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Mr. Adams!
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Mr. Adams!
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There you are.
Didn't you hear me call you, Mr. Adams?
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You could've shouted down something,
saved me climbing up four flights.
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A man that likes to talk
as much as you do, I'd think...
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What do you keep coming
up here for, Mr. Adams?
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Afraid someone's
going to steal our bell?
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Well, don't worry.
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Been here more than 14 years
and ain't been carried off once.
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Better get yourself
back down to Congress, Mr. Adams.
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Getting ready to vote,
and they said...
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they couldn't settle
such an important question...
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without Massachusetts
being there.
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I can just imagine.
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All right, what burning issue
are we voting on this time?
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On whether or not to grant
General Washington's request...
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that all members of the Rhode Island
militia be required...
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to wear matching uniforms.
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Oh, good God.
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I have come to the conclusion
that one useless man...
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is called a disgrace...
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that two are called
a law firm...
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and that three or more
become a Congress.
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And by God,
I have had this Congress.
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For ten years,
King George and his parliament...
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have gulled, cullied and diddled these
colonies with their illegal taxes...
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Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts,
Sugar Acts, Tea Acts.
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And when we dared
stand up like men...
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they have stopped our trade,
seized our ships...
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blockaded our ports,
burned our towns...
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and spilled our blood.
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And still this Congress refuses to grant
any of my proposals on independence...
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even so much as the courtesy
of open debate.
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Good God, what in the hell
are you waiting for?
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Sit down, John
Sit down, John
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- Thomas, for God's sake, listen to me.
- For God's sake, John, sit down
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- Sit down, John
- I've had enough of you.
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Sit down, John
For God's sake, John, sit down
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- Now, listen...
- Why not open up a window
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- Listen to me and forget the window.
- It's 90 degrees
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Have mercy, John, please
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It's hot as hell
in Philadelphia
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Someone ought
to open up a window
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I say vote yes
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Vote yes
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Vote for independency
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Someone ought
to open up a window
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I say vote yes
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Sit down, John
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Vote for independency
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Someone ought
to open up a window
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Too many flies
Too many flies
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But it's hot as hell
in Philadelphia
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- Are you gonna open up a window
- Can't we compromise here
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Vote yes
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No, too many flies here
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Vote yes
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Oh, for God's sake, John
sit down
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Good God.
Consider yourselves fortunate...
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that you haveJohn Adams to abuse,
for no sane man would tolerate it.
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John, you're a bore
We've heard this before
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Now, for God's sake, John
sit down
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I say vote yes
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Vote yes
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Vote for independency
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Someone ought
to open up a window
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I say vote yes
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Sit down, John
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Vote for independency
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Will someone shut that man up
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Never!
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Never!
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Dear God.
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For one solid year they have
been sitting here a whole year...
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doing nothing.
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I do believe you've laid a curse
on North America
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A curse that we here now rehearse
in Philadelphia
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A second flood
a simple famine
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Plagues of locusts
everywhere
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Or a cataclysmic earthquake
I'd accept with some despair
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But no
you've sent us Congress
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Good God, sir, was that fair
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I say this with humility
In Philadelphia
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We're your responsability
in Philadelphia
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If you don't want to see us
hanging from some far-off British hill
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If you don't want the voice
of independency forever still
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Then God, sir.
Get thee to it
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for Congress never will
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You see, we piddle
twiddle and resolve
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Not one damn thing
do we solve
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Piddle, twiddle and resolve
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Nothing's ever solved
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In foul, fetid, fuming
foggy, filthy
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Philadelphia
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Someone ought
to open up a window
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Oh, shut up!
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I now call Congress attention
to the petition of Mr. Melkey O'May
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Who claims 20 dollars
compensation for his dead mule
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It seems the animal was employed transporting
luggage in the service of Congress
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The question then
would appear to be one of the case
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or if the mule expired
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not by her carry
but after being unlooked
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then clearly the beast
drop dead on its own time.
