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Turner entertainment group
and U.S. department of education
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there. See that?
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We didn't see nothin', stranger.
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I seed you sewin', though.
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First time
I ever see a man
sew like that.
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I done tailorin'.
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How much you want
to sew the seat in
a pair of britches?
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I don't want work here.
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I'm goin' west.
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I don't, uh,
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aim to take something for nothin'.
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I'll patch them britches.
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Pretty square tailor, ain't ya?
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Sit down till I get my garment.
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Where you comin' from, stranger?
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East.
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Where you headin'?
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West.
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What do you want out there?
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Land.
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Don't talk much, do ya?
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Not unless I get something to say.
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Here she is.
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Uh... it might take
a week of filing.
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If you get your nippers,
you could...
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You're a fugitive.
I'd be aidin'.
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You, uh... I...
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I was, uh, I was bound to a tailor
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back in Carolina.
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Runaway apprentice?
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You don't look young
enough for that.
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You think I'm lyin'.
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Well, here.
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Read this.
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When an apprentice
lights out and gets
caught again,
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he's got to
serve out his time,
don't he?
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Miss Eliza!
Miss Eliza! Look!
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Well, where'd you get that?
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Howdy, miss mccardle!
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Oh, good day, blackstone.
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Hello, Sam, Mordecai.
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Hello, Mrs. Fisher.
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Good afternoon.
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You know those
new boxes of books
that came?
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I figured out
how much shelf space
is wanted, see?
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If you could bring some
boards and a hammer
and some nails...
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I'll be right up
to the library,
miss mccardle,
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soon as I get
Mrs. Fisher's
mule shoed up.
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Hello, sheriff.
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Good afternoon, mcdaniel.
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Mordecai, who is he?
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Says he's an apprentice
what lit out.
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That what it says there?
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Here in Tennessee,
across the state line.
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As pay for this file here
and be gettin' down the road.
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Never mind
the britches now.
Come here.
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Put your foot up here.
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It might hurt some, tailor.
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It hurts worse where it is.
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What the Sam hill?
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Well, that's like spring steel!
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Yeah. Get your hammer
and chisel.
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But it'll
half-kill you!
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It's been too long
I got this thing on.
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I'm warning you,
you might lose
your ankle.
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Will you get your chisel?
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Go on, get it!
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He wants to be muleheaded...
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Speakin' of mule...
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Gram of white mule might help some.
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I... i can't touch
that stuff.
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It makes me sicker
than a hound dog.
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You know, this town
could maybe use
a man like you.
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Don't talk much, don't drink,
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lots of spunk.
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Ain't been a tailor hereabouts
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since ol' Finney
got drunk and
sewed his finger
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to a leg of the parson's pants.
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I ain't lookin' to
do tailoring, ma'am.
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One can't get
to own land
all chained up.
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Man who can sew
like you could soon
buy an acre here.
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Lots of folks here
ain't got no
basement
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in their britches.
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Brace his foot.
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Good morning!
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Morning, miss mccardle.
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Morning, miss Eliza.
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Oh, that's a fine job, Mordecai.
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I'm gettin' a pair
of brand-new britches
for doing this.
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I thought those old ones of yours
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would be too much for any tailor.
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Well, Mrs. Fisher!
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Them cobwebs ain't been swept out
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since the grangers
lit out west,
miss mccardle.
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And I'll be chokin'
and spittin' for weeks
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to get the dust out of my lungs.
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Well, aren't you a good neighbor?
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I ain't been messin'
about in there to help
that mulehead.
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I'm a-gettin' paid.
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I'm gonna have the first new dress
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since the one I wore
the day the parson
tied me up.
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Good morning,
Mr. Johnson.
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Morning.
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We haven't exactly met before.
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I'm Eliza mccardle
from the library
across the street.
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Yes, miss.
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Everyone's so pleased to have
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a tailor here again in greeneville.
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Thank you, miss.
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I-it saves so much
trouble,
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not having to take
my cloak and dress
down to Nashville.
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Am I your first customer?
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Oh. It was you
left that?
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I guess you are, then, miss.
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Is my work ready?
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Oh, you shouldn't be
about on that foot.
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It does a man's foot
good gettin' a shackle
knocked off it.
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Of course.
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Everyone's talking
about what happened
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at the blacksmith's shop.
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What happened at
the blacksmith's ain't
nobody's business!
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Mr. Johnson.
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I forgot myself, miss.
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Don't... don't pay
no mind.
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I'll take
my clothes now,
if you please.
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There ain't
nothin' been done
to them clothes, miss.
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Those clothes.
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But the instructions
are plainly written.
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I know, miss, but...
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I can't read.
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"Will you please
lengthen the dress
2 inches at the hem
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and mend tear
in cloak."
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I'll have it fixed tomorrow.
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Oh...
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how much will it cost?
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I ain't askin' no favors
from anybody, but...
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A fair bargain's a fair bargain.
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I don't understand.
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You... you know about
books?
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A little, yes,
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but I asked you
how much my work
would cost.
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And you speak nice.
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"Them clothes" I said.
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I corrected you.
It just slipped out.
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It was forward of me, I'm afraid.
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No, miss.
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I... i... i got to learn to
speak right.
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You speak about
the nicest I know of.
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Miss mccardle,
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I'll sew you all
the clothes you can
bring me homespun
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if you'll learn me
to read and write.
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Your proposal,
Mr. Johnson,
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seems rather unusual.
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Miss mccardle.
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I'll think it over.
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I...
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I'm making you a fair offer.
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I never had no chance to learn.
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Will you learn me?
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I have never had a chance to learn.
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Will you teach me.
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Will you teach me?
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"There is a lady sweet and kind,
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"was never face so pleased my mind,
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"I did but see her passing by,
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and yet I love her
till I die."
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Please go on.
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It's past time to
close the library.
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Got to get home and read
something besides poetry.
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Andrew...
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You've learned
to read almost
as well as I.
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You've made so many
new clothes for me,
it's almost sinful.
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Why do you want
to go on with
the lessons?
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Is this the...
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words, I read somewhere,
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are verses the heart sets to music.
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Eliza, there's...
Music inside me
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that almost drowns out my thinkin'.
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But I'm a poor man
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and the law says
a white man
without property
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is nothin' but a mudsill
for other men to wipe
their boots on.
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Why, no law says that.
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It don't have to
say it... it's true,
ain't it?
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Your people owned a house and land.
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How did my father
get a house
and land?
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By cobbling shoes for 20 years.
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My father was nothin'
but a mudsill,
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and he died one.
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Poor white trash,
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that was him, and that's me.
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I'll be going now.
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Andrew.
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Don't you know
we were all
mudsills once?
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Forget the history
of england
for tonight.
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Read your own history.
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Here.
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The declaration of independence.
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I've heard that spouted
by stump speakers
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every fourth of July
since I can remember.
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Maybe you didn't understand it.
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Read this part here.
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"We hold these truths
to be self-evident:
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That all men
are created equal."
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They're fine words,
but they ain't true.
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Ain't no equality for mudsills.
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Go on.
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"That they are... Endowed
by their creator
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"with certain...
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Unali-Ali..."
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unalienable rights.
Rights no man
can take away.
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Well, they have taken them away.
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What are you makin' me
read this for, anyway?
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Go on.
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"That among these are
life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."
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Why, a man ain't even
got a right to vote
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without he owns property.
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Then why don't you
make it your business
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to see that men without
property are given
the right to vote?
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My business?
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Certainly.
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You've got a temper, Andrew,
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but people like you.
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Go out and talk to them.
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Make speeches.
Stand up for
your rights
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and theirs, too.
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People wouldn't listen to me.
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I think they would.
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Anyway,
the constitution
says you can try
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to make them listen.
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I suppose you'll be makin'
me read the constitution
out loud to you.
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I will...
if it will help you
to understand it
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and realize
that everything in
the bill of rights
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and the declaration,
too, means you,
personally...
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you, Andrew Johnson.
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It seems as if...
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Maybe I never really
understood this before.
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The constitution, neither.
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I suppose plain people
can't agitate
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the way you want me to
in them foreign countries.
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Those foreign countries.
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Those.
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No, of course they can't.
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The reason this is a free country
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is because here,
what's wrong can
be set right.
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Whatever is wrong has
got to be set right
by the people.
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You're the people.
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This is your country
as much as theirs.
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It's my... my fish
in the stream.
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Your flag on the fort.
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It's life, Liberty...
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Finish the sentence, Andrew.
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And the pursuit of happiness.
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They're all yours...
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the pursuit of happiness, too.
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The pursuit of happiness.
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And it says we were created...
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Go on.
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Equal.
259
00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:23,341
What it says must be right, Andrew.
260
00:17:23,410 --> 00:17:25,910
Created equal, you and me.
261
00:17:26,713 --> 00:17:28,579
Yes, Andrew.
262
00:17:32,185 --> 00:17:34,585
"Votes for
all free men."
263
00:17:35,955 --> 00:17:37,021
More than a year now,
264
00:17:37,090 --> 00:17:39,190
he's been putting
leveling ideas like that
265
00:17:39,259 --> 00:17:40,892
into common folks' heads, sheriff.
266
00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,026
Mm-hmm.
267
00:17:42,095 --> 00:17:43,594
White trash got enough to do
268
00:17:43,663 --> 00:17:44,729
hustlin' to make a living.
269
00:17:44,798 --> 00:17:46,431
And not stickin' their snouts
270
00:17:46,499 --> 00:17:48,833
into what don't
rightly concern them.
271
00:17:48,902 --> 00:17:51,035
Goes on like this,
he'll rouse up
the whole county.
272
00:17:51,104 --> 00:17:54,172
Too many property
interests involved,
sheriff cass.
273
00:17:56,176 --> 00:17:57,141
You see, Mrs. Johnson,
274
00:17:57,210 --> 00:17:59,844
them that own the country
should run it.
275
00:17:59,913 --> 00:18:02,880
A man with land
pays taxes, don't he?
276
00:18:02,949 --> 00:18:04,849
So ain't it right
that he should
have a say
277
00:18:04,918 --> 00:18:06,551
how the money is spent?
278
00:18:06,619 --> 00:18:09,454
Now you tell your husband
to leave votin'
279
00:18:09,522 --> 00:18:11,456
to the men of property.
280
00:18:11,524 --> 00:18:14,959
They'll look after
the interests of
folks like you.
281
00:18:15,028 --> 00:18:17,929
Surely, that's a matter
of opinion, sheriff.
282
00:18:17,997 --> 00:18:20,264
You have no right to
keep him from speaking.
283
00:18:20,333 --> 00:18:22,366
The bill of rights
says there should be
no law made
284
00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:24,335
to abridge freedom of speech.
285
00:18:24,404 --> 00:18:25,636
We're livin' in Tennessee.
286
00:18:25,705 --> 00:18:27,805
Well, we ain't abidin'
by no federal laws,
287
00:18:27,874 --> 00:18:29,307
less'n they suit us.
288
00:18:29,375 --> 00:18:31,309
Nothing's legal in this town
289
00:18:31,377 --> 00:18:32,844
if the aldermen don't like it.
290
00:18:32,912 --> 00:18:35,746
Now, they don't like
tailors rousin' up
the white trash
291
00:18:35,815 --> 00:18:38,549
and makin' leveling speeches.
292
00:18:39,452 --> 00:18:41,285
Good night.
293
00:18:42,489 --> 00:18:43,921
Now don't forget,
294
00:18:43,990 --> 00:18:47,058
you tell Andy
he ain't gonna hold
no more meetings.
295
00:18:47,127 --> 00:18:48,693
He's got a temper.
296
00:18:48,761 --> 00:18:50,695
Better make him see reason,
297
00:18:50,763 --> 00:18:53,965
else'n he might get hurt.
298
00:19:19,159 --> 00:19:20,124
Evening, Eliza.
299
00:19:20,193 --> 00:19:21,392
Evening.
300
00:19:22,462 --> 00:19:23,828
You're late for supper, dear.
301
00:19:23,897 --> 00:19:26,597
I had to go over and fit
Mr. Bronson's coat.
302
00:19:26,666 --> 00:19:30,001
What was that hard-shelled,
rum-dipped sheriff doing here?
303
00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:34,071
What's the matter, Martha?
304
00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:37,041
Hey, she ain't sick, is she?
305
00:19:37,110 --> 00:19:39,577
No, it's just her
teeth bothering her.
306
00:19:39,646 --> 00:19:41,345
She used to sleep all the time.
307
00:19:41,414 --> 00:19:43,347
Now take your coats right off.
308
00:19:43,416 --> 00:19:46,050
Andrew, I kept a nice
bit of salt pork warm
309
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,920
and those baby cabbages
you like so much.
310
00:19:48,988 --> 00:19:50,922
There's plenty for Mordecai, too.
311
00:19:50,990 --> 00:19:52,123
That's mighty fine of you,
312
00:19:52,192 --> 00:19:54,225
but it'll taste just as good cold.
313
00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:56,594
It's time to get my notes
and go to the meeting.
314
00:19:56,663 --> 00:19:59,330
You'd better mind little Martha.
315
00:19:59,399 --> 00:20:02,333
I'd make a lot
better speech with
you there listening.
316
00:20:03,436 --> 00:20:05,870
Why, Eliza, you're all tensed up.
317
00:20:05,939 --> 00:20:08,506
Andrew, that meeting last week,
318
00:20:08,575 --> 00:20:10,341
there was
some trouble,
wasn't there?
319
00:20:10,410 --> 00:20:12,243
It didn't come to anything.
320
00:20:12,312 --> 00:20:14,345
Yes, but if one night it did,
321
00:20:14,414 --> 00:20:17,048
if someone got hurt...
322
00:20:17,116 --> 00:20:18,049
Eliza, what...
323
00:20:18,117 --> 00:20:20,151
what was cass doing here?
324
00:20:20,220 --> 00:20:23,020
Ain't exactly like
the sheriff to come
social visitin'.
325
00:20:23,089 --> 00:20:24,021
Eliza?
326
00:20:24,090 --> 00:20:26,891
Well, he came to say
that the aldermen
327
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,893
won't allow the meeting tonight.
328
00:20:28,962 --> 00:20:30,595
Won't allow it?
329
00:20:30,663 --> 00:20:32,663
Well, I've got a peace to speak.
330
00:20:32,732 --> 00:20:35,900
That's what free speech
is in the constitution for,
so's I can speak it!
331
00:20:35,969 --> 00:20:36,867
Come on, milligan.
332
00:20:36,936 --> 00:20:37,902
We'll get our friends.
333
00:20:37,971 --> 00:20:39,470
What he really came to say was,
334
00:20:39,539 --> 00:20:41,439
you can't hold meetings
at all anymore,
335
00:20:41,507 --> 00:20:44,008
or you might get hurt.
336
00:20:48,081 --> 00:20:50,047
Andrew, put away that gun.
337
00:20:50,116 --> 00:20:51,549
Please. Stay home.
338
00:20:51,618 --> 00:20:52,550
No, Eliza.
339
00:20:52,619 --> 00:20:54,218
Andrew, you shan't do this.
340
00:20:54,287 --> 00:20:55,186
You shan't!
341
00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:56,787
Nothing can keep me from going.
342
00:20:56,856 --> 00:20:57,855
Andrew!
343
00:20:57,924 --> 00:20:58,889
Mordecai!
344
00:20:58,958 --> 00:21:00,358
Don't worry none, Eliza.
345
00:21:00,460 --> 00:21:03,628
I promise, nothin'
will happen to Andrew.
346
00:21:45,571 --> 00:21:46,637
Mrs. Johnson!
Mrs. Johnson!
347
00:21:46,706 --> 00:21:49,240
There's been a bad ruckus
at the town hall!
348
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:54,211
No. No, you mind
the baby.
349
00:22:15,335 --> 00:22:18,102
My husband!
What happened?
350
00:22:18,171 --> 00:22:19,603
Where are they?
351
00:22:19,672 --> 00:22:22,173
Them that got hurt was carried over
352
00:22:22,241 --> 00:22:23,641
to the blacksmith's shop.
353
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,086
Water!
Get some water!
354
00:22:47,967 --> 00:22:50,167
Wh-where is he?
355
00:22:55,541 --> 00:22:57,375
Where is he?
356
00:23:22,535 --> 00:23:25,970
Anybody want to buy a first-rate
blacksmith's shop?
357
00:23:26,038 --> 00:23:27,872
Mordecai milligan's dead.
358
00:23:39,852 --> 00:23:42,286
Where are you goin'?
359
00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:43,754
To get sheriff cass.
360
00:23:43,823 --> 00:23:45,890
That ain't no
private affair
of yourn.
