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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:45,962 --> 00:00:48,005 Old Abe Lincoln. 2 00:00:48,089 --> 00:00:52,510 Came out of the wilderness. 3 00:00:52,593 --> 00:00:56,180 Out of the wilderness. 4 00:00:56,264 --> 00:01:00,017 Out of the wilderness. 5 00:01:00,101 --> 00:01:02,562 Old Abe Lincoln. 6 00:01:02,645 --> 00:01:07,733 Came out of the wilderness. 7 00:01:08,234 --> 00:01:13,739 Down in Illinois. 8 00:01:47,690 --> 00:01:52,278 Snow all winter, cloudbursts all spring, food just about gone. 9 00:01:52,361 --> 00:01:54,155 There's nothing in the ground coming up. 10 00:01:54,238 --> 00:01:56,407 If we stay here much longer, we'll starve. 11 00:01:56,490 --> 00:01:59,243 You're always saying the same thing, Tom, no matter where we go. 12 00:01:59,410 --> 00:02:02,121 "Pull up stakes and git" is all you ever think about. 13 00:02:02,288 --> 00:02:05,708 We got nothing to worry about, Pa. Rain don't last forever. 14 00:02:05,791 --> 00:02:08,085 Even if it stopped, you wouldn't notice it, 15 00:02:08,169 --> 00:02:11,881 seeing as how your everlasting got your nose stuck in some book. 16 00:02:11,964 --> 00:02:13,257 What you reading now? 17 00:02:13,341 --> 00:02:15,718 That book Squire Noble give me back in Indiana. 18 00:02:16,302 --> 00:02:17,386 It's called Shakespeare. 19 00:02:18,387 --> 00:02:20,806 What in the name of tarnation mockery is that? 20 00:02:21,682 --> 00:02:23,100 It's kind of poetry. 21 00:02:23,601 --> 00:02:24,601 Poetry? 22 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:27,688 Hmm. My son. 23 00:02:27,980 --> 00:02:30,524 Maybe, if he ever gets time to get himself an education, 24 00:02:30,608 --> 00:02:32,985 maybe someday he'll write poetry. 25 00:02:36,739 --> 00:02:38,449 Over my dead body, he will. 26 00:02:38,991 --> 00:02:41,535 Well, it's settled. We're all ready to go. 27 00:02:41,619 --> 00:02:42,662 Go where? 28 00:02:42,745 --> 00:02:45,456 Didn't Abe tell you? A fella named... 29 00:02:45,539 --> 00:02:48,042 Leave me tell them, John. You talk too slow. 30 00:02:48,125 --> 00:02:51,337 There's a trader named Denton Offut wants me and John and Abe 31 00:02:51,420 --> 00:02:53,464 to take a flatboat of hogs down to New Orleans. 32 00:02:53,631 --> 00:02:56,092 He wasn't sure we was the men for it but we convinced him. 33 00:02:56,175 --> 00:02:58,636 - Good money? - $20 a month, a piece. 34 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:01,639 We're starting from a town called Springfield up the Sangamon River. 35 00:03:01,722 --> 00:03:03,082 - When? - Right now. 36 00:03:03,140 --> 00:03:05,518 Come on, Abe. Yeah. If we don't hurry, we'll lose the job. 37 00:03:05,601 --> 00:03:09,855 Who'd have thunk anyone in this family would ever make $20 a month? 38 00:03:12,983 --> 00:03:14,193 So you're going, Abe? 39 00:03:18,197 --> 00:03:19,740 I guess I better do it, Ma. 40 00:03:26,580 --> 00:03:29,291 I know I can trust the old man to your care, Ma. 41 00:03:29,458 --> 00:03:30,960 And we can trust you, Abe. 42 00:03:31,627 --> 00:03:32,878 You're a good boy. 43 00:03:33,629 --> 00:03:35,923 I couldn't have loved you more if you'd been my own son. 44 00:03:37,133 --> 00:03:40,344 I'll always be thanking you, Ma, for your great kindness to me. 45 00:03:42,179 --> 00:03:43,973 Wherever you go, whatever you do, 46 00:03:44,724 --> 00:03:46,600 you remember what the Good Book says, 47 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:49,145 "The world passeth, 48 00:03:49,979 --> 00:03:53,858 but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." 49 00:03:56,652 --> 00:03:58,195 I'll remember, Ma. 50 00:03:59,363 --> 00:04:00,363 Goodbye. 51 00:04:01,866 --> 00:04:02,908 Goodbye... 52 00:04:04,034 --> 00:04:05,077 dear Abe. 53 00:04:26,056 --> 00:04:27,558 The last time I was down south, 54 00:04:27,641 --> 00:04:29,786 they was already talking about annexing the United States. 55 00:04:29,810 --> 00:04:33,355 I tell you, these suckers up here don't know their head from an ax handle. 56 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:36,066 - I remember one time... - There's a town over there, Mr. Offut. 57 00:04:36,859 --> 00:04:38,778 Yeah. That's New Salem. 58 00:04:39,528 --> 00:04:40,780 Right pretty little place. 59 00:04:40,863 --> 00:04:42,823 It's going to be bigger than Springfield someday. 60 00:04:43,824 --> 00:04:45,159 No, you don't! No, you don't! 61 00:04:46,202 --> 00:04:49,914 I got all my rag money and shin-plasters wrapped up in you little squealers, 62 00:04:49,997 --> 00:04:52,291 and I don't calculate to lose it in the Sangamon. 63 00:04:53,459 --> 00:04:54,543 Heel her over, Abe! 64 00:04:54,877 --> 00:04:56,879 Heel her over! Milldam just ahead! 65 00:05:02,676 --> 00:05:04,804 Heel her over, Abe! Heel her over. 66 00:05:06,263 --> 00:05:07,807 Heel her over, boys. Heel her over. 67 00:05:08,557 --> 00:05:09,725 I'm a-heeling. 68 00:05:30,913 --> 00:05:33,290 Never mind me. Get them pigs! 69 00:06:42,484 --> 00:06:45,070 - My name's Abe Lincoln. - And mine's Ann Rutledge. 70 00:06:46,113 --> 00:06:48,282 I don't know the name of the pig. 71 00:06:48,407 --> 00:06:51,327 Where are you going with all those pigs? 72 00:06:51,452 --> 00:06:54,705 New Orleans, if we don't hit any more milldams on the way. 73 00:06:55,039 --> 00:06:56,415 You live here, Miss Rutledge? 74 00:06:56,749 --> 00:07:00,586 Yes. I suppose it doesn't look like much to a traveled man like you. 75 00:07:00,711 --> 00:07:03,881 Looks like a fine place to me, fine people. 76 00:07:03,964 --> 00:07:06,383 If you think I like to travel, you're wrong. 77 00:07:06,467 --> 00:07:09,136 I'm only doing it 'cause I got to, same as the pigs. 78 00:07:09,678 --> 00:07:11,347 Hey! Hey! 79 00:07:12,389 --> 00:07:14,433 I guess I got to be going. 80 00:07:15,309 --> 00:07:16,560 Goodbye, Miss Rutledge. 81 00:07:16,644 --> 00:07:18,854 I'm pleased to have made your acquaintance. 82 00:07:18,938 --> 00:07:20,147 Goodbye, Mr. Lincoln. 83 00:07:20,814 --> 00:07:21,941 Good luck. 84 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:29,531 Fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty. 85 00:07:30,407 --> 00:07:31,575 Looks like we got them all. 86 00:07:32,201 --> 00:07:34,703 Nice people, them people. You know what? 87 00:07:35,162 --> 00:07:37,748 Soon as I get back, I'm going to open up a store in that town. 88 00:07:38,374 --> 00:07:40,626 Think you'd like to work for me? Abe? 89 00:07:41,126 --> 00:07:42,126 Yes, sir. 90 00:07:42,169 --> 00:07:43,671 - Did you hear me? - No, sir. 91 00:07:44,004 --> 00:07:46,882 I said I'm going to open up a store in that town as soon as I get back. 92 00:07:47,132 --> 00:07:48,842 - Do you want to work for me? - Yes, Sir. 93 00:07:53,222 --> 00:07:54,390 I sure do. 94 00:08:11,782 --> 00:08:13,951 With all I know about Denton Offut, 95 00:08:14,034 --> 00:08:17,037 I can bet you a coonskin cap against your Sunday pants, 96 00:08:17,121 --> 00:08:19,415 he don't show up in New Salem like he promised. 97 00:08:19,498 --> 00:08:21,792 Well, if he don't, he don't then. That's simple, ain't it? 98 00:08:22,209 --> 00:08:23,711 You got other interests in New Salem? 99 00:08:23,794 --> 00:08:25,212 Nope. Don't know anybody. 100 00:08:25,295 --> 00:08:29,591 Well, nobody excepting Ann Rutledge, maybe. You know her? 101 00:08:29,675 --> 00:08:31,510 Who don't? Her pa owns the tavern. 102 00:08:32,177 --> 00:08:33,512 Where did you meet her? 103 00:08:33,595 --> 00:08:36,390 I was with a pig, and she spoke to me first. 104 00:08:54,116 --> 00:08:56,243 We was pioneers in them days, 105 00:08:56,493 --> 00:08:59,121 and we didn't have no luxuries to live on like we got today. 106 00:08:59,538 --> 00:09:02,416 We didn't have no cutlets with gravy and corn dodgers. 107 00:09:02,833 --> 00:09:04,001 No, sirree! 108 00:09:04,460 --> 00:09:07,629 Fried salt pork was a Sunday dish in them days. 109 00:09:07,713 --> 00:09:09,715 What did you eat on Saturday, Ben, beans? 110 00:09:13,052 --> 00:09:15,512 - What's happening? - Election day. That's old Ben Mattling. 111 00:09:15,929 --> 00:09:17,723 Makes the same speech every year. 112 00:09:19,183 --> 00:09:20,726 But we didn't complain, neither! 113 00:09:21,268 --> 00:09:23,395 We fought in the revolutionary war. 114 00:09:23,771 --> 00:09:26,398 We weren't no milksops like you are today. 115 00:09:26,815 --> 00:09:30,986 If the country is going to the dogs, why don't you do something about it? 116 00:09:31,153 --> 00:09:33,530 I'm talking to you like a soldier. 117 00:09:33,864 --> 00:09:36,742 I helped to found this miserable country. 118 00:09:37,076 --> 00:09:39,536 Didn't you get no assistance from Washington and Jefferson? 119 00:09:41,288 --> 00:09:43,040 Shut up, Jack. Let him talk. 120 00:09:43,290 --> 00:09:45,793 Now what I want to know is this... 121 00:09:47,044 --> 00:09:48,670 How are you going to vote today? 122 00:09:48,754 --> 00:09:51,715 We'll vote as we goshdarn please, you old windbag. 123 00:09:51,799 --> 00:09:53,467 Come on, boys. Let's go get some liquor. 124 00:09:53,550 --> 00:09:56,470 - Who's going to pay for it, Jack? - Who said anything about paying? 125 00:09:56,553 --> 00:10:00,808 In the year 1776, we stated the proposition 126 00:10:00,891 --> 00:10:02,893 that all men were created equal, 127 00:10:03,644 --> 00:10:04,812 and now look at us! 128 00:10:07,898 --> 00:10:10,359 You keep out of here, you low scum, you! 129 00:10:10,442 --> 00:10:12,236 You'll get no liquor from me today or any day 130 00:10:12,319 --> 00:10:13,946 till you learn how to behave yourselves. 131 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:17,449 I believe I said we want liquor. Did you hear me say it, Mr. McNeil? 132 00:10:17,533 --> 00:10:19,827 Go easy, Armstrong. We don't want any trouble here. 133 00:10:19,910 --> 00:10:21,829 Oh? And what's more, we won't have any trouble. 134 00:10:21,912 --> 00:10:23,056 Don't you fight with him, John. 135 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,208 No, John, don't you fight with me if you want to keep your health! 136 00:10:26,291 --> 00:10:27,291 Let him go, I tell you! 137 00:10:27,459 --> 00:10:28,794 Afraid I might do something 138 00:10:28,877 --> 00:10:30,754 to that pretty face of your future husband? 139 00:10:30,879 --> 00:10:33,966 Never mind, Miss Annie. I won't damage him. 140 00:10:34,341 --> 00:10:36,260 If he's what you want, you can have him. 141 00:10:38,428 --> 00:10:40,514 And since you ain't got the hospitality to invite us, 142 00:10:40,597 --> 00:10:43,100 I guess we might as well help ourselves. Come on, boys! 143 00:10:49,273 --> 00:10:50,816 Our clothes was all wore out. 144 00:10:50,899 --> 00:10:53,569 Our shoes was all wore out. And most of... 145 00:10:53,652 --> 00:10:55,922 The Clarey's Grove boys, they're getting drunk, all of them. 146 00:10:55,946 --> 00:10:58,365 They'll break up the whole tavern. Can't anybody do anything? 147 00:10:58,991 --> 00:11:00,492 Can't you speak to them, Judge Green? 148 00:11:00,576 --> 00:11:03,120 I'm afraid, Miss Ann, it wouldn't do a particle of good. 149 00:11:03,245 --> 00:11:06,540 You're right, Judge. Not a particle of good. 150 00:11:07,082 --> 00:11:09,585 I tell you, you ought to listen to what the Judge says. 151 00:11:11,128 --> 00:11:13,338 He's got a round belly but a level head. 152 00:11:13,964 --> 00:11:16,800 Nobody can do nothing with me without licking me first. 153 00:11:17,050 --> 00:11:19,344 - If was a mite younger... - Easy, Ben. 154 00:11:23,932 --> 00:11:25,809 I'm the big buck of this lick, 155 00:11:26,351 --> 00:11:29,271 and any of you want to wet your horns, all you got to do is... 156 00:11:32,232 --> 00:11:33,275 give that hat a kick. 157 00:11:36,153 --> 00:11:38,989 Don't you worry, Trum. Nobody will dare to damage it. 158 00:11:41,533 --> 00:11:43,076 You want to fight, stranger? 159 00:11:43,660 --> 00:11:44,786 Not particularly. 160 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:46,788 If you change your mind, there's the hat. 161 00:11:47,289 --> 00:11:50,167 If I were a man, Jack Armstrong, I'd give you the thrashing you deserve. 162 00:11:52,878 --> 00:11:55,464 You ain't a man, Miss Annie, and praise be for that. 163 00:11:56,006 --> 00:11:58,550 You're a female, and a pretty goshdarn appealing one. 164 00:11:58,967 --> 00:12:01,345 Can't you see I'm the only man there is in this measly town? 165 00:12:01,553 --> 00:12:02,553 Leave go of me! 166 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:07,893 I changed my mind. 167 00:12:11,688 --> 00:12:13,565 Excuse me, mister, but it had to be done. 168 00:12:13,649 --> 00:12:14,983 Better be careful, stranger. 169 00:12:15,067 --> 00:12:17,110 You're up against the greatest fighter in this town. 170 00:12:17,194 --> 00:12:19,863 Thank you, gentlemen, but we've all got to learn sometime. 171 00:12:23,033 --> 00:12:25,619 That's the spirit, Mr. Flop Ears. 172 00:12:27,663 --> 00:12:28,663 Shake hands? 173 00:12:29,581 --> 00:12:30,666 Pleasure. 174 00:12:36,421 --> 00:12:39,341 That was quite a hearty handshake. 175 00:12:39,424 --> 00:12:40,759 He's bad medicine. 176 00:12:41,426 --> 00:12:42,427 When I was a boy, 177 00:12:42,511 --> 00:12:47,182 I didn't like molasses and sulfur either but I got so I could take it. 178 00:12:50,852 --> 00:12:51,937 Want another? 179 00:12:52,145 --> 00:12:53,438 Shouldn't be surprised. 180 00:13:16,628 --> 00:13:17,628 Watch him! 181 00:13:19,965 --> 00:13:20,966 Get him! 182 00:13:34,604 --> 00:13:35,604 Get him! 183 00:13:59,546 --> 00:14:00,546 Watch him! 184 00:14:01,256 --> 00:14:02,299 Get him! 185 00:14:04,134 --> 00:14:05,510 Watch out for his dirty tricks. 186 00:14:14,394 --> 00:14:17,856 Lick him, stranger, and you'll be my friend for life. 187 00:14:39,961 --> 00:14:42,130 That's it! That's it! Go after him! 188 00:14:50,055 --> 00:14:51,515 Are you satisfied? 189 00:14:52,432 --> 00:14:53,475 I'm satisfied. 190 00:14:55,394 --> 00:14:57,646 Also, I'm quite considerable surprised. 191 00:14:58,438 --> 00:14:59,481 So am I. 192 00:15:00,273 --> 00:15:02,835 - It was an accident. - Stranger didn't fight fair. 193 00:15:02,859 --> 00:15:04,403 - Rassle him again, Jack. - No, sir. 194 00:15:04,861 --> 00:15:07,447 No more rassling with this long-legged son of vengeance. 195 00:15:08,156 --> 00:15:12,202 I'm here to admit to one and all that New Salem has a new champion. 196 00:15:13,912 --> 00:15:14,913 Congratulations. 197 00:15:14,996 --> 00:15:16,081 Fine work. 198 00:15:17,499 --> 00:15:19,000 That was good work, Mr. Lincoln. 199 00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,020 You're the man we've been waiting for in New Salem. 200 00:15:21,044 --> 00:15:22,921 Thank you for remembering my name. 201 00:15:23,004 --> 00:15:24,047 Oh, you've met before? 202 00:15:24,506 --> 00:15:26,508 In a sort of informal way. 203 00:15:26,967 --> 00:15:28,218 I hope you'll be staying here. 204 00:15:28,301 --> 00:15:29,678 I hope so, Miss Rutledge. 205 00:15:39,312 --> 00:15:41,231 Looks like we'll have to delay the voting. 206 00:15:41,314 --> 00:15:42,667 We haven't anyone to act as clerk yet. 207 00:15:42,691 --> 00:15:44,776 - Here you are, stranger. - Oh, thank you. 208 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:46,194 - What's your name? - Lincoln. 209 00:15:46,319 --> 00:15:48,530 - Abraham Lincoln. - My name is Joshua Speed. 210 00:15:48,697 --> 00:15:49,531 Glad to meet you. 211 00:15:49,614 --> 00:15:51,300 Let me introduce you to our leading citizens. 212 00:15:51,324 --> 00:15:52,951 - Judge Bowling Green. - How do you do? 213 00:15:53,034 --> 00:15:54,703 And Mr. Mentor Graham, our schoolmaster. 214 00:15:54,786 --> 00:15:55,787 Glad to meet all of you. 215 00:15:55,871 --> 00:15:57,372 Good afternoon. Can you write? 216 00:15:57,789 --> 00:15:59,749 I guess I can make a few hen tracks. 217 00:16:01,209 --> 00:16:04,212 Good. Then you can help tabulate votes. Give him the oath, Bowling. 