Lincoln (2012) Edit

A 16 year old boy for that...

A child who was not only sick, dangerously sick,

A compass, I learned when I was surveying,

A Congress of vengeful Yankees.

A deal is a deal.

A fantastical rumor's bruited about,

A flaw in the Democratic process had elevated us.

A good drink of water, and I told her, Tennessee.

A hundred shells a minute.

A just and a lasting peace among ourselves

A lethal challenge to our pulmonary capabilities!

A motion has been made to bring the bill

A new nation, conceived in liberty

A pall around my eyes.

A portion of that field

A Republican,

A sniper, or a shrapnel shell, a typhus

A tax man for the Western Reserve?

A truce between warring nations,

A. Lincoln. And the date.

Aboard the River Queen

Abolishing slavery by constitutional provision

About how they change.

About my insolvency proceeding?

About the toll booth?

About which we harbor grave doubts,

Abraham Lincoln has asked us to work with him

Abstention. Abstention!

Abuser of states' rights...

According to the law,

Actually, I have no idea what you mean by that.

Adopted,

Affidavits from loyal citizens

Affixed his name to his heinous and illicit

After four years of war, and

After the decades of fervent advocacy...

After they got walloped, but

Aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

All anyone will remember of me

All our laws will be determined by

All our preparing the ground for the vote

All our rights will be subject to a Supreme Court

All our traditions will be obliterated.

All over town.

All Republicans ought to be conservative.

All Republicans ought to be conservative.

All right?

All they heard was the first time

ALL: (SINGING) ♪ We are coming, Father Abraham ♪

Alone, as I must. And you alone, Mary,

Also indisposed, also abstaining.

Although I am disgusted by slavery,

Ambrose Baylor, yes.

Among others.

Among the few remaining Representatives

An absurdity, but

An amendment to

And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements.

And abolishing slavery will end this war.

And achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp,

And any legislation that so affronts natural law

And bear what we must. Hold and carry what we must.

And bundle up with Thaddeus Stevens's gang!

And come February the first,

And Congress is controlled by what party? Yours?

And count myself a king of infinite space

And dangers greater than any we faced during the war,

And dangers greater than any we faced during the war,

And dedicated to the proposition

And deep into the night.

And end this pestilential war!

And Ethan Allen went to London

And every dollar of their property.

And for his widow

And for which countless colored men and women

And fractured his skull and he died.

And furniture and ghosts!

And gentlemen, good day.

And have sufficient sense and taste

And he abstains.

And hence the House Committee on Elections,

And his orphan,

And how will I ever forgive you?

And I can no longer use my war powers

And I cannot cut hair.

And I don't need your permission to enlist.

And I have tried to profit from the example of it, but

And I hoped it was legal to do it.

And I look a lot worse without my wig.

And I still do. Every day I do.

And I'd like you to stand behind me

And I'm his mother.

And I've been working on that.

And if calling a man property

And if I refuse to take the high road?

And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor's

And inform him of your enthusiasm.

And instead of abolishing slavery

And is that why you favor it?

And it goes on like that.

And it's going to be so very close.

And lastly,

And likely our expectations

And making $3 less each month than white soldiers.

And more importantly, the people behind you.

And more than that, it brought a shadow down.

And Mr. George Yeaman, how say you?

And next, the Democrats will invite them

And no to peace, they will kill me.

And not citizens of a belligerent country?

And not just to other people, but to myself!

And not the selfish point of view.

And now

And now hundreds of thousands of soldiers...

And now that they can tolerate

And one more abstention, and the amendment will pass.

And only mention of slavery

And Quincy Adams

And refused them, which we will have to do,

And returned to the drawing room.

And revolutionary tribunals.

And rude and simple minded, and on like that,

And say which grain will grow and which will not,

And send us all to eternity.

And several perfectly good hours.