361
00:23:45,958 --> 00:23:48,292
How many men can we get together?
362
00:23:48,361 --> 00:23:50,895
I got close
to 20 cousins
in the county
363
00:23:50,963 --> 00:23:52,963
who ain't standing by
and see me get
no hammerin'.
364
00:23:53,032 --> 00:23:54,999
And how about milligan's kin?
365
00:23:55,067 --> 00:23:57,735
They ain't gonna
put up with
his killin'.
366
00:23:57,804 --> 00:23:59,703
We could raise 100 men by midnight.
367
00:23:59,772 --> 00:24:02,573
Them with no guns
have scythes
and axes.
368
00:24:02,642 --> 00:24:04,141
Round 'em up!
Let's get started!
369
00:24:04,210 --> 00:24:05,976
If it's killing
they want, let's
give it to them!
370
00:24:09,782 --> 00:24:12,716
If I hadn't toted that gun,
371
00:24:12,785 --> 00:24:16,220
milligan would be asleep
in his bed in there.
372
00:24:16,289 --> 00:24:17,788
Not dead in it.
373
00:24:17,857 --> 00:24:19,323
That's right!
374
00:24:19,392 --> 00:24:22,293
And we're gonna
make 'em pay for it!
375
00:24:22,361 --> 00:24:23,828
Put down those weapons!
376
00:24:23,896 --> 00:24:25,729
You're quittin' on us, tailor?
377
00:24:25,798 --> 00:24:28,032
I ain't never quittin'.
378
00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:30,601
From now on, never.
379
00:24:30,670 --> 00:24:32,069
Then come along!
Join the party!
380
00:24:32,138 --> 00:24:33,804
You begun this, Andy,
381
00:24:33,873 --> 00:24:35,072
with your meetings
382
00:24:35,141 --> 00:24:38,075
and your tellin' us
to stick up for
our rights.
383
00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:40,277
You led the scrimmage
when the sheriff's buddies
384
00:24:40,346 --> 00:24:41,745
started throwin' us out the hall.
385
00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:44,281
You done more than
your share of fighting
your own self.
386
00:24:44,350 --> 00:24:45,850
Who pulled the gun first?
387
00:24:50,790 --> 00:24:53,624
It'll take me more than all my life
388
00:24:53,693 --> 00:24:55,526
to pay for that.
389
00:24:55,595 --> 00:24:57,761
He's quittin' on us!
Come on!
390
00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:58,963
No!
391
00:24:59,031 --> 00:25:02,199
Mob fighting, shooting,
and hanging and burning...
392
00:25:02,268 --> 00:25:03,701
that ain't the way!
393
00:25:03,769 --> 00:25:06,937
Eye for eye,
tooth for tooth!
That's Bible!
394
00:25:08,274 --> 00:25:10,708
So you want to start killing.
395
00:25:10,776 --> 00:25:13,511
First you kill,
396
00:25:13,579 --> 00:25:16,013
the militia comes from Nashville,
397
00:25:16,082 --> 00:25:18,182
then they start killing.
398
00:25:18,251 --> 00:25:21,685
And the dead they leave
are you, maude Fisher.
399
00:25:21,754 --> 00:25:23,420
And dick, you.
400
00:25:23,489 --> 00:25:25,890
And ebenezer, you.
401
00:25:25,958 --> 00:25:28,259
And Ethan, you.
And you.
402
00:25:29,562 --> 00:25:30,995
And you, mcdaniel.
403
00:25:31,063 --> 00:25:34,498
Yes, I tell you to fight
for your rights.
404
00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:36,100
But the constitution
ain't for the dead,
405
00:25:36,168 --> 00:25:37,835
it's to protect the living!
406
00:25:37,904 --> 00:25:40,838
Ain't nothin' in it
I know of says not to
hang a murdering sheriff!
407
00:25:40,907 --> 00:25:43,007
It says the law hangs murderers!
408
00:25:43,075 --> 00:25:45,476
It says the people got
the right to make the laws!
409
00:25:45,545 --> 00:25:46,744
That's us!
410
00:25:46,812 --> 00:25:49,280
And that's how we're gonna win
our fight election day!
411
00:25:49,348 --> 00:25:52,483
And when we win it,
we'll get cass indicted!
412
00:25:52,552 --> 00:25:53,417
How?
413
00:25:53,486 --> 00:25:55,085
Lots of us ain't even got a vote.
414
00:25:55,154 --> 00:25:56,954
You ain't got no vote, Andy.
415
00:25:57,023 --> 00:25:58,389
Well, a lot of us have.
416
00:25:58,457 --> 00:26:00,357
Come November,
I'm gonna have
my acre paid for
417
00:26:00,426 --> 00:26:01,825
and a vote.
418
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:03,360
Then we can elect one
of our own sheriff...
419
00:26:03,429 --> 00:26:05,195
a common man, one of us.
420
00:26:05,264 --> 00:26:07,798
Now you're
talkin' crazy.
Who'll we get?
421
00:26:07,867 --> 00:26:09,199
None of us is fittin'.
422
00:26:09,268 --> 00:26:10,801
Most of us can't hardly read.
423
00:26:10,870 --> 00:26:12,469
We ain't good enough.
424
00:26:12,538 --> 00:26:14,471
We ain't got no rights!
425
00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:17,107
Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
426
00:26:17,176 --> 00:26:19,109
Those are our rights,
as well as theirs.
427
00:26:19,178 --> 00:26:20,244
It's our fish in the stream,
428
00:26:20,313 --> 00:26:22,479
our... our flag
on the fort.
429
00:26:23,382 --> 00:26:24,882
Hey! What about
the tailor?
430
00:26:24,951 --> 00:26:26,016
He's fittin'!
431
00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:27,284
That's right.
432
00:26:27,353 --> 00:26:28,252
Andy would be good.
433
00:26:28,321 --> 00:26:29,520
Me?
434
00:26:31,123 --> 00:26:32,389
No.
435
00:26:33,392 --> 00:26:35,192
No, I...
436
00:26:36,028 --> 00:26:37,962
I ain't fit enough.
437
00:26:38,030 --> 00:26:39,597
You can read and write and figure!
438
00:26:39,665 --> 00:26:40,598
And you can speak.
439
00:26:40,666 --> 00:26:41,632
And you can fight.
440
00:26:41,701 --> 00:26:44,602
How about it, Andy?
You're good enough.
441
00:26:44,670 --> 00:26:46,103
And fit enough.
442
00:26:46,172 --> 00:26:47,972
Eliza's right!
Andy for sheriff!
443
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:48,973
We can put you in!
444
00:26:49,041 --> 00:26:50,474
We'll beat their pants off
445
00:26:50,543 --> 00:26:51,875
and let you sew 'em up!
446
00:26:51,944 --> 00:26:54,445
Andy for sheriff!
We want him!
447
00:26:54,513 --> 00:26:57,281
We want Andy!
He'll be the sheriff!
448
00:26:57,350 --> 00:27:00,784
We want him! We want Andy!
449
00:27:00,853 --> 00:27:02,653
He'll be the sheriff!
450
00:27:20,973 --> 00:27:22,940
They put me up
to do the introducin',
451
00:27:23,009 --> 00:27:24,375
here in greeneville,
of some old friends
452
00:27:24,443 --> 00:27:26,377
that don't need no introducin'.
453
00:27:26,445 --> 00:27:30,781
Most of you younger folks
didn't know this lady here
when she was miss mccardle,
454
00:27:30,850 --> 00:27:32,950
a-passin' out books
at the library.
455
00:27:37,623 --> 00:27:39,556
And there's her daughter Martha.
456
00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:41,058
You remember her.
457
00:27:41,127 --> 00:27:44,028
Many of you played
in the streets with her.
458
00:27:44,096 --> 00:27:46,230
And now she's grown-up, too,
459
00:27:46,298 --> 00:27:49,299
married, and has
a little boy of her own.
460
00:27:52,972 --> 00:27:55,139
And I almost forgot.
461
00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:57,541
There's a man here, too...
462
00:27:57,610 --> 00:28:00,277
a man that got his start
in politics
463
00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:03,147
when a bunch of us
made him run for sheriff.
464
00:28:03,215 --> 00:28:05,582
He said he wasn't fit enough.
465
00:28:05,651 --> 00:28:10,387
Well, he's been fit enough
to be made sheriff, assemblyman,
466
00:28:10,456 --> 00:28:12,122
congressman, governor,
467
00:28:12,191 --> 00:28:15,726
and now he comes back to
his home folks in his own town
468
00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:19,229
as senator of the United States.
469
00:28:19,298 --> 00:28:23,167
No, I ain't gonna introduce him,
not in greeneville.
470
00:28:29,542 --> 00:28:32,443
Welcome home, Andy!
Welcome home!
471
00:28:35,948 --> 00:28:38,482
I guess blackstone mcdaniel
is right.
472
00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:40,117
I don't need
any introducin' to you.
473
00:28:40,186 --> 00:28:41,852
I've patched the britches
of a lot of you.
474
00:28:43,456 --> 00:28:45,355
And your father's
britches before you.
475
00:28:48,394 --> 00:28:51,695
I'm still wearin'
that first little
dress Andy made me.
476
00:28:57,737 --> 00:28:59,136
My friends...
477
00:29:00,539 --> 00:29:04,074
I have been a jacksonian
democrat all my political life.
478
00:29:04,143 --> 00:29:07,311
I hope we will lick
the Republicans this fall
479
00:29:07,379 --> 00:29:10,848
and send Abe Lincoln
back to splitting rails
in Illinois!
480
00:29:15,888 --> 00:29:17,454
But people here in the south
481
00:29:17,523 --> 00:29:19,556
who threaten
to break up this country
482
00:29:19,625 --> 00:29:21,692
if Lincoln is chosen President
483
00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:23,360
forget that, in our America,
484
00:29:23,429 --> 00:29:25,996
the verdict of the majority
must be accepted.
485
00:29:29,902 --> 00:29:33,203
That is what I will say
in the Senate in Washington
486
00:29:33,272 --> 00:29:35,372
even if Lincoln is
chosen President.
487
00:29:41,814 --> 00:29:44,815
Whether you back me up
at home here in Tennessee,
488
00:29:44,884 --> 00:29:46,049
or whether you don't!
489
00:29:52,391 --> 00:29:54,858
We of the
south have lost the
election! Very well!
490
00:29:54,927 --> 00:29:58,128
Mr. Lincoln will
be inaugurated
President in 6 weeks!
491
00:29:58,197 --> 00:30:00,097
The people have spoken!
492
00:30:00,166 --> 00:30:02,166
Let the will of the people be done!
493
00:30:05,805 --> 00:30:08,605
And I hope and believe
we shall do so!
494
00:30:08,674 --> 00:30:11,742
Meanwhile, we southerners
should remain here
495
00:30:11,811 --> 00:30:14,311
and prevent him
from carrying out policies
496
00:30:14,380 --> 00:30:16,380
that will ruin this country...
497
00:30:16,448 --> 00:30:18,081
our one country!
498
00:30:18,150 --> 00:30:21,585
Enough of this
yankee cackle, you
renegade to the south!
499
00:30:21,654 --> 00:30:23,053
I repeat, our one country!
500
00:30:23,122 --> 00:30:25,722
Does any senator dare
to challenge that?
501
00:30:25,791 --> 00:30:27,825
Let us keep
in our hearts
the immortal toast
502
00:30:27,893 --> 00:30:30,460
of that great democrat,
503
00:30:30,529 --> 00:30:33,463
"our federal union,
it must be preserved."
504
00:30:33,532 --> 00:30:35,833
In the noble words
of Daniel Webster:
505
00:30:35,901 --> 00:30:41,338
"Liberty and union,
now and forever,
one and inseparable."
506
00:30:41,407 --> 00:30:44,308
The senator has
been making that
same speech here
507
00:30:44,376 --> 00:30:46,910
day after day
for the past
two months...
508
00:30:46,979 --> 00:30:48,579
Like a parrot.
509
00:30:48,647 --> 00:30:50,948
What can you
expect from
a mudsill tailor,
510
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:52,816
elected by the rabble of the city
511
00:30:52,885 --> 00:30:54,384
among the gentlemen of the south?
512
00:30:54,453 --> 00:30:55,853
I'm proud of having been a tailor,
513
00:30:55,921 --> 00:30:57,387
and I'd rather sit among the rabble
514
00:30:57,456 --> 00:30:59,389
than some of you
self-appointed
gentlemen of the south.
515
00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:00,891
I demand an apology!
516
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,392
An apology for what?
517
00:31:05,397 --> 00:31:07,297
Mr. President!
518
00:31:07,366 --> 00:31:09,933
While the Southern
senators make this
place a beer garden,
519
00:31:10,002 --> 00:31:12,302
business north
and south is
at a standstill!
520
00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:13,904
And who is to blame?
521
00:31:13,973 --> 00:31:15,339
Yes, who is to blame?
522
00:31:15,407 --> 00:31:16,740
You are! You are!
523
00:31:16,809 --> 00:31:18,909
Maybe, the north, if you force us
524
00:31:18,978 --> 00:31:20,077
to fight for our liberties,
525
00:31:20,145 --> 00:31:21,211
then we'll fight you!
526
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:22,980
Don't you shake your fist at us!
527
00:31:23,048 --> 00:31:24,414
We're not your slaves!
528
00:31:24,483 --> 00:31:25,716
Don't you yell at us!
529
00:31:25,784 --> 00:31:27,117
Well, you started it!
530
00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:29,386
Gentlemen!
531
00:31:29,455 --> 00:31:31,188
This is the Senate
of the United States,
532
00:31:31,257 --> 00:31:32,422
not a pot house!
533
00:31:32,491 --> 00:31:33,891
Order in the galleries!
534
00:31:33,959 --> 00:31:35,525
Order on the floor!
535
00:31:37,596 --> 00:31:39,396
Jefferson Davis.
He's finally
got here.
536
00:31:39,465 --> 00:31:40,664
It's about time.
537
00:31:40,733 --> 00:31:41,832
Now he can speak for all of us,
538
00:31:41,901 --> 00:31:43,200
for the whole south.
539
00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:06,156
The chair recognizes
the senator from
Mississippi.
540
00:32:18,037 --> 00:32:20,604
Mr. President
of the Senate...
541
00:32:24,443 --> 00:32:26,143
Senators...
542
00:32:29,014 --> 00:32:31,648
I appear here...
543
00:32:34,053 --> 00:32:38,422
To announce to the Senate
that Mississippi,
by solemn orders...
544
00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:42,059
And in convention assembled...
545
00:32:42,127 --> 00:32:45,796
Has declared her separation
from the United States.
546
00:32:50,069 --> 00:32:54,338
In so doing, she has followed
others of her sister states
547
00:32:54,406 --> 00:32:58,608
on whose behalf, as well as my own,
548
00:32:59,778 --> 00:33:03,113
I must pronounce
our solemn farewell.
549
00:33:04,450 --> 00:33:07,985
Under these circumstances,
of course, my functions
550
00:33:08,053 --> 00:33:11,588
and those of my colleagues,
terminate here.
551
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:15,325
We but tread in the path
of our fathers
552
00:33:15,394 --> 00:33:17,861
when we proclaim our independence,
553
00:33:17,930 --> 00:33:20,397
and take the hazard,
554
00:33:20,466 --> 00:33:23,867
putting our trust in god,
555
00:33:23,936 --> 00:33:27,237
and in our own firm hearts
556
00:33:27,306 --> 00:33:30,374
and strong arms...
557
00:33:30,442 --> 00:33:34,077
We will vindicate
the right as best we may.
558
00:33:34,780 --> 00:33:36,113
I see now around me
559
00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:39,316
some with whom I have served long.
560
00:33:39,385 --> 00:33:42,452
There have been
points of collision.
561
00:33:42,521 --> 00:33:45,889
For whatever offense I have given,
562
00:33:45,958 --> 00:33:48,558
I ask forgiveness.
563
00:33:48,627 --> 00:33:52,462
Or whatever of offense
that has been to me,
564
00:33:52,531 --> 00:33:55,098
I leave here.
565
00:33:56,201 --> 00:33:59,569
I carry with me
no hostile remembrance.
566
00:34:00,806 --> 00:34:02,606
I go hence unencumbered
567
00:34:02,674 --> 00:34:05,609
of the remembrance
of injury received...
568
00:34:06,578 --> 00:34:08,478
And having discharged the duty
569
00:34:08,547 --> 00:34:12,783
of making the only
reparation in my power
570
00:34:12,851 --> 00:34:15,752
for any injury offered.
571
00:34:19,658 --> 00:34:22,125
Mr. President...
572
00:34:23,962 --> 00:34:26,129
Senators...