218 00:16:04,379 --> 00:16:06,506 Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. 219 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:09,843 I, Abraham Lincoln, do solemnly swear to uphold the constitution... 220 00:16:09,926 --> 00:16:11,052 Wait a minute, mister. 221 00:16:11,303 --> 00:16:12,596 What are you getting me into? 222 00:16:12,679 --> 00:16:14,866 He wants to put you to work for the government, Mr. Lincoln. 223 00:16:14,890 --> 00:16:17,142 No, you don't. I don't want to be no politician. 224 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,104 Hey, nonsense. All you're going to do is to see 225 00:16:21,188 --> 00:16:23,482 that we get an honest vote. Come on now, take the oath. 226 00:16:23,607 --> 00:16:25,108 Go ahead, Mr. Lincoln. 227 00:16:25,192 --> 00:16:27,819 You're the only one those Clarey's Grove boys will respect. 228 00:16:30,322 --> 00:16:31,490 All right, Mr... 229 00:16:31,573 --> 00:16:32,782 Gale. Seth Gale. 230 00:16:33,241 --> 00:16:35,494 - Howdy. - Same to you. 231 00:16:40,248 --> 00:16:43,585 I, Abraham Lincoln, do solemnly swear 232 00:16:43,668 --> 00:16:45,462 to uphold the constitution... 233 00:16:45,754 --> 00:16:47,514 ...of the United States of America. 234 00:16:48,965 --> 00:16:51,134 ...of the United States of America. 235 00:16:57,724 --> 00:16:58,975 Let's see now. 236 00:16:59,142 --> 00:17:02,729 I got my hickory shirt, and I got my pound of beans, 237 00:17:03,438 --> 00:17:05,357 and give me a pair of buckskin gloves. 238 00:17:05,524 --> 00:17:08,902 Ain't got no buckskin gloves, but these are dog skin, 239 00:17:08,985 --> 00:17:10,403 they only cost 75 cent. 240 00:17:11,196 --> 00:17:13,698 They look good. How do you know they're dog skin? 241 00:17:13,949 --> 00:17:15,116 Tell you how I know. 242 00:17:15,450 --> 00:17:17,827 Jack Clarey's dog kills Tom Watkins' sheep. 243 00:17:17,911 --> 00:17:19,871 Tom Watkins' boy kills his dog. 244 00:17:19,955 --> 00:17:23,792 Old John Mounst tans the dog skin and Sally Spears makes the gloves. 245 00:17:23,875 --> 00:17:25,919 That's how I come to know they're dog skin. 246 00:17:28,797 --> 00:17:30,006 So that's how, is it? 247 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:31,925 I'll take them, 248 00:17:32,008 --> 00:17:33,843 but you'll have to trust me for the money. 249 00:17:34,094 --> 00:17:37,430 Anybody ever offered us cash in this store, we'd drop dead. 250 00:17:39,349 --> 00:17:42,060 I'll remember that, Abe, when I pay in here again. 251 00:17:46,106 --> 00:17:50,151 Abe, I'm a restless man, got the soul of a gypsy. 252 00:17:50,527 --> 00:17:52,320 Feel the urge to pull out of New Salem. 253 00:17:52,612 --> 00:17:53,613 Why, I'm sorry... 254 00:17:53,697 --> 00:17:55,198 But I want to show my appreciation 255 00:17:55,282 --> 00:17:57,200 for the fine work you've done in my employ. 256 00:17:57,284 --> 00:17:59,119 No thanks are necessary, Mr. Offut. 257 00:17:59,202 --> 00:18:01,580 I'm going to give you more than mere thanks, my friend. 258 00:18:01,871 --> 00:18:03,873 I'm going to make you a present of this store. 259 00:18:04,124 --> 00:18:06,793 Yes, sir, Abe, it's all yours, lock, stock and barrel. 260 00:18:06,876 --> 00:18:08,479 Why that's mighty generous of you, Mr. Offut... 261 00:18:08,503 --> 00:18:09,629 Not a word, Abe. Not a word. 262 00:18:10,255 --> 00:18:13,174 I'm making this gesture solely because that's the way I am. 263 00:18:14,050 --> 00:18:15,969 - Good night, Abe. - But, Mr. Offut... 264 00:18:17,220 --> 00:18:20,765 There's one thing, and I hope you'll excuse me to mention it, 265 00:18:20,849 --> 00:18:22,976 but just how much money do you owe here? 266 00:18:25,186 --> 00:18:26,938 I knew you was a smart man, Abe. 267 00:18:27,814 --> 00:18:30,692 Yes, sir. I've always been a shrewd judge of character. 268 00:18:30,775 --> 00:18:33,528 With your brain and energy, you'll make a go of this store, 269 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:36,364 and it won't take you long to pay off the sum of $1,500. 270 00:18:36,906 --> 00:18:38,617 - Good night. - Good night, Mr. Offut. 271 00:18:53,006 --> 00:18:54,382 Good evening, Abe. 272 00:18:54,591 --> 00:18:55,634 Good evening, Mentor. 273 00:19:03,308 --> 00:19:05,810 Let's see. Where were we when we left off? 274 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:09,272 You said at this lesson we'd review the moods. 275 00:19:09,522 --> 00:19:11,316 Ah, yes, the moods. 276 00:19:12,233 --> 00:19:14,152 Every one of us has many moods. 277 00:19:14,861 --> 00:19:17,489 You yourself have more than your share, Abe. 278 00:19:18,114 --> 00:19:20,700 They express the various aspects of your character. 279 00:19:22,410 --> 00:19:23,410 You must try and... 280 00:19:23,787 --> 00:19:26,039 consider this language as if it were a living person. 281 00:19:27,666 --> 00:19:28,666 Now... 282 00:19:29,292 --> 00:19:31,044 name me the five moods. 283 00:19:34,089 --> 00:19:35,131 Abe? 284 00:19:38,301 --> 00:19:39,344 Excuse me, Mentor. 285 00:19:39,886 --> 00:19:41,930 I asked you to name me the five moods. 286 00:19:44,474 --> 00:19:48,978 The indicative, imperative, potential, subjunctive and infinitive. 287 00:19:49,229 --> 00:19:50,313 And what do they signify? 288 00:19:50,563 --> 00:19:52,107 The indicative mood's the easy one. 289 00:19:52,190 --> 00:19:55,860 That just indicates a thing, like "He loves" or "He is loved." 290 00:19:56,444 --> 00:19:58,363 The imperative mood is used for commanding, 291 00:19:58,446 --> 00:20:00,615 like "Get out and be danged to you." 292 00:20:01,866 --> 00:20:03,535 Is that the best example you can think of? 293 00:20:03,618 --> 00:20:06,538 You can put it in the Bible way like "Go thou in peace" 294 00:20:06,621 --> 00:20:07,872 but it's still imperative. 295 00:20:09,624 --> 00:20:10,750 And the potential? 296 00:20:11,710 --> 00:20:15,213 That just signifies possibility, usually of an unpleasant nature, 297 00:20:15,296 --> 00:20:19,592 like "If I ever get out of debt, I'll probably get right back in again." 298 00:20:20,468 --> 00:20:22,137 Debts keep piling up on you, Abe? 299 00:20:22,220 --> 00:20:25,014 I'm afraid it's my own fault. I'm my father's son. 300 00:20:25,098 --> 00:20:27,726 Give me a good, steady job and I'll fail at it. 301 00:20:28,810 --> 00:20:30,478 You haven't been a failure, Abe. 302 00:20:31,604 --> 00:20:33,231 There's not a manjack in this community 303 00:20:33,314 --> 00:20:35,942 that isn't fond of you and anxious to see you get ahead. 304 00:20:36,901 --> 00:20:38,319 I know, just like you, Mentor, 305 00:20:38,403 --> 00:20:40,572 sitting up late nights to give me learning, 306 00:20:40,655 --> 00:20:42,323 just out of the kindness of your heart. 307 00:20:43,158 --> 00:20:46,786 Now Judge Green and Josh Speed and a few others I owe money to 308 00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:48,872 want to get me the job of postmaster, 309 00:20:49,330 --> 00:20:50,915 thinking maybe I can handle that, 310 00:20:50,999 --> 00:20:53,251 since there's only one mail comes in a week. 311 00:20:54,794 --> 00:20:57,338 Well, Abe, there are always two occupations 312 00:20:57,422 --> 00:20:59,924 open to those who have failed at everything else. 313 00:21:00,675 --> 00:21:02,677 There's school teaching and politics. 314 00:21:04,012 --> 00:21:05,221 I'll take school teaching. 315 00:21:05,305 --> 00:21:07,223 You go into politics, and you may get elected. 316 00:21:07,307 --> 00:21:09,660 Then you got to go to the city, and I don't want none of that. 317 00:21:09,684 --> 00:21:12,044 - What did I say about two negatives? - I meant any of that. 318 00:21:12,687 --> 00:21:14,397 What's your objection to cities, Abe? 319 00:21:15,273 --> 00:21:16,274 You ever seen one? 320 00:21:16,858 --> 00:21:20,487 Sure. I've been downriver to New Orleans. 321 00:21:21,821 --> 00:21:25,408 Do you know every minute of the time I was there I was scared? 322 00:21:26,159 --> 00:21:27,535 I was scared of people. 323 00:21:28,203 --> 00:21:32,373 Did you imagine that they'd rob you of all your gold and your jewels? 324 00:21:32,916 --> 00:21:34,000 No. 325 00:21:35,627 --> 00:21:37,086 I was scared they'd kill me. 326 00:21:48,765 --> 00:21:51,267 Why? Why should they want to kill you? 327 00:21:52,101 --> 00:21:53,186 I don't know. 328 00:21:55,188 --> 00:21:58,691 You're a hopeless mess of inconsistency, Abe Lincoln. 329 00:22:00,401 --> 00:22:02,070 You understand, don't you, Ann? 330 00:22:05,114 --> 00:22:06,574 How long will you be gone, John? 331 00:22:07,325 --> 00:22:09,118 Oh, two or three months, that's all. 332 00:22:09,994 --> 00:22:10,994 I'll miss you... 333 00:22:12,247 --> 00:22:13,623 every minute of the time. 334 00:22:15,792 --> 00:22:16,960 This was my mother's. 335 00:22:18,086 --> 00:22:20,505 My father gave it to her when they became engaged. 336 00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:30,849 All you must ever think about, 337 00:22:31,307 --> 00:22:33,518 all I'll ever think about is that I love you... 338 00:22:35,270 --> 00:22:37,105 and we're going to be wonderfully happy. 339 00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:40,691 John... 340 00:22:42,026 --> 00:22:43,111 tell me that again. 341 00:22:45,113 --> 00:22:46,656 Tell me we're going to be happy. 342 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:54,038 Hey, Abe, have you seen this? 343 00:22:55,874 --> 00:22:58,793 The governor's calling for a troop of volunteers right here in New Salem. 344 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:00,157 You'll be going, won't you, Abe? 345 00:23:00,545 --> 00:23:01,545 I don't know. 346 00:23:01,588 --> 00:23:04,674 Seems to me as if those Indians had a right to their own land. 347 00:23:04,757 --> 00:23:07,302 Yes, but if we want to settle in Kansas-Nebraska territory 348 00:23:07,385 --> 00:23:09,985 and live in peace out there, we've got to fight the Indians first, 349 00:23:10,013 --> 00:23:12,408 just the way your own father did when he moved into Kentucky. 350 00:23:12,432 --> 00:23:14,225 Hooray! 351 00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:16,144 What is it, Jack? 352 00:23:16,352 --> 00:23:19,731 We're all going to war, Abe, and we've elected you captain. 353 00:23:21,441 --> 00:23:23,526 Looks as if they've made up my mind for me. 354 00:23:26,696 --> 00:23:28,531 Squad right wheel, march! 355 00:23:35,455 --> 00:23:37,790 Squad right wheel, march! 356 00:23:40,251 --> 00:23:42,921 Left! Left! Left, right, left! 357 00:23:43,004 --> 00:23:44,964 They're known as Captain Abraham Lincoln's company 358 00:23:45,006 --> 00:23:47,967 of the First Regiment of the Brigade of Mounted Volunteers. 359 00:23:48,051 --> 00:23:50,303 Yeah, mounted volunteers. 360 00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:53,723 I'd hate to be a horse and have one of them galoots ride me. 361 00:23:53,806 --> 00:23:55,391 Forward march! 362 00:24:12,158 --> 00:24:14,160 Jack, I've forgotten the command 363 00:24:14,243 --> 00:24:16,287 that will take them through the gate endwise. 364 00:24:16,371 --> 00:24:18,456 Don't ask me, sir. I'm only a sergeant. 365 00:24:27,507 --> 00:24:28,883 Company halt! 366 00:24:29,759 --> 00:24:31,511 The company will break ranks 367 00:24:31,594 --> 00:24:34,138 and form again on the other side of the gate. 368 00:24:38,059 --> 00:24:39,769 Hey, Abe, look! 369 00:25:02,667 --> 00:25:03,668 Anything for me, Abe? 370 00:25:03,876 --> 00:25:07,005 Yes, Seth. There's one from Maryland, probably from your folks. 371 00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:08,756 - Twenty eight cents due. - Thanks, Abe. 372 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,217 - I'll pay you later. - Anytime, Seth. 373 00:25:12,093 --> 00:25:14,220 Anything for the Rutledge family this morning? 374 00:25:14,303 --> 00:25:17,640 There's one for your pa, looks like a liquor advertisement. 375 00:25:18,641 --> 00:25:21,019 There's one from New York state for you. 376 00:25:31,404 --> 00:25:33,531 There's 34 cents due on the two of them. 377 00:25:36,909 --> 00:25:38,286 I haven't got my purse with me. 378 00:25:38,411 --> 00:25:40,788 That's all right, Miss Ann. The government can wait. 379 00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:42,957 Thank you, Abe, very much. 380 00:26:03,144 --> 00:26:04,437 Good morning, Miss Ann. 381 00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:06,564 My, you're looking prettier every day. 382 00:26:07,398 --> 00:26:08,483 Good news, I hope? 383 00:26:09,067 --> 00:26:10,401 Very good, thank you. 384 00:26:13,279 --> 00:26:15,406 Catch me waiting two years for any man. 385 00:26:28,002 --> 00:26:29,146 I beg your pardon, miss. 386 00:26:29,170 --> 00:26:31,005 Can you direct me to the home of Joshua Speed? 387 00:26:31,172 --> 00:26:33,174 It's that house up there with the morning glories, 388 00:26:33,257 --> 00:26:34,926 but I think you'll find him at the tavern. 389 00:26:35,009 --> 00:26:36,469 Thank you, miss. I'm much obliged. 390 00:26:45,019 --> 00:26:46,729 Abe, next to my old man, 391 00:26:46,813 --> 00:26:48,815 I think you're the homeliest critter I ever saw. 392 00:26:52,401 --> 00:26:53,986 There's a reason, Mrs. Cairns. 393 00:26:54,070 --> 00:26:57,365 When I was two months old, I was the handsomest child in Kentucky. 394 00:26:57,990 --> 00:27:01,786 My nurse swapped me off for another one that was kind of plain looking. 395 00:27:05,581 --> 00:27:08,126 Hey, Abe, they want you over to the tavern. 396 00:27:08,334 --> 00:27:09,335 Who does? 397 00:27:09,418 --> 00:27:10,920 Josh Speed and Bowling Green 398 00:27:11,003 --> 00:27:13,881 and one of them dressed-up fellers from Springfield. 399 00:27:14,340 --> 00:27:16,175 - What do they want of me? - I don't know. 400 00:27:16,509 --> 00:27:20,304 But I can tell you this, I don't like the looks of it! 401 00:27:24,433 --> 00:27:26,727 But he's the best-liked man in this district. 402 00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:27,937 The very man we want. 403 00:27:28,062 --> 00:27:29,540 Maybe it will correct the public belief 404 00:27:29,564 --> 00:27:32,441 that the Whig party is composed only of the more privileged classes. 405 00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:33,525 Gentlemen. 406 00:27:34,110 --> 00:27:35,862 Abe, I want you to meet Mr. Ninian Edwards, 407 00:27:35,945 --> 00:27:38,197 a mighty important representative of our political party. 408 00:27:38,281 --> 00:27:40,825 - Happy to know you, Mr. Edwards. - Lincoln, it's a pleasure. 409 00:27:40,908 --> 00:27:42,577 Sit down, Abe. We want to talk to you. 410 00:27:43,661 --> 00:27:45,913 Abe, how would you like to run for the state legislature? 411 00:27:46,205 --> 00:27:48,749 - When? - Now, for election in the fall. 412 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:49,792 Why? 413 00:27:49,876 --> 00:27:52,086 The Whig party needs a candidate from this district. 414 00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:55,381 You're the postmaster here, which gives you valuable contacts. 415 00:27:55,464 --> 00:27:59,177 While delivering mail, you can also deliver speeches and campaign literature 416 00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:01,345 with which our headquarters will keep you supplied. 417 00:28:02,930 --> 00:28:05,433 Could you supply me with a suit of store clothes? 418 00:28:05,516 --> 00:28:07,226 A candidate mustn't look too plain. 419 00:28:08,227 --> 00:28:10,938 And what's more, Abe, in the legislature, you'll get paid, 420 00:28:11,355 --> 00:28:12,440 three whole dollars a day. 421 00:28:12,648 --> 00:28:14,442 Fine money, all right. No denying that. 422 00:28:14,525 --> 00:28:16,194 I can see what you're getting at, Bowling. 423 00:28:16,277 --> 00:28:18,029 I owe you a considerable sum. 424 00:28:18,154 --> 00:28:20,198 I'm not thinking about the debts, Abe. 425 00:28:20,281 --> 00:28:21,908 I know you ain't, Bowling, but I got to. 426 00:28:21,991 --> 00:28:24,952 I can see, Mr. Lincoln, that you're the type of man who can handle anyone. 