And she grabbed ahold of a stick of firewood

And shipping outwith the 24th Infantry

And since you are sending my son into the war,

And slipperier still, I maintain it ain't

And so again, sir, again and again and again I say,

And spare me the indignity

And talk to Jefferson Davis.

And tawdry burlesque?

And that government of the people, by the people,

And the border states would have gone over

And the country better for it!

And the entire Cabinet's waiting

And the fighting.

And the gentleman from Pennsylvania

And the newspapers... Oh, the newspapers.

And the one before that.

And the Union along with it,

And the war is done.

And their Assistant Secretary of War.

And their desire sincere to restore peace and union.

And their farms, their shops.

And their leaders, Jeff and the rest of them,

And there wait until

And there's too many questions...

And they bargained him down to Postmaster.

And they re elected me.

And they'll give up. The war can finish then.

And this here by the fire is Secretary of State Seward.

And this man Heinz Sauermagen from Rolla

And though it's imperceptible in the darkness,

And to reduce these proceedings

And transform the heritage of traitors.

And until every drop of blood drawn with the lash

And we are all getting along, or so they tell me.

And we can discuss reconstruction.

And we didn't leave a one of 'em alive.

And we finally placed a harpoon

And we find the mephitic fumes of his oratory

And we will be forced to enfranchise

And we'll consider what the law says.

And what is the reason for this thusness?

And what they want.

And what they're ready for.

And what wouldn't those

And when that's so, it's simple truth

And when up

And whether any of you or anyone else knows it,

And which has been debated now

And Wilmington has fallen.

And Wilmington?

And with all nations.

And with it, our economy.

And yet cohere.

And yet how important to remember it.

And you grousle and heckle and dodge about like

And you hadn't the courage

And you informally send a reactionary dotard to...

And you must answer me.

And you spare me nothing.

And, and,

And, at their side, soldiers armed to occupy

And, uh, one day

And?

Another $3 subtracted from our pay for our uniforms.

Another casualty of the war.

Any more corpses?

Any of you.

Any president has ever made mention

Anyone thinks that doesn't understand, Molly.

Appear today, or worse...

APPLETON: I vote no.

Appropriate? (CHUCKLES)

Archibald Moran, yes.

Are equal to each other.

Are equal to each other.

Are in order, madam,

Are not incomprehensible to each other.

Are property in the first place.

Are there commissioners from the South, or aren't there?

Are there Confederate commissioners in the capital?

Are true and righteous altogether.

Are we being fired?

Are we fitted to the times we're born into?

Are we not concentrating

Are we representatives of the same state?

Are you afraid of what lies ahead for your people

Are you despairing or merely lazy?

Are you wicked?

Arkansas, too, most likely. It'll be ratified.

As a final resting place for those who here

As a military necessity.

As far as Hampton Roads, Virginia,

As for me,

As frustrating as that can be...

As God gives us to see the right,

As I now say to mine, I'm Commander in Chief.

As if your committee joined with all of Washington

As it's taken multitudes of sons.

As Lincoln intends them to, and one by one,

As long as your household accounts

As property confiscated in war.

As property,

As scripture has foretold.

As soon as Savannah fell

As such, so I confiscate them.

As the preacher said,

As they travel up the James River.

As Vice President of the Confederacy,

As was said 3,000 years ago,

As we discussed.

As you choose.

As you did when I couldn't stop crying over Willie.

As you have done until now.

ASA: No, Mr. Stevens, he hasn't.

Ashley insists you're ensuring approval

ASHLEY: Ah, well, the news...

ASHLEY: The President has answered you, sir.

ASHLEY: What if the peace commissioners

Ask Preston Blair can I call on him around 5:00.

Ask the horse what he thinks.

Assistant Port Inspector in Morristown

Assuming all Republicans vote for the amendment.

At a terrific speed.

At all rates, whatever may be proven

At least not yet.

At school. Ain't that fine?

At the plates again.

At what it cost to live at the heart of this,

Aw, hell.

Aw, jeez, shut up.

Awaiting in what you anticipated

Awfully pious for a man

Aye, of course.

