1261
01:01:27,350 --> 01:01:29,956
Mr. Allen found he needed the privy.
1262
01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:34,092
He was grateful to be directed thence.
1263
01:01:35,324 --> 01:01:36,826
(CLEARS THROAT)
1264
01:01:37,827 --> 01:01:39,898
- Relieved, you might say.
(LAUGHTER)
1265
01:01:39,996 --> 01:01:41,304
(CHUCKLES)
1266
01:01:41,964 --> 01:01:44,638
Now, Mr. Allen discovered
1267
01:01:45,501 --> 01:01:46,775
on entering the water closet,
1268
01:01:46,869 --> 01:01:49,440
that the only decoration therein
1269
01:01:49,539 --> 01:01:50,072
was a portrait of George Washington.
1270
01:01:50,073 --> 01:01:52,144
Was a portrait of George Washington.
1271
01:01:55,645 --> 01:01:58,023
Ethan Allen done what he came to do,
1272
01:01:58,147 --> 01:02:00,457
and returned to the drawing room.
1273
01:02:01,184 --> 01:02:03,289
His host and the others
were disappointed
1274
01:02:03,386 --> 01:02:05,423
when he didn't mention
Washington's portrait.
1275
01:02:05,521 --> 01:02:08,127
Finally, His Lordship couldn't
resist and asked Mr. Allen
1276
01:02:08,224 --> 01:02:09,984
had he noticed it,
the picture of Washington.
1277
01:02:10,026 --> 01:02:11,471
He had.
1278
01:02:11,561 --> 01:02:13,201
Well, what did he think of its placement,
1279
01:02:13,229 --> 01:02:16,267
did it seem appropriately
located to Mr. Allen?
1280
01:02:16,365 --> 01:02:18,436
Mr. Allen said it did.
1281
01:02:18,534 --> 01:02:20,207
His host was astounded.
1282
01:02:20,336 --> 01:02:22,338
"Appropriate?" (CHUCKLES)
1283
01:02:22,472 --> 01:02:25,351
"George Washington's likeness
in a water closet?"
1284
01:02:25,475 --> 01:02:28,820
"Yes," said Mr. Allen.
"Where it'll do good service.
1285
01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:31,699
"The whole world knows nothing
will make an Englishman
1286
01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:33,989
shit quicker than the sight
of George Washington."
1287
01:02:34,083 --> 01:02:35,653
(ALL LAUGHING)
1288
01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:40,367
I love that story.
1289
01:02:42,658 --> 01:02:43,966
(CLICKING)
1290
01:02:46,829 --> 01:02:48,536
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
1291
01:03:07,183 --> 01:03:09,390
Fort Fisher is ours. We've taken the port.
1292
01:03:09,519 --> 01:03:11,021
And Wilmington?
1293
01:03:13,156 --> 01:03:14,226
We've taken the fort,
1294
01:03:14,357 --> 01:03:16,633
but the city of Wilmington
has not surrendered.
1295
01:03:17,493 --> 01:03:19,200
How many casualties?
1296
01:03:19,896 --> 01:03:22,137
(TELEGRAPH CONTINUES CLICKING)
1297
01:03:31,574 --> 01:03:33,520
- Heavy losses.
- And more to come.
1298
01:03:33,609 --> 01:03:36,180
It sours the national mood.
It might suffice...
1299
01:03:36,279 --> 01:03:38,156
To what? To bring this down?
1300
01:03:38,247 --> 01:03:40,727
Not in a fight like this.
This is to the death.
1301
01:03:40,850 --> 01:03:42,386
That's gruesome.
1302
01:03:42,718 --> 01:03:45,198
Are you despairing or merely lazy?
1303
01:03:45,288 --> 01:03:48,394
This fight is for
the United States of America.
1304
01:03:48,524 --> 01:03:51,437
Nothing "suffices." A rumor? Nothing.
1305
01:03:51,561 --> 01:03:54,405
They're not lazy.
They're busily buying votes
1306
01:03:54,530 --> 01:03:57,773
while we hope to be saved
by "the national mood"?
