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Mr. Adams!
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Mr. Adams!
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Mr. Adams!
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There you are.
Didn't you hear me call you, Mr. Adams?
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You could've shouted down something,
saved me climbing up four flights.
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A man that likes to talk
as much as you do, I'd think--
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What do you keep
coming up here for, Mr. Adams?
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Afraid someone's going to steal our bell?
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Well, don't worry.
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Been here more than 14 years
and ain't been carried off once.
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Better get yourself
back down to Congress, Mr. Adams.
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Getting ready to vote, and they said
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they couldn't settle
such an important question
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without Massachusetts being there.
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I can just imagine.
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All right, what burning issue
are we voting on this time?
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On whether or not
to grant General Washington's request
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that all members
of the Rhode Island militia be required
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to wear matching uniforms.
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Oh, good God.
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I have come to the conclusion
that one useless man
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is called a disgrace,
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that two are called a law firm,
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and that three or more become a Congress.
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And by God, I have had this Congress.
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For ten years,
King George and his parliament
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have gulled, cullied, and diddled
these colonies with their illegal taxes.
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Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts,
Sugar Acts, Tea Acts.
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And when we dared stand up like men,
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they have stopped our trade,
seized our ships,
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blockaded our ports, burned our towns,
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and spilled our blood!
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And still this Congress refuses to grant
any of my proposals on independence,
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even so much
as the courtesy of open debate!
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Good God,
what in the hell are you waiting for?
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Sit down, John
Sit down, John
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-Thomas, for God's sake, listen to me.
-For God's sake, John, sit down
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-Sit down, John
-I've had enough of you.
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Sit down, John
For God's sake, John, sit down
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-Now, listen--
-Why not open up a window?
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-Listen to me and forget the window.
-It's 90 degrees
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Have mercy, John, please
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It's hot as hell in Philadelphia
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Someone ought to open up a window
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I say vote yes
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Vote yes
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Vote for independency
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Someone ought to open up a window
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I say vote yes
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Sit down, John
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Vote for independency
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Someone ought to open up a window
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Too many flies
Too many flies
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But it's hot as hell in Philadelphia
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-Are you gonna open up a window?
-Can't we compromise here?
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Vote yes
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No, too many flies here
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Vote yes
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Oh, for God's sake, John
Sit down
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Good God, consider yourselves fortunate
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that you have John Adams to abuse,
for no sane man would tolerate it!
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John, you're a bore
We've heard this before
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Now, for God's sake, John
Sit down
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- I say vote yes
-No
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-Vote yes
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Vote for independency
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Someone ought to open up a window
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I say vote yes
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Sit down, John
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Vote for independency
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Will someone shut that man up?
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Never!
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Never!
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Dear God.
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For one solid year,
they have been sitting here a whole year,
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doing nothing!
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I do believe you've laid a curse
On North America
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A curse that we here now rehearse
In Philadelphia
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A second flood
A simple famine
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Plagues of locusts everywhere
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Or a cataclysmic earthquake
I'd accept with some despair
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But, no, you've sent us Congress
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Good God, sir, was that fair?
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You see
We piddle, twiddle and resolve
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Not one damn thing do we solve
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Piddle, twiddle and resolve
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Nothing's ever solved
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In foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy
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Philadelphia
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Someone ought to open up a window
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-Oh, good God.
-John, John
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Is that you carrying on, John?
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Oh, Abigail, Abigail, I have such
a desire to knock heads together.
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Then why in heaven's name
do you stay there?
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Come home to Boston, John.
It's only 300 miles.
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If you left tonight,
you could be here in only eight days.
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How can I do that, Abigail?
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I'm no further along now
than I was when I first came here.
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I know, my dearest. I know.
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But that's because you make
everything so complicated.
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It's all quite simple, really.
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Just tell the Congress to declare
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Independency
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Then sign your name
Get out of there
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And hurry home to me
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Our children all have dysentery
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Little Tom keeps turning blue
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Little Abby has the measles
And I'm coming down with flu
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They say we may get smallpox
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Madam, what else is new?
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Abigail, in my last letter, I wrote you
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that the king had collected 12,000
German mercenaries to send against us.
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I asked you to organize the ladies
to make saltpeter for gunpowder.
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-Now, have you done as I asked?
-No, John, I have not.
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Well, why have you not?
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Because you neglected to tell us
how saltpeter is made.
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By treating sodium nitrate
with potassium chloride, of course.
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-Oh, yes, of course.
-Will it be done, then?
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John, I'm afraid
we have a more urgent problem.
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More urgent, madam?
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There's one thing every woman's missed
In Massachusetts Bay
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Don't smirk at me, you egotist
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Pay heed to what I say
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We've gone from Framingham to Boston
And we cannot find a pin
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"Don't you know there's a war on?"
Say the tradesmen with a grin
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Well, we will not make saltpeter
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Until you send us pins
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Pins, madam? Saltpeter.
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-Pins.
-Saltpeter.
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-Pins.
-Saltpeter.
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-Pins.
-Saltpeter.
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-Pins. Pins. Pins.
-'Peter. 'Peter. 'Peter.
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Pins.
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Done, madam, done.
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Done, John.
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-Hurry home, John.
-As soon as I'm able.
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Don't stop writing. It's all I have.
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Every day, my dearest friend.
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Till then
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Till then
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I am
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As I ever was
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And ever shall be
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Yours
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Yours
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Yours
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Yours
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Yours
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Saltpeter
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John
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Pins
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Abigail
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For God's sake, John
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Sit down
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Franklin!
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Franklin!
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Where in hell are you?
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Franklin!
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I see you hiding behind that tree.
Won't do you any good!
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Damn it, this is no time
for playing games.
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Franklin, I have been looking
everywhere for you.
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Where in God's name have you been?
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Right here, John,
being preserved for posterity.
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Do you like it?
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-It stinks.
-As ever, the soul of tact.
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-Well, the man's no Botticelli.
-And the subject's no Venus.
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Franklin, where were you last night
when I needed you?
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You should have heard
what I suffered in there.
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Oh, I heard, all right,
along with the rest of Philadelphia.
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Lord, your voice is piercing, John.
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Well, I wish to heaven my arguments were.
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My God, Franklin, when are they going
to make up their minds?
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With one hand, they can raise an army
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dispatch one of their own to lead it,
and cheer the news from Bunker's Hill.
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And with the other,
they wave the olive branch,
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begging the king for a happy
and permanent reconciliation.
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Fat George has declared us in rebellion.
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-Why in bloody hell can't they?
-John, really.
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You talk as if independence were the rule.
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It's never been done before.
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No colony has ever broken from the
parent stem in the history of the world.
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Damn it, Franklin,
you make us sound treasonous.
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Do I? Treason, eh?
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"Treason is a charge
invented by winners
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as an excuse for hanging the losers."
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I have more to do than stand here
listening to you quote yourself.
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No, that was a new one.
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Damn it, Franklin, we're at war.
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To defend ourselves, nothing more.
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We expressed our displeasure,
the English moved against us,
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and we in turn have resisted.
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Now our fellow congressmen want
to effect a reconciliation
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-before it becomes a war.
-Reconciliation, my ass.
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The people want independence.
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The people have read
Mr. Paine's
Common Sense.
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- I doubt very much Congress has.
-Well, that's true.
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John, why don't you give it up?
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Nobody listens to you.
You're obnoxious and disliked.
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I'm not promoting John Adams.
I'm promoting independence.
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Evidently, they cannot help
connecting the two.
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Even your own cousin.
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And if Sam Adams can't put up with you,
nobody can.
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You're getting at something.
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How can you tell?
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All right, out with it, Franklin.
What new intrigue are you cooking up?
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Let someone else in Congress propose.
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Never!
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Why? Who'd you have in mind?
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I don't know.
I really haven't given it much thought.
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You sent for me, Benjamin?
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-Never.
-Hello, Johnny!
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Richard.
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Johnny and I need some advice.
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-If it's mine to give, it's yours.
-Thank you, Richard.
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The cause that we support has come
to a complete standstill.
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-Why do you suppose that is?
-Simple.
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-Johnny here is obnoxious and disliked.
-That's true.
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What's the solution? I wonder.
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Get somebody else in Congress to propose.
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Oh, Richard, that's brilliant.
Wasn't that brilliant, John?
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-Brilliant.
-The question remains, who can it be?
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The man that we need must belong
to a delegation
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publicly committed
to support independence.
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At the present time, only Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Delaware
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-have declared our way.
-And Virginia. Don't forget Virginia.
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Oh, Richard, I haven't. How could 1?
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But strictly speaking, while Virginia's
views on independence are well known,
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your legislature in Williamsburg
has never formerly authorized
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its delegation here in Congress
to support the cause.
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Now, if we could think of a Virginian
with enough influence to go down there
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-and persuade the House of Burgesses--
-I've thought of someone!
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-Who?
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-Oh, why didn't I think of that?
-I'll leave tonight.
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Why, hell, I'll leave right now,
if you like!
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I'll just stop off in Stratford
long enough to refresh the missus
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and then straight to the matter.
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Yes, sir, I really have to compliment you
on your judgment, Johnny.
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Whoa, boy! Steady.
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You've come to the one colony
that can get the job done.
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Virginia, the land that gave us
our glorious commander-in-chief,
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George Washington,
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will now give the continent
its proposal on independence.
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And when Virginia proposes,
the South is bound to follow.
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And where the South goes,
the middle colonies go.
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Gentlemen, a salute!
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To Virginia,
the mother of American independence!
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Incredible. We're free
and he hasn't even left yet.
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What makes you so sure you can do it?
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My name is Richard Henry Lee
Virginia is my home
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My name is Richard Henry Lee
Virginia is my home
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And may my horses turn to glue
If I can't deliver up to you
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The resolution on independency
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For I am FFV
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The first family
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In the sovereign colony of Virginia
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Yes, the FFV
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The oldest family
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In the oldest colony in America
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And may the British burn my land
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If I can't deliver to your hand
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A resolution on independency
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You see, it's here a Lee
There a Lee
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And everywhere a Lee, a Lee
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-Social
-Lee
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-Political
-Lee
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-Financial, natural
-Lee, Lee
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-Internal, external
-Lee, Lee
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-Fraternal
-Lee
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-Eternal
-Lee
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The FFV
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The first family
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In the sovereign colony of Virginia
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And may my wife refuse my bed
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If I can't deliver as I said
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A resolution on independency
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Spoken modest-Lee. God help us.
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Oh, he will, John. He will.
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They say that God in heaven
Is everybody's God
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-Amen.
-I'll admit that God in heaven
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Is everybody's God
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But I tell you, John, with pride
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God leans a little
On the side of the Lees
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The Lees of old Virginia
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You see, it's here a Lee
There a Lee
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And everywhere a Lee, a Lee
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Here a Lee, there a Lee
And everywhere a Lee
287
00:18:04,374 --> 00:18:07,168
Look out, there's Arthur Lee
Bobby Lee
288
00:18:07,252 --> 00:18:09,379
General Light horse Harry Lee
289
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Willie Lee, Jesse Lee
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-And Richard H.
-That's me.
291
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And may my blood stop running blue
292
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If I can't deliver up to you
The resolution on independency
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Yes, sir, my God
It's here a Lee, there a Lee
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Come on, boys! Join in with me!
295
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-Here a Lee, there a Lee
-When do you leave?
296
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Immediate-Lee
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-Here a Lee, there a Lee
-When will you return?
298
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Short-Lee
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Here a Lee, there a Lee
And I'll come back triumphant-Lee
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Here a Lee, there a Lee
Everywhere a Lee, a Lee
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Forward
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On
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-Excuse me.
-Yes?
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I'm Dr. Lyman Hall,
the new delegate from Georgia.
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I'm Andrew McNair,
congressional custodian.
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If you'll be wanting anything at all,
just holler out "McNair"
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as all the others do
and there won't be too long to wait.
308
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Where does the Georgia delegation belong?
309
00:19:43,306 --> 00:19:47,352
Oh, they mill about over there
in that corner near the two Carolinas.
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It's after 10:00.
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I was told Congress convenes at 10.
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Well, they'll be wandering in
any time now, sir,
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with Old Grape 'n Guts leading the pack.
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-Old who?
-McNair!
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00:20:05,078 --> 00:20:06,412
Grape 'N Guts.
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'Nair!
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Fetch me a rum.
318
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Mr. Hopkins, you'll be pleased
to meet Dr. Lyman Hall.
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I don't need a doctor, damn it.
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New delegate from Georgia.
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00:20:20,468 --> 00:20:22,595
Well, why didn't you say so?
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I'm Stephen Hopkins,
old delegate from Rhode Island.
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-McNair, fetch two rums.
-I fear it's a little early in the day.
324
00:20:33,982 --> 00:20:35,608
Nonsense.
325
00:20:35,692 --> 00:20:39,737
It's a medicinal fact that rum gets
a man's heart started in the morning.
326
00:20:41,364 --> 00:20:43,616
I'm surprised you didn't know that.
327
00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,494
Speaking as the oldest man in
the Congress, I can tell you right now--
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Ben Franklin is older by almost a year.
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Rum!
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Tell me, doctor.
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Where does Georgia stand
on the question of independence?
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With South Carolina, of course.
333
00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:06,055
Neddy, good morning.
334
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Neddy, come over here and shake
the hand of Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia.
335
00:21:09,642 --> 00:21:12,520
Dr. Hall,
this here is Edward Rutledge from...
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whichever Carolina he says he's from.
337
00:21:14,606 --> 00:21:17,317
-God knows I can't keep them straight.
-It's a pleasure, Dr. Hall.
338
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,153
-Your servant, Mr. Rutledge.
-You've met the long and the short
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00:21:20,236 --> 00:21:21,487
of it now, doctor.
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00:21:21,571 --> 00:21:24,282
Neddy here is just a lad.
He's the youngest of us.
341
00:21:24,365 --> 00:21:26,993
-Except for Ben Franklin.
-McNair!
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00:21:27,076 --> 00:21:28,995
Your rum!
343
00:21:29,078 --> 00:21:31,414
Where did you go for it, man? Jamaica?
344
00:21:32,665 --> 00:21:34,667
Well, now, come along, Dr. Hall.
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I know you must be anxious
to meet your colleagues from the South.
346
00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:42,675
Doctor, may I present
to you Joseph Hewes.
347
00:21:42,759 --> 00:21:45,303
This is Dr. Lyman Hall,
the new delegate from Georgia.
348
00:21:45,386 --> 00:21:48,723
-An honor and a pleasure, gentlemen.
-Where do you stand on independence?
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00:21:48,806 --> 00:21:51,392
I'm here without instructions, Mr. Hewes,
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able to vote my own personal convictions.
351
00:21:55,021 --> 00:21:56,105
And they are?
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00:22:00,526 --> 00:22:01,527
Personal.
353
00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:04,530
Dr. Hall...
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the Deep South speaks with one voice.
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It's traditional.
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Even more, it is historical.
357
00:22:13,665 --> 00:22:15,375
Enter Delaware.
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00:22:17,377 --> 00:22:21,547
Speak plain, Rutledge. You know
I can't follow a word of your damn French.
359
00:22:21,631 --> 00:22:23,424
It's Latin, Colonel McKean,
360
00:22:23,508 --> 00:22:27,303
a tribute to the eternal peace
and harmony of the Delaware delegation.
361
00:22:27,387 --> 00:22:30,306
What are you saying, man?
You know perfectly well
362
00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:33,559
that neither Rodney nor I can stand
the sight of this louse.
363
00:22:33,643 --> 00:22:35,687
-Now, Thomas--
-Gentlemen, please.
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This is Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia.
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-Caesar Rodney.
-An honor, sir.
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00:22:42,110 --> 00:22:45,697
George Read and Colonel Thomas McKean.
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00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:46,948
-Dr. Hall.
-Your servant.
368
00:22:47,031 --> 00:22:50,410
I wonder if I might speak to you
for a moment in private.
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00:22:50,493 --> 00:22:51,661
By all means.
370
00:22:54,789 --> 00:22:57,542
-McNair!
-I'm coming! I'm coming!
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00:22:57,625 --> 00:23:00,044
Help me. I'm stuck.
372
00:23:03,006 --> 00:23:04,048
Tell me, sir.
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Would you be
a doctor of medicine or theology?
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00:23:09,804 --> 00:23:12,515
Both, Mr. Rodney.
Which one can be of service?
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00:23:12,598 --> 00:23:15,351
By all means, the physician first.
376
00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:17,437
Then we shall see about the other.
377
00:23:18,855 --> 00:23:20,648
I shall call at your convenience, sir.
378
00:23:30,325 --> 00:23:33,161
I trust, Caesar,
when you're through converting
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00:23:33,244 --> 00:23:34,912
the poor fellow to independency
380
00:23:34,996 --> 00:23:37,373
that you'll give the opposition
a fair crack at him.
381
00:23:39,292 --> 00:23:41,586
You're too late, John.
382
00:23:41,669 --> 00:23:44,130
Once I get them, they're got.
383
00:23:44,213 --> 00:23:49,218
Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia,
Mr. John Dickinson of Pennsylvania.
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00:23:49,302 --> 00:23:50,970
-An honor, sir.
-Your servant, sir.
385
00:23:52,388 --> 00:23:53,639
Tell me, doctor.
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00:23:54,307 --> 00:23:57,560
-Where do you stand on the question of--
-Independence?
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00:23:58,144 --> 00:23:58,978
Treason.
388
00:24:01,773 --> 00:24:03,232
I've no stomach for it.
389
00:24:04,067 --> 00:24:06,152
Then be careful not to dine
with John Adams.
390
00:24:06,235 --> 00:24:07,945
Between the fish and the soufflé,
391
00:24:08,029 --> 00:24:10,615
you'll find yourself hanging
from an English rope.
392
00:24:10,698 --> 00:24:12,075
Your servant, sir.
393
00:24:15,370 --> 00:24:19,749
Judge Wilson, forgive me,
but how can anyone see you
394
00:24:19,832 --> 00:24:23,961
if you insist on standing
in Mr. Dickinson's shadow?
395
00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:29,092
James Wilson, also of Pennsylvania.
396
00:24:29,175 --> 00:24:30,009
Sir.
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00:24:31,469 --> 00:24:32,595
An honor, sir.
398
00:24:34,013 --> 00:24:35,348
Good morning. Good morning.
399
00:24:38,726 --> 00:24:40,269
Good morning, ladies. Good morning.
400
00:24:40,937 --> 00:24:43,898
Steady, steady. There we are.
401
00:24:43,981 --> 00:24:46,651
Make gangway, sir. Make gangway!
402
00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:49,278
Good morning, Mr. Wilson. Good morning.
403
00:24:49,362 --> 00:24:51,364
Watch where you're going. Over there.
404
00:24:52,657 --> 00:24:56,661
McNair, get me out of this thing.
Watch out for my foot.
405
00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:00,123
-Good morning, all.
-Morning, Ben.
406
00:25:01,457 --> 00:25:04,585
Here you are. Two coppers apiece.
Now straight back to jail with you.
407
00:25:04,669 --> 00:25:06,379
-Good morning, Stephen.
-Hi, Benjamin.
408
00:25:06,462 --> 00:25:07,463
Good morning.
409
00:25:12,552 --> 00:25:15,304
What are you staring at? Haven't
you ever seen a great man before?
410
00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:18,474
Good Lord, sir, do you have
the honor to be Dr. Franklin?
411
00:25:18,558 --> 00:25:21,727
Yes, I have that honor. Unfortunately,
the gout accompanies the honor.
412
00:25:22,645 --> 00:25:24,188
Been living too high again, pappy?
413
00:25:24,272 --> 00:25:27,900
Oh, Stephen, I only wish
King George felt like my big toe all over.
414
00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:33,573
McNair! Fetch a pillow
and two more rums.
415
00:25:33,656 --> 00:25:36,784
Franklin, where's that idiot Lee?
Is he back yet? I don't see him.
416
00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:39,620
Softly, John.
Your voice is hurting my foot.
417
00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:43,374
One more day. That's how long
I'll remain silent, not a minute longer.
418
00:25:43,458 --> 00:25:46,002
That strutting popinjay
was so damn sure of himself,
419
00:25:46,085 --> 00:25:48,296
he's had time to bring back
a dozen proposals by now.
420
00:25:48,379 --> 00:25:52,758
Tell me, James, how do you explain
the strange, monumental quietude
421
00:25:52,842 --> 00:25:55,386
that Congress has been treated to
these past 30 days?
422
00:25:55,470 --> 00:25:59,140
Has the ill wind of independence
finally blown itself out?
423
00:25:59,974 --> 00:26:01,767
Well, if you ask me--
424
00:26:01,851 --> 00:26:05,605
For myself, I must confess
that a month free from New England noise
425
00:26:05,688 --> 00:26:07,607
is more therapeutic
than a month in the country.
426
00:26:07,690 --> 00:26:10,526
-Don't you agree, James?
-Well, I feel--
427
00:26:10,610 --> 00:26:12,528
Mr. Adams, pray look for your voice, sir.
428
00:26:12,612 --> 00:26:17,533
It cannot be far, and God knows we need
the entertainment in this Congress.
429
00:26:21,621 --> 00:26:24,874
Congratulations. You just made your
greatest contribution to independence.
430
00:26:24,957 --> 00:26:27,585
-You kept your flap shut.
-One more day, Franklin,
431
00:26:27,668 --> 00:26:29,670
then I shall do the proposing.
432
00:26:31,506 --> 00:26:35,134
Gentlemen,
the usual morning festivities concluded,
433
00:26:35,218 --> 00:26:37,637
I will now call Congress to order.
434
00:26:38,221 --> 00:26:39,388
Mr. Thomson...
435
00:26:43,184 --> 00:26:46,812
Second Continental Congress,
in Philadelphia, is now in session.
436
00:26:46,896 --> 00:26:50,358
Seven, June, 1776,
the 380th meeting.
437
00:26:50,441 --> 00:26:52,276
Sweet Jesus!
438
00:26:54,111 --> 00:26:56,781
The Honorable John Hancock
of Massachusetts Bay, president.
439
00:26:59,408 --> 00:27:01,619
Thank you, Mr. Thomson.
Mr. McNair...
440
00:27:02,286 --> 00:27:05,748
the stores of rum and
other drinking spirits are hereby closed
441
00:27:05,831 --> 00:27:09,293
to the colony of Rhode Island
for a period of three days.
442
00:27:09,377 --> 00:27:12,547
-Yes, sir.
-Johnny, you can't do that.
443
00:27:12,630 --> 00:27:15,883
Sit down, Mr. Hopkins.
You've abused the privilege.
444
00:27:18,553 --> 00:27:20,513
The chair would like
to take this opportunity
445
00:27:20,596 --> 00:27:23,391
to welcome Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia
to this Congress
446
00:27:23,474 --> 00:27:25,601
and hopes he will make the best of it.
447
00:27:28,771 --> 00:27:30,648
My God, it's hot.
448
00:27:31,566 --> 00:27:33,734
The secretary will read the roll.
449
00:27:33,818 --> 00:27:36,487
All members present
with the following exceptions:
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00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:39,490
Mr. Paine, Mr. Gerry,
Mr. Samuel Adams of Massachusetts,
451
00:27:39,574 --> 00:27:43,995
Mr. Morton of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wythe
and Mr. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia,
452
00:27:44,078 --> 00:27:46,914
and the entire delegation of New Jersey.
453
00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:50,751
I'm concerned over the continual absence
of one-thirteenth of this Congress.
454
00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:52,378
Where is New Jersey?
455
00:27:52,461 --> 00:27:55,548
Somewhere between New York
and Pennsylvania.
456
00:27:59,093 --> 00:28:00,636
Thank you very much.
457
00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:05,224
Dr. Franklin, have you heard anything?
Your son resides there.
458
00:28:05,308 --> 00:28:06,726
Son, sir? What son?
459
00:28:07,518 --> 00:28:10,313
The royal governor of New Jersey, sir.
460
00:28:11,022 --> 00:28:13,024
As that title might suggest, sir,
461
00:28:13,107 --> 00:28:15,443
we are not in touch
at the present time.
462
00:28:15,526 --> 00:28:16,527
Yes.
463
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,197
Well... Now for the weather report...
464
00:28:20,281 --> 00:28:21,866
Mr. Jefferson of Virginia.
465
00:28:24,660 --> 00:28:27,830
-Mr. Jefferson!
-Present, sir.
466
00:28:27,913 --> 00:28:29,957
May we hear about the weather?
467
00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:32,418
As if it weren't speaking for itself.
468
00:28:34,337 --> 00:28:36,964
Eighty-seven degrees of temperature,
469
00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:40,509
30-point-aught-six inches of mercury.
470
00:28:40,593 --> 00:28:41,469
Wind...
471
00:28:42,845 --> 00:28:45,348
from the southwest
for the rest of the day.
472
00:28:45,431 --> 00:28:48,601
And tonight--
Tonight I'm leaving for home.
473
00:28:49,310 --> 00:28:51,937
-On business?
-Family business.
474
00:28:52,021 --> 00:28:54,273
Give her a flourish for me, young feller.
475
00:29:22,426 --> 00:29:24,470
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies.
476
00:29:24,553 --> 00:29:27,556
To New York, dispatch number 1,137."
477
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,309
Ah, sweet Jesus!
478
00:29:30,393 --> 00:29:33,229
"To the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, president. 'Dear, sir,
479
00:29:33,312 --> 00:29:35,856
it is with grave apprehension
that I have learned this day
480
00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:38,025
of the sailing
from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
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00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:39,944
of a considerable force of British troops
482
00:29:40,027 --> 00:29:42,363
in the company of foreign mercenaries
and under the command
483
00:29:42,446 --> 00:29:44,115
of General Sir William Howe.