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Oh, good God.
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They may sit here for years and years
in Philadelphia
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These indecisive grenadiers
of Philadelphia.
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They can't agree on what is right
or wrong or what is good or bad
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I'm convinced the only purpose
these congress ever had
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Was to gather here specifically
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to drive John Adams mad.
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You see, we piddle
twiddle and resolve
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Not one damn thing
do we solve
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Piddle, twiddle and resolve
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Nothing's ever solved
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In foul, fetid, fuming
foggy, filthy
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- Philadelphia.
- John, John
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Is that you carrying on, John
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Oh, Abigail, Abigail, I have such
a desire to knock heads together.
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Then why in heaven's name
do you stay there?
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Come home to Boston, John.
It's only 300 miles.
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If you left tonight,
you could be here in only eight days.
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How can I do that, Abigail?
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I'm no further along now
than I was when I first came here.
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I know, my dearest. I know.
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But that's because you make
everything so complicated.
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It's all quite simple, really.
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Just tell the Congress
to declare
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Independency
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Then sign your name
get out of there
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And hurry home to me
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Our children
all have dysentery
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Little Tom
keeps turning blue
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Little Abby has the measles
and I'm coming down with flu
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They say we may get smallpox
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Madam, what else is new?
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Abigail, in my last letter,
I wrote you...
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that the king had collected 12,000
German mercenaries to send against us.
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I asked you to organize the ladies
to make saltpeter for gunpowder.
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- Now, have you done as I asked?
- No, John, I have not.
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Well, why have you not?
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Because you neglected to tell us
how saltpeter is made.
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By treating sodium nitrate
with potassium chloride, of course.
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- Oh, yes, of course.
- Will it be done, then?
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John, I'm afraid we have
a more urgent problem.
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More urgent, madam?
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There's one thing every woman's missed
in Massachusetts Bay
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Don't smirk at me
you egotist
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Pay heed to what I say
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We've gone from Framingham to Boston
and we cannot find a pin
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''Don't you know there's a war on"
says the tradesman with a grin
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Well, we will
not make saltpeter
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Until you send us pins
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Pins, madam? Saltpeter.
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- Pins.
- Saltpeter.
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- Pins. Pins. Pins.
- 'Peter. 'Peter. 'Peter.
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Done, madam, done.
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Done, John.
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- Hurry home, John.
- As soon as I'm able.
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Don't stop writing.
It's all I have.
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Every day, my dearest friend.
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Till then
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I am
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As I ever was
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And ever shall be
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Yours
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Saltpeter
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John
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Pins
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Abigail
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For God's sake, John
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Sit down
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Franklin!
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Franklin!
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Where in hell are you?
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I see you hiding behind that tree.
It won't do you any good.
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Damn it, this is no time
for playing games.
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Franklin, I have been looking
everywhere for you.
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Where in God's name
have you been?
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Right here, John,
being preserved for posterity.
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Do you like it?
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- It stinks.
- As ever, the soul of tact.
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- Well, the man's no Botticelli.
- And the subject's no Venus.
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Where were you last night
when I needed you?
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You should have heard
what I suffered in there.
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I heard, all right,
along with the rest of Philadelphia.
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Lord, your voice
is piercing, John.
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Well, I wish to heaven
my arguments were.
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My God, Franklin, when are they
going to make up their minds?
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With one hand
they can raise an army
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dispatch one of their own to lead it
and cheer the news from Bunker's Hill...
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and with the other,
they wave the olive branch...
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begging the king for a happy
and permanent reconciliation.
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Fat George has declared us
in rebellion.
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- Why in bloody hell can't they?
- John, really.
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You talk as if independence
were the rule.
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It's never been done before.
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No colony has ever broken from the
parent stem in the history of the world.
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Damn it, Franklin,
you make us sound treasonous.
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Do I? Treason, eh?
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"Treason is a charge
invented by winners...