427 00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:27,038 Hmm. Even the Clarey's Grove boys. 428 00:28:27,288 --> 00:28:29,415 I can handle them because I can out-rassle them, 429 00:28:29,498 --> 00:28:32,460 but I can't go around Sangamon county throwing all the voters. 430 00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:37,215 You want to get an education, don't you, Abe? 431 00:28:37,298 --> 00:28:38,716 Here's your chance to do it. 432 00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:40,343 In Vandalia, you'll be associating 433 00:28:40,426 --> 00:28:42,136 with all the finest lawyers in this state. 434 00:28:42,553 --> 00:28:45,514 Important men, like Stephen A. Douglas. You'll grow. 435 00:28:45,848 --> 00:28:47,475 Thought I'd growed too much already. 436 00:28:47,558 --> 00:28:48,976 Don't listen to him, Abe! 437 00:28:49,352 --> 00:28:50,811 Don't let him get you into politics. 438 00:28:51,187 --> 00:28:53,105 They'll corrupt you just the same 439 00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:56,108 as they've corrupted the whole dang United States. 440 00:28:56,567 --> 00:28:58,194 You're an honest man, Abe Lincoln. 441 00:28:58,653 --> 00:29:02,573 You're a good-for-nothing, debt-ridden loafer, 442 00:29:02,823 --> 00:29:04,033 but you're an honest man. 443 00:29:04,158 --> 00:29:07,495 Is that all you have to say, Uncle Ben? 444 00:29:07,745 --> 00:29:09,997 That's all, and I hope it's enough. 445 00:29:11,999 --> 00:29:13,251 I kind of agree with him. 446 00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:16,754 Well, Mr. Lincoln, we don't demand your answer immediately, 447 00:29:16,837 --> 00:29:17,880 but think it over. 448 00:29:18,464 --> 00:29:20,341 Now, gentlemen, if you'll excuse me, 449 00:29:20,424 --> 00:29:23,010 I have to put in an appearance at the torchlight procession 450 00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:25,304 in Springfield this evening, so I must be moving along. 451 00:29:26,973 --> 00:29:28,349 Just consider what it means 452 00:29:28,975 --> 00:29:30,851 to be starting up the ladder in a nation 453 00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:33,062 which is now expanding southward through Texas 454 00:29:33,562 --> 00:29:35,523 and westward to the empire of the Californias. 455 00:29:36,190 --> 00:29:37,483 It's opportunity, Mr. Lincoln. 456 00:29:37,858 --> 00:29:39,819 Opportunity unlimited in scope. 457 00:29:40,945 --> 00:29:41,945 Goodbye, sir. 458 00:29:41,988 --> 00:29:44,115 Goodbye, Mr. Edwards. Pleasant journey to you. 459 00:30:06,554 --> 00:30:07,781 - Goodbye, gentlemen. - Goodbye. 460 00:30:07,805 --> 00:30:08,889 Goodbye, Ninian. 461 00:30:23,904 --> 00:30:25,031 Ann? 462 00:30:25,865 --> 00:30:26,949 What is it? 463 00:30:27,158 --> 00:30:29,410 That letter you got from New York State... 464 00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:31,620 What do you know about that letter? 465 00:30:32,038 --> 00:30:33,456 I'm the postmaster. 466 00:30:33,539 --> 00:30:36,125 Guess I know more than I ought to about people's private affairs, 467 00:30:37,418 --> 00:30:40,880 but I couldn't help seeing that was the handwriting of Mr. McNeil. 468 00:30:41,881 --> 00:30:43,924 Whatever the letter said, it's no concern of yours. 469 00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:45,801 I know that, but it makes me sad 470 00:30:45,885 --> 00:30:47,636 to think it's something could have hurt you. 471 00:30:48,387 --> 00:30:49,847 If I could help you, Ann... 472 00:30:50,431 --> 00:30:54,060 You know, when you're distressed about something, 473 00:30:54,143 --> 00:30:55,436 it's a comfort sometimes 474 00:30:55,519 --> 00:30:58,314 even to have a pair of ears to pour your troubles into, 475 00:30:58,397 --> 00:31:00,816 and my ears are big enough to hold a lot. 476 00:31:01,817 --> 00:31:03,903 You're a Christian gentleman, Abe Lincoln. 477 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,614 No, I ain't. I'm a plain common sucker 478 00:31:06,697 --> 00:31:09,325 with a shirttail so short I can't sit on it. 479 00:31:10,743 --> 00:31:13,788 You can always say something to make a person laugh, can't you? 480 00:31:13,871 --> 00:31:17,792 Oh, I don't need to say anything. A person just has to look at me. 481 00:31:19,418 --> 00:31:20,961 You were right about the letter, Abe. 482 00:31:21,504 --> 00:31:24,382 John says he doesn't know when he'll be able to get back to New Salem, 483 00:31:25,216 --> 00:31:27,885 by which he probably means... never. 484 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:30,638 - I wouldn't say that, Ann. - I would. 485 00:31:31,806 --> 00:31:33,641 Do you love him so much? 486 00:31:34,642 --> 00:31:35,684 I thought I did, 487 00:31:36,143 --> 00:31:37,895 but I guess I couldn't really love anyone 488 00:31:37,978 --> 00:31:40,439 who was as faithless as that. 489 00:31:41,816 --> 00:31:44,944 You see, I can't help thinking what they're saying about me, 490 00:31:45,694 --> 00:31:47,488 all the old gossips all over town. 491 00:31:48,155 --> 00:31:49,949 It's just weakness, I guess. 492 00:31:51,033 --> 00:31:52,033 Vanity. 493 00:31:52,159 --> 00:31:54,120 Something you couldn't understand, Abe. 494 00:31:54,787 --> 00:31:56,747 Maybe I can understand it, Ann. 495 00:32:01,627 --> 00:32:03,421 I got a kind of vanity myself. 496 00:32:03,838 --> 00:32:05,714 I guess it's nothing but vanity 497 00:32:05,798 --> 00:32:08,801 that's kept me from declaring my inclination towards you. 498 00:32:09,969 --> 00:32:11,762 See, I don't like to be sniggered at either. 499 00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:13,514 I know what I am. I know what I look like. 500 00:32:13,597 --> 00:32:17,101 I know I got nothing to offer any girl I'd be in love with. 501 00:32:19,311 --> 00:32:21,439 Are you saying you're in love with me, Abe? 502 00:32:23,941 --> 00:32:26,318 Yes, I am saying that. 503 00:32:28,070 --> 00:32:31,031 I've been loving you for a long time with all my heart. 504 00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:35,453 You see, Ann, you're a particularly fine girl. 505 00:32:39,582 --> 00:32:42,293 But I don't want to worry you about it. 506 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,045 I was only thinking if you'd do me the honor 507 00:32:45,129 --> 00:32:48,883 of keeping company with me for a while, it might shut the old gossips' mouths. 508 00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:53,637 They'd figure you'd chuck McNeil for someone else, even me. 509 00:32:56,056 --> 00:32:59,727 Do you think I was too forward in speaking out as I did? 510 00:33:01,312 --> 00:33:02,563 No, Abe. 511 00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:08,152 I've always thought a lot of you, the way I thought you were, 512 00:33:08,819 --> 00:33:10,946 but the idea of love between you and me... 513 00:33:11,572 --> 00:33:13,449 I can't say how I feel about that. 514 00:33:14,992 --> 00:33:18,412 But I can tell you this much now, and truthfully. 515 00:33:19,955 --> 00:33:23,125 If I ever do love you, I'll be happy about it, 516 00:33:23,959 --> 00:33:26,587 and lucky to be loving a good, decent man. 517 00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:32,718 If you'll just give me a little time to think about it. 518 00:33:33,219 --> 00:33:35,554 You mean if you took time, you might get in your heart 519 00:33:35,638 --> 00:33:37,932 something like the feeling I have for you? 520 00:33:38,974 --> 00:33:40,142 I don't know, Abe. 521 00:33:43,604 --> 00:33:47,775 But I do know you're a man who could fill anyone's heart. 522 00:33:49,735 --> 00:33:53,113 Yes, fill it and warm it 523 00:33:54,823 --> 00:33:56,617 and make it glad to be living. 524 00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:26,272 And join your hands and all go West. 525 00:34:28,065 --> 00:34:30,609 Right-hand swing and promenade the ring. 526 00:34:38,158 --> 00:34:39,785 First couple, bounce and swing. 527 00:34:39,868 --> 00:34:41,912 And away you go to the right of the ring. 528 00:34:44,206 --> 00:34:46,125 Bird's in the cage And three hands around. 529 00:34:48,210 --> 00:34:49,920 Bird hops out and the crow hops in. 530 00:34:50,004 --> 00:34:51,964 And all hands round and let her go again. 531 00:34:52,047 --> 00:34:53,882 And do-si, ladies, do-si-do. 532 00:34:53,966 --> 00:34:56,427 And one more whirl and on you go. 533 00:34:58,178 --> 00:34:59,888 On to the next with the bird in the cage. 534 00:34:59,972 --> 00:35:01,098 And three hands round. 535 00:35:06,228 --> 00:35:08,188 Bird hops out and the crow hops in. 536 00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:10,316 Three hands round and let her go again. 537 00:35:12,359 --> 00:35:14,069 Bounce four in the middle of the floor. 538 00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:16,363 Like a woodchuck chipping On a schoolhouse door. 539 00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:18,324 And do-si, ladies, do-si, gents. 540 00:35:20,868 --> 00:35:24,163 What's the matter with you, Abe? You, the guest of honor, not dancing? 541 00:35:24,246 --> 00:35:26,540 I'd like to, but my feet won't work right. 542 00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:35,257 Ann Rutledge sure is acting as gay as all get-out. 543 00:35:35,924 --> 00:35:39,178 She's just trying to hide the misery that's in her heart. 544 00:35:39,762 --> 00:35:42,264 They tell me that locket is the one that John McNeil gave her. 545 00:35:42,348 --> 00:35:44,600 She ought to forget him, I say. 546 00:35:45,392 --> 00:35:47,269 I reckon she wishes she could. 547 00:35:48,270 --> 00:35:50,522 Meet your partner and promenade. 548 00:35:52,441 --> 00:35:54,068 First the lady off to the right. 549 00:35:54,151 --> 00:35:58,113 Then cheat or swing or do as you like But don't forget your own. 550 00:36:00,824 --> 00:36:02,701 On to the next and cheat or swing. 551 00:36:02,785 --> 00:36:05,287 Or do as you like But don't forget your own. 552 00:36:05,579 --> 00:36:08,040 Faster, Uncle Ben. Faster! 553 00:36:08,123 --> 00:36:11,001 On to the next and cheat or swing Or do as you like. 554 00:36:22,554 --> 00:36:23,555 Help! 555 00:36:33,899 --> 00:36:35,059 Get some water, Abe. 556 00:36:37,069 --> 00:36:38,153 She's all right, Doc. 557 00:36:38,237 --> 00:36:40,447 The excitement was just a little too much for her. 558 00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:52,501 Here's the water, Doc. 559 00:36:52,876 --> 00:36:53,876 Thanks, Abe. 560 00:36:59,925 --> 00:37:01,301 She'll be all right, Doc? 561 00:37:01,427 --> 00:37:03,303 Oh, I don't think there's need for any worry. 562 00:37:03,887 --> 00:37:05,639 Better be getting her on home. 563 00:37:15,983 --> 00:37:17,109 It's all right, Ann. 564 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:21,572 I don't know what happened. 565 00:37:22,364 --> 00:37:23,532 I'm all right, Abe. 566 00:37:24,575 --> 00:37:25,784 I feel fine now. 567 00:37:29,037 --> 00:37:31,290 Did you notice whether she's been ailing any lately? 568 00:37:31,373 --> 00:37:34,585 She seemed kind of droopy, but we didn't think much of it. 569 00:37:35,085 --> 00:37:36,545 Why? Do you think she's took sick? 570 00:37:36,628 --> 00:37:38,797 Oh, there's no cause for alarm, 571 00:37:38,881 --> 00:37:41,383 but just to be on the safe side, I'll ride back with her. 572 00:37:47,347 --> 00:37:48,432 I was scared. 573 00:37:49,057 --> 00:37:50,601 You needn't be, Abe. 574 00:37:51,685 --> 00:37:53,353 I'm sorry I made such a fool of myself. 575 00:37:55,981 --> 00:37:58,609 You mustn't think of anything but winning that election. 576 00:37:59,735 --> 00:38:01,111 You've got to win, Abe. 577 00:38:02,529 --> 00:38:04,239 And I'll be cheering for you when you do. 578 00:38:05,574 --> 00:38:07,576 Good night, Abe. Thanks. 579 00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:09,912 Good night, Ann. 580 00:38:12,748 --> 00:38:13,916 Good night, Abe. 581 00:38:21,507 --> 00:38:23,675 Down in Kentucky where I was born, 582 00:38:23,759 --> 00:38:26,428 it was pretty wild country and wild people in it. 583 00:38:26,845 --> 00:38:30,891 I heard tell of a woman who came to her cabin door one day 584 00:38:30,974 --> 00:38:33,811 and found her husband grappling with a ferocious bear. 585 00:38:34,186 --> 00:38:36,647 It was a fight to the death, and the bear was winning. 586 00:38:37,314 --> 00:38:39,066 The struggling husband cried to his wife, 587 00:38:39,149 --> 00:38:40,734 "For heaven's sake, do something!" 588 00:38:40,818 --> 00:38:42,069 Wife asked what could she do? 589 00:38:42,152 --> 00:38:45,072 Said the husband, "You can at least say something encouraging." 590 00:38:45,823 --> 00:38:48,909 But the wife, not wishing to take sides in this combat, 591 00:38:48,992 --> 00:38:51,370 hollered, "Go it, husband! Go it, bear!" 592 00:38:54,748 --> 00:38:58,460 Now that's the way I'll be if elected. I'll be like the man's wife. 593 00:38:58,544 --> 00:39:02,631 I'll cheer for everybody so as I'm sure to be on the winning side. 594 00:39:05,884 --> 00:39:07,094 Where are you going, Abe? 595 00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:10,764 Come on. Let's finish with the voting. We can't be all night about this. 596 00:39:12,349 --> 00:39:13,642 What does the doctor say, Jack? 597 00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:16,019 It's the brain fever, Abe. 598 00:39:16,937 --> 00:39:18,021 She's pretty bad. 599 00:39:20,065 --> 00:39:21,149 Thank you, Jack. 600 00:39:33,328 --> 00:39:34,621 Who you voting for? 601 00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:36,248 I'm voting for Abe Lincoln. 602 00:39:36,331 --> 00:39:37,331 That's good. 603 00:39:39,793 --> 00:39:41,253 Who you voting for, Trum? 604 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,547 - For Abe. - Who? 605 00:39:44,131 --> 00:39:46,049 I said I'm voting for Mr. Lincoln. 606 00:39:46,592 --> 00:39:47,676 You'd better. 607 00:39:50,429 --> 00:39:52,431 "Therefore his sisters sent unto Him, 608 00:39:53,390 --> 00:39:54,975 saying, 'Lord, behold, 609 00:39:55,851 --> 00:39:57,477 he whom thou lovest is sick.' 610 00:39:58,186 --> 00:39:59,479 When Jesus heard that, 611 00:40:00,314 --> 00:40:03,358 He said, 'This sickness is not unto death, 612 00:40:03,942 --> 00:40:05,569 but for the glory of God, 613 00:40:06,153 --> 00:40:09,531 that the son of God might be glorified thereby. 614 00:40:44,858 --> 00:40:46,234 You have come to me, 615 00:40:47,653 --> 00:40:49,279 and I wanted you so much. 616 00:40:51,782 --> 00:40:52,866 Come close to me. 617 00:41:01,291 --> 00:41:03,210 Tell me we will be happy. 618 00:41:04,044 --> 00:41:05,587 We're going to be happy, Ann. 619 00:41:07,047 --> 00:41:09,549 I know I got less than nothing to offer you, 620 00:41:11,510 --> 00:41:15,097 but whatever I am, whatever I could be, 621 00:41:16,223 --> 00:41:20,435 my life belongs to you, and it always will until the day I die. 622 00:41:23,939 --> 00:41:25,107 I love you. 623 00:41:26,817 --> 00:41:28,402 I do love you. 624 00:41:30,487 --> 00:41:32,489 I knew you'd come back to me. 625 00:41:34,324 --> 00:41:36,326 Don't ever go away from me again. 626 00:41:39,413 --> 00:41:41,039 We will be happy. 627 00:41:57,973 --> 00:41:59,516 Old Abe Lincoln. 628 00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:02,269 Came out of the wilderness. 629 00:42:02,728 --> 00:42:05,147 Out of the wilderness. 630 00:42:05,397 --> 00:42:07,691 Out of the wilderness. 631 00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:09,943 Old Abe Lincoln... 632 00:42:10,318 --> 00:42:13,613 Abe carried New Salem by 205 votes to three! 633 00:42:13,697 --> 00:42:16,324 My boys are out trying to find the three skunks who voted wrong. 