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(INDISTINCT TALKING)
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COLFAX: The World, the Herald,
the Times,
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New York, Chicago,
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the Journal of Commerce,
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even your hometown paper's here.
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Say you believe only in
legal equality for all races,
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not racial equality.
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I beg you, sir.
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Compromise. Or you risk it all.
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(SIGHS)
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I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens,
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and you must answer me.
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Do you or do you not
hold that the precept
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that "All men are created equal"
is meant literally?
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Is that not the true purpose
of the amendment?
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To promote your ultimate
and ardent dream to elevate...
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The true purpose
of the amendment, Mr. Wood,
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you perfectly named,
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brainless obstructive object...
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(LAUGHTER)
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Now you have always insisted,
Mr. Stevens,
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that Negroes are the same
as white men are.
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The true purpose of the amendment...
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I don't hold with equality in all things,
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only with equality before the law.
Nothing more.
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(MEN SHOUTING IN PROTEST)
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That's... That's not so.
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You believe that Negroes are
entirely equal to white men.
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You've said it a thousand times!
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For shame! For shame!
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Stop prevaricating and
answer Representative Wood!
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I don't hold with equality in all things,
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only with equality before the law.
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After the decades of fervent advocacy...
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He's answered your questions!
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This amendment's
not to do with race equality.
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I don't hold with equality in all things,
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only with equality before
the law, and nothing more!
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Who'd ever have guessed
that old nightmare
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capable of such control?
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He might make a politician someday.
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I need to go.
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Mrs. Keckley.
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Your frantic attempt to delude us now
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is unworthy of a representative.
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It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!
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(MEN SHOUT APPRECIATIVELY)
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How can I hold that
all men are created equal
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when here before me stands, stinking,
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the moral carcass of
the gentleman from Ohio, proof
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that some men are inferior,
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endowed by their Maker with dim wits,
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impermeable to reason,
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with cold, pallid slime in their veins
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instead of hot, red blood!
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You are more reptile than man, George!
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So low and flat that the foot of man
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is incapable of crushing you.
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How dare you?
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Yet even you, Pendleton,
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(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)
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who should have been
gibbeted for treason
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long before today.
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Even worthless, unworthy you
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ought to be treated equally
before the law!
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(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
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And so again, sir, again
and again and again I say,
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I do not hold with equality in all things,
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only with equality before the law.
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(MEN CHEERING)
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Mr. Speaker, will you permit
this vile, boorish man
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to slander and to threaten me?
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And to reduce these proceedings
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on this most important matter
into an anarchic
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and tawdry burlesque?
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(MEN CONTINUE CHEERING)
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(MEN SHOUTING)
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You asked if ever I was surprised.
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Today, Mr. Stevens,
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I was surprised.
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You've led the battle for
race equality for 30 years.
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The basis of every hope for
this country's future life,
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you denied Negro equality.
I'm nauseated.
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You refused to say that all humans are...
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Well, human.
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Have you lost your very soul,
Mr. Stevens?
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Is there nothing you won't say?
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I'm sorry you're nauseous, Asa.
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That must be unpleasant.
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I want the amendment to pass,
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so that the Constitution's first
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and only mention of slavery
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is its absolute prohibition.
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For this amendment, for which
I have worked all my life
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and for which countless
colored men and women
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have fought and died
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and now hundreds
of thousands of soldiers...
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No, sir, no.
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It seems there's very nearly
nothing I won't say.
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(BELL TOLLING)
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I'm not going in.
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You said you wanted to help me.
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But this is just a clumsy attempt
to discourage me.
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I've been to Army hospitals.
I've seen surgeries.
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I went and visited
the malaria barges with Mama.
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She told me she didn't take you inside.
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I snuck in afterwards.
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I've seen what it's like.
This changes nothing.
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Well, at all rate, son,
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I'm happy to have your company.
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LINCOLN: - Good morning, Jim.
- Hello, Mr. President.
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- Good to see you again.
- Good to see you.
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Well, boys, first question.
You getting enough to eat?
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Hello, sir.
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- What's your name, soldier?
- Robert.
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- Good to meet you, Robert.
- Nice to meet you.
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- What's your name?
- Kevin.
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Tell me your names as I go past.
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I'd like to know who I'm talking to. Kevin.
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- Mr. President. John.
- John. I've seen you before.
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Mr. President.
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LINCOLN: Make sure
you get some steak.
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I wouldn't mind one myself, right now.
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(SNIFFS)
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(SOBBING)
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LINCOLN: What's the matter, Bob?
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I have to do this, and I will do it.
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And I don't need
your permission to enlist.
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That same speech has been made
by how many sons
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to how many fathers
since the war began?
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"I don't need your damn permission,
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you miserable old goat,
I'm gonna enlist anyhow."
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And what wouldn't those
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numberless fathers have given
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to be able to say to their sons
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as I now say to mine,
"I'm Commander in Chief."
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So, in point of fact,
without my permission
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you ain't enlisting
in nothing nowhere, young man.
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It's Mama you're scared of,
it's not me getting killed.
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(BREATHING HEAVILY)
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I have to do this! And I will!
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Or I will feel ashamed of myself
for the rest of my life!
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Whether or not you fought
is what's gonna matter,
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and not just to other people,
but to myself!
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I won't be you, Pa, I can't do that,
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but I don't want to be nothing!
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I can't lose you.
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LINCOLN: He'll be fine, Molly.
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City Point's a way back
from the front lines
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and the fighting.
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He'll be an adjutant, running
messages for General Grant.
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The war will take our son.
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A sniper, or a shrapnel shell, a typhus
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same as took Willie.
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It takes hundreds of boys a day.
He'll die uselessly.
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And how will I ever forgive you?
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Most men, their firstborn is their favorite.
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You've always blamed Robert
for being born.
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For trapping you in a marriage
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that's only ever given you grief
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- and caused you regret.
- That's simply not true.
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And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor's
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on your hands same as Grant,
God help us.
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We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood
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you've sanctioned,
the uncountable corpses!
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We'll be made to pay
with our son's dear blood!
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Just this once, Mrs. Lincoln,
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I demand of you to try
and take the liberal
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and not the selfish point of view.
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Robert will never forgive himself.
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You imagine he'll forgive us
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if we continue to stifle
this very natural ambition?
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And if I refuse to take the high road?
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If I won't pick up the rough old cross,
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will you threaten me again
with the madhouse?
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As you did when I couldn't
stop crying over Willie.
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When I showed you what heartbreak,
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real heartbreak, looked like.
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And you hadn't the courage
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- to countenance, to help me!
- That's right, that's right...
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When you refused so much
as to comfort Tad,
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a child who was not only sick,
dangerously sick,
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but beside himself with grief!
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I was holding him in my arms
when he died.
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But your grief, your grief,
your inexhaustible grief!
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How dare you throw that up at me?
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And his mother wouldn't let him near her
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because she's screaming
from morning to night!
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I couldn't risk him
seeing how angry I was!
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Pacing the halls, howling at shadows
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and furniture and ghosts!
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(SOBBING)
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I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,
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for everybody's goddamn sake,
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I should have clapped you
in the madhouse!
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Then do it!
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Do it! Don't you threaten me!
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You do it this time. Lock me away.
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You'll have to, I swear,
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if Robert is killed.
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(SIGHS)
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I couldn't tolerate you
grieving so for Willie
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because I couldn't permit it in myself.
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Though I wanted to, Mary.
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I wanted to crawl under the earth,
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into the vault, with his coffin.
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And I still do. Every day I do.
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Don't speak to me about grief.
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I must make my decisions,
Bob must make his, you yours.
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And bear what we must.
Hold and carry what we must.
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What I carry within me,
you must allow me to do it.
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Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary,
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you alone may lighten this burden.
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Or render it intolerable.
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As you choose.
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(SINGING OPERA)
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You think I'm ignorant
of what you're up to
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because you haven't discussed
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this scheme with me
as you ought to have done?
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When have I ever been
so easily bamboozled?
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I believe you when you insist
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that amending the Constitution
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and abolishing slavery will end this war.
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And since you are
sending my son into the war,
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woe unto you if you fail
to pass the amendment.
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Seward doesn't want me
leaving big muddy footprints
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all over town.
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(SOFTLY) No one has ever lived
who knows better than you
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the proper placement of footfalls
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on treacherous paths.
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Seward can't do it. You must.
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Because if you fail to acquire
the necessary votes,
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woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.
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Thank you.
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I know the vote is only four days away.