484
00:29:44,198 --> 00:29:46,659
There can be no doubt
that their destination is New York,
485
00:29:46,742 --> 00:29:49,954
for to take and hold this city
and the Hudson Valley beyond
486
00:29:50,037 --> 00:29:52,873
would serve to separate New England
from the rest of the colonies,
487
00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:55,501
permitting both sections
to be crushed in turn.
488
00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:58,754
Sadly, I see no way of stopping them
at the present time,
489
00:29:58,838 --> 00:30:01,006
as my army is absolutely falling apart.
490
00:30:01,090 --> 00:30:03,259
My military chest is totally exhausted.
491
00:30:03,342 --> 00:30:06,470
My commissary general has strained
his credit to the last.
492
00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:10,266
My quartermaster has no food,
no arms, No ammunition,
493
00:30:10,349 --> 00:30:13,185
and my troops are in
a state of near mutiny.
494
00:30:13,269 --> 00:30:18,190
I pray God some relief arrives
before the armada, but fear it will not.
495
00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:19,483
Your obedient...
496
00:30:21,235 --> 00:30:22,695
G. Washington.'"
497
00:30:23,487 --> 00:30:25,740
-Mr. President!
-Colonel McKean.
498
00:30:25,823 --> 00:30:30,995
Surely we have managed to promote
the gloomiest man on this continent
499
00:30:31,078 --> 00:30:32,997
to the head of our troops.
500
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:37,418
Those dispatches are
the most depressing accumulation
501
00:30:37,501 --> 00:30:43,132
of disaster, doom and despair in
the entire annals of military history.
502
00:30:43,215 --> 00:30:45,509
Colonel McKean, please!
503
00:30:45,593 --> 00:30:48,721
-What?
-It's too hot.
504
00:30:50,181 --> 00:30:52,057
Well, I suppose so.
505
00:30:52,683 --> 00:30:57,104
General Washington will continue wording
his dispatches as he sees fit.
506
00:30:57,188 --> 00:30:59,190
And I'm sure we all pray
507
00:30:59,273 --> 00:31:03,194
he finds happier thoughts
to convey in the near future.
508
00:31:04,445 --> 00:31:06,405
Mr. Thomson, are there any resolutions?
509
00:31:07,156 --> 00:31:08,949
Dr. Josiah Barlett of New Hampshire.
510
00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:13,621
"Resolved: that for the duration
of the present hostilities,
511
00:31:13,704 --> 00:31:16,791
the Congress discourage every type
of extravagance and dissipation,
512
00:31:16,874 --> 00:31:19,543
elaborate funerals
and other expensive diversions,
513
00:31:19,627 --> 00:31:22,463
especially all horse racing, gambling
514
00:31:22,546 --> 00:31:25,382
and other forms of sinful activity--"
515
00:31:25,466 --> 00:31:26,926
Fire wagon!
516
00:31:44,193 --> 00:31:46,821
-Where's the fire? Can anybody tell?
-Looks like the Pepperton house.
517
00:31:46,904 --> 00:31:50,199
-Couldn't be. It's brand-new.
- It might be the city tavern.
518
00:31:50,282 --> 00:31:51,700
Bite your tongue, man.
519
00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:04,296
Benjy, I'm back! I'm back, Johnny!
520
00:32:10,261 --> 00:32:12,388
-Lee, is it done?
-First things first.
521
00:32:13,222 --> 00:32:17,643
Tom, your little bride wants to know:
"When's he coming home?"
522
00:32:17,726 --> 00:32:20,312
- I leave tonight.
-Never mind that, man. Is it done?
523
00:32:20,396 --> 00:32:22,523
Done? Why, certain-Lee.
524
00:32:23,399 --> 00:32:27,194
Mr. President, I have returned from
Virginia with the following resolution.
525
00:32:27,278 --> 00:32:30,865
"Resolved: that these united colonies are,
and of a right ought to be,
526
00:32:30,948 --> 00:32:32,491
free and independent states
527
00:32:32,575 --> 00:32:35,119
that they are absolved
from allegiance to the British crown
528
00:32:35,202 --> 00:32:38,455
and that all political connection
between them and Great Britain is
529
00:32:38,539 --> 00:32:41,667
and ought to be totally dissolved."
530
00:32:42,585 --> 00:32:45,254
Mr. President, I second the proposal.
531
00:32:45,337 --> 00:32:47,298
The resolution has been proposed
and seconded.
532
00:32:47,381 --> 00:32:49,258
The chair will now entertain debate.
533
00:32:50,885 --> 00:32:52,511
-Mr. Dickinson.
-Mr. President.
534
00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:55,055
Pennsylvania moves, as always,
535
00:32:55,139 --> 00:32:59,226
that the question of independence
be postponed indefinitely.
536
00:32:59,310 --> 00:33:01,186
I second the motion.
537
00:33:01,270 --> 00:33:02,438
Judge Wilson,
538
00:33:03,606 --> 00:33:06,525
in your eagerness to be loved,
you seem to have forgotten
539
00:33:06,609 --> 00:33:09,361
that Pennsylvania cannot second
its own motion.
540
00:33:10,779 --> 00:33:12,615
Delaware seconds.
541
00:33:12,698 --> 00:33:14,825
You would, you lousy wart.
542
00:33:15,534 --> 00:33:18,746
The motion to postpone
has been moved and seconded.
543
00:33:18,829 --> 00:33:20,080
Mr. Thomson.
544
00:33:21,540 --> 00:33:23,334
On the motion to postpone indefinitely
545
00:33:23,417 --> 00:33:26,337
the resolution on independency
or proceed with the debate,
546
00:33:26,420 --> 00:33:29,882
all those in favor of debate say "yea,"
all those for postponement say "nay."
547
00:33:29,965 --> 00:33:33,969
-New Hampshire.
-New Hampshire favors debate. Yea.
548
00:33:35,721 --> 00:33:38,599
New Hampshire says yea.
Massachusetts?
549
00:33:38,682 --> 00:33:43,479
Massachusetts, having borne
the brunt of the king's tyranny...
550
00:33:43,562 --> 00:33:45,898
Yes, I said tyranny!
551
00:33:46,565 --> 00:33:49,360
Massachusetts now
and for all time says yea.
552
00:33:50,569 --> 00:33:53,030
Massachusetts says yea.
553
00:33:53,113 --> 00:33:54,573
Rhode Island?
554
00:33:55,574 --> 00:33:56,992
Mr. Hopkins.
555
00:33:57,868 --> 00:34:02,164
-Where's Rhode Island?
-Out visiting the necessary.
556
00:34:02,247 --> 00:34:05,918
After what Rhode Island's consumed,
I can't say I'm surprised.
557
00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:07,795
We'll come back to him, Mr. Thomson.
558
00:34:07,878 --> 00:34:09,838
Rhode Island passes.
559
00:34:14,051 --> 00:34:15,511
Connecticut.
560
00:34:17,638 --> 00:34:20,391
While Connecticut has, till now,
561
00:34:20,474 --> 00:34:22,518
been against this proposal,
562
00:34:23,268 --> 00:34:25,604
our legislature has instructed me
that in the event
563
00:34:25,688 --> 00:34:28,941
it is introduced by any colony
outside of New England,
564
00:34:29,024 --> 00:34:31,318
we could not any longer
withhold our support.
565
00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:33,570
-Connecticut says yea.
-Hear! Hear!
566
00:34:33,654 --> 00:34:36,407
Connecticut says yea. New York.
567
00:34:37,491 --> 00:34:39,868
New York abstains, courteously.
568
00:34:39,952 --> 00:34:42,579
-New York abstains.
-Courteously.
569
00:34:45,082 --> 00:34:48,293
-New Jersey.
-Absent, Mr. Secretary.
570
00:34:49,670 --> 00:34:51,547
New Jersey's absent. Pennsylvania.
571
00:34:52,464 --> 00:34:55,884
Pennsylvania, for the 24th time, says nay.
572
00:34:55,968 --> 00:34:58,387
Pennsylvania says nay. Delaware.
573
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:03,934
Delaware, as ever for independence,
says yea.
574
00:35:04,018 --> 00:35:06,687
Delaware says yea. Maryland.
575
00:35:07,479 --> 00:35:10,899
Maryland would welcome independence
if it were given,
576
00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:14,111
but is highly skeptical
that it can be taken.
577
00:35:14,194 --> 00:35:15,738
Maryland says nay.
578
00:35:17,614 --> 00:35:19,825
Maryland says nay. Virginia.
579
00:35:19,908 --> 00:35:22,619
Virginia, the first colony, says yea.
580
00:35:25,748 --> 00:35:28,250
Virginia says yea. North Carolina.
581
00:35:28,333 --> 00:35:32,796
North Carolina respectfully yields
to South Carolina.
582
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,798
-South Carolina.
-Mr. President,
583
00:35:35,883 --> 00:35:39,553
although we of South Carolina
have never seriously considered
584
00:35:39,636 --> 00:35:41,847
the question of independence,
585
00:35:41,930 --> 00:35:45,851
when a gentleman proposes it,
attention must be paid.
586
00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:51,023
However, we in the Deep South,
587
00:35:51,106 --> 00:35:53,025
unlike our friends in New England,
588
00:35:53,108 --> 00:35:56,612
have no cause for impatience
at the present time.
589
00:35:57,821 --> 00:36:01,283
If at some future date it becomes
the wish of all our sister colonies
590
00:36:01,366 --> 00:36:05,037
to effect a separation,
we will not stand in the way.
591
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,081
But for the time being,
592
00:36:07,164 --> 00:36:10,417
South Carolina will wait and watch.
593
00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:12,377
The vote is nay.
594
00:36:15,506 --> 00:36:19,301
-North Carolina--
-Says nay. Yes, Mr. Hewes. I know.
595
00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:22,346
Georgia.
596
00:36:25,849 --> 00:36:26,725
Georgia.
597
00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:33,398
Mr. President, Georgia seems to be split
right down the middle on this issue.
598
00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:35,943
The people are against it,
and I'm for it.
599
00:36:38,946 --> 00:36:42,199
However, I'm afraid I'm not quite certain
600
00:36:42,282 --> 00:36:46,286
whether representing the people means
relying on their judgment or on my own.
601
00:36:46,370 --> 00:36:48,497
In all fairness,
until I can figure that out,
602
00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:50,374
I'd better lean a little on their side.
603
00:36:51,291 --> 00:36:52,417
Georgia says nay.
604
00:36:56,839 --> 00:36:58,632
Georgia says nay.
605
00:36:59,675 --> 00:37:00,676
Rhode Island.
606
00:37:02,761 --> 00:37:05,180
Second call, Rhode Island!
607
00:37:05,889 --> 00:37:07,474
Rhode Island!
608
00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:10,269
I'm coming! I'm coming!
609
00:37:10,352 --> 00:37:12,729
Hold your damn horses.
610
00:37:12,813 --> 00:37:15,607
-We're waiting on you, Mr. Hopkins.
-Well, it won't kill you.
611
00:37:16,316 --> 00:37:19,778
You'd think
the Congress would have its own pisser.
612
00:37:19,862 --> 00:37:21,321
All right, where does she stand?
613
00:37:21,405 --> 00:37:24,825
Five for debate, five for postponement,
one abstention and one absence.
614
00:37:24,908 --> 00:37:26,535
So it's up to me, huh?
615
00:37:26,618 --> 00:37:28,120
Well, I'll tell ya.
616
00:37:28,203 --> 00:37:32,291
In all my years, I never seen,
heard nor smelled an issue
617
00:37:32,374 --> 00:37:35,002
that was so dangerous
it couldn't be talked about.
618
00:37:35,085 --> 00:37:38,130
Hell, yes! I'm for debating anything.
Rhode Island says yea.
619
00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:43,510
-McNair, get Mr. Hopkins a rum!
-But you said--
620
00:37:43,594 --> 00:37:46,680
Get him the whole damn barrel if he wants!
621
00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:50,225
The chair now declares this Congress
a Committee of the Whole
622
00:37:50,309 --> 00:37:53,687
for the purpose of debating
Virginia's resolution on independence.
623
00:37:53,770 --> 00:37:54,855
Mr. Dickinson.
624
00:37:57,024 --> 00:38:02,404
Well, now, you've got
your way at last, Mr. Adams.
625
00:38:02,487 --> 00:38:04,615
The matter may now be discussed.
626
00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:08,035
I confess I'm almost relieved.
627
00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:12,206
There's a question
I've been fairly itching to ask you.
628
00:38:14,625 --> 00:38:17,085
-Why?
-Why what, Mr. Dickinson?
629
00:38:17,961 --> 00:38:21,215
Well, why independence, Mr. Adams?
630
00:38:21,298 --> 00:38:22,591
For the obvious reason
631
00:38:22,674 --> 00:38:27,054
that our continued association
with Great Britain has grown intolerable.
632
00:38:27,137 --> 00:38:29,806
Well, to whom, Mr. Adams? To you?
633
00:38:30,682 --> 00:38:33,602
Well, then I suggest
you sever your ties immediately.
634
00:38:33,685 --> 00:38:36,063
But please be kind enough
635
00:38:36,146 --> 00:38:39,608
to leave the rest of us where we are.
636
00:38:39,691 --> 00:38:41,610
For myself, I have no objection at all
637
00:38:41,693 --> 00:38:44,446
to being part
of the greatest empire on earth,
638
00:38:44,529 --> 00:38:47,574
to enjoying its protection
and sharing its benefits.
639
00:38:47,658 --> 00:38:48,659
Benefits?
640
00:38:50,077 --> 00:38:51,370
What benefits?
641
00:38:52,246 --> 00:38:55,457
Crippling taxes? Cruel repressions?
642
00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:57,042
Abolished rights?
643
00:38:58,877 --> 00:39:03,048
Is that all England means to you, sir?
644
00:39:04,925 --> 00:39:08,303
Is that all the pride and affection
you can muster
645
00:39:08,387 --> 00:39:09,846
for the nation that bore you?
646
00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:14,434
For the noblest, most civilized nation
on the face of this planet?
647
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:18,230
What, would you have us forsake
Hastings and Magna Carta,
648
00:39:18,313 --> 00:39:21,900
Strongbow and Lionheart,
Drake and Marlborough,
649
00:39:21,984 --> 00:39:23,902
Tudors, Stuarts and Plantagenets?
650
00:39:23,986 --> 00:39:25,612
For what, sir?
651
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:27,656
Well, tell me. For what?
652
00:39:30,993 --> 00:39:32,202
For you?
653
00:39:35,789 --> 00:39:39,918
Some men are patriots,
like General Washington.
654
00:39:40,002 --> 00:39:42,254
And some are anarchists, like Mr. Paine.
655
00:39:42,337 --> 00:39:45,090
Some even are internationalists,
like Dr. Franklin.
656
00:39:45,173 --> 00:39:47,551
But you, sir...
657
00:39:49,261 --> 00:39:53,473
You are merely an agitator,
disturbing the peace,
658
00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:57,477
creating disorder, endangering
the public welfare, and for what?
659
00:39:57,561 --> 00:40:00,022
Your petty, little personal complaints:
660
00:40:00,105 --> 00:40:02,190
"Your taxes are too high."
661
00:40:03,650 --> 00:40:07,612
Well, sir, so are mine.
662
00:40:10,198 --> 00:40:12,951
Come, come, Mr. Adams.
663
00:40:13,035 --> 00:40:16,413
If you have grievances,
and I'm sure you have,
664
00:40:16,496 --> 00:40:20,208
our present system must provide
a gentler means of redressing them
665
00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:22,169
short of revolution.
666
00:40:22,961 --> 00:40:25,088
Yes, that's what he wants.
667
00:40:25,172 --> 00:40:27,257
Nothing less will satisfy him.
668
00:40:27,341 --> 00:40:30,302
Violence, rebellion, treason.
669
00:40:32,596 --> 00:40:34,723
Now, Mr. Adams,
670
00:40:35,807 --> 00:40:39,061
are these the acts of Englishmen?
671
00:40:39,144 --> 00:40:41,646
Not Englishmen, Dickinson. Americans.
672
00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:43,648
No, sir. Englishmen!
673
00:40:44,441 --> 00:40:47,819
Please, Mr. Dickinson, must you start
banging? How is a man to sleep?
674
00:40:49,529 --> 00:40:52,783
Forgive me, Dr. Franklin,
but must you start speaking?
675
00:40:52,866 --> 00:40:54,493
How is a man to stay awake?
676
00:40:56,453 --> 00:40:58,538
We'll promise to be quiet, sir.
677
00:40:58,622 --> 00:41:01,833
I'm sure everyone prefers
that you remain asleep.
678
00:41:01,917 --> 00:41:04,378
If I'm to hear myself called
an Englishman, sir,
679
00:41:04,461 --> 00:41:06,380
I assure you,
I'd prefer I'd remained asleep.
680
00:41:06,463 --> 00:41:10,217
Oh, now, what's so terrible
about being called an Englishman?
681
00:41:10,300 --> 00:41:13,345
-The English don't seem to mind.
-Nor would I...
682
00:41:13,428 --> 00:41:15,555
were I given the full rights
of an Englishman.
683
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,600
But to call me one without those rights
is like calling an ox a bull.
684
00:41:19,684 --> 00:41:21,853
He's thankful for the honor,
but he'd much rather have restored
685
00:41:21,937 --> 00:41:23,271
what's rightfully his.
686
00:41:29,861 --> 00:41:32,697
When did you first notice
they were missing, sir?
687
00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:41,206
Fortunately, the people of these colonies
688
00:41:41,289 --> 00:41:44,000
maintain a higher regard
for their mother country.
689
00:41:44,918 --> 00:41:46,962
Higher, certainly,
than she feels for them.
690
00:41:47,838 --> 00:41:50,465
Never was such
a valuable possession so stupidly
691
00:41:50,549 --> 00:41:52,175
and so recklessly managed
692
00:41:52,259 --> 00:41:54,469
than this entire continent
by the British crown.
693
00:41:55,178 --> 00:41:58,056
Our industry discouraged,
our resources pillaged.
694
00:41:59,641 --> 00:42:01,726
Worst of all, our very character stifled.
695
00:42:03,103 --> 00:42:05,272
We've spawned
a new race here, Mr. Dickinson.
696
00:42:05,355 --> 00:42:10,610
Rougher, simpler, more violent,
more enterprising, less refined.
697
00:42:11,611 --> 00:42:15,198
We're a new nationality.
We require a new nation.
698
00:42:18,785 --> 00:42:19,786
Well...
699
00:42:20,745 --> 00:42:24,541
that may be your opinion,
Dr. Franklin, but,
700
00:42:24,624 --> 00:42:28,753
as I said,
the people feel quite differently.
701
00:42:28,837 --> 00:42:31,339
Now, what do you know
about the people, Dickinson?
702
00:42:32,257 --> 00:42:35,260
You don't speak for the people.
You represent only yourself.
703
00:42:36,011 --> 00:42:38,221
And that precious status quo
704
00:42:38,305 --> 00:42:41,516
you keep imploring the people
to preserve for their own good
705
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,896
is nothing more than the eternal
preservation of your own property.
706
00:42:47,314 --> 00:42:50,025
Mr. Adams, you have an annoying talent
707
00:42:50,108 --> 00:42:54,779
for making such delightful words
as "property" sound quite distasteful.
708
00:42:55,614 --> 00:42:58,325
In heaven's name,
what's wrong with property?
709
00:42:59,242 --> 00:43:02,496
Perhaps you've forgotten that many of us
first came to these shores
710
00:43:02,579 --> 00:43:05,040
in order to secure rights to property
711
00:43:05,123 --> 00:43:09,419
and that we hold these rights no less dear
than the rights you speak of.
712
00:43:09,503 --> 00:43:14,049
Yes. So safe, so fat,
so comfortable in Pennsylvania.
713
00:43:14,132 --> 00:43:16,551
And what is this independence of yours
714
00:43:16,635 --> 00:43:19,137
except the private grievance
of Massachusetts?
715
00:43:19,221 --> 00:43:22,307
Why is it always Boston
that breaks the king's peace?
716
00:43:22,390 --> 00:43:26,353
My dear Congress,
you must not adopt this evil measure.
717
00:43:26,436 --> 00:43:27,896
It is the work of the devil.
718
00:43:28,855 --> 00:43:33,568
Leave it where it belongs.
In New England.
719
00:43:33,652 --> 00:43:37,155
Brother Dickinson, New England has
fought the devil more than 100 years.
720
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,533
And as of now, Brother Sherman,
721
00:43:39,616 --> 00:43:42,369
the devil has been winning hands down.
722
00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:46,331
Why, at this very moment,
he's sitting right here in this Congress.
723
00:43:46,414 --> 00:43:50,377
Don't let him deceive you.
This proposal is entirely his doing.
724
00:43:50,460 --> 00:43:52,379
Oh, it may bear Virginia's name,
725
00:43:52,462 --> 00:43:56,258
but it reeks of Adams,
Adams and more Adams.
726
00:43:56,341 --> 00:43:58,593
Look at him.
Ready to lead this continent
727
00:43:58,677 --> 00:44:01,221
down the fiery path of total destruction.
728
00:44:01,304 --> 00:44:05,600
Oh, good God! Why can't you acknowledge
what already exists?
729
00:44:05,684 --> 00:44:09,229
It has been more than a year
since Concord and Lexington.
730
00:44:09,312 --> 00:44:11,606
Damn it, man, we're at war right now!
731
00:44:11,690 --> 00:44:15,110
You may be at war.
You: Boston and John Adams.
732
00:44:15,193 --> 00:44:17,612
But you will never speak for Pennsylvania.
733
00:44:17,696 --> 00:44:20,073
-Nor for Delaware.
-Mr. Read,
734
00:44:20,156 --> 00:44:23,368
you represent only one-third of Delaware.
735
00:44:23,451 --> 00:44:25,495
The sensible third, Mr. Rodney.
736
00:44:25,579 --> 00:44:28,790
Sit down, you scurvy dog,
or I'll knock you down.
737
00:44:29,457 --> 00:44:33,295
Sit down, all three of you! McNair,
do something about that damn dog!
738
00:44:33,378 --> 00:44:36,423
-Fetch me a rum.
-Get the dog first.
739
00:44:36,506 --> 00:44:38,466
I only got two hands.
740
00:44:43,471 --> 00:44:45,307
Christ, it's hot!
741
00:44:57,652 --> 00:44:59,613
Please do go on, gentlemen.
742
00:44:59,696 --> 00:45:01,990
You're making the only breeze
in Philadelphia.
743
00:45:03,867 --> 00:45:08,288
Mr. Adams, perhaps you could
clear up something for me.
744
00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:11,541
After we have achieved independence,
745
00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:14,210
who do you propose
would govern in South Carolina?
746
00:45:16,129 --> 00:45:17,547
The people, of course.
747
00:45:17,631 --> 00:45:20,967
Which people, sir?
The people of South Carolina
748
00:45:21,051 --> 00:45:23,428
or the people of Massachusetts?
749
00:45:24,137 --> 00:45:28,183
Admit it, Neddy. You're against
independence now and you always will be.
750
00:45:28,266 --> 00:45:29,768
Aye.
751
00:45:31,436 --> 00:45:35,148
Gentlemen, you refuse to understand us.
752
00:45:35,231 --> 00:45:38,234
We desire independence. Yes.
753
00:45:39,069 --> 00:45:41,863
For South Carolina.
That is our country.
754
00:45:42,947 --> 00:45:45,492
And as such,
we don't wish it to belong to anyone.
755
00:45:46,242 --> 00:45:49,120
Not to England and not to you.
756
00:45:50,121 --> 00:45:52,666
We intend to have one nation, Rutledge.
757
00:45:52,749 --> 00:45:56,002
A nation of sovereign states, Mr. Adams.
758
00:45:56,086 --> 00:45:58,588
United for our mutual protection...
759
00:45:59,381 --> 00:46:01,716
but separate for our individual pursuits.
760
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,177
Now, that is what
we have understood it to be
761
00:46:04,928 --> 00:46:07,681
and that is what we will support.
762
00:46:08,973 --> 00:46:11,601
As soon as everyone supports it.
763
00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:17,607
Well, there you are, Mr. Adams.
764
00:46:18,817 --> 00:46:21,444
You must see that we need time.
765
00:46:21,528 --> 00:46:26,741
Time to make certain who we are and
where we stand in regard to one another.
766
00:46:26,825 --> 00:46:30,745
For if we do not determine the nature
of the beast before we set it free,
767
00:46:30,829 --> 00:46:33,373
it will end by consuming us all.
768
00:46:33,456 --> 00:46:35,500
For once in your life, Wilson,
769
00:46:36,751 --> 00:46:37,877
take a chance.
770
00:46:39,879 --> 00:46:41,715
I say the time is now.
771
00:46:42,882 --> 00:46:44,217
It may never come again.
772
00:46:45,593 --> 00:46:47,178
Your clock is fast, Mr. Adams.
773
00:46:47,262 --> 00:46:49,264
I say we're not yet ripe
for independence.
774
00:46:49,347 --> 00:46:52,934
Not ripe?
Hell, we're rotting for want of it.
775
00:46:53,017 --> 00:46:57,188
Gentlemen, please,
what in God's name is the infernal hurry?
776
00:46:57,272 --> 00:46:59,357
Why must this question be settled now?
777
00:46:59,441 --> 00:47:01,609
What's wrong with now, Mr. Chase?
778
00:47:01,693 --> 00:47:04,154
General Washington is in the field.
779
00:47:04,237 --> 00:47:08,241
If he's defeated as it now appears,
we'll be inviting the hangman.
780
00:47:08,324 --> 00:47:12,454
But if, by some miracle,
he should actually win,
781
00:47:12,537 --> 00:47:15,248
we can then declare anything
we damn please.
782
00:47:15,331 --> 00:47:18,126
The sentiments
of North Carolina precisely.