573
00:34:28,634 --> 00:34:30,133
Having made the announcement
574
00:34:30,202 --> 00:34:33,603
which the occasion
seemed to me to require...
575
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,809
It remains only for my
colleagues and myself...
576
00:34:39,945 --> 00:34:41,678
To bid you...
577
00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:44,281
A final...
578
00:34:44,349 --> 00:34:45,649
Adieu.
579
00:36:01,927 --> 00:36:03,793
Now that Tennessee
has left the union
580
00:36:03,862 --> 00:36:04,794
and joined the confederacy,
581
00:36:04,863 --> 00:36:07,097
I denounce Andrew
Johnson as a traitor
582
00:36:07,166 --> 00:36:08,632
to the sovereign
state of Tennessee!
583
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:12,202
May your black tongue
rot in your throat,
you liar!
584
00:36:12,271 --> 00:36:14,037
No man can call me a traitor!
585
00:36:14,106 --> 00:36:15,172
Andrew.
586
00:36:34,826 --> 00:36:35,859
Oh, thank you, Andrew.
587
00:36:35,928 --> 00:36:37,928
I was so afraid
there would
be violence.
588
00:36:37,996 --> 00:36:40,897
From now on,
there will be nothing
but violence, Eliza...
589
00:36:40,966 --> 00:36:42,933
Nationwide violence.
590
00:36:43,001 --> 00:36:44,434
No, it mustn't come to that.
591
00:36:44,503 --> 00:36:46,903
Isn't there
some peaceful way
of settling it?
592
00:36:46,972 --> 00:36:48,638
The Southern senators walked out.
593
00:36:48,707 --> 00:36:50,340
They declared war.
594
00:36:51,643 --> 00:36:52,909
I'm going to Lincoln now
595
00:36:52,978 --> 00:36:54,344
and offer my services
596
00:36:54,413 --> 00:36:55,845
to raise troops in Tennessee
597
00:36:55,914 --> 00:36:57,647
and fight for the union.
598
00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:02,485
Where's the general, sir?
599
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:03,787
At his gun.
600
00:37:12,631 --> 00:37:14,030
Captain brenner!
601
00:37:16,802 --> 00:37:18,101
Message from general Williams?
602
00:37:18,170 --> 00:37:20,704
Only rabble, sir.
General Williams
was in action,
603
00:37:20,772 --> 00:37:22,239
trying to rally the zouaves.
604
00:37:22,307 --> 00:37:24,074
Trying to rally them?
What's happened?
605
00:37:24,142 --> 00:37:25,408
Our center is broken!
606
00:37:25,477 --> 00:37:27,544
General Williams
asks that all
available reserves
607
00:37:27,613 --> 00:37:28,778
be sent to him immediately!
608
00:37:28,847 --> 00:37:30,547
There are no reserves!
609
00:37:30,616 --> 00:37:32,482
The rebels
just sent over
another white flag,
610
00:37:32,551 --> 00:37:34,918
with a demand
to surrender Nashville!
611
00:37:40,459 --> 00:37:42,592
You order general Williams for me
612
00:37:42,661 --> 00:37:45,428
to shoot any man
who talks of surrender!
613
00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:47,731
Yes, sir.
614
00:38:03,415 --> 00:38:06,583
4 more years!
4 more years!
615
00:38:13,925 --> 00:38:16,326
Boys! Boys!
Close the window!
616
00:38:16,395 --> 00:38:18,094
Come on.
Let's get on
with business.
617
00:38:19,364 --> 00:38:23,166
Gentlemen...
not that anyone
cares, of course,
618
00:38:23,235 --> 00:38:27,337
but we have one more
tiresome formality,
619
00:38:27,406 --> 00:38:29,873
now that we've done
our duty by old Abe...
620
00:38:29,941 --> 00:38:32,275
wasn't us delegates
renominated Lincoln
by acclamation.
621
00:38:32,344 --> 00:38:34,010
The country done that.
622
00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:36,913
Sir, I'm not accustomed
to being interrupted.
623
00:38:38,283 --> 00:38:39,883
Thad Stevens...
624
00:38:39,951 --> 00:38:42,319
Most of us
delegates ain't
congressmen,
625
00:38:42,387 --> 00:38:43,687
and you can't treat us like you do
626
00:38:43,755 --> 00:38:45,055
that tame cattle of yours
627
00:38:45,123 --> 00:38:46,189
down in Washington.
628
00:38:47,626 --> 00:38:50,393
Eh... my Pennsylvania
delegation,
629
00:38:50,462 --> 00:38:52,796
and some others
that I have friends in,
630
00:38:52,864 --> 00:38:56,399
will support anyone
you men decide you want...
631
00:38:56,468 --> 00:38:59,135
Just agree on a name.
632
00:38:59,204 --> 00:39:00,570
Well, there would be no trouble
633
00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:01,604
if Lincoln would let us know
634
00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:03,039
who he wants on the
ticket with him.
635
00:39:03,108 --> 00:39:04,607
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
636
00:39:04,676 --> 00:39:06,976
Well, it looks as though
the white house
637
00:39:07,045 --> 00:39:08,845
decided to tell us something.
638
00:39:08,914 --> 00:39:11,281
Uh, clear out of here, you men.
639
00:39:14,786 --> 00:39:15,685
How do you do?
640
00:39:15,754 --> 00:39:17,387
Oh, so glad to see you.
641
00:39:24,129 --> 00:39:26,262
The President
hopes you're better,
congressman Stevens.
642
00:39:26,331 --> 00:39:27,430
Thank you, thank you.
643
00:39:27,499 --> 00:39:28,832
Afternoon, senator waters.
644
00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:30,233
Afternoon,
b.p.
645
00:39:30,302 --> 00:39:33,770
White house,
Senate, house of
representatives.
646
00:39:33,839 --> 00:39:39,843
What we three
agree on ought to go
down with this mob.
647
00:39:39,911 --> 00:39:42,345
The President is
very grateful for the
plank and the platform
648
00:39:42,414 --> 00:39:44,147
that favors full emancipation...
649
00:39:44,216 --> 00:39:45,615
well, I wrote it myself.
650
00:39:45,684 --> 00:39:48,418
But he wasn't so happy
about that other plank
you forced in.
651
00:39:48,487 --> 00:39:52,655
Oh. That one
demands that the
rebels and traitors
652
00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:55,091
are punished after the war.
653
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,393
What's wrong with that?
654
00:39:56,461 --> 00:39:57,861
Well, he feels that it's a blow
655
00:39:57,929 --> 00:39:59,562
to his policy of reconciliation.
656
00:39:59,631 --> 00:40:01,498
Well, that's just why it's there.
657
00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:04,134
Heh heh. Come on.
Let's quit playing
marbles.
658
00:40:04,202 --> 00:40:08,338
Lincoln sent you
down here to see Jim
and me. What for?
659
00:40:08,407 --> 00:40:10,473
To discuss the Vice presidency.
660
00:40:10,542 --> 00:40:13,610
Yeah, he wants to
shove Andy Johnson
down our throats.
661
00:40:13,678 --> 00:40:16,212
The President feels
that Johnson, a democrat,
662
00:40:16,281 --> 00:40:18,481
will be supported
by the democrats
who backed the war
663
00:40:18,550 --> 00:40:20,650
and so will help us
win the election.
664
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,319
He says to tell you that...
665
00:40:23,388 --> 00:40:25,422
A Vice President from a rebel state
666
00:40:25,490 --> 00:40:26,756
will strengthen the union,
667
00:40:26,825 --> 00:40:28,925
that the American
people can never repay
668
00:40:28,994 --> 00:40:30,860
their debt of gratitude
to Andrew Johnson.
669
00:40:30,929 --> 00:40:33,596
Oh, Johnson's a loyal man, uh...
670
00:40:33,665 --> 00:40:37,634
But as a southerner,
he'd be bound
after the war
671
00:40:37,702 --> 00:40:40,203
to try and stop
our vengeance
on the south.
672
00:40:40,272 --> 00:40:43,573
Mr. Lincoln does not approve
of vengeance on anyone.
673
00:40:43,642 --> 00:40:45,475
In the interest of unity,
674
00:40:45,544 --> 00:40:47,811
he's anxious for
unanimous nomination,
675
00:40:47,879 --> 00:40:50,046
no contest on the floor.
676
00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:51,981
You tell the President
677
00:40:52,050 --> 00:40:54,818
I'll support his wartime policy
678
00:40:54,886 --> 00:40:57,821
until the last
rebel's dead
or quits.
679
00:40:57,889 --> 00:40:59,789
He knows you will.
680
00:40:59,858 --> 00:41:03,693
The President regrets
that you don't agree
with him on reconstruction,
681
00:41:03,762 --> 00:41:05,895
but he knows that you
stand with him on the
two important issues...
682
00:41:05,964 --> 00:41:07,464
victory and freedom.
683
00:41:07,532 --> 00:41:11,468
I fought slavery
all my political
life.
684
00:41:11,536 --> 00:41:13,336
What's that got to do with it?
685
00:41:13,405 --> 00:41:14,504
Oh, a great deal.
686
00:41:14,573 --> 00:41:17,340
Why, Johnson stands
with you and Lincoln there.
687
00:41:17,409 --> 00:41:19,609
He once said in a speech,
688
00:41:19,678 --> 00:41:22,579
"I do not mourn over
the dead body of slavery.
689
00:41:22,647 --> 00:41:25,515
"I think we're freeing
more whites than blacks
in Tennessee."
690
00:41:25,617 --> 00:41:29,085
I wouldn't want
to free a white man
if he was a rebel.
691
00:41:31,656 --> 00:41:34,290
Well, I've said
all the President
asked me to say.
692
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,026
What Lincoln wants
693
00:41:37,095 --> 00:41:39,262
will go down with the
delegates, then.
694
00:41:39,331 --> 00:41:41,798
What the President
wishes will go down
695
00:41:41,867 --> 00:41:43,233
because you and the other delegates
696
00:41:43,301 --> 00:41:44,968
know that the country
is behind him.
697
00:41:45,036 --> 00:41:46,636
Good afternoon.
698
00:41:50,308 --> 00:41:52,575
Thad, you can't
fight Lincoln
on the floor here.
699
00:41:52,644 --> 00:41:54,511
If he wants Johnson,
700
00:41:54,579 --> 00:41:56,379
you better make it unanimous.
701
00:42:01,019 --> 00:42:03,353
The power of the rebel and...
702
00:42:03,421 --> 00:42:07,524
Next Vice President
of the United States.
703
00:42:41,993 --> 00:42:44,527
The oath
of office will
now be administered
704
00:42:44,596 --> 00:42:45,962
to the Vice
President-elect
705
00:42:46,031 --> 00:42:49,766
by the Chief Justice
of the United States
supreme court.
706
00:42:50,969 --> 00:42:52,936
Mr. Vice
President-elect.
707
00:42:54,306 --> 00:42:56,673
Mr. Chief Justice.
708
00:42:56,741 --> 00:43:00,176
Raise your right
hand, sir, and
repeat after me.
709
00:43:08,987 --> 00:43:11,220
I do solemnly swear...
710
00:43:12,057 --> 00:43:14,357
I do solemnly swear...
711
00:43:14,426 --> 00:43:16,793
That I will
faithfully
execute the office
712
00:43:16,861 --> 00:43:19,395
of Vice President
of the united
states...
713
00:43:19,464 --> 00:43:23,900
That I will faithfully
execute the office
714
00:43:23,969 --> 00:43:27,537
of the Vice President
of the United States...
715
00:43:27,606 --> 00:43:29,639
And will, to the
best of my ability,
716
00:43:29,708 --> 00:43:32,075
preserve, protect, and defend...
717
00:43:33,144 --> 00:43:36,613
To the best of my
ability, preserve...
718
00:43:37,482 --> 00:43:39,582
Protect, and defend...
719
00:43:39,651 --> 00:43:41,718
Protect, and defend...
720
00:43:41,786 --> 00:43:44,587
The constitution
of the united
states,
721
00:43:44,656 --> 00:43:46,289
so help me god.
722
00:43:46,358 --> 00:43:50,059
The constitution
of the United States,
723
00:43:50,128 --> 00:43:51,928
so help me god.
724
00:43:54,165 --> 00:43:57,000
The President of the United States!
725
00:44:19,224 --> 00:44:21,758
Mr. President...
726
00:44:23,294 --> 00:44:24,894
Senators...
727
00:44:26,564 --> 00:44:28,665
Judges...
728
00:44:30,068 --> 00:44:33,403
People of the United States...
729
00:44:33,471 --> 00:44:35,104
Who are...
730
00:44:35,173 --> 00:44:36,873
Are more...
731
00:44:38,943 --> 00:44:41,577
I ask your indulgence.
732
00:44:41,646 --> 00:44:44,113
Drunk again.
Heh heh...
733
00:44:45,617 --> 00:44:49,385
I ask your
indulgence during my
term of office...
734
00:44:50,388 --> 00:44:53,589
I, a plebeian, have studied only
735
00:44:53,658 --> 00:44:56,426
how best to advance the...
736
00:44:56,494 --> 00:45:00,296
Interest of my state and country...
737
00:45:00,365 --> 00:45:05,468
I have... Risen
from the humblest
walks of life
738
00:45:05,537 --> 00:45:09,706
to this... this...
this... Proud position.
739
00:45:13,144 --> 00:45:15,111
"...with malice
toward none."
740
00:45:15,180 --> 00:45:18,314
This is the way he wound up, Eliza.
741
00:45:19,551 --> 00:45:22,485
I wish you'd got
to town in time
to hear him.
742
00:45:22,554 --> 00:45:24,454
I wouldn't have heard him.
743
00:45:24,522 --> 00:45:26,489
I'd have been
right here,
looking after you
744
00:45:26,558 --> 00:45:28,725
in bed, where you belong.
745
00:45:29,994 --> 00:45:31,728
They sent me this this morning.
746
00:45:31,796 --> 00:45:35,098
It's a photograph
of the inaugural
ceremony.
747
00:45:36,201 --> 00:45:39,402
See, there he is,
reading his speech.
748
00:45:39,471 --> 00:45:44,207
The people will
gaze on that picture
for ages to come.
749
00:45:46,811 --> 00:45:49,078
Where are you, Andrew?
750
00:45:51,883 --> 00:45:56,252
There I am, my dear,
in the custody
of Hannibal Hamlin.
751
00:45:56,321 --> 00:45:58,988
The cool air
out there
cleared my head.
752
00:46:00,125 --> 00:46:02,859
You see, I'm holding
my hat over my face.
753
00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:04,961
Perhaps you can guess why.
754
00:46:06,631 --> 00:46:08,865
Now, don't you
want to hear what
they have to say
755
00:46:08,933 --> 00:46:10,333
about your husband's speech?
756
00:46:10,401 --> 00:46:11,868
No, Andrew, please.
757
00:46:11,936 --> 00:46:13,770
"After being sworn in,
758
00:46:13,838 --> 00:46:15,838
"the new Vice President indulged
759
00:46:15,907 --> 00:46:17,974
"in an incoherent harangue,
760
00:46:18,042 --> 00:46:19,909
"concerning which,
761
00:46:19,978 --> 00:46:21,911
"the less said, the better,
762
00:46:21,980 --> 00:46:23,913
"in view of the obvious condition
763
00:46:23,982 --> 00:46:25,615
"of the man between whom...
764
00:46:25,683 --> 00:46:27,884
"And the presidency stands
765
00:46:27,952 --> 00:46:29,318
only one
human life..."
766
00:46:29,387 --> 00:46:30,686
stop, Andrew.
767
00:46:30,755 --> 00:46:32,455
You were ill.
768
00:46:34,225 --> 00:46:37,360
I disgraced my President.
769
00:46:37,428 --> 00:46:43,266
I disgraced... My
country and our cause.
770
00:46:44,536 --> 00:46:46,035
Come in.
771
00:46:47,806 --> 00:46:49,572
From the white house,
Mrs. Johnson.
772
00:46:49,641 --> 00:46:51,974
Flowers for you
and a letter
for Mr. Johnson.
773
00:46:52,043 --> 00:46:53,543
Thank you.
774
00:46:59,083 --> 00:47:01,417
Aren't they beautiful?
775
00:47:03,388 --> 00:47:04,487
I...
776
00:47:04,556 --> 00:47:06,656
I'm afraid to open this.
777
00:47:06,724 --> 00:47:08,524
Oh, you needn't be.
778
00:47:08,593 --> 00:47:11,093
Mr. Lincoln sees deep
into all hearts,
779
00:47:11,162 --> 00:47:15,431
and he knows yours...
all wool and a yard wide.