1307
01:03:59,068 --> 01:04:00,775
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
1308
01:04:03,773 --> 01:04:07,380
Before this blood is dry, when
Stevens next takes the floor,
1309
01:04:07,476 --> 01:04:09,217
taunt him. You excel at that.
1310
01:04:09,312 --> 01:04:11,383
Get him to proclaim what
we all know he believes
1311
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,084
in his coal-colored heart.
1312
01:04:13,216 --> 01:04:15,890
That this vote is meant
to set the black race on high,
1313
01:04:15,985 --> 01:04:16,963
to niggerate America...
1314
01:04:17,086 --> 01:04:19,464
George, please, stay on course.
1315
01:04:20,323 --> 01:04:22,428
Bring Stevens to full froth.
1316
01:04:23,292 --> 01:04:25,033
I can ensure that every newspaperman
1317
01:04:25,127 --> 01:04:26,470
from Louisville to San Francisco
1318
01:04:26,596 --> 01:04:28,473
will be here to witness it and print it.
1319
01:04:28,598 --> 01:04:31,272
(GAVEL BANGING)
1320
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,710
The floor belongs to
the mellifluent gentleman
1321
01:04:33,803 --> 01:04:36,283
from Kentucky, Mr. George Yeaman.
1322
01:04:42,144 --> 01:04:44,249
I thank you, Speaker Colfax.
1323
01:04:50,019 --> 01:04:51,225
(SIGHS)
1324
01:04:52,054 --> 01:04:55,797
Although I am disgusted by slavery,
1325
01:04:55,892 --> 01:04:57,371
(MEN AGREEING)
1326
01:04:59,962 --> 01:05:02,533
I rise on this sad and solemn day
1327
01:05:03,199 --> 01:05:06,339
to announce that
I'm opposed to the amendment.
1328
01:05:06,469 --> 01:05:08,005
(MEN APPLAUDING)
1329
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,653
We must consider what
will become of colored folk
1330
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:18,624
if four million are, in one instant, set free.
1331
01:05:19,048 --> 01:05:20,220
They'll be free, George,
1332
01:05:20,349 --> 01:05:22,192
that's what will become of them.
1333
01:05:22,318 --> 01:05:23,296
(MEN LAUGHING)
1334
01:05:23,452 --> 01:05:24,453
Think how splendid
1335
01:05:25,488 --> 01:05:27,365
if Mr. Yeaman switched.
1336
01:05:27,490 --> 01:05:30,300
Too publicly against us.
He can't change course now.
1337
01:05:30,393 --> 01:05:33,499
Not for some miserable
little job, anyways.
1338
01:05:33,596 --> 01:05:36,736
And we will be forced to enfranchise
1339
01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:39,142
the men of the colored race.
1340
01:05:39,235 --> 01:05:41,306
It would be inhuman not to.
1341
01:05:42,071 --> 01:05:45,678
Now who among us is prepared
to give Negroes the vote?
1342
01:05:45,775 --> 01:05:46,981
(ALL SHOUTING IN PROTEST)
1343
01:05:47,143 --> 01:05:48,383
And, and,
1344
01:05:48,511 --> 01:05:50,718
what shall follow upon that?
1345
01:05:51,514 --> 01:05:53,516
Universal enfranchisement?
1346
01:05:54,884 --> 01:05:55,919
Votes for women?
1347
01:05:56,052 --> 01:05:57,690
(ALL YELLING)
1348
01:06:03,693 --> 01:06:04,831
We...
1349
01:06:07,430 --> 01:06:08,431
WOOD: Bless my eyes.
1350
01:06:08,564 --> 01:06:11,135
If it isn't the Postmaster
of Millersburg, Ohio.
1351
01:06:11,534 --> 01:06:12,672
(DOOR CLOSES)
1352
01:06:13,202 --> 01:06:16,240
Mr. LeClerk felt honor-bound
to inform us
1353
01:06:16,372 --> 01:06:17,350
(SNIFFING)
1354
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,249
of your disgusting betrayal.
1355
01:06:20,443 --> 01:06:22,081
Your prostitution.
1356
01:06:23,212 --> 01:06:25,556
Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins?