783
00:47:18,918 --> 00:47:21,087
Has it ever occurred to either of you
784
00:47:21,171 --> 00:47:25,508
that an army needs something
to fight for in order to win?
785
00:47:25,592 --> 00:47:29,137
A purpose? A goal? A flag of its own?
786
00:47:29,220 --> 00:47:30,597
Mr. Adams...
787
00:47:31,848 --> 00:47:34,768
how can a nation of only 2 million souls
788
00:47:34,851 --> 00:47:37,103
stand up to an empire of 10 million?
789
00:47:37,187 --> 00:47:41,024
Think of it. Ten million.
How do we compensate for that shortage?
790
00:47:41,107 --> 00:47:43,860
It's simple, Mr. Chase.
Increase and multiply.
791
00:47:43,943 --> 00:47:44,944
How's that?
792
00:47:46,613 --> 00:47:48,823
We will more than compensate with spirit.
793
00:47:49,866 --> 00:47:52,535
I tell you there is a spirit out there
among the people
794
00:47:52,619 --> 00:47:54,788
that is sadly lacking in this Congress.
795
00:47:54,871 --> 00:47:57,999
Yes, of course. Now it's spirit.
796
00:47:58,082 --> 00:48:00,084
Well, why didn't I think of that?
797
00:48:00,168 --> 00:48:04,339
No army, no navy,
no arms, Nno ammunition,
798
00:48:04,422 --> 00:48:08,551
no treasury, no friends.
799
00:48:08,635 --> 00:48:11,888
But bless our soul, spirit.
800
00:48:12,972 --> 00:48:15,350
Mr. Lee, Mr. Hopkins,
801
00:48:15,433 --> 00:48:17,060
Mr. Rodney, Colonel McKean,
802
00:48:17,936 --> 00:48:19,312
Dr. Franklin.
803
00:48:20,605 --> 00:48:25,568
Why have you joined
this incendiary, little man,
804
00:48:25,652 --> 00:48:27,821
this Boston radical,
805
00:48:29,072 --> 00:48:30,365
this agitator,
806
00:48:31,825 --> 00:48:33,034
this demagogue,
807
00:48:33,993 --> 00:48:35,745
this madman?
808
00:48:35,829 --> 00:48:38,248
Are you calling me a madman, you--?
809
00:48:39,582 --> 00:48:40,750
You fribble!
810
00:48:43,169 --> 00:48:46,005
You and your Pennsylvania proprietors.
811
00:48:46,089 --> 00:48:48,967
Oh, you cool, considerate men.
812
00:48:49,050 --> 00:48:52,887
You hang to the rear on every issue,
so that if we should go under,
813
00:48:52,971 --> 00:48:54,722
you'll still remain afloat.
814
00:48:54,806 --> 00:48:59,435
-Are you calling me a coward?
-Yes. Coward.
815
00:48:59,519 --> 00:49:01,896
-Madman!
-Landlord!
816
00:49:01,980 --> 00:49:03,356
Lawyer!
817
00:49:09,779 --> 00:49:12,574
Stop it! Stop it!
818
00:49:13,449 --> 00:49:16,661
This is the Congress. Stop it, I say!
819
00:49:16,744 --> 00:49:19,831
-The enemy's out there!
-No, Mr. Rodney, the enemy is here!
820
00:49:19,914 --> 00:49:22,709
No. I say he's out there.
821
00:49:22,792 --> 00:49:28,089
England. England closing in,
cutting off our air.
822
00:49:28,172 --> 00:49:29,632
There's no time!
823
00:49:33,428 --> 00:49:34,804
No air.
824
00:49:35,847 --> 00:49:37,098
Dr. Hall.
825
00:49:41,561 --> 00:49:44,731
-Colonel McKean.
-Aye. It's the cancer.
826
00:49:45,857 --> 00:49:47,317
But he should go home.
827
00:49:48,818 --> 00:49:51,654
A man should die in his own bed.
828
00:49:53,489 --> 00:49:56,784
-John. John Adams.
-I'm here, Caesar.
829
00:50:00,371 --> 00:50:01,539
I leave you...
830
00:50:02,498 --> 00:50:04,626
a divided Delaware.
831
00:50:06,127 --> 00:50:09,672
-Forgive me.
-I'll take you home, Caesar.
832
00:50:34,948 --> 00:50:36,699
I'll be back within the week.
833
00:50:44,749 --> 00:50:48,127
Mr. President,
South Carolina calls the question.
834
00:50:50,296 --> 00:50:54,676
-What's that, Mr. Rutledge?
- I said, Mr. President,
835
00:50:54,759 --> 00:50:58,262
South Carolina desires
to end the debate...
836
00:50:59,931 --> 00:51:02,266
and calls the question of independence.
837
00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:04,227
-Delaware seconds.
-Thank you.
838
00:51:06,104 --> 00:51:09,023
Gentlemen, please!
839
00:51:09,107 --> 00:51:11,651
The question has been called
and seconded.
840
00:51:12,944 --> 00:51:15,113
The secretary will record the vote.
841
00:51:15,196 --> 00:51:17,240
Franklin, do something. Think.
842
00:51:17,323 --> 00:51:19,492
I'm thinking, but nothing's coming.
843
00:51:19,575 --> 00:51:21,619
All those in favor
of the resolution on independence
844
00:51:21,703 --> 00:51:24,455
as proposed by the colony of Virginia,
signify by saying--
845
00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:25,957
Mr. Secretary.
846
00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:28,626
Would you please read
the resolution again?
847
00:51:28,710 --> 00:51:29,836
What?
848
00:51:31,254 --> 00:51:34,090
-I'd forgotten it.
-Now, please.
849
00:51:36,509 --> 00:51:39,220
"Resolved that these united colonies are
850
00:51:39,303 --> 00:51:41,848
and of a right ought to be free
and independent--"
851
00:51:48,396 --> 00:51:51,149
Excuse me.
Is this the Continental Congress?
852
00:51:52,150 --> 00:51:54,694
Well, yes, I can see that it must be.
853
00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:57,238
It's all right. We found it!
854
00:51:58,489 --> 00:52:00,950
We've been looking
for you everywhere, you see.
855
00:52:01,034 --> 00:52:03,578
Someone told us
that you might be at Carpenters' Hall
856
00:52:03,661 --> 00:52:06,372
and someone else suggested Library Hall.
857
00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:09,042
-So finally we asked a constable--
-Excuse me, sir,
858
00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:12,378
but if you don't mind,
the Congress is about to decide
859
00:52:12,462 --> 00:52:14,338
the question of American independence.
860
00:52:15,673 --> 00:52:18,176
Oh, how splendid.
That means we're not too late.
861
00:52:18,259 --> 00:52:20,303
These gentlemen are Mr. Francis Hopkins on,
862
00:52:20,386 --> 00:52:24,182
Mr. Richard Stockton,
and I'm the Reverend John Witherspoon.
863
00:52:27,518 --> 00:52:29,771
We're the new delegates from New Jersey.
864
00:52:29,854 --> 00:52:31,397
New Jersey?
865
00:52:35,568 --> 00:52:41,032
Dr. Franklin, I regret that I must be
the bearer of unhappy tidings, sir,
866
00:52:41,115 --> 00:52:43,951
but your son,
the royal governor of New Jersey,
867
00:52:44,035 --> 00:52:45,870
has been taken prisoner
868
00:52:45,953 --> 00:52:50,041
and has been moved under guard to
the colony of Connecticut for safekeeping.
869
00:52:50,124 --> 00:52:53,377
-Is he unharmed, sir?
-When last I heard, he was. Yes, sir.
870
00:52:53,461 --> 00:52:56,339
Then why the long face? I hear
Connecticut is an excellent location.
871
00:52:57,381 --> 00:53:00,259
Tell me. Why did they arrest
the little bastard?
872
00:53:02,595 --> 00:53:03,596
Our...
873
00:53:04,388 --> 00:53:08,059
New Jersey legislature has recalled
the old delegation to this Congress
874
00:53:08,142 --> 00:53:10,603
and has sent a new one.
875
00:53:11,521 --> 00:53:13,898
Quickly, man, where do you stand
on independence?
876
00:53:13,981 --> 00:53:17,026
Well, haven't I made that clear?
Well, I suppose I haven't.
877
00:53:17,110 --> 00:53:19,028
But that's the reason for the change.
878
00:53:19,112 --> 00:53:21,531
We've been instructed
to vote for independence.
879
00:53:22,740 --> 00:53:27,370
Massachusetts is now ready
for the vote on independence
880
00:53:27,453 --> 00:53:31,207
and reminds the chair of its privilege
to decide all votes that are deadlocked.
881
00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:34,168
I won't forget, Mr. Adams.
882
00:53:35,419 --> 00:53:39,298
The chair takes this opportunity
to welcome the New Jersey delegation
883
00:53:39,382 --> 00:53:42,844
and appoints the Reverend Witherspoon
congressional chaplain
884
00:53:42,927 --> 00:53:45,847
-if he will accept the post.
-With much pleasure, sir.
885
00:53:48,474 --> 00:53:53,855
Very well. Mr. Thomson, you may now
proceed with the vote on independence.
886
00:53:54,647 --> 00:53:56,691
All in favor of the resolution
on independence,
887
00:53:56,774 --> 00:54:00,069
-as proposed by the colony of Virginia--
-Mr. President.
888
00:54:01,988 --> 00:54:06,284
Pennsylvania moves that any vote
in favor of independence...
889
00:54:07,493 --> 00:54:09,203
must be unanimous.
890
00:54:10,246 --> 00:54:12,665
-What?
- I second the motion.
891
00:54:12,748 --> 00:54:16,210
-Judge Wilson!
-Oh, my God.
892
00:54:16,294 --> 00:54:18,671
Delaware seconds, Mr. President.
893
00:54:18,754 --> 00:54:21,215
No vote has ever had to be unanimous,
Dickinson, and you know it.
894
00:54:21,299 --> 00:54:23,676
-Yes, but this one must be.
-On what grounds?
895
00:54:23,759 --> 00:54:27,597
That no colony be torn from its
mother country without its own consent.
896
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,056
Hear! Hear!
897
00:54:29,140 --> 00:54:32,268
But it will never be unanimous, damn it.
898
00:54:33,269 --> 00:54:35,396
If you say so, Mr. Adams.
899
00:54:37,315 --> 00:54:40,610
It has been moved and seconded
that the vote on independence
900
00:54:40,693 --> 00:54:42,778
must be unanimous in order to carry.
901
00:54:42,862 --> 00:54:45,448
All those in favor, signify by saying yea.
902
00:54:45,531 --> 00:54:46,407
Yea!
903
00:54:46,490 --> 00:54:50,953
One, two, three, four, five, six.
904
00:54:51,037 --> 00:54:54,624
-Six colonies say yea. Against?
-Nay!
905
00:54:54,707 --> 00:54:58,920
One, two, three, four, five, six.
906
00:54:59,003 --> 00:55:01,005
Six colonies say nay.
907
00:55:01,964 --> 00:55:06,886
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains, courteously.
908
00:55:06,969 --> 00:55:11,307
Mr. Morris,
why does New York constantly abstain?
909
00:55:11,390 --> 00:55:14,060
Why does New York simply stay
in New York?
910
00:55:15,811 --> 00:55:17,480
Very well. The vote is tied.
911
00:55:19,106 --> 00:55:22,526
The principles of independence
have no greater advocate in Congress
912
00:55:22,610 --> 00:55:23,778
than its president
913
00:55:24,904 --> 00:55:28,199
and that is why I must join those
who vote for unanimity.
914
00:55:28,991 --> 00:55:31,410
Good God, John!
What are you doing? You've sunk us!
915
00:55:31,494 --> 00:55:35,581
Now, hear me out. Don't you see
that any colony who opposes independence
916
00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:38,000
will be forced to fight
on the side of England?
917
00:55:38,084 --> 00:55:40,503
That we'll be setting brother
against brother,
918
00:55:40,586 --> 00:55:43,965
that our new nation will carry
as its emblem the mark of Cain.
919
00:55:45,299 --> 00:55:46,884
I can see no other way.
920
00:55:46,968 --> 00:55:51,639
Either we all walk together,
or together we must stay where we are!
921
00:55:53,266 --> 00:55:56,602
-The man's from Massachusetts.
-Very well. Proceed, Mr. Thomson.
922
00:55:57,311 --> 00:55:59,605
A unanimous vote
being necessary to carry,
923
00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:02,275
if any be opposed
to the resolution on independence
924
00:56:02,358 --> 00:56:05,569
-as proposed by the colony of Virginia--
-Mr. President.
925
00:56:05,653 --> 00:56:08,406
Oh, for heaven's sake,
let me get through it once.
926
00:56:08,489 --> 00:56:09,532
Mr. President.
927
00:56:11,492 --> 00:56:14,036
-I move for a postponement.
-Postponement?
928
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,038
I wish you the same luck I had with it.
929
00:56:16,122 --> 00:56:18,040
Mr. Adams is right.
We need a postponement.
930
00:56:18,124 --> 00:56:20,459
-On what grounds?
-On what grounds?
931
00:56:21,669 --> 00:56:26,007
Mr. President, how can
this Congress vote on independence
932
00:56:26,090 --> 00:56:31,137
without a written declaration
of some sort defining it?
933
00:56:32,388 --> 00:56:34,473
What sort of declaration?
934
00:56:36,225 --> 00:56:40,313
Well, you know,
listing the reasons for the separation,
935
00:56:40,396 --> 00:56:43,316
our purposes, goals, so forth, so on.
936
00:56:43,399 --> 00:56:45,776
-Ditto, Ditto.
-Ditto, ditto, et cetera, et cetera.
937
00:56:45,860 --> 00:56:47,320
We know those, don't we?
938
00:56:49,655 --> 00:56:51,615
Oh, yes, good God, we know them.
939
00:56:52,867 --> 00:56:55,119
But what about the rest of the world?
940
00:56:55,202 --> 00:56:57,580
Certainly we require the assistance
941
00:56:57,663 --> 00:57:01,208
of a powerful nation,
such as France or Spain,
942
00:57:01,292 --> 00:57:05,838
and such a written declaration would be
consistent with European delicacy.
943
00:57:07,048 --> 00:57:10,634
Come now, Mr. Adams.
You'll have to do better than that.
944
00:57:10,718 --> 00:57:13,971
Answer straight.
What would be its purpose?
945
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,682
Yes. Well...
946
00:57:19,393 --> 00:57:23,814
To place before mankind
the common sense of the subject,
947
00:57:24,565 --> 00:57:27,151
in terms so plain and firm
948
00:57:27,860 --> 00:57:29,820
as to command their assent.
949
00:57:37,661 --> 00:57:40,915
Mr. Jefferson,
are you seriously suggesting
950
00:57:40,998 --> 00:57:43,918
that we publish a paper
declaring to all the world
951
00:57:44,001 --> 00:57:48,255
that an illegal rebellion is,
in reality, a legal one?
952
00:57:48,339 --> 00:57:51,092
Oh, Mr. Dickinson, I'm surprised at you.
953
00:57:51,175 --> 00:57:53,969
You should know that rebellion
is always legal in the first person,
954
00:57:54,053 --> 00:57:55,679
such as our rebellion.
955
00:57:55,763 --> 00:57:58,766
It's only in the third person--
"Their" rebellion. --that it is illegal.
956
00:58:01,102 --> 00:58:05,147
Mr. President, I second the motion
to postpone the vote on independence
957
00:58:05,231 --> 00:58:08,984
for a period of time sufficient
for the writing of a declaration.
958
00:58:09,068 --> 00:58:11,487
It has been moved and seconded.
Mr. Thomson.
959
00:58:11,570 --> 00:58:15,199
All those in favor of the motion
to postpone, signify by saying yea.
960
00:58:15,282 --> 00:58:16,575
Yea!
961
00:58:16,659 --> 00:58:20,871
One, two, three, four, five, six.
962
00:58:20,955 --> 00:58:23,916
-Six colonies say yea. Against?
-Nay!
963
00:58:23,999 --> 00:58:28,587
One, two, three, four, five, six.
964
00:58:28,671 --> 00:58:30,631
Six colonies say nay.
965
00:58:32,925 --> 00:58:36,929
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains, courteously.
966
00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:44,979
Mr. Morris, what in hell
goes on in New York?
967
00:58:45,938 --> 00:58:49,483
I'm sorry, Mr. President,
but the simple fact is that
968
00:58:49,567 --> 00:58:54,029
our legislature has never sent us
explicit instructions on anything.
969
00:58:55,030 --> 00:58:55,865
Never?
970
00:58:57,575 --> 00:58:58,909
That's impossible.
971
00:59:00,870 --> 00:59:03,122
Mr. President,
have you ever been present
972
00:59:03,205 --> 00:59:05,332
at a meeting
of the New York legislature?
973
00:59:06,292 --> 00:59:08,586
They speak very fast and very loud,
974
00:59:08,669 --> 00:59:11,297
and nobody listens to anybody else.
975
00:59:11,380 --> 00:59:14,467
With the result
that nothing ever gets done.
976
00:59:16,635 --> 00:59:18,721
I beg the Congress's pardon.
977
00:59:21,307 --> 00:59:22,850
My sympathies, Mr. Morris.
978
00:59:23,976 --> 00:59:27,688
The vote again being tied, the chair
decides in favor of postponement.
979
00:59:27,771 --> 00:59:28,814
So ruled.
980
00:59:29,607 --> 00:59:31,734
A committee will now be formed
to manage the declaration.
981
00:59:31,817 --> 00:59:34,612
Said document to be written, debated,
approved by the beginning of July,
982
00:59:34,695 --> 00:59:37,823
some three weeks hence, at which time,
983
00:59:37,907 --> 00:59:41,744
Virginia's resolution on independence
will finally be voted.
984
00:59:41,827 --> 00:59:44,330
-Is that clear? Very well.
-Hear! Hear!
985
00:59:44,413 --> 00:59:48,000
Will the following gentlemen serve on
the Declaration Committee: Dr. Franklin?
986
00:59:48,083 --> 00:59:49,168
Gladly.
987
00:59:49,251 --> 00:59:51,253
-Mr. John Adams?
-Yes.
988
00:59:51,337 --> 00:59:52,421
Mr. Sherman?
989
00:59:53,506 --> 00:59:55,257
-Mr. Livingston?
-Right.
990
00:59:55,341 --> 00:59:57,218
Oh, and, of course, Mr. Lee.
991
00:59:57,968 --> 01:00:01,722
Oh, excuse me, but I must be returning
to the sovereign colony of Virginia,
992
01:00:01,805 --> 01:00:04,308
as I have been asked
to serve as governor.
993
01:00:04,391 --> 01:00:08,062
And therefore I must decline,
respectful-Lee.
994
01:00:12,483 --> 01:00:14,735
Very well, Mr. Lee. You're excused.
995
01:00:14,818 --> 01:00:17,363
I supposed we could leave it
a four-man committee.
996
01:00:17,446 --> 01:00:19,615
Just a moment.
This business needs a Virginian.
997
01:00:19,698 --> 01:00:22,409
Therefore, I propose a replacement,
Mr. Thomas Jefferson.
998
01:00:22,493 --> 01:00:25,538
-No. Mr. Adams--
-Very well. Mr. Jefferson will serve.
999
01:00:25,621 --> 01:00:28,123
-I'm going home too, to my wife.
-Move to adjourn.
1000
01:00:28,207 --> 01:00:29,625
-Wait.
- I second.
1001
01:00:29,708 --> 01:00:33,128
Mr. Hancock,
I haven't seen her for six months.
1002
01:00:33,212 --> 01:00:35,130
Moved and seconded. Any objections?
1003
01:00:35,214 --> 01:00:37,383
I have objections.
I have lots of objections.
1004
01:00:37,466 --> 01:00:39,552
So ruled! Congress stands adjourned!
1005
01:00:39,635 --> 01:00:41,971
John, I need to see my wife.
1006
01:00:42,054 --> 01:00:45,933
-It's all right. Come along.
-No. I'm going home tonight.
1007
01:00:46,016 --> 01:00:50,437
Of course you are. Of course.
McNair, some rum up to my office.
1008
01:00:52,022 --> 01:00:55,484
Don't worry, Tom. Let me handle it.
1009
01:00:55,568 --> 01:00:57,486
I'll get Adams to write it.
1010
01:00:57,570 --> 01:01:00,072
I don't know.
He had a funny look on his face.
1011
01:01:00,155 --> 01:01:01,448
He always does.
1012
01:01:01,532 --> 01:01:04,410
All right, gentlemen,
let's get on with it.
1013
01:01:04,493 --> 01:01:07,496
Which of us will write
our Declaration of Independence?
1014
01:01:09,248 --> 01:01:12,209
Mr. Adams
I say you should write it
1015
01:01:13,127 --> 01:01:16,088
To your legal mind
And brilliance we defer
1016
01:01:16,171 --> 01:01:19,008
Is that so?
Well, if I'm the one to do it
1017
01:01:19,091 --> 01:01:20,926
They'll run their quill pens through it
1018
01:01:21,010 --> 01:01:23,637
I'm obnoxious and disliked
You know that, sir
1019
01:01:23,721 --> 01:01:26,765
-Yes, I know.
- I say you should write it, Franklin
1020
01:01:26,849 --> 01:01:28,642
-Yes, you
-Hell, no
1021
01:01:28,726 --> 01:01:31,270
Yes, you, Dr. Franklin, you
1022
01:01:31,353 --> 01:01:33,105
-But, but
-You, you
1023
01:01:33,188 --> 01:01:35,274
-You
-But
1024
01:01:37,443 --> 01:01:41,030
Mr. Adams
But, Mr. Adams
1025
01:01:41,113 --> 01:01:44,491
The things I write
Are only light extemporanea
1026
01:01:44,575 --> 01:01:48,120
I won't put politics on paper
It's a mania
1027
01:01:48,203 --> 01:01:51,206
So I refuse to use the pen
in Pennsylvania
1028
01:01:52,166 --> 01:01:55,919
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
1029
01:01:56,003 --> 01:01:59,506
Refuse to use the pen
1030
01:02:10,768 --> 01:02:14,063
Mr. Sherman
I say you should write it
1031
01:02:14,146 --> 01:02:16,857
You are never controversial
As it were
1032
01:02:16,940 --> 01:02:20,110
-That is true.
-Whereas, if I'm the one to do it
1033
01:02:20,194 --> 01:02:21,945
They'll run their quill pens through it
1034
01:02:22,029 --> 01:02:23,656
I'm obnoxious and disliked
1035
01:02:23,739 --> 01:02:25,407
-You know that, sir
-Yes, I do.
1036
01:02:25,491 --> 01:02:28,243
So I say you should write it
Roger, yes, you
1037
01:02:28,327 --> 01:02:32,289
-Good heavens, no.
-Yes, you, Roger Sherman, you
1038
01:02:32,373 --> 01:02:34,208
-But, but
-You, you
1039
01:02:34,291 --> 01:02:36,210
But
1040
01:02:37,711 --> 01:02:41,215
Mr. Adams
But, Mr. Adams
1041
01:02:41,298 --> 01:02:44,968
I cannot write with any style
Or proper etiquette
1042
01:02:45,052 --> 01:02:48,597
I don't know a participle
From a predicate
1043
01:02:48,681 --> 01:02:51,600
I am just a simple cobbler
From Connecticut
1044
01:02:52,685 --> 01:02:56,271
Connecticut
Connecticut
1045
01:02:56,355 --> 01:02:59,942
A simple cobbler, he
1046
01:03:10,285 --> 01:03:13,580
Mr. Livingston
Maybe you should write it
1047
01:03:14,248 --> 01:03:17,000
You have many friends
And you're a diplomat
1048
01:03:17,084 --> 01:03:19,795
-Oh, that word.
-Whereas, if I'm the one to do it
1049
01:03:19,878 --> 01:03:21,672
They'll run their quill pens through it
1050
01:03:21,755 --> 01:03:24,258
He's obnoxious and disliked
Did you know that?
1051
01:03:24,341 --> 01:03:27,136
- I hadn't heard.
-So I say you should write it, Robert
1052
01:03:27,219 --> 01:03:28,762
-Yes, you
-Not me, Johnny.
1053
01:03:28,846 --> 01:03:31,640
Yes, you, Robert Livingston, you
1054
01:03:31,724 --> 01:03:32,599
-But
-You
1055
01:03:32,683 --> 01:03:33,976
-But, but
-You, you
1056
01:03:34,059 --> 01:03:36,979
But
1057
01:03:38,147 --> 01:03:41,442
Mr. Adams
Dear Mr. Adams
1058
01:03:41,525 --> 01:03:45,070
I've been presented with a new son
By the noble stork
1059
01:03:45,154 --> 01:03:48,699
So I am going home to celebrate
And pop the cork
1060
01:03:48,782 --> 01:03:52,494
With all the Livingstons together
Back in old New York
1061
01:03:52,578 --> 01:03:54,037
New York
1062
01:03:54,121 --> 01:03:56,415
New York
1063
01:03:56,498 --> 01:04:02,337
Livingston's going to pop a cork
1064
01:04:12,598 --> 01:04:15,058
Mr. Adams
1065
01:04:15,142 --> 01:04:18,645
Leave me alone
1066
01:04:20,439 --> 01:04:22,649
-Mr. Jefferson.
-Mr. Adams, I beg of you.
1067
01:04:22,733 --> 01:04:26,153
I've not seen my wife
these past six months.
1068
01:04:26,236 --> 01:04:29,782
"And we solemnly declare
that we will preserve our liberties,
1069
01:04:29,865 --> 01:04:33,035
being with one mind
resolved to die free men
1070
01:04:33,118 --> 01:04:34,661
rather than to live slaves."