Aye!

Back when I rode the legal circuit in Illinois,

Be careful with them now.

Beanpole Burton is pleased to vote yea!

Beanpole Burton.

Bearing an offer of immediate cessation

Because I couldn't permit it in myself.

Because if you fail to acquire the necessary votes,

Because it'll be spring in two months.

Because she's screaming from morning to night!

Because there is one!

Because Tom says Mama says they're too distressing.

Because we had the numbers.

Because why on earth would you?

Because you haven't discussed

Because your eagerness,

Been in illegal possession for near two yar

Before the Inauguration?

Before the term ends?

Before this blood is dry, when Stevens next takes the floor,

Before you give it to the President.

Before you go back to school.

Beginning with

Benched by bloody Republican radicals.

Beyond description.

BILBO: Goddamn! LATHAM: Hey, Bill.

BILBO: Wait. You wanted... What was it?

Blood's been spilt to afford us this moment!

Bloody as it's been.

Boats, they, they make me sick.

Bob. I'm sorry.

Brainless obstructive object...

Bring Stevens to full froth.

But all that was not enough for this dictator,

But beside himself with grief!

But Coffroth will remain a Democrat

But hasn't he surprised you?

But I alone emerged.

But I don't want to be nothing!

But I don't want to deal falsely.

But I expect colored people most likely be free.

But I had to.

But I read Euclid in an old book I borrowed.

But I've made no such false representation.

But if I'm a respecter of states' laws,

But if it did.

But it shall not pass!

But it's got no advice about

But Mr. Blair, he told us,

But Mr. Seward's banished the very mention of your name.

But no one knows just exactly

But no one's done the fitting.

But of unborn millions to come.

But once I start, I get too lazy to stop.

But once learnt, it stayed learnt.

But only the rebels living in those states,

But President Monroe give that toll gate

But say all our fellow Republicans vote for it.

But say all we done is show the world

But that's not why I come.

But the city of Wilmington has not surrendered.

But the war will be over in a month, and you know it will.

But there are.

But there was a rough, moral urge for fairness,

But they should also look at

But this is just a clumsy attempt to discourage me.

But unharmed.

But we can't buy the vote for the amendment.

But we shall oppose one another in the course of time.

But we're entirely unready for emancipation.

But you know what the people are.

But you should know, sir,

But your grief, your grief, your inexhaustible grief!

Buzzards' guts, man.

By appropriate legislation.

By blood and sacrifice

By dispensing patronage

By mutual agreement,

By now in Washington City

By outward appearance

By the bondman's 250 years

By this estimable body for the past several weeks,

By your worthy challenger, a Republican.

Can long endure.

Can say what he pleases,

Cannot approve this amendment,

Cannot approve this amendment,

Capable of such control?

Charles Hanson.

City Point's a way back from the front lines

Clay Hawkins. Of Ohio.

CLERK: And Mr. Rufus Warren? Yea.

CLERK: Andrew E. Fink. Nay.

CLERK: John F. McKenzie. Yea.

CLERK: Mr. Chilton A. Elliot. No!

CLERK: Mr. Daniel G. Stuart. I vote yes.

CLERK: Mr. Hanready. Nay.

CLERK: Mr. Howard Guilfoyle. Yea.

CLERK: Mr. John A. Castle. Yea.

CLERK: Mr. Joseph Marstern. Nay.

CLERK: Mr. Joseph Marstern. Nay.

CLERK: Illinois concluded.

CLERK: Mr. Arthur Bentleigh.

CLERK: Mr. Clay R. Hawkins of Ohio.

CLERK: Mr. Hutton.

CLERK: The roll call concludes.

CLERK: The State of New Jersey.

Clothed in immense power.

Coff snot, you were ignominiously trounced

Coffroth will vote yes,

Coffroth, Mr. Stevens. Alexander Coffroth.

Coffroth.

COLFAX: Mr. Ashley, the floor is yours.

