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Snow all winter, cloudbursts all spring.
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Food just about gone. There's
nothing in the ground coming up.
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If we stay here much
longer. We'll starve.
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They're always saying the same
thing Tom, no matter where we go.
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Pull up stakes and get
gone is all you think about.
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We got nothing to worry about, Pa.
Rain don't last forever.
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Even if it stopped,
you wouldn't notice it.
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Being as how you're everlasting
got your nose stuck in some book.
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What you reading now?
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That book Squire Noble
gave me back in Indiana.
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It's called "Shakespeare".
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What in the name of
tarnation mockery is that?
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Kind of poetry.
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Poetry?
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Hmm. My son.
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Maybe, if he ever gets time
to get himself an education ..
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Maybe someday he'll write poetry.
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Over my dead body, he will.
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Well, it's settled.
We're all ready to go.
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- Go where?
- Didn't Abe tell you?
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A boy named ..
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Let me tell 'em, John.
You talk too slow.
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There's a trader named Denton Offut ..
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Wants me and John and Abe to take a
flat boat of hogs down to New Orleans.
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He wasn't sure we was the men
for it. But we convinced him.
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- Good money?
- Twenty dollars a month. Apiece.
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We're starting from a town called
Springfield up the Sang am on river.
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- When?
- Right now. Come on, Abe.
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Yeah, if we don't hurry we lose the job.
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Who'd have thunk anyone in this family
would ever make twenty dollars a month.
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So you're going, Abe?
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I guess I'd better do it, Ma.
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I know I can trust the old
man to your care, Ma.
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And we can trust you, Abe.
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You're a good boy.
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I couldn't have loved you more
if you'd been my own son.
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I'll always be thanking you Ma,
for your great kindness to me.
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Wherever you go, whatever you do.
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You remember what the good book said:
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"The world passeth."
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"But he that doeth the will of God."
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"Abideth forever."
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I'll remember, Ma.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Dear Abe.
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Last time I was down south they talked
about an election in The United States.
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I tell you these suckers here don't know
their own head from an ax handle.
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- Why, I remember once when ..
- There's a town over there, Mr Offut.
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Yeah. That's New Salem.
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A right pretty little place.
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Going to be bigger than
Springfield someday.
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No, you don't. No, you don't.
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I got all my rag money and savings
wrapped up in you little squealers.
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And I don't calculate to
lose it in the Sang am on.
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Keel her over, Abe.
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Keel her over. Mill dam just ahead.
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Keel her over, Abe. Keel her over!
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Keel her over, boys. Keel her over.
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I'm a keeling.
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Never mind me. Get them pigs.
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My name is Abe Lincoln.
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And mine is Ann Rutledge.
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I .. I don't know the name of the pig.
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Well, where are you
going with all those pigs?
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New Orleans. If we don't hit
any more mill dams on the way.
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Do you live here, Miss Rutledge?
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Yes.
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I suppose it doesn't look like
much to a travelled man like you.
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It looks like a fine place to me.
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Fine people.
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If you think I like to
travel, you're wrong.
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I'm only doing it because
I got to. Same as the pig.
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Hey!
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Hey!
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Oh .. I guess I got to be going.
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Goodbye, Miss Rutledge.
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I'm pleased to have made
your acquaintance.
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Goodbye, Mr Lincoln.
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And good luck.
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58.. 59.. 60.
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Looks like we got them all.
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Nice people them people.
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You know what.
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As soon as I get back I'm going
to open up a store in that town.
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You think you'd like to work for me?
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Abe?
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- Yes, sir?
- Did you hear me?
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No, sir.
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I said I'm going to open up a store
in that town as soon as I get back.
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- Want to work for me?
- Yes, sir.
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I sure do.
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Al I know about Denton Offut.
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I can bet you a coon-skin cap
against your Sunday pants ..
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He don't show up in
New Salem like he promised.
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Well if he don't, he don't.
That's simple, ain't it.
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- You got another interest in New Salem?
- Nope. Don't know anybody.
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Well .. Nobody excepting
Ann Rutledge maybe.
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- You know her?
- Who don't.
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Her Pa owns the tavern.
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Where did you meet her?
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I was with a pig. She spoke to me first.
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They was pioneers in them days.
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And we didn't have no luxuries
to live on like you got today.
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We didn't have no pickles
and gravy and corn bread.
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No sirree.
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Prime salt pork was a
Sunday dish in them days.
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What you eat on Saturdays, Ben? Beans?
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- What's happening?
- Election day. That's old Ben Mattling.
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He makes the same speech every year.
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But we didn't complain neither.
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We pitched in to the revolutionary war.
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We weren't no milksops
like you are today.
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If the country is going to the dogs.
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Why don't you do something about it?
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I'm talking to you like a soldier.
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I have to plow this miserable country.
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Didn't you get no assistance
from Washington and Jefferson?
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Shut up, Jack. Let him talk.
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Now what I want to know is this.
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How are you going to vote today?
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We'll vote as we gosh-darned
please, you old windbag.
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Come on, boys. Let's
go and get some liquor.
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- Who's going to pay for it, Jack?
- Who said anything about paying?
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In the year 1776..
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We stated the proposition that
all men were created equal.
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And now look at us.
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You keep out here, you low scum, you.
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You'll get no liquor from me today or any
day until you learn to behave yourselves.
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I believe I said we want liquor.
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Did you hear me say it, Mr McNeil?
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Now go easy, Armstrong.
We don't want any trouble here.
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Oh? And what's more we
won't have any trouble.
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Don't fight with him, John.
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No, John. Don't you fight with me.
If you want to keep your health.
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Let him go I tell you.
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Afraid I might do something to that
pretty face of your future husband?
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Never mind, Miss Annie.
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I won't damage him.
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If he is what you want,
you can have him.
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As you ain't hospitality to invite us,
I guess we might as well help ourselves.
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Come on, boys.
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The Cleary Grove boys are
getting drunk. All of them.
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They'll break up the whole tavern.
Can't anybody do anything?
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Can't you speak to them, Judge?
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I'm afraid Miss Ann, it
wouldn't do a particle of good.
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You're right, Judge.
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Not a particle of good.
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I tell you, you all ought to
listen to what the judge said.
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He's got a round belly but a level head.
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Nobody can do nothing with
me without licking me first.
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If I was a might younger ..
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Easy, Ben.
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I'm the big buck of this lick.
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And any of you want to whet
your horns, all you got to do is ..
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Give that hat a kick.
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Don't you dare to worry, Trum.
Nobody will dare to damage it.
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You want a fight, stranger?
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Not particularly.
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Well if you change your
mind, there's the hat.
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If I were a man, Jack Armstrong, I'd
give you the thrashing you deserve.
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Well you ain't a man Miss Annie
and praise be for that.
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You're a female and a pretty
gosh-darned appealing one.
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Can't you see I'm the only man
there is in the measly town?
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Leave go of me.
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I've changed my mind.
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Excuse me, Mister.
But it had to be done.
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Better be careful, stranger.
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You're up against the
greatest fighter in this town.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
But we've all got to learn sometime.
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That's the spirit, Mr flop-ears.
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Shake hands?
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A pleasure.
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That was quite a hardy handshake.
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At least I admit it.
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When I was a boy I didn't like
molasses and sulphur either but I ..
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Got so I could take it.
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Want another?
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Shouldn't be surprised.
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Watch out for his dirty tricks.
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Lick him stranger, and
you'll be my friend for life.
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That's it. That's it, go after him.
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Are you satisfied?
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I'm satisfied.
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Also, I'm quite considerably surprised.
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So am I.
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- It was an accident.
- You didn't fight fair.
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- Wrestle him again, Jack.
- No, sir.
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No more wrestling with this
long-legged son of vengeance.
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I'm here to admit to one and all.
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That New Salem has a new champion.
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Congratulations.
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Fine work.
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That was good work, Mr Lincoln.
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You're the man we've been
waiting for in New Salem.
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Thank you for remembering my name.
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You've met before?
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In a .. Sort of informal way.
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- I hope you will be staying here.
- I hope so, Miss Rutledge.
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Looks like we must delay the voting.
We haven't anyone to act as clerk yet.
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- Here you are, stranger.
- Oh, thank you.
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- What's your name?
- Lincoln.
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- Abraham Lincoln.
- My name is Joshua Speed.
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Glad to meet you.
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I'll introduce you to our leading
citizens. Judge Bowling Green.
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- How do you do.
- Mr Mentor Graham, our schoolmaster.
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- Glad to meet all of you.
- Good afternoon.
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Can you write?
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I guess I can make a few hand tracks.
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Good. Then you can help tabulate votes.
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- Give him the oath, Bowling.
- Raise your right hand.
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Repeat after me.
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I, Abraham Lincoln do solemnly
swear to uphold the constitution of ..
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Wait a minute, mister.
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What are you getting me into?
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We must put you to work for
the government, Mr Lincoln.
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Oh no you don't. I don't
want to be no politician.
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Nonsense.
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All you're going to do is to see
that we get an honest vote.
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Come on now. Take the oath.
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Go ahead, Mr Lincoln.
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You're the only one those
Cleary Grove boys will respect.
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Alright, mister ...?
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Gale. Seth Gale.
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Howdy.
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The same to you.
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I, Abraham Lincoln.
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Do solemnly swear to
uphold the constitution ..
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Of The United States of America.
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Of The United States of America.
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Well, let's see now.
I've got my hickory shirt.
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I got my pound of beans.
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And give me a pair of buckskin gloves.
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Ain't got no buckskin gloves but ..
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These are dog's skin.
They only cost 75 cents.
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They look good.
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- How do you know they are dog's skin?
- I'll tell you how I know.
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Jack Cleary's dog kills
Tom Watkins' sheep.
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Tom Watkins' boy kills the dog.
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Old John Morris tans the dog's skin.
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Sally Spears makes the gloves.
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That's how I come to
know they are dog's skin.
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So that's how, is it.
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Well, I'll take them.
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But .. You'll have to
trust me for the money.
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If anybody ever offered us cash
in this store we'd drop dead.
247
00:17:39,914 --> 00:17:42,414
I'll remember that, Abe.
When I trade here again.
248
00:17:46,731 --> 00:17:47,733
Abe.
249
00:17:48,427 --> 00:17:50,639
I'm a restless man.
Got the soul of a gypsy.
250
00:17:51,131 --> 00:17:52,836
I feel the urge to pull
out of New Salem.
251
00:17:53,105 --> 00:17:55,578
- Why, I'm sorry ..
- I want to show my appreciation.
252
00:17:55,782 --> 00:17:57,545
For the fine work you've
done in my employ.
253
00:17:57,726 --> 00:17:59,461
No thanks are necessary, Mr Offut.
254
00:17:59,671 --> 00:18:01,870
I'm going to give you more
than mere thanks, my friend.
255
00:18:02,332 --> 00:18:04,180
I'm going to make you
a present of this store.
256
00:18:04,595 --> 00:18:07,157
Yes sir, Abe. It's all yours.
Lock, stock and barrel.
257
00:18:07,355 --> 00:18:10,240
- That's mighty generous of you, Mr Offut.
- Not a word, Abe. Not a word.
258
00:18:10,914 --> 00:18:13,734
I'm making this gesture solely
because that's the way I am.
259
00:18:14,517 --> 00:18:16,467
- Goodnight, Abe.
- But Mr Offut ..
260
00:18:17,835 --> 00:18:20,690
There is one thing that I hope
you'll excuse me to mention.
261
00:18:21,404 --> 00:18:23,469
Just how much money do you owe here?
262
00:18:25,861 --> 00:18:27,601
I knew you was a smart man, Abe.
263
00:18:28,405 --> 00:18:31,121
Yes, sir. I've always been
a shrewd judge of character.
264
00:18:31,299 --> 00:18:33,814
With your brain and energy
you'll make a go of this store.
265
00:18:34,257 --> 00:18:36,834
And it won't take you long
to pay of the sum of $1,500.
266
00:18:37,536 --> 00:18:38,538
Goodnight.
267
00:18:53,576 --> 00:18:54,577
Evening, Abe.
268
00:18:54,932 --> 00:18:55,983
Evening, Mentor.
269
00:19:03,895 --> 00:19:06,037
Let's see. Where were
we when we left off?
270
00:19:06,895 --> 00:19:09,488
You said at this lesson
we'd review the "moods".
271
00:19:09,932 --> 00:19:11,203
Ah yes, the moods.
272
00:19:12,637 --> 00:19:14,549
Every one of us has many moods.
273
00:19:15,687 --> 00:19:17,743
You yourself have more
than your share, Abe.
274
00:19:18,542 --> 00:19:20,354
They express the various aspects.
275
00:19:21,557 --> 00:19:22,559
Now.
276
00:19:23,294 --> 00:19:24,835
Name me the five moods.
277
00:19:28,259 --> 00:19:29,260
Abe.
278
00:19:32,061 --> 00:19:33,178
Excuse me, Mentor.
279
00:19:33,701 --> 00:19:35,652
I asked you to name me the five moods.
280
00:19:36,585 --> 00:19:37,586
Oh.
281
00:19:38,274 --> 00:19:40,316
The indicative, the imperative ..
282
00:19:40,639 --> 00:19:42,498
Potential, subjunctive and infinitive.
283
00:19:43,308 --> 00:19:45,976
- And what do they signify?
- The indicative mood is the easy one.
284
00:19:46,167 --> 00:19:49,573
That just indicates a thing like
"he loved" or "he is loved".
285
00:19:50,367 --> 00:19:52,488
The imperative mood is
used for commanding, like ..
286
00:19:53,070 --> 00:19:54,516
"Get out and be danged doing it".
287
00:19:55,533 --> 00:19:57,292
Is that the best example
you can think of?
288
00:19:57,392 --> 00:19:58,881
Well you can put it in the bible:
289
00:19:58,982 --> 00:20:01,703
"Wait until I go Thou in peace"
but it is still imperative.
290
00:20:03,227 --> 00:20:04,588
And the potential?
291
00:20:05,549 --> 00:20:09,647
Well, that just signifies possibility.
Usually of an unpleasant nature like ..
292
00:20:10,187 --> 00:20:13,453
"If I ever get out of debt, I'll
probably get right back in again."
293
00:20:14,369 --> 00:20:15,916
Debts keep piling up on you, Abe?
294
00:20:16,143 --> 00:20:18,854
I'm afraid it's my own fault.
I'm my father's son.
295
00:20:19,142 --> 00:20:21,419
Give me a good steady
job and I'll fail at it.
296
00:20:22,803 --> 00:20:24,221
You haven't been a failure, Abe.
297
00:20:25,386 --> 00:20:27,202
There's not a man-jack
in this community ..
298
00:20:27,302 --> 00:20:29,995
That isn't fond of you and
anxious to see you get ahead.
299
00:20:30,795 --> 00:20:32,213
I know it just like you, Mentor.
300
00:20:32,398 --> 00:20:36,253
Sitting up nights to give me learning
just out of the kindness of your heart.
301
00:20:37,067 --> 00:20:39,171
And now Judge Green and Josh Speed.
302
00:20:39,631 --> 00:20:42,465
And a few others I owe money to
want to get me the job of postman.
303
00:20:43,342 --> 00:20:47,156
Thinking maybe I can handle that seeing
as there's only one mail comes a week.
304
00:20:48,770 --> 00:20:49,772
Well, Abe.
305
00:20:50,021 --> 00:20:53,726
There are always two occupations open to
those who've failed at everything else.
306
00:20:54,199 --> 00:20:56,739
There is school teaching and politics.
307
00:20:57,933 --> 00:21:00,903
I'll take school teaching. You go into
politics and you may get elected ..
308
00:21:01,003 --> 00:21:03,567
And then you got to go to the city
and I don't want none of that.
309
00:21:03,636 --> 00:21:06,000
- What did I say about too negative?
- I meant any off that.
310
00:21:06,697 --> 00:21:08,401
What's your objection
to the cities, Abe?
311
00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:10,317
You ever seen one?
312
00:21:10,951 --> 00:21:11,953
Sure.
313
00:21:12,588 --> 00:21:14,364
I've been down river to New Orleans.
314
00:21:15,819 --> 00:21:19,335
You know every minute of the
time I was there, I was scared.
315
00:21:20,128 --> 00:21:21,601
I was scared of people.
316
00:21:22,232 --> 00:21:26,352
Did you imagine that they would rob
you of all your gold and your jewels?
317
00:21:27,047 --> 00:21:28,049
No.
318
00:21:29,615 --> 00:21:31,300
I was scared they'd kill me.