1071
01:04:34,745 --> 01:04:39,875
Thomas Jefferson,
on the
Necessity of Taking up Arms, 1775.
1072
01:04:39,958 --> 01:04:40,959
Magnificent.
1073
01:04:41,752 --> 01:04:45,839
You write ten times better
than any man in Congress, including me.
1074
01:04:46,757 --> 01:04:52,513
For a man of only 33 years, you possess
a happy talent for composition
1075
01:04:52,596 --> 01:04:56,225
and a remarkable felicity of expression.
1076
01:04:56,308 --> 01:05:00,312
Now, then, sir.
Will you be a patriot or a lover?
1077
01:05:02,606 --> 01:05:03,607
A lover.
1078
01:05:04,525 --> 01:05:05,526
No.
1079
01:05:06,276 --> 01:05:10,489
-But I burn, Mr. A.
-So do I, Mr. J.
1080
01:05:11,323 --> 01:05:12,991
-You?
-You do?
1081
01:05:13,075 --> 01:05:14,493
-John.
-Who'd have thought it?
1082
01:05:16,578 --> 01:05:18,664
Mr. Jefferson
1083
01:05:18,747 --> 01:05:21,041
Dear Mr. Jefferson
1084
01:05:21,875 --> 01:05:26,797
I'm only 41
I still have my virility
1085
01:05:27,589 --> 01:05:32,177
And I can romp through Cupid's grove
With great agility
1086
01:05:33,554 --> 01:05:38,809
But life is more
Than sexual combustibility
1087
01:05:38,892 --> 01:05:41,019
-Jefferson, stop right there.
-Bustibility
1088
01:05:41,103 --> 01:05:43,146
Bustibility
1089
01:05:43,230 --> 01:05:46,275
-Combustibili--
-Quiet!
1090
01:05:50,571 --> 01:05:52,239
Now, you'll write it, Mr. J.
1091
01:05:53,323 --> 01:05:55,117
Who will make me, Mr. A.?
1092
01:05:56,159 --> 01:05:57,077
I.
1093
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:58,954
You?
1094
01:05:59,788 --> 01:06:00,622
Yes.
1095
01:06:05,002 --> 01:06:06,003
How?
1096
01:06:07,754 --> 01:06:10,674
By physical force, if necessary.
1097
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,845
It's your duty, damn it. Your duty!
1098
01:06:16,722 --> 01:06:19,141
Mr. Adams
1099
01:06:19,224 --> 01:06:21,393
Damn you, Mr. Adams
1100
01:06:22,561 --> 01:06:25,230
You're obnoxious and disliked
1101
01:06:25,314 --> 01:06:28,150
That cannot be denied
1102
01:06:28,233 --> 01:06:34,239
Once again you stand
Between me and my lovely bride
1103
01:06:34,323 --> 01:06:38,243
Lovely bride
1104
01:06:39,369 --> 01:06:44,958
Oh, Mr. Adams
You are driving me to homicide
1105
01:06:45,042 --> 01:06:47,044
-Jefferson, stop right there!
-Homicide
1106
01:06:47,127 --> 01:06:48,253
Homicide
1107
01:06:48,337 --> 01:06:49,796
Quiet!
1108
01:06:55,385 --> 01:06:59,181
The decision is yours, Mr. Jefferson.
Do as you like with it.
1109
01:07:03,226 --> 01:07:06,855
We may see murder
1110
01:07:06,939 --> 01:07:11,151
Yet
1111
01:07:18,909 --> 01:07:20,035
Damn the man.
1112
01:07:23,330 --> 01:07:24,831
Goddamn the man.
1113
01:08:13,005 --> 01:08:13,880
Sorry.
1114
01:08:16,883 --> 01:08:17,884
Pardon me, sir.
1115
01:08:17,968 --> 01:08:19,386
Step aside. Step aside.
1116
01:08:20,178 --> 01:08:22,055
-How do you do? How are you?
-Franklin.
1117
01:08:29,187 --> 01:08:30,272
Jefferson!
1118
01:08:33,567 --> 01:08:34,651
Jefferson!
1119
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:38,572
What is that racket?
1120
01:08:38,655 --> 01:08:40,741
Latest thing from Europe, John.
It's called music.
1121
01:08:40,824 --> 01:08:44,036
I came here hoping to hear
a pen scratching, not a bow.
1122
01:08:46,830 --> 01:08:48,999
Jefferson! I know you're in there!
1123
01:08:51,293 --> 01:08:53,211
Jefferson. Are you finished?
1124
01:08:55,630 --> 01:08:56,757
Well, is it written yet?
1125
01:09:00,427 --> 01:09:02,888
Well, you've had a whole week, man.
1126
01:09:02,971 --> 01:09:03,972
Is it done?
1127
01:09:06,058 --> 01:09:07,434
Can I see it?
1128
01:09:15,108 --> 01:09:17,611
"There comes a time in the lives of men
when it becomes necessary
1129
01:09:17,694 --> 01:09:20,864
to advance from that subordination
in which they have hitherto rem--"
1130
01:09:20,947 --> 01:09:24,159
This is terrible. Where's the rest of it?
1131
01:09:30,624 --> 01:09:34,086
Do you mean to say
that it is not yet finished?
1132
01:09:34,878 --> 01:09:38,090
No, sir. I mean to say
that it's not yet begun.
1133
01:09:39,424 --> 01:09:41,051
Good God!
1134
01:09:42,302 --> 01:09:43,637
A whole week!
1135
01:09:44,888 --> 01:09:47,766
The entire earth was created in a week.
1136
01:09:51,686 --> 01:09:55,190
Someday you must tell me
how you did it.
1137
01:09:58,110 --> 01:09:59,820
Disgusting.
1138
01:10:00,904 --> 01:10:04,199
Look at him, Franklin.
Virginia's most famous lover...
1139
01:10:05,742 --> 01:10:07,410
Virginia abstains.
1140
01:10:11,164 --> 01:10:13,333
Well, cheer up, Jefferson.
1141
01:10:13,416 --> 01:10:15,335
Get out of the dumps.
It'll come out all right, I assure you.
1142
01:10:15,418 --> 01:10:17,712
Now, get back to work.
1143
01:10:18,547 --> 01:10:20,966
Franklin, tell him to get back to work.
1144
01:10:21,049 --> 01:10:22,592
I think he's asleep.
1145
01:10:25,762 --> 01:10:27,305
Wake up, Franklin!
1146
01:10:32,519 --> 01:10:35,063
Hello! And who, little girl, are you?
1147
01:10:38,984 --> 01:10:41,862
-John, who is she?
-His wife.
1148
01:10:43,321 --> 01:10:44,197
I hope.
1149
01:10:46,158 --> 01:10:47,701
What makes you think so?
1150
01:10:47,784 --> 01:10:51,705
-Because I sent for her.
-You what?
1151
01:10:51,788 --> 01:10:54,499
It simply occurred to me
that the sooner his problem was solved,
1152
01:10:54,583 --> 01:10:56,585
the sooner our problem is solved.
1153
01:10:56,668 --> 01:10:59,504
That's good thinking, John.
Good thinking.
1154
01:10:59,588 --> 01:11:02,591
Madam, may I present myself? John Adams.
1155
01:11:05,427 --> 01:11:06,428
Adams.
1156
01:11:08,388 --> 01:11:09,639
John Adams.
1157
01:11:10,932 --> 01:11:12,893
Oh, and Dr. Franklin.
1158
01:11:15,437 --> 01:11:16,980
The inventor of the stove.
1159
01:11:22,194 --> 01:11:24,696
Jefferson, kindly present me to your wife.
1160
01:11:27,908 --> 01:11:29,367
She is your wife, isn't she?
1161
01:11:30,035 --> 01:11:32,287
Of course she is.
Look at the way they fit.
1162
01:11:35,081 --> 01:11:36,666
Come along, John, come along.
1163
01:11:36,750 --> 01:11:39,002
-Franklin, where are you going?
-Come along, John.
1164
01:11:39,085 --> 01:11:41,588
Come along where?
There's work to be done.
1165
01:11:41,671 --> 01:11:42,714
Obviously.
1166
01:11:43,632 --> 01:11:46,801
Good God. You don't mean to say that--?
1167
01:11:48,011 --> 01:11:49,346
I mean, they're not going to--
1168
01:11:51,097 --> 01:11:53,058
In the middle of the afternoon?
1169
01:11:53,808 --> 01:11:56,102
Not everybody's from Boston, John.
1170
01:11:57,312 --> 01:11:59,147
Incredible.
1171
01:11:59,231 --> 01:12:02,859
-Well, goodbye, John.
-Franklin?
1172
01:12:04,611 --> 01:12:06,279
-Have you eaten?
-Not yet, but--
1173
01:12:06,363 --> 01:12:08,240
I understand the turkey's fresh
at Bunch O' Grapes.
1174
01:12:08,323 --> 01:12:10,492
Well, the fact is,
I have a rendezvous, John.
1175
01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:13,620
I'd ask you along,
but talking makes her nervous.
1176
01:12:17,540 --> 01:12:18,541
Yes, of course.
1177
01:12:38,853 --> 01:12:40,272
Incredible.
1178
01:12:48,196 --> 01:12:49,281
Abigail?
1179
01:12:50,907 --> 01:12:52,701
I'm very lonely, Abigail.
1180
01:12:53,535 --> 01:12:56,538
Are you, John? Then as long
as you were sending for wives,
1181
01:12:56,621 --> 01:12:58,456
why didn't you send for your own?
1182
01:12:58,540 --> 01:13:01,584
Oh, now, don't be unreasonable, Abigail.
1183
01:13:01,668 --> 01:13:03,753
Oh, now I'm unreasonable.
1184
01:13:03,837 --> 01:13:05,380
You must add that to your list.
1185
01:13:07,299 --> 01:13:08,466
List?
1186
01:13:08,550 --> 01:13:11,970
The catalog of my faults
you included in your last letter.
1187
01:13:13,555 --> 01:13:17,017
Oh, they were fondly intended, madam.
1188
01:13:17,100 --> 01:13:20,395
-That I play at cards badly?
-A compliment.
1189
01:13:20,478 --> 01:13:24,816
-That my posture is crooked?
-An endearment.
1190
01:13:24,899 --> 01:13:28,862
-That I read, write and think too much?
-An irony.
1191
01:13:28,945 --> 01:13:30,655
That I'm pigeon-toed?
1192
01:13:33,116 --> 01:13:34,826
Oh, well, now there you have me, Abby.
1193
01:13:37,162 --> 01:13:39,039
I'm afraid you are pigeon-toed.
1194
01:13:41,374 --> 01:13:45,795
Please. Come to Philadelphia.
Please come.
1195
01:13:45,879 --> 01:13:47,213
Oh, thank you, John.
1196
01:13:48,298 --> 01:13:50,342
I do want to,
but you know now it's not possible.
1197
01:13:50,425 --> 01:13:52,010
The children have the measles.
1198
01:13:52,761 --> 01:13:53,762
So you wrote.
1199
01:13:55,889 --> 01:13:57,098
Tom and little Abby.
1200
01:13:57,932 --> 01:14:00,101
Only now it's Quincy and Charles.
1201
01:14:02,437 --> 01:14:05,607
And it appears the farm here
in Brain tree is failing, John.
1202
01:14:07,317 --> 01:14:09,319
The chickens and the geese have all died.
1203
01:14:10,487 --> 01:14:13,365
The apples never survived the late frost.
1204
01:14:15,158 --> 01:14:17,786
How do you suppose
she managed to get away?
1205
01:14:19,287 --> 01:14:22,499
Well, the winters are softer in Virginia.
1206
01:14:22,582 --> 01:14:23,958
And their women, John?
1207
01:14:25,543 --> 01:14:30,423
Fit for Virginians, madam, but pale,
puny things beside New England girls.
1208
01:14:33,927 --> 01:14:35,303
I thank you for that.
1209
01:14:39,766 --> 01:14:42,644
Abigail, how goes it with you?
1210
01:14:42,727 --> 01:14:45,063
Not well, John. Not at all well.
1211
01:14:46,314 --> 01:14:49,901
I live like a nun in a cloister
1212
01:14:49,984 --> 01:14:54,197
Solitary, celibate
I hate it
1213
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:55,365
And you, John?
1214
01:14:56,116 --> 01:15:00,370
I live like a monk in an abbey
1215
01:15:00,453 --> 01:15:02,747
Ditto, ditto
I hate it
1216
01:15:04,207 --> 01:15:05,834
Write to me
1217
01:15:05,917 --> 01:15:12,006
With sentimental effusion
1218
01:15:12,090 --> 01:15:15,552
Let me revel in
1219
01:15:15,635 --> 01:15:20,640
Romantic illusion
1220
01:15:20,723 --> 01:15:23,017
Do you still smell
1221
01:15:23,101 --> 01:15:27,689
Of vanilla and spring air?
1222
01:15:29,274 --> 01:15:32,777
And is my favorite lover's pillow
1223
01:15:32,861 --> 01:15:36,698
Still firm and fair?
1224
01:15:37,657 --> 01:15:43,037
What was there, John
1225
01:15:43,121 --> 01:15:48,626
Still is there
1226
01:15:48,710 --> 01:15:50,044
John
1227
01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:55,216
Come soon as you can
To my cloister
1228
01:15:55,300 --> 01:16:00,013
I've forgotten
The feel of your hand
1229
01:16:00,096 --> 01:16:04,642
Soon, madam, we shall walk
In Cupid's grove together
1230
01:16:04,726 --> 01:16:11,065
And we'll fondly survey
1231
01:16:11,149 --> 01:16:17,697
That promised land
1232
01:16:18,573 --> 01:16:23,077
Till then, till then
1233
01:16:23,161 --> 01:16:28,708
I am as I ever was
1234
01:16:28,791 --> 01:16:33,505
And ever shall be
1235
01:16:33,588 --> 01:16:35,757
Yours
1236
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,384
Yours
1237
01:16:38,468 --> 01:16:40,762
Yours
1238
01:16:40,845 --> 01:16:43,890
Yours
1239
01:16:43,973 --> 01:16:47,644
Yours
1240
01:16:47,727 --> 01:16:49,729
Saltpeter
1241
01:16:51,356 --> 01:16:56,027
John
1242
01:17:03,993 --> 01:17:06,788
John? John?
1243
01:17:06,871 --> 01:17:08,915
-What?
-What are you doing down here?
1244
01:17:08,998 --> 01:17:11,042
I thought you'd be up there,
cracking the whip.
1245
01:17:11,125 --> 01:17:14,379
Oh, well, the shutters are still closed.
1246
01:17:15,088 --> 01:17:17,340
My word! So they are.
1247
01:17:19,968 --> 01:17:23,221
-Well, as the French say--
-Oh, please, Franklin!
1248
01:17:23,304 --> 01:17:26,391
Spare me your bawdy mind,
first thing in the morning.
1249
01:17:27,809 --> 01:17:31,312
-Dare we call?
-A congressman dares anything.
1250
01:17:31,396 --> 01:17:33,147
-Go ahead.
-Me?
1251
01:17:33,231 --> 01:17:35,108
Your voice is more piercing.
1252
01:17:37,443 --> 01:17:41,573
-Oh, John, look at her. Just look at her.
-Oh, I am.
1253
01:17:41,656 --> 01:17:43,825
She's even more magnificent
than I remember.
1254
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:48,037
Of course, we didn't see
much of her front last night.
1255
01:17:48,955 --> 01:17:51,291
-Good morrow, madam.
-Good morrow.
1256
01:17:54,335 --> 01:17:58,131
Is it the habit in Philadelphia
to shout at ladies from the street?
1257
01:17:58,214 --> 01:18:00,550
-Not really, but--
-And for men of your age,
1258
01:18:00,633 --> 01:18:04,012
it is not only unseemly, it is unsightly.
1259
01:18:05,471 --> 01:18:08,433
Excuse me, madam,
but we met last evening.
1260
01:18:09,517 --> 01:18:12,604
- I spoke to no one last evening.
-Indeed, you did not.
1261
01:18:12,687 --> 01:18:15,273
Nonetheless, we did present ourselves.
1262
01:18:15,356 --> 01:18:18,318
This is Mr. John Adams.
I'm Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
1263
01:18:19,611 --> 01:18:21,112
The inventor of the stove.
1264
01:18:22,989 --> 01:18:26,618
Oh, please!
I know your names very well, but...
1265
01:18:26,701 --> 01:18:29,078
Well, you said
you presented yourselves last night?
1266
01:18:29,162 --> 01:18:31,873
It's of no matter.
Your thoughts are well-taken elsewhere.
1267
01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:36,628
As my husband is not yet up...
1268
01:18:36,711 --> 01:18:39,339
Well, then shall we start over again?
Won't you join us?
1269
01:18:40,298 --> 01:18:41,716
Why, yes, of course!
1270
01:18:44,052 --> 01:18:45,803
Well, no wonder the man couldn't write.
1271
01:18:45,887 --> 01:18:47,764
Who would think of independence
married to her?
1272
01:18:47,847 --> 01:18:50,099
- I feel an absolute fool.
-That's good for you, John.
1273
01:18:50,183 --> 01:18:52,143
I tell you, Franklin,
it's positively indecent.
1274
01:18:52,226 --> 01:18:55,813
-John, they're young and in love.
-Not them, Franklin. Us.
1275
01:18:55,897 --> 01:18:58,733
Standing down here,
waiting for them to...
1276
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,236
Well, what will people think?
1277
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:04,405
Don't worry, John.
The history books will clean it up.
1278
01:19:05,698 --> 01:19:06,741
Well, it doesn't matter.
1279
01:19:06,824 --> 01:19:10,453
I'll not appear
in the history books anyway. Only you.
1280
01:19:10,536 --> 01:19:13,039
Franklin did this
and Franklin did that,
1281
01:19:13,122 --> 01:19:15,416
and Franklin did
some other damned thing.
1282
01:19:15,500 --> 01:19:18,711
Franklin smote the ground
and out sprang...
1283
01:19:18,795 --> 01:19:22,340
George Washington,
fully grown and on his horse.
1284
01:19:23,049 --> 01:19:26,260
Franklin then electrified him
with his miraculous lightning rod.
1285
01:19:26,344 --> 01:19:30,181
Then the three of them,
Franklin, Washington and the horse,
1286
01:19:30,264 --> 01:19:33,184
conducted the entire revolution
all by themselves.
1287
01:19:37,021 --> 01:19:37,855
I like it.
1288
01:19:39,941 --> 01:19:42,235
I beg your pardon, gentlemen.
1289
01:19:43,236 --> 01:19:47,198
It is indeed an honor to meet
the two greatest men in America.
1290
01:19:47,281 --> 01:19:49,617
Certainly the greatest
within earshot anyway.
1291
01:19:49,701 --> 01:19:51,619
I'm not an idle flatterer, Dr. Franklin.
1292
01:19:51,703 --> 01:19:53,871
My husband admires you both greatly.
1293
01:19:53,955 --> 01:19:55,707
Then we are doubly flattered.
1294
01:19:55,790 --> 01:19:59,669
For we admire very much
that which your husband admires.
1295
01:20:04,674 --> 01:20:05,800
Did you sleep well, madam?
1296
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:10,555
Well, I mean, did you lie comfort--?
1297
01:20:13,224 --> 01:20:15,518
-Damn it, you know what I mean.
-Yes, we know what you mean.
1298
01:20:15,601 --> 01:20:18,271
Tell us about yourself.
We've heard precious little.
1299
01:20:18,354 --> 01:20:20,314
-What's your first name?
-Martha.
1300
01:20:20,398 --> 01:20:24,527
Martha! He might at least
have told us that.
1301
01:20:24,610 --> 01:20:26,320
Your husband doesn't say very much.
1302
01:20:26,404 --> 01:20:29,866
Most silent man in Congress. I've never
heard him utter three sentences together.
1303
01:20:29,949 --> 01:20:31,492
Not every man's a talker, John.
1304
01:20:31,576 --> 01:20:35,955
Yes, it's true, you know.
Tom is not... a talker.
1305
01:20:38,583 --> 01:20:42,128
Oh, he never speaks his passions
1306
01:20:42,211 --> 01:20:45,256
He never speaks his views
1307
01:20:45,339 --> 01:20:48,885
Whereas other men speak volumes
1308
01:20:48,968 --> 01:20:53,347
The man I love is mute
1309
01:20:53,431 --> 01:20:55,933
In truth I can't recall
1310
01:20:56,017 --> 01:20:59,437
Being wooed with words
1311
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:01,731
At all
1312
01:21:01,814 --> 01:21:05,860
Even now
1313
01:21:05,943 --> 01:21:09,238
-Oh, don't stop, madam.
-No. Tell us, how did he win you?
1314
01:21:09,322 --> 01:21:12,366
And how does he hold on
to a bounty such as you?
1315
01:21:12,450 --> 01:21:16,162
Surely you've noticed that Tom is
a man of many accomplishments.
1316
01:21:16,245 --> 01:21:19,707
Author, lawyer,
statesman, architect, farmer.
1317
01:21:20,917 --> 01:21:25,129
And still one more
that I hesitate to mention.
1318
01:21:25,213 --> 01:21:28,007
-Don't hesitate, madam. Don't.
-No, tell us.
1319
01:21:28,090 --> 01:21:30,510
What else can
that redheaded tombstone do?
1320
01:21:33,304 --> 01:21:38,309
He plays the violin
1321
01:21:38,392 --> 01:21:42,563
He tucks it right under his chin
1322
01:21:42,647 --> 01:21:44,899
And he bows
1323
01:21:44,982 --> 01:21:46,901
Oh, he bows
1324
01:21:46,984 --> 01:21:50,947
For he knows
Yes, he knows
1325
01:21:51,030 --> 01:21:55,243
That it's heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle
1326
01:21:55,326 --> 01:21:58,913
'Twixt my heart
Tom and his fiddle
1327
01:21:58,996 --> 01:22:02,917
My strings are unstrung
1328
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,795
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1329
01:22:05,878 --> 01:22:09,215
Heigh
1330
01:22:09,298 --> 01:22:12,218
I am undone
1331
01:22:12,301 --> 01:22:13,678
The violin, madam?
1332
01:22:13,761 --> 01:22:17,390
I hear his violin
1333
01:22:17,473 --> 01:22:20,852
And I get that feeling within
1334
01:22:20,935 --> 01:22:24,480
And I sigh
Oh, I sigh
1335
01:22:24,564 --> 01:22:28,109
He draws near, very near
1336
01:22:28,192 --> 01:22:32,363
And it's heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle
1337
01:22:32,446 --> 01:22:36,075
And goodbye to the fiddle
1338
01:22:36,158 --> 01:22:39,996
My strings are unstrung
1339
01:22:40,079 --> 01:22:42,915
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1340
01:22:42,999 --> 01:22:46,168
Heigh
1341
01:22:46,252 --> 01:22:48,337
I'm always undone
1342
01:22:48,421 --> 01:22:50,256
That settles it, John.
We're taking up the violin.
1343
01:22:50,339 --> 01:22:53,467
Very well, madam. You have us playing
the violin. What happens next?
1344
01:22:53,551 --> 01:22:56,053
-Next, Mr. Adams?
-Yes. What does Tom do now?
1345
01:22:56,137 --> 01:22:57,763
Why, just what you'd expect.
1346
01:23:00,850 --> 01:23:03,394
-We dance.
-Dance?
1347
01:23:03,477 --> 01:23:06,480
Dance? Incredible!
1348
01:23:06,564 --> 01:23:08,649
One, two, three. One, two, three.
1349
01:23:13,487 --> 01:23:15,406
Who's playing the violin?
1350
01:23:15,489 --> 01:23:17,158
Oh, John, really!
1351
01:23:53,569 --> 01:23:55,446
Oh, John, you can dance.
1352
01:23:55,529 --> 01:23:57,865
We still do a few things
in Boston, Franklin.
1353
01:24:13,172 --> 01:24:15,883
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1354
01:24:15,967 --> 01:24:18,761
Heigh
1355
01:24:18,844 --> 01:24:20,513
Heigh
1356
01:24:20,596 --> 01:24:24,433
When heaven calls to me
1357
01:24:24,517 --> 01:24:27,478
Sing me no sad elegy
1358
01:24:27,561 --> 01:24:29,397
Say I died
1359
01:24:29,480 --> 01:24:31,440
Loving bride
1360
01:24:31,524 --> 01:24:34,777
Loving wife
Loving life
1361
01:24:34,860 --> 01:24:38,823
For it was heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle
1362
01:24:38,906 --> 01:24:42,702
'Twixt my heart
Tom and his fiddle
1363
01:24:42,785 --> 01:24:47,540
And ever 'twill be
1364
01:24:51,127 --> 01:24:53,671
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1365
01:24:53,754 --> 01:24:57,466
-Heigh
-Heigh
1366
01:24:57,550 --> 01:25:02,013
-Through eternity
-He plays the violin
1367
01:25:02,096 --> 01:25:06,100
He plays the violin
1368
01:25:06,183 --> 01:25:10,980
He plays the violin
1369
01:25:18,738 --> 01:25:22,033
Look! Look, Franklin, he's done it.
He's written it.
1370
01:25:24,326 --> 01:25:26,912
"Dear Mr. Adams,
I am taking my wife back to bed.
1371
01:25:26,996 --> 01:25:29,832
Kindly go away.
Your obedient, T. Jefferson."
1372
01:25:30,958 --> 01:25:32,418
Incredible.
1373
01:25:34,336 --> 01:25:37,048
You know, perhaps I should have
written the declaration after all.
1374
01:25:37,131 --> 01:25:40,634
At my age, there's little doubt
the pen is mightier than the sword.