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I know you're concerned.
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Thank you for your concern over this.
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And I want you to know,
they'll approve it.
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God will see to it.
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I don't envy Him his task.
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He may wish He'd chosen
an instrument for His purpose
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more wieldy than
the House of Representatives.
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Then you'll see to it.
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Are you afraid of what
lies ahead for your people
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if we succeed?
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White people don't want us here.
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- Many don't.
- What about you?
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I don't know you, Mrs. Keckley.
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Any of you.
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You're familiar to me, as all people are,
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unaccommodated, poor, bare,
forked creatures,
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such as we all are.
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You have a right to expect what I expect.
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And likely our expectations
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are not incomprehensible to each other.
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I assume I'll get used to you.
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Now what you are to the nation,
258
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what'll become of you
once slavery's day is done,
259
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I don't know.
260
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What my people are to be, I can't say.
261
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Negroes have been fighting
and dying for freedom
262
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since the first of us was a slave.
263
00:16:03,781 --> 00:16:07,251
I never heard any ask
what freedom would bring.
264
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Freedom is first.
265
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As for me,
266
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my son died fighting for the Union,
267
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wearing the Union blue.
268
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For freedom he died.
269
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And I'm his mother.
270
00:16:30,975 --> 00:16:33,854
That's what I am
to the nation, Mr. Lincoln.
271
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What else must I be?
272
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My whole hand's gonna be proud
in about five seconds.
273
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Let's see how proud you can be.
274
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(BANGING ON DOOR)
275
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Go away. That watch fob, is that gold?
276
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You keep your eyes off my fob.
277
00:16:58,502 --> 00:17:00,709
Gentlemen, you have a visitor.
278
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BILBO: Goddamn!
LATHAM: Hey, Bill.
279
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(LINCOLN CLEARS THROAT)
280
00:17:05,109 --> 00:17:06,713
Well, I'll be fucked.
281
00:17:06,810 --> 00:17:08,255
I wouldn't bet against it.
282
00:17:08,345 --> 00:17:09,483
Mr, uh?
283
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W. N. Bilbo.
284
00:17:11,782 --> 00:17:13,819
Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen.
285
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Sir.
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00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:16,798
Why are you here? No offense,
287
00:17:16,921 --> 00:17:20,232
but Mr. Seward's banished
the very mention of your name.
288
00:17:20,324 --> 00:17:22,004
He won't even let us use fifty cent pieces
289
00:17:22,092 --> 00:17:23,901
'cause they've got your face on 'em.
290
00:17:24,695 --> 00:17:27,266
The Secretary of State here
tells me that you got
291
00:17:27,364 --> 00:17:29,810
11 Democrats in the bag.
That's encouraging.
292
00:17:29,934 --> 00:17:33,643
Oh, you've got no cause
to be encouraged, sir.
293
00:17:34,872 --> 00:17:36,977
Are we being fired?
294
00:17:38,375 --> 00:17:42,289
"We have heard the chimes
at midnight, Master Shallow."
295
00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:44,759
I'm here to alert you boys
296
00:17:44,848 --> 00:17:47,954
that the great day of reckoning
is nigh upon us.
297
00:17:48,385 --> 00:17:50,296
The Democrats we've yet to bag, sir,
298
00:17:50,387 --> 00:17:53,129
the patronage jobs simply won't bag 'em.
299
00:17:53,224 --> 00:17:55,830
They require more convincing,
Mr. President.
300
00:17:57,461 --> 00:18:00,340
Mm-hmm. Do me a favor, will you?
301
00:18:00,497 --> 00:18:01,498
Sure.
302
00:18:01,632 --> 00:18:03,634
It snagged my eye
in the paper this morning
303
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that the Governor Curtin
304
00:18:05,236 --> 00:18:07,546
is set to declare a winner in the disputed
305
00:18:07,671 --> 00:18:08,649
Congressional election for the...
306
00:18:08,739 --> 00:18:09,877
Pennsylvania 16th District.
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00:18:10,307 --> 00:18:13,049
District.
What a joy to be comprehended.
308
00:18:13,177 --> 00:18:15,714
Hop on a train to Philadel,
call on the Governor...
309
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Send Latham. Or Schell.
310
00:18:17,314 --> 00:18:19,294
No, he'll do fine.
Just polish yourself up first.
311
00:18:19,383 --> 00:18:20,691
(CHUCKLES)
312
00:18:21,252 --> 00:18:23,323
The incumbent is claiming
he won it. Name of...
313
00:18:23,420 --> 00:18:24,455
Coffroth.
314
00:18:24,555 --> 00:18:25,693
- That's him.
SCHELL: - Coffroth.
315
00:18:25,823 --> 00:18:27,700
- He's a Democrat.
- I understand that.
316
00:18:28,392 --> 00:18:30,463
- Silly name.
LINCOLN: - A little bit silly.
317
00:18:31,061 --> 00:18:33,974
Uh, tell Governor Curtin
it'd be much appreciated
318
00:18:34,064 --> 00:18:36,670
if he'd invite
the House of Representatives
319
00:18:36,767 --> 00:18:37,802
to decide who won.
320
00:18:37,901 --> 00:18:40,507
He's entitled to do that. He'll agree to it.
321
00:18:40,604 --> 00:18:42,880
Then advise Coffroth
322
00:18:43,007 --> 00:18:45,351
if he hopes to retain his seat,
323
00:18:45,442 --> 00:18:47,718
then he'd better pay a visit
to Thaddeus Stevens.
324
00:18:47,845 --> 00:18:49,415
SEWARD: Well, pity poor Coffroth.
325
00:18:49,546 --> 00:18:50,547
(LAUGHTER)
326
00:18:50,681 --> 00:18:51,659
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
327
00:18:51,749 --> 00:18:53,023
It opens!
328
00:19:00,024 --> 00:19:01,401
You are Canfrey?
329
00:19:03,427 --> 00:19:06,567
Coffroth, Mr. Stevens.
Alexander Coffroth.
330
00:19:06,697 --> 00:19:09,610
Are we representatives
of the same state?
331
00:19:09,733 --> 00:19:11,733
(STAMMERS) Yes, sir.
We sit only three desks apart.
332
00:19:11,769 --> 00:19:13,578
I haven't noticed you.
333
00:19:14,238 --> 00:19:17,219
I'm a Republican and you,
Coughdrop, are a Democrat?
334
00:19:17,308 --> 00:19:20,687
(STAMMERING) Well, uh, I, um,
that is to say...
335
00:19:20,778 --> 00:19:22,758
The modern travesty
of Thomas Jefferson's
336
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political organization
337
00:19:24,114 --> 00:19:25,855
to which you've attached
yourself like a barnacle
338
00:19:25,949 --> 00:19:29,226
has the effrontery to call
itself the Democratic Party.
339
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,267
You are a Democrat.
What's the matter with you?
340
00:19:32,389 --> 00:19:33,959
Are you wicked?
341
00:19:34,091 --> 00:19:35,627
- Well, I felt...
- Never mind.
342
00:19:35,759 --> 00:19:37,966
Coff snot, you were
ignominiously trounced
343
00:19:38,095 --> 00:19:39,615
at the hustings in November's election
344
00:19:39,730 --> 00:19:41,710
by your worthy challenger,
a Republican.
345
00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:43,642
No, sir, I was not trounced.
346
00:19:43,767 --> 00:19:45,747
He wants to steal my seat.
I didn't lose the election.
347
00:19:45,836 --> 00:19:47,281
What difference does it make
if you lost or not?
348
00:19:47,404 --> 00:19:51,546
The governor of our state
is... A Democrat?
349
00:19:52,776 --> 00:19:55,086
No, he's, he's a...
350
00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,058
(STAMMERING)
351
00:19:57,147 --> 00:19:58,125
Re...
352
00:19:59,183 --> 00:20:00,389
Re...
353
00:20:01,518 --> 00:20:03,759
- ...pub... lic...
- ...pub... lic...
354
00:20:03,854 --> 00:20:05,390
- ...can.
- ...can. Republican.
355
00:20:05,489 --> 00:20:07,662
I know what he is.
This is a rhetorical exercise.
356
00:20:07,791 --> 00:20:09,671
And Congress is controlled
by what party? Yours?
357
00:20:12,162 --> 00:20:13,937
Your party was beaten.
358
00:20:14,031 --> 00:20:16,568
Your challenger's party
now controls the House
359
00:20:16,667 --> 00:20:19,341
and hence the House
Committee on Elections,
360
00:20:19,470 --> 00:20:21,916
so you have been beaten.