319
00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:43,841
Why?
320
00:21:43,912 --> 00:21:45,358
Why should they want to kill you?
321
00:21:46,143 --> 00:21:47,144
I don't know.
322
00:21:49,253 --> 00:21:52,559
You are a hopeless mess of
inconsistencies, Abe Lincoln.
323
00:21:54,439 --> 00:21:56,075
You understand, don't you, Ann?
324
00:21:59,108 --> 00:22:00,775
How long will you be gone, John?
325
00:22:01,510 --> 00:22:03,318
About 2-3 months. That's all.
326
00:22:03,971 --> 00:22:05,100
I'll miss you.
327
00:22:06,351 --> 00:22:07,759
Every minute of the time.
328
00:22:09,817 --> 00:22:11,039
This was my mother's.
329
00:22:12,069 --> 00:22:14,650
My father gave it to her when
they became engaged.
330
00:22:23,642 --> 00:22:25,003
All you must ever think about.
331
00:22:25,354 --> 00:22:27,247
All I'll ever think about
is that I love you.
332
00:22:29,207 --> 00:22:31,013
We are going to be wonderfully happy.
333
00:22:36,123 --> 00:22:37,271
Tell me that again.
334
00:22:39,435 --> 00:22:41,140
Tell me we're going to be happy.
335
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,887
Hey, Abe. Have you seen this?
336
00:22:50,192 --> 00:22:53,117
The governor is calling for a troop of
volunteers right here in New Salem.
337
00:22:53,141 --> 00:22:54,539
You'll be going won't you, Abe?
338
00:22:54,779 --> 00:22:55,781
I don't know.
339
00:22:55,885 --> 00:22:58,773
It seems to me as if those Indians
had a right to their own land.
340
00:22:58,966 --> 00:23:01,475
Yes, but if want to settle in
Kansas-Nebraska territory ..
341
00:23:01,576 --> 00:23:04,140
And live in peace out there we've
got to fight the Indians first.
342
00:23:04,228 --> 00:23:06,632
Just the way your own father did
when he moved into Kentucky.
343
00:23:09,224 --> 00:23:10,281
What is it, Jack?
344
00:23:10,382 --> 00:23:12,109
We're all going to war, Abe.
345
00:23:12,397 --> 00:23:14,095
And we've elected you Captain.
346
00:23:15,637 --> 00:23:17,690
It looks as if they've made
up my mind for me.
347
00:23:20,964 --> 00:23:22,822
Squad right wheel, march!
348
00:23:29,748 --> 00:23:31,737
Squad right wheel, march!
349
00:23:34,145 --> 00:23:36,842
Left .. Left .. Left, right, left.
350
00:23:37,078 --> 00:23:39,363
And they are known as Captain
Abraham Lincoln's company ..
351
00:23:39,426 --> 00:23:41,997
Of the 1st Regiment of the
Brigade of mounted volunteers.
352
00:23:42,327 --> 00:23:44,532
Yeah .. Mounted volunteers.
353
00:23:45,230 --> 00:23:48,394
I'd hate to be a horse and have
one of them galoots ride me.
354
00:23:49,072 --> 00:23:50,074
March!
355
00:24:06,526 --> 00:24:10,317
Jack .. I've forgotten the command that
will take 'em through the gate end-wise.
356
00:24:10,777 --> 00:24:12,677
Don't ask me, sir. I'm only a Sergeant.
357
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,095
Company, halt!
358
00:24:23,922 --> 00:24:28,533
The Company will break ranks and form
again on the other side of the gate.
359
00:24:32,394 --> 00:24:34,123
Hey, Abe .. Look!
360
00:24:57,036 --> 00:24:58,138
Anything for me, Abe?
361
00:24:58,303 --> 00:25:01,280
Yes, Seth. There is one from
Maryland. Probably from your folks.
362
00:25:01,477 --> 00:25:03,001
- 28 cents due.
- Thanks, Abe.
363
00:25:03,301 --> 00:25:05,483
- I'll pay you later.
- Any time, Seth.
364
00:25:06,610 --> 00:25:08,458
Anything for the Rutledge
family this morning?
365
00:25:08,599 --> 00:25:11,741
There is one for your Pa.
Looks like a liquor advertisement.
366
00:25:13,126 --> 00:25:15,380
One from New York State for you.
367
00:25:25,781 --> 00:25:27,905
There is 34 cents due on it too.
368
00:25:31,355 --> 00:25:32,744
I haven't got my purse with me.
369
00:25:32,882 --> 00:25:34,963
That's alright, Miss Ann.
The government can wait.
370
00:25:35,512 --> 00:25:37,521
Thank you, Abe. Very much.
371
00:25:57,674 --> 00:25:58,985
Good morning, Miss Ann.
372
00:25:59,349 --> 00:26:01,223
My, you're looking prettier every day.
373
00:26:01,997 --> 00:26:03,150
Good news, I hope.
374
00:26:03,718 --> 00:26:04,821
Very good, thank you.
375
00:26:07,165 --> 00:26:09,894
Ha! Catch me waiting
two years for any man.
376
00:26:22,546 --> 00:26:25,454
I beg your pardon, Miss. Can you
Direct me to the home of Joshua Speed?
377
00:26:25,782 --> 00:26:27,906
Yes, it's the house up there
with the morning glories.
378
00:26:27,999 --> 00:26:31,044
- I think you'll find him at the tavern.
- Thank you, Miss. I'm much obliged.
379
00:26:39,610 --> 00:26:43,410
Abe. Next to my old man, I think you're
the homeliest critter I ever saw.
380
00:26:47,003 --> 00:26:48,549
There is a reason, Mrs Garn.
381
00:26:48,649 --> 00:26:52,091
When I was two months old I was
the handsomest child in Kentucky.
382
00:26:52,615 --> 00:26:56,336
My nurse swapped me off for another
one that was kind of plain looking.
383
00:27:00,226 --> 00:27:01,227
Hey, Abe.
384
00:27:01,473 --> 00:27:02,948
They wants you over to the tavern.
385
00:27:03,161 --> 00:27:03,963
Who does?
386
00:27:04,063 --> 00:27:06,650
Josh Speed and Bowling
Green and one of them ..
387
00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:08,543
Dressed up fellows from Springfield.
388
00:27:08,861 --> 00:27:10,753
- What do they want of me?
- I don't know.
389
00:27:11,140 --> 00:27:12,367
But I can tell you this.
390
00:27:12,664 --> 00:27:15,046
I don't like the looks of it.
391
00:27:19,099 --> 00:27:21,120
But he's the best-liked
man in this district.
392
00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:22,493
The very man we want.
393
00:27:22,594 --> 00:27:24,519
Maybe it will correct
the public belief that ..
394
00:27:24,619 --> 00:27:27,211
The Whig party is composed only
of the more privileged classes.
395
00:27:27,312 --> 00:27:28,313
Gentlemen.
396
00:27:28,806 --> 00:27:30,718
Abe, I want you to meet
Mr Ninian Edwards.
397
00:27:30,819 --> 00:27:32,860
A mighty important member
of our political party.
398
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,485
- Happy to know you, Mr Edwards.
- Mr Lincoln, it is a pleasure.
399
00:27:35,509 --> 00:27:37,107
Sit down, Abe. We want to talk to you.
400
00:27:38,340 --> 00:27:40,584
Abe, how would you like to
run for the State Legislature?
401
00:27:40,885 --> 00:27:41,946
- When?
- Now.
402
00:27:42,245 --> 00:27:44,143
- For election in the fall.
- Why?
403
00:27:44,473 --> 00:27:46,516
The Whig party needs a
candidate from this district.
404
00:27:46,825 --> 00:27:49,867
You are the postmaster here which
gives you valuable contacts.
405
00:27:50,213 --> 00:27:53,732
By delivering mail you can also deliver
speeches and campaign literature.
406
00:27:54,036 --> 00:27:56,093
With which our headquarters
will keep you supplied.
407
00:27:57,765 --> 00:28:00,101
Could you supply me with
a suit and a store of clothes?
408
00:28:00,201 --> 00:28:01,995
Your candidate mustn't look too plain.
409
00:28:03,015 --> 00:28:05,642
And what's more Abe, in the
legislature you get paid.
410
00:28:06,036 --> 00:28:07,350
Three whole dollars a day.
411
00:28:07,450 --> 00:28:09,173
Fine money alright. No denying that.
412
00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:12,781
I see what you're getting at, Bowling.
I owe you a considerable sum.
413
00:28:12,983 --> 00:28:14,791
I'm not thinking about the debts, Abe.
414
00:28:14,984 --> 00:28:16,677
I know you ain't, Bowling. But I got to.
415
00:28:16,778 --> 00:28:19,622
I can see Mr Lincoln, that you're the
type of man who can handle anyone.
416
00:28:19,828 --> 00:28:21,697
Hmm, even the Cleary Grove boys.
417
00:28:22,113 --> 00:28:24,196
Oh, I can handle them because
I can out-wrestle them.
418
00:28:24,290 --> 00:28:27,111
But you can't go around Sang am on
County throwing all the voters.
419
00:28:30,105 --> 00:28:31,925
You want to get an
education, don't you, Abe.
420
00:28:32,049 --> 00:28:33,524
Well here is your chance to do it.
421
00:28:33,719 --> 00:28:36,774
In Vandalia you'll be associating with
all the finest lawyers in this State.
422
00:28:37,379 --> 00:28:39,293
Important men like Stephen A. Douglas.
423
00:28:39,609 --> 00:28:40,611
You'll grow.
424
00:28:40,666 --> 00:28:42,370
I thought I'd growed too much already.
425
00:28:42,622 --> 00:28:43,840
Don't listen to 'em, Abe.
426
00:28:44,194 --> 00:28:45,676
Don't let 'em get you in politics.
427
00:28:46,059 --> 00:28:50,934
They'll corrupt you the same as they
corrupt the whole danged United States.
428
00:28:51,445 --> 00:28:52,949
You are an honest man, Abe Lincoln.
429
00:28:53,424 --> 00:28:54,995
You're a good-for-nothing ..
430
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,426
Debt-ridden loafer.
431
00:28:57,724 --> 00:28:58,947
But you're an honest man.
432
00:29:00,373 --> 00:29:02,405
Is that all you have to say, uncle Ben?
433
00:29:02,606 --> 00:29:04,835
That's all. And I hope it's enough.
434
00:29:06,890 --> 00:29:08,213
I kinda agree with him.
435
00:29:09,168 --> 00:29:11,660
Well Mr Lincoln, we don't demand
your answer immediately.
436
00:29:11,905 --> 00:29:12,907
Think it over.
437
00:29:13,259 --> 00:29:15,102
Now gentlemen, if you'll excuse me.
438
00:29:15,368 --> 00:29:17,870
I have to put in an appearance
at the torch light procession ..
439
00:29:17,970 --> 00:29:20,094
In Springfield this evening
so I must be moving along.
440
00:29:21,942 --> 00:29:23,245
Just consider what it means.
441
00:29:23,746 --> 00:29:28,025
To be starting up the ladder in a nation
which is expanding south through Texas.
442
00:29:28,427 --> 00:29:30,518
And westward to the
empire of the Californias.
443
00:29:31,005 --> 00:29:32,365
It is opportunity, Mr Lincoln.
444
00:29:32,835 --> 00:29:34,517
Opportunity unlimited in scope.
445
00:29:35,919 --> 00:29:36,921
Goodbye, sir.
446
00:29:36,945 --> 00:29:39,051
Goodbye, Mr Edwards.
A pleasant journey to you.
447
00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:03,556
- Goodbye, gentlemen.
- Goodbye, Ninian.
448
00:30:18,990 --> 00:30:19,992
Ann.
449
00:30:20,871 --> 00:30:21,873
What is it?
450
00:30:22,227 --> 00:30:24,395
That letter you got from New York State.
451
00:30:25,059 --> 00:30:26,563
What do you know about that letter?
452
00:30:26,924 --> 00:30:28,125
Well, I'm the postman.
453
00:30:28,225 --> 00:30:30,878
I guess I know more than I ought
to about people's private affairs.
454
00:30:32,473 --> 00:30:35,843
But I couldn't help seeing that
was the handwriting of Mr McNeil.
455
00:30:36,825 --> 00:30:38,829
Whatever the letter said
it is no concern of yours.
456
00:30:39,057 --> 00:30:42,218
I know that but it makes me sad to think
that something could have hurt you.
457
00:30:43,294 --> 00:30:44,578
If I could help you, Ann ..
458
00:30:45,350 --> 00:30:46,426
You know.
459
00:30:47,533 --> 00:30:49,286
When you're distressed
about something ..
460
00:30:49,387 --> 00:30:53,093
It's a comfort sometimes even to have a
pair of ears to pour your troubles into.
461
00:30:53,497 --> 00:30:55,667
My ears are big enough to hold a lot.
462
00:30:56,935 --> 00:30:58,782
You are a Christian
gentleman, Abe Lincoln.
463
00:30:59,381 --> 00:31:04,755
No, I ain't. I'm a common sucker with
a shirt-tail so short I can't sit on it.
464
00:31:05,805 --> 00:31:08,649
You can always something to
make a person laugh, can't you.
465
00:31:09,722 --> 00:31:12,973
I don't need to say anything,
a person just has to look at me.
466
00:31:14,382 --> 00:31:15,944
You were right about the letter, Abe.
467
00:31:16,569 --> 00:31:19,293
Tom says he doesn't know when he'll
be able to get back to New Salem.
468
00:31:20,322 --> 00:31:21,774
By which, he probably means ..
469
00:31:22,348 --> 00:31:23,349
Never.
470
00:31:23,373 --> 00:31:24,767
I wouldn't say that, Ann.
471
00:31:25,093 --> 00:31:26,095
I would.
472
00:31:27,002 --> 00:31:28,551
Do you love him so much?
473
00:31:29,750 --> 00:31:30,752
I thought I did.
474
00:31:31,242 --> 00:31:33,406
But I guess I couldn't really
love anyone who was as ..
475
00:31:34,483 --> 00:31:35,639
Faithless as that.
476
00:31:36,756 --> 00:31:37,758
You see.
477
00:31:37,955 --> 00:31:39,968
I can't help thinking what
they're saying about me.
478
00:31:40,764 --> 00:31:42,468
All the old gossips all over town.
479
00:31:43,225 --> 00:31:45,068
Oh, just weakness, I guess.
480
00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:47,102
Vanity.
481
00:31:47,356 --> 00:31:49,071
Something you couldn't understand, Abe.
482
00:31:49,848 --> 00:31:51,726
Maybe I can understand it, Ann.
483
00:31:56,735 --> 00:31:58,624
I got a kind of vanity myself.
484
00:31:58,958 --> 00:31:59,959
I guess it's ..
485
00:32:00,021 --> 00:32:03,947
Nothing but vanity that's kept me from
declaring my inclination towards you.
486
00:32:05,183 --> 00:32:08,595
I don't like to be sniggered at either.
I know what I am and what I look like.
487
00:32:08,883 --> 00:32:12,285
I know I've got nothing to offer
any girl I could be in love with.
488
00:32:14,377 --> 00:32:16,407
Are you saying you're
in love with me, Abe?
489
00:32:19,170 --> 00:32:20,172
Yes.
490
00:32:20,533 --> 00:32:21,535
I am saying that.
491
00:32:23,179 --> 00:32:26,244
I've been loving you for a
long time with all my heart.
492
00:32:27,964 --> 00:32:30,561
You see Ann, you're
a particularly fine girl.
493
00:32:34,777 --> 00:32:37,497
But .. I don't want to
worry you about it.
494
00:32:38,259 --> 00:32:42,036
I only thought if you'd do me the honor
to keep company with me for a while ..
495
00:32:42,136 --> 00:32:44,301
It might shut the old gossip's mouths.
496
00:32:44,698 --> 00:32:47,702
They'd figure you'd chucked
McNeil for someone else.
497
00:32:48,258 --> 00:32:49,292
Even me.
498
00:32:51,225 --> 00:32:54,895
Do you think I was too forward
in speaking out as I did?
499
00:32:56,687 --> 00:32:57,688
No, Abe.
500
00:32:59,550 --> 00:33:01,079
I've always thought a lot of you.
501
00:33:02,181 --> 00:33:03,457
The way I thought you were.
502
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,200
But the idea of love
between you and me ..
503
00:33:06,834 --> 00:33:08,631
I can't say how I feel about that.
504
00:33:10,234 --> 00:33:12,154
But I can tell you this much now.
505
00:33:12,551 --> 00:33:13,919
And truthfully.