1357
01:06:26,882 --> 01:06:27,816
Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
1358
01:06:27,817 --> 01:06:29,194
Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
1359
01:06:32,054 --> 01:06:33,032
HAWKINS: If my neighbors hear
1360
01:06:33,122 --> 01:06:34,294
that I voted yes for nigger freedom
1361
01:06:34,423 --> 01:06:35,823
and no to peace, they will kill me.
1362
01:06:35,925 --> 01:06:36,960
A deal is a deal.
1363
01:06:37,093 --> 01:06:38,629
You men know better
than to piss your pants
1364
01:06:38,761 --> 01:06:40,206
just 'cause there's talk
about peace talks.
1365
01:06:40,296 --> 01:06:42,207
- Look, I'll find another job!
- My neighbors in Nashville,
1366
01:06:42,298 --> 01:06:43,899
they found out I was loyal to the Union,
1367
01:06:43,933 --> 01:06:45,310
they came after me with gelding knives.
1368
01:06:45,434 --> 01:06:46,936
- I'll find another job.
- You do right, Clay Hawkins.
1369
01:06:47,069 --> 01:06:50,380
I want to do right! But I got no courage!
1370
01:06:50,473 --> 01:06:52,111
BILBO: Wait. You wanted...
What was it?
1371
01:06:52,241 --> 01:06:54,050
A tax man for the Western Reserve?
1372
01:06:54,143 --> 01:06:55,952
Hell, you can have the whole
state of Ohio if you want...
1373
01:06:56,078 --> 01:06:57,557
Oh, crap.
1374
01:06:58,914 --> 01:07:00,120
(GRUNTS)
1375
01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:01,657
SEWARD: Eleven votes?
1376
01:07:01,784 --> 01:07:03,957
Two days ago, we had twelve.
What happened?
1377
01:07:04,086 --> 01:07:05,064
There are defections in the ranks.
1378
01:07:05,154 --> 01:07:06,132
It's the goddamn rumors
1379
01:07:06,255 --> 01:07:07,233
regarding the Richmond delegation.
1380
01:07:07,323 --> 01:07:08,301
- Yes. The peace offer.
- Groundless.
1381
01:07:08,424 --> 01:07:10,995
- And yet the rumors persist.
- They are ruining us.
1382
01:07:11,127 --> 01:07:13,164
Among the few
remaining Representatives
1383
01:07:13,295 --> 01:07:14,831
who seem remotely plausible,
1384
01:07:14,964 --> 01:07:17,444
there is a perceptible
increase in resistance.
1385
01:07:17,533 --> 01:07:19,137
Resistance, hell.
1386
01:07:19,835 --> 01:07:22,145
Thingamabob Hollister,
Dem from Indiana.
1387
01:07:22,271 --> 01:07:24,979
I approached him,
sumbitch near to murdered me.
1388
01:07:25,107 --> 01:07:27,986
Colorado Territory... What's this one?
1389
01:07:28,511 --> 01:07:31,651
Job description... Taxpayers and...
1390
01:07:31,781 --> 01:07:33,522
Oh, shit! Cracky!
1391
01:07:33,783 --> 01:07:34,784
(GUN FIRES)
1392
01:07:34,884 --> 01:07:36,005
(PEOPLE EXCLAIM IN SURPRISE)
1393
01:07:36,952 --> 01:07:38,454
(GROANS)
1394
01:07:42,691 --> 01:07:45,433
Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Goddamn!
1395
01:07:51,567 --> 01:07:54,173
- Perhaps you pushed too hard.
- I push nobody.
1396
01:07:54,637 --> 01:07:56,878
Perhaps we need reinforcements.
1397
01:07:57,339 --> 01:07:59,546
If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities,
1398
01:07:59,675 --> 01:08:02,121
who do you think is going to
give a genuine solid shit
1399
01:08:02,211 --> 01:08:03,281
to free slaves?
1400
01:08:03,379 --> 01:08:04,619
Get back to it.
1401
01:08:05,514 --> 01:08:07,221
And gentlemen, good day.
1402
01:08:08,417 --> 01:08:09,987
We are at an impasse.
1403
01:08:10,086 --> 01:08:12,396
Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.
1404
01:08:12,521 --> 01:08:13,721
Tell us what you expect of us.