361
00:20:22,005 --> 00:20:24,918
You shall shortly be sent home
in disgrace. Unless...
362
00:20:25,008 --> 00:20:26,089
I know what I must do, sir.
363
00:20:26,110 --> 00:20:28,351
I will immediately become
a Republican and vote yes...
364
00:20:28,445 --> 00:20:29,423
No!
365
00:20:30,214 --> 00:20:32,592
Coffroth will vote yes,
366
00:20:33,217 --> 00:20:34,662
but Coffroth will remain a Democrat
367
00:20:34,785 --> 00:20:35,763
until after he does so.
368
00:20:35,853 --> 00:20:37,423
Why wait to switch? I'm happy to...
369
00:20:37,521 --> 00:20:39,762
We want to show the amendment
has bipartisan support,
370
00:20:39,857 --> 00:20:41,803
you idiot. Early in the next Congress,
371
00:20:41,892 --> 00:20:44,133
when I tell you to do so,
you will switch parties.
372
00:20:44,228 --> 00:20:47,766
Now congratulations
on your victory, and get out.
373
00:20:47,865 --> 00:20:50,311
Now, give me the names
374
00:20:50,401 --> 00:20:52,347
of whoever else you've been hunting.
375
00:20:52,703 --> 00:20:53,977
Aw, hell.
376
00:20:54,371 --> 00:20:55,372
George Yeaman.
377
00:20:55,506 --> 00:20:56,883
Yes. Yeaman.
378
00:20:57,641 --> 00:20:59,120
Among others.
379
00:20:59,209 --> 00:21:00,813
- But Yeaman, that'd count.
- Yeah.
380
00:21:00,911 --> 00:21:02,686
Y-E-A-M-A-N.
381
00:21:03,180 --> 00:21:04,454
I got it.
382
00:21:05,382 --> 00:21:06,554
Kentucky.
383
00:21:09,420 --> 00:21:12,424
I can't vote for
the amendment, Mr. Lincoln.
384
00:21:20,030 --> 00:21:22,169
I saw a barge once, Mr. Yeaman,
385
00:21:22,866 --> 00:21:25,176
filled with colored men in chains
386
00:21:25,302 --> 00:21:26,508
heading down the Mississippi
387
00:21:26,637 --> 00:21:28,514
to the New Orleans slave markets.
388
00:21:29,973 --> 00:21:31,145
It sickened me.
389
00:21:32,509 --> 00:21:34,955
And more than that,
it brought a shadow down.
390
00:21:36,513 --> 00:21:38,823
A pall around my eyes.
391
00:21:40,517 --> 00:21:43,157
Slavery troubled me
as long as I can remember
392
00:21:44,021 --> 00:21:46,228
in a way it never troubled my father,
393
00:21:47,257 --> 00:21:49,533
though he hated it, in his own fashion.
394
00:21:50,994 --> 00:21:52,905
He knew no smallholding dirt farmer
395
00:21:53,030 --> 00:21:54,703
could compete with slave plantations
396
00:21:54,832 --> 00:21:57,073
so he took us out from Kentucky
397
00:21:57,201 --> 00:21:58,407
to get away from 'em.
398
00:21:58,535 --> 00:22:00,310
He wanted Indiana kept free.
399
00:22:01,905 --> 00:22:03,543
He wasn't a kind man
400
00:22:05,175 --> 00:22:08,588
but there was a rough,
moral urge for fairness,
401
00:22:08,712 --> 00:22:10,020
for freedom in him.
402
00:22:11,114 --> 00:22:13,025
I learnt that from him, I suppose.
403
00:22:13,951 --> 00:22:15,259
If little else from him.
404
00:22:17,888 --> 00:22:20,095
We didn't care
for one another, Mr. Yeaman.
405
00:22:23,727 --> 00:22:25,331
Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
406
00:22:25,496 --> 00:22:28,500
Loving kindness, that most
ordinary thing, came to me
407
00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:30,738
from other sources. I'm grateful for that.
408
00:22:30,868 --> 00:22:33,678
Well, I hate it, too, sir.
409
00:22:35,072 --> 00:22:36,380
Slavery, but...
410
00:22:37,474 --> 00:22:40,353
But we're entirely unready
for emancipation.
411
00:22:40,911 --> 00:22:42,049
And there's too many questions...
412
00:22:42,145 --> 00:22:43,453
We're unready for peace, too, ain't we?
413
00:22:43,580 --> 00:22:44,581
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
414
00:22:44,715 --> 00:22:46,922
Yeah, when it comes,
it'll present us with conundrums
415
00:22:47,050 --> 00:22:50,361
and dangers greater than
any we faced during the war,
416
00:22:50,454 --> 00:22:52,195
bloody as it's been.
417
00:22:52,289 --> 00:22:56,135
We'll have to extemporize and
experiment with what it is,
418
00:22:56,260 --> 00:22:57,364
when it is.
419
00:23:00,764 --> 00:23:02,402
I read your speech, George.
420
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,038
Negroes and the vote,
421
00:23:06,169 --> 00:23:07,273
that's a puzzle.
422
00:23:08,171 --> 00:23:11,744
No, no. But, but, but Negroes can't
423
00:23:12,643 --> 00:23:15,647
uh, vote, Mr. Lincoln.
424
00:23:16,914 --> 00:23:18,552
You're not suggesting
we enfranchise colored people?
425
00:23:18,749 --> 00:23:20,387
I'm asking only that
426
00:23:20,484 --> 00:23:24,296
you disenthrall yourself
from the slave powers.
427
00:23:25,856 --> 00:23:26,926
I'll let you know when
428
00:23:27,024 --> 00:23:28,664
there's an offer on my desk
for surrender.
429
00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:29,931
There's none before us now.
430
00:23:30,027 --> 00:23:31,131
What's before us now,
431
00:23:31,261 --> 00:23:33,969
that's the vote on the 13th Amendment.
432
00:23:35,365 --> 00:23:37,572
And it's going to be so very close.
433
00:23:40,804 --> 00:23:42,750
You see what you can do.
434
00:23:52,115 --> 00:23:53,594
I can't make sense of it.
435
00:23:54,151 --> 00:23:56,097
What he died for.
436
00:23:58,722 --> 00:24:00,998
Mr. Lincoln, I hate them all.
437
00:24:01,124 --> 00:24:03,195
I do. All black people.
438
00:24:03,527 --> 00:24:04,631
(DOOR OPENS)
439
00:24:06,196 --> 00:24:07,334
(DOOR SHUTS)
440
00:24:12,736 --> 00:24:14,943
I am a prejudiced man.
441
00:24:17,674 --> 00:24:19,551
Well, I'd change that in you if I could,
442
00:24:19,810 --> 00:24:21,187
but that's not why I come.
443
00:24:22,012 --> 00:24:23,685
I might be wrong, Mr. Hutton,
444
00:24:23,814 --> 00:24:27,193
but I expect colored people
most likely be free.
445
00:24:28,085 --> 00:24:29,325
And when that's so, it's simple truth
446
00:24:29,419 --> 00:24:31,399
that your brother's bravery
447
00:24:31,521 --> 00:24:33,330
and his death helped make it so.
448
00:24:35,025 --> 00:24:36,231
Only you can decide whether
449
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,760
that's sense enough for you or not.
450
00:24:41,531 --> 00:24:43,306
My deepest sympathies to your family.
451
00:24:49,906 --> 00:24:51,476
(CARRIAGE PULLS AWAY)
452
00:24:56,046 --> 00:24:58,583
We've managed our members
to a fare-thee-well.
453
00:24:59,916 --> 00:25:01,054
You've had no defections
454
00:25:01,184 --> 00:25:03,095
from the Republican right to trouble you.
455
00:25:04,421 --> 00:25:06,094
Whereas as to what you promised,
456
00:25:07,190 --> 00:25:09,170
where the hell are the commissioners?
457
00:25:10,127 --> 00:25:12,573
Oh, my God. It's true.
458
00:25:14,264 --> 00:25:16,505
You... You lied to me.
459
00:25:16,867 --> 00:25:20,337
Mr. Lincoln, you evaded
my request for a denial
460
00:25:20,437 --> 00:25:22,417
that there is a Confederate peace offer,
461
00:25:22,539 --> 00:25:24,348
because there is one!
462
00:25:24,708 --> 00:25:28,679
We are absolutely guaranteed
to lose the whole thing.