506
00:33:15,236 --> 00:33:16,557
If I ever do love you.
507
00:33:17,325 --> 00:33:18,680
I'll be happy about it.
508
00:33:19,257 --> 00:33:21,938
And lucky to loving a good, decent man.
509
00:33:25,167 --> 00:33:28,088
You will .. Just give me a
little time to think about it.
510
00:33:28,465 --> 00:33:30,909
You mean if you took time
you might get in your heart ..
511
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:33,527
Something like the
feeling I have for you?
512
00:33:34,289 --> 00:33:35,396
I don't know, Abe.
513
00:33:39,075 --> 00:33:40,222
But I do know.
514
00:33:41,075 --> 00:33:43,175
You are a man who
could fill anyone's heart.
515
00:33:45,011 --> 00:33:46,012
Yes. Fill it.
516
00:33:47,635 --> 00:33:48,637
And warm it.
517
00:33:50,189 --> 00:33:51,898
And make it glad to be living.
518
00:35:16,344 --> 00:35:19,618
What's the matter with you, Abe?
You the guest of honor. Not dancing.
519
00:35:19,869 --> 00:35:22,094
I'd like to, but my feet
won't work right.
520
00:35:27,683 --> 00:35:30,830
Ann Rutledge sure is
acting gay as she knows.
521
00:35:31,455 --> 00:35:34,557
She is just trying to hide
the misery in her heart.
522
00:35:35,185 --> 00:35:37,695
They tell me that locket is
the one John McNeil gave her.
523
00:35:38,038 --> 00:35:39,953
She ought to forget him, I say.
524
00:35:40,987 --> 00:35:42,856
I reckon she wishes she could.
525
00:36:28,327 --> 00:36:29,432
Get some water, Abe.
526
00:36:31,803 --> 00:36:34,569
She's alright, Doc. The excitement
was just a little too much for her.
527
00:36:45,751 --> 00:36:46,881
Here's the water, Doc.
528
00:36:47,451 --> 00:36:48,453
Thanks, Abe.
529
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:55,672
She'll be alright, Doc?
530
00:36:56,028 --> 00:36:57,939
Oh, I don't think there's
need for any worry.
531
00:36:58,696 --> 00:37:00,056
Better be getting her on home.
532
00:37:10,538 --> 00:37:11,554
It's alright, Ann.
533
00:37:14,798 --> 00:37:16,132
I don't know what happened.
534
00:37:16,738 --> 00:37:17,915
I'm alright, Abe.
535
00:37:19,046 --> 00:37:20,119
I feel fine now.
536
00:37:23,471 --> 00:37:25,806
Ain't you noticed whether
she's been ailing any lately?
537
00:37:26,051 --> 00:37:29,115
Well, she seemed kind of droopy,
but we didn't think much of it.
538
00:37:29,616 --> 00:37:31,091
Why, do you think she's took sick?
539
00:37:31,196 --> 00:37:32,922
Oh, there is no cause for alarm, but ..
540
00:37:33,482 --> 00:37:35,584
Just to be on the safe side,
I'll ride back with you.
541
00:37:41,820 --> 00:37:42,983
I was scared.
542
00:37:43,726 --> 00:37:45,174
You needn't be, Abe.
543
00:37:46,274 --> 00:37:47,927
I'm sorry I made such a fool of myself.
544
00:37:50,742 --> 00:37:53,107
You mustn't think of anything
but winning that election.
545
00:37:54,368 --> 00:37:55,528
You've got to win, Abe.
546
00:37:57,115 --> 00:37:58,680
I'll be cheering for you when you do.
547
00:38:00,174 --> 00:38:01,176
Goodnight, Abe.
548
00:38:01,706 --> 00:38:02,708
Thanks.
549
00:38:03,339 --> 00:38:04,341
Goodnight, Ann.
550
00:38:07,554 --> 00:38:08,683
Goodnight, Abe.
551
00:38:16,069 --> 00:38:19,365
Down in Kentucky where I was
born was pretty wild country.
552
00:38:19,834 --> 00:38:21,039
And wild people in it.
553
00:38:21,446 --> 00:38:22,709
I heard tell of a ..
554
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:28,496
Woman who opened her door one day to
see her husband grappling a fierce bear.
555
00:38:28,823 --> 00:38:31,317
It was a fight to the death
and the bear was winning.
556
00:38:31,865 --> 00:38:35,088
The struggling husband cried to his
wife: For heaven's sake do something.
557
00:38:35,463 --> 00:38:37,024
The wife asked: "What could she do?".
558
00:38:37,144 --> 00:38:39,799
Said the husband: "You could at
least say something encouraging".
559
00:38:40,595 --> 00:38:44,052
But the wife not wishing to take
sides in this combat hollered:
560
00:38:44,245 --> 00:38:46,116
"Go it, husband. Go it bear."
561
00:38:49,394 --> 00:38:51,180
Now that's the way I'll be if elected.
562
00:38:51,382 --> 00:38:53,028
I'll be like the man's wife.
563
00:38:53,250 --> 00:38:57,219
I'll cheer for everybody so I'm
sure to be on the winning side.
564
00:39:00,588 --> 00:39:01,835
Where are you going, Abe?
565
00:39:02,181 --> 00:39:03,771
Come on, let's finish with the voting.
566
00:39:03,935 --> 00:39:05,575
We can't be all night about this.
567
00:39:07,157 --> 00:39:08,602
What does the doctor say, Jack?
568
00:39:09,291 --> 00:39:10,588
It's a brain fever, Abe.
569
00:39:11,751 --> 00:39:13,014
She's pretty bad.
570
00:39:14,973 --> 00:39:16,094
Thank you, Jack.
571
00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:30,725
- Who are you voting for?
- I'm voting for Abe Lincoln.
572
00:39:31,103 --> 00:39:32,105
That's good.
573
00:39:34,754 --> 00:39:36,069
Who you voting for, Trum?
574
00:39:36,836 --> 00:39:37,838
For Abe.
575
00:39:37,924 --> 00:39:38,607
Who?
576
00:39:38,855 --> 00:39:40,763
I said I'm voting for Mr Lincoln.
577
00:39:41,336 --> 00:39:42,337
You'd better.
578
00:39:45,140 --> 00:39:47,246
Therefore, his sister said unto him.
579
00:39:48,007 --> 00:39:49,661
Saying: "Lord behold".
580
00:39:50,563 --> 00:39:52,655
"He who now lovest is sacred."
581
00:39:53,002 --> 00:39:54,384
"When Jesus heart that."
582
00:39:55,034 --> 00:39:56,036
"He said."
583
00:39:56,273 --> 00:39:57,994
"This sickness is not unto death."
584
00:39:58,688 --> 00:40:00,200
"But for the glory of God."
585
00:40:00,876 --> 00:40:04,352
"That the Son of God might
be glorified thereby."
586
00:40:39,953 --> 00:40:41,027
You have come to me.
587
00:40:42,539 --> 00:40:43,872
When I wanted you so much.
588
00:40:46,731 --> 00:40:47,862
Come close to me.
589
00:40:56,283 --> 00:40:57,929
Tell me we will be happy.
590
00:40:59,180 --> 00:41:00,512
We're going to be happy, Ann.
591
00:41:01,885 --> 00:41:04,349
I know I've got less than
nothing to offer you.
592
00:41:06,365 --> 00:41:07,753
But whatever I am.
593
00:41:08,853 --> 00:41:09,983
Whatever I can be.
594
00:41:10,957 --> 00:41:15,572
My life belongs to you and it
always will until the day I die.
595
00:41:18,999 --> 00:41:20,118
I love you.
596
00:41:21,881 --> 00:41:23,123
Oh, I do love you.
597
00:41:25,478 --> 00:41:27,535
I knew you would come back to me.
598
00:41:29,216 --> 00:41:31,514
Don't ever go away from me again.
599
00:41:34,484 --> 00:41:36,054
We will be happy.
600
00:42:05,369 --> 00:42:08,525
Abe carried New Salem by 205 votes to 3.
601
00:42:08,724 --> 00:42:11,308
My boys are out trying to find
the 3 skunks who voted wrong.
602
00:42:21,943 --> 00:42:23,074
Get her tight, Fergus.
603
00:42:23,429 --> 00:42:25,370
Higher up Bob so we can see her.
604
00:42:30,338 --> 00:42:31,340
No you don't.
605
00:42:31,454 --> 00:42:33,304
I don't wear no soup kettle for nobody.
606
00:42:33,561 --> 00:42:35,897
You ain't no better than Abe
Lincoln and he's wearing one.
607
00:42:36,897 --> 00:42:38,635
Alright boys, here we go!
608
00:42:38,896 --> 00:42:41,996
Down to Judge Green's house
to pick up the new legislator.
609
00:43:01,887 --> 00:43:03,286
They are coming, Abe.
610
00:43:32,089 --> 00:43:34,300
"A large mass meeting
in Boston Massachusetts."
611
00:43:34,897 --> 00:43:38,603
"Many orators paid tribute to the heroic
memory of the late Elijah Love joy."
612
00:43:39,296 --> 00:43:40,943
"Thousands of New Englanders shouted .."
613
00:43:41,177 --> 00:43:42,308
"He shall be avenged."
614
00:43:43,594 --> 00:43:46,483
I wonder what the great Stephen A.
Douglas has got to say to that.
615
00:43:47,261 --> 00:43:49,825
The great Stephen A. Douglas
has this much to say.
616
00:43:51,198 --> 00:43:54,147
Freedom of the press is all very
well until liberty becomes licensed.
617
00:43:54,937 --> 00:43:58,142
Lovejoy's life would have been spared if
he'd listened to the dictates of reason.
618
00:43:58,167 --> 00:44:00,171
Instead of his own
rip-roaring fanaticism.
619
00:44:00,891 --> 00:44:01,893
But ..
620
00:44:02,308 --> 00:44:04,718
Perhaps my good friend
Abe Lincoln doesn't agree?
621
00:44:04,972 --> 00:44:07,603
I agree that Love joy should
have listened to reason.
622
00:44:08,261 --> 00:44:11,537
If he had to be silenced I'd have
preferred it had been done by the law.
623
00:44:11,791 --> 00:44:14,066
Instead of a crowd
of bloodthirsty killers.
624
00:44:14,358 --> 00:44:17,267
Still straddling the fence, eh?
That won't help you to get re-elected.
625
00:44:17,598 --> 00:44:19,674
I'm afraid nothing can help me.
I'm not running.
626
00:44:20,302 --> 00:44:21,978
- You are quitting the legislature?
- Yep.
627
00:44:22,209 --> 00:44:24,736
Why Abe, I'm distressed. We'll miss you.
628
00:44:24,924 --> 00:44:26,683
Sorry to cause you distress, Steve.
629
00:44:27,057 --> 00:44:28,187
What will you do, Abe?
630
00:44:28,798 --> 00:44:32,127
Judge Stuart has offered me a chance to
work in his law office in Springfield.
631
00:44:32,307 --> 00:44:34,069
Of course, I don't know
much about the law.
632
00:44:34,374 --> 00:44:37,247
But there is one thing I've
learned here in politics. That is ..
633
00:44:37,826 --> 00:44:40,268
Ignorance is no obstacle to advancement.
634
00:44:41,148 --> 00:44:43,822
In fact, in some cases
it's quite an advantage.
635
00:44:45,907 --> 00:44:47,253
Good day everybody.
636
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:01,973
- Hello Billy Herndon.
- Hello.
637
00:45:12,376 --> 00:45:13,378
Hello Billy.
638
00:45:43,219 --> 00:45:44,881
Nice day isn't it, Mr Herndon.
639
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:47,243
Why, yes it is.
640
00:45:47,962 --> 00:45:49,282
Where have you been, Billy?
641
00:45:50,298 --> 00:45:53,308
I had to go downstairs about
that writ in the Wilcox case.
642
00:45:53,896 --> 00:45:56,765
If you only went downstairs,
why'd you wear your hat?
643
00:45:58,856 --> 00:46:02,137
As a matter of fact I stopped in
at the Chenery House saloon.
644
00:46:02,954 --> 00:46:03,956
Careful, Billy.
645
00:46:04,217 --> 00:46:07,231
You got great fires in you but
you're putting them out fast.
646
00:46:08,509 --> 00:46:09,510
Yes, sir.
647
00:46:11,942 --> 00:46:13,240
I saw Ninian Edwards, sir.
648
00:46:14,627 --> 00:46:16,344
He invited you to
his party this evening.
649
00:46:17,227 --> 00:46:18,759
It's getting quite a habit with him.
650
00:46:18,918 --> 00:46:20,298
What's the occasion this time?
651
00:46:20,743 --> 00:46:24,264
He wants you to meet his sister-in-law
Mary Todd, who's arrived from Kentucky.
652
00:46:24,557 --> 00:46:28,015
You don't say so. Well, I am
becoming a social success.
653
00:46:28,375 --> 00:46:29,798
Yes, Mr Lincoln. You are.
654
00:46:30,504 --> 00:46:31,807
And I'm afraid you enjoy it.
655
00:46:33,175 --> 00:46:35,616
The Todd family are
mighty high class people.
656
00:46:36,223 --> 00:46:37,793
They spell their name with two "D" s.
657
00:46:37,894 --> 00:46:41,346
Which is pretty impressive when you
consider one was enough for God.
658
00:46:59,793 --> 00:47:03,433
Good evening, Mrs Edwards. How stunning
you look in that magnificent new gown.
659
00:47:03,533 --> 00:47:05,937
A dress like that must have come
all the way from Cincinnati.
660
00:47:05,961 --> 00:47:08,996
My sister brought it from Louisville.
A present from my dear Papa.
661
00:47:09,184 --> 00:47:10,573
- Good evening, Steve.
- Ninian.
662
00:47:10,718 --> 00:47:14,271
Mary my dear, may I present our most
eloquent citizen Mr Stephen Douglas.
663
00:47:14,889 --> 00:47:16,790
- Mr Douglas, I am honored.
- Miss Todd.
664
00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:19,536
Your brother-in-law has just now
described me as eloquent.
665
00:47:19,583 --> 00:47:21,202
But alas I must now prove him wrong.
666
00:47:21,862 --> 00:47:24,443
Standing as I am in the presence
of a penetrating intelligence.
667
00:47:24,706 --> 00:47:27,354
Such devastating charm,
I am rendered speechless.
668
00:47:28,158 --> 00:47:29,768
I can hardly believe it.
669
00:47:51,860 --> 00:47:54,364
Ninian, I thought you were going
to have that thing raised up.
670
00:47:54,650 --> 00:47:57,775
It wouldn't make a difference if he had.
He'd have knocked over something else.
671
00:47:58,565 --> 00:48:01,289
Mr Lincoln is more at home in the
backwoods than in the drawing room.
672
00:48:01,487 --> 00:48:02,781
How do you do, Mr Lincoln.
673
00:48:02,881 --> 00:48:04,964
Well so far, I haven't been
doing so well, thank you.
674
00:48:05,145 --> 00:48:06,305
Never mind, Mr Lincoln.
675
00:48:06,484 --> 00:48:10,947
I'm sure the other gentlemen envy you
being tall enough to hit the chandelier.
676
00:48:11,173 --> 00:48:13,739
Miss Todd, I want you to know
that I resent that bitterly.
677
00:48:14,013 --> 00:48:15,396
- Hello Abe.
- Evening, Steve.
678
00:48:15,496 --> 00:48:16,972
Still got the same old coat, Abe?
679
00:48:17,072 --> 00:48:19,158
- Got kind of attached to it.
- Seems a little short.
680
00:48:19,452 --> 00:48:21,239
It will be longer before I get another.
681
00:48:21,508 --> 00:48:23,440
Abe is what you might
call a self-made man.
682
00:48:23,657 --> 00:48:26,129
Well, I guess my parents ought
to take some of the blame.
683
00:48:26,342 --> 00:48:29,236
When I first knew him he was behind
the counter selling whiskey and rum.
684
00:48:29,534 --> 00:48:32,276
And intoxicating the customers
with his own raw humor.
685
00:48:32,612 --> 00:48:35,269
You see Miss Todd, I was
always behind the bar and ..
686
00:48:35,545 --> 00:48:37,292
Steve Douglas was always in front of it.
687
00:48:41,199 --> 00:48:43,994
Something tells me I
shouldn't have started this.
688
00:48:45,340 --> 00:48:46,643
So I said to Daniel Webster.
689
00:48:46,823 --> 00:48:48,672
You may stand where
you like in Massachusetts.