1375
01:25:43,554 --> 01:25:48,225
For it's heigh, heigh, heigh
Diddle-diddle
1376
01:25:48,309 --> 01:25:52,354
And God bless
A man who can fiddle
1377
01:25:52,438 --> 01:25:56,317
And independency
1378
01:25:56,400 --> 01:25:59,195
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1379
01:25:59,278 --> 01:26:01,572
Heigh
1380
01:26:01,655 --> 01:26:06,702
Ya, da, da, da, da
1381
01:26:06,786 --> 01:26:09,997
Through eternity
1382
01:26:10,081 --> 01:26:14,835
He plays the violin
1383
01:26:14,919 --> 01:26:18,589
Violin
1384
01:26:18,672 --> 01:26:25,304
Violin
1385
01:26:31,268 --> 01:26:35,397
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland--
Virginia's absent.
1386
01:26:35,481 --> 01:26:39,276
--And North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.
1387
01:26:40,069 --> 01:26:43,114
And what follows is a complete
and up-to-date list
1388
01:26:43,197 --> 01:26:45,324
of all the committees of this Congress
1389
01:26:45,407 --> 01:26:49,370
now sitting, about to sit
or just having sat.
1390
01:26:50,162 --> 01:26:53,249
"A committee formed to investigate
a complaint made against
1391
01:26:53,332 --> 01:26:56,877
the quality of yeast manufactured
by Mr. Henry Pendleton's mill
1392
01:26:56,961 --> 01:26:59,213
designated as the Yeast Committee.
1393
01:26:59,296 --> 01:27:03,592
A committee formed to consider the most
effective method of dealing with spies
1394
01:27:03,676 --> 01:27:06,137
designated as the Spies Committee.
1395
01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:10,850
A committee formed to think,
perhaps to do,
1396
01:27:10,933 --> 01:27:14,186
but in any case, to gather,
to meet, to confer, to talk,
1397
01:27:14,270 --> 01:27:17,731
and perhaps even to resolve
that each rifle regiment
1398
01:27:17,815 --> 01:27:21,735
be allowed at least one drum
and one fife attached to each company
1399
01:27:21,819 --> 01:27:24,572
designated
as the Drum and Fife Committee.
1400
01:27:24,655 --> 01:27:26,157
A committee formed to--"
1401
01:27:27,158 --> 01:27:28,826
Where is that committee?
1402
01:27:28,909 --> 01:27:32,288
What do you think of it, doctor?
Democracy.
1403
01:27:32,371 --> 01:27:35,916
What Plato called
"a charming form of government
1404
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:37,835
full of variety and disorder."
1405
01:27:39,044 --> 01:27:41,589
I never knew
Plato had been to Philadelphia.
1406
01:27:41,672 --> 01:27:45,593
Ben, I want you to see some cards
I've gone and had printed up.
1407
01:27:45,676 --> 01:27:47,970
Ought to save everybody here
a lot of time and effort,
1408
01:27:48,053 --> 01:27:52,016
considering the epidemic
of bad disposition that's been going on.
1409
01:27:53,058 --> 01:27:56,270
"Dear sir, you are,
without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal,
1410
01:27:56,353 --> 01:27:58,814
a villain, a thief, a scoundrel,
and a mean, dirty,
1411
01:27:58,898 --> 01:28:01,108
stinking, sniveling, sneaking,
pimping, pocket-picking,
1412
01:28:01,192 --> 01:28:03,110
thrice double-damned
no-good son-of-a-bitch."
1413
01:28:03,194 --> 01:28:04,862
And you sign your name.
What do you think?
1414
01:28:04,945 --> 01:28:08,449
-I'll take a dozen right now.
-Aha! Here it is.
1415
01:28:08,532 --> 01:28:11,577
"A committee formed to answer
all congressional correspondence
1416
01:28:11,660 --> 01:28:14,288
designated as the Congressional
Correspondence Committee."
1417
01:28:16,957 --> 01:28:19,627
All right, Franklin, enough socializing.
There's work to be done.
1418
01:28:19,710 --> 01:28:21,378
-Good morning, John.
-What?
1419
01:28:21,462 --> 01:28:23,714
-Good morning.
-Oh, good morning, good morning.
1420
01:28:23,797 --> 01:28:25,716
-Now, then, let's get to it.
-Get to what?
1421
01:28:25,799 --> 01:28:27,801
Unanimity, of course. Look at that board.
1422
01:28:27,885 --> 01:28:30,179
Six nays to win over
in little more than a week.
1423
01:28:30,262 --> 01:28:33,098
"A committee formed to consider
the problem of counterfeit money
1424
01:28:33,182 --> 01:28:34,975
designated
as the Counterfeit Money Committee."
1425
01:28:35,059 --> 01:28:37,686
-Oh, God. What--?
-All right, John, all right.
1426
01:28:37,770 --> 01:28:39,855
-Where shall we start?
-Well, what about Delaware?
1427
01:28:39,939 --> 01:28:43,150
Sad thing to see them on the wrong side
after all this time.
1428
01:28:43,234 --> 01:28:45,569
-Any news of Rodney?
-Yes. McKean's back.
1429
01:28:45,653 --> 01:28:47,821
-Thomas!
-"A committee formed to study
1430
01:28:47,905 --> 01:28:50,407
the causes
of our military defeat in Canada."
1431
01:28:50,491 --> 01:28:54,453
Thomas, how did you leave Caesar?
Is he still alive?
1432
01:28:54,536 --> 01:28:58,707
Aye, but the journey to Dover
was fearful hard on him.
1433
01:28:58,791 --> 01:29:02,461
He never complained, but I could see
the poor man was suffering terrible.
1434
01:29:02,544 --> 01:29:04,463
But you got him safely home.
1435
01:29:04,546 --> 01:29:08,342
I did, but I doubt
he'll ever set foot out of it again.
1436
01:29:08,425 --> 01:29:11,011
That leaves you and Read split
down the middle. Will he come over?
1437
01:29:11,095 --> 01:29:13,806
I don't know.
He's a stubborn ignoramus.
1438
01:29:13,889 --> 01:29:15,891
Work on him. Keep after him
till you wear him down.
1439
01:29:15,975 --> 01:29:19,353
John, face facts, will ya?
If it were just Read standing in our way,
1440
01:29:19,436 --> 01:29:22,064
it wouldn't be so bad,
but look for yourself, man.
1441
01:29:22,147 --> 01:29:26,193
Maryland, Pennsylvania
and the entire South. It's impossible!
1442
01:29:26,277 --> 01:29:29,321
Well, it's impossible if we all
stand around complaining about it.
1443
01:29:29,405 --> 01:29:32,199
To work, McKean.
One foot in front of the other.
1444
01:29:32,283 --> 01:29:35,160
I believe I put it a better way:
Never leave off until tomorrow--
1445
01:29:35,244 --> 01:29:39,164
-Oh, shut up, Franklin.
-But what good will it do?
1446
01:29:39,248 --> 01:29:42,751
You know Dickinson.
He'll never give in.
1447
01:29:42,835 --> 01:29:44,753
And you haven't heard
the last of Rutledge either.
1448
01:29:44,837 --> 01:29:46,880
Never mind about them.
Your job is George Read.
1449
01:29:46,964 --> 01:29:49,758
Talk him deaf if you have to,
but bring us back Delaware.
1450
01:29:49,842 --> 01:29:51,343
-There's a simpler way.
-What?
1451
01:29:52,761 --> 01:29:56,015
-This'll break the tie.
-All right, John, who's next?
1452
01:29:56,098 --> 01:29:58,225
"A committee formed to keep secrets
1453
01:29:58,309 --> 01:30:00,686
designated as the Secrets Committee."
1454
01:30:00,769 --> 01:30:04,773
Pennsylvania and Maryland. I suggest
you get your own house in order,
1455
01:30:04,857 --> 01:30:07,192
and I'll take a crack at old bacon-face--
1456
01:30:07,276 --> 01:30:09,236
Lord, look at him stuff himself.
1457
01:30:10,863 --> 01:30:12,072
Mr. Chase!
1458
01:30:12,156 --> 01:30:15,409
How about it, Chase? When are you
coming to your senses, man?
1459
01:30:15,492 --> 01:30:18,454
Please, Mr. Adams, not while I'm eating.
1460
01:30:18,537 --> 01:30:19,747
Mr. Wilson, sir?
1461
01:30:21,248 --> 01:30:23,125
It's time to assert yourself.
1462
01:30:23,208 --> 01:30:25,210
Tell me something,
when you were a judge,
1463
01:30:25,294 --> 01:30:27,129
how in hell did you ever make a decision?
1464
01:30:28,213 --> 01:30:32,885
The decisions I made were all based
on legality and precedence.
1465
01:30:32,968 --> 01:30:37,056
But there is no legality here
and certainly no precedent.
1466
01:30:37,139 --> 01:30:41,977
Because it's a new idea, you clot!
1467
01:30:42,061 --> 01:30:44,480
We'll be setting our own precedent!
1468
01:30:44,563 --> 01:30:48,442
No, Mr. McKean. No, no, no!
1469
01:30:48,525 --> 01:30:52,363
Damn your eyes, Read!
You come into this world screaming no
1470
01:30:52,446 --> 01:30:56,200
and you're determined to leave it
the same way, ya slimy worm!
1471
01:30:57,910 --> 01:31:00,454
The Congress is waiting on you, Chase!
1472
01:31:00,537 --> 01:31:04,291
America is waiting!
The whole world is waiting!
1473
01:31:04,375 --> 01:31:06,293
What's that? Kidney?
1474
01:31:06,377 --> 01:31:10,631
Leave me alone, Mr. Adams!
You're wasting your time.
1475
01:31:10,714 --> 01:31:14,259
If I thought we could win this war,
I'd be at the front of your ranks,
1476
01:31:14,343 --> 01:31:17,304
but you must know it's impossible.
1477
01:31:17,388 --> 01:31:19,431
You've heard
General Washington's dispatches.
1478
01:31:19,515 --> 01:31:21,600
His army has fallen to pieces.
1479
01:31:21,683 --> 01:31:24,311
Washington is exaggerating the situation,
1480
01:31:24,395 --> 01:31:27,147
in order to arouse
this torpid Congress into action.
1481
01:31:27,231 --> 01:31:29,942
Why, as chairman of the War Committee,
I can state for a fact
1482
01:31:30,025 --> 01:31:32,528
that the army has never been
in better shape.
1483
01:31:32,611 --> 01:31:35,406
Never have troops been more cheerful.
1484
01:31:35,489 --> 01:31:37,574
Never have soldiers been more resolute.
1485
01:31:37,658 --> 01:31:40,869
Never have training
and discipline been more spirited!
1486
01:31:41,537 --> 01:31:42,913
Oh, good God.
1487
01:31:52,423 --> 01:31:55,801
May we have your ears, gentlemen?
Mr. Thomson has a dispatch.
1488
01:31:55,884 --> 01:31:58,595
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in New York,
1489
01:31:58,679 --> 01:32:00,931
dispatch number 1,157,
1490
01:32:01,014 --> 01:32:03,434
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, President. 'Dear, sir,
1491
01:32:03,517 --> 01:32:06,520
it is with the utmost despair
that I must report to you
1492
01:32:06,603 --> 01:32:09,565
the disorder and confusion
that reign in every department'"
1493
01:32:09,648 --> 01:32:12,443
Oh, sweet Jesus!
1494
01:32:14,111 --> 01:32:16,822
"The Continental soldier
is as nothing ever seen
1495
01:32:16,905 --> 01:32:18,740
in this or any other century.
1496
01:32:18,824 --> 01:32:21,118
He is a misfit, ignorant of hygiene,
1497
01:32:21,201 --> 01:32:24,371
destructive, disorderly,
and totally disrespectful of rank.
1498
01:32:24,455 --> 01:32:26,415
Only this last is understandable,
1499
01:32:26,498 --> 01:32:31,044
as there is an incredible reek
of stupidity amongst the officers.
1500
01:32:31,128 --> 01:32:33,088
The situation is most desperate
1501
01:32:33,172 --> 01:32:35,799
at the New Jersey training ground
in New Brunswick,
1502
01:32:35,883 --> 01:32:38,093
where every able-bodied whore in the--'"
1503
01:32:38,927 --> 01:32:39,761
Whore?
1504
01:32:41,346 --> 01:32:43,474
" ..In the colonies has assembled.
1505
01:32:43,557 --> 01:32:47,644
There are constant reports of drunkenness,
desertion, foul language,
1506
01:32:47,728 --> 01:32:50,189
naked bathing in the Raritan River,
1507
01:32:50,272 --> 01:32:51,607
and an epidemic
1508
01:32:52,566 --> 01:32:54,568
of the French disease.
1509
01:32:56,195 --> 01:32:59,907
I have placed this town off-limits
to all military personnel
1510
01:32:59,990 --> 01:33:01,408
with the exception of officers.
1511
01:33:02,159 --> 01:33:05,913
I beseech the Congress to dispatch
the War Committee to this place,
1512
01:33:05,996 --> 01:33:10,626
in the hope of restoring some of the order
and discipline we need to survive.
1513
01:33:10,709 --> 01:33:12,127
Your obedient...
1514
01:33:13,504 --> 01:33:14,796
G. Washington'"
1515
01:33:17,508 --> 01:33:20,135
That man would depress a hyena.
1516
01:33:22,012 --> 01:33:24,973
Well, Mr. Adams, you're chairman
of the War Committee.
1517
01:33:25,057 --> 01:33:29,228
Do you feel up to whoring, drinking,
deserting, and New Brunswick?
1518
01:33:29,311 --> 01:33:34,399
There must be some mistake. I have
an aunt who lives in New Brunswick.
1519
01:33:36,026 --> 01:33:38,779
You must tell her
to keep up the good work.
1520
01:33:41,406 --> 01:33:43,617
Come, come, Mr. Adams.
1521
01:33:43,700 --> 01:33:46,119
You must see that it's hopeless.
1522
01:33:46,203 --> 01:33:47,996
Let us recall General Washington
1523
01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:51,959
and disband the Continental Army
before we're overwhelmed.
1524
01:33:52,042 --> 01:33:55,170
Oh, yes, indeed. The English would
like that, now, wouldn't they?
1525
01:33:55,254 --> 01:33:58,757
Why not ask them yourself?
They ought to be here any minute.
1526
01:33:59,633 --> 01:34:02,135
And when they hang you, Mr. Adams,
1527
01:34:02,219 --> 01:34:05,264
I hope you will put in a good word
for the rest of us.
1528
01:34:14,314 --> 01:34:15,941
Face facts, Mr. Adams.
1529
01:34:16,900 --> 01:34:21,446
A handful of drunk and disorderly recruits
against the entire British Army,
1530
01:34:22,281 --> 01:34:24,241
the finest musket men on earth.
1531
01:34:25,158 --> 01:34:29,413
How can we win?
How can we even hope to survive?
1532
01:34:29,496 --> 01:34:31,123
Answer me straight, Chase.
1533
01:34:31,206 --> 01:34:34,876
If you thought we could beat the Redcoats,
1534
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:37,254
would Maryland say yea
to independence?
1535
01:34:37,337 --> 01:34:40,424
-Well, I suppose--
-No supposing.
1536
01:34:41,091 --> 01:34:42,968
Would you or wouldn't you?
1537
01:34:45,596 --> 01:34:47,264
Very well, Mr. Adams.
1538
01:34:48,181 --> 01:34:50,434
Yes, we would.
1539
01:34:50,517 --> 01:34:54,271
-Then come with me and see for yourself.
-John, are you mad?
1540
01:34:54,354 --> 01:34:56,315
You heard what Washington said.
It's a shambles.
1541
01:34:56,398 --> 01:34:59,151
-They're pushing you into it, Johnny!
-What do you say, Chase?
1542
01:34:59,234 --> 01:35:02,195
Go ahead, Sam.
It sounds lively as hell up there.
1543
01:35:02,279 --> 01:35:04,197
All right. Why not?
1544
01:35:04,281 --> 01:35:07,242
And maybe it'll be John Adams
who comes to his senses.
1545
01:35:07,326 --> 01:35:10,245
Mr. President, the War Committee
will heed General Washington's request.
1546
01:35:10,329 --> 01:35:13,832
A party consisting of Chase, Franklin
and myself will leave immediately.
1547
01:35:13,915 --> 01:35:14,916
Is--?
1548
01:35:16,043 --> 01:35:19,004
Is that satisfactory with you,
Dr. Franklin?
1549
01:35:19,087 --> 01:35:21,757
Wake up, Franklin!
You're going to New Brunswick.
1550
01:35:21,840 --> 01:35:24,926
-Like hell I am. What for?
-The whoring and the drinking.
1551
01:35:27,304 --> 01:35:30,140
All right, Chase! Move all that lard.
Not a moment to lose.
1552
01:35:30,223 --> 01:35:33,810
Left, right, left, right.
Left, right, left, right.
1553
01:35:33,894 --> 01:35:35,395
Left, right, left!
1554
01:35:46,615 --> 01:35:50,369
Mr. McNair, all this talk of independence
1555
01:35:50,452 --> 01:35:53,330
has left a certain foulness in the air.
1556
01:35:53,413 --> 01:35:57,376
My friends and I would appreciate it
if you could open some windows.
1557
01:35:57,459 --> 01:35:58,960
Well, what about the flies?
1558
01:35:59,753 --> 01:36:01,630
The windows, Mr. McNair.
1559
01:36:03,882 --> 01:36:06,885
Open the windows,
close the windows.
1560
01:36:06,968 --> 01:36:08,637
Sweet Jesus!
1561
01:36:17,979 --> 01:36:22,109
Oh, say, do you see what I see?
1562
01:36:22,192 --> 01:36:26,154
Congress sitting here
In sweet serenity
1563
01:36:26,238 --> 01:36:29,324
I could cheer
The reason's clear
1564
01:36:29,408 --> 01:36:31,743
For the first time in a year
1565
01:36:31,827 --> 01:36:33,745
Adams isn't here
1566
01:36:33,829 --> 01:36:37,207
And look
The sun is in the sky
1567
01:36:37,290 --> 01:36:39,543
A breeze is blowing by
1568
01:36:39,626 --> 01:36:43,171
And there's not a single fly
1569
01:36:43,255 --> 01:36:45,507
I sing, Hosanna
1570
01:36:45,590 --> 01:36:48,093
Hosanna
1571
01:36:48,176 --> 01:36:52,139
Hosanna, Hosanna
1572
01:36:52,222 --> 01:36:53,932
And it's cool
1573
01:36:55,559 --> 01:37:00,063
Come, ye cool, cool
Conservative men
1574
01:37:00,147 --> 01:37:04,025
Our like may never, ever be seen again
1575
01:37:04,109 --> 01:37:07,696
We have land
Cash in hand
1576
01:37:07,779 --> 01:37:11,616
Self-command
Future planned
1577
01:37:11,700 --> 01:37:15,370
Fortune thrives
Society survives
1578
01:37:15,454 --> 01:37:17,539
In neatly ordered lives
1579
01:37:17,622 --> 01:37:21,501
With well-end owe red wives
1580
01:37:21,585 --> 01:37:24,045
Come sing, Hosanna
1581
01:37:24,129 --> 01:37:26,256
Hosanna
1582
01:37:26,339 --> 01:37:30,093
In our breeding and our manner
1583
01:37:30,177 --> 01:37:33,764
We are cool
1584
01:37:33,847 --> 01:37:38,143
Come, ye cool, cool
Considerate set
1585
01:37:38,226 --> 01:37:41,980
We'll dance together
To the same minuet
1586
01:37:42,063 --> 01:37:45,984
To the right
Ever to the right
1587
01:37:46,067 --> 01:37:49,905
Never to the left
Forever to the right
1588
01:37:49,988 --> 01:37:53,492
Let our creed be never to exceed
1589
01:37:53,575 --> 01:37:55,619
Regulated speed
1590
01:37:55,702 --> 01:37:58,997
No matter what the need
1591
01:37:59,706 --> 01:38:01,958
Come sing, Hosanna
1592
01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:04,419
Hosanna
1593
01:38:04,503 --> 01:38:11,468
Emblazoned on our banner
Is keep cool
1594
01:38:20,101 --> 01:38:23,855
To the right
Ever to the right
1595
01:38:23,939 --> 01:38:27,859
Never to the left
Forever to the right
1596
01:38:27,943 --> 01:38:31,905
Hands attach
Tightly latch
1597
01:38:31,988 --> 01:38:33,365
Everybody match
1598
01:38:33,448 --> 01:38:36,034
I have a new dispatch
1599
01:38:39,663 --> 01:38:42,040
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in New York,
1600
01:38:42,123 --> 01:38:44,292
dispatch number 1,158,
1601
01:38:44,376 --> 01:38:46,753
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, president. 'Dear, sir,
1602
01:38:47,546 --> 01:38:49,840
I awoke this morning
to find that General Howe
1603
01:38:49,923 --> 01:38:52,843
has landed 25,000 British regulars
and Hessian mercenaries
1604
01:38:52,926 --> 01:38:54,386
on Staten Island,
1605
01:38:54,469 --> 01:38:58,348
and that the fleet, under the command
of his brother, Admiral Lord Howe,
1606
01:38:58,431 --> 01:39:02,143
controls not only the Hudson
and the East Rivers but New York Harbor,
1607
01:39:02,227 --> 01:39:04,604
which now looks like all of London afloat.
1608
01:39:05,605 --> 01:39:07,399
I can no longer, in good conscience,
1609
01:39:07,482 --> 01:39:11,528
withhold from the Congress my certainty
that the British object at this time
1610
01:39:11,611 --> 01:39:12,612
is Philadelphia.
1611
01:39:13,446 --> 01:39:16,241
Happy should I be if I could see
the means of preventing them,
1612
01:39:16,324 --> 01:39:18,535
but at present, I confess I do not.
1613
01:39:19,494 --> 01:39:23,248
Oh, how I wish I had never seen
the Continental Army.
1614
01:39:23,331 --> 01:39:26,293
I would have done better
to retire to the back country
1615
01:39:26,376 --> 01:39:28,211
and to live in a wigwam.
1616
01:39:29,004 --> 01:39:30,422
Your obedient...
1617
01:39:31,965 --> 01:39:33,466
G. Washington'"
1618
01:39:34,426 --> 01:39:38,388
What we do
We do rationally
1619
01:39:38,471 --> 01:39:41,933
We never, ever go off half-cocked
Not we
1620
01:39:42,017 --> 01:39:45,395
Why begin
Till we know that we can win?
1621
01:39:45,478 --> 01:39:49,232
And if we cannot win
Why bother to begin?
1622
01:39:49,316 --> 01:39:53,778
We say
This game's not of our choosing
1623
01:39:53,862 --> 01:39:57,157
Why should we risk losing?
1624
01:39:57,240 --> 01:40:00,827
We're cool, cool men
1625
01:40:03,079 --> 01:40:07,876
Mr. Hancock,
you're a man of property, one of us.
1626
01:40:07,959 --> 01:40:10,378
Why don't you join us in our minuet?
1627
01:40:10,462 --> 01:40:13,131
Why do you persist
in dancing with John Adams?
1628
01:40:13,214 --> 01:40:15,133
Good Lord, sir, you don't even like him.
1629
01:40:15,216 --> 01:40:19,054
That is true
He annoys me quite a lot
1630
01:40:19,137 --> 01:40:22,432
But still I'd rather trot
To Mr. Adams' new gavotte
1631
01:40:22,515 --> 01:40:26,144
Why? For personal glory?
For a place in history?
1632
01:40:26,227 --> 01:40:29,856
Be careful, sir. History will brand him
and his followers as traitors.
1633
01:40:29,940 --> 01:40:32,651
Traitors, Mr. Dickinson? To what?
1634
01:40:32,734 --> 01:40:36,446
The British crown
or the British half-crown?
1635
01:40:36,529 --> 01:40:40,241
Fortunately, there are not enough men
of property in America to dictate policy.
1636
01:40:40,325 --> 01:40:44,079
Perhaps not, but don't forget
that most men with nothing
1637
01:40:44,162 --> 01:40:47,332
would rather protect
the possibility of becoming rich
1638
01:40:47,415 --> 01:40:50,043
than face the reality of being poor.
1639
01:40:52,253 --> 01:40:54,756
And that is why they will follow us!
1640
01:40:54,839 --> 01:40:58,343
To the right
Ever to the right
1641
01:40:58,426 --> 01:41:02,430
Never to left
Forever to the right
1642
01:41:02,514 --> 01:41:05,850
Where there's gold
A market to behold
1643
01:41:05,934 --> 01:41:07,644
Tradition that is old
1644
01:41:07,727 --> 01:41:09,854
Reluctant to be bold
1645
01:41:09,938 --> 01:41:11,856
I sing, Hosanna
1646
01:41:11,940 --> 01:41:14,025
Hosanna
1647
01:41:14,109 --> 01:41:17,278
In a sane and lucid manner
1648
01:41:17,362 --> 01:41:18,947
We are cool!
1649
01:41:19,614 --> 01:41:23,743
We're the cool, cool
Considerate men
1650
01:41:23,827 --> 01:41:27,539
Whose like may never, ever
Be seen again
1651
01:41:27,622 --> 01:41:31,209
We have land
Cash in hand
1652
01:41:31,292 --> 01:41:35,255
Self-command
Future planned
1653
01:41:35,338 --> 01:41:39,092
And we'll hold to our gold
1654
01:41:39,175 --> 01:41:41,261
Tradition that is old
1655
01:41:41,344 --> 01:41:43,179
Reluctant to be bold
1656
01:41:43,263 --> 01:41:48,226
We say this game's
Not of our choosing
1657
01:41:48,309 --> 01:41:51,688
Why should we risk losing?