780
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:24,607
"You ornery
old galoot.."
781
00:47:26,811 --> 00:47:30,479
"If only you took
a drink now and then,
782
00:47:30,548 --> 00:47:32,715
"you'd know enough about liquor
783
00:47:32,784 --> 00:47:35,117
"not to fire yourself up
with Brandy
784
00:47:35,186 --> 00:47:38,120
on an empty stomach
when you're sick."
785
00:47:39,457 --> 00:47:42,558
"I know you only
went through the
ceremony for me
786
00:47:42,627 --> 00:47:44,894
"because I asked you to.
787
00:47:44,963 --> 00:47:47,930
"Don't worry at what they say.
788
00:47:47,999 --> 00:47:50,533
"In hitting at you,
they're hitting at me,
789
00:47:50,602 --> 00:47:53,502
and I don't mind."
790
00:47:53,571 --> 00:47:56,205
"We've got Lee all but whipped.
791
00:47:56,274 --> 00:47:59,242
"You were a good tailor, Andy,
792
00:47:59,310 --> 00:48:03,980
"and you're going
to help me now,
you poor, loyal cuss,
793
00:48:04,048 --> 00:48:08,217
to patch up
the torn garment
of our union."
794
00:48:09,387 --> 00:48:12,855
"Gratefully yours,
a. Lincoln."
795
00:48:19,297 --> 00:48:21,030
Didn't I tell you?
796
00:48:46,858 --> 00:48:49,325
Three cheers for Vice President!
797
00:48:49,394 --> 00:48:53,396
Hooray!
Hooray! Hooray!
798
00:48:53,464 --> 00:48:54,764
Evening, Mr. Johnson.
799
00:48:54,832 --> 00:48:57,433
I'm afraid all
this noise will be
disturbing Mrs. Johnson.
800
00:48:57,502 --> 00:49:00,069
I'm awfully sorry,
but there's nothing
we can do about it.
801
00:49:00,138 --> 00:49:01,570
That's perfectly all right.
802
00:49:01,639 --> 00:49:02,905
She only wishes she could get out
803
00:49:02,974 --> 00:49:04,807
and join in the
jollification herself.
804
00:49:04,876 --> 00:49:06,275
She'll be up tomorrow.
805
00:49:06,344 --> 00:49:07,977
Sleep well,
Mr. Vice President.
806
00:49:08,046 --> 00:49:09,445
We'll all sleep well now,
807
00:49:09,514 --> 00:49:10,746
the first time in 4 years.
808
00:49:10,815 --> 00:49:12,348
Oh, just a moment, please, sir.
809
00:49:12,417 --> 00:49:14,417
I forgot something, if you please.
810
00:49:15,586 --> 00:49:18,087
This gentleman called
while you were out.
811
00:49:21,426 --> 00:49:23,693
No, I don't know the name.
812
00:49:23,761 --> 00:49:26,429
Probably he's just
some office-seeker.
813
00:49:36,507 --> 00:49:37,974
Hello, hello, dear.
814
00:49:41,145 --> 00:49:43,412
Oh, I can feel it
even lying here
in bed.
815
00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:45,648
It's a new Washington
since Lee surrendered.
816
00:49:45,717 --> 00:49:49,885
New country...
same crowd, same bands
all over the north.
817
00:49:49,954 --> 00:49:51,921
People don't seem
ugly or vindictive
818
00:49:51,990 --> 00:49:53,255
now that we've won, do they?
819
00:49:53,324 --> 00:49:55,291
No, this is the start of a new era
820
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,626
of good feeling
in a United States...
821
00:49:57,695 --> 00:50:00,463
really united and
for the first time.
822
00:50:00,531 --> 00:50:03,299
And we both know
whom the country
has to thank.
823
00:50:03,368 --> 00:50:05,034
Yes, we all know,
824
00:50:05,103 --> 00:50:08,170
except that little
knot of his enemies
down on capitol hill.
825
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,506
His enemies and yours.
826
00:50:10,575 --> 00:50:11,907
Mm-hmm. Heh heh.
827
00:50:11,976 --> 00:50:13,909
Just listen to that
noise out there,
will you?
828
00:50:13,978 --> 00:50:15,578
We want Andy!
829
00:50:15,646 --> 00:50:17,380
They're calling for you, Andrew.
830
00:50:17,448 --> 00:50:20,649
We want Andy!
We want Andy...
831
00:50:34,699 --> 00:50:36,298
Stop the music!
Stop it!
832
00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:37,867
Yeah! We want
to hear Andy!
833
00:50:39,437 --> 00:50:41,170
My friends and fellow countrymen,
834
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,440
hang Jeff Davis
to a sour apple tree!
835
00:50:47,011 --> 00:50:48,110
Hang Lee, too!
836
00:50:48,179 --> 00:50:50,279
My friends...
837
00:50:51,049 --> 00:50:52,314
Never mind me.
838
00:50:52,383 --> 00:50:55,117
You go around the corner
and serenade the President,
839
00:50:55,186 --> 00:50:58,521
but don't grieve him
with shouts about hanging
our fellow countrymen.
840
00:50:58,589 --> 00:51:01,757
Come on down, Andy,
and have a drink,
you old toper!
841
00:51:08,132 --> 00:51:11,567
We just came
from there, Andy.
Ain't nobody home.
842
00:51:11,636 --> 00:51:14,136
Abe Lincoln's gone
to Ford's theater.
843
00:51:17,842 --> 00:51:21,110
The few words
I shall say to you
are not my own.
844
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,413
"With malice toward none,
845
00:51:24,482 --> 00:51:27,883
"with charity for all,
846
00:51:27,952 --> 00:51:31,554
let us bind up
the nation's wounds."
847
00:51:31,622 --> 00:51:34,423
And general Grant,
when he took Lee's army...
848
00:51:34,492 --> 00:51:37,426
There was no pride, no boasting.
849
00:51:37,495 --> 00:51:41,630
He just said,
"let us have peace."
850
00:51:43,267 --> 00:51:45,468
Now, you trust
and follow Mr. Lincoln
851
00:51:45,536 --> 00:51:48,571
to guide us under god...
For 4 years more!
852
00:51:55,279 --> 00:51:57,213
Oh, splendid, Andrew.
853
00:51:57,281 --> 00:51:59,381
You said just the right thing.
854
00:52:00,351 --> 00:52:01,851
Now, you try to get some sleep.
855
00:52:01,919 --> 00:52:03,285
Let's hope there
will be no more bands
856
00:52:03,354 --> 00:52:04,520
to keep you awake tonight.
857
00:52:04,589 --> 00:52:05,521
I will.
858
00:52:05,590 --> 00:52:06,889
Here, what are you reading?
859
00:52:06,958 --> 00:52:08,757
Poetry.
860
00:52:09,794 --> 00:52:13,395
"There is a lady, sweet and kind,
861
00:52:13,464 --> 00:52:15,998
"'twas never a face,
862
00:52:16,067 --> 00:52:17,766
so pleased my mind."
863
00:52:17,835 --> 00:52:19,969
Oh, please don't close the doors,
864
00:52:20,037 --> 00:52:23,239
and don't you sit up
working half the night.
865
00:52:23,307 --> 00:52:25,441
I won't. Just
a half-hour or so.
866
00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:35,451
Ye.
867
00:52:37,288 --> 00:52:38,954
Who is it?
868
00:52:39,023 --> 00:52:41,690
Mr. Johnson...
The President's been shot.
869
00:52:45,696 --> 00:52:48,364
Don't go, sir.
There's murder all
through the city.
870
00:52:48,432 --> 00:52:51,066
Secretary seward
has been stabbed
at his house,
871
00:52:51,135 --> 00:52:52,601
and we got here just
in time to save you
872
00:52:52,670 --> 00:52:54,003
from an assassin outside your door.
873
00:52:54,071 --> 00:52:55,371
It's a general conspiracy.
874
00:52:55,439 --> 00:52:56,839
I'm going to the President.
875
00:52:56,908 --> 00:53:00,142
You must stay here, sir.
I'm posting a guard outside.
876
00:53:03,281 --> 00:53:04,813
I must go, Eliza.
877
00:53:04,882 --> 00:53:06,715
Of course you must.
878
00:53:21,866 --> 00:53:24,500
Now he belongs to the ages.
879
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:01,370
It is now my duty to ask
when it will be convenient
880
00:54:01,439 --> 00:54:05,107
to administer the oath
of office... Mr. President.
881
00:54:14,619 --> 00:54:17,886
All right, major, take these away.
882
00:54:17,955 --> 00:54:19,388
And, uh...
883
00:54:19,457 --> 00:54:24,260
I want that report on
the freedmen's bureau
to work on tonight.
884
00:54:24,328 --> 00:54:28,297
Thank heavens there's
nobody else waiting
here to see me.
885
00:54:28,366 --> 00:54:31,267
Has this young lady
an appointment,
major crooks?
886
00:54:31,335 --> 00:54:33,535
She didn't ask for one, sir.
887
00:54:33,604 --> 00:54:36,071
Here, here,
wait a minute,
wait a minute.
888
00:54:36,140 --> 00:54:38,540
Major, don't forget
those two bills.
889
00:54:38,609 --> 00:54:43,512
Got to write a couple
more veto messages
after dinner.
890
00:54:44,915 --> 00:54:48,083
I must have seen 60 people
in this room today,
891
00:54:48,152 --> 00:54:52,288
and you're the first one
didn't come in to ask me
for something.
892
00:54:52,356 --> 00:54:54,123
Where did you get your flowers?
893
00:54:54,191 --> 00:54:56,725
I picked them
on the lawn
with Martha.
894
00:54:56,794 --> 00:54:59,862
She just had
the children out
there for a romp.
895
00:54:59,930 --> 00:55:03,198
How did they stand the trip
from Nashville?
896
00:55:03,267 --> 00:55:05,868
They loved every minute of it.
897
00:55:05,936 --> 00:55:08,037
It'd be kind of homelike, Eliza,
898
00:55:08,105 --> 00:55:10,739
to have Martha and
the kids living here.
899
00:55:10,808 --> 00:55:13,242
This place seems sort of lonesome.
900
00:55:13,311 --> 00:55:16,879
I don't know...
Maybe it's just the job.
901
00:55:16,947 --> 00:55:19,948
Must be the lonesomest
job in the world.
902
00:55:20,017 --> 00:55:22,384
Such a big place, isn't it?
903
00:55:22,453 --> 00:55:27,356
Glad I don't have to
pay the taxes on it.
904
00:55:27,425 --> 00:55:29,692
And so full of ghosts.
905
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,095
Ghosts that are hard to live up to.
906
00:55:34,965 --> 00:55:37,866
I bark out at people.
907
00:55:37,935 --> 00:55:43,339
He knew how to turn 'em down
with just a funny story.
908
00:55:43,407 --> 00:55:45,507
The wonder of it...
909
00:55:45,576 --> 00:55:48,711
That you should work
in his study...
910
00:55:48,779 --> 00:55:51,847
Sit at his desk.
911
00:55:51,916 --> 00:55:55,851
The terror of it
to ask myself every day,
every hour,
912
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,487
"what would he have done?"
913
00:55:58,556 --> 00:56:00,656
And not to know.
914
00:56:01,759 --> 00:56:03,859
Eliza...
915
00:56:03,928 --> 00:56:06,395
I ain't fit.
916
00:56:06,464 --> 00:56:09,832
Andrew, it came to us
at milligan's forge
917
00:56:09,900 --> 00:56:11,367
that you were fit to be sheriff,
918
00:56:11,435 --> 00:56:13,268
and you've grown a lot since then.
919
00:56:13,337 --> 00:56:18,507
You trying to tell me
that I'm fit to follow him?
You know better than that.
920
00:56:18,576 --> 00:56:21,143
To follow him who is...
Whoever will be.
921
00:56:21,212 --> 00:56:23,879
The trouble with me,
Eliza, I was never fit
922
00:56:23,948 --> 00:56:27,049
to lace up his boots,
let alone stand in them.
923
00:56:27,118 --> 00:56:30,886
You were the man
he chose, Andrew,
to stand in his boots
924
00:56:30,955 --> 00:56:33,922
if anything should happen to him.
925
00:56:36,660 --> 00:56:38,827
Oh, let me.
926
00:56:40,865 --> 00:56:45,334
I told Martha she could
bring the children in
to say good night.
927
00:56:45,403 --> 00:56:47,970
I must be
the first President
with grandchildren here.
928
00:56:48,038 --> 00:56:50,606
We'll let them come in every night.
929
00:56:50,674 --> 00:56:53,008
Grandpa, my doll!
Isn't she beautiful?
930
00:56:53,077 --> 00:56:54,510
Oh, isn't she?
931
00:56:54,578 --> 00:56:56,445
Hey, Andy, Andy!
932
00:56:56,514 --> 00:56:57,713
Hey there, Andy!
933
00:56:57,782 --> 00:56:59,915
Well, now, what have we got here?
934
00:56:59,984 --> 00:57:02,851
Major crooks gave it
to me. It's a gun
to shoot bears.
935
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,554
Well, now, we'll
go out tomorrow morning
right after breakfast
936
00:57:05,623 --> 00:57:07,356
and shoot us some bears.
937
00:57:07,425 --> 00:57:09,091
Come on!
Let's go now!
938
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,860
Tell me a bedtime story, grandpa,
939
00:57:11,929 --> 00:57:16,331
like you always
used to in Nashville
when I was little.
940
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,367
All right...
941
00:57:18,436 --> 00:57:21,069
Here... we go.
942
00:57:21,138 --> 00:57:23,005
Well, now...
943
00:57:23,073 --> 00:57:24,973
Once upon a time,
944
00:57:25,042 --> 00:57:27,609
there was a beautiful Princess.
945
00:57:27,678 --> 00:57:30,579
Oh, look! There's
a great bad bear!
946
00:57:30,648 --> 00:57:32,681
Come in, gentlemen, come in.
947
00:57:32,750 --> 00:57:35,451
You know my wife,
my daughter Mrs. paterson,
the children...
948
00:57:35,519 --> 00:57:38,153
Congressman Stevens,
senator waters,
and congressman hargrave.
949
00:57:38,222 --> 00:57:40,823
Yes, it's quite a thing
to have a typical
American family
950
00:57:40,891 --> 00:57:43,392
in the white house
again, Mrs. Johnson.
951
00:57:43,461 --> 00:57:46,361
It's a great pleasure
to welcome you to
Washington, ma'am.
952
00:57:46,430 --> 00:57:48,997
All Washington hopes,
Mrs. Johnson, for a revival
953
00:57:49,066 --> 00:57:52,968
of the fine old
white house traditions
of before the war.
954
00:57:53,037 --> 00:57:55,938
Well, then I'm afraid
Washington will be
disappointed.
955
00:57:56,006 --> 00:57:59,875
Oh, we're just plain
people from the hills,
that's all.
956
00:57:59,944 --> 00:58:01,810
A brief stay in high places
957
00:58:01,879 --> 00:58:04,813
can't be expected
to change us very much.
958
00:58:04,882 --> 00:58:06,348
Martha...
959
00:58:06,417 --> 00:58:08,317
Now, children, it's your bedtime.
960
00:58:08,385 --> 00:58:11,320
Grandpa hasn't told me
my story yet.
961
00:58:11,388 --> 00:58:14,490
Well, he'll
come up and tell
you one in bed.
962
00:58:14,558 --> 00:58:15,991
Promise?
963
00:58:16,060 --> 00:58:17,793
Yes, I promise.
964
00:58:17,862 --> 00:58:20,863
Now, you say good night
to the gentlemen.
965
00:58:20,931 --> 00:58:21,997
Good night.
966
00:58:22,066 --> 00:58:23,866
Good night.
May I have a kiss,
little one?
967
00:58:23,934 --> 00:58:26,101
Yes, if you want one.
968
00:58:28,472 --> 00:58:29,438
Good night.
969
00:58:29,507 --> 00:58:30,639
Good night.
970
00:58:31,909 --> 00:58:33,375
Good night.
971
00:58:33,444 --> 00:58:34,710
Good night.
972
00:58:34,778 --> 00:58:35,878
Good night.
973
00:58:35,946 --> 00:58:39,515
Do you want to have a kiss, too?
974
00:58:39,583 --> 00:58:42,651
I couldn't
think of anything
more delightful,
975
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:47,523
but I'm not going
to submit you to any
such dubious pleasure.
976
00:58:49,026 --> 00:58:50,893
You killed the bear!
977
00:58:50,961 --> 00:58:52,828
I didn't mean to.
978
00:58:55,165 --> 00:58:57,599
Now, children,
that's enough.
Good night.