690
00:48:48,944 --> 00:48:51,167
But you'll meet your downfall
out here in Illinois.
691
00:48:51,443 --> 00:48:54,082
I can understand why they
speak of you as the little giant.
692
00:48:55,388 --> 00:48:56,663
Better be careful, Stephen.
693
00:48:57,009 --> 00:48:58,715
Mary is just as ambitious as you are.
694
00:48:58,969 --> 00:49:00,750
My sister has made
no secret of the fact ..
695
00:49:01,098 --> 00:49:03,622
That the man she marries will be
President of The United States.
696
00:49:03,646 --> 00:49:05,349
Well I'm delighted
to hear it, Miss Todd.
697
00:49:05,513 --> 00:49:09,017
I've been looking for the perfect First
Lady as my consort in the White House.
698
00:49:09,387 --> 00:49:10,609
And now I've found her.
699
00:49:10,970 --> 00:49:13,444
Really? But you should give
that out to the newspapers.
700
00:49:13,756 --> 00:49:16,292
"Stephen A. Douglas consents
to become President."
701
00:49:17,593 --> 00:49:18,594
I ..
702
00:49:19,272 --> 00:49:20,890
Seem to need a little more refreshment.
703
00:49:24,232 --> 00:49:25,516
You are very sweet.
704
00:49:35,584 --> 00:49:37,872
Well, one night there was a
gathering of all the grandees.
705
00:49:38,128 --> 00:49:40,084
You know, one of these
high-toned shindigs.
706
00:49:40,369 --> 00:49:43,146
All the girls in town were there
and the handsome widows ..
707
00:49:43,403 --> 00:49:46,095
And married women finicking
about trying to look like girls.
708
00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:50,288
They were all tied together in the
middle and popped out both ends.
709
00:49:50,519 --> 00:49:52,572
Like bundles of fodder
waiting to be stacked.
710
00:49:52,894 --> 00:49:54,508
And wanting stacking pretty bad.
711
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,260
And I'm hauling ..
712
00:50:01,377 --> 00:50:04,402
Well it started out
to be a political story.
713
00:50:05,217 --> 00:50:07,885
And quite amusing too.
Don't you think, gentlemen.
714
00:50:08,376 --> 00:50:11,500
But I think it is my turn to
monopolise you for a while.
715
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:20,544
Has Mary taken leave of her senses?
716
00:50:20,868 --> 00:50:22,401
Devoting herself to that Mr Lincoln.
717
00:50:22,501 --> 00:50:24,624
When we have most eligible
gentlemen here to meet her.
718
00:50:24,679 --> 00:50:26,947
Perhaps Abe amuses her, my dear.
719
00:50:27,540 --> 00:50:29,358
My sister is a well-bred young lady.
720
00:50:33,676 --> 00:50:34,678
No.
721
00:50:34,831 --> 00:50:37,121
No, Mr Lincoln. I'm not laughing at you.
722
00:50:37,858 --> 00:50:40,508
I'm sure your mother must
have been a wonderful woman.
723
00:50:41,554 --> 00:50:42,999
How old were you when she died?
724
00:50:43,671 --> 00:50:44,673
I was seven.
725
00:50:44,980 --> 00:50:46,564
The milk-sick got her. Poor creature.
726
00:50:47,404 --> 00:50:50,636
I helped Pa make the coffin. Whittled
the pegs with my own jack-knife.
727
00:50:51,733 --> 00:50:54,617
We buried her in a timber
clearing beside my grandmother.
728
00:50:55,211 --> 00:50:57,337
I used to go there often
to look at the place.
729
00:50:58,410 --> 00:51:01,974
I used to watch the deer running
over her grave with their little feet.
730
00:51:04,484 --> 00:51:06,235
I never could kill a deer after that.
731
00:51:07,804 --> 00:51:08,805
Once I ..
732
00:51:09,012 --> 00:51:13,184
Got a licking from Pa because when he
aimed at a deer I knocked his gun up.
733
00:51:16,884 --> 00:51:18,941
This is no way to behave in society.
734
00:51:19,128 --> 00:51:21,319
Taking about the backwoods I come from.
735
00:51:22,409 --> 00:51:24,761
It is just the way
to behave, Mr Lincoln.
736
00:51:25,368 --> 00:51:27,491
Please tell me some more
about the lickings you got.
737
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,787
"What has caused this great
commotion? Motion, motion."
738
00:51:36,636 --> 00:51:38,826
"Our country through .."
739
00:51:49,431 --> 00:51:50,613
Notice the name, Billy?
740
00:51:50,989 --> 00:51:52,626
Here. Right down at the bottom.
741
00:51:52,957 --> 00:51:54,040
Boasting, huh?
742
00:51:54,672 --> 00:51:55,674
Bowling!
743
00:51:56,639 --> 00:51:59,866
- How are you, Bowling?
- Sorry we're late, but glad to see you.
744
00:52:00,142 --> 00:52:03,046
Glad to see you. This is Billy Hernden.
Squire Green from New Salem.
745
00:52:03,303 --> 00:52:05,667
Proud to know you, sir.
Mr Lincoln speaks of you constantly.
746
00:52:05,691 --> 00:52:06,822
Thank you, Mr Hernden.
747
00:52:06,979 --> 00:52:08,773
- Are you a lawyer too?
- I hope to be, sir.
748
00:52:08,963 --> 00:52:11,046
I am serving here as clerk
in Judge Stuart's absence.
749
00:52:11,196 --> 00:52:14,526
- So now you're teaching others, Abe?
- No, just setting a bad example.
750
00:52:14,787 --> 00:52:17,712
- How is that blessed wife of yours?
- Nancy is as busy as ever.
751
00:52:18,075 --> 00:52:21,688
And more than ever concerned about
your innermost hopes and yearnings.
752
00:52:22,045 --> 00:52:24,545
You can tell her I'm becoming
a person of importance.
753
00:52:24,978 --> 00:52:27,066
Yes sir. If old Tippecanoe
wins next fall ..
754
00:52:27,166 --> 00:52:29,080
I'll be a member of
the electoral college.
755
00:52:29,180 --> 00:52:30,644
Is that the best you can do?
756
00:52:30,852 --> 00:52:32,614
You and Billy should
get better acquainted.
757
00:52:32,874 --> 00:52:35,942
He's pretty disgusted with me too.
Says I've no ambition.
758
00:52:36,121 --> 00:52:38,437
I associate with the
wrong kind of people.
759
00:52:38,834 --> 00:52:42,312
He can't stand a man who keeps his mouth
shut and abides by the constitution.
760
00:52:42,614 --> 00:52:44,777
If he had his way the whole
Union would be set on fire.
761
00:52:44,838 --> 00:52:46,860
And we'd all be burnt
to a crisp. Eh, Billy?
762
00:52:47,281 --> 00:52:48,333
Yes, Mr Lincoln.
763
00:52:48,665 --> 00:52:50,457
If you'll permit me to say so.
764
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:52,751
I think you'd be more
use to your fellow men ..
765
00:52:52,851 --> 00:52:55,656
If you allowed some of the same
incendiary impulses to come out in you.
766
00:52:55,742 --> 00:52:57,023
You hear that, Bowling?
767
00:52:57,123 --> 00:53:00,760
I'm surprised at you, Abe.
I thought you were opposed to slavery.
768
00:53:01,393 --> 00:53:02,978
I am opposed to slavery.
769
00:53:04,312 --> 00:53:06,856
But I'm even more opposed
to getting myself into trouble.
770
00:53:07,089 --> 00:53:09,871
- Why don't you run for Congress, Abe?
- If I did I might get elected.
771
00:53:09,971 --> 00:53:11,152
I'd be in Washington.
772
00:53:11,252 --> 00:53:14,582
Then I might have to cast my vote on
the terrible issues of war or peace.
773
00:53:14,940 --> 00:53:16,452
And what attitude would I take?
774
00:53:17,038 --> 00:53:20,210
The "liberal" attitude of course.
And what is the "liberal" attitude?
775
00:53:21,013 --> 00:53:24,445
To go to war for a tract of
land or a moral principle ..
776
00:53:24,545 --> 00:53:26,618
Or to avoid war at all costs.
777
00:53:27,716 --> 00:53:28,854
No sir, Bowling.
778
00:53:29,308 --> 00:53:32,585
I'm no fighting man. I found that out
when I went through the Blackhawk war.
779
00:53:32,685 --> 00:53:35,009
And was terrified I might have
to fire a shot at an Indian.
780
00:53:35,184 --> 00:53:38,183
Fortunately, the Indians felt the same
way, so I never saw any of them.
781
00:53:45,022 --> 00:53:46,082
Excuse me, Bowling.
782
00:53:55,954 --> 00:53:57,684
That's his trouble. Women.
783
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,264
Well I should say that's
the .. Liberal attitude.
784
00:54:11,268 --> 00:54:13,001
I cannot and will not
stand it any longer.
785
00:54:13,102 --> 00:54:15,346
All this ridiculous
gossip must be silenced.
786
00:54:15,740 --> 00:54:18,226
Well after all, the gossip does
none of us any harm, my dear.
787
00:54:18,625 --> 00:54:21,729
I ask you to keep out of this, Ninian.
This is between my sister and myself.
788
00:54:22,254 --> 00:54:23,893
Nevertheless, Ninian is right.
789
00:54:24,527 --> 00:54:28,369
I ask you to deny once and for all that
you've ever given one moment's thought.
790
00:54:28,615 --> 00:54:30,434
To the idea of marriage
with Abraham Lincoln.
791
00:54:30,651 --> 00:54:33,619
Oh, but I have. I've given
many months thought to it.
792
00:54:34,070 --> 00:54:37,127
And I've decided that I
shall be "Mrs Lincoln."
793
00:54:38,450 --> 00:54:39,452
Mary!
794
00:54:39,540 --> 00:54:41,243
Does it shock you so deeply, Elisabeth?
795
00:54:41,461 --> 00:54:42,463
And why not?
796
00:54:42,612 --> 00:54:44,403
Marrying him would
mean life in a log cabin.
797
00:54:44,549 --> 00:54:46,139
With no servants, no decent clothes.
798
00:54:46,474 --> 00:54:49,164
You expect me to do
precisely what you've done.
799
00:54:49,537 --> 00:54:53,481
Marry a rich well-bred gentleman like
Ninian. Live in a fine house like this.
800
00:54:54,789 --> 00:54:57,638
A house with a fence around it
to keep out the common herd.
801
00:54:58,247 --> 00:55:01,645
And also to prevent you from
escaping from your own narrow life.
802
00:55:02,168 --> 00:55:05,544
Well, with all due respect
to my dear brother-in-law.
803
00:55:06,142 --> 00:55:08,719
I don't want that and
I won't have it. Never.
804
00:55:09,644 --> 00:55:13,656
In Abraham Lincoln I see a man who would
split rails for other men's fences.
805
00:55:14,237 --> 00:55:16,718
But who will never build
one around himself.
806
00:55:17,067 --> 00:55:20,589
You talk with a kind of irresponsibility
that's not far from sheer madness.
807
00:55:20,933 --> 00:55:24,341
You've never made a move to change
your condition or to improve it.
808
00:55:24,658 --> 00:55:26,678
You consider that it
couldn't be improved.
809
00:55:27,158 --> 00:55:29,191
To you all this represents perfection.
810
00:55:29,518 --> 00:55:30,662
Well it doesn't to me.
811
00:55:31,271 --> 00:55:34,689
I want a chance to shape a new
life for myself and for my husband.
812
00:55:35,312 --> 00:55:36,789
Is that irresponsibility?
813
00:55:37,353 --> 00:55:40,301
How far will you go with a man
like that? Lazy and shiftless.
814
00:55:40,606 --> 00:55:42,463
Forever stopping along
the way to tell jokes.
815
00:55:42,563 --> 00:55:45,153
He will not stop if I am strong
enough to make him go on.
816
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,136
And I am strong.
817
00:55:48,765 --> 00:55:51,886
I'll admit he seems to have no
conception of his own power.
818
00:55:52,521 --> 00:55:54,213
Or if he has, he's afraid to face it.
819
00:55:55,412 --> 00:55:56,414
I'm not afraid.
820
00:55:57,258 --> 00:56:00,155
I'm ready to fight to make
him fulfil his destiny.
821
00:56:01,061 --> 00:56:04,094
Even if you and all your
world despise me for it.
822
00:56:05,973 --> 00:56:08,621
Ah, merely a small point Mary, but ..
823
00:56:09,512 --> 00:56:11,917
I suppose you've communicated
your decision to Abe?
824
00:56:12,341 --> 00:56:13,342
Not yet.
825
00:56:13,366 --> 00:56:16,011
But when he comes this evening and
he should be here at any moment.
826
00:56:16,416 --> 00:56:18,134
He will ask for my hand in marriage.
827
00:56:18,577 --> 00:56:20,945
After I've displayed the
appropriate amount of ..
828
00:56:21,357 --> 00:56:22,862
Surprise and confusion.
829
00:56:23,208 --> 00:56:25,406
I shall murmur timidly: Yes.
830
00:56:27,055 --> 00:56:29,481
Oh, this is positively humiliating.
831
00:56:29,833 --> 00:56:31,052
Mr Lincoln, ma'am.
832
00:56:34,485 --> 00:56:35,675
Tell Mr Lincoln that ..
833
00:56:35,775 --> 00:56:36,984
I shall see him.
834
00:56:44,954 --> 00:56:45,956
Show him in.
835
00:56:48,078 --> 00:56:49,411
Will you step in, Mr Lincoln.
836
00:56:50,430 --> 00:56:51,432
Thank you, ma'am.
837
00:56:53,830 --> 00:56:55,129
Good evening, Mrs Edwards.
838
00:56:55,229 --> 00:56:56,275
Evening, Miss Todd.
839
00:56:56,441 --> 00:56:57,553
Ninian, good evening.
840
00:56:57,820 --> 00:56:59,180
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
841
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:00,983
Glad to see you, Abe.
842
00:57:01,094 --> 00:57:02,534
And now if you'll excuse us.
843
00:57:02,727 --> 00:57:05,849
Elisabeth and I must hear the children's
prayers and see them safely abed.
844
00:57:05,949 --> 00:57:07,493
I'd like to hear their prayers, too.
845
00:57:07,593 --> 00:57:09,637
Oh no. You'd only keep them
awake with your stories.
846
00:57:09,794 --> 00:57:12,171
- Come along, Elisabeth.
- Well, kiss them goodnight for me.
847
00:57:12,572 --> 00:57:13,574
Mary.
848
00:57:13,598 --> 00:57:15,247
Won't you come with us to say goodnight?
849
00:57:15,348 --> 00:57:18,041
No, no my dear. Leave Mary
here to keep Abe entertained.
850
00:57:23,454 --> 00:57:26,192
I don't blame Ninian for keeping
you away from those children.
851
00:57:26,450 --> 00:57:28,105
They certainly adore you.
852
00:57:28,522 --> 00:57:29,735
You understand them.
853
00:57:30,644 --> 00:57:32,114
That is the important thing.
854
00:57:32,371 --> 00:57:34,079
But do sit down, Mr Lincoln.
855
00:57:35,822 --> 00:57:36,824
Here. By me.
856
00:57:40,843 --> 00:57:41,845
Thank you.
857
00:57:42,169 --> 00:57:43,171
I will.
858
00:57:57,936 --> 00:58:00,187
Happy new year, gentlemen!
Happy new year!
859
00:58:05,801 --> 00:58:08,781
She's exactly like that, Billy.
Whatever Abe lacks, she'll make up for.
860
00:58:09,052 --> 00:58:10,531
She has drive and perseverance.
861
00:58:11,301 --> 00:58:13,154
She'll make him fulfil his destiny.
862
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:14,974
I'm glad to hear that, Mr Edwards.
863
00:58:15,167 --> 00:58:16,882
- Here is to your health, sir.
- To yours.
864
00:58:19,963 --> 00:58:20,965
Happy new year.
865
00:58:21,910 --> 00:58:23,534
How are you, Steve? Happy new year.
866
00:58:23,635 --> 00:58:25,678
Happy new year and give
me a drink quickly, my host.
867
00:58:25,786 --> 00:58:27,895
That is spiced rum-punch
or eggnog, Mr Douglas?
868
00:58:28,210 --> 00:58:30,735
I'll have a glass of some of each
and then I'll make up my mind.
869
00:58:31,740 --> 00:58:33,524
Well Ninian, where is
the lucky bridegroom?
870
00:58:33,624 --> 00:58:36,269
Abe? He wouldn't come here.
