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.

I read your speech, George.

I reckon it's the speed that's strange to me.

I reckon Mr. Jolly much prefer not to have

I reckon there's machinery,

I rise on this sad and solemn day

I said Aye, Mr. McPherson!

I said nothing of buying anything.

I saw a barge once, Mr. Yeaman,

I saw that night (VOICE BREAKING) he was dying.

I second the motion

I second the motion.

I should have clapped you in the madhouse!

I should spare you, Molly.

I shouldn't tell you my dreams.

I signed the Emancipation Proclamation,

I snuck in afterwards.

I suggest you work some changes to your proposal

I suppose it's time to go.

I suppose it's time to go.

I thank you, Speaker Colfax.

I thought I'd suggest you might

I understand, Preston.

I understand.

I use the law allowing for the seizure

I vote

I want the amendment to pass,

I want to cast a vote.

I want to do right! But I got no courage!

I want to hear Fort Fisher is ours

I wanted to crawl under the earth,

I wanted you to have a look at this prospectus here.

I was born a free man.

I was holding him in my arms when he died.

I was surprised.

I went and visited the malaria barges with Mama.

I went to Richmond to talk to traitors.

I will be sorry should it prove impossible for you

I will be sorry should it prove impossible for you

I will immediately become a Republican and vote yes...

I will procure your votes for you, as I promised.

I will state confidentially that I am convinced

I wish you had been present.

I won't give them gossip.

I wonder if you've given much thought...

I wouldn't bet against it.

I wouldn't mind one myself, right now.

I'd bring that document

I'd have declared every slave free

I'd like peace immediately.

I'd like to know who I'm talking to. Kevin.

I'd like your states restored to

I'll fetch a friend from Albany

I'll have worse nightmares if you don't let me look

I'll let you know when

I'll return it in the morning.

I'm a Republican and you, Coughdrop, are a Democrat?

I'm asking only that

I'm Corporal Ira Clark, sir.

I'm fighting to protect it from armed rebels.

I'm glad to see any man free,

I'm going home.

I'm happy to have your company.

I'm here to alert you boys

I'm hoping still.

I'm not going in.

I'm not to be trusted

I'm old.

I'm Secretary of State.

I'm sorry you're nauseous, Asa.

I'm sorry, I was under the misapprehension

I'm teasing. Smile, Senator Wade.

I'm under 15.

I'm used to going at a deliberate pace.

I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness.

I'm your soothsayer.

I've asked you a question, Mr. Stevens,

I've been to Army hospitals. I've seen surgeries.

I've found that prophesying

I've seen what it's like. This changes nothing.

I've yet to find a man could cut mine

If a peace offer is being held hostage to its success.

If four million are, in one instant, set free.

If he don't have to let some Alabama coon

If he hopes to retain his seat,

If he'd invite the House of Representatives

If I get over it, I will have revenge.

If I might have a short conference with my client.

If I pardoned him.

If I won't pick up the rough old cross,

If I'd listened to you,

If in pursuit of your destination,

If it is passed,

If it isn't the Postmaster of Millersburg, Ohio.

If Jeff Davis wants to cease hostilities,

If Lincoln really were a tyrant, Mr. Wood,

If little else from him.

If Mr. Yeaman switched.

If procuring votes

If Robert is killed.

If that squirrel infested attic

If that was how it was, no more war and all

If the Blairs tell them to,

If the Rebels surrendered next week

If the war finished first, before we end slavery...

If they run out of bullets and men

If they want to understand what this was truly like.

If this could be given to me in writing,

If we continue to stifle this very natural ambition?

If we listen to these people.

If we pass it, which we won't.

If we submit ourselves to law, Alex,

If we succeed?

If we're not to discuss

If word gets out that I've refused a chance

If you can look into the seeds of time,

If you don't make peace.

If you scare the whole House silly

If you want to discuss peace with President Lincoln,

Illinois, Democrat,

Imagine the possibilities peace will bring.

Impaled on a pike!

Impermeable to reason,

In a hundred years, the vote.

In a people's union.

In a play about Israelites.

In a way it never troubled my father,

In authority, Mr. Lincoln, will have a bad influence.

In case any of them have softened

In exchange for the South's immediate surrender,

In fifty years, maybe a n**** colonel.

In his book, mmm,

In his coal colored heart.

In his will, he wrote,

In my opinion...

In my own goddamn home, to be a

In my own goddamn home, to be a

In return for all the help I can give him

In return, I must ask you to support our push for the amendment...

In the House of Representatives

In the monster's back.

In this whole place not in uniform.

In Washington?

In what seems an unwarranted intrusion

Instead of hot, red blood!

Instruct us,

Insulting to God as to man!

Intermarriage?

Intimate and ugly.

Into the vault, with his coffin.

Is 'cause you're so popular.

Is being precipitated onto the House floor for debate?

Is compelling it to what's...

Is how dismal and disgruntled

Is I was crazy and I ruined your happiness.

Is incapable of crushing you.

Is its absolute prohibition.

Is one of life's less profitable occupations.

Is only for your fees, your food and lodging.

Is out of order!

Is set to declare a winner in the disputed

Is that natural, Stevens?

Is that not the true purpose of the amendment?

Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins?

Is there a Confederate offer, or not?

Is there nothing you won't say?

Is to go down to Richmond, like he said I could

Is unworthy of a representative.

Is your maidenly virtue for sale?

Is your maidenly virtue for sale?

It defends Wilmington Port.

It frees slaves as a military exigent. Not...

It got took by a breeze several nights back.

It is a lawyer's dodge!

It is a self evident truth

It is highly unusual, sir.

It is, in fact, unworthy of a white man!

It may be you're right.

It opens!

It says securing peace for our two countries

It seems he lamed his horse to avoid battle.

It seems there's very nearly nothing I won't say.

It seems to me, sir, you're describing

It sickened me.

It snagged my eye in the paper this morning

It sours the national mood. It might suffice...

It takes hundreds of boys a day. He'll die uselessly.

It was an assassin whose intended target was you.

It was believed the old lady may have climbed out of it.

It was most probably an accident.

It was...

It would be inhuman not to.

It'll be for the people to keep it up.

It'll point you true north from where you're standing.

It's 7:22 in the morning.

It's a rat's nest in there.

It's a sturdy profession. And a useful one.

It's all over.

It's either the amendment or this Confederate peace.

It's impossible.

It's in, James. It's in.

It's inevitable, isn't it?

It's late.

It's Mama you're scared of, it's not me getting killed.

It's more than enough for now.

It's not going to be easy, but...

It's not illegal to bribe Congressmen,

It's not quite exactly what I intend.

It's not Wilmington Port. It's not a military campaign.

It's slow work.

It's the amendment to abolish slavery.

It's the assault on Wilmington Port.

It's the Chairman of the House Ways

It's the goddamn rumors

It's the largest fort they have, sir.