1658
01:41:51,771 --> 01:41:56,234
We're cool, cool
Cool, cool, cool
1659
01:41:56,317 --> 01:42:00,196
Cool, cool, cool
Cool, cool
1660
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:04,075
Cool, cool
1661
01:42:04,159 --> 01:42:11,166
Men
1662
01:42:26,306 --> 01:42:29,726
How'd you like to try and borrow
a dollar from one of them?
1663
01:42:31,061 --> 01:42:34,147
-You want some more rum, general?
-General?
1664
01:42:35,523 --> 01:42:37,567
Lord, I ain't even a corporal.
1665
01:42:37,650 --> 01:42:39,819
Yeah, well, what's the army know?
1666
01:42:43,073 --> 01:42:44,991
Here, son. There you go.
1667
01:42:49,454 --> 01:42:53,792
Sit down, gentlemen. The chair rules
it's too damn hot to work.
1668
01:43:04,094 --> 01:43:07,263
Well, general, what's it like out there?
1669
01:43:07,347 --> 01:43:08,807
You probably know more than me.
1670
01:43:09,390 --> 01:43:10,809
Sitting here?
1671
01:43:10,892 --> 01:43:14,813
Sweet Jesus, this is the last place
to find out what's going on.
1672
01:43:15,897 --> 01:43:17,357
I'm aiming to join up.
1673
01:43:17,440 --> 01:43:20,485
Oh, what are you talking about?
You don't have to join up.
1674
01:43:20,568 --> 01:43:22,904
-You're in Congress.
-What's that got to do with it?
1675
01:43:22,987 --> 01:43:26,074
Well, you don't see them
rushing off to get killed, do ya?
1676
01:43:26,157 --> 01:43:29,202
They sure are great ones
for sending others, I can tell ya that.
1677
01:43:29,869 --> 01:43:31,496
Hey, who sits here?
1678
01:43:31,579 --> 01:43:33,623
Caesar Rodney of Delaware.
1679
01:43:34,624 --> 01:43:35,875
Where are you from, general?
1680
01:43:35,959 --> 01:43:37,001
Water town.
1681
01:43:38,086 --> 01:43:41,047
-Where's that?
-Massachusetts.
1682
01:43:41,131 --> 01:43:43,341
Well, then you belong over there.
1683
01:43:49,389 --> 01:43:50,682
But be careful.
1684
01:43:50,765 --> 01:43:54,602
There's something about that chair
that makes a man awful noisy.
1685
01:43:58,857 --> 01:43:59,983
You seen any fighting?
1686
01:44:02,110 --> 01:44:03,111
Sure did.
1687
01:44:04,404 --> 01:44:07,699
I see'd my two best friends
get shot dead on the very same day.
1688
01:44:09,367 --> 01:44:11,119
And at Lexington it was too.
1689
01:44:11,911 --> 01:44:13,246
Right on the village green.
1690
01:44:14,706 --> 01:44:18,001
When they didn't come home, their mamas
went down the hill looking for them.
1691
01:44:19,169 --> 01:44:21,004
Mrs. Lowell, she found Timothy.
1692
01:44:23,631 --> 01:44:24,632
Right off.
1693
01:44:28,344 --> 01:44:29,470
But Mrs. Pickett...
1694
01:44:32,849 --> 01:44:34,726
she looked near half the night
for William.
1695
01:44:36,895 --> 01:44:38,646
He went and crawled off the green...
1696
01:44:40,398 --> 01:44:41,482
before he died.
1697
01:44:50,408 --> 01:44:54,370
Mama, hey, Mama
1698
01:44:54,454 --> 01:44:58,666
Come looking for me
1699
01:44:59,459 --> 01:45:03,838
I'm here in the meadow
1700
01:45:03,922 --> 01:45:08,426
By the red maple tree
1701
01:45:09,469 --> 01:45:13,389
Mama, hey, Mama
1702
01:45:13,473 --> 01:45:15,600
Look sharp
1703
01:45:15,683 --> 01:45:19,187
Here I be
1704
01:45:19,270 --> 01:45:23,816
Hey, hey
1705
01:45:23,900 --> 01:45:29,113
Mama, look sharp
1706
01:45:31,282 --> 01:45:35,245
Them soldiers, they fired
1707
01:45:35,328 --> 01:45:40,041
Oh, Ma, did we run
1708
01:45:40,124 --> 01:45:43,920
But then we turned round
1709
01:45:44,003 --> 01:45:48,299
And the battle begun
1710
01:45:49,384 --> 01:45:53,346
Then I went under
1711
01:45:53,429 --> 01:45:57,767
Oh, Ma, am I done
1712
01:45:58,935 --> 01:46:03,147
Hey, hey
1713
01:46:03,231 --> 01:46:08,611
Mama, look sharp
1714
01:46:10,863 --> 01:46:15,076
My eyes are wide open
1715
01:46:15,159 --> 01:46:19,163
My face to the sky
1716
01:46:19,914 --> 01:46:23,710
Is that you I'm hearing
1717
01:46:23,793 --> 01:46:27,880
In the tall grass nearby?
1718
01:46:28,631 --> 01:46:32,010
Mama, come find me
1719
01:46:32,093 --> 01:46:36,264
Before I do die
1720
01:46:36,347 --> 01:46:40,268
Hey, hey
1721
01:46:40,351 --> 01:46:41,686
Mama
1722
01:46:42,812 --> 01:46:46,524
Look sharp
1723
01:46:48,651 --> 01:46:53,197
I'll close your eyes
1724
01:46:53,281 --> 01:46:56,367
My Billy
1725
01:46:56,451 --> 01:47:02,373
Them eyes that cannot see
1726
01:47:02,457 --> 01:47:05,710
And I'll bury ya
1727
01:47:05,793 --> 01:47:08,713
My Billy
1728
01:47:08,796 --> 01:47:15,803
Beneath the maple tree
1729
01:47:15,887 --> 01:47:18,473
And
1730
01:47:18,556 --> 01:47:22,935
Never again
1731
01:47:23,019 --> 01:47:29,275
Will ya whisper to me
1732
01:47:29,359 --> 01:47:30,943
Hey
1733
01:47:32,111 --> 01:47:33,571
Hey
1734
01:47:34,697 --> 01:47:36,824
Oh, Mama
1735
01:47:37,909 --> 01:47:44,916
Look sharp
1736
01:48:01,599 --> 01:48:05,144
The secretary will now read the report
of the Declaration Committee.
1737
01:48:05,228 --> 01:48:06,938
Mr. Thomson.
1738
01:48:07,021 --> 01:48:10,400
"A declaration by the representatives
of the United States of America
1739
01:48:10,483 --> 01:48:12,276
in general Congress assembled.
1740
01:48:13,653 --> 01:48:16,823
When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people
1741
01:48:16,906 --> 01:48:20,368
to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another
1742
01:48:20,451 --> 01:48:22,995
and to assume
among the powers of the earth
1743
01:48:23,079 --> 01:48:25,998
the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature
1744
01:48:26,082 --> 01:48:28,209
and of nature's god entitle them,
1745
01:48:28,292 --> 01:48:31,045
a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind
1746
01:48:31,129 --> 01:48:33,172
requires that they should declare
the causes
1747
01:48:33,256 --> 01:48:35,341
which impel them to the separation.
1748
01:48:35,425 --> 01:48:38,678
We hold these truths to be self-evident
1749
01:48:38,761 --> 01:48:41,514
that all men are created equal.
1750
01:48:41,597 --> 01:48:45,184
They're endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights
1751
01:48:45,268 --> 01:48:48,896
that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
1752
01:48:48,980 --> 01:48:50,898
that we secure these rights..."
1753
01:48:50,982 --> 01:48:55,153
Jefferson, we're back,
and we've got Maryland.
1754
01:48:55,236 --> 01:48:57,947
That is, we will, as soon as Chase gets
through telling the Maryland assembly
1755
01:48:58,030 --> 01:49:00,158
what we saw in New Brunswick.
1756
01:49:00,241 --> 01:49:05,621
He's in Annapolis, describing a ragtag
collection of provincial militiamen
1757
01:49:05,705 --> 01:49:08,624
who couldn't drill together,
train together or march together.
1758
01:49:08,708 --> 01:49:10,710
But when a flock of ducks flew over
1759
01:49:10,793 --> 01:49:13,838
and they saw their first meal
in three full days,
1760
01:49:13,921 --> 01:49:15,840
sweet Jesus, could they shoot together.
1761
01:49:15,923 --> 01:49:17,633
-It was a slaughter.
-A slaughter.
1762
01:49:18,468 --> 01:49:20,178
They're reading the declaration.
1763
01:49:20,261 --> 01:49:22,763
Good God. How far have they gotten?
1764
01:49:22,847 --> 01:49:26,559
"To render the military independent of
and superior to the civil power."
1765
01:49:26,642 --> 01:49:29,479
"...independent of and superior to..."
1766
01:49:35,568 --> 01:49:38,196
Nothing to fear. It's a masterpiece.
1767
01:49:38,988 --> 01:49:40,406
I'm to be congratulated.
1768
01:49:41,407 --> 01:49:42,408
You?
1769
01:49:43,659 --> 01:49:46,537
-For making him write it.
-Oh, of course.
1770
01:49:48,122 --> 01:49:51,000
It's a masterpiece, I say
1771
01:49:51,083 --> 01:49:55,046
They will cheer every word
Every letter
1772
01:49:55,129 --> 01:49:58,257
I wish [ felt that way
1773
01:49:58,341 --> 01:50:01,636
I believe I can put it better
1774
01:50:01,719 --> 01:50:04,305
Now then attend
As friend to friend
1775
01:50:04,388 --> 01:50:06,974
Our Declaration Committee
1776
01:50:07,058 --> 01:50:10,811
For us I see immortality
1777
01:50:10,895 --> 01:50:15,942
In Philadelphia City
1778
01:50:16,025 --> 01:50:19,153
A farmer, a lawyer
1779
01:50:19,237 --> 01:50:20,488
And a sage
1780
01:50:22,406 --> 01:50:24,242
A bit gouty in the leg
1781
01:50:25,451 --> 01:50:29,038
You know it's quite bizarre
To think that here we are
1782
01:50:29,121 --> 01:50:32,667
Playing midwives to an egg
1783
01:50:33,751 --> 01:50:37,004
-Egg? What egg?
-America. The birth of a new nation.
1784
01:50:37,088 --> 01:50:40,424
If only we could be sure
of what kind of a bird it's going to be.
1785
01:50:40,508 --> 01:50:43,094
Tom has a point.
What sort of bird shall we choose
1786
01:50:43,177 --> 01:50:45,263
as the symbol of our new America?
1787
01:50:45,346 --> 01:50:48,849
-The eagle.
-The dove.
1788
01:50:48,933 --> 01:50:49,934
The turkey.
1789
01:50:51,602 --> 01:50:52,728
The eagle.
1790
01:50:54,063 --> 01:50:56,315
-The dove.
-The eagle.
1791
01:50:57,858 --> 01:50:59,527
-The eagle.
-The turkey.
1792
01:51:00,903 --> 01:51:02,863
The eagle is a majestic bird.
1793
01:51:02,947 --> 01:51:05,741
The eagle is a scavenger,
a thief and a coward.
1794
01:51:05,825 --> 01:51:08,369
A symbol of over ten centuries
of European mischief.
1795
01:51:09,453 --> 01:51:12,873
-The turkey?
-The turkey is a truly noble bird.
1796
01:51:12,957 --> 01:51:16,168
Native American. Source of sustenance
of our original settlers.
1797
01:51:16,252 --> 01:51:18,254
An incredibly brave fellow
who will not flinch
1798
01:51:18,337 --> 01:51:21,424
at attacking a regiment
of Englishmen single-handedly!
1799
01:51:21,507 --> 01:51:24,343
Therefore, the national bird
of America is going to be--
1800
01:51:24,427 --> 01:51:27,388
-The eagle!
-The eagle!
1801
01:51:27,471 --> 01:51:31,350
We're waiting
For the chirp, chirp, chirp
1802
01:51:31,434 --> 01:51:34,103
Of an eaglet being born
1803
01:51:34,186 --> 01:51:37,231
Waiting for the chirp, chirp, chirp
1804
01:51:37,315 --> 01:51:40,651
On this humid Monday morning
1805
01:51:40,735 --> 01:51:44,739
In this congressional incubator
1806
01:51:44,822 --> 01:51:47,742
God knows
The temperature's hot enough
1807
01:51:47,825 --> 01:51:51,370
To hatch a stone
Let alone an egg
1808
01:51:52,913 --> 01:51:56,292
We're waiting
For the scratch, scratch, scratch
1809
01:51:56,375 --> 01:51:59,629
Of that tiny, little fellow
1810
01:51:59,712 --> 01:52:02,757
Waiting for the egg to hatch
1811
01:52:02,840 --> 01:52:05,885
On this humid Monday morning
1812
01:52:05,968 --> 01:52:10,139
In this congressional incubator
1813
01:52:10,222 --> 01:52:13,184
God knows
The temperature's hot enough
1814
01:52:13,267 --> 01:52:17,021
-To hatch a stone
-But will it hatch an egg?
1815
01:52:18,356 --> 01:52:22,610
The declaration will be a triumph.
I tell you, a triumph.
1816
01:52:22,693 --> 01:52:24,779
If I was ever sure of anything,
I'm sure of that.
1817
01:52:24,862 --> 01:52:25,946
A triumph.
1818
01:52:27,365 --> 01:52:31,035
And if it isn't, we still got four days
left to think of something else.
1819
01:52:32,036 --> 01:52:35,706
The eagle's going to crack the shell
1820
01:52:35,790 --> 01:52:38,459
Of the egg that England laid
1821
01:52:38,542 --> 01:52:41,587
Yes, sir
We can tell, tell, tell
1822
01:52:41,671 --> 01:52:44,632
On this humid Monday morning
1823
01:52:44,715 --> 01:52:48,844
In this congressional incubator
1824
01:52:48,928 --> 01:52:52,056
And just as Tom here has written
1825
01:52:52,139 --> 01:52:54,934
Though its shell may belong
To Great Britain
1826
01:52:55,017 --> 01:52:58,521
The eagle inside belongs to us
1827
01:52:58,604 --> 01:53:01,774
And just as Tom here has written
1828
01:53:01,857 --> 01:53:04,276
We say to hell with Great Britain
1829
01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:06,654
The eagle inside
1830
01:53:06,737 --> 01:53:09,990
Belongs to us
1831
01:53:20,960 --> 01:53:22,753
"...and to do all other acts and things
1832
01:53:22,837 --> 01:53:25,005
which independent states may of right do.
1833
01:53:25,089 --> 01:53:27,550
And for the support of this declaration,
1834
01:53:27,633 --> 01:53:30,177
we mutually pledge
to each other our lives,
1835
01:53:30,261 --> 01:53:32,638
our fortunes and our sacred honor."
1836
01:53:35,474 --> 01:53:36,851
Thank you, Mr. Thomson.
1837
01:53:38,018 --> 01:53:42,231
The Congress has heard the report
of the Declaration Committee.
1838
01:53:42,314 --> 01:53:44,608
Are there any here
who wish to offer alterations,
1839
01:53:44,692 --> 01:53:47,528
deletions, amendments to this declaration?
1840
01:53:48,654 --> 01:53:49,780
Mr. President!
1841
01:53:50,865 --> 01:53:55,828
Gentlemen! Gentlemen, please!
1842
01:53:56,579 --> 01:53:58,706
Colonel McKean, I saw your hand first.
1843
01:53:58,789 --> 01:54:00,458
Mr. Jefferson,
1844
01:54:00,541 --> 01:54:03,878
it's a funny paper you've written, Tom,
but somewhere in it
1845
01:54:03,961 --> 01:54:08,716
you mention Scottish and
foreign mercenaries sent to destroy us.
1846
01:54:08,799 --> 01:54:10,301
Scottish, Tom?
1847
01:54:10,384 --> 01:54:12,553
That is in reference
to a Highland regiment
1848
01:54:12,636 --> 01:54:13,971
which stood against us at Boston.
1849
01:54:15,765 --> 01:54:20,352
It's more likely Germans wearing Kilts
to disguise their being there.
1850
01:54:20,436 --> 01:54:25,191
I ask you to remove the word and
avoid giving offense to a good people.
1851
01:54:25,274 --> 01:54:26,275
Mr. Jefferson?
1852
01:54:28,152 --> 01:54:31,280
-The Reverend...
-Witherspoon.
1853
01:54:31,363 --> 01:54:35,826
Mr. Jefferson, nowhere do you mention
the Supreme Being.
1854
01:54:35,910 --> 01:54:40,122
Surely this was an oversight,
for how could we hope to achieve a victory
1855
01:54:40,206 --> 01:54:41,248
without his help?
1856
01:54:42,041 --> 01:54:46,378
Therefore, I suggest the following
addition to your final sentence.
1857
01:54:46,462 --> 01:54:50,299
"With a firm reliance
on the protection of Divine Providence."
1858
01:54:50,382 --> 01:54:51,592
Mr. Jefferson?
1859
01:54:54,970 --> 01:54:55,805
Mr. Read.
1860
01:54:57,556 --> 01:55:00,601
Among your charges
against the king, Mr. Jefferson,
1861
01:55:00,684 --> 01:55:04,647
you accuse him of depriving us
of the benefits of trial by jury.
1862
01:55:04,730 --> 01:55:09,401
This is untrue, sir. In Delaware,
we've always had trial by jury.
1863
01:55:10,194 --> 01:55:11,987
In Massachusetts, we have not.
1864
01:55:12,780 --> 01:55:16,450
Well, then I suggest that the words
"in many cases" be added.
1865
01:55:17,535 --> 01:55:18,452
Mr. Jefferson?
1866
01:55:19,453 --> 01:55:22,748
"In many cases"? Brilliant!
1867
01:55:22,832 --> 01:55:25,167
I suppose every time
you see those three words,
1868
01:55:25,251 --> 01:55:27,586
your puny chest will swell with pride
1869
01:55:27,670 --> 01:55:30,214
over your great historical contribution.
1870
01:55:30,297 --> 01:55:33,759
It's more memorable
than your unprincipled whitewash
1871
01:55:33,843 --> 01:55:35,845
of that race of barbarians!
1872
01:55:35,928 --> 01:55:39,682
"Race of barbarians"?
Why, I'll have you--
1873
01:55:40,349 --> 01:55:42,643
Colonel McKean, Mr. Read, that's enough!
1874
01:55:45,187 --> 01:55:47,106
-Mr. Hopkins.
-I've no objections, Johnny.
1875
01:55:47,189 --> 01:55:49,441
-I'm just trying to get a drink.
- I should've known.
1876
01:55:49,525 --> 01:55:50,651
McNair, get him a rum.
1877
01:55:56,949 --> 01:56:00,244
-Mr. Barlett.
-Mr. Jefferson.
1878
01:56:00,327 --> 01:56:03,455
I beg you to remember
that we still have friends in England.
1879
01:56:03,539 --> 01:56:07,126
I see no purpose in antagonizing them
with such phrases as:
1880
01:56:08,502 --> 01:56:11,213
"unfeeling brethren" and "enemies at war."
1881
01:56:11,297 --> 01:56:13,841
Our quarrel is with the British king,
not the British people.
1882
01:56:14,758 --> 01:56:16,886
Be sensible, Bartlett.
1883
01:56:16,969 --> 01:56:20,639
Remove those phrases and the entire
paragraph becomes meaningless.
1884
01:56:20,723 --> 01:56:24,101
And it so happens that it's one
of the most stirring and poetic
1885
01:56:24,184 --> 01:56:27,438
of any passage
in the entire document. Now--
1886
01:56:27,521 --> 01:56:31,108
We're a Congress, Mr. Adams,
not a literary society.
1887
01:56:31,191 --> 01:56:34,987
- I ask that the paragraph be stricken.
-Mr. Jefferson?
1888
01:56:37,489 --> 01:56:41,035
Oh, good God, Jefferson, when are you
going to speak up for your own work?
1889
01:56:41,869 --> 01:56:44,955
I had hoped
that the work would speak for itself.
1890
01:56:45,039 --> 01:56:48,918
-Mr. Hancock?
-What is it, Mr. McNair?
1891
01:56:49,001 --> 01:56:54,214
I'm not fond of "The United States
of America" as a name for a new country.
1892
01:56:56,050 --> 01:56:58,761
I don't care
what you're fond of, Mr. McNair.
1893
01:56:58,844 --> 01:57:01,388
You're not a member of this Congress!
1894
01:57:04,266 --> 01:57:05,643
Mr. Sherman.
1895
01:57:06,685 --> 01:57:11,774
Brother Jefferson, I noted at least
two distinct and direct references
1896
01:57:11,857 --> 01:57:14,485
to the British Parliament
in your declaration.
1897
01:57:14,568 --> 01:57:17,112
Do you think it's wise
to alienate that august body
1898
01:57:17,196 --> 01:57:21,075
in light of our contention that they've
never had any authority over us anyway?
1899
01:57:21,158 --> 01:57:23,661
This is a revolution, damn it!
1900
01:57:23,744 --> 01:57:25,788
We're going to have to offend somebody.
1901
01:57:25,871 --> 01:57:27,039
Brother Hancock!
1902
01:57:31,961 --> 01:57:33,754
John, John.
1903
01:57:33,837 --> 01:57:36,548
You'll give yourself an attack
of apoplexy if you're not careful.
1904
01:57:36,632 --> 01:57:38,634
-Have you heard what they're doing?
- I heard.
1905
01:57:38,717 --> 01:57:42,137
And that's just our friends. Can you
imagine what our enemies will do?
1906
01:57:42,221 --> 01:57:45,182
The word "parliament" will be removed
wherever it occurs.
1907
01:57:45,265 --> 01:57:48,477
They won't be satisfied till they remove
one of the F's from Jefferson's name.
1908
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:50,771
Courage, John. It won't last much longer.
1909
01:57:54,608 --> 01:57:55,651
Mr. Dickinson.
1910
01:57:56,568 --> 01:58:00,572
Mr. Jefferson,
I have very little interest in your paper,
1911
01:58:00,656 --> 01:58:04,326
as there's no doubt in my mind
that we've all but heard the last of it.
1912
01:58:04,410 --> 01:58:07,121
But I am curious about one thing.
1913
01:58:07,997 --> 01:58:11,500
Why do you refer
to King George as a tyrant?
1914
01:58:13,085 --> 01:58:14,753
Because he is a tyrant.
1915
01:58:15,963 --> 01:58:19,925
I remind you, Mr. Jefferson,
that this tyrant is still your king.
1916
01:58:21,635 --> 01:58:23,929
When a king becomes a tyrant,
1917
01:58:24,013 --> 01:58:27,599
he thereby breaks the contract
binding his subjects to him.
1918
01:58:27,683 --> 01:58:31,645
-How so?
-By taking away their rights.
1919
01:58:31,729 --> 01:58:34,606
Rights that came from him
in the first place?
1920
01:58:34,690 --> 01:58:38,986
All except one. The right to be free
comes from nature.
1921
01:58:40,112 --> 01:58:42,823
And are we not free, Mr. Jefferson?
1922
01:58:45,117 --> 01:58:47,244
Homes entered without warrant.
1923
01:58:47,327 --> 01:58:50,539
Citizens arrested without charge.
1924
01:58:50,622 --> 01:58:54,001
And in many places,
free assembly itself denied.
1925
01:58:54,084 --> 01:58:59,256
No one approves of such things,
but these are dangerous times.
1926
01:58:59,339 --> 01:59:00,924
Be careful, Mr. Dickinson.
1927
01:59:01,008 --> 01:59:05,095
Those who'd give up some liberty
in order to obtain temporary safety
1928
01:59:05,179 --> 01:59:07,514
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
1929
01:59:09,391 --> 01:59:10,601
Mr. Wilson.
1930
01:59:12,186 --> 01:59:15,814
Do we in Pennsylvania
consider King George a tyrant?
1931
01:59:17,066 --> 01:59:20,819
Well, I don't know. He--
1932
01:59:23,864 --> 01:59:26,200
No. No, we don't.
1933
01:59:26,283 --> 01:59:27,493
He's not a tyrant...
1934
01:59:29,078 --> 01:59:31,955
-in Pennsylvania.
-There you are, Mr. Jefferson.
1935
01:59:32,039 --> 01:59:33,957
Your declaration does not speak
for us all.
1936
01:59:34,041 --> 01:59:37,294
-I demand the word "tyrant" be removed.
-Very well.
1937
01:59:37,377 --> 01:59:39,671
Just a moment, Mr. Thomson.
1938
01:59:39,755 --> 01:59:41,048
I do not consent.
1939
01:59:42,216 --> 01:59:46,053
The king is a tyrant,
whether we say so or not.
1940
01:59:47,221 --> 01:59:50,641
-We might as well say so.
-But I already scratched it out.
1941
01:59:50,724 --> 01:59:52,726
Then scratch it back in.
1942
01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:57,481
Put it back, Mr. Thomson.
The king will remain a tyrant.
1943
02:00:02,111 --> 02:00:04,071
-Mr. Hewes.
-Mr. Jefferson.
1944
02:00:04,822 --> 02:00:06,907
Nowhere do you mention
deep-sea fishing rights.
1945
02:00:09,243 --> 02:00:13,497
Oh, good God! Fishing rights!
1946
02:00:14,289 --> 02:00:17,167
How long is this piddling to go on?
1947
02:00:17,251 --> 02:00:20,712
We have been here
for three full days.
1948
02:00:20,796 --> 02:00:24,341
We have endured, by my count,
85 separate changes
1949
02:00:24,424 --> 02:00:28,053
and the removal
of close to 400 words.
1950
02:00:28,137 --> 02:00:31,265
Now, would you whip it and beat it
till you break its spirit?
1951
02:00:31,348 --> 02:00:37,062
I tell you that document is a masterful
expression of the American mind!