1405
01:08:14,023 --> 01:08:15,730
I expect you to do your work.
1406
01:08:15,858 --> 01:08:17,360
And have sufficient sense and taste
1407
01:08:17,493 --> 01:08:19,973
not to presume to instruct the President.
1408
01:08:20,062 --> 01:08:21,040
Or me.
1409
01:08:21,931 --> 01:08:24,673
Is there a Confederate offer, or not?
1410
01:08:40,716 --> 01:08:42,354
GRANT: Gentlemen.
1411
01:08:44,687 --> 01:08:47,099
I suggest you work some changes
to your proposal
1412
01:08:47,223 --> 01:08:49,225
before you give it to the President.
1413
01:08:49,358 --> 01:08:51,395
We're eager to be on our way
to Washington.
1414
01:08:51,527 --> 01:08:53,700
Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?
1415
01:08:53,796 --> 01:08:57,744
It says "securing peace
for our two countries"
1416
01:08:57,867 --> 01:08:59,369
and it goes on like that.
1417
01:09:00,302 --> 01:09:02,441
- I don't...
- There is just one country.
1418
01:09:02,571 --> 01:09:04,881
You and I, we're citizens of that country.
1419
01:09:05,274 --> 01:09:08,221
I'm fighting to protect it
from armed rebels.
1420
01:09:08,878 --> 01:09:10,050
From you.
1421
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:12,057
But Mr. Blair, he told us,
1422
01:09:12,148 --> 01:09:14,526
he told President
Jefferson Davis that we...
1423
01:09:14,617 --> 01:09:17,120
A private citizen like Preston Blair
1424
01:09:17,253 --> 01:09:18,288
can say what he pleases,
1425
01:09:18,420 --> 01:09:21,230
since he has no authority over anything.
1426
01:09:21,323 --> 01:09:24,861
If you want to discuss peace
with President Lincoln,
1427
01:09:25,961 --> 01:09:27,770
consider revisions.
1428
01:09:28,297 --> 01:09:29,799
If we're not to discuss
1429
01:09:29,932 --> 01:09:32,378
a truce between warring nations,
1430
01:09:32,468 --> 01:09:34,379
what in heaven's name can we discuss?
1431
01:09:35,437 --> 01:09:37,110
Terms of surrender.
1432
01:09:39,608 --> 01:09:41,713
GRANT: "Office United States
Military Telegraph,
1433
01:09:41,810 --> 01:09:42,788
"War Department."
1434
01:09:42,912 --> 01:09:45,290
"For Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States."
1435
01:09:45,414 --> 01:09:47,587
January 20, 1865.
1436
01:09:48,150 --> 01:09:50,426
"I will state confidentially
that I am convinced
1437
01:09:50,519 --> 01:09:52,795
upon conversation
with these commissioners
1438
01:09:52,922 --> 01:09:54,401
that their intentions are good
1439
01:09:54,490 --> 01:09:57,767
and their desire sincere
to restore peace and union."
1440
01:09:58,460 --> 01:10:00,303
"I fear now they're going back
1441
01:10:00,429 --> 01:10:03,410
without any expression
of interest from anyone
1442
01:10:03,499 --> 01:10:07,003
in authority, Mr. Lincoln,
will have a bad influence."
1443
01:10:08,304 --> 01:10:11,308
"I will be sorry should
it prove impossible for you
1444
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:12,976
to have an interview with them."
1445
01:10:13,108 --> 01:10:15,349
"I am awaiting your instructions."
1446
01:10:17,213 --> 01:10:19,420
"U.S. Grant, Lieutenant General,
1447
01:10:19,515 --> 01:10:21,085
Commanding Armies, United States."
1448
01:10:23,152 --> 01:10:25,359
After four years of war, and
1449
01:10:26,622 --> 01:10:29,159
near 600,000 lives lost,
1450
01:10:29,291 --> 01:10:32,033
he believes we can end this war now.
1451
01:10:35,731 --> 01:10:38,541
My trust in him is marrow deep.
1452
01:10:44,807 --> 01:10:47,651
You could bring the delegates
to Washington.