It's the same gang of talentless hicks and hacks

It's three years now he's gone.

It's too hard.

It's true because it works.

James Ashley, ma'am. We've met several times.

James Brooks...

James, we want you to bring the anti slavery amendment

January 20, 1865.

Jeff City?

Jeff City? That's Congressman Burton.

Jefferson Davis is sending three delegates.

Jerusalem.

Jesus.

Job description... Taxpayers and...

John Ellis is gonna break his watch if he doesn't stop.

Joining together with our Democratic colleagues,

Josiah Grenelle...

Just 'cause there's talk about peace talks.

Just after they killed every n**** soldier

Just it wasn't downright criminal.

Just read me back the last sentence

Just tell me what you want from me.

Just this once, Mrs. Lincoln,

Just when I had abandoned hope of amusement,

KECKLEY: I was beaten with a fire shovel

Keeping their slaves!

Kentucky.

King Abraham Africanus the First,

Knowing it applies only to the property

Laid waste for naught.

LATHAM: Nelson Merrick.

LATHAM: Unknown to me. Seems jumpy.

LATHAM: We have one abstention so far.

Leader of the godforsaken Republican party.

Leave the Constitution alone!

Left me his scissors in his will.

Leo has your hat.

Leo, it's 100 miles to Richmond.

Let me be blunt.

Let the Assistant Assistant Port Inspector's stomach

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

Let's see how proud you can be.

Liberality all around, not punishment.

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, City Point.

Like I sometimes felt I had to do.

Like my Cabinet's most always done.

Lincoln, the capitulating compromiser,

Lincoln, the inveterate dawdler.

Lincoln, the Southerner.

LINCOLN: Good morning, Jim. Hello, Mr. President.

LINCOLN: Come on out, you old rat!

LINCOLN: Fondly do we hope,

LINCOLN: He'll be fine, Molly.

LINCOLN: How long have you been a soldier?

LINCOLN: I'm aware of that, Corporal Clark.

LINCOLN: In times like this, I'm best alone.

LINCOLN: It's nighttime.

LINCOLN: Make sure you get some steak.

LINCOLN: Me, too, Taddie, but we can't.

LINCOLN: The Second Kansas Colored Infantry,

LINCOLN: What's the matter, Bob?

LINCOLN: What's your name, soldier?

LINCOLN: Wilmington's their last open seaport, therefore...

Lincoln... Why this urgency?

Little enough ever found its way in here,

Long before today.

Looking fit, Robert. Harvard agrees with you.

Looks like the ticket to me.

Lost their House seats in November.

Loving kindness, that most ordinary thing, came to me

Ma'am.

Madame President, if you please.

Madame, do you know about the proposed

Make time to talk to Robbie. You only have time for Tad.

Making false representation to Congress, is...

MAN: What! (CROWD EXCLAIMING)

MAN: Some of us was in the Second Kansas Colored.

MAN: Spineless! No gender.

MAN: Spineless! No gender.

May speedily pass away.

Maybe in a few years, they can abide the idea

MEN: Hear, hear!

MEN: Hear, hear!

Merely a war measure. After the war, the courts...

Meyer Strauss...

Meyer Strauss...

Might as well let them in.

Might those people I freed be ordered back into slavery?

Mightn't that save at least

Military preparedness for battle

Missouri next. Mr. Walter Appleton.

Mm hmm. Do me a favor, will you?

Mm?

Mm.

Molly...

More than likely conservative Republicans

More wieldy than the House of Representatives.

Most men, their firstborn is their favorite.

Mr, uh?

Mr. Alexander Coffroth.

Mr. Allen found he needed the privy.

Mr. Allen said it did.

Mr. Augustus Benjamin,

Mr. Austin J. Roberts.

Mr. Clerk, please call my name.

Mr. Colfax, I order the main question.

Mr. Colfax, please, use your gavel!

Mr. Edwin F. LeClerk.

Mr. Haddam, is your faction satisfied?

Mr. Harold Hollister. How say you?

Mr. James Martinson.

Mr. John Ellis, how say you?

Mr. Jolly.

Mr. Jolly's emphysema don't care for cigars.

Mr. Josiah Burton.

Mr. LeClerk felt honor bound to inform us

Mr. Lincoln tell you to tell us this?

Mr. Lincoln, I hate them all.

Mr. Lincoln, you always says so.

Mr. Lincoln, you evaded my request for a denial

Mr. Lincoln...

Mr. Martinson has delegated me

Mr. McPherson, you may proceed.

Mr. Nicolay says Daddy's secluded with Mr. Blair.

Mr. President, may I present

Mr. President.

Mr. Speaker, I still have the floor.

Mr. Speaker, will you permit this vile, boorish man

Mr. Stanton thinks you pardon too many.

Mr. Stevens also wants to know

Mr. Stevens is furious.

Mr. Walter H. Washburn.

Mr. William Hutton. Cast your vote.

Mr. Wood has the floor.

Mr. Yeaman appears.

Mrs. Goings was seen no more in Metamora.

Mrs. Jolly got the...

Mrs. Keckley was a slave. Ask her if she was beaten.

Mrs. Keckley.

Much obliged.

Mushrooms, green as the moon, sprouting from the ceilings.

Must have been proved by now.

My associates report that among the Representatives

My colleagues and I would like a moment of your time.

My deepest sympathies to your family.

My head hurts so.

My headaches are how I know I didn't get my wish.

My last barber hanged himself. (CHUCKLES)

My name is Richard Schell.

My son died fighting for the Union,

My trust in him is marrow deep.

My whole hand's gonna be proud in about five seconds.

Named Melissa Goings.

Nay!

Nay! (SPITS)

Nay.

Near 600,000 lives lost,

Needed to pass an amendment.

n**** soldiers getting equal pay

n****es and the vote,

n****es have been fighting and dying for freedom

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude

Never seen the like of it before.

New York, Chicago,

NICOLAY: Mrs. Lincoln is waiting in the carriage.

NICOLAY: Thank you.

******s.

*****ah representatives?

*****ahs casting ballots?

No conservative Republican is what you mean.

No one else seems to be aboard the vessel.

No one heard the intelligent or educated part.

No one was keen to see her convicted,

No one's ever been loved so much by the people.

No Republican will balk at voting for the amendment.

No, didn't fight there, we just signed up last month.

No, he'll do fine. Just polish yourself up first.

No, he's, he's a...

No, no. But, but, but n****es can't

No, sir, I was not trounced.

No, sir, no.

No, this is not horse trading.

No, you're going to tell a story.

No!

No!

No.

No. I am sorry, no.

No. No!

Nobody beat me except I beat them right back.

Nor are there likely to be.

Not a hobbyhorse for goddamn radical abolitionists.

Not even a single Republican absent when they vote.