Seems to be in one of his gloomy moods.
871
00:58:36,426 --> 00:58:39,335
- Ah, just nervousness I expect.
- Everything is ready for the ceremony.
872
00:58:39,510 --> 00:58:42,800
Elisabeth prepared a bang-up supper and
the whole affair will go off handsomely.
873
00:58:43,042 --> 00:58:45,447
- You will be there of course?
- Ah yes. I am good sportsman.
874
00:58:45,726 --> 00:58:47,297
I'll swallow my mortification.
875
00:58:47,603 --> 00:58:49,022
And that's not all I'll swallow.
876
00:58:49,298 --> 00:58:50,300
To begin with.
877
00:58:50,384 --> 00:58:52,117
I ask you to join me
in a toast gentlemen.
878
00:58:52,289 --> 00:58:55,034
To the fairest flower of all
Kentucky. Miss Mary Todd.
879
00:58:55,328 --> 00:58:56,431
Who from this day on.
880
00:58:56,610 --> 00:58:58,061
Will be Mrs Abraham Lincoln.
881
00:58:58,324 --> 00:58:59,581
To Mary Todd!
882
00:59:06,492 --> 00:59:08,084
Happy new year, Mr Lincoln.
883
00:59:08,486 --> 00:59:09,487
Mr Speed.
884
00:59:10,167 --> 00:59:11,604
Happy new year to you, Billy.
885
00:59:11,704 --> 00:59:13,409
I've just been over to
the Chenery House.
886
00:59:13,532 --> 00:59:15,491
They are all drinking
toasts to your happiness.
887
00:59:16,025 --> 00:59:18,314
I wish to have a private
toast of my own.
888
00:59:19,906 --> 00:59:22,508
Mr Lincoln .. When first I heard
of your approaching marriage ..
889
00:59:22,609 --> 00:59:24,708
I confess I was afraid you
were lowering yourself.
890
00:59:25,152 --> 00:59:27,421
Trading your honor for
exalted family connection.
891
00:59:28,037 --> 00:59:29,791
I apologise for so thinking.
892
00:59:31,204 --> 00:59:34,239
I now believe that Miss Todd's ambitions
for you are the same as my own.
893
00:59:34,711 --> 00:59:37,157
I believe that she will never
stop driving and goading you ..
894
00:59:37,258 --> 00:59:39,327
Until you have reached the
heights where you belong.
895
00:59:39,613 --> 00:59:41,772
I say God bless her
and give her strength.
896
00:59:42,353 --> 00:59:43,428
And I drink to her.
897
00:59:43,528 --> 00:59:45,988
And to her husband, the future
President of The United States.
898
00:59:46,199 --> 00:59:47,200
Put that away.
899
00:59:49,813 --> 00:59:51,966
Billy, I have a letter
I wish you to deliver.
900
00:59:52,418 --> 00:59:53,420
A letter?
901
00:59:53,471 --> 00:59:54,473
To whom?
902
00:59:54,615 --> 00:59:55,617
You do it, Jack.
903
01:00:04,297 --> 01:00:06,026
- You had no right to do that!
- Maybe not.
904
01:00:06,883 --> 01:00:07,884
But it's done.
905
01:00:07,909 --> 01:00:10,513
And don't look at me as though you
were planning to break my neck.
906
01:00:10,891 --> 01:00:12,194
I knew you could do it, Abe.
907
01:00:12,535 --> 01:00:13,538
But you won't.
908
01:00:19,761 --> 01:00:23,053
Mr Lincoln asked me to deliver a letter
to Miss Todd, but I refused to do so.
909
01:00:23,479 --> 01:00:25,293
He was writing her
to ask for his release ..
910
01:00:25,393 --> 01:00:28,286
From a marriage which would only lead to
endless pain and misery for them both.
911
01:00:28,310 --> 01:00:29,802
If that isn't the truth, what is?
912
01:00:29,902 --> 01:00:32,135
And if that is the truth,
tell her so to her face.
913
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:33,747
In the manner of a man.
914
01:00:34,768 --> 01:00:38,666
I'd have to tell her that I have
hatred for her infernal ambition.
915
01:00:39,581 --> 01:00:43,526
That I don't want to be ridden and
driven onward and upward through life ..
916
01:00:43,626 --> 01:00:46,603
With her whip lashing me and
her spurs digging in to me.
917
01:00:48,065 --> 01:00:52,856
If her poor small soul craves importance
in life, let her marry Stephen Douglas.
918
01:00:53,295 --> 01:00:54,769
He's ambitious, too.
919
01:00:55,649 --> 01:00:57,653
I want only to be left alone.
920
01:00:58,438 --> 01:01:00,882
It would be more gracious to
admit that you are afraid of her.
921
01:01:00,906 --> 01:01:03,211
- Good for you, Mr Speed.
- You'd better keep out of this.
922
01:01:03,391 --> 01:01:04,392
No, I won't.
923
01:01:05,753 --> 01:01:07,703
You are not abandoning Miss Mary Todd.
924
01:01:07,983 --> 01:01:10,314
No, you are only using her
as the living sacrifice.
925
01:01:10,415 --> 01:01:14,331
Offering her up hoping you're forgiven
for your failure to do your own duty.
926
01:01:14,973 --> 01:01:15,990
What "great duty"?
927
01:01:16,097 --> 01:01:20,801
Everyone feels called upon to remind me
of it and no-one can tell me what it is.
928
01:01:21,237 --> 01:01:22,239
I can tell you.
929
01:01:22,550 --> 01:01:25,800
I can tell you what is the duty of every
man who calls himself an American.
930
01:01:26,653 --> 01:01:30,052
It is to perpetuate those truths that
were once held to be self-evident.
931
01:01:30,594 --> 01:01:32,100
That all men are created equal ..
932
01:01:32,201 --> 01:01:35,267
And endowed with the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
933
01:01:35,582 --> 01:01:37,585
Are those rights denied to me?
934
01:01:38,115 --> 01:01:40,268
Could you ever enjoy
them while you realise ..
935
01:01:40,368 --> 01:01:43,488
That two million of your fellow
beings in this country are slaves?
936
01:01:44,011 --> 01:01:46,358
When you look at that flag
don't you ever realise ..
937
01:01:46,538 --> 01:01:49,810
That ten of its stars represent States
that would destroy the Union ..
938
01:01:50,098 --> 01:01:52,557
Rather than give up their
property rights on those slaves?
939
01:01:53,691 --> 01:01:57,687
Don't dare tell me that anybody in this
world knows it more than you Mr Lincoln.
940
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,940
You, who honor the
memory of Elijah Love joy.
941
01:02:01,345 --> 01:02:04,812
And every other man who ever died
fighting in the defence of freedom.
942
01:02:06,454 --> 01:02:07,455
I honor them.
943
01:02:08,241 --> 01:02:09,283
And envy them.
944
01:02:10,237 --> 01:02:14,366
Because they could believe that
their ideals are worth dying for.
945
01:02:34,336 --> 01:02:35,338
Alright, Josh.
946
01:02:36,497 --> 01:02:38,803
I'll go up now and I'll take to Mary.
947
01:02:53,402 --> 01:02:54,476
Then I'm going away.
948
01:02:55,189 --> 01:02:56,191
Where, Abe?
949
01:02:58,495 --> 01:02:59,497
I don't know.
950
01:05:09,163 --> 01:05:11,209
"The world passeth."
951
01:05:11,833 --> 01:05:16,280
"But he that doeth the will
of God, abideth forever."
952
01:05:33,938 --> 01:05:34,940
Howdy, Abe.
953
01:05:36,722 --> 01:05:37,839
Hello, Abe.
954
01:05:40,490 --> 01:05:43,243
Well, well, Mr Lincoln.
Glad to see you back.
955
01:05:43,589 --> 01:05:44,591
Thank you.
956
01:05:44,710 --> 01:05:46,756
Why Abe, when did you get back?
957
01:05:47,564 --> 01:05:49,029
- How do you do.
- Good afternoon.
958
01:05:50,655 --> 01:05:52,714
After his shameful
treatment of Miss Todd ..
959
01:05:52,814 --> 01:05:55,422
I wouldn't think he'd dare
show his face in this town.
960
01:05:57,100 --> 01:05:59,315
And going in the Edwards'
home of all things.
961
01:05:59,646 --> 01:06:01,822
Right in where he's least wanted.
962
01:06:02,008 --> 01:06:03,927
Well, we can't say he lacks courage.
963
01:06:06,517 --> 01:06:07,964
Please come right in, Mr Lincoln.
964
01:06:18,762 --> 01:06:20,832
- Glad to see you again, Abe.
- Thank you, Mary.
965
01:06:21,414 --> 01:06:25,003
You may well wonder why I thrust
myself on your mercy in this matter.
966
01:06:25,866 --> 01:06:28,164
I'm sure you're always
welcome in Ninian's house.
967
01:06:28,564 --> 01:06:33,097
After my behaviour at our last meeting I
haven't been welcome company for myself.
968
01:06:34,072 --> 01:06:36,536
Joshua Speed has kept us
informed of your whereabouts.
969
01:06:36,892 --> 01:06:39,951
- We've been greatly concerned.
- You've been most kind.
970
01:06:40,803 --> 01:06:44,289
Now you return to your work and no doubt
you will run for the assembly again.
971
01:06:44,470 --> 01:06:45,471
Or ..
972
01:06:45,614 --> 01:06:47,899
- Perhaps you have larger plans?
- I have no plans.
973
01:06:48,707 --> 01:06:50,631
I only wish to gain your forgiveness.
974
01:06:52,147 --> 01:06:53,621
There is no question of that.
975
01:06:54,039 --> 01:06:55,867
What happened between
us was my own fault.
976
01:06:56,228 --> 01:06:58,293
I was blinded by my own self-confidence.
977
01:06:59,090 --> 01:07:00,092
I ..
978
01:07:01,958 --> 01:07:02,960
I loved you.
979
01:07:03,508 --> 01:07:05,401
I believed that I could
make you love me.
980
01:07:06,107 --> 01:07:08,962
I believed that the fire of my
ambition would burn in you.
981
01:07:09,516 --> 01:07:11,649
You would become a man. A leader of men.
982
01:07:12,265 --> 01:07:13,267
But.
983
01:07:13,966 --> 01:07:15,084
You didn't wish that.
984
01:07:16,370 --> 01:07:20,729
It is true Mary you once had faith in
me which I was far from deserving.
985
01:07:22,460 --> 01:07:25,224
The time has come when I
wish to strive to deserve it.
986
01:07:25,797 --> 01:07:28,419
I believe now that our
destinies are together.
987
01:07:28,923 --> 01:07:30,112
For better or for worse.
988
01:07:32,383 --> 01:07:35,116
So I again presume to
ask you to be my wife.
989
01:07:39,299 --> 01:07:43,660
I fully realize that taking me back
involves humiliation for you.
990
01:07:44,509 --> 01:07:47,128
I've had humiliation
already and survived it.
991
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:49,126
But I promise you, Mary.
992
01:07:49,962 --> 01:07:51,112
If you will have me ..
993
01:07:51,212 --> 01:07:55,512
I shall devote myself for the rest of
my days to trying to do what is right.
994
01:07:55,982 --> 01:07:58,825
As God gives me power
to see what is right.
995
01:08:04,363 --> 01:08:05,365
Then.
996
01:08:07,057 --> 01:08:08,280
I shall be your wife.
997
01:08:09,704 --> 01:08:12,385
I shall fight by your side
until death do us part.
998
01:08:14,771 --> 01:08:16,702
Abe .. I love you.
999
01:08:17,238 --> 01:08:18,453
Oh, I love you.
1000
01:08:19,167 --> 01:08:21,916
Whatever becomes of the
two of us, I'll die loving you.
1001
01:09:44,287 --> 01:09:45,289
Slaves.
1002
01:09:46,039 --> 01:09:47,465
Whether emancipated or not.
1003
01:09:47,954 --> 01:09:51,010
They yet remain subject to the
authority of the dominant race.
1004
01:09:51,498 --> 01:09:53,342
And have no rights or privileges ..
1005
01:09:53,831 --> 01:09:56,343
But such as those who hold
the power of government ..
1006
01:09:56,855 --> 01:09:58,239
Might choose to grant them.
1007
01:10:37,670 --> 01:10:38,869
Are you John Brown?
1008
01:10:39,654 --> 01:10:42,347
I am, sir. So what if I am John Brown?
1009
01:10:42,709 --> 01:10:44,540
Don't try and fight them anymore.
1010
01:10:45,071 --> 01:10:46,976
I place you under arrest for treason.
1011
01:10:47,480 --> 01:10:49,885
For bearing arms against the
government of The United States.
1012
01:10:50,825 --> 01:10:53,044
I'd like to ask who
is making this arrest.
1013
01:10:53,531 --> 01:10:55,971
I am Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert E. Lee of the 2nd Cavalry.
1014
01:10:56,435 --> 01:10:58,557
Acting under orders
from President Buchanan.
1015
01:10:59,982 --> 01:11:01,208
It's no use, Pa.
1016
01:11:02,043 --> 01:11:03,509
You've got to give in to 'em.
1017
01:11:05,217 --> 01:11:06,662
Somebody else ..
1018
01:11:07,312 --> 01:11:08,692
Got to finish this job.
1019
01:11:15,315 --> 01:11:17,569
Very well, Colonel Lee.
I submit to arrest.
1020
01:11:18,608 --> 01:11:23,369
Knowing full well I shall be hanged for
this attempt to end the evil of slavery.
1021
01:11:24,492 --> 01:11:26,848
But after I am dead
the evil will remain.
1022
01:11:27,761 --> 01:11:30,582
And you and all other
patriots will come to learn ..
1023
01:11:31,035 --> 01:11:33,758
It can be purged
from this guilty world ..
1024
01:11:34,502 --> 01:11:35,779
Only with blood.
1025
01:11:41,209 --> 01:11:42,652
Goodbye, my son.
1026
01:11:58,072 --> 01:11:59,917
Another fanatic has
gone to meet his maker.
1027
01:12:00,190 --> 01:12:02,674
Why can't these anti-slavery
fools mind their own business?
1028
01:12:03,196 --> 01:12:04,197
Senator Douglas!
1029
01:12:05,491 --> 01:12:07,078
The message you've been waiting for.
1030
01:12:07,701 --> 01:12:09,005
A telegram from Springfield.
1031
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:12,379
They've nominated Abraham Lincoln
to run against the senator this fall.
1032
01:12:13,417 --> 01:12:15,023
My heartiest congratulations.
1033
01:12:15,271 --> 01:12:16,647
Lincoln? Who's he?
1034
01:12:17,128 --> 01:12:19,022
What are they doing?
Giving you the election?
1035
01:12:19,674 --> 01:12:22,594
So Abe Lincoln has decided
at last to come out and fight.
1036
01:12:22,757 --> 01:12:24,513
The best thing that could happen to us.
1037
01:12:24,613 --> 01:12:26,423
How does this Lincoln stand on slavery?
1038
01:12:26,659 --> 01:12:28,655
Nobody knows.
Least of all, Lincoln himself.
1039
01:12:29,026 --> 01:12:32,367
He's the most undecided,
hesitating-est critter you ever saw.
1040
01:12:32,829 --> 01:12:35,914
We don't want that slave issue
brought up in Illinois this year.
1041
01:12:36,126 --> 01:12:38,574
You can count on old Abe.
He's just what we want.
1042
01:12:38,846 --> 01:12:39,950
A peaceful man.
1043
01:12:40,453 --> 01:12:41,996
We'll start the campaign at once.
1044
01:12:42,096 --> 01:12:45,267
I will return to Springfield. I want an
unprecedented welcome when I get there.
1045
01:12:45,538 --> 01:12:47,381
A brass band at the station.
A big parade.
1046
01:12:47,871 --> 01:12:49,061
And free liquor for all.
1047
01:12:49,794 --> 01:12:51,997
You don't mean to say that
you're afraid of Abe Lincoln?
1048
01:12:52,211 --> 01:12:53,686
Why, the country doesn't know him.
1049
01:12:54,031 --> 01:12:55,277
Maybe the country doesn't.
1050
01:12:56,649 --> 01:12:57,651
But I do.
1051
01:13:05,095 --> 01:13:06,138
All ready now.
1052
01:13:06,809 --> 01:13:07,824
Keep very still.
1053
01:13:08,966 --> 01:13:09,968
One.
1054
01:13:10,081 --> 01:13:11,083
Two.
1055
01:13:11,242 --> 01:13:12,244
Three.