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as an excuse
for hanging the losers."
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I have more to do than stand here
listening to you quote yourself.
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No, that was a new one.
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Damn it, Franklin,
we're at war.
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To defend ourselves,
nothing more.
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We expressed our displeasure,
the English moved against us...
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and we in turn have resisted.
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Now our fellow congressmen
want to effect a reconciliation...
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- before it becomes a war.
- Reconciliation, my ass.
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The people want independence.
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The people have read
Mr. Paine's "Common Sense."
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- I doubt very much Congress has.
- That's true.
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John, why don't you give it up?
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Nobody listens to you.
You're obnoxious and disliked.
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I'm not promoting John Adams.
I'm promoting independence.
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Evidently, they cannot
help connecting the two.
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Even your own cousin.
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And if Sam Adams can't put up
with you, nobody can.
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You're getting at something.
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How can you tell?
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All right, out with it, Franklin.
What new intrigue are you cooking up?
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Let someone else
in Congress propose.
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Never!
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Why? Who did you have in mind?
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I don't know.
I really haven't given it much thought.
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You sent for me, Benjamin?
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- Never.
- Hello, Johnny!
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Richard.
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Johnny and I need some advice.
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- If it's mine to give, it's yours.
- Thank you, Richard.
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The cause that we support
has come to a complete standstill.
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- Why do you suppose that is?
- Simple.
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- Johnny here is obnoxious and disliked.
- That's true.
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What's the solution, I wonder?
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Get somebody else
in Congress to propose.
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Oh, Richard, that's brilliant.
Wasn't that brilliant, John?
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- Brilliant.
- The question remains who can it be.
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The man that we need
must belong to a delegation...
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publicly committed
to support independence.
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At the present time, only Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Delaware...
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- have declared our way.
- And Virginia. Don't forget Virginia.
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Richard, I haven't.
How could I?
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But strictly speaking, while Virginia's
views on independence are well known...
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your legislature in Williamsburg
has never formerly authorized...
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its delegation here in Congress
to support the cause.
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If we could think of a Virginian with
enough influence to go down there...
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- and persuade the House of Burgesses...
- I've thought of someone!
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- Who?
- Me.
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00:17:10,087 --> 00:17:13,288
- Well, why didn't I think of that?
- I'll leave tonight.
250
00:17:13,361 --> 00:17:15,924
Why, hell, I'll leave right now,
if you like.
251
00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,995
I'll just stop off in Stratford
long enough to refresh the missus...
252
00:17:19,072 --> 00:17:21,474
and then straight to the matter.
253
00:17:21,544 --> 00:17:24,448
Yes, sir, I really have to compliment
you on your judgment, Johnny.
254
00:17:24,516 --> 00:17:25,951
Whoa, boy. Steady.
255
00:17:26,020 --> 00:17:28,617
You've come to the one colony
that can get the job done.
256
00:17:28,692 --> 00:17:32,187
Virginia, the land that gave us
our glorious commander-in-chief...
257
00:17:33,134 --> 00:17:34,397
George Washington...
258
00:17:34,469 --> 00:17:37,464
will now give the continent
its proposal on independence.
259
00:17:37,542 --> 00:17:41,004
And when Virginia proposes,
the South is bound to follow.
260
00:17:41,083 --> 00:17:44,523
And where the South goes,
the middle colonies go.
261
00:17:44,591 --> 00:17:46,754
Gentlemen, a salute.
262
00:17:46,828 --> 00:17:50,392
To Virginia,
the mother of American independence.
263
00:17:50,468 --> 00:17:53,771
Incredible. We're free
and he hasn't even left yet.
264
00:17:53,842 --> 00:17:56,279
What makes you so sure
you can do it?