Not for some miserable little job, anyways.

Not in a fight like this. This is to the death.

Not much, but they're a necessary hindrance.

Not now!

Not only of the millions now in bondage

Not racial equality.

Not to presume to instruct the President.

Not without consulting me, you wouldn't.

Nothing suffices. A rumor? Nothing.

Now congratulations on your victory, and get out.

Now get the hell out of here and get 'em.

Now give me terms I can offer to Jefferson Davis

Now hear me.

Now here's where it gets truly slippery.

Now that white people have accustomed themselves

Now we are engaged in a great civil war,

Now we're working together, and I'm asking you...

Now what you are to the nation,

Now who among us is prepared to give n****es the vote?

Now you have always insisted, Mr. Stevens,

Now you have to lead us out of it.

Now, give me the names

Now, Mr. Allen discovered

Now, your daddy knows that what I want

Now!

Now! Now! Now!

Number six, Hawkins.

Numberless fathers have given

Of a great English lord.

Of actually speaking to Democrats.

Of any human meaning or worth

Of border and western Republicans

Of course, I don't. Never have.

Of every foot of Rebel land

Of every tonnage and firing range.

Of free men and free women and free children and freedom.

Of free n**** farmers

Of governments and citizens of belligerent nations.

Of mechanical law.

Of n**** lieutenants and captains.

Of n**** voting.

Of our civil war.

Of property in a war

Of sharing this country's infinite abundance

Of slaves Mr. Gardner sent over

Of the Constitution.

Of the executive into legislative prerogatives,

Of the party in the traces

Of the telegram, please.

Of the visit of the Richmond commissioners

Of unrequited toil shall be sunk

Of what previously has been merely rumored.

Of whoever else you've been hunting.

Of your disgusting betrayal.

OFFICER: Company up! Moving out!

Oh, crap.

Oh, gracious saints!

Oh, Great Commoner.

Oh, I'm detaining you.

Oh, it's late, Mrs. Keckley.

Oh, my God. It's true.

Oh, Nicolay, when you have a moment.

Oh, Robbie.

Oh, shit! Cracky!

Oh, the Blairs promise, do they?

Oh, to hell with it. Shoot me dead, too! Yes!

Oh, who can look on that celestial face...

Oh, you've got no cause to be encouraged, sir.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh. Splendid.

Oh. You don't mind, boy, do you?

Old Neptune, shake thy hoary locks!

On abolishing slavery

On an amendment bill that's sure of defeat.

On entering the water closet,

On its way to ratification by the states.

On the 31st of this month, of this year,

On the matter of the joint resolution before us,

On the matter of this amendment, how say you?

On this most important matter into an anarchic

Once he surrenders,

Once we do away with slavery, the Rebs'll quit fighting

Once we've heard these delegates

One hundred and nineteen votes for.

One last item.

Only if every other possibility is exhausted.

Only twenty?

Only with equality before the law, and nothing more!

Only with equality before the law.

Only with equality before the law.

Only with equality before the law. Nothing more.

Only you can decide whether

Or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Or I will feel ashamed of myself for the rest of my life!

Or if the women can still conceive, they pay more.

Or me.

Or render it intolerable.

Or war contraband

Or with one flop of his tail, he'll smash the boat

Or, if you could manage

Order!

Order!

Ought to be treated equally before the law!

Our actual Southern states in rebellion

Our adversary, and

Our fathers brought forth from this continent

Our first target is Fort Fisher.

Our great usurping Caesar,

Our party.

Our Republicans ain't abolitionists.

Out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices,

Over in Pennsylvania,

Over the issue of slavery

Overseas.

Pacing the halls, howling at shadows

Papa, I want to see Willie.

Pardon me, that's a distress signal

Particularly with the fighting around Wilmington.

Passed by corruption,

Peace commissioners in the city

Pendleton, you insult God!

PENDLETON: I appeal to my fellow Democrats,

PENDLETON: I object.

Pennsylvania 16th District.

Perhaps he'll jump.

Perhaps I will.

Perhaps it's...

Perhaps that is why your constituents

Perhaps we need reinforcements.

Perhaps you could call on him

Perhaps.

Permitted him to turn our army into...

Pettifogging Tammany Hall hucksters!

Please, after you're done.

Please, deliver that to Mr. Ashley.

Plenty of boys younger than Robert signing up.

Plus Graylor's abstention.

Point of order, Mr. Speaker, if you please.

Political organization

Postmaster of the Millersburg Post Office.

Postpone the vote!

Postpone the vote!

Postpone the vote!

Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!

Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!

Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!

Postpone the vote! Postpone the vote!

Postpone this vote!

Praise heavens, praise heavens.

Precisely the sort of dictator

Presenting a 13th Amendment

President Lincoln says the war won't stop

Previously unknown to us.

Private. Harold Green, sir.

Procedure, Mr. Speaker.

Promising it would hasten the end of the war,

Push for full equality, the n**** vote, and much more.

Pushed you out of his Cabinet.

Put the amendment up for a vote.

Put them back in the box, you scoundrel.

Quick, man. Quick.

Quiet, please!

Radical Republican autocrat,

Rather clumsy.

Re...

Re...

Read it to me again, my love.

Real heartbreak, looked like.

Regarding the Richmond delegation.

Regardless of any action I take in the matter

Reproaching us.

Requires going slow until they're ready to...

Resistance, hell.

Resume their former position in the Union

Retain, even in opposition

Returned to the laws and the guarantees of rights

Right after peace had been concluded.

Right before I left her in the room

Robert will never forgive himself.

ROBERT: Mother. What?

ROBERT: You drafted half the men in Boston.

Robert's going to plead with us to let him enlist.

Ruling by fiat and martial law,

Same as took Willie.

Saturday, the 15th of April.

Say it's after the war

Say there's no amendment abolishing slavery,

Say we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice

Say you believe only in legal equality for all races,

Saying it's our'n for keeps.

Says it's about finches and finches' beaks,

Scatter them over several rounds of appointments

SCHELL: He must deny peace commissioners are in the city.

SCHELL: Jacob Graylor.

Secretary Stanton has sent over

Section One.

Section Two.

See the here and now, that's the

See what is before you.

See, I'll be the only man over 15 and under 65

Senator Sumner. It's been much too long.

Send another damn cable!

Send his boys back to their homes

Send Latham. Or Schell.

Send over to Blair House.

Set him up there.

Settles the fate for all coming time

Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis.

Seventy seven years old.

Seward can't do it. You must.

Seward doesn't want me leaving big muddy footprints

SEWARD: And, lastly, Democratic yes vote

SEWARD: Eleven votes?

SEWARD: Hmm. And, uh

SEWARD: Madame.

SEWARD: No, nothing strictly illegal.

SEWARD: Well, pity poor Coffroth.

SEWARD: Why wasn't I consulted?