979
00:58:57,668 --> 00:58:58,700
Good night.
980
00:58:58,769 --> 00:58:59,968
Good night.
981
00:59:01,906 --> 00:59:05,173
Well, we've had
enough homespun humor
in the white house.
982
00:59:05,242 --> 00:59:08,110
Let's quit being whimsical
and run the country.
983
00:59:08,178 --> 00:59:10,812
Sit down, gentlemen.
You know, I've often thought
984
00:59:10,881 --> 00:59:13,849
if I could speak with
your culture and learning...
985
00:59:13,918 --> 00:59:15,617
With your eloquence,
Mr. hargrave,
986
00:59:15,686 --> 00:59:17,452
or the power and force
987
00:59:17,521 --> 00:59:20,055
that you blast
your opponents with,
Mr. Stevens...
988
00:59:20,124 --> 00:59:22,724
I'd probably make
a much better President.
989
00:59:22,793 --> 00:59:25,694
Why, Mr. President,
I've never found you
990
00:59:25,763 --> 00:59:27,729
lacking in eloquence, sir.
991
00:59:27,798 --> 00:59:31,366
But unfortunately,
you are as stubborn
992
00:59:31,435 --> 00:59:34,836
as the orneriest
mule in your own
Tennessee.
993
00:59:34,905 --> 00:59:37,773
He just plants
his feet wide apart
like that,
994
00:59:37,841 --> 00:59:40,208
and you
couldn't budge him
with a Cannon.
995
00:59:40,277 --> 00:59:45,280
A mule, huh? Is that why
you fellas in congress
lit a fire under me?
996
00:59:45,349 --> 00:59:48,016
You don't act like
our fire done much more
997
00:59:48,085 --> 00:59:50,519
than keep your belly nice and warm.
998
00:59:50,588 --> 00:59:52,287
Unfortunately,
Mr. President,
999
00:59:52,356 --> 00:59:53,822
the contraption you're hitched to
1000
00:59:53,891 --> 00:59:55,824
is the United States of America.
1001
00:59:55,893 --> 00:59:57,459
We've got to keep it on the move.
1002
00:59:57,528 --> 01:00:00,829
Stevens, if you'll
just state your case
and let me state mine,
1003
01:00:00,898 --> 01:00:02,965
I think we'll see better
where we stand.
1004
01:00:03,033 --> 01:00:04,666
Very good,
Mr. President.
1005
01:00:04,735 --> 01:00:08,136
I propose that we treat the south
1006
01:00:08,205 --> 01:00:10,439
as an outside conquered people,
1007
01:00:10,507 --> 01:00:14,843
that we confiscate
all estates
worth $10,000
1008
01:00:14,912 --> 01:00:16,945
and containing 200 acres.
1009
01:00:17,014 --> 01:00:22,851
Then, sir,
I would give every
adult colored man
1010
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,320
40 acres of land...
1011
01:00:25,389 --> 01:00:28,256
Sell the rest
and pay for the war
with it.
1012
01:00:28,325 --> 01:00:30,559
No use vetoing
that program, Johnson.
1013
01:00:30,628 --> 01:00:33,328
We have the votes
to override your vetoes.
1014
01:00:33,397 --> 01:00:35,364
So it comes to this:
1015
01:00:35,432 --> 01:00:38,300
You fought a war
to preserve the union.
1016
01:00:38,369 --> 01:00:39,901
Having preserved it,
1017
01:00:39,970 --> 01:00:42,404
now you deny that it exists.
1018
01:00:42,473 --> 01:00:47,509
Gentlemen, my one aim
is to carry out
Lincoln's policies.
1019
01:00:47,578 --> 01:00:49,745
Try and get into your head
1020
01:00:49,813 --> 01:00:52,681
that Lincoln's
reconstruction program
died with him.
1021
01:00:52,750 --> 01:00:56,084
Oh, shut up, waters.
Let the President
state his own case.
1022
01:01:01,358 --> 01:01:04,693
That they were therefore
never out of the union.
1023
01:01:04,762 --> 01:01:06,228
Now, they stopped fighting.
1024
01:01:06,296 --> 01:01:10,098
They took
the oath of allegiance
to the United States.
1025
01:01:10,167 --> 01:01:12,601
They ratified the amendment
abolishing slavery
1026
01:01:12,670 --> 01:01:15,504
that you yourself, Stevens,
piloted through congress.
1027
01:01:15,572 --> 01:01:17,039
Yes, yes, yes.
1028
01:01:17,107 --> 01:01:19,841
It follows from Lincoln's policy
1029
01:01:19,910 --> 01:01:22,844
that they therefore were entitled
1030
01:01:22,913 --> 01:01:25,113
to the same rights
as the rest of us.
1031
01:01:25,182 --> 01:01:28,183
Now, gentlemen, it's
just as simple as that.
1032
01:01:29,887 --> 01:01:32,554
Well, no use making him
our offer now, Stevens,
1033
01:01:32,623 --> 01:01:34,356
after what he just said.
1034
01:01:34,425 --> 01:01:36,692
Offer? You have some
compromise to suggest?
1035
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,994
I should think it would
be rather difficult
1036
01:01:39,063 --> 01:01:40,996
to compromise our points of view.
1037
01:01:41,065 --> 01:01:42,531
I never compromise.
1038
01:01:42,599 --> 01:01:45,367
I came here to make a deal.
1039
01:01:45,436 --> 01:01:47,769
To secure your
cooperation with us,
Mr. President...
1040
01:01:47,838 --> 01:01:49,871
For the next 8 years.
1041
01:01:50,941 --> 01:01:52,541
Oh, I see.
1042
01:01:52,609 --> 01:01:55,477
That's an offer to buy me...
1043
01:01:55,546 --> 01:01:57,245
With a second term.
1044
01:01:57,347 --> 01:02:01,083
One practical man to another, yeah.
1045
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,488
What in tarnation is that thing?
1046
01:02:06,557 --> 01:02:08,857
What you're trying
to put on my leg again,
1047
01:02:08,926 --> 01:02:11,393
and I don't like being chained up.
1048
01:02:11,462 --> 01:02:15,297
That's why I've kept this
for nearly 40 years now...
1049
01:02:15,365 --> 01:02:18,834
just to remind me
what being chained up
feels like.
1050
01:02:18,902 --> 01:02:20,802
Well, gentlemen,
there's a little girl
1051
01:02:20,871 --> 01:02:24,906
waiting for me to
tell her a bedtime story,
so I guess that's all.
1052
01:02:24,975 --> 01:02:28,710
No, that's not all,
Mr. President.
That's only half.
1053
01:02:28,779 --> 01:02:30,278
Wait outside, will you?
1054
01:02:30,347 --> 01:02:33,281
I want a word alone
with the President.
1055
01:02:33,350 --> 01:02:34,816
Good night,
Mr. President.
1056
01:02:34,885 --> 01:02:36,351
Good night, gentlemen.
1057
01:02:36,420 --> 01:02:38,086
Good night.
1058
01:02:40,724 --> 01:02:43,358
First, Lincoln tried to block me.
1059
01:02:43,427 --> 01:02:45,627
Now it's you.
1060
01:02:45,696 --> 01:02:47,863
Well, that's a poor substitute,
1061
01:02:47,931 --> 01:02:49,831
but... now me.
1062
01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:53,335
Stevens,
why did you want
to see me alone?
1063
01:02:53,403 --> 01:02:56,171
To tell you that since
you've turned me down,
1064
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:59,141
I fear I'll have to turn you out.
1065
01:03:00,944 --> 01:03:02,611
Impeachment?
1066
01:03:02,679 --> 01:03:06,615
You know the house
would prefer charges
of high crimes
1067
01:03:06,683 --> 01:03:08,583
and misdemeanors against you
1068
01:03:08,652 --> 01:03:10,485
anytime I say.
1069
01:03:10,554 --> 01:03:12,621
I hope that never happens.
1070
01:03:12,689 --> 01:03:16,124
Fortunately,
it takes a 2/3 vote
of the Senate
1071
01:03:16,193 --> 01:03:17,759
to sustain a conviction.
1072
01:03:17,828 --> 01:03:19,327
That's the constitution.
1073
01:03:19,396 --> 01:03:22,364
You're a great stickler
for the constitution,
aren't you?
1074
01:03:22,432 --> 01:03:25,367
Well, you might
as well know, then,
we can get you out
1075
01:03:25,435 --> 01:03:28,170
by strictly constitutional means.
1076
01:03:28,238 --> 01:03:30,872
Why aren't you more reasonable?
1077
01:03:30,941 --> 01:03:33,408
And when there's no Vice President,
1078
01:03:33,477 --> 01:03:36,344
the man who succeeds
an impeached President
1079
01:03:36,413 --> 01:03:39,314
is the acting
presiding officer
of the Senate.
1080
01:03:39,383 --> 01:03:40,849
Right, right.
1081
01:03:52,429 --> 01:03:57,065
Well, they'll never
put me out to put
Jim waters in.
1082
01:03:57,134 --> 01:04:00,101
Well, that is kind of
funny, at that.
1083
01:04:00,170 --> 01:04:04,639
The Senate would
never have elected him
to pound that gavel
1084
01:04:04,708 --> 01:04:07,642
if they realized
that it might make him
President.
1085
01:04:07,711 --> 01:04:10,245
I have infinite faith
in the people.
1086
01:04:10,314 --> 01:04:12,614
Oh, this country isn't
ruled by a plebiscite.
1087
01:04:12,683 --> 01:04:14,416
Congress would be against you
1088
01:04:14,484 --> 01:04:16,785
and the money power
and the press...
1089
01:04:16,854 --> 01:04:19,487
Yes, every power
would be against me...
1090
01:04:19,556 --> 01:04:23,658
Except the common people
that Abe Lincoln said
the lord must have loved
1091
01:04:23,727 --> 01:04:26,394
because he made so many of them.
1092
01:04:26,463 --> 01:04:28,797
Go ahead, then, take the stump.
1093
01:04:28,866 --> 01:04:30,265
Swing around the circle.
1094
01:04:30,334 --> 01:04:32,634
Make your speeches to the people...
1095
01:04:32,703 --> 01:04:35,136
Only you get
all het-up.
1096
01:04:35,205 --> 01:04:37,572
You don't make very good speeches.
1097
01:04:37,641 --> 01:04:41,509
Yes, and you'd rig the press
and pack my meetings.
1098
01:04:42,613 --> 01:04:44,079
Well...
1099
01:04:44,147 --> 01:04:47,115
We're not likely to meet
socially anymore,
1100
01:04:47,184 --> 01:04:51,987
so I have to tell you
that nothing
would make me do
1101
01:04:52,055 --> 01:04:55,023
what I fear I have to do,
1102
01:04:55,092 --> 01:04:59,828
no personal
or party interests,
just one thing:
1103
01:04:59,897 --> 01:05:02,063
The safety of our country,
1104
01:05:02,132 --> 01:05:04,366
which your policies would destroy.
1105
01:05:04,434 --> 01:05:08,103
You have the impudence
to sit there and tell me
1106
01:05:08,171 --> 01:05:10,739
you're doing this
to save the country?
1107
01:05:10,807 --> 01:05:13,375
Why, you hypocrite,
if you weren't
a cripple,
1108
01:05:13,443 --> 01:05:16,745
I'd pick you up
and throw you through
that bay window
1109
01:05:16,813 --> 01:05:20,048
right out on
the white house lawn,
wheelchair and all!
1110
01:05:20,117 --> 01:05:21,583
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
1111
01:05:21,652 --> 01:05:25,353
You know, most people
think that drink
is your weakness,
1112
01:05:25,422 --> 01:05:28,890
on account of
that thing that happened
at the inauguration.
1113
01:05:28,959 --> 01:05:31,860
But I know better.
It's temper.
1114
01:05:48,412 --> 01:05:49,811
I've got to see
Mr. Stevens at once.
1115
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:51,346
You can't, sir.
1116
01:05:51,415 --> 01:05:54,349
He's sick, Mr. secretary.
The doctor just left...
1117
01:05:54,418 --> 01:05:57,018
now, don't argue with me.
1118
01:05:57,087 --> 01:05:59,321
Thad, he's turned me out.
The tailor turned me out.
1119
01:05:59,389 --> 01:06:01,356
You've got to do
something to help me.
1120
01:06:01,425 --> 01:06:03,692
Now, sir, Mr. Stevens
is a very sick man.
1121
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:05,927
You can't be
bothering him.
I won't let you.
1122
01:06:05,996 --> 01:06:08,263
Mr. Stevens,
you've got to rest.
1123
01:06:08,332 --> 01:06:10,732
Oh, Addie, what do
they care whether
I live or die,
1124
01:06:10,801 --> 01:06:13,034
as long as I hold a job?
1125
01:06:13,103 --> 01:06:14,869
Now, please, sir,
don't say nothing
about dying.
1126
01:06:14,938 --> 01:06:16,371
There it is, thad.
Read it.
1127
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:17,939
Run along, Addie.
1128
01:06:18,008 --> 01:06:20,742
If'n you get
the lung fever,
don't blame me.
1129
01:06:20,811 --> 01:06:24,446
I done told you,
the doctor, he say you've
got to get your rest.
1130
01:06:24,514 --> 01:06:26,815
So the tailor threw you out, huh?
1131
01:06:26,883 --> 01:06:30,618
And after all
the trouble we took
to have that bill passed
1132
01:06:30,721 --> 01:06:33,388
that he couldn't fire
any of Lincoln's cabinet
1133
01:06:33,457 --> 01:06:36,124
without the express
consent of the Senate.
1134
01:06:36,193 --> 01:06:40,328
He's violated a law
passed over his own veto.
1135
01:06:40,397 --> 01:06:43,231
That's going to cost him
the presidency.
1136
01:06:43,300 --> 01:06:46,067
I've got him just where I want him.
1137
01:06:46,136 --> 01:06:49,304
Now, you go back
and stay in your office.
1138
01:06:49,373 --> 01:06:51,106
But I've been dismissed.
1139
01:06:51,174 --> 01:06:54,776
You don't think I'm
going to let him do a
thing like that to you?
1140
01:06:54,845 --> 01:06:57,312
Now, you go and get some troops
1141
01:06:57,381 --> 01:06:59,814
and a couple of
Cannon to protect
the building...
1142
01:06:59,883 --> 01:07:01,349
troops? Cannon?
1143
01:07:01,418 --> 01:07:03,651
Sure. And just
stay in office.
1144
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:05,653
You mean, never leave it?
1145
01:07:05,722 --> 01:07:08,089
Leave it?
No, of course not!
1146
01:07:08,158 --> 01:07:10,625
You just stay, stay, and stay.
1147
01:07:10,694 --> 01:07:13,862
You better get a bed
and some canned food,
1148
01:07:13,930 --> 01:07:17,632
because in all
probability, you'll be
there for 3 or 4 months.
1149
01:07:17,701 --> 01:07:19,100
But after Johnson's out
1150
01:07:19,169 --> 01:07:20,935
and Jim waters is President,
1151
01:07:21,004 --> 01:07:24,572
then you can go home
and get all cleaned up.
1152
01:07:24,641 --> 01:07:27,108
I'll do exactly as you say.
1153
01:07:29,112 --> 01:07:33,348
Ah, it's amazing what
privations a politician
will endure
1154
01:07:33,417 --> 01:07:35,250
just to stay in office.
1155
01:07:36,553 --> 01:07:39,387
Here's the last report
on the cabinet meeting,
1156
01:07:39,456 --> 01:07:42,924
and that's the last bit
of what you call "spying"
I'll have to do for you.
1157
01:07:42,993 --> 01:07:45,693
You never can tell.
I might want you
1158
01:07:45,762 --> 01:07:48,496
to spy on Jim waters
when he's President.
1159
01:07:51,568 --> 01:07:54,069
Addie! Addie!
1160
01:07:54,137 --> 01:07:55,503
Yes, sir?
Come here!
1161
01:07:55,572 --> 01:07:57,205
Yes, sir, Mr. Stevens!
1162
01:07:58,375 --> 01:07:59,808
Order my carriage.
1163
01:07:59,876 --> 01:08:03,344
Tonight, in this rain?
No, sir! You'll get
your death of...
1164
01:08:03,413 --> 01:08:04,846
order my carriage!
1165
01:08:04,915 --> 01:08:07,816
If'n you go out
in this rain and
get the lung fever...
1166
01:08:07,884 --> 01:08:09,284
get me my crutches!
1167
01:08:09,352 --> 01:08:11,319
Yes, sir.
1168
01:08:11,388 --> 01:08:15,423
Telling me
what I can do and
what I can't do.
1169
01:08:15,492 --> 01:08:16,925
Yes, sir.