463
00:25:28,812 --> 00:25:31,691
We don't need a goddamn
abolition amendment!
464
00:25:32,315 --> 00:25:34,090
Leave the Constitution alone!
465
00:25:34,451 --> 00:25:35,555
ASHLEY: What if
the peace commissioners
466
00:25:35,652 --> 00:25:37,097
appear today, or worse...
467
00:25:40,557 --> 00:25:42,730
I can't listen to this anymore.
468
00:25:44,961 --> 00:25:47,908
I can't accomplish a goddamn thing
469
00:25:47,998 --> 00:25:50,478
of any human meaning or worth
470
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,377
until we cure ourselves of slavery
471
00:25:54,471 --> 00:25:57,145
and end this pestilential war!
472
00:25:58,475 --> 00:26:01,081
And whether any of you
or anyone else knows it,
473
00:26:01,178 --> 00:26:03,124
I know I need this!
474
00:26:03,914 --> 00:26:06,554
This amendment is that cure!
475
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,628
We are stepped out upon
the world stage now!
476
00:26:12,756 --> 00:26:13,962
Now!
477
00:26:14,624 --> 00:26:17,571
With the fate of human dignity
in our hands!
478
00:26:19,429 --> 00:26:21,932
Blood's been spilt to
afford us this moment!
479
00:26:22,199 --> 00:26:24,475
Now! Now! Now!
480
00:26:25,302 --> 00:26:28,340
And you grousle and heckle
and dodge about like
481
00:26:28,505 --> 00:26:30,416
pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!
482
00:26:31,675 --> 00:26:33,279
See what is before you.
483
00:26:34,277 --> 00:26:37,019
See the here and now, that's the
484
00:26:37,147 --> 00:26:40,185
hardest thing,
the only thing that accounts.
485
00:26:42,185 --> 00:26:46,258
Abolishing slavery
by constitutional provision
486
00:26:46,356 --> 00:26:50,099
settles the fate for all coming time
487
00:26:51,394 --> 00:26:54,375
not only of the millions now in bondage
488
00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:59,447
but of unborn millions to come.
489
00:27:01,037 --> 00:27:05,213
Two votes stand in its way.
These votes must be procured.
490
00:27:09,646 --> 00:27:14,220
We need two yeses,
three abstentions, or
491
00:27:14,351 --> 00:27:15,489
four yeses
492
00:27:15,585 --> 00:27:19,260
and one more abstention,
and the amendment will pass.
493
00:27:19,356 --> 00:27:20,957
You got a night, and a day, and a night,
494
00:27:20,991 --> 00:27:22,334
and several perfectly good hours.
495
00:27:22,425 --> 00:27:24,405
Now get the hell out of here and get 'em.
496
00:27:25,262 --> 00:27:26,741
Yes. But how?
497
00:27:28,999 --> 00:27:30,307
Buzzards' guts, man.
498
00:27:32,903 --> 00:27:37,010
I am the President of the
United States of America
499
00:27:37,774 --> 00:27:40,220
clothed in immense power.
500
00:27:42,712 --> 00:27:45,022
You will procure me these votes.
501
00:28:00,197 --> 00:28:01,335
(SIGHS)
502
00:28:11,208 --> 00:28:12,881
(SIGHS DEEPLY)
503
00:28:27,357 --> 00:28:29,234
(CROWD MURMURING)
504
00:28:44,541 --> 00:28:46,248
(MURMURING STOPS)
505
00:28:54,351 --> 00:28:57,127
We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen,
506
00:28:59,122 --> 00:29:01,500
first in the history of
this people's chamber,
507
00:29:02,993 --> 00:29:04,336
to your House.
508
00:29:05,228 --> 00:29:06,605
(APPLAUSE)
509
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:28,454
(GAVEL POUNDS)
510
00:29:29,152 --> 00:29:30,713
COLFAX: Mr. Ashley, the floor is yours.
511
00:29:31,588 --> 00:29:32,896
(APPLAUDING)
512
00:29:39,262 --> 00:29:41,208
On the matter of the
joint resolution before us,
513
00:29:41,331 --> 00:29:42,412
presenting a 13th Amendment
514
00:29:42,532 --> 00:29:44,739
to our National Constitution,
515
00:29:44,868 --> 00:29:47,144
which was passed last year
by the Senate
516
00:29:47,237 --> 00:29:48,648
and which has been debated now
517
00:29:48,738 --> 00:29:51,241
by this estimable body
for the past several weeks,
518
00:29:52,342 --> 00:29:53,548
today we will vote.
519
00:29:54,878 --> 00:29:56,016
(CHEERING)
520
00:29:57,447 --> 00:29:58,517
(Booms)
521
00:29:59,049 --> 00:30:00,926
By mutual agreement,
522
00:30:01,051 --> 00:30:03,258
we shall hear brief, final statements,
523
00:30:03,386 --> 00:30:04,364
(LAUGHTER)
524
00:30:04,888 --> 00:30:06,333
beginning with
525
00:30:06,423 --> 00:30:08,664
the honorable
George Pendleton of Ohio.
526
00:30:08,758 --> 00:30:09,930
(APPLAUSE)
527
00:30:15,031 --> 00:30:16,339
I have just received
528
00:30:18,301 --> 00:30:19,371
confirmation
529
00:30:20,103 --> 00:30:22,447
of what previously has
been merely rumored.
530
00:30:22,572 --> 00:30:25,109
Affidavits from loyal citizens
531
00:30:25,241 --> 00:30:26,743
recently returned from Richmond.
532
00:30:26,876 --> 00:30:29,413
They testify that
commissioners have indeed
533
00:30:29,746 --> 00:30:31,020
come north and ought to have arrived
534
00:30:31,114 --> 00:30:32,957
by now in Washington City
535
00:30:33,083 --> 00:30:36,030
bearing an offer of immediate cessation
536
00:30:36,453 --> 00:30:37,591
of our civil war.
537
00:30:37,988 --> 00:30:39,467
(SHOCKED CLAMORING)
538
00:30:39,956 --> 00:30:41,026
WOOD: Is it true, sir?
539
00:30:41,391 --> 00:30:43,632
Are there Confederate
commissioners in the capital?
540
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,535
I have no idea where they are
or if they've arrived.
541
00:30:45,628 --> 00:30:46,698
WOOD: They'll arrive.
542
00:30:47,063 --> 00:30:48,974
PENDLETON: I appeal to
my fellow Democrats,
543
00:30:49,099 --> 00:30:51,238
to all Republican representatives
544
00:30:51,334 --> 00:30:52,745
who give a fig for peace,
545
00:30:53,103 --> 00:30:55,083
postpone this vote!
546
00:30:55,305 --> 00:30:56,375
Until we have answers
547
00:30:56,506 --> 00:30:57,644
from the President himself!
548
00:30:57,974 --> 00:30:58,952
WOOD: Postpone the vote!
549
00:30:59,409 --> 00:31:01,821
DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES:
(CHANTING) Postpone the vote!
550
00:31:01,911 --> 00:31:04,721
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
551
00:31:05,181 --> 00:31:08,060
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
552
00:31:08,184 --> 00:31:09,390
Postpone the vote!
553
00:31:09,686 --> 00:31:11,188
Postpone the vote!
554
00:31:11,321 --> 00:31:13,001
- Postpone the vote!
SERGEANT: - Gentlemen!
555
00:31:13,023 --> 00:31:14,400
Postpone the vote!
556
00:31:14,891 --> 00:31:17,565
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
557
00:31:18,228 --> 00:31:20,071
Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!
558
00:31:22,032 --> 00:31:23,875
I have made a motion!
559
00:31:23,967 --> 00:31:26,504
Does anyone care to second my motion?
560
00:31:27,070 --> 00:31:28,515
(CHANTING CONTINUES)
561
00:31:38,681 --> 00:31:39,819
Gentlemen.
562
00:31:41,051 --> 00:31:42,587
The conservative faction
563
00:31:42,719 --> 00:31:44,824
of border and western Republicans
564
00:31:44,921 --> 00:31:47,094
cannot approve this amendment,
565
00:31:47,223 --> 00:31:49,260
about which we harbor grave doubts,
566
00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:53,564
if a peace offer is being
held hostage to its success.
567
00:31:54,564 --> 00:31:56,444
Joining together with
our Democratic colleagues,
568
00:31:56,566 --> 00:31:57,670
I second the motion
569
00:31:57,767 --> 00:31:59,178
to postpone.
570
00:31:59,269 --> 00:32:01,112
SCHELL: He must deny peace
commissioners are in the city.