Shall be paid by another drawn with the sword

Shall exist within the United States

Shall have a new birth of freedom

Shall I transmit, sir?

Shall not have died in vain.

Shall not perish from the earth.

Shall oppose...

Shall we get to work?

Shall we stop this bleeding?

Shall we stop this bleeding?

She asked me where she could get

She never goes in there.

She told me she didn't take you inside.

She wants me to remind you of the hour, and that

She's just ten feet yonder. I'd like to keep my job.

Ship's moved by some terrible power

Shit on the people and what they want

Shit quicker than the sight of George Washington.

Show Mr. Lincoln the Quincy Adams letter.

Since slavery's what they're fighting for.

Since the election,

Since the first of us was a slave.

Since the House last voted on the amendment,

Since their proposal most certainly

Since their proposal most certainly

Since we have the floor next in the debate,

Since your man General Schofield

Sir, Mr. Yeaman,

Sir.

Sir. Fitted.

Six?

Sixty four Democrats

Slavery and you.

Slavery is the only insult to natural law,

Slavery troubled me as long as I can remember

Slavery, but...

Slavery, sir... It's done.

So as not to frighten our conservative friends.

So at Jenkins' Ferry,

So conceived and so dedicated,

So far as I know, there are no

So far as I know?

So he took us out from Kentucky

So if, in fact, the n****es are property,

So is Robert. Too young for the Army.

So just stand on the dock.

So low and flat that the foot of man

So no one notices, then burn this ledger,

So still it must be said,

So tell Mr. Stevens we expect him

So that it'd make any difference.

So that the Constitution's first

So the total of Representatives

So there are secesh delegates?

So you have been beaten.

So, in point of fact, without my permission

Soldiers know all manner of songs.

Some of us breathe oxygen

Some say they don't exist.

Some weariness has bit at my bones.

Somehow. Somehow.

Somewheres in between.

Spare us, at least, these pieties.

Spare you the exposure and liability.

Speak then to me.

SPEED: A steady barrage?

SPEED: Dictators aren't susceptible to law.

Speedily enough to enable us

STANTON: We'll keep up a steady barrage.

Start of my second term, plenty of positions to fill.

Steal his chickens and his job,

Stephens, Hunter and Campbell.

STEVENS: I don't!

Still, I wish I'd mentioned it in a better speech.

Stop prevaricating and answer Representative Wood!

Such as we all are.

Sure.

Surrender won't be thought of.

Surrender.

Tabled!

Tad is young.

TAD: Were you... Tad.

TAD: Why not?

Talk peace with these men.

Taunt him. You excel at that.

Tax Collector for the Western Reserve.

Tell him anyway.

Tell him that you support passage of the amendment

Tell Lincoln to deny the rumors, publicly.

Tell me your names as I go past.

Tell us the news from the Hill.

Tell us what you expect of us.

Temper your contribution

Tennessee and Louisiana.

Terms of surrender.

Terry has got 10,000 men surrounding the goddamn port.

Testing whether that nation or any nation

Thank you for that pithy explanation, Mr. Bilbo.

Thank you for your concern over this.

Thank you, Mr. Slade.

That above all!

That All men are created equal is meant literally?

That All men are created equal is meant literally?

That all men are created equal.

That all men are created equal.

That amending the Constitution

That democracy isn't chaos.

That I get sick at the smell of boot black

That I voted yes for ****** freedom

That is not a denial.

That means nothing.

That means that since it's states' laws that determine

That might recommend to suspicion that I agree

That must be unpleasant.

That n****es are the same as white men are.

That pays handsomely.

That same speech has been made by how many sons

That should direct the soul towards justice

That some men are inferior,

That the anti slavery amendment

That the Constitution gives me war powers

That the Governor Curtin

That the great day of reckoning is nigh upon us.

That the only decoration therein

That the war's emergencies

That their intentions are good

That there is a Confederate peace offer,

That there is a great, invisible strength

That things which are equal to the same thing

That this mighty scourge of war,

That this nation, under God,

That this vote is meant to set the black race on high,

That was cruel, but you don't just hang

That was true, yes sir, but that's changed.

That we here highly resolve that these dead

That we'll be readmitted in time to block this amendment.

That you'd allowed bleary old Preston Blair

That you'll encounter along the way.

That you're seeking a negotiated peace.

That your brother's bravery

That your chosen profession was politics.

That'd wake him each morning, crying out,

That's 64 Democrats looking for work come March.

That's a puzzle.

That's a rule of mathematical reasoning.

That's all I am to you anymore.

That's balance. That's... That's fairness.

That's good, thank you.

That's good. Thank you.

That's gruesome.

That's justice.

That's my speech.

That's only ever given you grief

That's right, sir.

That's sense enough for you or not.

That's the origin, isn't it?

That's the ship you're sailing on,

That's the untempered version of reconstruction.

That's the vote on the 13th Amendment.

That's unnecessary, Mrs. Jolly.

That's what he said.

That's what I am to the nation, Mr. Lincoln.

That's what will become of them.

That's why I can't negotiate with them.

That's why I'd like to get

That's, that's the official bill.

That's... That's not so.

The 13th Amendment through the House,

The 13th Amendment.

The aforementioned two thirds majority

The amendment will be the easy work of 10 minutes.

The assurance that he demands of me?

The basis of every hope for this country's future life,

The Blairs promised support for the amendment

The Clerk will now call the roll for the voting.

The Clerk will now...

The conservative faction

The conservative faction

The conservative Republican faction is satisfied.

The Constitution of the United States.

The damn thing's his child.

The Democrats have been howling about.

The Democrats we've yet to bag, sir,

The devil that possesses them.

The Emancipation Proclamation's

The English sneered at how rough we are

The federal government doesn't have a say in that.

The final vote.

The floor belongs to the mellifluent gentleman

The former Secretary of State

The freedom to oppress, for instance

The Good Lord on high would despair of their souls.

The governor of our state is... A Democrat?

The greatest measure of the 19th century,

The Holy Land.

The honorable Representative from New York.

The House recognizes Fernando Wood,

The idea of democracy to aspire to?

The incumbent is claiming he won it. Name of...

The intelligent, the educated, and the

The Journal of Commerce,

The judgments of the Lord

The kind that hates ******s.

The laws of which states remain in force.

The laws of which states remain in force.

The lawyer shot him,

The legality of my proclamation.

The limbs of the white race in America.

The man's never been near a whale ship in his life.

The men of the colored race.

The minute the first shell struck Fort Sumter.

The miracles I have wrought

The missus will have you wear them. Don't think...

The modern travesty of Thomas Jefferson's

The money I managed to raise for this endeavor

The moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio, proof

The nation needs to know that we have such plans.

The nation's attention on Wilmington?

The New York delegation is looking decidedly uninspired.

The Northern states will ratify, most of them.