1952
02:00:42,151 --> 02:00:44,069
If there are no more changes,
1953
02:00:44,153 --> 02:00:47,406
then I can assume the report
of the Declaration Committee has been--
1954
02:00:47,489 --> 02:00:51,118
-Just a moment, Mr. President.
-Look out.
1955
02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:55,664
I wonder if we might prevail
upon Mr. Thomson
1956
02:00:55,747 --> 02:00:59,793
to read again a small portion
of Mr. Jefferson's declaration.
1957
02:01:00,878 --> 02:01:03,547
The one beginning,
"He has waged cruel war."
1958
02:01:07,217 --> 02:01:09,011
"He has affected. He's combined.
1959
02:01:09,094 --> 02:01:11,388
He's abdicated. He's plundered.
1960
02:01:11,471 --> 02:01:14,099
He's constrained.
He's excited. He's incited.
1961
02:01:14,183 --> 02:01:16,643
He's waged cruel war." Here it is.
1962
02:01:16,727 --> 02:01:19,313
"He has waged cruel war
against human nature itself
1963
02:01:19,396 --> 02:01:22,316
in the persons of a distant people
who never offended him,
1964
02:01:22,399 --> 02:01:26,320
captivating and carrying them
into slavery in another hemisphere,
1965
02:01:26,403 --> 02:01:30,157
determined to keep open a market
where men should be bought and sold.
1966
02:01:30,240 --> 02:01:33,744
-He has prostituted his--"
-That will suffice. I thank you, sir.
1967
02:01:34,578 --> 02:01:39,166
Mr. Jefferson, I can't quite make out
what it is you're talking about.
1968
02:01:41,084 --> 02:01:43,003
Slavery, Mr. Rutledge.
1969
02:01:43,086 --> 02:01:47,007
Oh, yes. You're referring to us
as slaves of the king.
1970
02:01:47,090 --> 02:01:49,760
No, sir. I'm referring to our slaves.
1971
02:01:49,843 --> 02:01:51,053
Black slaves.
1972
02:01:54,181 --> 02:01:55,390
Black slaves.
1973
02:01:56,725 --> 02:01:58,352
Why didn't you say so, sir?
1974
02:01:59,186 --> 02:02:01,396
Were you trying to hide your meaning?
1975
02:02:02,439 --> 02:02:03,774
No, sir.
1976
02:02:03,857 --> 02:02:06,610
Just another literary license, then.
1977
02:02:07,986 --> 02:02:08,987
If you like.
1978
02:02:10,072 --> 02:02:12,532
I don't like at all, Mr. Jefferson.
1979
02:02:13,742 --> 02:02:17,287
To us in South Carolina,
Black slavery is our peculiar institution
1980
02:02:17,371 --> 02:02:19,289
and a cherished way of life.
1981
02:02:19,373 --> 02:02:22,501
Nevertheless, we must abolish it.
1982
02:02:22,584 --> 02:02:25,504
Nothing is more certainly written
in the Book of Fate
1983
02:02:25,587 --> 02:02:27,506
than that this people shall be free.
1984
02:02:27,589 --> 02:02:31,343
I am not concerned
with the Book of Fate right now.
1985
02:02:31,426 --> 02:02:34,346
I'm more concerned with what is
written in that little paper there.
1986
02:02:34,429 --> 02:02:38,308
That little paper there deals
with freedom for Americans.
1987
02:02:39,977 --> 02:02:41,103
Oh, really?
1988
02:02:43,021 --> 02:02:44,731
Mr. Adams...
1989
02:02:44,815 --> 02:02:49,278
is now calling
our Black slaves "Americans."
1990
02:02:49,361 --> 02:02:51,321
-Are they now?
-Yes, they are.
1991
02:02:51,405 --> 02:02:53,657
They're people and they're here.
1992
02:02:53,740 --> 02:02:55,659
If there's any other requirement,
I've never heard of it.
1993
02:02:55,742 --> 02:02:58,787
They are here, yes, but they are
not people. They are property.
1994
02:02:58,870 --> 02:03:03,041
No, sir. They are people
who are being treated as property.
1995
02:03:03,125 --> 02:03:05,961
I tell you, the rights of human nature
1996
02:03:06,044 --> 02:03:09,339
are deeply wounded
by this infamous practice.
1997
02:03:09,423 --> 02:03:13,635
Then see to your own wounds,
for you are a practitioner!
1998
02:03:13,719 --> 02:03:15,053
Are you not?
1999
02:03:21,268 --> 02:03:26,940
I have already resolved
to release my slaves.
2000
02:03:45,250 --> 02:03:46,376
Then I'm sorry...
2001
02:03:47,669 --> 02:03:51,757
for you've also resolved
the ruination of your personal economy.
2002
02:03:51,840 --> 02:03:54,343
Economy. Always economy.
2003
02:03:55,385 --> 02:03:58,347
There's more to this
than a filthy purse string, Rutledge.
2004
02:03:58,430 --> 02:04:00,515
It is an offense against man and God.
2005
02:04:00,599 --> 02:04:04,102
It's a stinking business, Mr. Rutledge.
A stinking business.
2006
02:04:04,186 --> 02:04:06,188
Is it really, Mr. Hopkins?
2007
02:04:06,271 --> 02:04:10,525
Then what is that I smell
floating down from the North?
2008
02:04:12,402 --> 02:04:14,654
Could that be the aroma of hypocrisy?
2009
02:04:14,738 --> 02:04:18,700
For who holds the other end
of that filthy purse string, Mr. Adams?
2010
02:04:22,371 --> 02:04:27,709
Our Northern brethren feeling
a bit tender toward our slaves.
2011
02:04:27,793 --> 02:04:30,128
They don't keep slaves.
2012
02:04:30,212 --> 02:04:31,421
Oh, no.
2013
02:04:32,381 --> 02:04:36,259
But they're willing
to be considerable carriers
2014
02:04:36,343 --> 02:04:38,845
of slaves to others.
2015
02:04:38,929 --> 02:04:40,013
They're willing...
2016
02:04:41,973 --> 02:04:43,100
for the shilling.
2017
02:04:44,142 --> 02:04:46,061
Or haven't you heard, Mr. Adams?
2018
02:04:47,813 --> 02:04:50,232
Clink, clink.
2019
02:04:51,441 --> 02:04:54,194
Molasses to rum
2020
02:04:54,277 --> 02:04:57,280
To slaves
2021
02:04:57,364 --> 02:05:02,744
Oh, what a beautiful waltz
2022
02:05:02,828 --> 02:05:05,414
You dance with us
2023
02:05:05,497 --> 02:05:08,083
We dance with you
2024
02:05:08,166 --> 02:05:10,877
In molasses and rum
2025
02:05:10,961 --> 02:05:16,216
And slaves
2026
02:05:16,299 --> 02:05:19,970
Who sail the ships out of Boston
2027
02:05:20,053 --> 02:05:23,932
Laden with Bibles and rum?
2028
02:05:24,015 --> 02:05:27,436
Who drinks a toast
To the Ivory Coast?
2029
02:05:27,519 --> 02:05:31,690
Hail, Africa
The slavers have come
2030
02:05:31,773 --> 02:05:35,235
New England with Bibles
2031
02:05:35,318 --> 02:05:37,612
And rum
2032
02:05:38,488 --> 02:05:41,158
Then it's off with the rum
And the Bibles
2033
02:05:41,241 --> 02:05:44,035
Take on the slaves
Clink, clink
2034
02:05:44,119 --> 02:05:48,039
Then hail and farewell to the smell
2035
02:05:48,123 --> 02:05:52,461
Of the African coast
2036
02:05:55,714 --> 02:06:00,802
Molasses to rum to slaves
2037
02:06:00,886 --> 02:06:06,391
'Tisn't morals
'Tis money that saves
2038
02:06:06,475 --> 02:06:11,730
Shall we dance to the sound
Of the profitable pound?
2039
02:06:11,813 --> 02:06:14,274
In molasses and rum
2040
02:06:14,357 --> 02:06:19,529
And slaves
2041
02:06:19,613 --> 02:06:23,158
Who sail the ships out of Guinea
2042
02:06:23,241 --> 02:06:26,870
Laden with Bibles and slaves?
2043
02:06:26,953 --> 02:06:30,582
'Tis Boston can boast
To the West Indies' coast
2044
02:06:30,665 --> 02:06:34,419
Jamaica, we brung what ye craves
2045
02:06:34,503 --> 02:06:37,923
Antigua, Barbados
2046
02:06:38,006 --> 02:06:41,384
We brung Bibles
2047
02:06:41,468 --> 02:06:45,263
And slaves
2048
02:06:45,347 --> 02:06:48,558
Gentlemen, you mustn't think
that our Northern friends
2049
02:06:48,642 --> 02:06:51,895
see our Black slaves
as merely figures in a ledger.
2050
02:06:51,978 --> 02:06:57,651
Oh, no. They see them
as figures on a block.
2051
02:06:57,734 --> 02:07:00,362
Look at the faces
at the auctions, gentlemen.
2052
02:07:00,445 --> 02:07:03,198
White faces on African wharves.
2053
02:07:03,281 --> 02:07:06,660
Seafaring faces. New England faces.
2054
02:07:06,743 --> 02:07:09,120
"Put them in the ships.
2055
02:07:09,204 --> 02:07:11,873
Cram them in the ships.
2056
02:07:11,957 --> 02:07:15,085
Stuff them in the ships.
2057
02:07:15,710 --> 02:07:19,381
Hurry, gentlemen. Let the auction begin."
2058
02:07:19,464 --> 02:07:24,553
Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah
2059
02:07:24,636 --> 02:07:28,431
Gentlemen, do you hear?
That's the cry of the auctioneer.
2060
02:07:28,515 --> 02:07:33,728
Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah
2061
02:07:33,812 --> 02:07:36,231
Slaves, gentlemen!
2062
02:07:36,314 --> 02:07:38,608
Black gold!
2063
02:07:38,692 --> 02:07:41,111
Living gold!
2064
02:07:41,194 --> 02:07:44,823
Gold from Angola!
2065
02:07:44,906 --> 02:07:46,825
Guinea, Guinea, Guinea!
2066
02:07:46,908 --> 02:07:49,494
Blackbirds for sale
2067
02:07:49,578 --> 02:07:54,374
Ashanti, ebo, ebo, ebo!
2068
02:07:54,457 --> 02:07:57,377
Blackbirds for sale
2069
02:07:57,460 --> 02:08:01,381
Handle them!
2070
02:08:01,464 --> 02:08:05,051
Fondle them!
2071
02:08:05,135 --> 02:08:08,179
But don't finger them!
2072
02:08:08,263 --> 02:08:13,393
They're prime
They're prime
2073
02:08:13,476 --> 02:08:20,483
Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah
2074
02:08:20,567 --> 02:08:23,945
For the love of God,
Mr. Rutledge, please.
2075
02:08:32,996 --> 02:08:36,041
Molasses to rum
2076
02:08:36,124 --> 02:08:39,377
To slaves
2077
02:08:39,461 --> 02:08:44,424
Who sail the ships
Back to Boston
2078
02:08:44,507 --> 02:08:50,180
Laden with gold
See it gleam
2079
02:08:50,263 --> 02:08:54,893
Whose fortunes are made
In the triangle trade
2080
02:08:54,976 --> 02:08:59,522
Hail, slavery
The New England dream
2081
02:08:59,606 --> 02:09:02,275
Mr. Adams, I give you a toast.
2082
02:09:03,234 --> 02:09:05,362
Hail, Boston
2083
02:09:05,445 --> 02:09:07,989
Hail, Charleston
2084
02:09:09,699 --> 02:09:11,910
Who stinketh
2085
02:09:11,993 --> 02:09:19,000
The most?
2086
02:09:24,756 --> 02:09:27,467
Mr. Rutledge, please!
2087
02:09:30,095 --> 02:09:31,262
Mr. Hewes.
2088
02:09:35,016 --> 02:09:36,059
Dr. Hall.
2089
02:09:47,070 --> 02:09:48,780
Don't worry, John. They'll be back.
2090
02:09:49,739 --> 02:09:52,409
Aye, to vote us down.
2091
02:09:58,832 --> 02:10:01,000
Adams! Franklin!
2092
02:10:02,585 --> 02:10:07,048
It's done. I have it.
And the Maryland Assembly's approved it.
2093
02:10:07,132 --> 02:10:12,345
I told them about one of the greatest
military engagements in history
2094
02:10:12,429 --> 02:10:14,222
against a flock of...
2095
02:10:17,559 --> 02:10:21,479
Well, what's wrong? I thought--
2096
02:10:21,563 --> 02:10:23,773
You'll have to forgive them, Mr. Chase.
2097
02:10:23,857 --> 02:10:26,484
They just suffered a slight setback.
2098
02:10:26,568 --> 02:10:29,195
And after all, "What is a man profited
2099
02:10:29,279 --> 02:10:33,700
if he shall gain Maryland
and lose the entire South?"
2100
02:10:34,868 --> 02:10:37,787
Matthew, chapter 16, verse 26.
2101
02:10:39,664 --> 02:10:40,665
McNair.
2102
02:10:41,458 --> 02:10:43,877
-Oh, I know. The flies.
-No.
2103
02:10:45,295 --> 02:10:46,296
The rum.
2104
02:10:51,217 --> 02:10:53,303
What are we all sitting around for?
2105
02:10:55,305 --> 02:10:57,015
We're wasting time. Precious time.
2106
02:10:57,098 --> 02:10:59,434
Thomas, I want you
to ride down into Delaware
2107
02:10:59,517 --> 02:11:02,228
-and fetch back Caesar Rodney.
-John, are you mad?
2108
02:11:02,312 --> 02:11:06,483
-It's 80 miles, and he's a dying man.
-No, he's a patriot.
2109
02:11:06,566 --> 02:11:08,943
John, what good will it do?
The South's done us in.
2110
02:11:09,027 --> 02:11:10,695
And suppose they change their minds?
2111
02:11:10,779 --> 02:11:12,864
Can we get Delaware without Rodney?
2112
02:11:15,950 --> 02:11:18,995
God. What a bastardly bunch we are.
2113
02:11:21,790 --> 02:11:24,918
-Stephen, I want you to--
-I'm going to the tavern, Johnny.
2114
02:11:25,001 --> 02:11:27,629
If there's anything I can do
for you there, let me know.
2115
02:11:29,464 --> 02:11:32,509
Chase. Bartlett!
2116
02:11:32,592 --> 02:11:36,137
What's the use, John?
The vote's tomorrow morning.
2117
02:11:36,221 --> 02:11:38,223
There's less than a full day left.
2118
02:11:42,060 --> 02:11:46,231
-Roger.
-Face facts, John. It's finished.
2119
02:11:48,900 --> 02:11:50,151
I'm sorry, John.
2120
02:11:58,868 --> 02:12:00,411
We have no choice, John.
2121
02:12:01,996 --> 02:12:03,832
The slavery clause has got to go.
2122
02:12:06,960 --> 02:12:08,378
Franklin, what are you saying?
2123
02:12:08,461 --> 02:12:10,713
It's a luxury we can't afford.
2124
02:12:11,840 --> 02:12:12,966
A luxury?
2125
02:12:15,593 --> 02:12:19,472
A half million souls in chains
2126
02:12:19,556 --> 02:12:22,308
and Dr. Franklin calls it a luxury.
2127
02:12:23,434 --> 02:12:25,353
Maybe you should've
walked out with the South.
2128
02:12:26,062 --> 02:12:28,022
You forget yourself, sir.
2129
02:12:28,106 --> 02:12:31,109
I founded the first antislavery society
on this continent.
2130
02:12:31,192 --> 02:12:34,904
Don't wave your credentials at me.
Perhaps it's time you had them renewed.
2131
02:12:35,655 --> 02:12:38,616
The issue here is independence.
2132
02:12:38,700 --> 02:12:41,244
Perhaps you've forgotten that fact,
but I have not.
2133
02:12:41,327 --> 02:12:46,791
How dare you jeopardize our cause
when we've come so far.
2134
02:12:48,835 --> 02:12:49,836
These men...
2135
02:12:51,462 --> 02:12:53,715
no matter how much
we may disagree with them,
2136
02:12:53,798 --> 02:12:57,051
are not ribbon clerks
to be ordered about.
2137
02:12:57,135 --> 02:13:00,346
They're proud, accomplished men.
The cream of their colonies.
2138
02:13:00,430 --> 02:13:03,474
And whether you like it or not,
they and the people they represent
2139
02:13:03,558 --> 02:13:07,478
will be part of this new nation
you'd hope to create.
2140
02:13:07,562 --> 02:13:10,773
Now either learn how to live with them,
or pack up and go home!
2141
02:13:16,446 --> 02:13:18,698
In any case,
stop acting like a Boston fishwife.
2142
02:13:33,671 --> 02:13:36,466
Good God. What's happened to me?
2143
02:13:36,549 --> 02:13:39,886
John Adams. The great John Adams.
2144
02:13:39,969 --> 02:13:41,888
What have I come to?
2145
02:13:41,971 --> 02:13:45,975
Law practice down the pipe.
Farm mortgaged to the hilt.
2146
02:13:46,059 --> 02:13:49,145
At a stage in life
when other men prosper,
2147
02:13:49,228 --> 02:13:51,522
I'm reduced to living in Philadelphia.
2148
02:13:53,983 --> 02:13:55,109
Philadelphia.
2149
02:14:04,827 --> 02:14:07,413
Abigail, what am I going to do?
2150
02:14:07,497 --> 02:14:08,539
Do, John?
2151
02:14:10,124 --> 02:14:11,250
I need your help.
2152
02:14:12,460 --> 02:14:14,963
You don't usually ask my advice.
2153
02:14:15,046 --> 02:14:17,715
Yes, well, there doesn't appear
to be anyone else right now.
2154
02:14:18,675 --> 02:14:20,134
Very well, John. What is it?
2155
02:14:21,469 --> 02:14:24,681
The entire South has
just walked out of this Congress.
2156
02:14:25,640 --> 02:14:29,477
George Washington is
on the verge of total annihilation.
2157
02:14:29,560 --> 02:14:32,563
And the precious cause for which
I have labored these several years
2158
02:14:32,647 --> 02:14:33,856
has come to nothing.
2159
02:14:36,567 --> 02:14:39,779
And it seems
that I'm obnoxious and disliked.
2160
02:14:39,862 --> 02:14:42,115
Nonsense, John.
2161
02:14:42,198 --> 02:14:44,742
That I am unwilling to face reality.
2162
02:14:44,826 --> 02:14:46,911
Foolishness, John.
2163
02:14:46,995 --> 02:14:48,371
That I'm pigheaded.
2164
02:14:49,455 --> 02:14:52,959
Well, there you have me, John.
I'm afraid you are pigheaded.
2165
02:14:57,380 --> 02:14:58,423
Well, yes.
2166
02:15:00,800 --> 02:15:02,051
Oh, Abby.
2167
02:15:03,886 --> 02:15:06,222
Has it been any kind of a life for you?
2168
02:15:07,223 --> 02:15:09,767
God knows
I haven't given you very much.
2169
02:15:10,810 --> 02:15:12,311
I never asked for more.
2170
02:15:13,396 --> 02:15:17,483
After all, I am Mrs. John Adams.
That's quite a lot for one lifetime.
2171
02:15:20,069 --> 02:15:23,239
-Is it, Abby?
-Well, think of it, John.
2172
02:15:23,322 --> 02:15:27,160
To be married to the man who is
always the first in line to be hanged.
2173
02:15:31,789 --> 02:15:34,000
Yes. The agitator.
2174
02:15:36,502 --> 02:15:37,503
Why, Abby?
2175
02:15:39,672 --> 02:15:41,257
You must tell me what it is. I--
2176
02:15:42,884 --> 02:15:46,054
Well, I have always been dissatisfied.
I know that.
2177
02:15:47,597 --> 02:15:52,060
But lately, I find
that I reek of discontentment.
2178
02:15:52,143 --> 02:15:55,730
It fills my throat,
and it floods my brain.
2179
02:15:59,859 --> 02:16:02,528
Sometimes I fear
there is no longer a dream.
2180
02:16:04,197 --> 02:16:06,074
Only the discontentment.
2181
02:16:08,367 --> 02:16:09,786
Oh, John.
2182
02:16:12,205 --> 02:16:14,832
Can you really know
so little about yourself?
2183
02:16:16,709 --> 02:16:18,753
And can you think so little of me
that you'd believe
2184
02:16:18,836 --> 02:16:20,922
I'd marry the man you've described?
2185
02:16:23,716 --> 02:16:26,469
Have you forgotten what
you used to say to me? I haven't.
2186
02:16:28,805 --> 02:16:30,807
"Commitment, Abby.
2187
02:16:31,974 --> 02:16:33,351
Commitment.
2188
02:16:34,811 --> 02:16:38,523
There are only two creatures of value
on the face of this earth.
2189
02:16:39,816 --> 02:16:41,400
Those with a commitment
2190
02:16:42,235 --> 02:16:44,821
and those who require
the commitment of others."
2191
02:16:47,532 --> 02:16:48,866
Do you remember, John?
2192
02:16:51,536 --> 02:16:52,703
Yes, I remember.
2193
02:16:53,788 --> 02:16:55,665
Mr. Adams!
2194
02:16:57,208 --> 02:17:00,128
Are you up there, Mr. Adams?
2195
02:17:00,211 --> 02:17:01,629
What do you want?
2196
02:17:02,338 --> 02:17:06,134
There's a delivery down here for ya!
2197
02:17:06,217 --> 02:17:07,301
What is it?
2198
02:17:09,595 --> 02:17:11,806
Where did it come from? Who sent it?
2199
02:17:18,062 --> 02:17:22,733
Compliments
Of the Concord Ladies' coffee club
2200
02:17:22,817 --> 02:17:27,572
And the Sisterhood
Of the Truro Synagogue
2201
02:17:27,655 --> 02:17:32,577
And the Friday evening
Baptist sewing circle
2202
02:17:32,660 --> 02:17:37,582
And the Holy Christian Sisters
Of St. Claire
2203
02:17:37,665 --> 02:17:41,586
All for you
2204
02:17:41,669 --> 02:17:44,755
John
2205
02:17:44,839 --> 02:17:50,428
I am, as I ever was
2206
02:17:50,511 --> 02:17:55,141
And ever shall be
2207
02:17:55,224 --> 02:18:00,730
Yours, yours, yours
2208
02:18:00,813 --> 02:18:03,649
Yours
2209
02:18:03,733 --> 02:18:07,236
Abigail, what's in these kegs?
2210
02:18:07,320 --> 02:18:10,740
Saltpeter
2211
02:18:10,823 --> 02:18:17,830
John
2212
02:18:21,834 --> 02:18:23,002
McNair!
2213
02:18:23,920 --> 02:18:27,173
McNair, go out and buy every damned pin
you can find in Philadelphia.
2214
02:18:27,256 --> 02:18:28,925
Pin? What sort of pin?
2215
02:18:29,008 --> 02:18:31,928
Well, I don't know. Whatever
the ladies use for their sewing.
2216
02:18:32,011 --> 02:18:35,306
Franklin, Jefferson,
what are you all sitting around for?
2217
02:18:35,389 --> 02:18:39,060
-Didn't you hear a word I said before?
-Oh, never mind about that.
2218
02:18:39,143 --> 02:18:42,897
-Here's what I want you to do.
-John, I'm not even speaking to you.
2219
02:18:42,980 --> 02:18:45,733
It's too late for that, damn it.
There's work to be done.
2220
02:18:45,816 --> 02:18:47,735
Jefferson, go find Rutledge.
2221
02:18:47,818 --> 02:18:49,737
Don't come back
until you've worn him down.
2222
02:18:49,820 --> 02:18:51,781
Now, you're both Southern aristocrats.
2223
02:18:51,864 --> 02:18:54,075
If he'll listen to anybody,
he'll listen to you.
2224
02:18:54,158 --> 02:18:56,077
Franklin, out of that chair!
2225
02:18:56,160 --> 02:18:58,746
What good is the South
if you can't deliver Pennsylvania?
2226
02:18:58,829 --> 02:19:01,666
Talk to Wilson.
Get him away from Dickinson.
2227
02:19:01,749 --> 02:19:04,043
That's the only way to do it.
Go on, now, both of you.
2228
02:19:05,211 --> 02:19:07,588
-John?
-Time's running out, damn it.
2229
02:19:08,589 --> 02:19:09,590
Now move.
2230
02:19:12,969 --> 02:19:14,720
I'm still from Massachusetts, John.
2231
02:19:16,389 --> 02:19:20,476
You know where I stand.
I'll do whatever you say.
2232
02:19:24,105 --> 02:19:24,939
No.
2233
02:19:26,691 --> 02:19:28,567
No. You're the president of Congress.
2234
02:19:30,444 --> 02:19:32,989
You're a fair man, Hancock.
Stay that way.
2235
02:19:55,136 --> 02:19:58,723
Tell me, Mr. Thomson, out of curiosity,
2236
02:19:59,473 --> 02:20:03,144
do you stand with Mr. Dickinson,
or do you stand with me?
2237
02:20:04,979 --> 02:20:06,605
I stand with the general.
2238
02:20:08,858 --> 02:20:12,445
Well, lately, I've had
the oddest feeling that he's been...
2239
02:20:13,321 --> 02:20:14,655
writing to me.
2240
02:20:18,784 --> 02:20:21,871
I have been in expectation
2241
02:20:21,954 --> 02:20:25,207
Of receiving a reply
2242
02:20:25,291 --> 02:20:31,547
On the subject
Of my last 15 dispatches
2243
02:20:32,548 --> 02:20:38,012
Is anybody there?
2244
02:20:39,138 --> 02:20:44,518
Does anybody care?