634 00:42:18,201 --> 00:42:19,703 Old Abe Lincoln. 635 00:42:20,245 --> 00:42:23,248 Came out of the wilderness. 636 00:42:23,331 --> 00:42:24,958 Out of the wilderness... 637 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,547 Get her tight, Fergus. Straighten her out so we can see her. 638 00:42:35,385 --> 00:42:36,385 No, you don't. 639 00:42:36,428 --> 00:42:38,388 I don't wear no soup kettle for nobody. 640 00:42:38,472 --> 00:42:40,849 You ain't no better than Abe Lincoln, and he's wearing one. 641 00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:43,602 All right, boys, here we go. 642 00:42:43,810 --> 00:42:46,646 Down to Judge Green's house to pick up the new legislator! 643 00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:08,126 They're coming, Abe. 644 00:43:36,905 --> 00:43:39,449 "A large mass meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. 645 00:43:39,741 --> 00:43:41,827 Many orators paid tribute to the heroic memory 646 00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:43,495 of the late Elijah Lovejoy. 647 00:43:43,995 --> 00:43:47,165 Thousands of New Englanders shouted, "He shall be avenged." 648 00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:51,294 I wonder what the great Stephen A. Douglas has to say to that. 649 00:43:52,003 --> 00:43:54,714 The great Stephen A. Douglas has this much to say. 650 00:43:55,966 --> 00:43:58,969 Freedom of the press is all very well until liberty becomes license. 651 00:43:59,803 --> 00:44:01,197 Lovejoy's life would have been spared 652 00:44:01,221 --> 00:44:02,861 if he'd listened to the dictates of reason 653 00:44:02,889 --> 00:44:04,808 instead of his own rip-roaring fanaticism. 654 00:44:05,684 --> 00:44:09,396 But perhaps my good friend Abe Lincoln doesn't agree. 655 00:44:09,771 --> 00:44:12,482 I agree that Lovejoy should have listened to reason, 656 00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:14,359 but if he had to be silenced, 657 00:44:14,442 --> 00:44:16,528 I'd prefer that it'd been done by the law, 658 00:44:16,611 --> 00:44:18,822 instead of a crowd of bloodthirsty killers. 659 00:44:19,197 --> 00:44:22,159 Still straddling the fence, eh? That won't help you to get re-elected. 660 00:44:22,367 --> 00:44:24,494 Afraid nothing can help me. I'm not running. 661 00:44:24,995 --> 00:44:26,371 You're quitting the legislature? 662 00:44:26,454 --> 00:44:28,874 - Yep. - Why, Abe, I'm distressed. 663 00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:31,668 - We'll miss you. - Sorry to cause you distress, Steve. 664 00:44:31,793 --> 00:44:32,794 What will you do, Abe? 665 00:44:33,503 --> 00:44:36,923 Judge Stuart's offered me a chance to work in his law office in Springfield. 666 00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:38,884 Of course, I don't know much about the law, 667 00:44:39,134 --> 00:44:41,261 but there's one thing I've learned here in politics, 668 00:44:41,553 --> 00:44:44,931 that is ignorance is no obstacle to advancement. 669 00:44:45,974 --> 00:44:48,643 In fact, in some cases, it's quite an advantage. 670 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:51,688 Good day, everybody. 671 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,037 - Hello, Billy Herndon. - Hello. 672 00:45:16,838 --> 00:45:17,964 Hello, Billy. 673 00:45:47,661 --> 00:45:49,412 Nice day, isn't it, Mr. Herndon? 674 00:45:50,163 --> 00:45:51,665 Why, yes, it is. 675 00:45:52,332 --> 00:45:53,583 Where you been, Billy? 676 00:45:54,626 --> 00:45:57,545 I had to go downstairs about that writ in the Wilcox case. 677 00:45:58,213 --> 00:46:01,174 If you only went downstairs, why did you wear your hat? 678 00:46:03,176 --> 00:46:04,386 As a matter of fact, 679 00:46:04,469 --> 00:46:06,638 I stopped in at the Chenery House saloon. 680 00:46:07,222 --> 00:46:08,348 Careful, Billy. 681 00:46:08,515 --> 00:46:11,476 You got great fires in you, but you're putting them out fast. 682 00:46:12,811 --> 00:46:13,812 Yes, sir. 683 00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:18,692 - I saw Ninian Edwards, sir. - Mmm-hmm. 684 00:46:18,775 --> 00:46:20,610 He invited you to his party this evening. 685 00:46:21,444 --> 00:46:24,447 Getting quite a habit with him. What's the occasion this time? 686 00:46:24,990 --> 00:46:27,150 He wants you to meet his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Todd, 687 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:28,594 who has just arrived from Kentucky. 688 00:46:28,618 --> 00:46:32,372 You don't say so. Well, I am becoming a social success. 689 00:46:32,622 --> 00:46:36,042 Yes, Mr. Lincoln, you are, and I'm afraid you enjoy it. 690 00:46:37,168 --> 00:46:40,088 The Todd family are mighty high-class people. 691 00:46:40,463 --> 00:46:41,923 Spell their name with two "D's" 692 00:46:42,007 --> 00:46:45,552 which is pretty impressive when you consider one was enough for "God." 693 00:47:03,945 --> 00:47:05,655 Good evening, my dear Mrs. Edwards. 694 00:47:05,739 --> 00:47:07,739 How stunning you look in that magnificent new gown. 695 00:47:07,782 --> 00:47:10,136 A dress like that must have come all the way from Cincinnati. 696 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,246 My sister brought it from Louisville, a present from my dear papa. 697 00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:14,664 - Good evening, Steve. - Ninian. 698 00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:16,124 Mary, my dear, may I present 699 00:47:16,207 --> 00:47:18,501 our most eloquent citizen, Mr. Stephen Douglas. 700 00:47:18,585 --> 00:47:20,295 Mr. Douglas, I am honored. 701 00:47:20,420 --> 00:47:23,798 Miss Todd, your brother-in-law has just now described me as eloquent, 702 00:47:23,882 --> 00:47:25,508 but alas, I must now prove him wrong. 703 00:47:25,925 --> 00:47:28,678 Standing as I am in the presence of such penetrating intelligence, 704 00:47:28,762 --> 00:47:31,514 such devastating charm, I am rendered speechless. 705 00:47:32,057 --> 00:47:33,933 I can hardly believe it. 706 00:47:55,914 --> 00:47:58,500 Ninian, I thought you were going to have that thing raised up. 707 00:47:58,583 --> 00:48:00,394 It wouldn't have made any difference if you had. 708 00:48:00,418 --> 00:48:02,087 He'd have knocked over something else. 709 00:48:02,462 --> 00:48:05,173 Mr. Lincoln is more at home in the backwoods than in a drawing room. 710 00:48:05,507 --> 00:48:06,800 How do you do, Mr. Lincoln? 711 00:48:06,883 --> 00:48:09,219 So far, I haven't been doing so well, thank you. 712 00:48:09,302 --> 00:48:12,180 Never mind, Mr. Lincoln, I'm sure all the other gentlemen here 713 00:48:12,263 --> 00:48:15,141 envy you for being tall enough to break that chandelier. 714 00:48:15,225 --> 00:48:17,936 Miss Todd, I want you to know that I resent that bitterly. 715 00:48:18,019 --> 00:48:19,604 - Hello, Abe. - Evening, Steve. 716 00:48:19,687 --> 00:48:22,407 - Still got the same old coat on, eh? - I got kind of attached to it. 717 00:48:22,482 --> 00:48:25,235 - Seems a little short. - It'll be longer before I get another. 718 00:48:25,527 --> 00:48:27,529 Abe is what you might call a self-made man. 719 00:48:27,612 --> 00:48:30,281 Well, I guess my parents ought to take some of the blame. 720 00:48:30,365 --> 00:48:32,283 When I first knew him, he was behind a counter 721 00:48:32,367 --> 00:48:33,410 selling whiskey and rum 722 00:48:33,493 --> 00:48:36,329 and intoxicating the customers with his own raw humor. 723 00:48:36,871 --> 00:48:39,249 You see, Miss Todd, I was always behind the bar 724 00:48:39,332 --> 00:48:41,459 and Steve Douglas was always in front of it. 725 00:48:45,130 --> 00:48:48,174 Something tells me I shouldn't have started this. 726 00:48:49,217 --> 00:48:50,635 So I said to Daniel Webster, 727 00:48:50,718 --> 00:48:52,804 "You may stand where you like in Massachusetts, 728 00:48:52,887 --> 00:48:55,056 but you'll meet your downfall out here in Illinois." 729 00:48:55,432 --> 00:48:58,101 I can understand why they speak of you as the little giant. 730 00:48:59,269 --> 00:49:00,603 Better be careful, Stephen. 731 00:49:00,895 --> 00:49:02,814 Mary's just as ambitious as you are. 732 00:49:02,939 --> 00:49:04,941 My sister has made no secret of the fact 733 00:49:05,024 --> 00:49:07,503 that the man she marries will be president of the United States. 734 00:49:07,527 --> 00:49:09,362 I'm delighted to hear it, Miss Todd, 735 00:49:09,446 --> 00:49:11,573 for I have been looking for the perfect first lady 736 00:49:11,656 --> 00:49:14,826 to be my consort in the White House, and now I've found her. 737 00:49:14,993 --> 00:49:17,454 Really? But you should give that out to the newspapers. 738 00:49:17,745 --> 00:49:20,331 "Stephen A. Douglas consents to become president.” 739 00:49:21,583 --> 00:49:24,919 I... seem to need a little more refreshment. 740 00:49:28,047 --> 00:49:29,507 You're very sweet. 741 00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:42,020 One night, there was a gathering of all the grandees. 742 00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:44,189 You know, one of these high-tone shindigs. 743 00:49:44,272 --> 00:49:47,233 All the girls in town were there and the handsome widows 744 00:49:47,317 --> 00:49:50,111 and married women finicking about, try to look like girls. 745 00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:54,282 They were all tied together in the middle and puffed out both ends, 746 00:49:54,365 --> 00:49:56,659 like bundles of fodder waiting to be stacked 747 00:49:56,784 --> 00:49:58,328 and wanting stacking pretty bad. 748 00:49:58,912 --> 00:50:00,592 Now, all of them wore... 749 00:50:05,168 --> 00:50:08,379 Well, it started out to be a political story. 750 00:50:09,130 --> 00:50:11,799 And quite amusing too. Don't you think, gentlemen? 751 00:50:12,133 --> 00:50:15,470 But I think it's my turn to monopolize you for a while. 752 00:50:22,769 --> 00:50:24,229 Has Mary taken leave of her senses? 753 00:50:24,646 --> 00:50:26,189 Devoting herself to that Mr. Lincoln 754 00:50:26,272 --> 00:50:28,459 when we have the most eligible gentlemen here to meet her. 755 00:50:28,483 --> 00:50:30,026 Perhaps Abe amuses her, my dear. 756 00:50:30,109 --> 00:50:33,071 Nonsense. My sister is a well-bred young lady. 757 00:50:37,659 --> 00:50:40,995 No, no, Mr. Lincoln. I'm not laughing at you. 758 00:50:41,663 --> 00:50:44,457 I'm sure your mother must have been a wonderful woman. 759 00:50:45,291 --> 00:50:47,001 How old were you when she died? 760 00:50:47,460 --> 00:50:50,505 I was seven. The milk sick got her, poor creature. 761 00:50:51,214 --> 00:50:54,801 I helped Pa make the coffin, whittled the pegs with my own jackknife. 762 00:50:55,552 --> 00:50:58,471 We buried her in a timber clearing beside my grandmother. 763 00:50:59,055 --> 00:51:01,224 I used to go there often to look at the place. 764 00:51:02,141 --> 00:51:05,853 I used to watch the deer run over her grave with their little feet. 765 00:51:06,479 --> 00:51:07,605 Funny. 766 00:51:08,314 --> 00:51:10,066 I never could kill a deer after that. 767 00:51:11,526 --> 00:51:14,195 Once I got a licking from Pa 768 00:51:14,279 --> 00:51:17,073 because when he was taking aim at a deer I knocked his gun up. 769 00:51:19,576 --> 00:51:22,787 But this is no way to behave in society, 770 00:51:22,870 --> 00:51:25,290 talking about the backwoods I come from. 771 00:51:26,124 --> 00:51:28,543 It's just the way to behave, Mr. Lincoln. 772 00:51:29,085 --> 00:51:31,421 Please tell me some more about the lickings you got. 773 00:51:34,257 --> 00:51:37,510 Oh, what has caused This great commotion. 774 00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:39,721 Motion, motion. 775 00:51:40,179 --> 00:51:42,849 Our country through. 776 00:51:43,349 --> 00:51:46,352 It is a ball a-rolling on. 777 00:51:46,436 --> 00:51:49,564 For Tippecanoe and Tyler too. 778 00:51:49,647 --> 00:51:52,859 For Tippecanoe and Tyler too. 779 00:51:53,151 --> 00:51:54,277 Notice the name, Billy? 780 00:51:54,652 --> 00:51:56,279 It's here, right down at the bottom. 781 00:51:56,654 --> 00:51:57,654 Boasting, huh? 782 00:51:58,281 --> 00:51:59,365 Bowling! 783 00:52:00,199 --> 00:52:01,284 How are you, Bowling? 784 00:52:01,367 --> 00:52:03,620 Terribly well, Abe, and glad to see you. 785 00:52:03,745 --> 00:52:06,914 Glad to see you. This is Billy Herndon. Squire Green from New Salem. 786 00:52:06,998 --> 00:52:09,310 Proud to know you, sir. Mr. Lincoln speaks of you constantly. 787 00:52:09,334 --> 00:52:11,419 Thank you, Mr. Herndon. Are you a lawyer too? 788 00:52:11,502 --> 00:52:14,797 I hope to be, sir. I'm serving here as clerk in Judge Stuart's absence. 789 00:52:14,881 --> 00:52:18,134 - So now you're teaching others, Abe. - No, just setting a bad example. 790 00:52:18,468 --> 00:52:19,802 How's that blessed wife of yours? 791 00:52:19,886 --> 00:52:21,387 Nancy's busy as ever, 792 00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:23,514 and more than ever concerned 793 00:52:23,598 --> 00:52:25,516 about your innermost hopes and yearnings. 794 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,269 You can tell her I'm becoming a person of importance. 795 00:52:28,603 --> 00:52:30,938 Yes, sir. If old Tippecanoe wins next fall, 796 00:52:31,022 --> 00:52:32,732 I'll be a member of the Electoral College. 797 00:52:32,815 --> 00:52:34,317 Is that the best you can do? 798 00:52:34,442 --> 00:52:36,194 You and Billy should get better acquainted. 799 00:52:36,694 --> 00:52:38,237 He's pretty disgusted with me too. 800 00:52:38,321 --> 00:52:39,656 Says I've no ambition, 801 00:52:39,739 --> 00:52:42,033 and I associate with the wrong kind of people. 802 00:52:42,408 --> 00:52:44,702 He can't stand anybody that keeps his mouth shut 803 00:52:44,786 --> 00:52:46,120 and abides by the constitution. 804 00:52:46,204 --> 00:52:48,498 If he had his way, the whole union would be set on fire, 805 00:52:48,581 --> 00:52:50,792 and we'd all be burned to a crisp. Right, Billy? 806 00:52:50,875 --> 00:52:51,876 Yes, Mr. Lincoln. 807 00:52:52,502 --> 00:52:54,128 And if you'll permit me to say so, 808 00:52:54,420 --> 00:52:56,982 I think you'd be of more use to your fellow man if you allowed some 809 00:52:57,006 --> 00:52:59,342 of the same incendiary impulses to come out in you. 810 00:52:59,425 --> 00:53:02,011 - You hear that, Bowling? - I'm surprised at you, Abe. 811 00:53:02,345 --> 00:53:04,472 I thought you were opposed to slavery. 812 00:53:04,931 --> 00:53:06,641 I am opposed to slavery, 813 00:53:07,850 --> 00:53:10,520 but I'm even more opposed to getting myself into trouble. 814 00:53:10,603 --> 00:53:12,397 Why don't you run for Congress, Abe? 815 00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:14,691 If I did, I might get elected. I'd be in Washington. 816 00:53:14,774 --> 00:53:18,277 Then I might have to cast my vote on the terrible issue of war or peace. 817 00:53:18,486 --> 00:53:19,946 And what attitude would I take? 818 00:53:20,571 --> 00:53:22,156 The liberal attitude, of course. 819 00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:23,825 And what is the liberal attitude? 820 00:53:24,534 --> 00:53:28,287 To go to war for a tract of land or a moral principle, 821 00:53:28,371 --> 00:53:29,997 or avoid war at all cost. 822 00:53:31,249 --> 00:53:34,085 No, sir, Bowling. I'm no fighting man. 823 00:53:34,168 --> 00:53:36,313 I found that out when I went through the Black Hawk war, 824 00:53:36,337 --> 00:53:38,565 and was terrified I might have to fire a shot at an Indian. 825 00:53:38,589 --> 00:53:40,383 Fortunately, the Indians felt the same way, 826 00:53:40,466 --> 00:53:41,759 so I never saw any of them. 827 00:53:48,433 --> 00:53:49,559 Excuse me, Bowling. 828 00:53:59,444 --> 00:54:01,279 That's his trouble... women. 829 00:54:01,362 --> 00:54:04,782 I should say, that's the, um, liberal attitude. 830 00:54:14,667 --> 00:54:16,461 I cannot and will not stand it any longer. 