1170
01:08:16,993 --> 01:08:18,893
I'll do what I want.
1171
01:08:18,962 --> 01:08:22,163
I'll die when I feel like it.
1172
01:08:23,767 --> 01:08:26,067
The President will see you now.
1173
01:08:30,407 --> 01:08:33,842
What's this about
some amnesty idea
of yours, Johnson?
1174
01:08:33,910 --> 01:08:37,779
So your spy in my cabinet
told you that, too.
1175
01:08:37,848 --> 01:08:40,782
Well, after you
broke up my meetings,
1176
01:08:40,851 --> 01:08:44,686
I got to wondering
whether I had any
powers left at all,
1177
01:08:44,754 --> 01:08:46,788
if I hadn't better resign
and go back home.
1178
01:08:46,857 --> 01:08:48,523
Oh, cut the cackle.
1179
01:08:48,592 --> 01:08:52,427
And then I remembered a power
vested in the President
by the constitution
1180
01:08:52,496 --> 01:08:54,429
that even congress
can't touch, Stevens.
1181
01:08:54,498 --> 01:08:56,931
Maybe you can guess what it is.
1182
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:58,967
A power congress can't touch?
1183
01:08:59,035 --> 01:09:01,803
Yes. Lincoln
would've got around
to that before now,
1184
01:09:01,872 --> 01:09:05,573
but I had to wait till
things settled down a bit.
1185
01:09:05,642 --> 01:09:07,108
You wouldn't dare.
1186
01:09:07,177 --> 01:09:10,778
That's right,
you've guessed it...
the pardoning power.
1187
01:09:10,847 --> 01:09:13,314
I'm going to sign something now,
1188
01:09:13,383 --> 01:09:18,219
and I'm glad
you came over here
to watch me do it.
1189
01:09:18,288 --> 01:09:22,757
Here at this desk where
Lincoln freed the slaves,
1190
01:09:22,826 --> 01:09:25,793
I now free their former masters.
1191
01:09:30,367 --> 01:09:33,334
This proclamation
pardons all and restores
full citizenship
1192
01:09:33,403 --> 01:09:36,271
to all who fought
for the lost cause
1193
01:09:36,339 --> 01:09:39,007
in the war between the states.
1194
01:09:39,075 --> 01:09:41,709
All? Did you say all?
1195
01:09:41,778 --> 01:09:43,211
All.
1196
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:44,746
Not Jeff Davis?
1197
01:09:44,814 --> 01:09:46,347
Jeff Davis, too.
1198
01:09:46,416 --> 01:09:47,949
Lee?
1199
01:09:48,018 --> 01:09:51,519
Oh, yes, Lee, as well.
1200
01:09:51,588 --> 01:09:55,290
Well, you're right...
you have the power.
1201
01:09:55,358 --> 01:09:58,026
Congress can't stop you.
1202
01:09:59,863 --> 01:10:03,164
Now every rebel snake in the south
1203
01:10:03,233 --> 01:10:07,669
will crawl out
of its hidden den
into the daylight.
1204
01:10:07,737 --> 01:10:11,806
Johnson, what you've
just done tonight...
1205
01:10:11,875 --> 01:10:14,809
And what you plan to do...
1206
01:10:14,878 --> 01:10:17,445
Means a new civil war.
1207
01:10:17,514 --> 01:10:20,848
You honestly believe that,
don't you?
1208
01:10:20,917 --> 01:10:23,518
You know I do.
1209
01:10:23,587 --> 01:10:26,254
I haven't long to live.
1210
01:10:26,323 --> 01:10:30,792
Just kept alive for
the day of retribution
and justice
1211
01:10:30,860 --> 01:10:35,730
so I could die happy,
knowing I'd bequeathed
the country peace.
1212
01:10:35,799 --> 01:10:37,632
Peace?
1213
01:10:38,768 --> 01:10:41,636
You call revenge, confiscation,
1214
01:10:41,705 --> 01:10:44,472
and disfranchisement peace?
1215
01:10:44,541 --> 01:10:48,276
Have you no pity
for those 4 million
1216
01:10:48,345 --> 01:10:51,980
injured, depressed,
hopeless colored people
1217
01:10:52,048 --> 01:10:55,583
under bondage for two centuries?
1218
01:10:55,652 --> 01:10:59,387
I want the two races
to live together
peacefully,
1219
01:10:59,456 --> 01:11:01,389
to respect one another.
1220
01:11:01,458 --> 01:11:03,791
Your way of making
slaves of the whites
1221
01:11:03,860 --> 01:11:07,028
would put that off another century.
1222
01:11:10,166 --> 01:11:15,303
Johnson, if you
withdraw this thing...
1223
01:11:15,372 --> 01:11:19,173
For the sake of peace,
I'll quash the impeachment.
1224
01:11:19,242 --> 01:11:22,310
So you'd drop the impeachment.
1225
01:11:22,379 --> 01:11:24,679
Yeah.
1226
01:11:24,748 --> 01:11:28,316
Well, Stevens,
I decline
your offer...
1227
01:11:28,385 --> 01:11:30,785
But I want to tell you one thing.
1228
01:11:30,854 --> 01:11:33,488
I never really
understood you
until this minute.
1229
01:11:33,556 --> 01:11:35,323
I always thought you wanted
1230
01:11:35,392 --> 01:11:37,759
a puppet President you could boss.
1231
01:11:37,827 --> 01:11:41,262
I called you
a hypocrite,
but you're not.
1232
01:11:41,331 --> 01:11:43,231
You're a very Sincere man...
1233
01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:46,601
And that's
what makes you
so dangerous.
1234
01:11:46,670 --> 01:11:50,104
You have
the sincerity and
will and force.
1235
01:11:50,173 --> 01:11:53,007
You have the drive
of a great fanatic.
1236
01:11:53,076 --> 01:11:56,210
You'll not Rob me
of all I've lived for.
1237
01:11:56,279 --> 01:11:59,280
You'll not ruin the country
with another war.
1238
01:11:59,349 --> 01:12:02,016
I'll live long enough to stop that.
1239
01:12:03,853 --> 01:12:06,220
My policies will go through
1240
01:12:06,289 --> 01:12:08,690
with you out of the way...
1241
01:12:08,758 --> 01:12:11,959
Even if I'm not here to see it.
1242
01:12:13,363 --> 01:12:17,332
Stevens... what's
the matter with you?
1243
01:12:18,868 --> 01:12:21,803
You'd better let me
get you some coffee.
1244
01:12:21,871 --> 01:12:23,171
Huh? No.
1245
01:12:23,239 --> 01:12:25,673
I'll crush you, Johnson.
1246
01:12:25,742 --> 01:12:30,078
I'll save our country yet.
1247
01:12:31,881 --> 01:12:33,548
Stevens.
1248
01:12:34,484 --> 01:12:37,452
Stevens! Major crooks!
1249
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,687
Mr. President.
1250
01:12:41,891 --> 01:12:43,658
What happened?
1251
01:12:43,727 --> 01:12:45,226
Get a doctor.
1252
01:12:45,295 --> 01:12:46,794
Uhh...
1253
01:13:07,817 --> 01:13:10,118
Would you deny any other
tailor his day in court
if you were his lawyers?
1254
01:13:10,186 --> 01:13:12,553
If I took refuge in your
technicalities and cowered
here in the white house
1255
01:13:12,622 --> 01:13:14,355
while you fellows fought
for me in the Senate,
1256
01:13:14,424 --> 01:13:15,857
what could Stevens call me?
1257
01:13:15,925 --> 01:13:17,458
Whatever he calls you,
Mr. President,
1258
01:13:17,527 --> 01:13:20,194
he mustn't spatter you
with mud and filth while
you sit there in person.
1259
01:13:20,263 --> 01:13:22,063
Yes, like a man in the dock.
1260
01:13:22,132 --> 01:13:24,365
A President is more
than a man. He's a symbol
of the whole nation.
1261
01:13:24,434 --> 01:13:26,667
And that's why, for
the sake of the dignity
of your office...
1262
01:13:26,736 --> 01:13:28,936
you can't fool me!
You're afraid if
I went down there,
1263
01:13:29,005 --> 01:13:30,938
Stevens and his gang would bait me
1264
01:13:31,007 --> 01:13:32,874
in making a howling
jackass of myself.
1265
01:13:32,942 --> 01:13:36,744
That's your real reason
for trying to keep me from
going to my own trial.
1266
01:13:36,813 --> 01:13:39,313
Well, I choose to face
my enemies in person.
1267
01:13:39,382 --> 01:13:41,949
I'm going to the capitol.
Come along, gentlemen.
1268
01:13:42,018 --> 01:13:43,684
Andrew...
1269
01:13:43,753 --> 01:13:45,686
Wish me luck, Eliza.
1270
01:13:45,755 --> 01:13:47,555
There's no hurry, Andrew.
1271
01:13:47,624 --> 01:13:50,491
Why sit down there alone
in the President's room
1272
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,326
fidgeting until they summon you?
1273
01:13:52,395 --> 01:13:55,696
The President will
drive to the Senate
a little later.
1274
01:13:55,765 --> 01:13:57,198
Will I have time?
1275
01:13:57,267 --> 01:14:00,468
Oh, yes, Mr. President.
The preliminaries
and the swearing-in
1276
01:14:00,537 --> 01:14:02,470
will take another hour or so.
1277
01:14:02,539 --> 01:14:04,005
You see?
1278
01:14:21,825 --> 01:14:22,723
Reserved seats.
1279
01:14:22,792 --> 01:14:24,258
Reserved seats.
Huh.
1280
01:14:24,327 --> 01:14:26,494
It's like walking
into Ford's theatre
1281
01:14:26,563 --> 01:14:27,862
knowing what's going to happen.
1282
01:14:27,931 --> 01:14:30,698
Yes, another
assassination
of the President.
1283
01:14:30,767 --> 01:14:32,366
Any statement for
the a.P., Mr. Stevens?
1284
01:14:32,435 --> 01:14:35,570
Don't quote me, but
I think I got the tailor
just where I want him.
1285
01:14:35,638 --> 01:14:37,004
But for quotation?
1286
01:14:37,073 --> 01:14:40,274
"The days
of the tyrant are
numbered." Unquote.
1287
01:14:40,343 --> 01:14:43,044
The country's
greatly disturbed
about your illness.
1288
01:14:43,112 --> 01:14:44,912
Tell the country I'm all right.
1289
01:14:44,981 --> 01:14:47,849
I just had
a stroke, that's all.
No further statement.
1290
01:14:47,917 --> 01:14:49,750
Thank you, Mr. Stevens.
1291
01:15:00,897 --> 01:15:05,566
Who's going to carry me
about when you two boys
are dead and gone?
1292
01:15:09,405 --> 01:15:11,806
The President
of the Senate pro tempore
1293
01:15:11,875 --> 01:15:14,442
recognizes the spokesman
for the house of
representatives.
1294
01:15:14,511 --> 01:15:17,378
In the name of the house
of representatives
1295
01:15:17,447 --> 01:15:20,915
and of all the people
of the United States,
1296
01:15:20,984 --> 01:15:22,917
we do impeach Andrew Johnson,
1297
01:15:22,986 --> 01:15:24,886
President of the United States,
1298
01:15:24,954 --> 01:15:27,121
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
1299
01:15:27,190 --> 01:15:30,157
We shall exhibit our
articles of impeachment
1300
01:15:30,226 --> 01:15:31,792
and make them good.
1301
01:15:31,861 --> 01:15:34,395
In fulfillment
of the mandate laid down
1302
01:15:34,464 --> 01:15:37,064
in article one, section 3
of the constitution,
1303
01:15:37,133 --> 01:15:40,868
the Chief Justice of
the supreme court shall
preside over the Senate
1304
01:15:40,937 --> 01:15:44,805
when, as now,
this body is called to sit as
a high court of justice
1305
01:15:44,874 --> 01:15:47,642
in judgment upon the President
of the United States.
1306
01:15:47,710 --> 01:15:51,112
The honorable Chief Justice!
1307
01:15:57,387 --> 01:15:59,287
Your honor.
1308
01:16:06,729 --> 01:16:09,564
The chair recognizes
Mr. Stevens.
1309
01:16:09,632 --> 01:16:11,198
Mr. Chief Justice,
1310
01:16:11,267 --> 01:16:14,735
before the 11 articles
of impeachment
are formally read,
1311
01:16:14,804 --> 01:16:18,339
let me state
to the Senate
and the country
1312
01:16:18,408 --> 01:16:21,609
the essence of our indictment.
1313
01:16:21,678 --> 01:16:25,613
We do not intend
to cite the obvious fact
1314
01:16:25,682 --> 01:16:27,915
that Andrew Johnson is unmindful
1315
01:16:27,984 --> 01:16:30,384
of the dignity of his office...
1316
01:16:30,453 --> 01:16:32,687
his disgraceful speeches of rage,
1317
01:16:32,755 --> 01:16:34,455
if not intoxication.
1318
01:16:34,524 --> 01:16:36,490
We will confine ourselves
1319
01:16:36,559 --> 01:16:39,594
to the constitution and the law.
1320
01:16:39,662 --> 01:16:44,732
Now, in a public speech,
the President of
the United States
1321
01:16:44,801 --> 01:16:48,035
suggested hanging
certain elected
representatives
1322
01:16:48,104 --> 01:16:51,305
of the people, including myself.
1323
01:16:51,374 --> 01:16:54,875
He has denied,
also in a public speech,
1324
01:16:54,944 --> 01:16:58,379
that this congress
is a lawful body.
1325
01:16:58,448 --> 01:17:01,382
He has termed us an "illegal rump"
1326
01:17:01,451 --> 01:17:05,486
because we refuse
to admit what he terms
1327
01:17:05,555 --> 01:17:07,822
"legally elected representatives
1328
01:17:07,890 --> 01:17:10,825
of states in the American union,"
1329
01:17:10,893 --> 01:17:13,861
meaning unreconstructed rebels.
1330
01:17:13,930 --> 01:17:16,530
Now, our main case, however,
1331
01:17:16,599 --> 01:17:19,834
is based on his violation of a law
1332
01:17:19,902 --> 01:17:23,671
passed over his veto by congress:
1333
01:17:23,740 --> 01:17:26,707
The tenure of office act.
1334
01:17:26,776 --> 01:17:29,210
Now, everyone in
the country knows that
1335
01:17:29,278 --> 01:17:33,080
that forbids
a President to dismiss
from his cabinet
1336
01:17:33,149 --> 01:17:36,083
any member who was
belonged to the cabinet
1337
01:17:36,152 --> 01:17:39,286
of a President who died in office.
1338
01:17:39,355 --> 01:17:41,789
Now, in so doing,
1339
01:17:41,858 --> 01:17:46,794
Andrew Johnson, who
was sworn to maintain
the constitution,
1340
01:17:46,863 --> 01:17:51,332
created
the highest possible
constitutional crime.
1341
01:17:51,401 --> 01:17:55,403
If this is condoned,
congress will be powerless.
1342
01:17:55,471 --> 01:17:59,807
It will be ruled over by
an irresponsible tyrant.
1343
01:17:59,876 --> 01:18:04,145
So the house of representatives,
by solemn resolution,
1344
01:18:04,213 --> 01:18:07,882
has instructed us, its managers,
to demand that the Senate,
1345
01:18:07,950 --> 01:18:10,685
as made mandatory
by the constitution,
1346
01:18:10,753 --> 01:18:16,190
forthwith summon and do
justice upon the accused,
Andrew Johnson.
1347
01:18:18,061 --> 01:18:22,663
Hear ye! Hear ye!
Hear ye!
1348
01:18:22,732 --> 01:18:25,633
All persons
are commanded
to keep silent
1349
01:18:25,702 --> 01:18:28,536
while the Senate
of the United States
is sitting for the trial
1350
01:18:28,604 --> 01:18:30,571
of the articles of impeachment.
1351
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:32,073
Summon the accused.
1352
01:18:32,141 --> 01:18:35,076
Andrew Johnson,
President of
the United States,
1353
01:18:35,144 --> 01:18:39,013
appear and answer the
articles of impeachment
exhibited against you
1354
01:18:39,082 --> 01:18:42,783
by the house of representatives
of the United States.
1355
01:18:42,852 --> 01:18:45,086
Andrew Johnson.
1356
01:18:47,190 --> 01:18:49,490
Andrew Johnson.
1357
01:18:51,294 --> 01:18:53,761
Andrew Johnson!
1358
01:19:08,211 --> 01:19:09,610
What's this mean, thad?
1359
01:19:09,679 --> 01:19:12,947
Ahh, Johnson isn't coming.