1056
01:13:12,645 --> 01:13:14,796
Tad, you are to keep absolutely still.
1057
01:13:15,030 --> 01:13:16,031
You too, Willy.
1058
01:13:16,196 --> 01:13:17,197
We will, Ma.
1059
01:13:18,576 --> 01:13:20,035
Now please, one and all.
1060
01:13:23,069 --> 01:13:24,071
One.
1061
01:13:24,153 --> 01:13:25,155
Two.
1062
01:13:25,210 --> 01:13:26,212
Three.
1063
01:13:26,458 --> 01:13:27,460
Tad!
1064
01:13:27,484 --> 01:13:29,133
If I have to speak to you once more ..
1065
01:13:29,233 --> 01:13:30,931
But Pa keeps tickling me.
1066
01:13:31,588 --> 01:13:32,719
I might have known it.
1067
01:13:32,930 --> 01:13:34,012
Please, Mr Lincoln.
1068
01:13:34,197 --> 01:13:37,151
Please bear in mind this picture
was ordered by the Chicago Tribune.
1069
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,758
To spread far and wide
during your campaign.
1070
01:13:40,037 --> 01:13:43,605
I'm sorry, Mary. But I can't help
thinking how foolish I look.
1071
01:13:43,943 --> 01:13:46,407
Now I beg of you, no
movement of any kind.
1072
01:13:47,184 --> 01:13:48,412
This time we'll get it.
1073
01:13:49,416 --> 01:13:50,418
One.
1074
01:13:52,745 --> 01:13:54,234
Willy .. Tad.
1075
01:13:54,334 --> 01:13:55,336
Come back here.
1076
01:13:55,559 --> 01:13:57,334
Look, Pa. It's a great big parade.
1077
01:13:58,475 --> 01:13:59,549
Douglas has arrived.
1078
01:13:59,818 --> 01:14:01,560
Listen to them cheering for him.
1079
01:14:01,958 --> 01:14:04,169
They ought to cheer him.
He paid them enough for it.
1080
01:14:35,887 --> 01:14:37,894
Old Abe won't have
an answer for that one.
1081
01:14:38,203 --> 01:14:39,204
You're a liar.
1082
01:14:50,854 --> 01:14:52,971
We have now heard the leading argument.
1083
01:14:53,942 --> 01:14:58,117
For the 2 candidates for the high office
of United States Senator from Illinois.
1084
01:14:58,809 --> 01:15:00,059
Judge Stephen A. Douglas.
1085
01:15:00,776 --> 01:15:02,214
And Mr Abraham Lincoln.
1086
01:15:02,631 --> 01:15:04,835
According to the usual custom of debate.
1087
01:15:05,403 --> 01:15:07,907
Each of the candidates
will now speak in rebuttal.
1088
01:15:08,837 --> 01:15:09,838
Judge Douglas.
1089
01:15:22,111 --> 01:15:23,297
My fellow citizens.
1090
01:15:24,477 --> 01:15:28,830
My good friend Mr Lincoln has addressed
you with his usual artless sincerity.
1091
01:15:29,065 --> 01:15:30,778
His pure, homely charm.
1092
01:15:31,262 --> 01:15:32,915
Hi perennial native humor.
1093
01:15:33,527 --> 01:15:36,455
He has devoted a generously
large portion of his address.
1094
01:15:36,741 --> 01:15:38,309
To most amiable remarks ..
1095
01:15:38,566 --> 01:15:40,713
Upon my fine qualities as a man.
1096
01:15:41,157 --> 01:15:42,597
If not as a states m an.
1097
01:15:43,170 --> 01:15:45,458
For which I express
the deepest gratitude.
1098
01:15:46,421 --> 01:15:47,682
But at the same time.
1099
01:15:48,161 --> 01:15:50,149
I most earnestly beg you.
1100
01:15:50,420 --> 01:15:52,906
Not to be deceived by
his seeming innocence.
1101
01:15:53,388 --> 01:15:56,862
His carefully cultivated
spirit of goodwill.
1102
01:15:57,435 --> 01:15:59,333
For in each of his little homilies.
1103
01:15:59,637 --> 01:16:01,615
Lurk concealed weapons.
1104
01:16:02,249 --> 01:16:03,251
Like Brutus.
1105
01:16:03,551 --> 01:16:05,538
In Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
1106
01:16:05,849 --> 01:16:08,032
Mr Lincoln is an honorable man.
1107
01:16:08,402 --> 01:16:09,797
But also, like Brutus ..
1108
01:16:10,189 --> 01:16:11,720
He is an adept at the art ..
1109
01:16:12,002 --> 01:16:14,672
Of inserting daggers
between an opponent's ribs.
1110
01:16:15,165 --> 01:16:17,985
Just when said opponent
least expects it.
1111
01:16:18,598 --> 01:16:20,611
Behold me, ladies and gentlemen.
1112
01:16:21,058 --> 01:16:22,870
I am covered with scars.
1113
01:16:27,365 --> 01:16:28,576
How dare they laugh.
1114
01:16:28,998 --> 01:16:30,273
It's only a speech, mother.
1115
01:16:31,701 --> 01:16:33,177
Any time you say, Abe.
1116
01:16:38,351 --> 01:16:41,368
Mr Lincoln makes you laugh
with his pungent anecdotes.
1117
01:16:41,979 --> 01:16:43,790
He draws tears from your eyes.
1118
01:16:44,149 --> 01:16:48,175
With his dramatic pictures of the plight
of the black slave laborer in the South.
1119
01:16:48,846 --> 01:16:52,543
Always, he guides you skilfully
to the threshold of truth.
1120
01:16:53,021 --> 01:16:55,123
But then, as you are about to cross it.
1121
01:16:55,687 --> 01:16:57,964
He diverts your attention elsewhere.
1122
01:16:58,630 --> 01:17:01,145
He never .. By any mischance.
1123
01:17:01,459 --> 01:17:04,496
Makes reference to the condition
of labor here in the North.
1124
01:17:05,419 --> 01:17:07,006
Perhaps he's ignorant of the fact.
1125
01:17:07,347 --> 01:17:10,491
That tens of thousands of
workers are now on strike.
1126
01:17:11,119 --> 01:17:12,295
Hungry men.
1127
01:17:12,639 --> 01:17:15,507
Marching through the
streets in ragged order.
1128
01:17:15,793 --> 01:17:16,795
Promoting riots.
1129
01:17:17,170 --> 01:17:19,456
Because they are not paid
enough to keep the flesh ..
1130
01:17:19,881 --> 01:17:22,048
Upon the bones of their babies.
1131
01:17:22,586 --> 01:17:24,444
What kind of liberty is this?
1132
01:17:24,794 --> 01:17:26,425
And what kind of equality?
1133
01:17:26,734 --> 01:17:27,736
Right!
1134
01:17:34,791 --> 01:17:38,701
Mr Lincoln harps constantly
on this subject of "equality".
1135
01:17:39,511 --> 01:17:43,587
He repeats over and over the argument
used by Love joy and other abolitionists.
1136
01:17:43,885 --> 01:17:44,887
To wit.
1137
01:17:44,911 --> 01:17:46,591
That the Declaration of Independence.
1138
01:17:47,088 --> 01:17:50,403
Having declared all men free
and equal by divine law.
1139
01:17:50,665 --> 01:17:53,635
Thus Negro equality
is an inalienable right.
1140
01:17:54,816 --> 01:17:59,377
Contrary to this is the verdict of the
Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott.
1141
01:18:01,044 --> 01:18:02,396
Mr Lincoln is a lawyer.
1142
01:18:03,261 --> 01:18:05,455
And I presume therefore that he knows.
1143
01:18:06,159 --> 01:18:08,233
That when he seeks to
destroy public confidence.
1144
01:18:08,577 --> 01:18:12,077
In the integrity, the inviolability
of The Supreme Court.
1145
01:18:12,513 --> 01:18:14,447
He is preaching revolution.
1146
01:18:16,216 --> 01:18:18,888
He asks me to state my opinion
of the Dred Scott decision.
1147
01:18:19,361 --> 01:18:21,512
And I answer him unequivocally.
1148
01:18:21,806 --> 01:18:24,688
By saying I take the decisions
of The Supreme Court.
1149
01:18:25,134 --> 01:18:26,598
To be the law of the land.
1150
01:18:26,988 --> 01:18:29,437
And I intend to obey them as such.
1151
01:18:29,841 --> 01:18:31,743
Nor will I be swayed from that position.
1152
01:18:32,121 --> 01:18:34,486
By all the ranting of all the fanatics.
1153
01:18:34,790 --> 01:18:36,898
Who preach racial equality.
1154
01:18:37,212 --> 01:18:41,253
Who would ask us to vote, eat,
sleep and marry with Negroes.
1155
01:18:41,692 --> 01:18:42,709
And I say further.
1156
01:18:43,083 --> 01:18:45,274
Let each State mind its own business.
1157
01:18:45,577 --> 01:18:46,937
And leave its neighbors alone.
1158
01:18:47,407 --> 01:18:49,440
If we'll stand on that principle.
1159
01:18:49,736 --> 01:18:51,494
Then Mr Lincoln will find.
1160
01:18:51,702 --> 01:18:53,995
That this great republic can exist.
1161
01:18:54,441 --> 01:18:57,228
Forever divided into
free and slave States.
1162
01:18:57,514 --> 01:18:59,917
And we can go on as we have done.
1163
01:19:00,150 --> 01:19:01,313
Increasing in wealth.
1164
01:19:01,674 --> 01:19:03,712
In population, in power.
1165
01:19:04,014 --> 01:19:06,520
Until we shall become the admiration ..
1166
01:19:06,944 --> 01:19:08,765
And the terror of the world.
1167
01:19:15,123 --> 01:19:17,439
Listen to them yell, the
empty-headed idiots.
1168
01:19:17,624 --> 01:19:18,800
Yelling at empty words.
1169
01:19:19,224 --> 01:19:22,026
He doesn't know what he's
talking about. He never did.
1170
01:19:22,273 --> 01:19:23,576
You're upsetting your drink.
1171
01:19:26,814 --> 01:19:27,896
Mr Abraham Lincoln.
1172
01:19:38,017 --> 01:19:39,273
Go get him, Abe!
1173
01:19:40,781 --> 01:19:44,136
Judge Douglas has paid tribute
to my skill with the dagger.
1174
01:19:44,356 --> 01:19:45,545
I thank him for that.
1175
01:19:45,646 --> 01:19:48,945
But I must admit that he can do
more with that weapon than I can.
1176
01:19:49,299 --> 01:19:52,881
He can keep ten daggers flashing
in the air at the same time.
1177
01:19:53,229 --> 01:19:57,557
Fortunately, he's so good at it, none of
the knives ever falls and hurts anyone.
1178
01:20:04,772 --> 01:20:07,274
Now you heard the judge
make allusion to those ..
1179
01:20:07,456 --> 01:20:11,744
Who advocate voting and eating and
marrying and sleeping with Negroes.
1180
01:20:12,331 --> 01:20:14,912
Whether he meant me
specifically, I do not know.
1181
01:20:15,110 --> 01:20:16,734
If he did, I can only say this.
1182
01:20:16,938 --> 01:20:19,775
Just because I do not want a
colored woman for a slave ..
1183
01:20:19,875 --> 01:20:22,297
I do not necessarily
want her for a wife.
1184
01:20:23,009 --> 01:20:26,873
I do not need to have her for either.
I can just leave her alone.
1185
01:20:27,825 --> 01:20:30,423
In some respects, she is
certainly not my equal ..
1186
01:20:30,523 --> 01:20:33,529
Any more than I am
the judge's equal in ..
1187
01:20:34,056 --> 01:20:35,057
Some respects.
1188
01:20:35,853 --> 01:20:39,483
But in her natural right to eat the
bread she earns with her own hands ..
1189
01:20:39,583 --> 01:20:44,831
Without asking leave of somebody else
she is my equal and equal of all others.
1190
01:20:46,209 --> 01:20:50,168
Now you heard the judge speak
about our own labor conditions.
1191
01:20:50,587 --> 01:20:54,459
As an American I cannot be proud
that such conditions exist.
1192
01:20:55,541 --> 01:20:57,373
But as an American, I can ask.
1193
01:20:57,982 --> 01:21:00,669
Would any of the striking
workers in the North ..
1194
01:21:00,769 --> 01:21:03,738
Elect to change places with
the slaves in the South?
1195
01:21:04,566 --> 01:21:08,040
Will they rather not say:
The remedy is in our hands.
1196
01:21:08,454 --> 01:21:10,527
And still as an American.
1197
01:21:11,084 --> 01:21:16,995
I can say thank God we live in a system
by which men have the right to strike.
1198
01:21:26,056 --> 01:21:28,715
I am not preaching rebellion.
1199
01:21:30,364 --> 01:21:31,738
I don't have to.
1200
01:21:32,858 --> 01:21:38,010
This country with its institutions
belongs to the people who inhabit it.
1201
01:21:39,105 --> 01:21:42,949
Whenever they shall grow weary
of the existing government.
1202
01:21:43,342 --> 01:21:47,729
They can exercise their
constitutional right of amending it.
1203
01:21:48,224 --> 01:21:53,066
Or their revolutionary right to
dismember or overthrow it.
1204
01:21:53,492 --> 01:21:56,963
If the founding fathers
gave us anything.
1205
01:21:57,316 --> 01:21:58,803
They gave us that.
1206
01:22:05,936 --> 01:22:09,443
The purpose of the Dred Scott
decision is to make property ..
1207
01:22:09,543 --> 01:22:13,630
And nothing but property of the
Negro in all States of the Union.
1208
01:22:14,338 --> 01:22:17,991
It is the old issue of human
rights versus property rights.
1209
01:22:18,913 --> 01:22:22,377
It is the eternal struggle
between two principles.
1210
01:22:22,668 --> 01:22:25,833
The one, the common right of humanity.
1211
01:22:26,350 --> 01:22:28,825
The other, the divine right of Kings.
1212
01:22:29,941 --> 01:22:35,324
It's the same spirit which says you toil
and work and earn bread and I'll eat it.
1213
01:22:42,578 --> 01:22:43,580
As a nation.
1214
01:22:43,873 --> 01:22:47,948
We began by declaring
all men are created equal.
1215
01:22:49,098 --> 01:22:54,049
There's no mention of exceptions to that
rule in the Declaration of Independence.
1216
01:22:54,842 --> 01:22:56,678
But we now practically read it:
1217
01:22:56,778 --> 01:23:00,130
"All men are created
equal except Negroes."
1218
01:23:01,493 --> 01:23:06,282
If we are to accept this doctrine
of race or class discrimination.
1219
01:23:06,900 --> 01:23:09,843
What is to stop us in
future from decreeing ..
1220
01:23:10,128 --> 01:23:13,334
All men are created
equal except Negroes ..
1221
01:23:13,813 --> 01:23:14,815
Foreigners.
1222
01:23:15,011 --> 01:23:16,013
Catholics.
1223
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:17,282
Jews.
1224
01:23:17,748 --> 01:23:19,988
Or just poor people.
1225
01:23:20,552 --> 01:23:25,097
That is the conclusion towards which
the advocates of slavery are driving us.
1226
01:23:25,672 --> 01:23:29,362
"Let each State mind its own
business" says Judge Douglas.
1227
01:23:30,024 --> 01:23:31,503
"Why stir up trouble?"
1228
01:23:32,470 --> 01:23:37,447
This is the complacent
policy of indifference to evil.
1229
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:40,279
And that policy ..
1230
01:23:40,631 --> 01:23:42,539
I cannot but hate.
1231
01:23:43,806 --> 01:23:48,610
I hate it because of the monstrous
injustice of slavery itself.
1232
01:23:49,698 --> 01:23:54,923
I hate it because it denies our republic
its just influence in the world.
1233
01:23:55,686 --> 01:24:01,281
Enables the enemies of free institutions
everywhere to taunt us as hypocrites.
1234
01:24:02,067 --> 01:24:04,814
Causes the real friends of freedom ..
1235
01:24:05,177 --> 01:24:07,069
To doubt our sincerity.
1236
01:24:07,919 --> 01:24:09,292
And especially.
1237
01:24:09,922 --> 01:24:14,351
Because it forces so many
good men among ourselves.
1238
01:24:14,712 --> 01:24:19,424
Into an open war with the very
fundamentals of civil liberties.
1239
01:24:20,113 --> 01:24:24,188
Denying the good faith of the
Declaration of Independence.
1240
01:24:24,677 --> 01:24:29,130
And insisting that there is
no right principle of action.