571
00:32:01,237 --> 00:32:02,511
Quick, man. Quick.
572
00:32:20,423 --> 00:32:21,527
(PANTING)
573
00:32:23,726 --> 00:32:25,034
(GROANING)
574
00:32:45,014 --> 00:32:46,084
(COUGHING)
575
00:32:46,749 --> 00:32:47,727
(GROANS)
576
00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:50,593
(PANTING)
577
00:32:52,188 --> 00:32:55,101
This is precisely
what Mr. Wood wishes me
578
00:32:55,191 --> 00:32:56,431
to respond to?
579
00:32:57,794 --> 00:32:59,501
Word for word, this is precisely
580
00:32:59,629 --> 00:33:01,472
the assurance that he demands of me?
581
00:33:01,998 --> 00:33:03,272
Yes, sir.
582
00:33:05,001 --> 00:33:06,275
(PANTING)
583
00:33:07,203 --> 00:33:08,238
(CHUCKLING)
584
00:33:23,052 --> 00:33:24,531
Give this to Mr. Ashley.
585
00:33:28,057 --> 00:33:31,766
Uh, I feel I have to say,
Mr. Lincoln, that...
586
00:33:32,896 --> 00:33:34,375
Could you please just step outside?
587
00:33:34,797 --> 00:33:35,918
You want to have a chat now,
588
00:33:35,965 --> 00:33:37,035
with the whole of the
House of Representatives
589
00:33:37,167 --> 00:33:38,271
waiting on this?
590
00:33:38,902 --> 00:33:41,280
Making false representation
to Congress, is...
591
00:33:41,971 --> 00:33:43,507
- It's...
- It's impeachable,
592
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,280
but I've made no such
false representation.
593
00:33:46,709 --> 00:33:47,949
But there are.
594
00:33:48,678 --> 00:33:50,118
There is a delegation from Richmond.
595
00:33:50,747 --> 00:33:52,055
Give me the note, Johnnie.
596
00:33:55,885 --> 00:33:57,660
Please, deliver that to Mr. Ashley.
597
00:34:02,325 --> 00:34:03,633
(CROWD MURMURING)
598
00:34:08,364 --> 00:34:09,536
(MURMURING DIES DOWN)
599
00:34:17,006 --> 00:34:18,144
From the President.
600
00:34:19,075 --> 00:34:20,315
"So far as I know, there are no
601
00:34:20,343 --> 00:34:21,720
peace commissioners in the city
602
00:34:21,844 --> 00:34:23,152
nor are there likely to be."
603
00:34:23,246 --> 00:34:24,350
(CROWD MURMURING)
(GAVEL POUNDING)
604
00:34:24,447 --> 00:34:26,085
"So far as I know"?
605
00:34:27,517 --> 00:34:28,552
That means nothing.
606
00:34:30,053 --> 00:34:33,034
Are there commissioners from
the South, or aren't there?
607
00:34:34,457 --> 00:34:35,902
ASHLEY: The President
has answered you, sir.
608
00:34:36,025 --> 00:34:37,265
Your peace offer is a fiction.
609
00:34:37,594 --> 00:34:38,732
That is not a denial.
610
00:34:39,629 --> 00:34:41,165
It is a lawyer's dodge!
611
00:34:42,632 --> 00:34:44,703
Mr. Haddam, is your faction satisfied?
612
00:34:47,604 --> 00:34:50,084
The conservative Republican
faction is satisfied.
613
00:34:50,206 --> 00:34:51,685
And we thank Mr. Lincoln.
614
00:34:52,942 --> 00:34:54,922
I move to table Mr. Wood's motion.
615
00:34:55,411 --> 00:34:56,412
Tabled!
616
00:34:56,546 --> 00:34:58,186
(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
(CROWD MURMURING)
617
00:34:59,949 --> 00:35:02,555
Mr. Colfax, I order the main question.
618
00:35:03,319 --> 00:35:05,128
A motion has been made to bring the bill
619
00:35:05,255 --> 00:35:07,132
for the 13th Amendment to a vote.
620
00:35:07,257 --> 00:35:08,258
Do I hear a second?
621
00:35:08,458 --> 00:35:09,596
I second the motion.
622
00:35:09,826 --> 00:35:12,067
(POUNDS GAVEL)
So moved, so ordered.
623
00:35:12,795 --> 00:35:13,899
The Clerk will now...
624
00:35:13,997 --> 00:35:15,135
Quiet, please!
625
00:35:16,799 --> 00:35:19,075
The Clerk will now
call the roll for the voting.
626
00:35:25,174 --> 00:35:26,312
We begin with Connecticut.
627
00:35:26,643 --> 00:35:28,316
Mr. Augustus Benjamin,
628
00:35:28,444 --> 00:35:30,788
on the matter of this amendment,
how say you?
629
00:35:31,281 --> 00:35:32,316
Nay!
630
00:35:33,983 --> 00:35:35,462
CLERK: Mr. Arthur Bentleigh.
631
00:35:36,085 --> 00:35:37,792
Nay! (SPITS)
632
00:35:41,257 --> 00:35:43,567
Mr. John Ellis, how say you?
633
00:35:43,993 --> 00:35:44,994
ELLIS: Aye!
634
00:35:45,128 --> 00:35:46,106
MAN: - What!
(CROWD EXCLAIMING)
635
00:35:46,195 --> 00:35:47,230
(POUNDING TABLES)
636
00:35:52,835 --> 00:35:55,782
Missouri next. Mr. Walter Appleton.
637
00:35:56,773 --> 00:35:58,013
APPLETON: I vote no.
638
00:35:59,709 --> 00:36:00,949
Mr. Josiah Burton.
639
00:36:02,512 --> 00:36:06,289
Beanpole Burton is pleased to vote yea!
640
00:36:07,350 --> 00:36:08,328
(SCATTERED CLAPPING)
641
00:36:08,451 --> 00:36:09,759
CLERK: The State of New Jersey.
642
00:36:09,852 --> 00:36:11,991
- Mr. Nehemiah Cleary.
CLEARY: - No!
643
00:36:14,857 --> 00:36:16,268
Mr. James Martinson.
644
00:36:16,893 --> 00:36:18,930
Mr. Martinson has delegated me
645
00:36:19,362 --> 00:36:21,103
to say he is indisposed.
646
00:36:21,998 --> 00:36:23,306
And he abstains.
647
00:36:25,735 --> 00:36:26,941
Mr. Austin J. Roberts.
648
00:36:27,203 --> 00:36:29,479
Also indisposed, also abstaining.
649
00:36:34,811 --> 00:36:36,051
CLERK: Illinois concluded.
650
00:36:38,314 --> 00:36:40,487
Mr. Harold Hollister. How say you?
651
00:36:41,217 --> 00:36:42,218
No.
652
00:36:43,219 --> 00:36:44,493
CLERK: Mr. Hutton.
653
00:36:45,755 --> 00:36:47,894
Mr. William Hutton. Cast your vote.
654
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,897
William Hutton,
remembering at this moment
655
00:36:53,029 --> 00:36:54,872
his beloved brother Frederick
656
00:36:54,997 --> 00:36:57,307
votes against the amendment.
657
00:36:58,701 --> 00:37:00,544
(CLOCK TICKING)
658
00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:10,749
Webster Allen votes no.
659
00:37:14,083 --> 00:37:15,255
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)
- Webster Allen,
660
00:37:15,385 --> 00:37:17,865
Illinois, Democrat,
661
00:37:17,954 --> 00:37:19,934
votes no.
662
00:37:21,724 --> 00:37:25,501
Halberd Law, Indiana, Democrat,
663
00:37:25,595 --> 00:37:27,006
votes no.
664
00:37:29,232 --> 00:37:32,679
Archibald Moran, yes.
665
00:37:35,438 --> 00:37:38,009
Ambrose Baylor, yes.
666
00:37:39,909 --> 00:37:42,549
Mr. Walter H. Washburn.
667
00:37:43,413 --> 00:37:44,551
WASHBURN: Votes no.
668
00:37:48,317 --> 00:37:51,161
And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you?
669
00:38:03,199 --> 00:38:04,735
(WHISPERING) My vote ties us.
670
00:38:08,871 --> 00:38:09,906
Sir, Mr. Yeaman,
671
00:38:10,006 --> 00:38:11,679
I didn't hear your vote.
672
00:38:12,508 --> 00:38:15,318
I said "Aye", Mr. McPherson!