1360
01:19:13,015 --> 01:19:15,816
Mr. Chief Justice,
the President desires
to be represented
1361
01:19:15,885 --> 01:19:18,652
throughout this trial
solely by his council.
1362
01:19:18,721 --> 01:19:20,187
Mr. Chief Justice,
1363
01:19:20,256 --> 01:19:23,190
the President
has been summoned
and refused to appear.
1364
01:19:23,259 --> 01:19:25,693
This action defies
the Senate, congress,
1365
01:19:25,762 --> 01:19:27,661
and the whole American people.
1366
01:19:27,730 --> 01:19:31,165
We demand that
he be brought
before this tribunal
1367
01:19:31,234 --> 01:19:34,802
and stand his trial
like any other man
accused of crime.
1368
01:19:34,871 --> 01:19:38,739
The constitution does not
require the presence of
the respondent.
1369
01:19:38,808 --> 01:19:42,009
The chair rules that he may,
at his wish, be represented
by council.
1370
01:19:42,078 --> 01:19:45,513
The clerk will now read
the articles of impeachment
1371
01:19:45,581 --> 01:19:49,283
exhibited against Andrew Johnson
by the house of representatives.
1372
01:19:52,755 --> 01:19:58,325
"Whereas Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1373
01:19:58,394 --> 01:20:01,428
has been accused of conduct..."
1374
01:20:03,232 --> 01:20:04,698
Well, blackstone,
it's good to see you.
1375
01:20:04,767 --> 01:20:05,699
Andy.
1376
01:20:05,768 --> 01:20:07,802
Come on in here now and sit down.
1377
01:20:07,870 --> 01:20:09,336
Oh, I, uh,
1378
01:20:09,405 --> 01:20:11,305
I wanted to, uh...
wanted to thank you
1379
01:20:11,374 --> 01:20:14,108
for calming down
the folks back home.
1380
01:20:14,177 --> 01:20:15,643
Sit down, sit down.
1381
01:20:15,711 --> 01:20:18,379
Well, what's on your mind, now?
1382
01:20:19,482 --> 01:20:22,650
Things ain't so good
down there, Andy.
1383
01:20:22,718 --> 01:20:23,984
What, in greeneville?
1384
01:20:24,053 --> 01:20:25,319
The Senate.
1385
01:20:25,388 --> 01:20:27,721
Sitting there at
my trial every day,
1386
01:20:27,790 --> 01:20:29,089
listening to the way
they kick me around
1387
01:20:29,158 --> 01:20:30,758
kind of makes you sore, huh?
1388
01:20:30,827 --> 01:20:32,960
It sure does, Andy.
1389
01:20:33,029 --> 01:20:35,930
Now blackstone,
here's the way
I figure:
1390
01:20:35,998 --> 01:20:38,532
Out of 54 votes, they need 36
1391
01:20:38,601 --> 01:20:40,668
to get the 2/3 for conviction.
1392
01:20:40,736 --> 01:20:43,771
Now we only need 19 for acquittal,
1393
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,773
and we know we got
16 to start with.
1394
01:20:45,842 --> 01:20:48,542
Wish I knew
where those other 3
were coming from.
1395
01:20:48,611 --> 01:20:51,779
Why, from honest
senators who
really believe
1396
01:20:51,848 --> 01:20:53,747
that I violated the constitution
1397
01:20:53,816 --> 01:20:56,650
when I got rid
of that spy
in my cabinet.
1398
01:20:56,719 --> 01:20:58,686
But they'll switch
when they hear
the truth
1399
01:20:58,754 --> 01:21:00,554
from the other cabinet members.
1400
01:21:00,623 --> 01:21:04,792
You go on
back there now and
listen to our side.
1401
01:21:04,861 --> 01:21:06,293
Andy...
1402
01:21:06,362 --> 01:21:09,797
What I come up here for to tell you
1403
01:21:09,866 --> 01:21:13,300
before anybody else did was, uh...
1404
01:21:14,470 --> 01:21:18,038
They ain't gonna let
your witnesses testify.
1405
01:21:18,107 --> 01:21:20,207
Who won't?
1406
01:21:21,344 --> 01:21:22,776
The Chief Justice?
1407
01:21:22,845 --> 01:21:24,645
That's not possible.
He's an honest man.
1408
01:21:24,714 --> 01:21:26,413
Oh, he ruled for you, all right,
1409
01:21:26,482 --> 01:21:28,682
but the Senate
overruled him
on every point.
1410
01:21:29,552 --> 01:21:30,918
Now, now, Andy...
1411
01:21:30,987 --> 01:21:32,953
don't fly off the handle.
1412
01:21:33,022 --> 01:21:35,623
Well, I expected
everything but this.
1413
01:21:37,059 --> 01:21:39,660
Accusations of drunkenness!
1414
01:21:39,729 --> 01:21:41,662
Galleries packed with my enemies
1415
01:21:41,731 --> 01:21:43,631
howling and yelling against me!
1416
01:21:43,699 --> 01:21:46,166
Even that old charge in congress
1417
01:21:46,235 --> 01:21:48,535
that I conspired to murder Lincoln!
1418
01:21:48,604 --> 01:21:51,438
But I never expected this!
1419
01:21:51,507 --> 01:21:55,943
Well, I'll... I'll
issue a statement to
the country right now.
1420
01:21:56,012 --> 01:21:57,444
It's too late, Andy.
1421
01:21:57,513 --> 01:22:00,781
They're gonna start
voting right soon.
1422
01:22:07,023 --> 01:22:12,293
I should have gone
down there and stood up
to them in the beginning.
1423
01:22:14,030 --> 01:22:18,599
This is no state trial.
It's a criminal conspiracy!
1424
01:22:18,668 --> 01:22:21,135
They're... they're doing
this to me
1425
01:22:21,203 --> 01:22:24,138
because I'm trying to
carry out his policies.
1426
01:22:24,206 --> 01:22:27,474
They'd be doing it to him,
too, if he were alive
and in my shoes!
1427
01:22:27,543 --> 01:22:29,510
They'd be trying to destroy the...
1428
01:22:30,546 --> 01:22:32,413
Andrew!
1429
01:22:37,887 --> 01:22:41,455
People all over Washington
are gonna hear me shouting!
1430
01:22:41,524 --> 01:22:43,791
People all over this country are
gonna hear me shouting!
1431
01:22:43,859 --> 01:22:47,027
Those senators up on that hill
are gonna hear me shouting!
1432
01:22:51,300 --> 01:22:55,202
Once more I must caution
the galleries to keep quiet.
1433
01:22:55,271 --> 01:22:56,570
Mr. Chief Justice,
1434
01:22:56,639 --> 01:22:58,605
the case for
the house of
representatives
1435
01:22:58,674 --> 01:23:01,508
and the people of
the United States
is concluded.
1436
01:23:01,577 --> 01:23:05,512
After the closing speech
for the defense has been made,
1437
01:23:05,581 --> 01:23:08,983
vote will be taken upon
the guilt or innocence
1438
01:23:09,051 --> 01:23:11,652
of the President of
the United States.
1439
01:23:13,489 --> 01:23:14,888
Mr. Chief Justice...
1440
01:23:14,957 --> 01:23:16,223
the President!
1441
01:23:16,292 --> 01:23:17,691
The President?
1442
01:23:19,795 --> 01:23:23,163
Mr. President, this is
highly inadvisable.
1443
01:23:23,232 --> 01:23:25,866
You should have notified us.
1444
01:23:27,336 --> 01:23:31,972
I've been waiting
a long time for this.
1445
01:23:33,342 --> 01:23:35,743
Mr. Chief Justice,
the closing speech
for the defense
1446
01:23:35,811 --> 01:23:38,979
will be made
at his own desire
by the respondent.
1447
01:23:39,982 --> 01:23:41,715
That will be in order.
1448
01:23:41,784 --> 01:23:44,685
He'll blow up higher than a kite
1449
01:23:44,754 --> 01:23:47,755
and cook his own goose.
1450
01:23:53,396 --> 01:23:55,029
Mr. Chief Justice...
1451
01:24:19,855 --> 01:24:23,991
will the President
please be seated?
1452
01:24:35,538 --> 01:24:36,904
After repeated warnings,
1453
01:24:36,972 --> 01:24:39,540
the chair now orders
the attendants to
clear the galleries.
1454
01:24:39,608 --> 01:24:40,874
Clear the galleries!
1455
01:24:43,779 --> 01:24:46,713
Mr. Chief Justice,
I protest against
your order
1456
01:24:46,782 --> 01:24:48,348
to exclude
the people from
this chamber
1457
01:24:48,417 --> 01:24:50,584
where their fate is
about to be decided.
1458
01:24:50,653 --> 01:24:53,087
There's an organized
focus of disorder.
1459
01:24:53,155 --> 01:24:54,988
The ruling of the chair must stand.
1460
01:24:57,126 --> 01:24:59,059
I move the
galleries be
not cleared!
1461
01:24:59,128 --> 01:25:00,427
I second the motion!
1462
01:25:00,496 --> 01:25:02,362
Those in favor of
overruling the chair,
1463
01:25:02,431 --> 01:25:04,298
respond by saying aye.
1464
01:25:04,366 --> 01:25:05,699
Aye!
aye!
aye!
1465
01:25:05,768 --> 01:25:07,101
Contrary, no.
1466
01:25:07,169 --> 01:25:08,602
No.
no.
no.
1467
01:25:08,671 --> 01:25:10,104
The ayes have it.
1468
01:25:10,172 --> 01:25:11,705
The galleries will not be cleared.
1469
01:25:19,915 --> 01:25:22,850
The Chief Justice
of the United States
1470
01:25:22,918 --> 01:25:25,886
must now decline to
preside over this body
1471
01:25:25,955 --> 01:25:28,856
while an organized clique
denies respectful hearing
1472
01:25:28,924 --> 01:25:31,725
to the President of
the United States.
1473
01:25:31,794 --> 01:25:34,428
Article 1,
section 3 of the
constitution says
1474
01:25:34,497 --> 01:25:36,563
the Chief Justice must preside
1475
01:25:36,632 --> 01:25:37,831
when the President is impeached.
1476
01:25:37,900 --> 01:25:40,868
True. But I must decline
to continue to do so,
1477
01:25:40,936 --> 01:25:43,871
on the grounds that it
was obviously the intent
of the constitution
1478
01:25:43,939 --> 01:25:46,940
to place the Chief Justice
in the chair in order to
insure a fair trial.
1479
01:25:47,009 --> 01:25:49,343
Under the constitution,
this trial cannot proceed
1480
01:25:49,411 --> 01:25:50,944
without the Chief Justice
in the chair.
1481
01:25:52,515 --> 01:25:56,150
Of course, a way out of
the difficulty might be found
1482
01:25:56,218 --> 01:25:59,253
if the galleries would
cease these interruptions.
1483
01:26:07,863 --> 01:26:10,264
Now that order has been restored,
1484
01:26:10,332 --> 01:26:13,100
the President will proceed.
1485
01:26:19,175 --> 01:26:21,475
Mr. Chief Justice.
1486
01:26:25,581 --> 01:26:28,949
If, as has been charged,
1487
01:26:29,018 --> 01:26:32,419
I have sometimes not
been mindful enough
1488
01:26:32,488 --> 01:26:35,789
of the dignity of my office,
1489
01:26:35,858 --> 01:26:38,926
I am certainly mindful of it now.
1490
01:26:40,229 --> 01:26:44,431
I kept away from my own trial,
1491
01:26:44,500 --> 01:26:47,568
following the best
advice I know of,
1492
01:26:47,636 --> 01:26:51,905
to avoid the sort of
rough-and-tumble
1493
01:26:51,974 --> 01:26:55,042
that would heat up
not only this body
1494
01:26:55,110 --> 01:27:00,180
but the whole country
to a fever point
1495
01:27:00,249 --> 01:27:04,985
where riot and bloodshed
might have swept our people.
1496
01:27:08,624 --> 01:27:12,459
I am charged with the high crime...
1497
01:27:12,528 --> 01:27:15,229
or is it a misdemeanor?
1498
01:27:15,297 --> 01:27:21,335
Of making speeches
in a state of mingled
intoxication and rage.
1499
01:27:21,403 --> 01:27:23,403
You were drunk inauguration day!
1500
01:27:23,472 --> 01:27:24,805
You know you were!
1501
01:27:24,873 --> 01:27:26,673
The attendants will
remove the interrupter!
1502
01:27:26,742 --> 01:27:28,742
Please, Mr. Chief Justice,
1503
01:27:28,811 --> 01:27:32,212
I... i want that man
to hear my answer.
1504
01:27:32,281 --> 01:27:33,981
Very well.
1505
01:27:35,484 --> 01:27:38,385
I have a letter in my pocket.
1506
01:27:38,454 --> 01:27:40,721
I didn't bring it down here
to read to the Senate.
1507
01:27:40,789 --> 01:27:45,359
I have it with me because
I always carry it.
1508
01:27:45,427 --> 01:27:48,228
It's my most precious possession.
1509
01:27:48,297 --> 01:27:52,833
I shall now read a few
lines from this letter
1510
01:27:52,901 --> 01:27:57,704
as my only reference
now or ever to what my...
1511
01:27:57,773 --> 01:28:01,708
My friend in the gallery
has touched upon.
1512
01:28:02,878 --> 01:28:05,545
"You ornery old galoot,
1513
01:28:05,614 --> 01:28:09,049
"if only you took a drink
now and then,
1514
01:28:09,118 --> 01:28:13,320
"you would know enough about
liquor not to fire yourself up
1515
01:28:13,389 --> 01:28:16,823
"with Brandy on an empty stomach
when you're sick.
1516
01:28:16,892 --> 01:28:20,193
"I know you only went through
the ceremony for me
1517
01:28:20,262 --> 01:28:22,229
"because I asked you to.
1518
01:28:22,298 --> 01:28:25,332
"Don't worry at what they say.
1519
01:28:25,401 --> 01:28:29,002
"In hitting at you
they are hitting at me,
1520
01:28:29,071 --> 01:28:31,605
and I don't mind."
1521
01:28:32,775 --> 01:28:35,642
This letter is dated
from the white house
1522
01:28:35,711 --> 01:28:39,713
march 5, 1865.
1523
01:28:43,852 --> 01:28:48,388
I just heard that the Senate
had refused to hear the evidence
1524
01:28:48,457 --> 01:28:50,290
of my cabinet.
1525
01:28:50,359 --> 01:28:55,729
Gentlemen, prepare to prove that
my removal of a cabinet member
1526
01:28:55,798 --> 01:28:59,566
was solely intended
to test the constitutionality
1527
01:28:59,635 --> 01:29:05,005
of the tenure of office act
before the supreme court.
1528
01:29:05,074 --> 01:29:12,512
So... i won't deny that I was
a little hot under the collar
when I left the white house.
1529
01:29:12,581 --> 01:29:16,316
But the ride down Pennsylvania
Avenue cooled me off.
1530
01:29:16,385 --> 01:29:23,290
And I came to realize
that the crime for which
I am being tried here
1531
01:29:23,359 --> 01:29:26,827
is not contained in
the flimsy charges
1532
01:29:26,895 --> 01:29:30,497
trumped up in the articles
of impeachment.
1533
01:29:30,566 --> 01:29:35,335
It appears to have been
one of misunderstanding.
1534
01:29:35,404 --> 01:29:38,839
I thought the war had ended.
1535
01:29:38,907 --> 01:29:43,777
No enemy confronted us
on any field.
1536
01:29:43,846 --> 01:29:49,649
The hand of friendship
was stretched out,
and I clasped it.
1537
01:29:49,718 --> 01:29:52,753
Is forgiveness a crime?
1538
01:29:52,821 --> 01:29:57,290
My enemies think so.
They're not willing to forgive.
1539
01:29:57,359 --> 01:30:01,294
For senators
in this crowded chamber,
1540
01:30:01,363 --> 01:30:05,499
there still stand 20 empty desks.
1541
01:30:05,567 --> 01:30:09,236
Why are those desks empty?
1542
01:30:09,304 --> 01:30:13,206
Where are the senators
who should be sitting at them?
1543
01:30:13,275 --> 01:30:17,043
They have been lawfully elected,
but they're not here.
1544
01:30:17,112 --> 01:30:19,212
Why?
1545
01:30:22,217 --> 01:30:29,122
The man most responsible
for the fact that we are
still at war,
1546
01:30:29,191 --> 01:30:32,826
although the guns are silent,
1547
01:30:32,895 --> 01:30:36,596
sits there at that table.
1548
01:30:36,665 --> 01:30:41,001
I wish to say that he is
a Sincere man.