831 00:54:16,544 --> 00:54:18,838 All this ridiculous gossip must be silenced. 832 00:54:19,255 --> 00:54:21,716 After all, the gossip does none of us any harm, my dear. 833 00:54:21,924 --> 00:54:25,219 I ask you to keep out of this, Ninian. This is between my sister and myself. 834 00:54:25,678 --> 00:54:27,388 Nevertheless, Ninian is right. 835 00:54:27,805 --> 00:54:29,891 I ask you to deny once and for all 836 00:54:30,016 --> 00:54:31,934 that you've ever given one moment of thought 837 00:54:32,101 --> 00:54:33,895 to the idea of marriage with Abraham Lincoln. 838 00:54:34,061 --> 00:54:37,023 Oh, but I have. I've given many months' thought to it, 839 00:54:37,398 --> 00:54:40,568 and I've decided that I shall be Mrs. Lincoln. 840 00:54:41,694 --> 00:54:42,695 Mary! 841 00:54:42,820 --> 00:54:45,448 - Does it shock you so deeply, Elizabeth? - And why not? 842 00:54:45,948 --> 00:54:47,784 Marrying him would mean life in a log cabin, 843 00:54:47,909 --> 00:54:49,577 with no servants, no decent clothes. 844 00:54:49,911 --> 00:54:52,747 You expect me to do precisely what you've done, 845 00:54:52,830 --> 00:54:55,249 marry a rich, well-bred gentleman, like Ninian, 846 00:54:55,374 --> 00:54:56,959 and live in a fine house like this. 847 00:54:58,127 --> 00:55:01,088 A house with a fence around it to keep out the common herd. 848 00:55:01,714 --> 00:55:04,967 And also to prevent you from escaping from your own narrow life. 849 00:55:05,510 --> 00:55:09,013 Well, with all due respect to my dear brother-in-law, 850 00:55:09,514 --> 00:55:12,058 I don't want that, and I won't have it. Never. 851 00:55:12,934 --> 00:55:14,894 In Abraham Lincoln, I see a man 852 00:55:14,977 --> 00:55:17,063 who has split rails for other men's fences 853 00:55:17,522 --> 00:55:20,358 but who will never build one around himself. 854 00:55:20,441 --> 00:55:22,527 You are talking with a degree of irresponsibility 855 00:55:22,610 --> 00:55:24,195 that's not far from sheer madness. 856 00:55:24,278 --> 00:55:25,613 You've never made a move 857 00:55:25,696 --> 00:55:27,907 to change your condition or to improve it. 858 00:55:27,990 --> 00:55:30,034 You consider that it couldn't be improved. 859 00:55:30,493 --> 00:55:34,080 To you, all this represents perfection. Well, it doesn't to me. 860 00:55:34,580 --> 00:55:38,042 I want the chance to shape a new life for myself and for my husband. 861 00:55:38,584 --> 00:55:40,294 Is that irresponsibility? 862 00:55:40,628 --> 00:55:42,397 How far will you go with a man like that, 863 00:55:42,421 --> 00:55:43,673 lazy and shiftless, 864 00:55:43,923 --> 00:55:45,758 forever stopping along the way to tell jokes? 865 00:55:45,842 --> 00:55:48,594 He will not stop if I am strong enough to make him go on, 866 00:55:49,345 --> 00:55:50,638 and I am strong. 867 00:55:51,973 --> 00:55:55,226 I'll admit, he seems to have no conception of his own power, 868 00:55:55,726 --> 00:55:57,562 or if he has, he's afraid to face it. 869 00:55:58,688 --> 00:55:59,856 I'm not afraid. 870 00:56:00,523 --> 00:56:03,651 I'm ready to fight to make him fulfill his destiny, 871 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,572 even if you and all your world despise me for it. 872 00:56:10,783 --> 00:56:12,785 Merely a small point, Mary, 873 00:56:12,910 --> 00:56:16,122 but I suppose you've communicated your decision to Abe? 874 00:56:16,205 --> 00:56:18,541 Uh, not yet, but when he comes this evening, 875 00:56:18,624 --> 00:56:22,295 and he should be here at any moment, he will ask for my hand in marriage. 876 00:56:22,670 --> 00:56:27,008 And after I've displayed the proper amount of surprise and confusion, 877 00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,677 I shall murmur timidly, "Yes." 878 00:56:31,846 --> 00:56:35,057 - This is positively humiliating! - Mr. Lincoln, ma'am. 879 00:56:38,644 --> 00:56:41,022 - Tell Mr. Lincoln that... - I shall see him. 880 00:56:48,946 --> 00:56:50,156 Show him in. 881 00:56:52,199 --> 00:56:54,994 - Will you step in, Mr. Lincoln? - Thank you, ma'am. 882 00:56:58,122 --> 00:57:00,249 Good evening, Mrs. Edwards. Evening, Miss Todd. 883 00:57:00,416 --> 00:57:02,418 - Ninian, good evening. - Good evening. 884 00:57:02,543 --> 00:57:04,962 - Good evening, Mr. Lincoln. - Glad to see you, Abe. 885 00:57:05,046 --> 00:57:06,672 And now, if you'll excuse us, 886 00:57:06,756 --> 00:57:08,799 Elizabeth and I must hear the children's prayers 887 00:57:08,883 --> 00:57:11,486 - and see them safely abed. - Oh, I'd like to hear their prayers too. 888 00:57:11,510 --> 00:57:13,721 Oh, no. You'd only keep them awake with your stories. 889 00:57:13,804 --> 00:57:16,724 - Come along, Elizabeth. - Kiss them good night for me. 890 00:57:16,849 --> 00:57:19,602 Mary, won't you come with us to say good night to the children? 891 00:57:19,685 --> 00:57:22,146 No, my dear. Leave Mary here to keep Abe entertained. 892 00:57:27,443 --> 00:57:30,363 I don't blame Ninian for keeping you away from those children. 893 00:57:30,446 --> 00:57:33,783 They certainly adore you. You understand them. 894 00:57:34,659 --> 00:57:38,162 That's the important thing. But do sit down, Mr. Lincoln. 895 00:57:39,830 --> 00:57:40,998 Here, by me. 896 00:57:44,710 --> 00:57:46,754 Thank you. I will. 897 00:58:01,894 --> 00:58:03,479 Happy new year, gentlemen! 898 00:58:09,610 --> 00:58:12,863 She's exactly like that, Billy. Whatever Abe lacks, she'll make up for. 899 00:58:12,947 --> 00:58:14,615 She has drive and perseverance. 900 00:58:15,074 --> 00:58:17,243 She'll make him fulfill his destiny. 901 00:58:17,326 --> 00:58:18,828 I'm glad to hear that, Mr. Edwards. 902 00:58:18,911 --> 00:58:20,871 - Here's to your health, sir. - Yours. 903 00:58:21,747 --> 00:58:24,250 Hello, Steve. Happy new year! 904 00:58:25,710 --> 00:58:27,336 How are you, Steve? Happy new year! 905 00:58:27,420 --> 00:58:29,505 Happy new year. Give me a drink quickly, mine host. 906 00:58:29,588 --> 00:58:31,841 Hot spiced rum punch or eggnog, Mr. Douglas? 907 00:58:32,008 --> 00:58:34,343 I'll have a glass or so of each, then I'll make up my mind. 908 00:58:35,386 --> 00:58:37,304 Ninian, where's the lucky bridegroom? 909 00:58:37,388 --> 00:58:38,723 Abe? He wouldn't come here. 910 00:58:38,806 --> 00:58:41,618 - Seems to be in one of his gloomy moods. - Ah. Just nervousness, I expect. 911 00:58:41,642 --> 00:58:43,269 Everything's ready for the ceremony. 912 00:58:43,352 --> 00:58:44,895 Elizabeth's prepared a bang-up supper, 913 00:58:44,979 --> 00:58:46,814 and the whole affair should go off handsomely. 914 00:58:46,897 --> 00:58:49,400 - You'll be there, of course. - Ah, yes. I'm a good sportsman. 915 00:58:49,608 --> 00:58:52,820 I'll swallow my mortification. And that's not all I'll swallow. 916 00:58:53,070 --> 00:58:56,032 To begin with, I ask you to join me in a toast, gentlemen. 917 00:58:56,115 --> 00:58:58,951 To the fairest flower of Old Kentucky, Miss Mary Todd, 918 00:58:59,035 --> 00:59:01,787 who from this day on will be Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. 919 00:59:01,871 --> 00:59:03,164 To Mary Todd! 920 00:59:10,254 --> 00:59:13,174 Happy new year, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Speed. 921 00:59:13,966 --> 00:59:15,301 Happy new year to you, Billy. 922 00:59:15,593 --> 00:59:17,219 I've just been over at the Chenery House. 923 00:59:17,303 --> 00:59:19,263 They were all drinking toasts to your happiness. 924 00:59:19,722 --> 00:59:22,141 I wish to have a private toast of my own. 925 00:59:23,601 --> 00:59:26,437 Mr. Lincoln, when I first heard of your approaching marriage, 926 00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,564 I confess I was afraid you were lowering yourself, 927 00:59:28,856 --> 00:59:31,484 trading your honor for exalted family connections. 928 00:59:31,817 --> 00:59:33,736 I apologize for so thinking. 929 00:59:35,071 --> 00:59:38,157 I now believe that Miss Todd's ambitions for you are the same as my own. 930 00:59:38,407 --> 00:59:40,868 I believe that she will never stop driving you and goading you 931 00:59:40,951 --> 00:59:43,037 until you have reached the heights where you belong. 932 00:59:43,370 --> 00:59:45,748 And I say God bless her and give her strength, 933 00:59:46,123 --> 00:59:47,917 and I drink to her and to her husband, 934 00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,668 the future president of the United States! 935 00:59:49,752 --> 00:59:50,753 Put that away. 936 00:59:53,464 --> 00:59:55,716 Billy, I have a letter I wish you to deliver. 937 00:59:56,217 --> 00:59:57,968 A letter? To whom? 938 00:59:58,344 --> 00:59:59,553 Give it to him, Josh. 939 01:00:07,937 --> 01:00:11,315 - You had no right to do that! - Maybe not, but it's done. 940 01:00:11,524 --> 01:00:14,068 Don't look at me as though you were planning to break my neck. 941 01:00:14,485 --> 01:00:17,113 I know you could do it, Abe, but you won't. 942 01:00:23,410 --> 01:00:25,663 Mr. Lincoln asked me to deliver that letter to Miss Todd, 943 01:00:25,746 --> 01:00:26,872 but I refused to do so. 944 01:00:27,164 --> 01:00:29,416 He was writing her to ask for his release from a marriage 945 01:00:29,500 --> 01:00:32,002 which could only lead to endless pain and misery for them both. 946 01:00:32,086 --> 01:00:33,546 If that isn't the truth, what is? 947 01:00:33,629 --> 01:00:37,299 If that is the truth, tell her so to her face in the manner of a man. 948 01:00:38,509 --> 01:00:42,429 I'd have to tell her that I have hatred for her infernal ambition, 949 01:00:43,180 --> 01:00:44,807 that I don't want to be ridden 950 01:00:44,890 --> 01:00:47,268 and driven onward and upward through life 951 01:00:47,351 --> 01:00:50,437 with her whip lashing me and her spurs digging into me. 952 01:00:51,647 --> 01:00:54,984 If her poor little soul craves importance in life, 953 01:00:55,067 --> 01:00:56,694 let her marry Stephen Douglas. 954 01:00:56,819 --> 01:00:58,320 He's ambitious too. 955 01:00:59,196 --> 01:01:01,365 I want only to be left alone. 956 01:01:02,074 --> 01:01:04,474 It would be more gracious to admit that you're afraid of her. 957 01:01:04,535 --> 01:01:05,953 Good for you, Mr. Speed. 958 01:01:06,036 --> 01:01:07,913 - You'd better keep out of this. - No, I won't. 959 01:01:09,331 --> 01:01:11,333 You're not abandoning Miss Mary Todd. 960 01:01:11,584 --> 01:01:13,878 No, you're only using her as the living sacrifice, 961 01:01:13,961 --> 01:01:16,172 offering her up in the hope that you'll gain forgiveness 962 01:01:16,255 --> 01:01:18,090 for your failure to do your own great duty. 963 01:01:18,174 --> 01:01:19,508 My own great duty. 964 01:01:19,592 --> 01:01:22,344 Everyone feels called upon to remind me of it, 965 01:01:22,428 --> 01:01:24,722 and no one can tell me what it is. 966 01:01:24,805 --> 01:01:26,015 I can tell you. 967 01:01:26,098 --> 01:01:27,784 I can tell you what is the duty of every man 968 01:01:27,808 --> 01:01:29,560 who calls himself an American. 969 01:01:30,227 --> 01:01:33,772 It is to perpetuate those truths which were once held to be self-evident, 970 01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:35,608 that all men are created equal 971 01:01:35,691 --> 01:01:39,028 and endowed with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 972 01:01:39,111 --> 01:01:41,280 And are those rights denied to me? 973 01:01:41,614 --> 01:01:43,949 Could you ever enjoy them while you realize 974 01:01:44,033 --> 01:01:47,119 that two million of your fellow beings in this country are slaves? 975 01:01:47,536 --> 01:01:48,871 When you look at that flag, 976 01:01:48,954 --> 01:01:51,248 don't you ever realize that ten of its stars 977 01:01:51,332 --> 01:01:53,459 represent states which would destroy the union 978 01:01:53,542 --> 01:01:56,212 rather than give up their property rights in those slaves? 979 01:01:57,254 --> 01:01:59,381 Don't dare tell me that anybody in this world 980 01:01:59,465 --> 01:02:01,592 knows that better than you do, Mr. Lincoln. 981 01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,511 You, who honor the memory of Elijah Lovejoy 982 01:02:04,845 --> 01:02:08,557 and every other man who ever died fighting in the defense of freedom. 983 01:02:08,641 --> 01:02:10,809 Yes, I honor them 984 01:02:11,810 --> 01:02:17,900 and envy them because they could believe that their ideals are worth dying for. 985 01:02:37,711 --> 01:02:39,004 All right, Josh. 986 01:02:39,964 --> 01:02:42,466 I'll go up now and I'll talk to Mary. 987 01:02:56,814 --> 01:02:59,358 - Then I'm going away. - Where? 988 01:03:01,777 --> 01:03:03,112 I don't know. 989 01:05:12,491 --> 01:05:14,368 The world passeth, 990 01:05:14,993 --> 01:05:19,456 but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. 991 01:05:37,057 --> 01:05:38,308 Howdy, Abe. 992 01:05:39,601 --> 01:05:40,644 Hello, Abe. 993 01:05:43,397 --> 01:05:46,275 Mr. Lincoln. Glad to see you back. 994 01:05:46,483 --> 01:05:47,568 Thank you, Gus. 995 01:05:47,651 --> 01:05:49,778 Why, Abe, when did you get back? 996 01:05:50,529 --> 01:05:52,114 - How do you do? - Good afternoon. 997 01:05:53,574 --> 01:05:55,659 After his shameful treatment of Miss Todd, 998 01:05:55,742 --> 01:05:58,245 I wouldn't think he'd dare show his face in this town. 999 01:05:59,913 --> 01:06:02,332 And going in the Edwards home, of all things. 1000 01:06:02,416 --> 01:06:04,835 Right in where he's least wanted. 1001 01:06:04,918 --> 01:06:06,879 We can't say he lacks courage. 1002 01:06:08,964 --> 01:06:10,924 She says come right in, Mr. Lincoln. 1003 01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:23,854 - I'm glad to see you again, Abe. - Thank you, Mary. 1004 01:06:24,229 --> 01:06:28,108 You may well wonder why I thrust myself on your mercy in this manner. 1005 01:06:28,650 --> 01:06:31,153 I'm sure you're always welcome in Ninian's house. 1006 01:06:31,361 --> 01:06:33,489 After my behavior at our last meeting here, 1007 01:06:33,572 --> 01:06:36,074 I have not been welcome company for myself. 1008 01:06:36,950 --> 01:06:39,620 Joshua Speed has kept us informed of your whereabouts. 1009 01:06:39,703 --> 01:06:42,915 - We've been greatly concerned. - You've been most kind. 1010 01:06:43,624 --> 01:06:44,958 Now you'll return to your work, 1011 01:06:45,042 --> 01:06:47,211 and no doubt you'll be running for the assembly again. 1012 01:06:47,294 --> 01:06:49,713 Or perhaps you have larger plans. 1013 01:06:49,796 --> 01:06:53,717 I have no plans, Mary. I only wish to gain your forgiveness. 1014 01:06:54,968 --> 01:06:56,512 There's no question of that. 1015 01:06:56,803 --> 01:06:58,931 What happened between us was my own fault. 1016 01:06:59,014 --> 01:07:01,558 I was blinded by my own self-confidence. 1017 01:07:01,892 --> 01:07:05,521 I... I loved you. 1018 01:07:06,188 --> 01:07:08,357 I believed that I could make you love me. 1019 01:07:08,815 --> 01:07:11,902 I believed the fire of my ambition would burn in you, 1020 01:07:12,277 --> 01:07:14,571 you would become a man, a leader of men, 1021 01:07:15,072 --> 01:07:17,699 but you didn't wish that. 1022 01:07:19,117 --> 01:07:21,745 It is true, Mary, you once had faith in me 1023 01:07:21,828 --> 01:07:23,830 which I was far from deserving. 1024 01:07:25,207 --> 01:07:27,876 The time has come when I wish to strive to deserve it. 1025 01:07:28,669 --> 01:07:31,296 I believe now that our destinies are together, 1026 01:07:31,547 --> 01:07:33,215 for better or for worse. 1027 01:07:35,092 --> 01:07:38,095 So I again presume to ask you to be my wife. 1028 01:07:42,057 --> 01:07:46,478 I fully realize that taking me back involves humiliation for you. 1029 01:07:47,187 --> 01:07:50,190 I've had humiliation already and survived it. 1030 01:07:50,357 --> 01:07:53,735 But I promise you, Mary, that if you will have me, 1031 01:07:53,819 --> 01:07:56,488 I shall devote myself for the rest of my days 1032 01:07:56,572 --> 01:07:58,490 to trying to do what is right 1033 01:07:58,657 --> 01:08:01,660 as God gives me power to see what is right. 