1453
01:10:47,977 --> 01:10:50,184
In exchange for the South's
immediate surrender,
1454
01:10:50,312 --> 01:10:53,225
we could promise them
the amendment's defeat.
1455
01:10:54,583 --> 01:10:59,225
They'd agree, don't you think?
We'd end the war. This week.
1456
01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:03,126
Or, if you could manage
1457
01:11:03,225 --> 01:11:06,297
without seeming to do it, to, uh...
1458
01:11:10,432 --> 01:11:12,537
The peace delegation
might encounter delays
1459
01:11:12,668 --> 01:11:14,579
as they travel up the James River.
1460
01:11:14,703 --> 01:11:17,047
Particularly with the fighting
around Wilmington.
1461
01:11:23,946 --> 01:11:25,357
Within ten days' time,
1462
01:11:25,447 --> 01:11:28,053
we might pass the 13th Amendment.
1463
01:11:48,103 --> 01:11:50,014
(CLOCK TICKING RAPIDLY)
1464
01:12:04,820 --> 01:12:06,128
(MUMBLING)
1465
01:12:10,659 --> 01:12:12,935
Here's a 16-year-old boy,
1466
01:12:13,062 --> 01:12:14,598
they're going to hang him.
1467
01:12:14,730 --> 01:12:17,438
He's with the Fifteenth
Indiana Cavalry near Bulford.
1468
01:12:17,566 --> 01:12:20,479
It seems he lamed his horse
to avoid battle.
1469
01:12:22,404 --> 01:12:23,883
I don't think even Stanton
would complain
1470
01:12:23,972 --> 01:12:24,950
if I pardoned him.
1471
01:12:25,074 --> 01:12:26,395
You think Stanton would complain?
1472
01:12:26,408 --> 01:12:29,480
I don't know, sir.
I don't know who you're, uh...
1473
01:12:29,611 --> 01:12:31,989
- What time is it?
- It's 3:40 in the morning.
1474
01:12:32,114 --> 01:12:35,584
Don't let him pardon any more deserters.
1475
01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:38,392
Mr. Stanton thinks you pardon too many.
1476
01:12:38,487 --> 01:12:39,989
He's generally apoplectic on the subject.
1477
01:12:40,122 --> 01:12:41,658
He oughtn't have done that,
crippled his horse.
1478
01:12:41,790 --> 01:12:43,064
That was cruel, but you don't just hang
1479
01:12:43,158 --> 01:12:44,136
a 16-year-old boy for that...
1480
01:12:44,259 --> 01:12:45,419
Ask the horse what he thinks.
1481
01:12:45,494 --> 01:12:49,067
...for cruelty. There'd be
no 16-year-old boys left.
1482
01:12:50,366 --> 01:12:51,743
(SIGHS)
1483
01:13:07,683 --> 01:13:09,993
Grant wants me to bring
the secesh delegates
1484
01:13:10,119 --> 01:13:11,598
to Washington.
1485
01:13:14,022 --> 01:13:16,263
So there are secesh delegates?
1486
01:13:16,992 --> 01:13:19,268
He was afraid, that's all it was.
1487
01:13:19,361 --> 01:13:22,274
I don't care to hang a boy
for being frightened, either.
1488
01:13:22,898 --> 01:13:24,935
What good would it do him?
1489
01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:32,613
(SIGHS)
1490
01:13:39,681 --> 01:13:41,991
War's nearly done, ain't that so?
1491
01:13:45,387 --> 01:13:47,492
What use is one more corpse?
1492
01:13:49,758 --> 01:13:51,362
Any more corpses?
1493
01:14:00,502 --> 01:14:02,379
Do you need company?
1494
01:14:02,504 --> 01:14:05,348
LINCOLN: In times like this,
I'm best alone.
1495
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:32,702
(SIGHS)
1496
01:14:44,213 --> 01:14:48,423
"Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant, City Point."
1497
01:14:49,818 --> 01:14:52,025
"I have read your words with interest."
1498
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:53,098
"I ask that,
1499
01:14:53,222 --> 01:14:55,600
regardless of any action
I take in the matter
1500
01:14:55,724 --> 01:14:58,762
of the visit of
the Richmond commissioners
1501
01:14:59,795 --> 01:15:01,365
you maintain among your troops
1502
01:15:01,463 --> 01:15:04,239
military preparedness for battle
1503
01:15:05,300 --> 01:15:07,541
as you have done until now."