The ones of us that didn't die that day,

The part assigned to me is to raise the flag.

The past is the past. It's a new year now

The patronage jobs simply won't bag 'em.

The peace delegation might encounter delays

The people elected me to represent them,

The people.

The President

The President favors it.

The President has been shot!

The President is never to be mentioned. Nor I.

The President is no more.

The President would be unhappy to hear you did that.

The problem's their commander, Whiting!

The proper placement of footfalls

The Rebels' slaves from them

The reception line is already stretching out the door.

The remaining lame ducks, on whom we've been working with a purpose.

The roads will be passable,

The Secretary of State here tells me that you got

The shelling of Wilmington Harbor has commenced.

The South is exhausted.

The Speaker doesn't vote.

The Speaker may vote if he so chooses.

The spring slaughter commences.

The swamps and deserts and chasms

The true purpose of the amendment, Mr. Wood,

The true purpose of the amendment...

The voting is completed. Now...

The war will take our son.

The White House and the other House,

The whole world knows nothing will make an Englishman

The window in the room was found to be wide open.

The wretched woman by your side

Their practical relations with the Union immediately.

Them fellas from Richmond ain't here yet.

Then advise Coffroth

Then despite our abstention,

Then do it!

Then he'd better pay a visit to Thaddeus Stevens.

Then n****es in those states are slaves,

Then we're counting on robust radical support

Then why, if I might ask

Then why, if I might ask

Then, thenceforward and forever free.

There are defections in the ranks.

There aren't nearly enough votes.

There is a delegation from Richmond.

There is a perceptible increase in resistance.

There is one Ethan Allen story that I'm very partial to.

There's a new book. Sam Beckwith

There's an offer on my desk for surrender.

There's been an election.

There's none before us now.

There's only one toll booth in Jeff City,

Therefore nothing about you is surprising.

These things should have stayed on the calf.

They came after me with gelding knives.

They can vote however it suits them.

They cannot possibly maintain under this kind of an assault.

They don't need to worry about re election.

They escape, leave the country

They even forgave the bondsman her bail.

They flock to see him by their thousands on public days.

They fought bravely at Jenkins' Ferry.

They found out I was loyal to the Union,

They have stiffened, if anything, Mr. Secretary.

They killed a thousand Rebel soldiers, sir.

They never fit right.

They require more convincing, Mr. President.

They said she'd murdered her husband. He was 83.

They should.

They sway in every breeze.

They taught me a song.

They testify that commissioners have indeed

They went to see Avonia Jones last night

They were very brave.

They will never love you the way they love him.

They'd agree, don't you think? We'd end the war. This week.

They'd starve otherwise.

They'll be free, George,

They'll vote for this rash and dangerous amendment

They'll wonder at it. They'll wonder at you.

They're coming in earnest to propose peace.

They're going to hang him.

They're not lazy. They're busily buying votes

They've been reinforcing it for the last two years.

They've taken 17,000 shells since yesterday!

Thingamabob Hollister, Dem from Indiana.

Things which are equal to the same thing

Think how splendid

Think of all the boys who will die

Think of my Frank,

Thirteen to go.

This amendment is that cure!

This fight is for the United States of America.

This is an official War Department map.

This is enough.

This is history.

This is precisely what Mr. Wood wishes me

This is the arrogant demand of a conqueror.

This is the face of someone

This is...

This scheme with me as you ought to have done?

Those Southern men are coming.

Those whom God created unequal!

Though he hated it, in his own fashion.

Though I wanted to, Mary.

Though I would rather stay.

Three years ago he said that, to calm the border states.

Through democracy?

Through tolerating the evil of slavery.

Thunder forth, God of War.

Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least,

Till one day he was invited to the townhouse

Time for my public opinion bath.

Time is a great thickener of things, Willum.

Time passed, as happens, and

To accomplish the death of slavery in America.

To all Republican representatives

To announce that I'm opposed to the amendment.

To be able to say to their sons

To bind up the nation's wounds,

To block ratification to this here

To care

To decide who won.

To do all which may achieve and cherish

To do it. They might well decide that.

To do the same,

To end the war?

To establish hundreds of thousands

To free slaves?

To frighten the Rebels into an immediate surrender.

To get away from 'em.

To have an interview with them.

To hear what it portends.

To help our new country

To his games and tricks.

To how many fathers since the war began?

To investigate me, sir.

To invite demented radicals into my home?

To invite Jeff Davis to send commissioners

To just ignore the courts' decisions

To lead them, and I lead. You ought to try it.

To listen to another one of your stories right now.

To my grandpap

To ******ate America...

To otherwise undeserving Democrats.

To our National Constitution,

To postpone.

To promote your ultimate and ardent dream to elevate...

To protect the Constitution.

To put his back into it.

To put it through.

To reach a two thirds majority,

To reach the requisite two thirds of the House.

To respond to?

To say he is indisposed.

To seeing n**** men with guns

To slander and to threaten me?

To smile at and plead with traitors

To sojourn to Richmond

To start negotiating for peace.

To suppress this!

To tell you that as of half an hour ago

To the commander of Fort Ticonderoga in 1776.

To the Confederacy, the war would have been lost

To the Dems who vote yes.

To the floor for debate,

To the New Orleans slave markets.

To the southwest

To the West, by rail.

To visit in four days for the shindy.

To Washington.

To what? To bring this down?

To what's likely to be its premature demise.

To which I always listen.

To which you've attached yourself like a barnacle

To your House.

Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets.

Today is the day the world shall end,

Today we will vote.

Today, Mr. Stevens,

Tom Pendel took away the glass camera plates

Too hard.

Too publicly against us. He can't change course now.

Traitor!

Trust? Oh.

Trying not to think about him. How will I manage?

Twenty House Democrats who'll vote to abolish slavery?

Twenty two big Seacoast guns on each rampart.

Two bloody years ago this month

Two days ago, we had twelve. What happened?

Two votes stand in its way. These votes must be procured.

Two years ago, I proclaimed these people emancipated.

Two years, sir.

U.S. Grant, Lieutenant General,

Uh huh.

Uh, hey, how tall are you, anyway?

Uh, I feel I have to say, Mr. Lincoln, that...

Uh, if they're still young and healthy,

Uh, tell Governor Curtin it'd be much appreciated

Uh, vote, Mr. Lincoln.

Unaccommodated, poor, bare, forked creatures,

Undecided on the question of the amendment, I believe.

Universal enfranchisement?

Unless at the same time we can tell them

Unless I'm canceling states' laws?

Unless we finish slavery.

Unless you've assured us, in writing,

Unsuited to the position to which an error of the people,

Until after he does so.

Until all the wealth piled

Until we cure ourselves of slavery

Until we have answers

Unto utter uselessness,

Up to hearings on the Hill.

Up to Washington with a peace plan.

Upon conversation with these commissioners

Us Second Kansas boys...