1034 01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:10,752 Then... I shall be your wife. 1035 01:08:12,337 --> 01:08:15,299 I shall fight by your side till death do us part. 1036 01:08:17,426 --> 01:08:21,013 Abe, I love you. Oh, I love you. 1037 01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,766 Whatever becomes of the two of us, I'll die loving you. 1038 01:09:46,932 --> 01:09:50,268 "...as slaves. Whether emancipated or not, 1039 01:09:50,352 --> 01:09:53,939 they yet remain subject to the authority of the dominant race 1040 01:09:54,022 --> 01:09:56,149 and have no rights or privileges 1041 01:09:56,233 --> 01:09:59,236 but such as those who hold the power of government 1042 01:09:59,319 --> 01:10:00,737 might choose to grant them." 1043 01:10:40,193 --> 01:10:41,528 Are you John Brown? 1044 01:10:42,028 --> 01:10:44,906 I am, sir, Osawatomie John Brown. 1045 01:10:45,198 --> 01:10:47,284 Don't try and fight them anymore, Pa. 1046 01:10:47,367 --> 01:10:49,578 I place you under arrest for treason, 1047 01:10:49,828 --> 01:10:52,497 for bearing arms against the government of the United States. 1048 01:10:52,998 --> 01:10:56,293 I'd like to ask who's making this arrest. 1049 01:10:56,376 --> 01:10:58,754 I am Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee of the 2nd Cavalry, 1050 01:10:58,837 --> 01:11:01,131 acting under orders from President Buchanan. 1051 01:11:02,466 --> 01:11:06,094 It's no use, Pa. You got to give in to them. 1052 01:11:07,846 --> 01:11:11,099 Somebody else has got to finish this job. 1053 01:11:17,647 --> 01:11:20,150 Very well, Colonel Lee, I submit to arrest, 1054 01:11:20,901 --> 01:11:23,195 knowing full well that I shall be hanged 1055 01:11:23,278 --> 01:11:25,781 for this attempt to end the evil of slavery. 1056 01:11:26,656 --> 01:11:29,493 But after I am dead, the evil will remain, 1057 01:11:30,035 --> 01:11:32,996 and you and all other patriots will come to learn 1058 01:11:33,371 --> 01:11:38,210 it can be purged from this guilty world only with blood. 1059 01:11:43,465 --> 01:11:45,217 Goodbye, my son. 1060 01:12:00,357 --> 01:12:02,359 Another fanatic has gone to meet his maker. 1061 01:12:02,442 --> 01:12:05,278 Why can't these antislavery fools mind their own business? 1062 01:12:05,445 --> 01:12:06,738 Senator Douglas! 1063 01:12:07,697 --> 01:12:11,284 The message you've been waiting for. Telegram from Springfield. 1064 01:12:11,368 --> 01:12:14,663 They've nominated Abraham Lincoln to run against the senator this fall. 1065 01:12:15,664 --> 01:12:17,415 My heartiest congratulations. 1066 01:12:17,499 --> 01:12:19,125 Lincoln? Who is he? 1067 01:12:19,376 --> 01:12:21,294 What are they doing, giving you the election? 1068 01:12:21,795 --> 01:12:24,923 So Abe Lincoln has decided at last to come out and fight. 1069 01:12:25,006 --> 01:12:27,008 It's the best thing that could have happened to us. 1070 01:12:27,133 --> 01:12:28,844 How does this Lincoln stand on slavery? 1071 01:12:28,927 --> 01:12:31,054 Nobody knows, least of all Lincoln himself. 1072 01:12:31,179 --> 01:12:34,224 He's the most undecided, hesitatingest critter you ever saw. 1073 01:12:34,307 --> 01:12:38,270 Good. We don't want that slave issue brought up in Illinois this year. 1074 01:12:38,353 --> 01:12:42,274 You can count on old Abe. He's just what we want, a peaceful man. 1075 01:12:42,691 --> 01:12:45,360 We'll start the campaign at once. I'm going back to Springfield. 1076 01:12:45,443 --> 01:12:47,755 And I want to have an unprecedented welcome when I get there, 1077 01:12:47,779 --> 01:12:51,199 brass band at the station, a big parade and free liquor for all. 1078 01:12:51,283 --> 01:12:54,119 But you don't mean to say that you're afraid of Abe Lincoln? 1079 01:12:54,202 --> 01:12:56,162 Why, the country doesn't know him. 1080 01:12:56,246 --> 01:12:59,457 Maybe the country doesn't... but I do. 1081 01:13:07,257 --> 01:13:10,010 All ready now. Keep very still. 1082 01:13:11,136 --> 01:13:14,055 One, two, three... 1083 01:13:14,806 --> 01:13:17,934 Tad, you're to keep absolutely still. You too, Willie. 1084 01:13:18,393 --> 01:13:19,728 We will, Ma. 1085 01:13:20,687 --> 01:13:22,355 Now, please, one and all. 1086 01:13:25,275 --> 01:13:28,570 One, two, three... 1087 01:13:28,653 --> 01:13:31,323 Tad, if I have to speak to you once more... 1088 01:13:31,406 --> 01:13:33,116 But Pa keeps tickling me. 1089 01:13:33,742 --> 01:13:36,077 I might have known it. Please, Mr. Lincoln. 1090 01:13:36,161 --> 01:13:39,331 Please bear in mind this picture was ordered by the Chicago Tribune 1091 01:13:39,414 --> 01:13:41,958 to spread far and wide during your campaign. 1092 01:13:42,042 --> 01:13:43,293 I'm sorry, Mary, 1093 01:13:43,376 --> 01:13:46,004 but I can't help thinking how foolish I look. 1094 01:13:46,087 --> 01:13:48,798 Now, I beg of you, no move of any kind. 1095 01:13:49,299 --> 01:13:50,800 This time, we'll get it. 1096 01:13:51,509 --> 01:13:52,636 One... 1097 01:13:54,804 --> 01:13:57,557 Willie! Tad! Come back here! 1098 01:13:57,641 --> 01:13:59,801 Look, Pa. It's a great big parade! 1099 01:14:00,185 --> 01:14:03,688 Stephen Douglas has arrived. Listen to them cheering for him. 1100 01:14:03,980 --> 01:14:06,441 They ought to cheer him. He paid them enough for it. 1101 01:14:37,806 --> 01:14:39,975 Old Abe won't have an answer for that one. 1102 01:14:40,058 --> 01:14:41,058 You're a liar. 1103 01:14:52,779 --> 01:14:57,158 We have now heard the leading arguments of the two candidates 1104 01:14:57,242 --> 01:15:00,328 for the high office of United States Senator from Illinois, 1105 01:15:00,745 --> 01:15:03,999 Judge Stephen A. Douglas and Mr. Abraham Lincoln. 1106 01:15:04,582 --> 01:15:06,960 According to the usual custom of debate, 1107 01:15:07,293 --> 01:15:10,005 each of the candidates will now speak in rebuttal. 1108 01:15:10,755 --> 01:15:11,965 Judge Douglas. 1109 01:15:24,019 --> 01:15:25,311 My fellow citizens, 1110 01:15:26,312 --> 01:15:28,398 my good friend Mr. Lincoln has addressed you 1111 01:15:28,481 --> 01:15:30,942 with his usual artless sincerity, 1112 01:15:31,026 --> 01:15:35,030 his pure, homely charm, his perennial native humor. 1113 01:15:35,488 --> 01:15:38,450 He has devoted a generously large portion of his address 1114 01:15:38,533 --> 01:15:42,620 to most amiable remarks upon my fine qualities as a man, 1115 01:15:42,704 --> 01:15:44,497 if not as a Statesman, 1116 01:15:45,081 --> 01:15:47,959 for which I express deepest gratitude. 1117 01:15:48,251 --> 01:15:49,836 But at the same time, 1118 01:15:49,919 --> 01:15:52,213 I most earnestly beg you 1119 01:15:52,297 --> 01:15:55,133 not to be deceived by his seeming innocence, 1120 01:15:55,216 --> 01:15:59,179 his carefully cultivated spirit of good will, 1121 01:15:59,262 --> 01:16:03,975 for in each of his little homilies lurk concealed weapons. 1122 01:16:04,059 --> 01:16:07,604 Like Brutus in Shakespeare's immortal tragedy, 1123 01:16:07,687 --> 01:16:09,981 Mr. Lincoln is an honorable man. 1124 01:16:10,190 --> 01:16:12,025 But also like Brutus, 1125 01:16:12,108 --> 01:16:16,654 he is an adept at the art of inserting daggers between an opponent's ribs 1126 01:16:16,946 --> 01:16:19,866 just when said opponent least expects it. 1127 01:16:20,408 --> 01:16:22,702 Behold me, ladies and gentlemen. 1128 01:16:22,827 --> 01:16:24,871 I am covered with scars. 1129 01:16:30,335 --> 01:16:33,171 - How dare they laugh? - It's only a speech, Mother. 1130 01:16:34,297 --> 01:16:35,965 Anytime you say, Abe. 1131 01:16:41,054 --> 01:16:44,557 Mr. Lincoln makes you laugh with his pungent anecdotes. 1132 01:16:44,641 --> 01:16:48,144 He draws tears from your eyes with his dramatic pictures 1133 01:16:48,228 --> 01:16:51,147 of the plight of the Black slave labor in the South. 1134 01:16:51,397 --> 01:16:55,401 Always he guides you skillfully to the threshold of truth. 1135 01:16:55,693 --> 01:17:00,532 But then, as you are about to cross it, he diverts your attention elsewhere. 1136 01:17:01,241 --> 01:17:05,120 He never by any mischance makes reference 1137 01:17:05,203 --> 01:17:07,330 to the condition of labor here in the North. 1138 01:17:07,956 --> 01:17:09,958 Perhaps he's ignorant of the fact 1139 01:17:10,041 --> 01:17:13,294 that tens of thousands of workers are now on strike, 1140 01:17:13,670 --> 01:17:18,216 hungry men marching through the streets in ragged order, 1141 01:17:18,299 --> 01:17:21,344 promoting riots because they're not paid enough 1142 01:17:21,427 --> 01:17:24,889 to keep the flesh upon the bones of their babies. 1143 01:17:25,181 --> 01:17:29,102 What kind of liberty is this and what kind of equality? 1144 01:17:29,185 --> 01:17:30,311 Right! 1145 01:17:37,068 --> 01:17:41,364 Mr. Lincoln harps constantly on this subject of equality. 1146 01:17:42,073 --> 01:17:43,533 He repeats over and over 1147 01:17:43,616 --> 01:17:47,287 the argument used by Lovejoy and other abolitionists to wit, 1148 01:17:47,370 --> 01:17:49,581 that the Declaration of Independence, 1149 01:17:49,664 --> 01:17:53,126 having declared all men free and equal by divine law, 1150 01:17:53,209 --> 01:17:56,296 thus Negro equality is an inalienable right. 1151 01:17:57,380 --> 01:18:00,425 Contrary to this stands the verdict of the Supreme Court 1152 01:18:00,508 --> 01:18:01,926 in the case of Dred Scott. 1153 01:18:03,553 --> 01:18:05,263 Mr. Lincoln is a lawyer, 1154 01:18:05,638 --> 01:18:08,224 and I presume, therefore, that he knows 1155 01:18:08,558 --> 01:18:11,060 that when he seeks to destroy public confidence 1156 01:18:11,144 --> 01:18:14,564 in the integrity, the inviolability of the Supreme Court, 1157 01:18:14,939 --> 01:18:17,275 he is preaching revolution. 1158 01:18:18,735 --> 01:18:21,654 He asks me to state my opinion of the Dred Scott decision, 1159 01:18:21,821 --> 01:18:24,699 and I answer him unequivocally by saying, 1160 01:18:24,782 --> 01:18:27,327 I take the decisions of the Supreme Court 1161 01:18:27,577 --> 01:18:31,664 to be the law of the land, and I intend to obey them as such. 1162 01:18:32,290 --> 01:18:34,459 Nor will I be swayed from that position 1163 01:18:34,542 --> 01:18:39,505 by all the ranting of all the fanatics who preach racial equality, 1164 01:18:39,589 --> 01:18:44,010 who would ask us to vote, eat, sleep and marry with Negroes. 1165 01:18:44,135 --> 01:18:45,386 And I say further, 1166 01:18:45,470 --> 01:18:49,432 let each State mind its own business and leave its neighbors alone. 1167 01:18:49,933 --> 01:18:52,060 If we'll stand on that principle, 1168 01:18:52,143 --> 01:18:56,814 then Mr. Lincoln will find that this great republic can exist 1169 01:18:56,898 --> 01:18:59,817 forever divided into free and slave states, 1170 01:18:59,901 --> 01:19:02,487 and we can go on as we have done, 1171 01:19:02,570 --> 01:19:06,324 increasing in wealth, in population, in power, 1172 01:19:06,407 --> 01:19:11,246 until we shall become the admiration and the terror of the world. 1173 01:19:17,585 --> 01:19:19,837 Listen to them yell, the empty-headed idiots, 1174 01:19:19,921 --> 01:19:21,381 yelling at empty words. 1175 01:19:21,631 --> 01:19:24,592 He doesn't know what he's talking about. He never did. 1176 01:19:24,676 --> 01:19:25,802 You're upsetting your drink. 1177 01:19:29,097 --> 01:19:30,473 Mr. Abraham Lincoln. 1178 01:19:40,441 --> 01:19:41,901 Go get him, Abe! 1179 01:19:43,152 --> 01:19:46,656 Judge Douglas has paid tribute to my skill with a dagger. 1180 01:19:46,739 --> 01:19:48,533 I thank him for that, 1181 01:19:48,616 --> 01:19:51,536 but I must admit that he can do more with that weapon than I can. 1182 01:19:51,619 --> 01:19:55,290 He can keep ten daggers flashing in the air at the same time. 1183 01:19:55,498 --> 01:19:57,625 Fortunately, he's so good at it 1184 01:19:57,709 --> 01:19:59,961 that none of the knives ever falls and hurts anyone. 1185 01:20:07,135 --> 01:20:10,972 Now you've heard the judge make allusion to those who advocate voting 1186 01:20:11,055 --> 01:20:14,183 and eating and marrying and sleeping with Negroes. 1187 01:20:14,642 --> 01:20:17,395 Whether he meant me specifically, I do not know. 1188 01:20:17,478 --> 01:20:19,063 If he did, I can only say 1189 01:20:19,147 --> 01:20:21,983 that just because I do not want a colored woman for a slave, 1190 01:20:22,066 --> 01:20:24,777 I do not necessarily want her for a wife. 1191 01:20:25,236 --> 01:20:29,324 I do not need to have her for either. I can just leave her alone. 1192 01:20:30,116 --> 01:20:32,994 In some respects, she is certainly not my equal 1193 01:20:33,077 --> 01:20:37,373 any more than I am the judge's equal in some respects. 1194 01:20:38,124 --> 01:20:41,711 But in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands 1195 01:20:41,794 --> 01:20:44,005 without asking leave of somebody else, 1196 01:20:44,088 --> 01:20:47,342 she is my equal and the equal of all others. 1197 01:20:48,343 --> 01:20:52,513 Now you've heard the judge speak about our own labor condition. 1198 01:20:52,889 --> 01:20:56,851 As an American, I cannot be proud that such conditions exist. 1199 01:20:57,810 --> 01:20:59,896 But as an American I can ask, 1200 01:21:00,271 --> 01:21:03,066 would any of the striking workers in the North 1201 01:21:03,149 --> 01:21:06,361 elect to change places with the slaves in the South? 1202 01:21:06,819 --> 01:21:10,573 Will they not rather say the remedy is in our hands? 1203 01:21:10,656 --> 01:21:14,285 And still as an American I can say, 1204 01:21:14,369 --> 01:21:19,248 thank God we live under a system by which men have the right to strike. 1205 01:21:21,417 --> 01:21:22,585 Right. 1206 01:21:22,710 --> 01:21:24,420 That's right. 1207 01:21:28,216 --> 01:21:31,094 I am not preaching rebellion. 1208 01:21:32,512 --> 01:21:34,180 I don't have to. 1209 01:21:35,014 --> 01:21:40,436 This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. 1210 01:21:41,312 --> 01:21:45,274 Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, 1211 01:21:45,483 --> 01:21:49,987 they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it 1212 01:21:50,321 --> 01:21:55,410 or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 1213 01:21:55,618 --> 01:22:00,998 If the founding fathers gave us anything, they gave us that. 1214 01:22:08,047 --> 01:22:11,759 The purpose of the Dred Scott decision is to make property, 1215 01:22:11,843 --> 01:22:15,721 and nothing but property, of the Negro in all States of the Union. 1216 01:22:16,431 --> 01:22:20,268 It is the old issue of human rights versus property rights. 1217 01:22:20,935 --> 01:22:24,605 It is the eternal struggle between two principles, 1218 01:22:24,772 --> 01:22:28,067 the one, the common right of humanity, 1219 01:22:28,317 --> 01:22:31,237 the other, the divine right of kings. 1220 01:22:32,029 --> 01:22:34,240 It is the same spirit which says, 1221 01:22:34,323 --> 01:22:37,577 "You toil and work and earn bread and I'll eat it." 1222 01:22:44,667 --> 01:22:50,256 As a nation, we began by declaring, "All men are created equal.” 1223 01:22:51,174 --> 01:22:54,010 There was no mention of any exception to that rule 1224 01:22:54,093 --> 01:22:56,512 in the Declaration of Independence, 1225 01:22:56,888 --> 01:22:58,973 but we now practically read it, 1226 01:22:59,056 --> 01:23:02,226 "All men are created equal except Negroes." 1227 01:23:03,561 --> 01:23:08,524 If we are to accept this doctrine of race or class discrimination, 1228 01:23:08,816 --> 01:23:11,819 what is to stop us in future from decreeing, 1229 01:23:12,153 --> 01:23:16,741 all men are created equal except Negroes, foreigners, 1230 01:23:17,033 --> 01:23:21,913 Catholics, Jews or just poor people? 1231 01:23:22,580 --> 01:23:27,293 That is the conclusion towards which the advocates of slavery are driving us. 1232 01:23:27,543 --> 01:23:31,797 "Let each state mind its own business," says Judge Douglas. 