COLFAX: Order in my chamber!

COLFAX: The World, the Herald, the Times,

Colorado Territory... What's this one?

Come back to me in the morning

Come December, you'll have the same in the House.

Come north and ought to have arrived

Come on out, you old rat!

Come up to Missouri

Come, sir.

Commanded, to consider a proposed 13th Amendment

Commanding Armies, United States.

Compromise. Or you risk it all.

Conduct its business with the King.

Congratulations, Mr. Chairman.

Congress must never declare equal

Congress pass the amendment.

Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment

Congress shall mandate the seizure

Congressional election for the...

Congressman.

Congressmen come cheap.

Conservative anti slavery party,

Conservative members of your party

Consider revisions.

Could compete with slave plantations

Could you bring your pa this letter I writ

Could you give us a moment, please, Robert? Thank you.

Could you hear what I said?

Could you please just step outside?

Damp down the dyspepsia, Daddy.

Dangerous life, soldiering.

Day after next.

Deliver your own goddamn petition.

DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES: (CHANTING) Postpone the vote!

Did it seem appropriately located to Mr. Allen?

Did not re elect you to the coming term.

Did they? (LAUGHS)

Did you defeat us with ballots?

Did you remember Robert's coming home for the reception?

Did you tell her a dream?

Did you tell her a dream?

Dinner was served and beverages imbibed,

District. What a joy to be comprehended.

Do I hear a second?

Do not proceed to Washington.

Do you need company?

Do you or do you not hold that the precept

Does anyone care to second my motion?

Does the trick, why I caught at the opportunity.

Don't convene another subcommittee

Don't encourage this!

Don't just reach for the highest branches,

Don't let him pardon any more deserters.

Don't let me lose my son.

Don't speak to me about grief.

Don't spend too much money on the flubdubs.

Don't take Robbie.

Don't... Don't waste that power

During your administration?

Each refuses to ratify the amendment?

Eight absent or not voting.

ELLIS: Aye!

Emancipation Proclamation

End of this month.

Endowed by their Maker with dim wits,

Enough justice had been done.

Equal pay now, but still no commissioned n**** officers.

Estimable colleagues.

Ethan Allen done what he came to do,

Euclid says this is self evident.

Euclid's first common notion is this,

Even after all are readmitted.

Even if every Republican in the House votes yes,

Even if it was an attempted assassination.

Even if it was not a carriage accident.

Even in that 2,000 year old book

Even prosecutorial interest in my household accounts.

Even submit to losing freedoms,

Even worthless, unworthy you

Even your hometown paper's here.

Eventually to become worthy of?

Every party.

Every...

Everywhere he went

Except as a punishment for crime

Far from guaranteed. Since when has our party

Fervently do we pray,

Few thousand bucks will buy you all you need.

Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry.

Fifty eight ships are under way,

Fifty six votes against.

Fifty six.

Fighting on their behalf,

Filled with colored men in chains

Finally, His Lordship couldn't resist and asked Mr. Allen

First in the history of this people's chamber,

First term Congressman who couldn't manage reelection.

For Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

For anyone other than you.

For everybody's goddamn sake,

For freedom he died.

For freedom in him.

For him who shall have borne the battle

For patience, I expect.

For shame! For shame!

For the 13th Amendment to a vote.

For the 13th Amendment?

For the 5th District of Pennsylvania.

For the assault next week on Wilmington.

For the good of the people

For the ordinary person.

For the people

For the sake of peace and quiet, I presume.

For this amendment, for which I have worked all my life

For trapping you in a marriage

For which we're seeking

Force him to abandon this scheme,

Forever and aye, as soon as I'm able. Now!

Fort Fisher is a mountain of a building, Edwin.

Fort Fisher is ours. We've taken the port.

Four bloody springs now.

Four million coloreds while manacling

Four years ago, when the President and I arrived,

Four years more in this terrible house,

Four yeses

Freedom is first.

From among 64 lame duck Democrats.