USHER: I'm afraid I don't see...

Veterans. I qualified it.

Vice President of the Confederacy,

Violator of habeas corpus and freedom of the press,

Visit Beanpole.

Votes against the amendment.

Votes for women?

Votes no.

Votes no.

Voting three weeks from today is reduced to 182,

W. N. Bilbo.

Waiting on this?

Want Congressman Burton to vote

Want you to listen to overtures from Richmond.

War Department.

Was a portrait of George Washington.

Was a portrait of George Washington.

Was the boy playing with it?

WASHBURN: Votes no.

We ain't here to discuss reconstruction.

We all know what he's doing and we all know what he'll do.

We are absolutely guaranteed to lose the whole thing.

We are at an impasse.

We are in session!

We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We are offering patronage jobs

We are stepped out upon the world stage now!

We begin with Connecticut.

We can find twenty votes.

We can't offer up abolition's best legal prayer

We can't organize anything immediately in the House.

We can't tell our people they can vote yes

We chose great leadership.

We could promise them the amendment's defeat.

We decided warn't takin' no Reb prisoners.

We didn't care for one another, Mr. Yeaman.

We didn't know how sick he was.

We don't need a goddamn abolition amendment!

We fought the Rebs at Jenkins' Ferry last April

We got it through the Senate without difficulty

We had to put on a face.

We have a Republican majority, but barely more than 50%.

We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.

We have no legal basis for that discussion.

We joined up with the 116th U.S. Colored, sir,

We may discover other freedoms

We might pass the 13th Amendment.

We must consider what will become of colored folk

We must, both of us.

We need Democratic support. There's none to be had.

We need twenty votes was all I said.

We need two yeses, three abstentions, or

We remain twenty yeses short.

We saw him two years ago at the cemetery dedication.

We shall hear brief, final statements,

We shall oppose this amendment,

We should have canceled that reception, shouldn't we?

We want to show the amendment has bipartisan support,

We welcome you, ladies and gentlemen,

We won't know ourselves anymore.

We would...

We...

We'd be watching, helpless as infants, as it spread

We'd much prefer that.

We'd still be twenty votes short.

We'll be made to pay with our son's dear blood!

We'll build up a land down there

We'll commence our assault on Wilmington from the sea.

We'll fatten you up before you return to Boston.

We'll have no need to investigate them.

We'll have to extemporize and experiment with what it is,

We'll hear them out.

We'll lose every Democrat we've got,

We'll lose.

We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood

We'll return them to Mr. Gardner's studio

We'll use their confiscated wealth

We'll win the war soon.

We're eager to be on our way to Washington.

We're leaving our horses behind

We're unready for peace, too, ain't we?

We're waiting over there.

We're Whalers, Mr. Ashley.

We've abandoned these 39 to

We've been chasing this whale for a long time.

We've been so miserable for so long.

We've made it possible for one another to do terrible things.

We've made it possible for one another to do terrible things.

We've managed our members to a fare thee well.

We've taken the fort,

We've won the war.

Wearing the Union blue.

Webster Allen votes no.

Well, at all rate, son,

Well, boys, first question. You getting enough to eat?

Well, consider the obstacles that we'd face.

Well, he wanted Tax Collector of the Western Reserve.

Well, human.

Well, I don't know about myself.

Well, I don't know how long...

Well, I don't know if I'm going to go back...

Well, I hate it, too, sir.

Well, I'd change that in you if I could,

Well, I'll be fucked.

Well, I'm an engineer.

Well, I'm sorry to hear that.

Well, it ain't won yet.

Well, Mr. Representative Ashley.

Well, she needs this for the grand reception.

Well, the people do that, I suppose.

Well, the South ain't a nation.

Well, thus far.

Well, what did he think of its placement,

Well, what do we get?

WELLES: A bombardment.

Were it not that I have bad dreams.

Whalers? As in, uh... Whales?

What difference does it make if you lost or not?

What do you reckon?

What do you think their families think about me?

What good would it do him?

What he died for.

What hope for any Democratic votes, Willum,

What I carry within me, you must allow me to do it.

What I favor is ending the war.

What I seen today.

What in heaven's name can we discuss?

What is unnatural, in your opinion?

What my people are to be, I can't say.

What reins him in from... From...

What shall follow upon that?

What this was going to be.

What those powers are.

What use is one more corpse?

What we need money for is bribes, to speed things up.

What will happen, do you imagine,

What will you do after the war, Corporal Clark?

What, a year and a half before my second election?

What'll become of you once slavery's day is done,

What's before us now,

What's more interesting

What's the use of knowing true north?

Whatever he's up to.

When Edward Bates was Attorney General,

When have I ever been so easily bamboozled?

When he didn't mention Washington's portrait.

When here before me stands, stinking,

When I showed you what heartbreak,

When I tell you to do so, you will switch parties.

When I was younger than you.

When it is.

When peace comes, it mustn't just be hangings.

When the people disagree, bringing them together

When the war ends, I intend to

When these peace commissioners arrive?

When they look at you,

When they're here to make peace?

When will Mr. Wood conclude his interminable gabble?

When you decided to come down here.

When you refused so much as to comfort Tad,

When you were a slave, Mr. Slade, did they beat you?

When's this son of liberty sum a bitch gonna sit down?

Where David and Solomon walked.

Where the hell are the commissioners?

Where's my hat?

Whereas as to what you promised,

Whereof the party shall have been duly convicted

Whether n****es can be sold as slaves,

Whether or not you fought is what's gonna matter,

Which I am bound, by solemn oath, to respond to.

Which I decided meant I could take

Which I immediately disavowed,

Which means 122 yes votes

Which now extinguishes slavery.

Which was passed last year by the Senate

Which yet rages on and on.

Which, if passed, shall set at immediate liberty

Which, if there be no fault in the machinery, I will do.

While my back's turned, that wouldn't upset me none.

While we hope to be saved by the national mood?

While you diddle the radicals

White people cannot bear the thought

White people don't want us here.

Who can supply the skulky men

Who do you think is going to give a genuine solid shit

Who give a fig for peace,

Who had a parrot

Who has fought long and hard

Who now seeks to insinuate...

Who rejected the amendment 10 months ago.

Who seem remotely plausible,

Who should have been gibbeted for treason

Who takes his wife out buggy riding on Good Friday.

Who wants to listen to a useless woman

Who'd ever have guessed that old nightmare

Who's the sweaty man eating his thumb?

Who's your Representative?

Whoa! Blunt!

Whom you've taken to your heart.

Why are we cooperating with him?

Why are you here? No offense,

Why do some slaves cost more than others?

Why doesn't he answer...

Why else would you force me

Why is that?

Why risk enraging the Confederacy

Why tarnish your invaluable luster

Why wait to switch? I'm happy to...

Why you didn't make a better speech.