265
00:17:57,650 --> 00:18:01,681
My name is Richard Henry Lee
Virginia is my home
266
00:18:01,758 --> 00:18:07,133
My name is Richard Henry Lee
Virginia is my home
267
00:18:07,202 --> 00:18:11,644
And may my horses turn to glue
if I can't deliver unto you
268
00:18:11,711 --> 00:18:15,947
The resolution
on independency
269
00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:18,491
For I am FFV
270
00:18:18,558 --> 00:18:20,186
The first family
271
00:18:20,261 --> 00:18:23,678
in the sovereign colony
of Virginia
272
00:18:24,237 --> 00:18:25,900
Yes, the FFV
273
00:18:26,708 --> 00:18:27,994
The oldest family
274
00:18:28,578 --> 00:18:32,060
In the oldest colony in America
275
00:18:32,260 --> 00:18:34,452
And may the British
burn my land
276
00:18:34,524 --> 00:18:36,495
If I can't deliver
to your hand
277
00:18:36,563 --> 00:18:40,093
A resolution on independency
278
00:18:40,169 --> 00:18:43,141
You see, it's here a Lee
there a Lee
279
00:18:43,208 --> 00:18:45,178
And everywhere a Lee, Lee
280
00:18:45,246 --> 00:18:46,236
- Social
- Lee
281
00:18:46,315 --> 00:18:47,248
- Political
- Lee
282
00:18:47,317 --> 00:18:49,310
- Financial, natural
- Lee, Lee
283
00:18:49,388 --> 00:18:51,324
- Internal, external
- Lee, Lee
284
00:18:51,392 --> 00:18:52,325
- Fraternal
- Lee
285
00:18:52,394 --> 00:18:53,657
- Eternal
- Lee
286
00:18:53,730 --> 00:18:55,632
The FFV
287
00:18:55,701 --> 00:18:57,432
The first family
288
00:18:57,504 --> 00:19:01,204
In the sovereign colony
of Virginia
289
00:19:01,278 --> 00:19:03,545
And may my wife
refuse my bed
290
00:19:03,617 --> 00:19:05,587
If I can't deliver
as I said
291
00:19:05,654 --> 00:19:09,355
A resolution on independency
292
00:19:09,428 --> 00:19:12,297
Spoken modest-Lee.
God help him.
293
00:19:12,368 --> 00:19:14,360
Oh, he will, John.
He will.
294
00:19:14,438 --> 00:19:17,900
They say that God in heaven
is everybody's God
295
00:19:17,979 --> 00:19:20,449
- Amen
- I'll admit that God in heaven
296
00:19:20,517 --> 00:19:24,287
Is everybody's God
297
00:19:24,358 --> 00:19:26,760
But I tell you, John
with pride
298
00:19:26,829 --> 00:19:30,165
God leans a little
on the side of the Lees
299
00:19:30,236 --> 00:19:32,834
The Lees of old Virginia
300
00:19:32,909 --> 00:19:35,311
You see, it's here a Lee
there a Lee
301
00:19:35,380 --> 00:19:37,646
And everywhere a Lee, a Lee
302
00:19:37,718 --> 00:19:40,918
Here a Lee, there a Lee
and everywhere a Lee
303
00:19:40,991 --> 00:19:43,792
Look out, there's Arthur Lee
Bobby Lee
304
00:19:43,863 --> 00:19:45,993
General Lighthorse Harry Lee
305
00:19:46,069 --> 00:19:47,834
Willie Lee, Jesse Lee
306
00:19:47,906 --> 00:19:49,739
- And Richard H.
- That's me.
307
00:19:49,810 --> 00:19:53,579
And may my blood
stop running blue
308
00:19:53,650 --> 00:19:58,820
If I can't deliver unto you
the resolution on independency
309
00:19:58,893 --> 00:20:02,128
Yes, sir, my God
it's here a Lee, there a Lee
310
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:04,228
Come on, boys!
Join in with me!
311
00:20:04,305 --> 00:20:07,004
- Here a Lee, there a Lee
- When do you leave?