1233 01:23:31,964 --> 01:23:33,674 "Why stir up trouble?" 1234 01:23:34,467 --> 01:23:39,722 This is the complacent policy of indifference to evil, 1235 01:23:40,097 --> 01:23:44,602 and that policy I cannot but hate. 1236 01:23:45,770 --> 01:23:50,816 I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. 1237 01:23:51,609 --> 01:23:54,654 I hate it because it deprives our republic 1238 01:23:54,737 --> 01:23:57,073 of its just influence in the world, 1239 01:23:57,573 --> 01:24:03,329 enables the enemies of free institutions everywhere to taunt us as hypocrites, 1240 01:24:04,038 --> 01:24:08,876 causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, 1241 01:24:09,835 --> 01:24:13,297 and especially because it forces 1242 01:24:13,381 --> 01:24:17,969 so many good men among ourselves into an open war 1243 01:24:18,052 --> 01:24:21,389 with the very fundamentals of civil liberty, 1244 01:24:22,056 --> 01:24:26,143 denying the good faith of the Declaration of Independence 1245 01:24:26,561 --> 01:24:33,109 and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest. 1246 01:24:34,026 --> 01:24:36,487 In his final words tonight, 1247 01:24:37,196 --> 01:24:42,410 the judge said that we can be the terror of the world. 1248 01:24:43,703 --> 01:24:46,455 I don't think we want to be that. 1249 01:24:47,915 --> 01:24:52,545 I think we would prefer to be the encouragement of the world, 1250 01:24:53,421 --> 01:24:58,050 the proof that at last man is worthy to be free. 1251 01:24:59,302 --> 01:25:02,430 But we shall provide no such encouragement 1252 01:25:02,513 --> 01:25:06,934 unless we can establish our ability as a nation to live and grow, 1253 01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:10,771 and we shall surely do neither 1254 01:25:10,980 --> 01:25:14,775 if these states fail to remain united. 1255 01:25:16,027 --> 01:25:20,823 There can be no distinction in the definition of liberty 1256 01:25:20,990 --> 01:25:23,492 as between one section and another, 1257 01:25:23,576 --> 01:25:27,079 one class and another, one race and another. 1258 01:25:29,123 --> 01:25:33,753 A house divided against itself cannot stand. 1259 01:25:35,046 --> 01:25:39,342 This government cannot endure permanently 1260 01:25:39,967 --> 01:25:44,930 half slave and half free. 1261 01:25:54,523 --> 01:25:56,776 "This government cannot endure permanently 1262 01:25:57,151 --> 01:25:59,362 half slave and half free." 1263 01:25:59,445 --> 01:26:02,239 Here's the proof of your editorial for tomorrow, Mr. Greeley. 1264 01:26:02,365 --> 01:26:04,659 Scrap it. I'm going to write another one, 1265 01:26:04,950 --> 01:26:06,452 about a man named Lincoln. 1266 01:26:06,535 --> 01:26:08,412 Lincoln? Never heard of him. 1267 01:26:09,163 --> 01:26:10,289 You will. 1268 01:26:32,436 --> 01:26:33,562 Gentlemen, please! 1269 01:26:33,646 --> 01:26:36,565 Gentlemen, I beg of you, one at a time. 1270 01:26:36,649 --> 01:26:39,860 If Seward's nominated, he'll want to emancipate all the slaves. 1271 01:26:40,111 --> 01:26:41,696 That'll be the end of the Union. 1272 01:26:41,779 --> 01:26:44,323 I tell you that Douglas will carry the South and the West. 1273 01:26:44,407 --> 01:26:46,909 We've got to be sure of New York or we lose... 1274 01:26:46,992 --> 01:26:49,161 Seward will never get my vote. 1275 01:26:49,412 --> 01:26:52,498 Gentlemen, if you can't contain your tempers, we'll never agree. 1276 01:26:52,581 --> 01:26:56,210 We'll never agree on any of the leading candidates. That's obvious. 1277 01:26:56,293 --> 01:26:58,462 What we need in this race is a dark horse. 1278 01:26:58,546 --> 01:27:00,715 - Yes, and what's his name? - Lincoln. 1279 01:27:03,884 --> 01:27:05,386 Maybe you don't know it, 1280 01:27:05,469 --> 01:27:08,097 but there's a big country out west of the Alleghenies, 1281 01:27:08,180 --> 01:27:11,600 with a lot of new states named Oregon, Minnesota, California, 1282 01:27:11,684 --> 01:27:13,686 that you seem never to have heard of. 1283 01:27:13,769 --> 01:27:16,814 Lincoln's popular out there, and if we handle him right, 1284 01:27:16,897 --> 01:27:19,066 we can make him popular back here in the East. 1285 01:27:19,150 --> 01:27:21,652 Anyway, I ask you gentlemen to look him over. 1286 01:27:21,777 --> 01:27:23,112 Do you know him, Crimmin? 1287 01:27:23,195 --> 01:27:26,574 I heard him debate with Douglas, and I can tell you one thing, 1288 01:27:26,657 --> 01:27:29,118 he's a vote-getter if I ever saw one. 1289 01:27:34,373 --> 01:27:36,083 They got safely to Oregon. 1290 01:27:36,500 --> 01:27:38,294 Did you ever fight the Indians, Pa? 1291 01:27:38,377 --> 01:27:42,339 Not exactly. I was almost in a battle, but I got lost from my men. 1292 01:27:42,673 --> 01:27:43,924 Were you scared? 1293 01:27:44,008 --> 01:27:46,218 That, my boy, brings up a point of argument. 1294 01:27:46,802 --> 01:27:49,555 When I got back to the camp, the Colonel asked me if I'd run away. 1295 01:27:49,638 --> 01:27:52,558 I said, "No, sir, but if anybody had asked me where I was going, 1296 01:27:52,641 --> 01:27:54,477 and I'd said I was going for the doctor, 1297 01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:56,645 they'd have figured someone was almighty sick." 1298 01:28:00,816 --> 01:28:03,319 - Robert, you've been smoking again. - Yes, Mother. 1299 01:28:03,569 --> 01:28:05,988 I've told you that I will not tolerate tobacco smoke 1300 01:28:06,071 --> 01:28:08,574 in my sitting room or indeed in any part of my house. 1301 01:28:08,991 --> 01:28:10,117 Come, come, Mary. 1302 01:28:10,201 --> 01:28:12,328 You mustn't be disrespectful to a Harvard man. 1303 01:28:13,829 --> 01:28:15,589 - Take it out in the woodshed. - Yes, Father. 1304 01:28:15,706 --> 01:28:17,875 You children, run upstairs. Get ready for your supper. 1305 01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,920 - Oh, Ma... - Do as your mother tells you, son. 1306 01:28:25,883 --> 01:28:28,427 - Hello, Mr. Speed! - Hello, Willie. Hello, Tad. 1307 01:28:31,639 --> 01:28:34,058 Say, Abe, that delegation arrived in town an hour ago. 1308 01:28:34,141 --> 01:28:36,519 - They ought to be here any minute. - What delegation? 1309 01:28:36,811 --> 01:28:39,230 Oh, some prominent politicians and ministers, 1310 01:28:39,313 --> 01:28:41,565 several bankers, that kind of people. 1311 01:28:42,024 --> 01:28:45,027 - What are they coming here for? - I don't precisely know, 1312 01:28:45,110 --> 01:28:47,613 but I presume it's to see if I'm fit to be a candidate 1313 01:28:47,696 --> 01:28:49,448 for President of the United States. 1314 01:28:49,657 --> 01:28:50,825 Guess they want to find out 1315 01:28:50,908 --> 01:28:52,159 if we live in a log cabin 1316 01:28:52,243 --> 01:28:53,929 and keep pigs under the bed. 1317 01:28:53,953 --> 01:28:57,873 - And you didn't tell me? - I'm sorry, Mary. It slipped my mind. 1318 01:28:58,999 --> 01:29:00,835 You're being considered for the presidency, 1319 01:29:00,918 --> 01:29:02,419 but it just slipped your mind. 1320 01:29:02,586 --> 01:29:04,755 Oh, if I'd only known, 1321 01:29:04,839 --> 01:29:07,258 if you'd only given me time to prepare for them. 1322 01:29:07,341 --> 01:29:10,761 Now they'll see us as we are, crude, sloppy Western barbarians 1323 01:29:10,845 --> 01:29:13,389 living In a house that reeks of foul tobacco smoke 1324 01:29:13,472 --> 01:29:15,391 and your filthy old carpet slippers. 1325 01:29:15,474 --> 01:29:16,976 I declare, Abraham Lincoln, 1326 01:29:17,059 --> 01:29:19,228 I believe you'd have treated me with more consideration 1327 01:29:19,311 --> 01:29:21,230 if I'd been your slave rather than your wife. 1328 01:29:21,397 --> 01:29:23,816 Go this minute and put some decent boots on. 1329 01:29:24,650 --> 01:29:25,818 Yes, Mary. 1330 01:29:35,202 --> 01:29:36,579 I know, Joshua. 1331 01:29:37,329 --> 01:29:41,917 You think, just as all the others do, I'm a bitter, nagging woman, 1332 01:29:42,835 --> 01:29:45,880 that I've tried to kill his spirit and drag him down to my level. 1333 01:29:46,255 --> 01:29:48,674 No, Mary, I think nothing of the kind. 1334 01:29:49,049 --> 01:29:50,634 Remember, I know Abe too. 1335 01:29:53,679 --> 01:29:56,932 He's always had some obsession of some future doom. 1336 01:29:57,892 --> 01:29:59,560 And for 18 years, 1337 01:29:59,643 --> 01:30:02,354 I've been trying and trying to stir him out of it, 1338 01:30:03,230 --> 01:30:06,567 but all my efforts have been like so many waves 1339 01:30:06,650 --> 01:30:08,777 dashing against the rock of ages. 1340 01:30:09,862 --> 01:30:12,364 And now the greatest opportunity is coming to him, 1341 01:30:12,448 --> 01:30:14,241 here, right into his own house. 1342 01:30:14,909 --> 01:30:16,035 He must take it. 1343 01:30:16,660 --> 01:30:19,663 He must see that this is what he was meant to be. 1344 01:30:21,832 --> 01:30:23,459 But I can't persuade him of it. 1345 01:30:25,085 --> 01:30:28,005 I thought that I could help to shape him as I knew he should be, 1346 01:30:28,964 --> 01:30:31,717 and I've succeeded in nothing but in breaking myself. 1347 01:30:33,344 --> 01:30:36,013 - Mr. Lincoln? - I've got my boots on, Mary. 1348 01:30:36,096 --> 01:30:37,264 You can receive them in here 1349 01:30:37,348 --> 01:30:39,600 while I try to prepare some refreshments for them. 1350 01:30:45,105 --> 01:30:47,316 How do you do, Mr. Crimmin? Glad to see you again. 1351 01:30:47,399 --> 01:30:48,567 Thank you, Mr. Lincoln. 1352 01:30:48,651 --> 01:30:50,569 Will you step into the parlor, gentlemen? 1353 01:30:52,112 --> 01:30:54,156 - Mr. Lincoln. - Come on in, Josh. 1354 01:30:54,239 --> 01:30:58,077 Oh, no. You've got to face this out by yourself, Abe. Good luck. 1355 01:31:03,332 --> 01:31:06,126 Is it true that they're aiming to make Abe President? 1356 01:31:06,335 --> 01:31:09,880 How many times have I told you to speak of your master as Mr. Lincoln? 1357 01:31:09,964 --> 01:31:12,132 He ain't my master any more than he is yours. 1358 01:31:12,216 --> 01:31:13,676 Besides, I've known Abe Lincoln 1359 01:31:13,759 --> 01:31:16,095 ever since he wore pants that weren't nothing but patches. 1360 01:31:16,178 --> 01:31:17,680 Kettle's boiling, Mrs. Lincoln. 1361 01:31:18,847 --> 01:31:20,724 President of the United States. 1362 01:31:20,808 --> 01:31:22,810 If they get him back there into Washington, 1363 01:31:22,893 --> 01:31:24,144 he won't never come out alive. 1364 01:31:27,523 --> 01:31:31,068 I hesitate to mention such a delicate matter, Mr. Lincoln. 1365 01:31:31,151 --> 01:31:33,195 Please don't hesitate, Dr. Barrett. 1366 01:31:33,362 --> 01:31:35,864 There has been some grave doubt about your religious beliefs. 1367 01:31:35,948 --> 01:31:37,908 I know. They've always called me an atheist 1368 01:31:37,992 --> 01:31:40,536 because I've refused to become a church member. 1369 01:31:40,869 --> 01:31:42,496 And why have you refused? 1370 01:31:42,830 --> 01:31:46,417 I have found their articles of belief too complicated for me. 1371 01:31:47,376 --> 01:31:51,755 But I assure you, Dr. Barrett, that I will gladly join, at any time, 1372 01:31:51,839 --> 01:31:54,967 any church whose sole qualification for membership 1373 01:31:55,050 --> 01:31:59,138 is obedience to the savior's own statement of law and gospel. 1374 01:32:01,223 --> 01:32:04,935 "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart 1375 01:32:05,644 --> 01:32:09,565 and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. 1376 01:32:11,066 --> 01:32:14,194 And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 1377 01:32:16,613 --> 01:32:18,615 Now, gentlemen, if you will excuse me, 1378 01:32:18,699 --> 01:32:21,618 I believe Mrs. Lincoln IS preparing a slight collation 1379 01:32:21,827 --> 01:32:23,746 and I must see if I can be of any help. 1380 01:32:25,956 --> 01:32:28,125 Gentlemen, what's the verdict? 1381 01:32:28,417 --> 01:32:30,753 - The man unquestionably is an infidel. - And a radical. 1382 01:32:30,836 --> 01:32:32,921 He's as much of a demagogue as Douglas. 1383 01:32:33,005 --> 01:32:36,008 He's an idealist in a curious, primitive way. 1384 01:32:36,091 --> 01:32:38,010 He's a rabble-rouser, pure and simple. 1385 01:32:38,093 --> 01:32:40,387 In my opinion, this man Lincoln is not safe. 1386 01:32:41,305 --> 01:32:44,141 - What do you mean, not safe? - Just that. He's a radical. 1387 01:32:44,224 --> 01:32:46,769 A man who devotes himself so wholeheartedly 1388 01:32:46,852 --> 01:32:50,189 to currying favor with the mob develops a mob mentality. 1389 01:32:50,272 --> 01:32:52,066 And what's more, he evaded our questions. 1390 01:32:52,149 --> 01:32:53,609 Now, please, gentlemen. 1391 01:32:53,692 --> 01:32:56,779 I may not know as much as you do about economics and theology, 1392 01:32:56,862 --> 01:32:58,781 but I do know politics, 1393 01:32:58,864 --> 01:33:02,326 and what is the essential quality that we demand in our candidate? 1394 01:33:02,409 --> 01:33:05,746 It is simply this, that he be able to get himself elected. 1395 01:33:05,829 --> 01:33:07,498 There's something in what you say. 1396 01:33:07,581 --> 01:33:09,458 And do you think he can do it? 1397 01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:12,961 I tell you, gentlemen, in that uncouth rail-splitter, 1398 01:33:13,045 --> 01:33:16,423 you may observe one of the slickest, smoothest politicians 1399 01:33:16,548 --> 01:33:18,550 that ever hoodwinked a yokel mob. 1400 01:33:18,717 --> 01:33:20,636 Of course he evaded your questions. 1401 01:33:21,011 --> 01:33:25,140 You asked him about the labor question and he said, "I believe in democracy." 1402 01:33:25,808 --> 01:33:27,351 You asked him about religion 1403 01:33:27,434 --> 01:33:30,687 and he replied, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." 1404 01:33:30,979 --> 01:33:34,024 Now you know you couldn't argue with that, any of you. 1405 01:33:34,483 --> 01:33:37,986 The voters will love him because he's just as common as they are, 1406 01:33:38,278 --> 01:33:40,614 a plain, homespun American. 1407 01:33:40,697 --> 01:33:44,451 His very name is right, honest old Abe. 1408 01:33:45,035 --> 01:33:46,578 He'll play the game with us now, 1409 01:33:46,662 --> 01:33:49,665 and he'll go right on playing it after we get him into the White House. 1410 01:33:49,748 --> 01:33:52,918 - He'll do just what we tell him. - Careful, Mr. Crimmin. 1411 01:33:53,252 --> 01:33:56,004 And now, gentlemen, if you will step into the dining room, 1412 01:33:56,213 --> 01:33:58,924 Mrs. Lincoln will be pleased to serve you with a cup of tea. 1413 01:33:59,007 --> 01:34:01,510 - Thank you. - This is most gracious. 1414 01:34:03,971 --> 01:34:06,014 Bring your cigar with you, Mr. Crimmin. 1415 01:34:06,265 --> 01:34:07,683 Thank you. Thank you. 1416 01:34:07,766 --> 01:34:10,435 ...the choice of the nation. 1417 01:34:10,644 --> 01:34:14,022 Our chieftain so brave and so true. 1418 01:34:14,106 --> 01:34:17,067 We'll go for the great reformation. 1419 01:34:17,151 --> 01:34:20,821 For Lincoln and liberty too. 1420 01:34:21,071 --> 01:34:24,283 We'll go for the son of Kentucky. 1421 01:34:24,449 --> 01:34:27,578 The hero of Hoosierdom through. 1422 01:34:28,245 --> 01:34:29,788 The pride of the suckers so lucky. 1423 01:34:30,789 --> 01:34:33,834 For Lincoln and liberty too. 1424 01:34:34,710 --> 01:34:37,212 We'll go for the son of Kentucky. 1425 01:34:38,130 --> 01:34:41,008 The hero of Hoosierdom through. 1426 01:34:41,717 --> 01:34:44,511 The pride of the suckers so lucky. 1427 01:34:44,595 --> 01:34:46,930 For Lincoln and liberty too. 1428 01:34:47,389 --> 01:34:48,849 Mr. Lincoln seem to be worrying any? 1429 01:34:48,932 --> 01:34:50,642 No. He's in there reading the newspaper. 1430 01:34:56,773 --> 01:34:58,775 Lincoln and Douglas neck and neck in Illinois. 1431 01:34:59,359 --> 01:35:01,278 Maryland is going all for Bell and Breckinridge. 1432 01:35:01,361 --> 01:35:03,113 Abe, you're nowhere in Maryland. 