Why, for instance, is this thus,

Why, instead, are we reading in the Herald

Will be here to witness it and print it.

Will be predicated on

Will join them, and all our work,

Will the Southern states

Will you rejoice when the Southern states

Will you threaten me again with the madhouse?

William Hutton, remembering at this moment

Wilmington falls, Richmond falls after.

With a battle in the House?

With a margin of two votes...

With all its slaves in chains.

With celerity, to Jefferson Davis.

With celerity, to Jefferson Davis.

With charity for all,

With cold, pallid slime in their veins

With firmness in the right,

With malice toward none,

With my Proclamation as I done?

With n****es.

With offers of employment is what you intend

With talk of land appropriations

With the amendment, slavery's ended.

With the fate of human dignity in our hands!

With the Rebs that their slaves

With the whole of the House of Representatives

Withdraw radical support.

Within ten days' time,

Without any expression of interest from anyone

Without caring much for any of them.

Without seeming to do it, to, uh...

Woe unto you if you fail to pass the amendment.

Woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.

WOOD: ...Party and the constituents it serves

WOOD: Bless my eyes.

WOOD: Every member of this House...

WOOD: Is it true, sir?

WOOD: Postpone the vote!

WOOD: They'll arrive.

WOOD: We are once again asked, nay

WOOD: We are once again asked, nay

Word for word, this is precisely

Work, sir.

Would be our comfort in squalor.

Would you let me study this letter, sir,

Would you still want your...

Would you, at the end of this month

Wrap the whole slavery thing up,

Y E A M A N.

Yea.

Yeah, Mr. Bilbo. Gentlemen.

Yeah, when it comes, it'll present us with conundrums

Yeah.

Yeah. We heard you speak... (STAMMERING) Goddamn.

Yes, and I want to be useful, but now, not afterwards.

Yes, and?

Yes, I do.

Yes, I suppose it is.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, said Mr. Allen. Where it'll do good service.

Yes, sir, everybody knows of it.

Yes, sir, I do.

Yes, sir, I know it.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. That's good that you're aware, sir...

Yes, thank you. It's true.

Yes.

Yes. But how?

Yes. Yeaman.

Yet even you, Pendleton,

Yet if God wills that it continue

You ain't enlisting in nothing nowhere, young man.

You ain't raised much.

You alone may lighten this burden.

You always knew that.

You and I, we're citizens of that country.

You are a Democrat. What's the matter with you?

You are Canfrey?

You are more reptile than man, George!

You are the amendment's manager, are you not?

You asked if ever I was surprised.

You be sure to

You believe that n****es are entirely equal to white men.

You boys best go and find your company.

You boys fight at Gettysburg?

You can't afford a single defection

You can't bring your housekeeper to the House.

You cannot have both.

You claim you trust them,

You could bring the delegates to Washington.

You denied n**** equality. I'm nauseated.

You disenthrall yourself from the slave powers.

You do it this time. Lock me away.

You don't care about parties.

You dream about the ship before a battle, usually.

You fatuous nincompoop!

You got a night, and a day, and a night,

You had nightmares all night long.

You have a right to expect what I expect.

You have always kept your word to me.

You have always taken such a lively,

You have an itch to travel?

You have an itch to travel?

You idiot. Early in the next Congress,

You imagine he'll forgive us

You keep your eyes off my fob.

You know that it abolishes slavery?

You know that the inner compass,

You know who you've got to see.

You may be,

You men know better than to piss your pants

You might do anything now.

You miserable old goat, I'm gonna enlist anyhow.

You must have needed to see it close

You must know Euclid's axioms and common notions.

You must talk with these men.

You must try to be happier.

You need our help!

You need us to keep the conservative side

You needn't tell me I'm right. I know I am.

You perfectly named,

You plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles

You refused to say that all humans are...

You said we all know what he'll do. I don't know.

You said you wanted to help me.

You see what you can do.

You see? There it is,

You shall shortly be sent home in disgrace. Unless...

You shoot me dead! I am voting yes!

You should go to Mrs. Lincoln. She's in Willie's room.

You signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

You tell me dreams, that's all.

You think I'm ignorant of what you're up to

You think Stanton would complain?

You think they'll keep their promise

You think we choose to be born?

You unnatural noise.

You want to have a chat now,

You will be citizens.

You will procure me these votes.

You... You lied to me.

You'll begin your second term with semi divine stature.

You'll frighten the child.

You'll have to pick up Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.

You'll have to, I swear,

You'll linger a few days extra after the reception

You'll not be a conquered people, Mr. Hunter.

You're 10 years older than you were a year ago.

You're an engineer.

You're back! You're back! You're back!

You're delaying, that's your favorite tactic.

You're familiar to me, as all people are,

You're going to try to get the amendment passed

You're not suggesting we enfranchise colored people?

You're only staying a few days, Why'd you pack all that?

You've always blamed Robert for being born.

You've done all that could be done.

You've had no defections

You've led the battle for race equality for 30 years.

You've quartered us in is any measure,

You've said it a thousand times!

You've sanctioned, the uncountable corpses!

YOUNG MAN 1: No, sir. Not much.

YOUNG MAN 1: President Lincoln, sir.

YOUNG MAN 2: We come to dedicate

YOUNG MAN 2: We saw you, and...

Your capacity for astonishment.

Your challenger's party now controls the House

Your frantic attempt to delude us now

Your household accounts have always been so interesting.

Your mama is wise to keep him clean out of that.

Your manners, Monty, must be why Mr. Lincoln

Your party was beaten.

Your peace offer is a fiction.

Your prostitution.

Your Union, sir, is bonded in cannon fire and death.

11 Democrats in the bag. That's encouraging.

13th Amendment of the Constitution?

13th Amendment?

40 odd Redcoats at Ticonderoga.

...can. ...can. Republican.

...pub... lic... ...pub... lic...

All right, Mom. All right.

Am I in trouble? No, sir.

and caused you regret. That's simply not true.

and Means Committee. Mrs. Lincoln.

And thank you. Thank you, sir.

And yet the rumors persist. They are ruining us.

Be useful... You won't tell me no,

But Yeaman, that'd count. Yeah.

Dear God. (ALL MURMURING)

Did you forget to eat? (CHUCKLES)

Do you? We do.

Exactly like him. No.

From tiny acorns and so on. What did Hawkins get?

Goddamn it, I'm voting yes. (LOUD PROTESTS)

Good to meet you, Robert. Nice to meet you.

Good to see you again. Good to see you.

He's a Democrat. I understand that.

Heavy losses. And more to come.

Hm. Perhaps you'll hire me.

How nice to see you. Nice to see you.

I agreed to resign. Oh, Daddy, please! Daddy.

I do. Stuff.

I don't... There is just one country.

I wasn't pushed! Oh, of course you weren't.

I wish I'd been. It was a spectacle.