1549
01:30:41,069 --> 01:30:43,937
It is his honest belief
1550
01:30:44,006 --> 01:30:47,107
that by pardoning
the confederate leaders,
1551
01:30:47,176 --> 01:30:51,778
I made inevitable
another civil war.
1552
01:30:51,847 --> 01:30:58,752
He hates the south
with such consuming passion
1553
01:30:58,821 --> 01:31:02,722
that he thinks, as he has said,
1554
01:31:02,791 --> 01:31:08,428
that it must be kept in
subjugation and slavery
for the next 100 years.
1555
01:31:10,165 --> 01:31:12,599
If I am removed from office,
1556
01:31:12,668 --> 01:31:14,100
the new President,
1557
01:31:14,169 --> 01:31:17,337
who shares the sentiments
of Mr. Stevens,
1558
01:31:17,406 --> 01:31:19,339
will set up a junta
1559
01:31:19,408 --> 01:31:22,976
that will be no government
of United States,
1560
01:31:23,045 --> 01:31:26,446
but a self-perpetuating,
corrupt tyranny
1561
01:31:26,515 --> 01:31:31,485
based upon bayonets,
confiscation,
and disfranchisement.
1562
01:31:33,522 --> 01:31:38,658
Abraham Lincoln fought this war
to restore the union.
1563
01:31:38,727 --> 01:31:41,761
Long ago, the fighting stopped.
1564
01:31:43,332 --> 01:31:46,733
But while those desks remain empty,
1565
01:31:46,802 --> 01:31:48,935
there is no union.
1566
01:31:50,372 --> 01:31:54,274
Senators, while we were
fighting one another,
1567
01:31:54,343 --> 01:31:56,343
a European tyrant,
1568
01:31:56,411 --> 01:31:59,980
master of the strongest army
in the world,
1569
01:32:00,048 --> 01:32:03,416
seized our sister Republic
of Mexico.
1570
01:32:03,485 --> 01:32:07,287
If we continue a divided nation,
the day will come
1571
01:32:07,356 --> 01:32:10,290
when still stronger armies
and fleets from overseas
1572
01:32:10,359 --> 01:32:15,295
will conquer and enslave
not only our central and
south American brethren,
1573
01:32:15,364 --> 01:32:18,131
but ourselves as well.
1574
01:32:22,404 --> 01:32:24,304
As our forefathers knew,
1575
01:32:24,373 --> 01:32:28,275
united we stand, divided we fall.
1576
01:32:28,343 --> 01:32:34,047
Senators, the issue before you
and before the whole country
1577
01:32:34,116 --> 01:32:37,217
is not my faith as an individual.
1578
01:32:37,286 --> 01:32:42,289
It is the issue of union
or disunion,
1579
01:32:42,357 --> 01:32:45,692
and upon its solution depends,
1580
01:32:45,761 --> 01:32:49,029
for our descendants
if not ourselves,
1581
01:32:49,097 --> 01:32:52,332
this nation's survival
1582
01:32:52,401 --> 01:32:55,535
or its destruction.
1583
01:32:57,739 --> 01:33:01,207
The event is in the hands of god.
1584
01:33:19,394 --> 01:33:22,162
Order must be maintained
in the galleries.
1585
01:33:22,230 --> 01:33:24,798
The clerk will now call the roll.
1586
01:33:24,866 --> 01:33:25,765
Mr. Albert.
1587
01:33:25,834 --> 01:33:28,735
Mr. senator Albert,
how say you?
1588
01:33:28,804 --> 01:33:31,004
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
1589
01:33:31,073 --> 01:33:32,706
President of the United States,
1590
01:33:32,774 --> 01:33:35,041
guilty or not guilty?
1591
01:33:35,110 --> 01:33:36,109
Guilty.
1592
01:33:40,415 --> 01:33:41,848
What goes on?
1593
01:33:41,917 --> 01:33:43,350
It's huyler.
He's fainted.
1594
01:33:43,418 --> 01:33:47,187
Go get a doctor!
We can't do without him!
1595
01:33:47,255 --> 01:33:48,688
Mr. Arnold.
1596
01:33:48,757 --> 01:33:51,091
Mr. senator Arnold,
how say you?
1597
01:33:51,159 --> 01:33:53,093
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
1598
01:33:53,161 --> 01:33:55,095
President of the United States,
1599
01:33:55,163 --> 01:33:57,464
guilty or not guilty?
1600
01:33:57,532 --> 01:33:58,865
Not guilty.
1601
01:34:05,507 --> 01:34:07,140
Mr. President.
1602
01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:15,248
Andrew, Andrew.
1603
01:34:16,918 --> 01:34:19,352
Oh, Andrew.
1604
01:34:19,421 --> 01:34:21,321
As my husband,
1605
01:34:21,390 --> 01:34:24,791
you've always held
my love and respect,
1606
01:34:24,860 --> 01:34:28,695
but today you really
stand forth for me.
1607
01:34:28,764 --> 01:34:31,898
The President of the United States.
1608
01:34:31,967 --> 01:34:35,402
Well, Eliza, I'm glad
to hear you say that,
1609
01:34:35,470 --> 01:34:38,338
since I'm not likely
to hold this job
1610
01:34:38,407 --> 01:34:41,341
for more than a couple
of minutes longer.
1611
01:34:41,410 --> 01:34:43,343
Well, if that should be true,
1612
01:34:43,412 --> 01:34:46,880
nothing, nothing in your presidency
1613
01:34:46,948 --> 01:34:48,882
has become you so much
1614
01:34:48,950 --> 01:34:51,251
as your leaving it.
1615
01:34:55,290 --> 01:34:56,623
Then this means
if you can vote huyler...
1616
01:34:56,692 --> 01:34:58,124
we'll vote him.
1617
01:34:58,193 --> 01:34:59,192
We're gonna
carry him in,
drag him in.
1618
01:34:59,261 --> 01:35:00,193
The voting's nearly over.
1619
01:35:00,262 --> 01:35:01,394
Come on.
1620
01:35:01,463 --> 01:35:04,064
Man, even with Howard,
the whole thing turns on me.
1621
01:35:04,132 --> 01:35:06,499
Just think what it means,
asking me to make
myself President
1622
01:35:06,568 --> 01:35:08,601
with my own single vote...
judge in my own cause.
1623
01:35:08,670 --> 01:35:10,904
Stevens isn't
asking you.
He's telling you.
1624
01:35:10,972 --> 01:35:12,806
But he agreed
the dignified thing
was for me to sit there
1625
01:35:12,874 --> 01:35:14,708
and just answer "present"
when they called my name.
1626
01:35:14,776 --> 01:35:16,242
He told you that when he thought
1627
01:35:16,311 --> 01:35:17,610
we could win without you.
1628
01:35:17,679 --> 01:35:19,846
What will the country
say if the case
turns on my vote?
1629
01:35:19,915 --> 01:35:21,381
What will history say?
1630
01:35:21,450 --> 01:35:24,384
Mr. senator Vincent,
how say you?
1631
01:35:24,453 --> 01:35:25,652
Is the...
guilty.
1632
01:35:25,721 --> 01:35:26,619
Senator Vincent,
1633
01:35:26,688 --> 01:35:28,121
is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
1634
01:35:28,190 --> 01:35:29,989
President of the United States,
1635
01:35:30,058 --> 01:35:30,990
guilty or not guilty?
1636
01:35:31,059 --> 01:35:32,292
Guilty.
1637
01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:34,594
Mr. waters.
1638
01:35:34,663 --> 01:35:38,164
Mr. senator waters,
how say you?
1639
01:35:38,233 --> 01:35:40,266
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
1640
01:35:40,335 --> 01:35:42,335
President of the United States,
1641
01:35:42,404 --> 01:35:44,137
guilty or not guilty?
1642
01:35:46,975 --> 01:35:48,074
Guilty.
1643
01:35:48,143 --> 01:35:50,410
Good old Jim.
1644
01:35:50,479 --> 01:35:51,945
We're still one short.
1645
01:35:52,013 --> 01:35:54,914
Well, huyler can still
vote if he gets here
1646
01:35:54,983 --> 01:35:56,316
before the acquittal's announced.
1647
01:35:56,384 --> 01:35:57,784
He's unconscious.
1648
01:35:57,853 --> 01:35:59,252
Well, bring him to.
1649
01:35:59,321 --> 01:36:02,322
We mustn't lose
the country by one vote.
1650
01:36:09,498 --> 01:36:10,797
I think we're safe.
1651
01:36:10,866 --> 01:36:12,031
I'm must go and tell him.
1652
01:36:12,100 --> 01:36:13,133
Not so fast.
1653
01:36:13,201 --> 01:36:14,601
The formalities will
take another minute.
1654
01:36:14,669 --> 01:36:16,136
We might still lose
1655
01:36:16,204 --> 01:36:17,737
if they get huyler in here to vote.
1656
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:20,240
Upon the roll call,
1657
01:36:20,308 --> 01:36:21,775
53 votes were cast,
1658
01:36:21,843 --> 01:36:25,612
and one senator did not
answer to his name.
1659
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:27,113
Under the constitution...
1660
01:36:27,182 --> 01:36:28,581
Huyler just came to.
1661
01:36:28,650 --> 01:36:30,617
They're dragging him in here.
1662
01:36:30,685 --> 01:36:33,620
Hurry up. I'll keep
the Chief Justice
1663
01:36:33,688 --> 01:36:35,121
from finishing the announcement.
1664
01:36:35,190 --> 01:36:36,856
...necessary
for conviction.
1665
01:36:38,627 --> 01:36:40,059
Mr. Chief Justice,
1666
01:36:40,128 --> 01:36:43,062
in the name of
the house of
representatives
1667
01:36:43,131 --> 01:36:46,432
and of the people of
the United States,
I protest!
1668
01:36:46,501 --> 01:36:48,434
Senator huyler has
publicly announced
1669
01:36:48,503 --> 01:36:49,536
he was going to vote guilty!
1670
01:36:50,639 --> 01:36:52,672
The manager is out of order.
1671
01:36:52,741 --> 01:36:54,207
Senator huyler must vote.
1672
01:36:54,276 --> 01:36:57,210
His vote
is necessary to
save the country.
1673
01:36:57,279 --> 01:37:00,213
Would you throw the
nation into chaos
1674
01:37:00,282 --> 01:37:03,516
and start
a new civil war on
a point of order?
1675
01:37:03,585 --> 01:37:05,318
Andrew Johnson,
1676
01:37:05,387 --> 01:37:07,821
President of the United States,
1677
01:37:07,889 --> 01:37:10,990
has been adjudged guilty
by 35 senators.
1678
01:37:11,059 --> 01:37:15,328
If this outrage
is consummated
on this floor,
1679
01:37:15,397 --> 01:37:17,864
guns and knives
will be brought
into play
1680
01:37:17,933 --> 01:37:19,332
within the hour...
1681
01:37:19,401 --> 01:37:20,867
on every street corner,
1682
01:37:20,936 --> 01:37:25,238
in every city,
town, and Hamlet in
the United States!
1683
01:37:25,307 --> 01:37:28,308
You stand in most
gross contempt, sir!
1684
01:37:28,376 --> 01:37:30,243
Remove Mr. Stevens
from the floor.
1685
01:37:30,312 --> 01:37:33,246
Senator huyler's
vote should be
counted, anyhow.
1686
01:37:33,315 --> 01:37:36,182
Everyone knows
it was pledged
against Johnson.
1687
01:37:36,251 --> 01:37:38,785
A new civil war,
that's what
you're starting...
1688
01:37:38,854 --> 01:37:40,253
a new civil war.
1689
01:37:40,322 --> 01:37:42,856
This is the most
gross miscarriage
of justice
1690
01:37:42,924 --> 01:37:44,357
in human history.
1691
01:37:44,426 --> 01:37:47,360
If the Chief Justice
pronounces those words
1692
01:37:47,429 --> 01:37:49,996
that are even now
trembling on his tongue,
1693
01:37:50,065 --> 01:37:52,999
the only hope for
the salvation of this...
1694
01:37:54,669 --> 01:37:55,602
Here's huyler!
1695
01:38:07,916 --> 01:38:09,315
There you are, huyler.
1696
01:38:09,384 --> 01:38:10,850
Good, old boy.
1697
01:38:10,919 --> 01:38:12,252
I knew we could count on you.
1698
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:15,054
Mr. Chief Justice,
the roll call was completed.
1699
01:38:15,123 --> 01:38:17,056
The President stands
acquitted by one vote.
1700
01:38:17,125 --> 01:38:18,725
Mr. Chief Justice,
1701
01:38:18,793 --> 01:38:22,128
under the rules,
any senator who
appears on the floor
1702
01:38:22,197 --> 01:38:24,497
before the result
has been announced
1703
01:38:24,566 --> 01:38:26,332
has the right to vote!
1704
01:38:32,340 --> 01:38:36,009
The chair had not completed
the announcement.
1705
01:38:36,077 --> 01:38:38,778
The clerk will call
senator huyler's name.
1706
01:38:38,847 --> 01:38:40,380
Mr. huyler.
1707
01:38:43,318 --> 01:38:45,118
Mr. senator huyler,
how say you?
1708
01:38:45,186 --> 01:38:47,153
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
1709
01:38:47,222 --> 01:38:49,155
President of the United States,
1710
01:38:49,224 --> 01:38:51,925
guilty or not guilty?
1711
01:38:53,828 --> 01:38:56,696
The senator need not rise.
1712
01:38:58,733 --> 01:39:00,199
My...
1713
01:39:02,537 --> 01:39:07,006
My vote is pledged.
1714
01:39:18,820 --> 01:39:20,887
I say...
1715
01:39:22,390 --> 01:39:23,957
Not guilty.
1716
01:39:44,112 --> 01:39:46,913
You're acquitted, sir.
1717
01:39:46,982 --> 01:39:48,548
Andrew! Andrew!
1718
01:39:48,616 --> 01:39:50,016
35 to 19.
1719
01:39:50,085 --> 01:39:51,284
Senator huyler's vote.
1720
01:39:53,421 --> 01:39:55,054
One vote!
1721
01:39:55,123 --> 01:39:57,423
Mr. President,
congratulations!
1722
01:39:57,492 --> 01:39:58,891
35 to 19!
1723
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:00,426
Huyler decided it.
1724
01:40:00,495 --> 01:40:03,429
You should have seen
thad Stevens' face!
1725
01:40:08,436 --> 01:40:10,370
On behalf of President Grant,
1726
01:40:10,438 --> 01:40:13,373
of the Senate,
and of the entire nation,
1727
01:40:13,441 --> 01:40:17,577
the chair extends welcome
to the new senator elect.
1728
01:40:59,788 --> 01:41:03,122
Before the gentleman
from Tennessee is
escorted to the bar
1729
01:41:03,191 --> 01:41:04,791
to take the oath of office,
1730
01:41:04,859 --> 01:41:07,160
the Senate would welcome
a few remarks
1731
01:41:07,228 --> 01:41:11,664
from the only former
President to be elected
a member of this body
1732
01:41:11,733 --> 01:41:13,566
after he left the white house.
1733
01:41:13,635 --> 01:41:16,069
Mr. President.
1734
01:41:18,173 --> 01:41:20,373
Senators.
1735
01:41:22,644 --> 01:41:27,480
My... my fellow
Americans.
1736
01:41:29,484 --> 01:41:34,020
When I last occupied this...
1737
01:41:34,089 --> 01:41:37,924
this seat in 1861,
1738
01:41:37,992 --> 01:41:41,594
I was surrounded by empty desks.
1739
01:41:43,431 --> 01:41:47,967
Now I see that they
are no longer vacant.
1740
01:41:49,204 --> 01:41:56,776
Virginia and the carolinas,
Alabama, Louisiana,
1741
01:41:56,845 --> 01:42:06,285
and Texas, Mississippi, Florida,
Arkansas, and Georgia.
1742
01:42:08,289 --> 01:42:12,625
You are all back in the fold
1743
01:42:12,694 --> 01:42:17,530
as Tennessee stands here
in your midst.
1744
01:42:21,136 --> 01:42:22,869
I...
1745
01:42:24,472 --> 01:42:29,308
I see as I greet you
who sit here about me
1746
01:42:29,377 --> 01:42:37,316
that what Lincoln fought for,
lived for...
1747
01:42:37,385 --> 01:42:42,755
And died for, at long last,
has come to pass...
1748
01:42:44,058 --> 01:42:46,993
The union of these states.
1749
01:42:47,061 --> 01:42:52,532
One and inseparable.
1750
01:42:54,569 --> 01:42:57,737
Now and forever.
1751
01:43:08,883 --> 01:43:11,784
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