1241
01:24:29,610 --> 01:24:31,238
But self-interest.
1242
01:24:32,093 --> 01:24:34,458
In his final words tonight.
1243
01:24:35,265 --> 01:24:36,398
The judge said.
1244
01:24:37,416 --> 01:24:38,441
That we can be:
1245
01:24:38,541 --> 01:24:40,253
"The terror of the world".
1246
01:24:41,877 --> 01:24:44,469
I don't think we want to be that.
1247
01:24:46,057 --> 01:24:50,662
I think we would prefer to be
the encouragement of the world.
1248
01:24:51,565 --> 01:24:56,219
The proof that at last
man is worthy to be free.
1249
01:24:57,455 --> 01:25:00,417
But we shall provide no
such encouragement ..
1250
01:25:00,517 --> 01:25:05,063
Unless we can establish our ability
as a nation to live and grow.
1251
01:25:05,670 --> 01:25:08,798
And we shall surely do neither.
1252
01:25:09,231 --> 01:25:12,926
If these States fail to remain united.
1253
01:25:14,226 --> 01:25:18,800
There can be no distinction
in the definition of liberty.
1254
01:25:19,175 --> 01:25:21,398
As between one section and another.
1255
01:25:21,749 --> 01:25:25,369
One class and another.
One race and another.
1256
01:25:27,330 --> 01:25:31,766
A house divided against
itself cannot stand.
1257
01:25:33,252 --> 01:25:37,405
This government cannot
endure permanently.
1258
01:25:38,213 --> 01:25:39,669
Half slave.
1259
01:25:41,117 --> 01:25:43,258
And half free.
1260
01:25:52,885 --> 01:25:55,070
"This government cannot
endure permanently."
1261
01:25:55,585 --> 01:25:57,624
"Half slave and half free."
1262
01:25:57,964 --> 01:26:00,368
Here is the proof of your editorial
for tomorrow, Mr Greeley.
1263
01:26:00,872 --> 01:26:01,873
Scrap it.
1264
01:26:01,979 --> 01:26:04,568
I'm going to write another one.
About a man named Lincoln.
1265
01:26:04,973 --> 01:26:06,510
Lincoln? Never heard of him.
1266
01:26:07,616 --> 01:26:08,618
You will.
1267
01:26:32,818 --> 01:26:35,013
Gentlemen, I beg of you. One at a time.
1268
01:26:35,218 --> 01:26:38,273
If Stuart is nominated he'll want
to emancipate all of the slaves.
1269
01:26:38,498 --> 01:26:40,107
That would be the end of the Union.
1270
01:26:40,207 --> 01:26:42,722
I tell you that Douglas will
carry the South and the West.
1271
01:26:43,018 --> 01:26:45,407
We've got to be sure of
New York or we lose.
1272
01:26:45,602 --> 01:26:47,726
- And the only man ..
- Stuart will never get my vote.
1273
01:26:47,991 --> 01:26:50,636
Gentlemen, if you can't contain
your tempers we'll never agree.
1274
01:26:51,097 --> 01:26:54,470
We'll never agree on any of the
leading candidates. That's obvious.
1275
01:26:54,849 --> 01:26:56,777
What we need in this
race is a dark horse.
1276
01:26:56,878 --> 01:26:58,875
- Yes, but what's his name?
- Lincoln.
1277
01:27:02,359 --> 01:27:06,304
Maybe you don't know it but there is a
big country out west of the Alleghenies.
1278
01:27:06,798 --> 01:27:10,013
With a lot of new States named
Oregon, Minnesota, California.
1279
01:27:10,337 --> 01:27:12,022
Which you seem never to have heard of.
1280
01:27:12,369 --> 01:27:14,037
Lincoln is popular out there.
1281
01:27:14,302 --> 01:27:17,304
And if we handle him right we can make
him popular back here in the East.
1282
01:27:17,745 --> 01:27:20,172
Anyway, I ask you
gentlemen to look him over.
1283
01:27:20,405 --> 01:27:21,687
Do you know him, Crimmin?
1284
01:27:21,787 --> 01:27:23,505
I heard him debate with Douglas.
1285
01:27:23,705 --> 01:27:27,650
And I can tell you one thing.
He is a vote-getter if I ever saw one.
1286
01:27:32,695 --> 01:27:34,440
No, they got safely to Oregon.
1287
01:27:35,014 --> 01:27:36,832
Didn't you ever fight the Indians, Pa?
1288
01:27:37,010 --> 01:27:40,846
Well not exactly. I was almost in a
battle but I got lost from my men.
1289
01:27:41,219 --> 01:27:42,262
Were you scared?
1290
01:27:42,610 --> 01:27:44,518
That my boy, brings up
a point of argument.
1291
01:27:45,335 --> 01:27:47,899
When I got back to the camp the
Colonel asked me if I'd run away.
1292
01:27:48,027 --> 01:27:51,224
I said, no sir. But if anybody had
asked me where I was going ..
1293
01:27:51,406 --> 01:27:55,244
And I'd said I was going for the doctor
they'd figure someone was almighty sick.
1294
01:27:59,514 --> 01:28:01,898
- Robert, you've been smoking again.
- Yes, mother.
1295
01:28:02,276 --> 01:28:05,339
I've told you that I will not tolerate
tobacco smoke in my sitting room ..
1296
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:07,201
Or indeed in any part of my house.
1297
01:28:07,616 --> 01:28:11,143
Come, come, Mary. You mustn't
be disrespectful to Harvard man.
1298
01:28:12,434 --> 01:28:14,277
- Smoke it in the woodshed, Bob.
- Yes, father.
1299
01:28:14,356 --> 01:28:16,463
You children run upstairs.
Get ready for your supper.
1300
01:28:16,773 --> 01:28:17,775
Oh, Ma.
1301
01:28:18,014 --> 01:28:19,688
Do as your mother tells you, son.
1302
01:28:24,521 --> 01:28:26,891
- Hello, Mr Speed.
- Hello Tad, hello Sam.
1303
01:28:30,131 --> 01:28:31,133
Say, Abe.
1304
01:28:31,157 --> 01:28:34,242
That delegation arrived in town an hour
ago. They ought to be here any minute.
1305
01:28:34,331 --> 01:28:35,347
What delegation?
1306
01:28:35,538 --> 01:28:38,765
Oh, some prominent politicians
and ministers, several bankers.
1307
01:28:38,951 --> 01:28:40,194
That kind of people.
1308
01:28:40,705 --> 01:28:42,146
What are they coming here for?
1309
01:28:42,363 --> 01:28:46,360
I don't precisely know. I presume it is
to see if I'm fit to be a candidate ..
1310
01:28:46,461 --> 01:28:47,997
For President of The United States.
1311
01:28:48,455 --> 01:28:52,510
I guess they want to see if we live in a
log cabin and keep pigs under the bed.
1312
01:28:52,727 --> 01:28:56,208
- And you didn't tell me?
- I'm sorry, Mary. It slipped my mind.
1313
01:28:57,820 --> 01:29:01,050
You are being considered for the
Presidency but it slipped your mind?
1314
01:29:01,558 --> 01:29:03,290
Oh, if I had only known.
1315
01:29:03,616 --> 01:29:07,312
If you'd only given me time to prepare
for them. Now they'll see us as we are.
1316
01:29:07,579 --> 01:29:12,043
Crude, sloppy western barbarians living
in a house reeking of foul tobacco smoke.
1317
01:29:12,239 --> 01:29:14,092
And your filthy old carpet slippers.
1318
01:29:14,356 --> 01:29:15,688
I declare, Abraham Lincoln ..
1319
01:29:15,887 --> 01:29:19,811
You'd treat me with more consideration
if I were a slave rather than your wife.
1320
01:29:20,218 --> 01:29:22,440
Go this minute and put
some decent boots on.
1321
01:29:23,465 --> 01:29:24,483
Yes, Mary.
1322
01:29:34,141 --> 01:29:35,142
I know, Joshua.
1323
01:29:36,090 --> 01:29:37,092
You think.
1324
01:29:37,542 --> 01:29:40,761
Just as all the others do.
I'm a bitter nagging woman.
1325
01:29:41,743 --> 01:29:44,743
That I've tried to kill his spirit and
dragged him down to my level.
1326
01:29:45,115 --> 01:29:47,344
No, Mary. I think nothing of the kind.
1327
01:29:47,868 --> 01:29:49,403
Remember, I know Abe too.
1328
01:29:52,561 --> 01:29:55,699
He's always had some
obsession of some future doom.
1329
01:29:56,810 --> 01:30:00,914
And for eighteen years I've been
trying and trying to stir him out of it.
1330
01:30:02,030 --> 01:30:03,673
But all my efforts have been like ..
1331
01:30:04,612 --> 01:30:07,238
So many waves dashing
against the rock of ages.
1332
01:30:08,733 --> 01:30:12,823
And now the greatest opportunity comes
to him. Here, right into his own house.
1333
01:30:14,027 --> 01:30:15,046
He must take it.
1334
01:30:15,623 --> 01:30:18,590
He must see that this is
what he was meant to be.
1335
01:30:20,606 --> 01:30:22,156
But I can't persuade him of it.
1336
01:30:23,965 --> 01:30:26,599
I thought that I could help to shape
him as I knew he should be.
1337
01:30:27,839 --> 01:30:30,492
And I've succeeded in
nothing but in breaking myself.
1338
01:30:32,245 --> 01:30:34,720
- Mr Lincoln.
- I've got my boots on, Mary.
1339
01:30:34,965 --> 01:30:38,362
You can receive them in here while I try
to prepare some refreshments for them.
1340
01:30:44,030 --> 01:30:46,188
How do you, Mr Crimmin.
Glad to see you again.
1341
01:30:46,382 --> 01:30:49,301
- Thank you, Mr Lincoln.
- Step into the parlor, gentlemen.
1342
01:30:52,042 --> 01:30:53,043
Come on in, Josh.
1343
01:30:53,142 --> 01:30:55,822
Oh no. You got to face
this out by yourself, Abe.
1344
01:30:56,298 --> 01:30:57,300
Good luck.
1345
01:31:02,372 --> 01:31:04,900
Is it true that they're expecting
to make Abe President?
1346
01:31:05,347 --> 01:31:08,788
How many times have I told you to speak
of your master as "Mister Lincoln"?
1347
01:31:09,026 --> 01:31:10,926
He ain't my master any
more than he is yours.
1348
01:31:11,226 --> 01:31:14,874
Besides, I've known Abe ever since he
wore pants that were nought but patches.
1349
01:31:15,223 --> 01:31:16,699
The kettle is boiling Mrs Lincoln.
1350
01:31:17,670 --> 01:31:19,283
President of The United States?
1351
01:31:19,864 --> 01:31:23,123
If they get him back into Washington
he won't never come out alive.
1352
01:31:26,582 --> 01:31:30,043
I hesitate to mention such a
delicate matter, Mr Lincoln.
1353
01:31:30,256 --> 01:31:31,908
Please don't hesitate, Dr Barrett.
1354
01:31:32,412 --> 01:31:35,311
- There has been some grave doubt about your religious beliefs.
- I know.
1355
01:31:35,411 --> 01:31:39,295
They always called me an atheist because
I've refused to become a church member.
1356
01:31:39,897 --> 01:31:41,262
And why have you refused?
1357
01:31:41,895 --> 01:31:45,279
I have found their articles of
belief too complicated for me.
1358
01:31:46,471 --> 01:31:51,436
But I assure you Dr Barrett that I will
gladly join at any time any church ..
1359
01:31:51,536 --> 01:31:54,092
Whose sole qualification
for membership ..
1360
01:31:54,192 --> 01:31:58,130
Is obedience to the Saviour's own
statement of law and gospel:
1361
01:32:00,297 --> 01:32:03,944
"Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart."
1362
01:32:04,766 --> 01:32:06,213
"With all thy soul."
1363
01:32:07,401 --> 01:32:08,695
"With all thy mind."
1364
01:32:10,223 --> 01:32:13,170
"Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thy self."
1365
01:32:15,736 --> 01:32:17,756
Well now gentlemen,
if you will excuse me.
1366
01:32:17,856 --> 01:32:20,657
I believe Mrs Lincoln is
preparing a slight collation.
1367
01:32:20,913 --> 01:32:22,838
And I must see if I can be of any help.
1368
01:32:25,193 --> 01:32:27,196
Well gentlemen, what's the verdict?
1369
01:32:27,492 --> 01:32:29,053
The man unquestionably is an infidel.
1370
01:32:29,251 --> 01:32:31,704
And a radical. He's as much
of a demagogue as Douglas.
1371
01:32:32,123 --> 01:32:35,119
He is an idealist in a
curious, primitive way.
1372
01:32:35,304 --> 01:32:37,052
He's a rabble-rouser pure and simple.
1373
01:32:37,230 --> 01:32:39,659
In my opinion this man
Lincoln is not safe.
1374
01:32:40,421 --> 01:32:43,135
- What do you mean: Not safe?
- Just that. He's a radical.
1375
01:32:43,455 --> 01:32:46,034
A man who devotes
himself so wholeheartedly ..
1376
01:32:46,134 --> 01:32:49,184
To currying favor with the mob,
develops a mob mentality.
1377
01:32:49,368 --> 01:32:51,207
And what's more,
he evaded our questions.
1378
01:32:51,467 --> 01:32:55,974
Now please gentlemen, I may not know as
much as you of economics and theology.
1379
01:32:56,074 --> 01:32:57,560
But I do know politics.
1380
01:32:58,092 --> 01:33:01,267
And what is the essential quality
that we demand in our candidate?
1381
01:33:01,657 --> 01:33:04,601
It is simply this. That he be
able to get himself elected.
1382
01:33:05,009 --> 01:33:06,656
Well, there's something in what you say.
1383
01:33:06,891 --> 01:33:08,441
And do you think he can do it?
1384
01:33:09,212 --> 01:33:12,080
I tell you gentlemen, in that
uncouth rail-splitter ..
1385
01:33:12,271 --> 01:33:15,446
You may observe one of the
slickest, smoothest politicians ..
1386
01:33:15,729 --> 01:33:17,455
That ever hoodwinked a yokel mob.
1387
01:33:17,948 --> 01:33:19,974
Of course he evaded your questions.
1388
01:33:20,227 --> 01:33:24,303
You ask him about the labor question
and he said: "I believe in democracy".
1389
01:33:25,009 --> 01:33:27,398
You asked him about
religion and he replied:
1390
01:33:27,745 --> 01:33:29,700
"Love thy neighbor as thyself."
1391
01:33:30,324 --> 01:33:33,036
Now you know you couldn't
argue with that. Any of you.
1392
01:33:33,724 --> 01:33:36,987
The voters will love him because
he's just as common as they are.
1393
01:33:37,530 --> 01:33:39,548
A plain, homespun American.
1394
01:33:39,962 --> 01:33:41,443
His very name is right.
1395
01:33:41,971 --> 01:33:43,651
Honest old Abe.
1396
01:33:44,251 --> 01:33:45,757
He'll play the game with us now ..
1397
01:33:45,857 --> 01:33:48,662
And he'll go right on playing it after
we get him into the White House.
1398
01:33:49,048 --> 01:33:50,840
He will do just what we tell him.
1399
01:33:51,057 --> 01:33:52,058
Look, Mr Crimmin.
1400
01:33:52,763 --> 01:33:55,347
Now gentlemen, if you will
step into the dining room ..
1401
01:33:55,447 --> 01:33:58,037
Mrs Lincoln will be pleased
to serve you with a cup of tea.
1402
01:33:58,275 --> 01:34:00,606
- Thank you.
- Well, this is most gracious.
1403
01:34:03,317 --> 01:34:05,265
Bring your cigar with you, Mr Crimmin.
1404
01:34:05,669 --> 01:34:06,772
Thank you. Thank you.
1405
01:34:46,780 --> 01:34:50,066
- Does Mr Lincoln seem to be worrying any?
- No. He's in there reading a newspaper.
1406
01:34:55,374 --> 01:34:57,243
Lincoln and Douglas
neck-and-neck in Illinois.
1407
01:34:57,908 --> 01:34:59,871
Maryland is going all for
Bell and Breck in ridge.
1408
01:34:59,932 --> 01:35:01,550
Abe, you're not doing fair in Maryland.
1409
01:35:02,122 --> 01:35:05,631
I see the New York Herald says
I got the soul of Uriah Heep ..
1410
01:35:06,045 --> 01:35:08,056
Cased in the body of a baboon.
1411
01:35:09,519 --> 01:35:10,937
What does it say about New York?