From anyone in the party.

From Camp Nelson, Kentucky.

From Jeff City, President.

From Kentucky, Mr. George Yeaman.

From Louisville to San Francisco

From Ohio.

From other sources. I'm grateful for that.

From the American South into South America.

From the largest fleet the Navy has ever assembled.

From the President himself!

From the President.

From the Republican right to trouble you.

From them, if I insist they're rebels only

From you.

Fuck you, you son of a bitch! Goddamn!

Fully 39 of these we deem unredeemable no votes.

Further advice from me.

Gave their lives that that nation might live.

Gentlemen, you have a visitor.

Gentlemen.

George Washington's likeness in a water closet?

George, please, stay on course.

Get back to it.

Get him drunk so he can sleep.

Get him to proclaim what we all know he believes

Get me 13 votes.

Gifted at this kind of shady work

Giles Stuart.

Give me the note, Johnnie.

Give this to Mr. Ashley.

Go away! We're occupied!

Go away. That watch fob, is that gold?

Go make peace.

Go tell your father Robert's home.

Go weak.

God alone knows what he'll ask you to give him.

God bless you.

God help you.

Good he's not in the Army.

Good night.

Good night.

Grant wants me to bring the secesh delegates

GRANT: Gentlemen.

GRANT: Office United States Military Telegraph,

Grouse about her carriage accident?

Had he noticed it, the picture of Washington.

Had you kept faith with the democratic process,

Halberd Law, Indiana, Democrat,

Hardest thing, the only thing that accounts.

Has been shot! At Ford's Theater!

Has done and always will do.

Has obliterated millions of dollars...

Has ossified in white men and women, North and South,

Has the effrontery to call itself the Democratic Party.

Hatching little plans together.

Hates God for makin' ******s.

Have Captain Saunders convey the commissioners to me

Have Captain Saunders convey the commissioners to me

Have Captain Saunders convey the gentlemen

Have fought and died

Have I the right to take the Rebels' property

Have rejoined the Union pell mell,

Have you lost your very soul, Mr. Stevens?

HAWKINS: If my neighbors hear

He believes we can end this war now.

He claimed, as tyrants do

He engineered the fortress himself,

He felt confident enough to let you sign it!

He had.

He knew no smallholding dirt farmer

He may wish He'd chosen an instrument for His purpose

He might make a politician someday.

He oughtn't have done that, crippled his horse.

He said he'd welcome the South back

He should be cheering right now.

He spends his days with soldiers.

He told President Jefferson Davis that we...

He wanted Indiana kept free.

He wants to be, but Mama said he cannot.

He wants to know why you qualified it.

He wants to steal my seat. I didn't lose the election.

He was a very sick little boy.

He was afraid, that's all it was.

He was choking her

He was grateful to be directed thence.

He was pushed out to placate the damn radicals!

He was that kind of husband.

He wasn't a kind man

He won't even let us use fifty cent pieces

He'd have had your empty head

He'd like to be Federal Revenue Assessor

He'll defend it till his every last man is gone.

He'll talk to me.

He's answered your questions!

He's at school now, but he's coming

He's entitled to do that. He'll agree to it.

He's generally apoplectic on the subject.

He's here! Mrs. Cuthbert, he's here!

He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?

He's using the threat of the amendment

He's with the Fifteenth Indiana Cavalry near Bulford.

Heading down the Mississippi

Hell, you can have that for nothing.

Hell, you can have the whole state of Ohio if you want...

Hello, sir.

Help me get one of these to my room.

Hence my war powers allow me to confiscate them

Hence property,

Here in Washington.

Here in Washington.

Here, Daddy.

Here's a 16 year old boy,

His beloved brother Frederick

His Emancipation Proclamation

His Highness,

His host and the others were disappointed

His host was astounded.

His prophecy.

His uncles, they died on the second day of fighting.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Homer Benson.

How are the plans coming along for the big shindy?

How can I hold that all men are created equal

How dare you throw that up at me?