673
00:38:16,179 --> 00:38:17,180
Aye!
674
00:38:17,346 --> 00:38:18,324
Traitor!
675
00:38:18,481 --> 00:38:19,459
Order!
676
00:38:19,949 --> 00:38:21,087
(CLAMORING)
677
00:38:33,062 --> 00:38:34,541
COLFAX: Order in my chamber!
678
00:38:41,337 --> 00:38:44,147
Mr. McPherson, you may proceed.
679
00:38:47,543 --> 00:38:49,955
CLERK: Mr. Clay R. Hawkins of Ohio.
680
00:39:00,189 --> 00:39:02,030
- Goddamn it, I'm voting yes.
(LOUD PROTESTS)
681
00:39:02,925 --> 00:39:04,836
I don't care, you shoot me dead!
682
00:39:04,927 --> 00:39:07,339
You shoot me dead! I am voting yes!
683
00:39:08,865 --> 00:39:10,208
Mr. Edwin F. LeClerk.
684
00:39:10,833 --> 00:39:11,811
No!
685
00:39:14,670 --> 00:39:17,810
Oh, to hell with it.
Shoot me dead, too! Yes!
686
00:39:18,341 --> 00:39:19,411
(OUTRAGED PROTESTS)
687
00:39:21,177 --> 00:39:22,155
I mean...
688
00:39:22,912 --> 00:39:25,358
Abstention. Abstention!
689
00:39:25,548 --> 00:39:26,720
(CROWD MURMURING)
690
00:39:29,752 --> 00:39:31,197
MAN: Spineless! No gender.
691
00:39:37,693 --> 00:39:39,104
Mr. Alexander Coffroth.
692
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,380
I vote
693
00:39:47,136 --> 00:39:48,171
Yes.
694
00:39:48,871 --> 00:39:50,077
(APPLAUDING)
695
00:39:53,109 --> 00:39:54,179
SERGEANT: Yea.
696
00:39:54,277 --> 00:39:55,620
(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)
697
00:39:55,778 --> 00:39:57,280
James Brooks...
698
00:39:58,314 --> 00:39:59,520
Nay.
699
00:40:00,750 --> 00:40:02,195
Josiah Grenelle...
700
00:40:03,486 --> 00:40:04,692
Yea.
701
00:40:05,821 --> 00:40:06,959
Meyer Strauss...
702
00:40:08,324 --> 00:40:09,394
Nay.
703
00:40:10,092 --> 00:40:12,094
CLERK: - Mr. Joseph Marstern.
- Nay.
704
00:40:12,228 --> 00:40:14,572
CLERK: - Mr. Chilton A. Elliot.
- No!
705
00:40:15,097 --> 00:40:17,077
CLERK: - Mr. Daniel G. Stuart.
- I vote yes.
706
00:40:17,466 --> 00:40:18,444
CLERK: - Mr. Howard Guilfoyle.
- Yea.
707
00:40:18,601 --> 00:40:19,944
CLERK: - John F. McKenzie.
- Yea.
708
00:40:20,136 --> 00:40:21,376
CLERK: - Andrew E. Fink.
- Nay.
709
00:40:21,437 --> 00:40:22,939
CLERK: - Mr. John A. Castle.
- Yea.
710
00:40:23,072 --> 00:40:24,415
CLERK: - Mr. Hanready.
- Nay.
711
00:40:24,607 --> 00:40:26,087
CLERK: - And Mr. Rufus Warren?
- Yea.
712
00:40:46,963 --> 00:40:48,670
CLERK: The roll call concludes.
713
00:40:49,198 --> 00:40:51,337
The voting is completed. Now...
714
00:40:51,467 --> 00:40:54,175
Mr. Clerk, please call my name.
715
00:40:55,338 --> 00:40:56,510
I want to cast a vote.
716
00:40:56,639 --> 00:40:57,845
PENDLETON: I object.
717
00:40:58,774 --> 00:41:00,117
The Speaker doesn't vote.
718
00:41:00,443 --> 00:41:02,582
The Speaker may vote if he so chooses.
719
00:41:03,012 --> 00:41:04,923
It is highly unusual, sir.
720
00:41:05,147 --> 00:41:06,751
This isn't usual, Mr. Pendleton.
721
00:41:06,849 --> 00:41:08,021
This is history.
722
00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:12,931
How does Mr. Schuyler Colfax vote?
723
00:41:17,793 --> 00:41:19,204
Aye, of course.
724
00:41:19,462 --> 00:41:20,702
(CROWD LAUGHING)
725
00:41:42,518 --> 00:41:43,724
The final vote.
726
00:41:45,588 --> 00:41:47,625
Eight absent or not voting.
727
00:41:49,558 --> 00:41:51,333
Fifty-six votes against.
728
00:41:52,595 --> 00:41:54,836
One hundred and nineteen votes for.
729
00:41:55,898 --> 00:41:57,571
With a margin of two votes...
730
00:41:59,101 --> 00:42:00,705
(CLOCK TICKING)
731
00:42:06,208 --> 00:42:09,655
(CHURCH BELLS CHIMING FAINTLY)
732
00:42:21,891 --> 00:42:23,837
(CHIMING GETS LOUDER)
733
00:42:23,926 --> 00:42:25,837
(CANNONS BLASTING)
734
00:42:34,103 --> 00:42:35,673
(ALL CLAMORING)
735
00:42:39,775 --> 00:42:41,686
(CHEERING)
736
00:42:46,415 --> 00:42:48,258
We chose great leadership.
737
00:42:58,627 --> 00:42:59,765
(BELLS TOLLING)
738
00:43:02,398 --> 00:43:04,239
ALL: (SINGING)
♪ We'll rally round the flag, boys ♪
739
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:06,041
♪ We'll rally once again ♪
740
00:43:06,135 --> 00:43:08,115
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
741
00:43:09,572 --> 00:43:11,984
♪ We will rally from the hillside ♪
742
00:43:12,108 --> 00:43:13,985
♪ We'll gather from the plain ♪
743
00:43:14,110 --> 00:43:17,648
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
744
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:22,290
♪ The Union forever! ♪
♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪
745
00:43:22,418 --> 00:43:24,227
♪ Down with the traitor ♪
746
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:25,993
♪ And up with the star ♪
747
00:43:26,255 --> 00:43:30,135
♪ Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom! ♪
748
00:43:30,459 --> 00:43:32,063
Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.
749
00:43:32,161 --> 00:43:34,232
The bill, Mr. McPherson. May I?
750
00:43:34,363 --> 00:43:35,967
(SINGING CONTINUES)
751
00:43:36,699 --> 00:43:40,169
♪ The Union forever! ♪
♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪
752
00:43:40,536 --> 00:43:43,073
That's, that's the official bill.
753
00:43:43,172 --> 00:43:45,174
I'll return it in the morning.
754
00:43:45,808 --> 00:43:47,151
Creased,
755
00:43:48,043 --> 00:43:49,021
but unharmed.
756
00:43:49,145 --> 00:43:52,786
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
757
00:43:52,882 --> 00:43:57,160
♪ We are springing to the call ♪
♪ Of the loyal, true and brave ♪
758
00:43:57,353 --> 00:43:58,714
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
759
00:43:59,088 --> 00:44:00,795
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
(BAND PLAYING)
760
00:44:00,956 --> 00:44:03,095
♪ And we'll fill our vacant ranks ♪
761
00:44:03,192 --> 00:44:05,103
♪ With a million freemen more ♪
762
00:44:05,995 --> 00:44:08,703
♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪
763
00:44:09,899 --> 00:44:11,435
♪ The Union forever! ♪
764
00:44:12,301 --> 00:44:13,780
♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪
765
00:44:14,370 --> 00:44:17,783
♪ Down with the traitor ♪
♪ And up with the star ♪♪
766
00:44:39,728 --> 00:44:41,833
A gift for you.
767
00:44:46,202 --> 00:44:48,239
The greatest measure
of the 19th century,
768
00:44:48,370 --> 00:44:49,405
passed by corruption,
769
00:44:49,538 --> 00:44:52,747
aided and abetted by
the purest man in America.
770
00:45:11,427 --> 00:45:13,338
I wish you had been present.
771
00:45:14,129 --> 00:45:16,200
- I wish I'd been.
- It was a spectacle.
772
00:45:17,099 --> 00:45:19,545
You can't bring your
housekeeper to the House.
773
00:45:19,635 --> 00:45:21,615
I won't give them gossip.
774
00:45:21,737 --> 00:45:23,239
This is enough.