1412
01:35:11,357 --> 01:35:13,750
Douglas 117,000. Lincoln 106,000.
1413
01:35:14,198 --> 01:35:15,816
He's winning over you in New York, Abe.
1414
01:35:15,919 --> 01:35:18,684
Not yet, Mary. These returns so far
are coming mostly from the city ..
1415
01:35:18,708 --> 01:35:20,499
Where Douglas is bound
to run the strongest.
1416
01:35:20,997 --> 01:35:22,802
What's it look like in
Pennsylvania, Ninian?
1417
01:35:22,902 --> 01:35:25,347
There's nothing to worry about
there, Mary. It's safe for Abe.
1418
01:35:25,678 --> 01:35:27,473
In fact there is no
need to worry at all.
1419
01:35:27,573 --> 01:35:30,617
Yes, you've said that over and over all
evening. There is no need to worry.
1420
01:35:31,208 --> 01:35:34,025
How can we help worrying when every
new bulletin shows Douglas ahead?
1421
01:35:34,270 --> 01:35:35,950
But every one of them shows Abe gaining.
1422
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:39,325
Let 'em count all the votes in New York.
You'll be on the way to the White house.
1423
01:35:39,349 --> 01:35:41,713
Why don't they hurry with it?
When do those returns come in?
1424
01:35:41,737 --> 01:35:43,096
They'll come in soon enough.
1425
01:35:44,604 --> 01:35:45,858
Telegram from New York.
1426
01:35:45,959 --> 01:35:50,278
Mr Belmont states Mr Douglas has filed a
majority 50,000 votes in New York City.
1427
01:35:55,023 --> 01:35:56,310
Ah, shut up!
1428
01:35:57,030 --> 01:35:58,464
The mob down there is sickening.
1429
01:35:58,728 --> 01:36:02,014
Cheering every bulletin that's splashed
on the wall whether good news or bad.
1430
01:36:02,259 --> 01:36:05,686
And they cheer every picture of every
candidate including George Washington ..
1431
01:36:05,786 --> 01:36:08,197
With the same fine ignorant enthusiasm.
1432
01:36:08,672 --> 01:36:10,234
Maybe they can't tell the difference.
1433
01:36:10,783 --> 01:36:13,257
The reporters are outside, Mr Lincoln.
They want to know ..
1434
01:36:13,797 --> 01:36:16,528
What will be your first official
action after you are elected.
1435
01:36:17,038 --> 01:36:20,339
- What do you want us tell them, Abe?
- Say I'm thinking of growing a beard.
1436
01:36:20,536 --> 01:36:21,538
A what?
1437
01:36:21,585 --> 01:36:23,174
Whatever put that idea in your head?
1438
01:36:23,438 --> 01:36:27,229
I had a letter from a little girl saying
whiskers would give me more dignity.
1439
01:36:27,518 --> 01:36:28,942
And I'll need it if elected.
1440
01:36:29,188 --> 01:36:31,454
"Missouri. Douglas 35,000."
1441
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:34,440
"Dell 33, Breck in ridge 16."
1442
01:36:34,929 --> 01:36:35,930
"Lincoln 8."
1443
01:36:40,510 --> 01:36:42,834
Mr Lincoln, you're being them
beaten badly in Rhode Island.
1444
01:36:43,279 --> 01:36:45,593
- What are they cheering for?
- They don't know.
1445
01:36:46,682 --> 01:36:49,032
The Chicago Times says:
"Lincoln breaks down".
1446
01:36:49,314 --> 01:36:52,676
"His heart fails him, his tongue
fails him, his legs failed him."
1447
01:36:53,069 --> 01:36:54,142
"He fails all over."
1448
01:36:54,427 --> 01:36:56,208
"Douglas skins the living dog."
1449
01:37:00,351 --> 01:37:01,353
Stop it!
1450
01:37:03,228 --> 01:37:04,736
I can't stand it any longer.
1451
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:08,250
Yes my dear. I think you should
go home. I'll join you presently.
1452
01:37:08,824 --> 01:37:09,826
I won't go home.
1453
01:37:10,065 --> 01:37:11,426
You only want to be rid of me.
1454
01:37:11,663 --> 01:37:13,948
That's all you wanted, ever
since the day we were married.
1455
01:37:14,004 --> 01:37:17,419
And before that, anything to get me out
of your sight because you hate me.
1456
01:37:18,648 --> 01:37:21,296
And it's the same with all of you.
All his friends. You hate me.
1457
01:37:21,616 --> 01:37:23,768
- You wish I'd never come into his life.
- No, ma'am.
1458
01:37:25,327 --> 01:37:27,226
Will you all please
step out for a minute.
1459
01:37:42,316 --> 01:37:46,697
Why do you use every opportunity you can
to make a public fool me and yourself?
1460
01:37:48,210 --> 01:37:50,976
It's bad enough when you act like
that in the privacy of our own home.
1461
01:37:51,002 --> 01:37:52,323
But here in front of people?
1462
01:37:54,822 --> 01:37:56,773
You are not to do that
again, do you hear.
1463
01:37:57,488 --> 01:37:59,217
You are never to do that again.
1464
01:38:01,575 --> 01:38:03,354
You've never spoke
to me like that before.
1465
01:38:05,238 --> 01:38:06,570
You've lost your temper, Abe.
1466
01:38:08,601 --> 01:38:09,961
You've never done that before.
1467
01:38:11,147 --> 01:38:12,149
I'm sorry.
1468
01:38:14,157 --> 01:38:15,717
I still think you should go home ..
1469
01:38:15,817 --> 01:38:19,689
Rather than stay here and endure
the strain of this death-watch.
1470
01:38:37,892 --> 01:38:40,602
This is the night I dreamed
about when I was a child.
1471
01:38:42,237 --> 01:38:43,870
When I was an excited young girl ..
1472
01:38:43,970 --> 01:38:46,894
And all the gay young gentlemen
in Springfield were courting me.
1473
01:38:48,447 --> 01:38:50,630
And I fell in love with
the least likely of them.
1474
01:38:53,036 --> 01:38:55,752
This is the night I'm waiting to
hear my husband has become ..
1475
01:38:55,852 --> 01:38:57,497
President of The United States.
1476
01:38:59,190 --> 01:39:00,412
And even if he does.
1477
01:39:02,758 --> 01:39:03,963
It's ruined for me.
1478
01:39:06,350 --> 01:39:07,351
It's too late.
1479
01:39:36,551 --> 01:39:38,135
- Is mother alright?
- Yes, son.
1480
01:39:38,482 --> 01:39:40,606
- She's gone home. You better go with her.
- Yes, sir.
1481
01:39:41,772 --> 01:39:43,876
It looks like 74 electoral votes.
1482
01:39:44,335 --> 01:39:45,337
Sure for you.
1483
01:39:45,524 --> 01:39:47,078
And 27 more probably.
1484
01:39:47,740 --> 01:39:49,347
New York will give you the election.
1485
01:39:50,493 --> 01:39:52,082
Mark my words, Mr Lincoln.
1486
01:39:52,490 --> 01:39:55,181
This election is wrapped up
tightly in a neat bundle ..
1487
01:39:55,281 --> 01:39:57,466
Ready to deliver on
your doorstep tonight.
1488
01:39:57,744 --> 01:39:59,669
We fought the good fight and we won.
1489
01:40:00,188 --> 01:40:01,490
We fought the good fight.
1490
01:40:02,197 --> 01:40:05,438
The dirtiest campaign in the
history of corrupt politics.
1491
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:07,440
And if I win.
1492
01:40:07,980 --> 01:40:12,016
I must fulfil all the dishonest
pledges made in my name.
1493
01:40:23,409 --> 01:40:26,876
You gentlemen have all been friends
of our candidate for a long time.
1494
01:40:27,281 --> 01:40:30,718
So possibly you can answer a question
that has been puzzling me considerably.
1495
01:40:31,301 --> 01:40:34,533
Can I possibly be correct in supposing
that he doesn't want to win?
1496
01:40:35,014 --> 01:40:36,213
The answer is yes.
1497
01:40:37,301 --> 01:40:41,886
Well, I can only say that for me this
is all a refreshingly new experience.
1498
01:40:42,444 --> 01:40:45,169
Would you want to become President
of The United States at this time?
1499
01:40:45,193 --> 01:40:46,770
Haven't you read the newspapers lately?
1500
01:40:46,870 --> 01:40:49,341
Why yes. I try to follow
the events of the day.
1501
01:40:49,572 --> 01:40:52,952
Don't you realize that they've raised
10,000 volunteers in South Carolina?
1502
01:40:53,052 --> 01:40:55,333
They are armed. The governor
has issued a proclamation ..
1503
01:40:55,433 --> 01:40:58,158
Saying that if Mr Lincoln is elected,
the State will secede tomorrow.
1504
01:40:58,402 --> 01:41:00,986
And every other State south of
the Dixon line will go with it.
1505
01:41:01,719 --> 01:41:03,165
Can you see what that means?
1506
01:41:03,539 --> 01:41:05,020
War. Civil war.
1507
01:41:06,642 --> 01:41:09,565
He'll have the whole terrible
responsibility for it.
1508
01:41:10,273 --> 01:41:14,771
The man who's never wanted anything in
his life but to be let alone in peace.
1509
01:41:15,212 --> 01:41:16,214
Calm down, Billy.
1510
01:41:17,279 --> 01:41:18,639
Go get yourself another drink.
1511
01:41:19,302 --> 01:41:20,860
Mr Edwards, here it is!
1512
01:41:23,538 --> 01:41:26,433
"At 10:30 tonight the New York
Herald conceded that Mr Lincoln .."
1513
01:41:26,533 --> 01:41:31,345
"Had carried the State by a majority
of 25,000 and had won the election!"
1514
01:41:47,916 --> 01:41:50,982
Listen to 'em, Abe. Listen to that
crazy howling mob down there.
1515
01:41:51,337 --> 01:41:52,958
That's all for you, Mr Lincoln.
1516
01:41:53,340 --> 01:41:55,410
Abe .. Get out there and
make them a speech.
1517
01:41:57,529 --> 01:41:59,043
No, I don't want to go out there.
1518
01:42:02,190 --> 01:42:03,998
I think I'll go home and tell Mary.
1519
01:42:12,419 --> 01:42:14,733
This is Captain Kavanagh, Mr President.
1520
01:42:15,375 --> 01:42:18,380
I've been detailed to accompany you,
Mr Lincoln in the event you're elected.
1521
01:42:18,958 --> 01:42:21,168
I am grateful to you, Captain.
But I don't need you.
1522
01:42:22,456 --> 01:42:23,959
You had better have us, sir. Sorry.
1523
01:42:24,711 --> 01:42:26,015
I don't want to be alarming.
1524
01:42:26,927 --> 01:42:29,837
I guess you know as well as I do that
threats are made against your life.
1525
01:42:39,249 --> 01:42:40,251
Goodnight, Josh.
1526
01:42:40,844 --> 01:42:43,011
Ninian, Mr Crimmin.
1527
01:42:43,827 --> 01:42:44,829
Billy.
1528
01:42:47,726 --> 01:42:48,727
Thank you.
1529
01:42:50,026 --> 01:42:52,664
One moment, sir.
With your permission, I'll go first.
1530
01:44:04,247 --> 01:44:06,323
Steve, it's good of you to come.
1531
01:44:06,496 --> 01:44:09,076
Abe, you and I have been
adversaries for a good many years.
1532
01:44:09,407 --> 01:44:12,193
We've indulged in mortal combat
on every conceivable issue.
1533
01:44:12,607 --> 01:44:14,753
But now, you are
President of The United States.
1534
01:44:15,415 --> 01:44:17,575
And I want you to know
that I'm fighting with you.
1535
01:44:18,620 --> 01:44:20,758
Steve, you're a good generous man.
1536
01:44:31,990 --> 01:44:32,991
Speech!
1537
01:44:33,216 --> 01:44:34,217
Speech!
1538
01:44:34,258 --> 01:44:35,718
- Say something, Abe.
- Speech!
1539
01:44:36,504 --> 01:44:38,137
They want you to say something, Abe.
1540
01:44:42,823 --> 01:44:45,799
My dear friends, I have to
say goodbye to you now.
1541
01:44:46,178 --> 01:44:50,387
Leaving for Washington with my new
whiskers of which I hope you approve.
1542
01:44:53,972 --> 01:44:57,965
No, no Lieutenant! Let them come on.
They are all old friends of mine.
1543
01:45:10,456 --> 01:45:12,939
No-one not in my situation ..
1544
01:45:13,039 --> 01:45:16,585
Can appreciate my feelings
of sadness at this parting.
1545
01:45:17,883 --> 01:45:21,615
To this place and the kindness
of you people, I owe everything.
1546
01:45:23,107 --> 01:45:28,013
I now leave not knowing when
or whether ever I may return.
1547
01:45:28,773 --> 01:45:31,199
It is a grave duty that I must face.
1548
01:45:31,852 --> 01:45:33,335
In preparing for it.
1549
01:45:33,867 --> 01:45:35,523
I have tried to enquire.
1550
01:45:36,195 --> 01:45:39,306
What great principle or ideal it is ..
1551
01:45:40,129 --> 01:45:43,503
Which has kept this
Union so long together.
1552
01:45:44,774 --> 01:45:46,980
And I believe that it was not ..
1553
01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:51,425
The mere matter of separation of
the colonies from the motherland.
1554
01:45:52,698 --> 01:45:56,918
But that sentiment in the
Declaration of Independence.
1555
01:45:57,440 --> 01:46:01,043
Which gave liberty to the
people of this country.
1556
01:46:02,168 --> 01:46:04,437
And hope to all the world.
1557
01:46:05,312 --> 01:46:07,441
We gained democracy.
1558
01:46:08,238 --> 01:46:12,327
And there is now doubt
whether it is fit to survive.
1559
01:46:14,571 --> 01:46:16,578
I've heard an Eastern monarch ..
1560
01:46:16,678 --> 01:46:19,868
Who once charged his wise men
to invent him a sentence ..
1561
01:46:20,176 --> 01:46:24,682
Which should be true and appropriate
at all times and situations.
1562
01:46:26,426 --> 01:46:28,573
They presented him with the words:
1563
01:46:29,998 --> 01:46:33,193
"And this too shall pass away."
1564
01:46:35,471 --> 01:46:38,731
That's a comforting thought
in times of affliction.
1565
01:46:39,919 --> 01:46:42,879
And this too shall pass away.
1566
01:46:45,177 --> 01:46:46,178
Yet.
1567
01:46:47,626 --> 01:46:50,375
Let us believe that it is not true.
1568
01:46:52,135 --> 01:46:57,753
Let us live to prove that we can
cultivate the natural world around us.
1569
01:46:58,972 --> 01:47:02,984
And the intellectual and
moral world within us.
1570
01:47:04,330 --> 01:47:08,172
So that we may secure an individual ..
1571
01:47:08,622 --> 01:47:09,635
Social ..
1572
01:47:10,759 --> 01:47:13,400
And political prosperity.
1573
01:47:14,742 --> 01:47:17,233
Whose course shall be forward.
1574
01:47:19,119 --> 01:47:22,803
And which while this earth endures ..
1575
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:25,655
Shall not pass away.
1576
01:47:29,658 --> 01:47:32,140
I commend you to the
care of the Almighty.
1577
01:47:34,101 --> 01:47:37,421
And I hope in your prayers
you may remember me.
1578
01:47:40,780 --> 01:47:42,201
Friends, one and all.
1579
01:47:43,021 --> 01:47:46,784
I must now bid you an
affectionate farewell.
1580
01:47:54,973 --> 01:48:00,790
"Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord."
1581
01:48:01,120 --> 01:48:02,122
Bye, Abe.
1582
01:48:02,266 --> 01:48:08,240
"He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored."
1583
01:48:08,555 --> 01:48:14,633
"He hath loosed the fateful
lightning of His terrible swift sword."
1584
01:48:14,933 --> 01:48:19,627
"His truth is marching on."
1585
01:48:21,905 --> 01:48:27,136
"Glory, Glory, hallelujah!"
1586
01:48:28,114 --> 01:48:33,016
"Glory, Glory, hallelujah!"
1587
01:48:34,397 --> 01:48:39,161
"Glory, Glory, hallelujah!"
1588
01:48:40,252 --> 01:48:45,300
"His truth is marching on."
1589
01:48:46,628 --> 01:48:51,665
"Glory, Glory, hallelujah!"
1590
01:48:52,092 --> 01:48:57,935
"His truth is marching on."
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