I'll find another job. You do right, Clay Hawkins.

immediately. Excuse me, what?

It's too important. (KNOCKING ON DOOR)

It's... It's impeachable,

Jobs and nothing more. That's correct.

Look, I'll find another job! My neighbors in Nashville,

Many don't. What about you?

Mr. Blair. Fit and rested.

Mr. Nehemiah Cleary. CLEARY: No!

Mr. President. John. John. I've seen you before.

Oh, Robbie. Hey.

Papa. Mm hmm.

Perhaps you pushed too hard. I push nobody.

Please don't encourage this! (GOAT BLEATS)

Postpone the vote! SERGEANT: Gentlemen!

Proposed... And adopted.

Relieved, you might say. (LAUGHTER)

Robbie. Hey.

Robbie. Hi, Mom.

She in there? She's asleep, probably.

Silly name. LINCOLN: A little bit silly.

Somehow. You will. Somehow?

That's him. SCHELL: Coffroth.

to countenance, to help me! That's right, that's right...

We were at... We was at Gettysburg.

Welcome home. Thank you, sir.

Well, I felt... Never mind.

What time is it? It's 3:40 in the morning.

What's your name, soldier? Robert.

What's your name? Kevin.

Yes. The peace offer. Groundless.

You are out of order! Order in the Cabinet!

You need help, sir? No, sir.

You're creating a bottleneck. Oh.

...and radical Republicanism's abolitionist fanaticism!

...for cruelty. There'd be no 16 year old boys left.

'cause they've got your face on 'em.

(ALL CHUCKLING) (KNOCK ON DOOR)

(ALL CLAMORING)

(ALL CLAMORING)

(ALL LAUGHING)

(ALL LAUGHING)

(ALL SHOUTING IN PROTEST)

(ALL YELLING)

(APPLAUDING)

(APPLAUDING)

(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)

(APPLAUSE)

(APPLAUSE)

(AUDIENCE CLAPPING)

(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMS)

(AUDIENCE GASPS)

(AUDIENCE GASPS)

(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)

(BANGING ON DOOR)

(BELL TOLLING)

(BELLS TOLLING)

(Booms)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(CANNONS BLASTING)

(CARRIAGE PULLS AWAY)

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

(CHEERING)

(CHEERING)

(CHIMING GETS LOUDER)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES) That's what Ethan Allen called out

(CHUCKLES) Will he be unhappy if we lose?

(CHUCKLING)

(CHUCKLING)

(CHUCKLING) I told the bailiff,

(CHUCKLING) It is not...

(CHURCH BELLS CHIMING FAINTLY)

(CLAMORING)

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) (LAUGHING)

(CLEARS THROAT)

(CLEARS THROAT) give my pap a letter

(CLICKING)

(CLOCK TICKING RAPIDLY)

(CLOCK TICKING)

(CLOCK TICKING)

(COUGHING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

(CROWD CLAMORING)

(CROWD CLAMORING)

(CROWD CLAMORING)

(CROWD LAUGHING)

(CROWD MURMURING)

(CROWD MURMURING)

(CROWD MURMURING)

(CROWD MURMURING) (GAVEL POUNDING)

(CROWD OUTSIDE CLAMORING)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(DOOR CREAKING) Oh!

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR OPENS)

(GAVEL BANGING)

(GAVEL BANGING)

(GAVEL POUNDS)

(GROANING)

(GROANING)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTING) (SWORDS CLANKING)

(GRUNTS)

(GUN FIRES)

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

(INDISTINCT)

(KISSES)

(KISSES)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(LAUGHING) It was right after the Revolution,

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHS) Only twenty?

(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)

(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)

(LAUGHTER)

(LAUGHTER)

(LAUGHTER)

(LINCOLN CLEARS THROAT)

(LINCOLN SIGHS)

(MAN LAUGHS)

(MARY CHUCKLES)

(MEN AGREEING)

(MEN APPLAUDING)

(MEN CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)

(MEN CHEERING AND CLAMORING)

(MEN CHEERING)

(MEN CHEERING)

(MEN CHUCKLING)

(MEN CLAMORING)

(MEN CLAMORING)

(MEN CLAMORING)

(MEN CLAMORING)

(MEN CLAMORING)

(MEN CONTINUE CHEERING)

(MEN LAUGHING AND CHEERING)

(MEN LAUGHING AND CHEERING)

(MEN LAUGHING)

(MEN LAUGHING)

(MEN LAUGHING)

(MEN SHOUT APPRECIATIVELY)

(MEN SHOUTING IN PROTEST)

(MEN SHOUTING)

(MUMBLING)

(MURMURING STOPS)

(MUSIC STOPS)

(OUTRAGED PROTESTS)

(PANTING)

(PANTING)

(PEOPLE CHEERING) (BAND PLAYING)

(PEOPLE EXCLAIM IN SURPRISE)

(PLAYING A MARCH)

(POUNDING TABLES)

(RUMBLING)

(RUMBLING)

(SCATTERED APPLAUSE) (CROWD MURMURING)

(SCATTERED CLAPPING)

(SCREAMING)

(SHIP HORN BLOWING)

(SHOCKED CLAMORING)

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS) Of course, there were only

(SINGING CONTINUES)

(SINGING OPERA)

(SNIFFING)

(SNIFFS)

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING)

(SOBBING) I saw him.

(SOFTLY) No one has ever lived who knows better than you

(STAMMERING)

(STAMMERING)

(STAMMERING) He drags his feet about everything,

(STAMMERING) Well, uh, I, um, that is to say...

(STAMMERS) Yes, sir. We sit only three desks apart.

(SWORDS CONTINUE CLANKING)

(TAD CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

(TELEGRAPH CLICKING)

(TELEGRAPH CONTINUES CLICKING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

(TYPEWRITER CLACKING) Webster Allen,

(VOICE BREAKING) But I saw Willie was dying.

(WHISPERING) My vote ties us.

(WHISPERS) He's here.

(YELLING)

♪ And from New England's shore ♪

♪ And up with the star ♪

♪ And we'll fill our vacant ranks ♪

♪ Down with the traitor ♪

♪ Down with the traitor ♪ ♪ And up with the star ♪♪

♪ From Mississippi's winding stream ♪

♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪

♪ Our wives... ♪♪

♪ Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom! ♪

♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪

♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪

♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪

♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪

♪ Shouting the battle cry of freedom ♪

♪ The Union forever! ♪

♪ The Union forever! ♪ ♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪

♪ The Union forever! ♪ ♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah! ♪

♪ Three hundred thousand more ♪

♪ We are springing to the call ♪ ♪ Of the loyal, true and brave ♪

♪ We leave our plow and workshops ♪

♪ We will rally from the hillside ♪

♪ We'll gather from the plain ♪

♪ We'll rally once again ♪

♪ With a million freemen more ♪