775
00:45:23,639 --> 00:45:24,743
This is...
776
00:45:26,442 --> 00:45:28,217
It's more than enough for now.
777
00:45:29,812 --> 00:45:31,519
Read it to me again, my love.
778
00:45:33,549 --> 00:45:35,392
- "Proposed..."
- And adopted.
779
00:45:35,484 --> 00:45:36,861
"Adopted,
780
00:45:37,553 --> 00:45:38,623
an amendment to
781
00:45:38,754 --> 00:45:41,701
the Constitution of the United States."
782
00:45:41,790 --> 00:45:43,201
Section One.
783
00:45:43,626 --> 00:45:47,403
"Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude
784
00:45:47,496 --> 00:45:50,272
except as a punishment for crime
785
00:45:50,399 --> 00:45:53,812
whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted
786
00:45:54,403 --> 00:45:57,213
shall exist within the United States
787
00:45:57,740 --> 00:46:01,153
or any place subject
to their jurisdiction."
788
00:46:01,277 --> 00:46:02,654
Section Two.
789
00:46:03,178 --> 00:46:07,320
"Congress shall have power
to enforce this amendment
790
00:46:07,449 --> 00:46:09,429
by appropriate legislation."
791
00:46:16,492 --> 00:46:16,591
(CROWD CHEERING)
792
00:46:16,592 --> 00:46:17,798
(CROWD CHEERING)
793
00:46:20,996 --> 00:46:22,304
(SHIP HORN BLOWING)
794
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:32,812
Let me be blunt.
795
00:46:33,542 --> 00:46:35,180
Will the Southern states
796
00:46:35,311 --> 00:46:37,814
resume their former position
in the Union
797
00:46:37,947 --> 00:46:39,426
speedily enough to enable us
798
00:46:39,515 --> 00:46:42,086
to block ratification to this here
799
00:46:42,184 --> 00:46:43,322
13th Amendment?
800
00:46:47,990 --> 00:46:49,492
I'd like peace immediately.
801
00:46:50,492 --> 00:46:51,869
Yes, and?
802
00:46:54,797 --> 00:46:57,334
I'd like your states restored to
803
00:46:57,466 --> 00:47:01,004
their practical relations
with the Union immediately.
804
00:47:03,806 --> 00:47:05,843
If this could be given to me in writing,
805
00:47:06,408 --> 00:47:08,319
as Vice President of the Confederacy,
806
00:47:08,410 --> 00:47:09,718
I'd bring that document
807
00:47:09,845 --> 00:47:11,654
with celerity, to Jefferson Davis.
808
00:47:14,350 --> 00:47:15,454
Surrender.
809
00:47:15,985 --> 00:47:18,295
And we can discuss reconstruction.
810
00:47:20,155 --> 00:47:21,691
Surrender won't be thought of.
811
00:47:22,524 --> 00:47:25,664
Unless you've assured us, in writing,
812
00:47:25,761 --> 00:47:28,469
that we'll be readmitted
in time to block this amendment.
813
00:47:29,064 --> 00:47:32,568
This is the arrogant demand
of a conqueror.
814
00:47:32,835 --> 00:47:35,679
You'll not be
a conquered people, Mr. Hunter.
815
00:47:35,771 --> 00:47:37,216
You will be citizens.
816
00:47:38,407 --> 00:47:39,977
Returned to the laws and
the guarantees of rights
817
00:47:40,075 --> 00:47:41,053
of the Constitution.
818
00:47:42,011 --> 00:47:44,651
Which now extinguishes slavery.
819
00:47:44,747 --> 00:47:47,489
And with it, our economy.
820
00:47:47,850 --> 00:47:49,211
All our laws will be determined by
821
00:47:49,251 --> 00:47:50,855
a Congress of vengeful Yankees.
822
00:47:51,687 --> 00:47:54,190
All our rights will be subject
to a Supreme Court
823
00:47:54,923 --> 00:47:56,903
benched by bloody Republican radicals.
824
00:47:57,593 --> 00:48:00,506
All our traditions will be obliterated.
825
00:48:01,463 --> 00:48:03,204
We won't know ourselves anymore.
826
00:48:05,267 --> 00:48:07,679
We ain't here to discuss reconstruction.
827
00:48:07,770 --> 00:48:10,114
We have no legal basis
for that discussion.
828
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:11,843
But I don't want to deal falsely.
829
00:48:11,940 --> 00:48:14,443
The Northern states
will ratify, most of them.
830
00:48:14,576 --> 00:48:16,351
As I figure it, it remains for
two of the Southern states
831
00:48:16,445 --> 00:48:17,446
to do the same,
832
00:48:17,579 --> 00:48:19,217
even after all are readmitted.
833
00:48:19,314 --> 00:48:20,884
And I've been working on that.
834
00:48:21,884 --> 00:48:22,954
Tennessee and Louisiana.
835
00:48:23,419 --> 00:48:25,592
Arkansas, too, most likely.
It'll be ratified.
836
00:48:26,321 --> 00:48:29,063
Slavery, sir... It's done.
837
00:48:42,571 --> 00:48:45,279
If we submit ourselves to law, Alex,
838
00:48:46,075 --> 00:48:48,055
even submit to losing freedoms,
839
00:48:49,478 --> 00:48:51,617
the freedom to oppress, for instance
840
00:48:52,781 --> 00:48:54,556
we may discover other freedoms
841
00:48:54,716 --> 00:48:56,195
previously unknown to us.
842
00:48:57,286 --> 00:49:00,790
Had you kept faith
with the democratic process,
843
00:49:00,923 --> 00:49:02,334
as frustrating as that can be...
844
00:49:02,458 --> 00:49:03,664
Come, sir.
845
00:49:03,826 --> 00:49:06,306
Spare us, at least, these pieties.
846
00:49:07,296 --> 00:49:08,832
Did you defeat us with ballots?
847
00:49:10,332 --> 00:49:12,141
How have you held your Union together?
848
00:49:13,168 --> 00:49:14,340
Through democracy?
849
00:49:15,637 --> 00:49:17,344
How many hundreds
of thousands have died
850
00:49:17,473 --> 00:49:18,850
during your administration?
851
00:49:20,309 --> 00:49:22,915
Your Union, sir, is bonded
in cannon fire and death.
852
00:49:26,715 --> 00:49:28,126
It may be you're right.
853
00:49:32,554 --> 00:49:35,364
But say all we done is show the world
854
00:49:35,491 --> 00:49:37,630
that democracy isn't chaos.
855
00:49:40,329 --> 00:49:43,776
That there is a great, invisible strength
856
00:49:43,866 --> 00:49:45,209
in a people's union.
857
00:49:46,168 --> 00:49:50,014
Say we've shown that a people
can endure awful sacrifice
858
00:49:50,139 --> 00:49:51,777
and yet cohere.
859
00:49:52,407 --> 00:49:53,545
Mightn't that save at least
860
00:49:53,675 --> 00:49:55,882
the idea of democracy to aspire to?
861
00:49:57,379 --> 00:49:59,655
Eventually to become worthy of?
862
00:50:03,852 --> 00:50:05,729
At all rates, whatever may be proven
863
00:50:05,854 --> 00:50:08,027
by blood and sacrifice
864
00:50:08,157 --> 00:50:09,659
must have been proved by now.
865
00:50:20,068 --> 00:50:22,173
Shall we stop this bleeding?
866
00:50:25,174 --> 00:50:27,711
(RUMBLING)
867
00:52:00,836 --> 00:52:01,814
Once he surrenders,
868
00:52:01,937 --> 00:52:03,678
send his boys back to their homes
869
00:52:04,539 --> 00:52:06,143
and their farms, their shops.
870
00:52:08,110 --> 00:52:09,180
Yes, sir.
871
00:52:10,545 --> 00:52:11,523
As we discussed.
872
00:52:11,647 --> 00:52:13,820
Liberality all around, not punishment.
873
00:52:13,949 --> 00:52:14,984
I don't want that.
874
00:52:15,884 --> 00:52:18,763
And their leaders,
Jeff and the rest of them,
875
00:52:18,854 --> 00:52:20,128
they escape, leave the country
876
00:52:20,222 --> 00:52:22,702
while my back's turned,
that wouldn't upset me none.
877
00:52:24,059 --> 00:52:26,767
When peace comes,
it mustn't just be hangings.
878
00:52:33,235 --> 00:52:34,771
By outward appearance
879
00:52:36,538 --> 00:52:39,314
you're 10 years older
than you were a year ago.