312
00:20:07,077 --> 00:20:08,340
Immediate-Lee
313
00:20:08,413 --> 00:20:11,283
- Here a Lee, there a Lee
- When will you return?
314
00:20:11,352 --> 00:20:12,479
Short-Lee
315
00:20:12,554 --> 00:20:16,325
Here a Lee, there a Lee
and I'll come back triumphant-Lee
316
00:20:16,396 --> 00:20:20,734
Here a Lee, there a Lee
everywhere a Lee, a Lee
317
00:20:20,805 --> 00:20:23,173
Forward
318
00:20:23,243 --> 00:20:28,846
On
319
00:20:33,946 --> 00:20:38,000
That was the most revolting
display a have ever witnessed
320
00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:39,705
They are warm blooded people,
Virginians.
321
00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:41,662
Oh, not him Franklin, you
322
00:20:42,162 --> 00:20:44,662
You and your infernal obsession
for deviousness
323
00:20:44,862 --> 00:20:47,962
Now if you come straight and ask
the man he'd be gone half hour ago
324
00:20:48,162 --> 00:20:49,750
Yes and he would be doing us a favor
325
00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:51,250
Cheer up John
326
00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:53,214
At this very moment our cause
is again riding high
327
00:20:53,683 --> 00:20:56,373
Sittin' straight in the saddle
and full gallop for Virginia
328
00:20:56,673 --> 00:21:00,433
And a women are serene,
329
00:21:00,834 --> 00:21:03,418
- Oh, good God
- Full-bosomed
330
00:21:04,645 --> 00:21:07,054
full-bosomed
331
00:21:07,378 --> 00:21:11,662
Full-bosomed Benji
Everyone a queen
332
00:21:11,906 --> 00:21:14,312
Why they are Lees, dammit
333
00:21:14,412 --> 00:21:16,396
Lees of old Virginia
334
00:21:16,596 --> 00:21:18,243
Yes, sir! By God. It's here a Lee
335
00:21:18,443 --> 00:21:19,412
There a Lee
336
00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:21,531
Come on, John snuffle that old Lee
337
00:21:21,731 --> 00:21:25,328
Here a Lee, there a Lee
everywhere a Lee, a Lee
338
00:21:25,528 --> 00:21:29,046
Here a Lee, there a Lee
everywhere a Lee, a Lee
339
00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,114
Forward
340
00:21:31,481 --> 00:21:35,714
On
341
00:22:04,185 --> 00:22:06,849
- Excuse me.
- Yes?
342
00:22:06,924 --> 00:22:10,728
I'm Dr. Lyman Hall,
the new delegate from Georgia.
343
00:22:10,798 --> 00:22:13,929
I'm Andrew McNair,
congressional custodian.
344
00:22:14,004 --> 00:22:17,068
If you'll be wanting anything at all,
just holler out "McNair"...
345
00:22:17,145 --> 00:22:21,245
as all the others do
and there won't be too long to wait.
346
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,156
Where does the Georgia
delegation belong?
347
00:22:24,225 --> 00:22:28,187
They mill about over in that corner
near the two Carolinas.
348
00:22:33,979 --> 00:22:36,006
It's after 10:00.
349
00:22:36,083 --> 00:22:38,178
I was told Congress
convenes at ten.
350
00:22:38,253 --> 00:22:41,282
Well, they'll be wandering in
any time now, sir...
351
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,593
with Old Grape 'n Guts
leading the pack.
352
00:22:43,665 --> 00:22:45,567
- Old who?
- McNair!
353
00:22:45,635 --> 00:22:47,228
Grape 'N Guts.
354
00:22:47,305 --> 00:22:49,070
'Nair!
355
00:22:50,144 --> 00:22:51,635
Fetch me a rum.
356
00:22:51,713 --> 00:22:55,778
Mr. Hopkins, you'll be pleased
to meet Dr. Lyman Hall.
357
00:22:57,159 --> 00:22:59,094
I don't need a doctor, damn it.