How dare you?

How difficult it must be for you to know that

How does Mr. Schuyler Colfax vote?

How have you held your Union together?

How many casualties?

How many hundreds of thousands have died

How the people love my husband.

How then can I legally free them

How to endure the long afternoon

How you'll blame yourself if the war takes my son

How's the coconut?

How's your brother Bob?

However, I also felt that I might be wrong about that.

I admire your zeal, Mr. Stevens

I ain't wearing them things, Mr. Slade.

I am a prejudiced man.

I am awaiting your instructions.

I am the President of the United States of America

I am, of course, but...

I am. The goat got big.

I approached him, sumbitch near to murdered me.

I ask that,

I asked for them this morning!

I asked the prosecuting attorney

I assume I'll get used to you.

I beg you, in the name of gentle Christ, sir.

I beg you, sir.

I begin to see why you're in such a great hurry

I believe I am smiling, Mrs. Lincoln.

I believe you when you insist

I can ensure that every newspaperman

I can't accomplish a goddamn thing

I can't concentrate on, on British Mercantile Law.

I can't ensure a single damn thing

I can't listen to this anymore.

I can't lose you.

I can't make sense of it.

I can't vote for the amendment, Mr. Lincoln.

I could be bounded in a nutshell

I could write shorter sermons,

I couldn't risk him seeing how angry I was!

I couldn't tolerate you grieving so for Willie

I decided

I defended a woman from Metamora

I demand of you to try and take the liberal

I did say some colored men...

I didn't hear your vote.

I do not hold with equality in all things,

I do. All black people.

I don't believe that I can bear

I don't care about British Mercantile Law.

I don't care to hang a boy for being frightened, either.

I don't care, you shoot me dead!

I don't envy Him his task.

I don't give a goddamn about the people

I don't hold with equality in all things,

I don't hold with equality in all things,

I don't know, sir. I don't know who you're, uh...

I don't know.

I don't know. I decided

I don't need your damn permission,

I don't recall Edward Bates being any too certain about

I don't suppose so.

I don't think even Stanton would complain

I don't want that.

I don't want to be spared if you aren't.

I don't want to talk about parties.

I dream of walking in that ancient city.

I expect she has killed me.

I expect you to do your work.

I fear now they're going back

I felt I was within my power to do it,

I felt it unseemly

I felt right with myself,

I felt the war demanded it.

I founded this party,

I gather we are working together.

I gave them a year and a half to think about it,

I got it.

I have an intuition that we're headed towards a shore.

I have been canvassing the Democrats

I have explained to Mr. Bilbo and Mr. Latham that

I have just received

I have made a motion!

I have no idea where they are or if they've arrived.

I have read your words with interest.

I have to do this, and I will do it.

I have to do this! And I will!

I haven't noticed you.

I haven't noticed you.

I heard tell once of a Jefferson City lawyer

I imagine we'd rejoice to see that.

I intend to sign the 13th Amendment!

I intend to, Preston.

I knew the people would tell me.

I knew you'd forget.

I knew. I knew.

I know I need this!

I know the last part. It is, uh...

I know the vote is only four days away.

I know this is unwelcome news for you.

I know what he is. This is a rhetorical exercise.

I know what I must do, sir.

I know what it's about, the ship.

I know you're concerned.

I know.

I know.

I know.

I learnt that from him, I suppose.

I like our chances now.

I love that story.

I mean, Josiah Burton, yes, sir.

I mean...

I might be wrong, Mr. Hutton,

I might not even want to be a lawyer.

I move to table Mr. Wood's motion.

I must have in school, but...

I must make my decisions, Bob must make his, you yours.

I need the B&O sideyard schedules for Alexandria!

I need to go.

I needed them to exist to uphold my oath

I never heard any ask what freedom would bring.

I never seen the like of it before,

I never trusted the President, never trusted anyone,

I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,

I ought to have done it for Tad's sake,

I prayed for death the night Willie died.