880
00:52:39,875 --> 00:52:40,979
Hmm.
881
00:52:42,678 --> 00:52:44,885
Some weariness has bit at my bones.
882
00:52:58,393 --> 00:53:00,669
I never seen the like of it before,
883
00:53:00,762 --> 00:53:02,241
what I seen today.
884
00:53:03,865 --> 00:53:05,674
Never seen the like of it before.
885
00:53:08,403 --> 00:53:09,905
You always knew that.
886
00:53:11,373 --> 00:53:12,875
What this was going to be.
887
00:53:14,743 --> 00:53:16,814
Intimate and ugly.
888
00:53:20,015 --> 00:53:21,494
You must have needed to see it close
889
00:53:21,583 --> 00:53:22,983
when you decided to come down here.
890
00:53:24,019 --> 00:53:25,054
Hmm.
891
00:53:42,237 --> 00:53:45,878
We've made it possible for
one another to do terrible things.
892
00:53:48,276 --> 00:53:49,846
We've won the war.
893
00:53:50,879 --> 00:53:54,190
Now you have to lead us out of it.
894
00:55:26,241 --> 00:55:27,845
You have an itch to travel?
895
00:55:28,210 --> 00:55:30,019
Mm-hmm. I'd like that.
896
00:55:31,546 --> 00:55:33,787
To the West, by rail.
897
00:55:33,882 --> 00:55:35,225
Overseas.
898
00:55:37,419 --> 00:55:38,557
The Holy Land.
899
00:55:39,754 --> 00:55:40,994
(MARY CHUCKLES)
900
00:55:41,590 --> 00:55:43,194
Awfully pious for a man
901
00:55:43,325 --> 00:55:45,828
who takes his wife out
buggy-riding on Good Friday.
902
00:55:46,595 --> 00:55:47,733
Jerusalem.
903
00:55:48,363 --> 00:55:50,172
Where David and Solomon walked.
904
00:55:50,532 --> 00:55:53,979
I dream of walking in that ancient city.
905
00:56:00,275 --> 00:56:01,982
All anyone will remember of me
906
00:56:02,077 --> 00:56:04,717
is I was crazy and
I ruined your happiness.
907
00:56:05,514 --> 00:56:08,017
Anyone thinks that
doesn't understand, Molly.
908
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:13,399
When they look at you,
909
00:56:14,923 --> 00:56:17,665
at what it cost to live at the heart of this,
910
00:56:19,194 --> 00:56:21,401
they'll wonder at it.
They'll wonder at you.
911
00:56:21,530 --> 00:56:22,668
They should.
912
00:56:24,032 --> 00:56:25,204
But they should also look at
913
00:56:25,300 --> 00:56:26,836
the wretched woman by your side
914
00:56:26,935 --> 00:56:29,745
if they want to understand
what this was truly like.
915
00:56:30,906 --> 00:56:32,385
For the ordinary person.
916
00:56:33,441 --> 00:56:35,011
For anyone other than you.
917
00:56:35,210 --> 00:56:36,917
You must try to be happier.
918
00:56:37,913 --> 00:56:39,415
We must, both of us.
919
00:56:39,981 --> 00:56:42,188
We've been so miserable for so long.
920
00:56:51,893 --> 00:56:54,669
I did say some colored men...
921
00:56:54,763 --> 00:56:57,209
The intelligent, the educated, and the
922
00:56:57,299 --> 00:56:59,245
veterans. I qualified it.
923
00:56:59,367 --> 00:57:00,846
Mr. Stevens is furious.
924
00:57:00,936 --> 00:57:02,609
He wants to know why you qualified it.
925
00:57:02,737 --> 00:57:04,944
No one heard
the intelligent or educated part.
926
00:57:05,073 --> 00:57:07,075
All they heard was the first time
927
00:57:07,208 --> 00:57:09,882
any president has ever made mention
928
00:57:09,978 --> 00:57:11,286
of Negro voting.
929
00:57:11,713 --> 00:57:15,456
Still, I wish I'd mentioned it
in a better speech.
930
00:57:15,584 --> 00:57:17,291
Mr. Stevens also wants to know
931
00:57:17,419 --> 00:57:19,228
why you didn't make a better speech.
932
00:57:20,722 --> 00:57:21,922
(ALL CHUCKLING)
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
933
00:57:21,957 --> 00:57:23,231
NICOLAY: Mrs. Lincoln is
waiting in the carriage.
934
00:57:23,358 --> 00:57:25,804
She wants me to remind you
of the hour, and that
935
00:57:25,927 --> 00:57:28,669
you'll have to pick up
Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.
936
00:57:32,233 --> 00:57:34,042
- Am I in trouble?
- No, sir.
937
00:57:34,569 --> 00:57:35,912
Thank you, Mr. Slade.
938
00:57:51,486 --> 00:57:52,931
I suppose it's time to go.
939
00:57:54,556 --> 00:57:56,160
Though I would rather stay.
940
00:58:48,043 --> 00:58:49,750
(GRUNTING)
(SWORDS CLANKING)
941
00:58:52,113 --> 00:58:53,251
(MAN LAUGHS)
942
00:58:54,516 --> 00:58:56,120
(SWORDS CONTINUE CLANKING)
943
00:59:04,526 --> 00:59:05,630
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
944
00:59:14,402 --> 00:59:15,506
(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS)
945
00:59:25,980 --> 00:59:28,358
The President has been shot!
946
00:59:29,350 --> 00:59:31,159
(AUDIENCE GASPS)
947
00:59:31,352 --> 00:59:32,558
The President
948
00:59:32,687 --> 00:59:35,395
has been shot! At Ford's Theater!
949
00:59:35,824 --> 00:59:36,894
(CROWD CLAMORING)
950
00:59:37,659 --> 00:59:39,161
(WOMEN SHRIEKING)
951
00:59:41,096 --> 00:59:43,269
No. No!
952
00:59:43,832 --> 00:59:46,142
(SCREAMS)
953
01:00:17,298 --> 01:00:20,609
It's 7:22 in the morning.
954
01:00:21,669 --> 01:00:23,376
Saturday, the 15th of April.
955
01:00:23,471 --> 01:00:24,745
It's all over.
956
01:00:24,839 --> 01:00:26,250
The President is no more.
957
01:00:30,011 --> 01:00:31,957
Now he belongs to the ages.
958
01:00:38,319 --> 01:00:40,060
LINCOLN: Fondly do we hope,
959
01:00:41,756 --> 01:00:43,758
fervently do we pray,
960
01:00:45,326 --> 01:00:48,273
that this mighty scourge of war,
961
01:00:48,363 --> 01:00:50,309
may speedily pass away.
962
01:00:53,434 --> 01:00:55,937
Yet if God wills that it continue
963
01:00:56,604 --> 01:00:58,914
until all the wealth piled
964
01:00:59,007 --> 01:01:02,113
by the bondman's 250 years
965
01:01:02,210 --> 01:01:05,248
of unrequited toil shall be sunk
966
01:01:06,614 --> 01:01:10,653
and until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash
967
01:01:10,785 --> 01:01:14,426
shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword
968
01:01:15,723 --> 01:01:18,101
as was said 3,000 years ago,
969
01:01:18,193 --> 01:01:20,366
so still it must be said,
970
01:01:21,296 --> 01:01:23,105
"The judgments of the Lord
971
01:01:24,032 --> 01:01:28,378
are true and righteous altogether."
972
01:01:34,142 --> 01:01:35,815
With malice toward none,
973
01:01:38,046 --> 01:01:40,048
with charity for all,
974
01:01:41,749 --> 01:01:43,456
with firmness in the right,
975
01:01:43,551 --> 01:01:45,827
as God gives us to see the right,
976
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,060
let us strive on to finish
the work we are in,
977
01:01:49,858 --> 01:01:52,168
to bind up the nation's wounds,
978
01:01:53,061 --> 01:01:54,506
to care
979
01:01:54,863 --> 01:01:57,173
for him who shall have borne the battle
980
01:01:58,499 --> 01:02:00,376
and for his widow
981
01:02:01,035 --> 01:02:02,241
and his orphan,
982
01:02:04,038 --> 01:02:08,180
to do all which may achieve and cherish
983
01:02:09,377 --> 01:02:13,985
a just and a lasting peace
among ourselves
984
01:02:15,416 --> 01:02:17,418
and with all nations.
985
01:02:17,443 --> 01:02:19,443
(ENGLISH US - SDH)