1433 01:35:03,488 --> 01:35:05,199 I see the New York Herald says 1434 01:35:05,282 --> 01:35:09,620 I got the soul of a Uriah Heep encased in the body of a baboon. 1435 01:35:11,038 --> 01:35:12,539 What does it say about New York? 1436 01:35:12,831 --> 01:35:15,375 Douglas 117,000. Lincoln 106. 1437 01:35:15,709 --> 01:35:17,269 He's winning from you in New York, Abe. 1438 01:35:17,294 --> 01:35:20,047 Not yet, Mary. These returns so far are coming most from the city 1439 01:35:20,130 --> 01:35:21,924 where Douglas is bound to run the strongest. 1440 01:35:22,507 --> 01:35:24,384 What does it look like in Pennsylvania, Ninian? 1441 01:35:24,468 --> 01:35:26,070 There's nothing to worry about there, Mary. 1442 01:35:26,094 --> 01:35:28,680 It's safe for Abe. In fact, there's no need to worry at all. 1443 01:35:28,931 --> 01:35:31,058 Yes, you've said that over and over all evening. 1444 01:35:31,141 --> 01:35:32,434 "There's no need to worry." 1445 01:35:32,559 --> 01:35:33,810 How can we help worrying 1446 01:35:33,894 --> 01:35:35,646 when every new bulletin shows Douglas ahead? 1447 01:35:35,729 --> 01:35:37,314 Every one of them shows Abe gaining. 1448 01:35:37,397 --> 01:35:39,417 Just give them time to count all the votes in New York, 1449 01:35:39,441 --> 01:35:41,201 and you'll be on your way to the White House. 1450 01:35:41,276 --> 01:35:43,213 Why don't they hurry? Why don't those returns come in? 1451 01:35:43,237 --> 01:35:44,655 They'll come in soon enough. 1452 01:35:46,114 --> 01:35:47,282 Telegram from New York. 1453 01:35:47,366 --> 01:35:49,368 Mr. August Belmont states that Douglas has piled up 1454 01:35:49,451 --> 01:35:51,787 a majority of 50,000 votes in New York City 1455 01:35:51,870 --> 01:35:53,413 and will undoubtedly carry the state. 1456 01:35:56,458 --> 01:35:58,001 Oh, shut up! 1457 01:35:58,502 --> 01:36:00,003 That mob down there is sickening. 1458 01:36:00,087 --> 01:36:02,172 They cheer every bulletin that's flashed on the wall 1459 01:36:02,256 --> 01:36:03,632 whether the news is good or bad. 1460 01:36:03,715 --> 01:36:05,759 They cheer every picture of every candidate, 1461 01:36:05,842 --> 01:36:09,638 including George Washington, with the same fine, ignorant enthusiasm. 1462 01:36:10,013 --> 01:36:11,682 Maybe they can't tell the difference. 1463 01:36:12,224 --> 01:36:14,935 The reporters are outside, Mr. Lincoln. They want to know 1464 01:36:15,269 --> 01:36:18,063 what will be your first official action after you're elected? 1465 01:36:18,438 --> 01:36:19,982 What do you want us to tell them, Abe? 1466 01:36:20,065 --> 01:36:21,984 Tell them I'm thinking of growing a beard. 1467 01:36:22,067 --> 01:36:24,569 - A what? - Whatever put that idea in your head? 1468 01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:26,405 I had a letter from a little girl, 1469 01:36:26,488 --> 01:36:28,782 said I ought to have whiskers to give me more dignity. 1470 01:36:28,865 --> 01:36:30,575 I'll need it if elected. 1471 01:36:30,659 --> 01:36:37,207 "Missouri. Douglas, 35,000, Bell, 33, Breckinridge, 16, Lincoln, 8." 1472 01:36:41,878 --> 01:36:44,172 Mr. Lincoln, you're beating them badly in Rhode Island. 1473 01:36:44,631 --> 01:36:47,175 - What are they cheering for? - They don't know. 1474 01:36:47,884 --> 01:36:50,554 Chicago Times says, "Lincoln breaks down. 1475 01:36:50,637 --> 01:36:54,266 His heart fails him. His tongue fails him. His legs fail him. 1476 01:36:54,349 --> 01:36:57,728 He fails all over. Douglas skins the living dog." 1477 01:37:01,523 --> 01:37:02,733 Stop it! 1478 01:37:04,693 --> 01:37:06,320 I can't stand it any longer. 1479 01:37:06,570 --> 01:37:08,447 Yes, my dear. I think you should go home. 1480 01:37:08,530 --> 01:37:11,283 - I'll join you presently. - I won't go home. 1481 01:37:11,366 --> 01:37:12,659 You only want to be rid of me. 1482 01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:15,221 That's all you've wanted ever since the day we were married 1483 01:37:15,245 --> 01:37:16,371 and before that. 1484 01:37:16,455 --> 01:37:18,915 Anything to get me out of your sight because you hate me. 1485 01:37:20,042 --> 01:37:22,127 And it's the same with all of you, all his friends. 1486 01:37:22,210 --> 01:37:24,421 You hate me. You wish I'd never come into his life. 1487 01:37:24,629 --> 01:37:25,881 No, Mary. 1488 01:37:26,590 --> 01:37:28,633 Will you all please step out for a minute? 1489 01:37:43,607 --> 01:37:45,942 Why do you take every opportunity you can 1490 01:37:46,026 --> 01:37:48,153 to make a public fool out of me and yourself? 1491 01:37:49,446 --> 01:37:51,114 It's bad enough when you act like that 1492 01:37:51,198 --> 01:37:54,034 in the privacy of our own home, but here in front of people... 1493 01:37:56,119 --> 01:37:58,288 You're not to do that again, do you hear? 1494 01:37:58,705 --> 01:38:00,749 You're never to do that again. 1495 01:38:02,918 --> 01:38:04,878 You never spoke to me like that before. 1496 01:38:06,546 --> 01:38:07,923 You lost your temper, Abe. 1497 01:38:09,966 --> 01:38:11,510 You've never done that before. 1498 01:38:12,344 --> 01:38:13,387 I'm sorry, Mary. 1499 01:38:15,305 --> 01:38:18,266 I still think you should go home rather than stay here 1500 01:38:18,350 --> 01:38:21,103 and endure the strain of this death watch. 1501 01:38:39,079 --> 01:38:41,873 This is the night I dreamed about when I was a child. 1502 01:38:43,458 --> 01:38:45,252 When I was an excited young girl 1503 01:38:45,335 --> 01:38:48,380 and all the gay, young gentlemen in Springfield were courting me. 1504 01:38:49,756 --> 01:38:52,217 And I fell in love with the least likely of them. 1505 01:38:54,302 --> 01:38:56,054 This is the night I'm waiting to hear 1506 01:38:56,138 --> 01:38:59,057 my husband has become President of the United States, 1507 01:39:00,350 --> 01:39:04,938 and even if he does... it's ruined for me. 1508 01:39:07,441 --> 01:39:08,942 It's too late. 1509 01:39:37,679 --> 01:39:39,514 - Is Mother all right? - Yes, son. 1510 01:39:39,598 --> 01:39:41,391 She's going home. You'd better go with her. 1511 01:39:41,475 --> 01:39:42,893 Yes, sir. 1512 01:39:42,976 --> 01:39:46,313 It looks like 74 electoral votes sure for you, 1513 01:39:46,480 --> 01:39:48,440 and 27 more, probably. 1514 01:39:48,815 --> 01:39:50,317 New York will give you the election. 1515 01:39:51,485 --> 01:39:53,528 Mark my words, Mr. Lincoln, 1516 01:39:53,612 --> 01:39:56,490 this election is wrapped up tightly in a neat bundle, 1517 01:39:56,573 --> 01:39:58,700 ready to deliver on your doorstep tonight. 1518 01:39:58,783 --> 01:40:00,744 We've fought the good fight and we've won. 1519 01:40:00,827 --> 01:40:02,871 Yes. We've fought the good fight 1520 01:40:02,954 --> 01:40:06,833 in the dirtiest campaign in the history of corrupt politics. 1521 01:40:07,501 --> 01:40:08,919 And if I win, 1522 01:40:09,127 --> 01:40:12,964 I must fill all the dishonest pledges made in my name. 1523 01:40:24,392 --> 01:40:26,186 You gentlemen have all been close friends 1524 01:40:26,269 --> 01:40:28,104 of our candidate for a long time, 1525 01:40:28,188 --> 01:40:31,858 So possibly you can answer a question that's been puzzling me considerably. 1526 01:40:32,192 --> 01:40:35,695 Can I possibly be correct in supposing that he doesn't want to win? 1527 01:40:36,029 --> 01:40:37,489 The answer is yes. 1528 01:40:38,323 --> 01:40:40,534 I can only say that for me, 1529 01:40:40,617 --> 01:40:43,286 this is all a refreshingly new experience. 1530 01:40:43,370 --> 01:40:46,122 Would you want to become President of the United States at this time? 1531 01:40:46,206 --> 01:40:48,124 Haven't you been reading the newspapers lately? 1532 01:40:48,208 --> 01:40:50,544 Why, yes. I try to follow the events of the day. 1533 01:40:50,627 --> 01:40:54,089 Don't you realize that they've raised 10,000 volunteers in South Carolina? 1534 01:40:54,172 --> 01:40:55,090 They're arming them. 1535 01:40:55,173 --> 01:40:56,967 The governor has issued a proclamation saying 1536 01:40:57,050 --> 01:40:59,553 that if Mr. Lincoln is elected, the state will secede tomorrow. 1537 01:40:59,636 --> 01:41:02,138 Every other state south of the Dixon line will go with it. 1538 01:41:02,639 --> 01:41:06,184 Can you see what that means? War. Civil War. 1539 01:41:07,561 --> 01:41:10,772 And he'll have the whole terrible responsibility for it, 1540 01:41:11,064 --> 01:41:13,608 the man who has never wanted anything in his life 1541 01:41:13,692 --> 01:41:15,944 but to be let alone in peace. 1542 01:41:16,027 --> 01:41:17,320 Calm down, Billy. 1543 01:41:18,321 --> 01:41:19,698 Go get yourself another drink. 1544 01:41:20,156 --> 01:41:21,908 Mr. Edwards, here it is! 1545 01:41:24,369 --> 01:41:26,663 "At 10:30 tonight, the New York Herald conceded 1546 01:41:26,746 --> 01:41:28,582 that Mr. Lincoln had carried the state 1547 01:41:28,707 --> 01:41:32,210 by a majority of at least 25,000 and had won the election!" 1548 01:41:48,643 --> 01:41:49,936 Listen to them, Abe. 1549 01:41:50,020 --> 01:41:51,855 Listen to that crazy, howling mob down there. 1550 01:41:51,938 --> 01:41:53,857 It's all for you, Mr. Lincoln. 1551 01:41:54,024 --> 01:41:56,401 Abe, get out there and make them a speech. 1552 01:41:58,153 --> 01:41:59,988 No. I don't want to go out there. 1553 01:42:00,071 --> 01:42:02,616 We'll go for the son of Kentucky 1554 01:42:02,824 --> 01:42:04,534 I think I'll go home and tell Mary. 1555 01:42:04,618 --> 01:42:06,661 The hero of Hoosierdom through. 1556 01:42:06,911 --> 01:42:09,164 The pride of the suckers so lucky. 1557 01:42:09,247 --> 01:42:12,584 For Lincoln and liberty too. 1558 01:42:12,959 --> 01:42:15,587 This is Captain Cavanaugh, Mr. President. 1559 01:42:15,754 --> 01:42:17,714 I've been detailed to accompany you, Mr. Lincoln, 1560 01:42:17,797 --> 01:42:19,007 in the event of your election. 1561 01:42:19,507 --> 01:42:22,052 I'm grateful to you, Captain, but I don't need you. 1562 01:42:23,011 --> 01:42:24,888 You've got to have us, sir. I'm sorry. 1563 01:42:25,388 --> 01:42:28,767 I don't want to be alarming, but I guess you know as well as I do 1564 01:42:28,850 --> 01:42:30,685 that threats have been made against your life. 1565 01:42:34,314 --> 01:42:35,398 Well... 1566 01:42:39,903 --> 01:42:44,824 Good night, Josh, Ninian, Mr. Crimmin, Billy. 1567 01:42:48,328 --> 01:42:49,329 Thank you. 1568 01:42:50,830 --> 01:42:53,416 One moment, sir. With your permission, I'll go first. 1569 01:42:53,708 --> 01:42:55,543 Old Abe Lincoln. 1570 01:42:55,627 --> 01:42:58,588 Came out of the wilderness. 1571 01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:02,175 Down in Illinois. 1572 01:44:04,612 --> 01:44:06,948 Steve, it's good of you to come. 1573 01:44:07,031 --> 01:44:09,868 Abe, you and I have been adversaries for a good many years. 1574 01:44:09,951 --> 01:44:12,871 We've indulged in mortal combat on every conceivable issue, 1575 01:44:13,288 --> 01:44:15,498 but now you're President of the United States, 1576 01:44:15,874 --> 01:44:18,334 and I want you to know that I'm fighting with you. 1577 01:44:19,002 --> 01:44:21,296 Steve, you're a good, generous man. 1578 01:44:32,223 --> 01:44:33,558 Speech! 1579 01:44:33,641 --> 01:44:36,186 - Speech! Speech! - Say something, Abe! 1580 01:44:36,644 --> 01:44:38,563 They want you to say something, Abe. 1581 01:44:43,193 --> 01:44:46,404 My dear friends, I have to say goodbye to you now. 1582 01:44:46,488 --> 01:44:49,115 I'm leaving for Washington with my new whiskers, 1583 01:44:49,199 --> 01:44:50,909 of which I hope you approve. 1584 01:44:52,869 --> 01:44:54,287 Stay back there! 1585 01:44:54,370 --> 01:44:56,498 No, no, Lieutenant. Let them come on. 1586 01:44:56,581 --> 01:44:58,416 They're all old friends of mine. 1587 01:45:10,762 --> 01:45:14,140 No one not in my situation can appreciate 1588 01:45:14,224 --> 01:45:17,393 my feelings of sadness at this parting. 1589 01:45:18,228 --> 01:45:22,190 To this place and the kindness of you people, I owe everything. 1590 01:45:23,441 --> 01:45:28,530 I now leave not knowing when or whether ever I may return. 1591 01:45:29,030 --> 01:45:31,741 It is a grave duty that I must face. 1592 01:45:32,075 --> 01:45:33,952 In preparing for it, 1593 01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:39,624 I have tried to inquire what great principle or ideal it is 1594 01:45:40,458 --> 01:45:43,962 which has kept this Union so long together. 1595 01:45:45,046 --> 01:45:48,341 And I believe that it was not the mere matter 1596 01:45:48,424 --> 01:45:51,970 of separation of the colonies from the motherland, 1597 01:45:52,971 --> 01:45:57,433 but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence 1598 01:45:57,684 --> 01:46:01,437 which gave liberty to the people of this country 1599 01:46:02,313 --> 01:46:04,941 and hope to all the world. 1600 01:46:05,567 --> 01:46:07,694 We gained democracy, 1601 01:46:08,486 --> 01:46:12,615 and there is now doubt whether it is fit to survive. 1602 01:46:14,826 --> 01:46:16,953 I have heard of an Eastern monarch 1603 01:46:17,036 --> 01:46:20,331 who once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence 1604 01:46:20,415 --> 01:46:25,086 which should be true and appropriate at all times and situations. 1605 01:46:26,713 --> 01:46:28,965 They presented him with the words, 1606 01:46:30,133 --> 01:46:33,469 "And this too shall pass away." 1607 01:46:35,680 --> 01:46:38,975 That's a comforting thought in times of affliction. 1608 01:46:40,101 --> 01:46:43,313 "And this too shall pass away." 1609 01:46:45,356 --> 01:46:50,570 Yet, let us believe that it is not true. 1610 01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:54,157 Let us live to prove 1611 01:46:54,240 --> 01:46:57,911 that we can cultivate the natural world around us 1612 01:46:59,120 --> 01:47:03,291 and the intellectual and the moral world within us 1613 01:47:04,626 --> 01:47:09,797 so that we may secure an individual, social 1614 01:47:10,924 --> 01:47:13,801 and political prosperity 1615 01:47:14,928 --> 01:47:17,597 whose course shall be forward 1616 01:47:19,390 --> 01:47:23,144 and which, while this Earth endures, 1617 01:47:23,394 --> 01:47:26,064 shall not pass away. 1618 01:47:29,776 --> 01:47:32,445 I commend you to the care of the Almighty, 1619 01:47:34,364 --> 01:47:37,909 and I hope, in your prayers, you may remember me. 1620 01:47:40,787 --> 01:47:42,455 Friends, one and all, 1621 01:47:43,122 --> 01:47:47,210 I must now bid you an affectionate farewell. 1622 01:47:55,218 --> 01:48:01,307 Mine eyes have seen the glory Of the coming of the Lord. 1623 01:48:01,391 --> 01:48:02,517 Goodbye, Abe! 1624 01:48:02,642 --> 01:48:05,144 He is trampling out the vintage. 1625 01:48:05,228 --> 01:48:08,398 Where the grapes of wrath are stored. 1626 01:48:08,481 --> 01:48:11,567 He hath loosed the fateful lightning. 1627 01:48:11,651 --> 01:48:14,862 Of his terrible swift sword. 1628 01:48:14,946 --> 01:48:21,160 His truth is marching on. 1629 01:48:21,786 --> 01:48:27,834 Glory, glory, hallelujah. 1630 01:48:27,917 --> 01:48:33,798 Glory, glory, hallelujah. 1631 01:48:34,257 --> 01:48:39,971 Glory, glory, hallelujah. 1632 01:48:40,054 --> 01:48:44,600 His truth is marching on. 1633 01:48:46,519 --> 01:48:51,858 Glory, glory, hallelujah. 1634 01:48:52,025 --> 01:48:58,948 His truth is marching on. 1635 01:49:01,576 --> 01:49:03,828 Old Abe Lincoln. 1636 01:49:03,911 --> 01:49:07,540 Came out of the wilderness. 1637 01:49:07,623 --> 01:49:10,960 Out of the wilderness. 1638 01:49:11,044 --> 01:49:13,963 Out of the wilderness. 1639 01:49:14,338 --> 01:49:16,758 Old Abe Lincoln. 1640 01:49:16,841 --> 01:49:21,637 Came out of the wilderness. 1641 01:49:21,929 --> 01:49:27,393 His truth is marching on. 1642 01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:34,901 Glory, glory, hallelujah. 1643 01:49:35,151 --> 01:49:41,032 His truth is marching on 133909

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