1504
01:15:13,675 --> 01:15:16,155
"Have Captain Saunders convey
the commissioners to me
1505
01:15:16,278 --> 01:15:17,951
here in Washington."
1506
01:15:19,414 --> 01:15:21,416
"A. Lincoln." And the date.
1507
01:15:21,650 --> 01:15:22,924
Yes, sir.
1508
01:15:27,022 --> 01:15:28,831
Shall I transmit, sir?
1509
01:15:32,494 --> 01:15:34,735
You think we choose to be born?
1510
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:42,243
I don't suppose so.
1511
01:15:43,605 --> 01:15:46,415
Are we fitted to the times
we're born into?
1512
01:15:48,310 --> 01:15:49,983
Well, I don't know about myself.
1513
01:15:51,013 --> 01:15:52,458
You may be,
1514
01:15:53,348 --> 01:15:54,850
sir. Fitted.
1515
01:15:59,021 --> 01:16:00,625
What do you reckon?
1516
01:16:02,624 --> 01:16:04,661
Well, I'm an engineer.
1517
01:16:07,296 --> 01:16:09,207
I reckon there's machinery,
1518
01:16:09,331 --> 01:16:12,210
but no one's done the fitting.
1519
01:16:15,704 --> 01:16:17,377
You're an engineer.
1520
01:16:17,739 --> 01:16:21,277
You must know Euclid's axioms
and common notions.
1521
01:16:23,545 --> 01:16:25,354
I must have in school, but...
1522
01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:26,680
I never had much of schooling,
1523
01:16:26,748 --> 01:16:29,627
but I read Euclid
in an old book I borrowed.
1524
01:16:30,485 --> 01:16:33,056
Little enough ever found its way in here,
1525
01:16:33,188 --> 01:16:35,532
but once learnt, it stayed learnt.
1526
01:16:38,427 --> 01:16:41,135
Euclid's first common notion is this,
1527
01:16:41,830 --> 01:16:44,140
"Things which are equal
to the same thing
1528
01:16:44,232 --> 01:16:47,076
are equal to each other."
1529
01:16:48,770 --> 01:16:51,080
That's a rule of mathematical reasoning.
1530
01:16:51,206 --> 01:16:53,482
It's true because it works.
1531
01:16:53,575 --> 01:16:55,680
Has done and always will do.
1532
01:16:58,013 --> 01:17:00,493
In his book, mmm,
1533
01:17:01,550 --> 01:17:04,030
Euclid says this is "self-evident."
1534
01:17:05,020 --> 01:17:05,998
You see? There it is,
1535
01:17:06,088 --> 01:17:08,728
even in that 2,000-year-old book
1536
01:17:08,857 --> 01:17:10,393
of mechanical law.
1537
01:17:10,525 --> 01:17:12,436
It is a self-evident truth
1538
01:17:12,561 --> 01:17:15,599
that things which are equal
to the same thing
1539
01:17:15,731 --> 01:17:17,938
are equal to each other.
1540
01:17:21,036 --> 01:17:22,913
We begin with equality.
1541
01:17:24,373 --> 01:17:25,909
That's the origin, isn't it?
1542
01:17:26,041 --> 01:17:28,885
That's balance. That's... That's fairness.
1543
01:17:33,582 --> 01:17:35,528
That's justice.
1544
01:17:42,591 --> 01:17:44,298
Just read me back the last sentence
1545
01:17:44,426 --> 01:17:46,633
of the telegram, please.
1546
01:17:47,295 --> 01:17:49,400
"Have Captain Saunders convey
the commissioners to me
1547
01:17:49,498 --> 01:17:50,476
here in Washington."
1548
01:17:51,233 --> 01:17:53,804
A slight emendation,
if you would, Sam.
1549
01:17:57,339 --> 01:17:59,080
"Have Captain Saunders
convey the gentlemen
1550
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aboard the River Queen
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as far as Hampton Roads, Virginia,
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and there wait until
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further advice from me."
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"Do not proceed to Washington."
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