2245
02:20:45,728 --> 02:20:51,734
Does anybody care?
2246
02:20:53,611 --> 02:20:56,030
"Your humble and obedient--"
2247
02:21:28,979 --> 02:21:30,731
"Is anybody there?
2248
02:21:34,443 --> 02:21:36,570
Does anybody care?"
2249
02:21:40,324 --> 02:21:46,914
Does anybody see what I see?
2250
02:21:50,584 --> 02:21:52,920
They want me to quit
2251
02:21:53,838 --> 02:21:57,216
They say
John, give up the fight
2252
02:21:58,259 --> 02:22:01,262
Still to England, I say
2253
02:22:01,345 --> 02:22:04,515
Good night, forever
Good night
2254
02:22:05,933 --> 02:22:10,604
For I have crossed the Rubicon
2255
02:22:10,688 --> 02:22:13,607
Let the bridge be burned behind me
2256
02:22:13,691 --> 02:22:15,860
Come what may
2257
02:22:15,943 --> 02:22:19,113
Come what may
Commitment
2258
02:22:19,196 --> 02:22:23,659
The croakers all say
We'll rue the day
2259
02:22:23,742 --> 02:22:29,165
There'll be hell to pay
In fiery purgatory
2260
02:22:29,248 --> 02:22:33,043
Through all the gloom
Through all the gloom
2261
02:22:33,127 --> 02:22:37,047
I can see the rays
Of ravishing light
2262
02:22:37,131 --> 02:22:39,467
And glory
2263
02:22:39,550 --> 02:22:41,760
Is anybody there?
2264
02:22:43,137 --> 02:22:45,514
Does anybody care?
2265
02:22:46,265 --> 02:22:49,268
Does anybody see what I see?
2266
02:22:50,478 --> 02:22:52,938
I see fireworks
2267
02:22:53,022 --> 02:22:56,442
I see the pageant
And pomp and parade
2268
02:22:56,525 --> 02:22:59,069
I hear the bells ringing out
2269
02:22:59,153 --> 02:23:02,072
I hear the cannons roar
2270
02:23:02,156 --> 02:23:04,617
I see Americans
2271
02:23:04,700 --> 02:23:08,454
All Americans free
2272
02:23:08,537 --> 02:23:11,415
Forevermore
2273
02:23:24,428 --> 02:23:30,059
How quiet
How quiet the chamber is
2274
02:23:31,393 --> 02:23:38,275
How silent
How silent the chamber is
2275
02:23:42,029 --> 02:23:47,284
Is anybody there?
2276
02:23:48,827 --> 02:23:53,791
Does anybody care?
2277
02:23:55,960 --> 02:23:57,711
Does anybody see...
2278
02:23:59,004 --> 02:24:00,089
what I see?
2279
02:24:03,092 --> 02:24:04,301
Yes, Mr. Adams.
2280
02:24:06,470 --> 02:24:07,513
I do.
2281
02:24:11,225 --> 02:24:12,226
Dr. Hall.
2282
02:24:13,394 --> 02:24:14,979
I didn't know anyone was--
2283
02:24:16,730 --> 02:24:18,274
I'm sorry if I startled you.
2284
02:24:19,692 --> 02:24:20,985
I couldn't sleep.
2285
02:24:22,319 --> 02:24:24,822
And in trying to resolve my dilemma,
2286
02:24:25,823 --> 02:24:27,575
I remembered something I'd once read.
2287
02:24:28,784 --> 02:24:31,662
"That a representative owes
the people not only his industry
2288
02:24:32,663 --> 02:24:33,664
but his judgment,
2289
02:24:35,207 --> 02:24:38,752
and he betrays them
if he sacrifices it to their opinion."
2290
02:24:41,922 --> 02:24:44,049
That was written by Edmund Burke,
2291
02:24:45,843 --> 02:24:47,511
a member of the British Parliament.
2292
02:25:17,333 --> 02:25:20,044
-Good night, Mr. Adams.
-Good night.
2293
02:25:31,680 --> 02:25:33,390
It's never been done before.
2294
02:25:33,474 --> 02:25:36,268
No colony has ever broken from the
parent stem in the history of the world.
2295
02:25:36,352 --> 02:25:38,937
If you have grievances,
and I'm sure you have,
2296
02:25:39,021 --> 02:25:42,024
our present system must provide
a gentler means of redressing them--
2297
02:25:42,107 --> 02:25:44,318
-We've spawned a new race here.
-Revolution?
2298
02:25:44,401 --> 02:25:48,322
Rougher, simpler, more violent,
more enterprising, less refined.
2299
02:25:48,405 --> 02:25:51,950
"My quartermaster has no food,
no arms, no ammunition,
2300
02:25:52,034 --> 02:25:54,662
and my troops are
in a state of near mutiny.
2301
02:25:54,745 --> 02:25:59,124
I pray God some relief arrives
before the armada, but fear it will not."
2302
02:25:59,208 --> 02:26:01,251
And when they hang you, Mr. Adams,
2303
02:26:02,002 --> 02:26:04,630
I do hope you'll put in
a good word for the rest of us.
2304
02:26:04,713 --> 02:26:08,634
England closing in,
cutting off our air. There's no time!
2305
02:26:08,717 --> 02:26:12,262
Place before mankind
the common sense of the subjects.
2306
02:26:12,346 --> 02:26:14,264
The issue here is independence.
2307
02:26:14,348 --> 02:26:16,266
Perhaps you've lost sight
of that fact, but I have not.
2308
02:26:16,350 --> 02:26:18,268
"We mutually pledge
to each other our lives,
2309
02:26:18,352 --> 02:26:20,646
our fortunes and our sacred honor."
2310
02:26:22,064 --> 02:26:24,858
Can you really know
so little about yourself?
2311
02:26:30,072 --> 02:26:31,073
Very well.
2312
02:26:33,367 --> 02:26:36,995
The Congress will now vote on
Virginia's resolution on independence.
2313
02:26:45,504 --> 02:26:48,841
Thank you for coming, Caesar,
and God bless you, sir.
2314
02:26:54,972 --> 02:26:57,099
The secretary will call the roll.
2315
02:26:57,182 --> 02:27:00,310
And I remind you, gentlemen,
2316
02:27:00,394 --> 02:27:02,354
that a single "nay" vote...
2317
02:27:03,647 --> 02:27:04,815
will defeat the motion.
2318
02:27:07,067 --> 02:27:08,068
Mr. Thomson.
2319
02:27:13,323 --> 02:27:16,410
-New Hampshire.
-New Hampshire says yea.
2320
02:27:16,493 --> 02:27:18,996
New Hampshire says yea.
Massachusetts.
2321
02:27:19,079 --> 02:27:21,915
-Massachusetts says yea.
-Massachusetts says yea.
2322
02:27:21,999 --> 02:27:24,293
-Rhode Island.
-Rhode Island says yea.
2323
02:27:24,376 --> 02:27:26,628
Rhode Island says yea. Connecticut.
2324
02:27:26,712 --> 02:27:29,298
-Connecticut says yea.
-Connecticut says yea.
2325
02:27:29,381 --> 02:27:31,091
New York.
2326
02:27:31,175 --> 02:27:34,303
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains courteously.
2327
02:27:34,386 --> 02:27:36,513
-New York abstains.
-Courteously.
2328
02:27:38,140 --> 02:27:41,143
-New Jersey.
-New Jersey says yea.
2329
02:27:41,226 --> 02:27:43,645
New Jersey says yea. Pennsylvania.
2330
02:27:45,898 --> 02:27:49,234
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania is not ready.
Please come back to us later.
2331
02:27:50,235 --> 02:27:52,529
Pennsylvania passes. Delaware.
2332
02:27:52,613 --> 02:27:53,655
Just a moment.
2333
02:27:54,740 --> 02:27:58,535
Delaware, by majority vote...
2334
02:27:58,619 --> 02:28:00,537
-Aye.
-...says yea.
2335
02:28:01,205 --> 02:28:04,208
Delaware says yea. Maryland.
2336
02:28:04,291 --> 02:28:06,752
-Maryland says yea.
-Maryland says yea.
2337
02:28:06,835 --> 02:28:08,420
-Virginia.
-Virginia says yea.
2338
02:28:08,504 --> 02:28:10,589
Virginia says yea. North Carolina.
2339
02:28:10,672 --> 02:28:13,133
North Carolina yields to South Carolina.
2340
02:28:14,510 --> 02:28:15,552
South Carolina.
2341
02:28:16,637 --> 02:28:18,263
Well, Mr. Adams?
2342
02:28:19,473 --> 02:28:20,682
Well, Mr. Rutledge?
2343
02:28:24,061 --> 02:28:25,062
Mr. Adams,
2344
02:28:27,648 --> 02:28:31,568
you must believe that I will do
what I promised to do.
2345
02:28:38,325 --> 02:28:39,827
What is it you want?
2346
02:28:39,910 --> 02:28:43,664
Remove the offending passage
from your declaration.
2347
02:28:43,747 --> 02:28:49,253
If we did that, we would be guilty of
what we ourselves are rebelling against.
2348
02:28:51,129 --> 02:28:53,382
Nevertheless, remove it,
2349
02:28:54,091 --> 02:28:57,135
or South Carolina will bury
now and forever
2350
02:28:57,219 --> 02:28:59,096
your dream of independence.
2351
02:29:00,305 --> 02:29:03,767
John, I beg you,
consider what you're doing.
2352
02:29:10,774 --> 02:29:11,942
Mark me, Franklin,
2353
02:29:13,694 --> 02:29:18,615
if we give in on this issue,
posterity will never forgive us.
2354
02:29:18,699 --> 02:29:22,035
That's probably true, but we won't
hear a thing. We'll be long gone.
2355
02:29:23,036 --> 02:29:27,207
Besides, what will posterity
think we were? Demigods?
2356
02:29:28,000 --> 02:29:30,919
We're men, no more, no less,
trying to get a nation started
2357
02:29:31,003 --> 02:29:34,798
against greater odds than
a more generous God would have allowed.
2358
02:29:36,174 --> 02:29:39,428
First things first, John.
Independence. America.
2359
02:29:39,511 --> 02:29:43,432
If we don't secure that,
what difference will the rest make?
2360
02:29:50,689 --> 02:29:51,982
Jefferson, say something.
2361
02:29:54,985 --> 02:29:56,486
What else is there to do?
2362
02:29:58,113 --> 02:29:59,948
Well, man, you're the one that wrote it.
2363
02:30:01,742 --> 02:30:04,995
I wrote all of it, Mr. Adams.
2364
02:30:26,099 --> 02:30:27,976
There. There it is, Rutledge.
2365
02:30:28,060 --> 02:30:30,270
You have your slavery.
Little good may it do you.
2366
02:30:30,354 --> 02:30:32,064
Now vote, damn you.
2367
02:30:33,690 --> 02:30:37,653
Mr. President,
the fair colony of South Carolina...
2368
02:30:38,654 --> 02:30:42,032
-says yea.
-South Carolina says yea.
2369
02:30:42,115 --> 02:30:45,285
-North Carolina says yea.
-North Carolina says yea.
2370
02:30:47,287 --> 02:30:49,581
-Georgia.
-Georgia says yea.
2371
02:30:49,665 --> 02:30:51,249
Georgia says yea.
2372
02:30:52,542 --> 02:30:54,378
Pennsylvania, second call.
2373
02:30:56,380 --> 02:31:01,468
Mr. President, Pennsylvania regrets
all of the inconvenience
2374
02:31:01,551 --> 02:31:06,682
that such distinguished men
as Adams, Franklin and Jefferson
2375
02:31:06,765 --> 02:31:08,016
were put to just now.
2376
02:31:08,725 --> 02:31:12,187
They might've kept their document intact
for all the difference it will make.
2377
02:31:13,188 --> 02:31:17,317
-Mr. President, Pennsylvania says--
-Just a moment.
2378
02:31:19,444 --> 02:31:21,488
I ask the delegation to be polled.
2379
02:31:22,155 --> 02:31:24,282
Dr. Franklin, don't be absurd.
2380
02:31:24,366 --> 02:31:27,035
A poll, Mr. President.
It's a proper request.
2381
02:31:28,078 --> 02:31:30,914
Yes, it is.
Poll the delegation, Mr. Thomson.
2382
02:31:31,707 --> 02:31:34,626
-Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
-Yea.
2383
02:31:34,710 --> 02:31:37,379
-Mr. John Dickinson.
-Nay.
2384
02:31:38,088 --> 02:31:39,381
Mr. James Wilson.
2385
02:31:42,884 --> 02:31:43,885
Judge Wilson?
2386
02:31:47,472 --> 02:31:49,474
There it is, Mr. Wilson.
It's all up to you now.
2387
02:31:50,225 --> 02:31:53,437
The question of American independence
rests squarely on your shoulders.
2388
02:31:54,646 --> 02:31:58,275
An entirely new nation ready
to be born or to die at birth
2389
02:31:58,358 --> 02:31:59,609
all on your say-so.
2390
02:32:01,194 --> 02:32:02,487
Which will it be, Mr. Wilson?
2391
02:32:03,780 --> 02:32:06,783
Every mapmaker in the world
is waiting for your decision.
2392
02:32:07,993 --> 02:32:11,204
Oh, come now, James.
Nothing has changed.
2393
02:32:11,288 --> 02:32:13,957
We mustn't let
Dr. Franklin create one of his confusions.
2394
02:32:14,041 --> 02:32:15,417
The question is clear.
2395
02:32:16,334 --> 02:32:18,920
Most questions are clear
when someone else has to decide them.
2396
02:32:19,880 --> 02:32:24,134
It'd be a pity for a man who's handed
down hundreds of wise decisions
2397
02:32:24,217 --> 02:32:25,302
from the bench...
2398
02:32:26,261 --> 02:32:30,599
to be remembered only for the one
unwise decision he made in Congress.
2399
02:32:32,517 --> 02:32:35,604
James, you're keeping everybody waiting.
2400
02:32:35,687 --> 02:32:37,606
The secretary has called for your vote.
2401
02:32:38,565 --> 02:32:39,566
Please.
2402
02:32:41,151 --> 02:32:44,780
Don't push me, John.
I know what you want me to do.
2403
02:32:47,532 --> 02:32:50,202
But Mr. Adams is correct about one thing.
2404
02:32:52,788 --> 02:32:55,499
I'm the one who'll be remembered for it.
2405
02:32:55,582 --> 02:32:56,875
What do you mean?
2406
02:33:02,547 --> 02:33:04,424
I'm different from you, John.
2407
02:33:05,717 --> 02:33:08,095
I'm different from most of the men here.
2408
02:33:09,387 --> 02:33:11,181
I don't want to be remembered.
2409
02:33:12,724 --> 02:33:14,184
I just don't want the...
2410
02:33:15,560 --> 02:33:17,521
responsibility.
2411
02:33:18,313 --> 02:33:20,816
Yes, well,
whether you want it or not, James,
2412
02:33:20,899 --> 02:33:22,442
there's no way of avoiding it.
2413
02:33:23,276 --> 02:33:24,861
Not necessarily, John.
2414
02:33:25,737 --> 02:33:29,825
If I go with them,
I'll just be one among dozens.
2415
02:33:31,827 --> 02:33:34,788
No one will ever remember
the name of James Wilson.
2416
02:33:36,581 --> 02:33:38,208
But if I vote with you,
2417
02:33:40,001 --> 02:33:43,255
I'll be the man who prevented
American independence.
2418
02:33:46,091 --> 02:33:47,509
I'm sorry, John.
2419
02:33:49,219 --> 02:33:51,221
I just didn't bargain for that.
2420
02:33:53,056 --> 02:33:56,518
And is that how new nations are formed?
2421
02:33:57,894 --> 02:34:00,230
By a nonentity trying to preserve
2422
02:34:00,313 --> 02:34:03,567
the anonymity he so richly deserves?
2423
02:34:04,776 --> 02:34:08,071
Revolutions come into this world
like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson.
2424
02:34:08,155 --> 02:34:09,990
Half improvised and half compromised.
2425
02:34:10,866 --> 02:34:13,201
Our side has provided the compromise.
2426
02:34:13,285 --> 02:34:15,078
Now Judge Wilson is supplying the rest.
2427
02:34:20,125 --> 02:34:21,126
James.
2428
02:34:22,752 --> 02:34:24,087
I'm sorry, John.
2429
02:34:25,505 --> 02:34:28,675
My vote... is yea.
2430
02:34:29,885 --> 02:34:32,637
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania says yea.
2431
02:34:34,431 --> 02:34:38,476
The count, being 12 to none,
2432
02:34:40,353 --> 02:34:41,730
with one abstention,
2433
02:34:41,813 --> 02:34:44,482
the resolution on independence...
2434
02:34:46,151 --> 02:34:47,611
is adopted.
2435
02:34:48,653 --> 02:34:49,905
It's done.
2436
02:34:53,950 --> 02:34:54,951
It's done.
2437
02:34:57,787 --> 02:35:01,833
Mr. Thomson,
is the declaration ready to be signed?
2438
02:35:01,917 --> 02:35:05,003
-Wis.
-Then I suggest we do so.
2439
02:35:07,422 --> 02:35:11,676
And the chair further proposes,
for our mutual security and protection,
2440
02:35:13,553 --> 02:35:17,390
that no man sit in this Congress
without attaching his name to it.
2441
02:35:21,186 --> 02:35:24,022
I'm sorry, Mr. President.
2442
02:35:25,398 --> 02:35:29,778
I cannot, in good conscience,
sign such a document.
2443
02:35:31,363 --> 02:35:35,825
I will never stop hoping for
our eventual reconciliation with England.
2444
02:35:37,369 --> 02:35:39,704
But because...
2445
02:35:40,830 --> 02:35:42,165
in my own way...
2446
02:35:43,291 --> 02:35:47,087
I regard America no less
than does Mr. Adams...
2447
02:35:48,838 --> 02:35:52,759
I will join the army
and fight in her defense,
2448
02:35:54,344 --> 02:35:57,264
even though I believe
that fight to be hopeless.
2449
02:36:03,019 --> 02:36:04,562
Goodbye, gentlemen.
2450
02:36:06,815 --> 02:36:08,358
Gentlemen of the Congress,
2451
02:36:09,067 --> 02:36:11,611
I say yea, John Dickinson.
2452
02:36:23,081 --> 02:36:24,082
Very well.
2453
02:36:25,375 --> 02:36:28,795
Are there objections to the declaration
being approved as it now stands?
2454
02:36:28,878 --> 02:36:32,841
- I have one, Mr. Hancock.
-You, Mr. Adams?
2455
02:36:33,550 --> 02:36:36,052
Yes. Mr. Jefferson.
2456
02:36:36,136 --> 02:36:40,223
It so happens
that the word is "unalienable,"
2457
02:36:40,307 --> 02:36:41,975
not "inalienable."
2458
02:36:43,560 --> 02:36:47,856
I'm sorry, Mr. Adams,
but "inalienable" is correct.
2459
02:36:49,357 --> 02:36:52,235
I happen to be a Harvard graduate,
Mr. Jefferson.
2460
02:36:55,488 --> 02:36:58,199
I attended William and Mary, Mr. Adams.
2461
02:36:59,826 --> 02:37:04,873
Gentlemen, please! Mr. Jefferson,
will you yield to Mr. Adams' request?
2462
02:37:07,000 --> 02:37:09,169
No, sir, I will not.
2463
02:37:15,467 --> 02:37:17,719
Oh, very well. I withdraw it.
2464
02:37:17,802 --> 02:37:20,180
Oh, good for you, John.
2465
02:37:24,517 --> 02:37:27,062
I'll speak
to the printer about it later on.
2466
02:37:29,731 --> 02:37:30,732
Very well, gentlemen.
2467
02:37:32,025 --> 02:37:35,862
We're about to brave the storm
in a skiff made of paper.
2468
02:37:37,030 --> 02:37:40,283
And how it shall end, God only knows.
2469
02:37:42,702 --> 02:37:44,788
That's a pretty large signature, Johnny.
2470
02:37:44,871 --> 02:37:48,249
So Fat George in London can read it
without his glasses.
2471
02:37:50,502 --> 02:37:54,422
Step right up, gentlemen. Don't miss
your chance to commit treason.
2472
02:37:56,883 --> 02:38:00,804
Hancock is right. This paper is
our passport to the gallows.
2473
02:38:00,887 --> 02:38:03,515
But there's no backing out now,
for if we do not hang together,
2474
02:38:03,598 --> 02:38:05,934
we shall most assuredly
hang separately.
2475
02:38:08,436 --> 02:38:10,980
In my case, hanging won't be so bad.
2476
02:38:11,064 --> 02:38:14,317
One snap and it'll be all over,
just like that.
2477
02:38:14,401 --> 02:38:18,988
But look at Read there. He'll be dancing
a jig long after I'm gone!
2478
02:38:21,074 --> 02:38:24,035
Gentlemen, forgive me
if I don't join in the merriment,
2479
02:38:24,119 --> 02:38:26,037
but if we are arrested now,
2480
02:38:26,121 --> 02:38:29,249
my name is still the only one
on the damn thing!
2481
02:38:49,727 --> 02:38:52,355
"From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in--
2482
02:38:54,190 --> 02:38:58,111
Army of the United States in New York,
2483
02:38:58,194 --> 02:39:00,071
dispatch number 1,209,
2484
02:39:00,155 --> 02:39:03,450
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, President. 'Dear, sir,
2485
02:39:03,533 --> 02:39:07,579
I can now report with some certainty
that the eve of battle is near at hand.
2486
02:39:08,455 --> 02:39:12,500
Toward this end, I have ordered
the evacuation of Manhattan
2487
02:39:12,584 --> 02:39:16,963
and directed our defenses to take up
stronger positions on Brooklyn Heights.
2488
02:39:17,839 --> 02:39:22,469
At the present time, my forces consist
entirely of Has let's Delaware Militia
2489
02:39:22,552 --> 02:39:24,471
and Smallwood's Marylanders,
2490
02:39:24,554 --> 02:39:28,516
a total of 5,000 troops
to stand against...
2491
02:39:30,560 --> 02:39:32,687
25,000 of the enemy.
2492
02:39:33,521 --> 02:39:35,732
And I begin to notice that many of us
2493
02:39:35,815 --> 02:39:39,861
are lads under 15 and old men,
2494
02:39:39,944 --> 02:39:42,947
none of whom could truly be
called soldiers.
2495
02:39:44,991 --> 02:39:48,161
One personal note
to Mr. Lewis Morris of New York.
2496
02:39:48,244 --> 02:39:52,665
I must regretfully report that his estates
have been totally destroyed,
2497
02:39:52,749 --> 02:39:55,835
but that I have taken the liberty
of transporting Mrs. Morris
2498
02:39:55,919 --> 02:39:59,464
and eight of the children
to Connecticut and safety.
2499
02:39:59,547 --> 02:40:04,552
The four older boys are now enlisted
in the Continental Army.
2500
02:40:04,636 --> 02:40:07,013
As I write these words,
2501
02:40:07,096 --> 02:40:10,308
the enemy is plainly in sight
beyond the river.
2502
02:40:11,601 --> 02:40:14,604
How it will end
only Providence can direct.
2503
02:40:15,563 --> 02:40:18,274
But dear God, what brave men...
2504
02:40:22,320 --> 02:40:23,530
I shall lose...
2505
02:40:26,407 --> 02:40:27,408
before...
2506
02:40:28,785 --> 02:40:29,953
this business...
2507
02:40:32,789 --> 02:40:33,790
ends.
2508
02:40:37,919 --> 02:40:39,254
Your obedient...
2509
02:40:43,299 --> 02:40:45,426
G. Washington'"
2510
02:41:10,285 --> 02:41:11,286
Very well, gentlemen.
2511
02:41:13,288 --> 02:41:14,289
McNair.
2512
02:41:18,876 --> 02:41:19,877
Go ring the bell.
2513
02:41:27,719 --> 02:41:29,971
-Mr. President.
-Mr. Morris.
2514
02:41:31,180 --> 02:41:34,309
To hell with New York.
I'll sign it anyway.
2515
02:41:35,101 --> 02:41:36,436
Thank you, Mr. Morris.
2516
02:41:43,651 --> 02:41:45,862
Stephen, sit down.
2517
02:41:47,071 --> 02:41:47,905
No.
2518
02:41:48,615 --> 02:41:51,576
I want to remember
each man's face as he signs.
2519
02:41:54,120 --> 02:41:55,121
Very well.
2520
02:41:57,081 --> 02:41:58,082
Mr. Thomson.
2521
02:42:01,794 --> 02:42:05,340
New Hampshire. Dr. Josiah Bartlett.
2522
02:42:15,183 --> 02:42:18,353
Massachusetts. Mr. John Adams.
2523
02:42:38,414 --> 02:42:41,084
Rhode Island. Mr. Stephen Hopkins.
2524
02:42:48,633 --> 02:42:50,802
Connecticut. Mr. Roger Sherman.
2525
02:42:57,892 --> 02:43:00,812
New York. Mr. Lewis Morris.
2526
02:43:07,819 --> 02:43:10,780
New Jersey. The Reverend John Witherspoon.
2527
02:43:17,578 --> 02:43:21,290
Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
2528
02:43:27,422 --> 02:43:30,091
Delaware. Mr. Caesar Rodney.
2529
02:43:41,269 --> 02:43:43,563
Maryland. Mr. Samuel Chase.
2530
02:43:54,907 --> 02:43:57,285
Virginia. Mr. Thomas Jefferson.
2531
02:44:05,001 --> 02:44:07,378
North Carolina. Mr. Joseph Hewes.
2532
02:44:13,593 --> 02:44:16,095
South Carolina. Mr. Edward Rutledge.
2533
02:44:22,560 --> 02:44:25,480
Georgia. Dr. Lyman Hall.
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