358
00:22:59,162 --> 00:23:01,325
New delegate from Georgia.
359
00:23:01,401 --> 00:23:04,304
Well, why didn't you say so?
360
00:23:04,372 --> 00:23:08,278
I'm Stephen Hopkins,
old delegate from Rhode Island.
361
00:23:08,347 --> 00:23:12,584
- McNair, fetch two rums.
- I fear it's a little early in the day.
362
00:23:14,927 --> 00:23:16,590
Nonsense.
363
00:23:16,664 --> 00:23:20,695
It's a medicinal fact that rum gets
a man's heart started in the morning.
364
00:23:22,341 --> 00:23:24,607
I'm surprised
you didn't know that.
365
00:23:24,679 --> 00:23:27,481
Speaking as the oldest man in the
Congress, I can tell you right now...
366
00:23:27,553 --> 00:23:30,354
Ben Franklin is older
by almost a year.
367
00:23:30,425 --> 00:23:31,859
Rum!
368
00:23:37,138 --> 00:23:38,572
Tell me, Doctor.
369
00:23:38,641 --> 00:23:41,808
Where does Georgia stand
on the question of independence?
370
00:23:41,882 --> 00:23:44,318
With South Carolina, of course.
371
00:23:45,489 --> 00:23:46,821
Needy, good morning.
372
00:23:46,891 --> 00:23:50,331
Neddy, come over here and shake
the hand of Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia.
373
00:23:50,398 --> 00:23:53,633
Dr. Hall, this here
is Edward Rutledge from...
374
00:23:53,706 --> 00:23:55,642
whichever Carolina
he says he's from.
375
00:23:55,710 --> 00:23:58,374
- God knows I can't keep 'em straight.
- It's a pleasure, Dr. Hall.
376
00:23:58,448 --> 00:24:01,215
- Your servant, Mr. Rutledge.
- You've met the long and the short...
377
00:24:01,287 --> 00:24:02,550
of it now, Doctor.
378
00:24:02,623 --> 00:24:05,356
Neddy here is just a lad.
He's the youngest of us.
379
00:24:05,428 --> 00:24:08,059
- Except for Ben Franklin.
- McNair!
380
00:24:08,134 --> 00:24:09,831
Your rum!
381
00:24:09,905 --> 00:24:12,775
Where did you go
for it, man? Jamaica?
382
00:24:13,611 --> 00:24:15,638
Well, now, come along,
Dr. Hall.
383
00:24:15,715 --> 00:24:19,177
I know you must be anxious
to meet your colleagues from the South.
384
00:24:21,662 --> 00:24:23,689
Doctor, may I present
to you Joseph Hewes.
385
00:24:23,766 --> 00:24:26,236
This is Dr. Lyman Hall,
the new delegate from Georgia.
386
00:24:26,304 --> 00:24:29,640
- An honor and a pleasure, gentlemen.
- Where do you stand on independence?
387
00:24:29,711 --> 00:24:32,375
I'm here without
instructions, Mr. Hewes...
388
00:24:32,449 --> 00:24:35,980
able to vote
my own personal convictions.
389
00:24:36,058 --> 00:24:38,824
And they are?
390
00:24:41,568 --> 00:24:43,298
Personal.
391
00:24:44,139 --> 00:24:46,166
Now, Dr. Hall...
392
00:24:46,244 --> 00:24:49,114
the Deep South
speaks with one voice.
393
00:24:49,183 --> 00:24:50,516
It's traditional.
394
00:24:50,586 --> 00:24:53,854
Even more, it is historical.
395
00:24:53,926 --> 00:24:56,454
Enter Delaware.
396
00:24:58,368 --> 00:25:02,536
Speak plain, Rutledge. You know I can't
follow a word of your damn French.
397
00:25:02,609 --> 00:25:04,546
It's Latin, Colonel McKean...
398
00:25:04,614 --> 00:25:08,281
a tribute to the eternal peace
and harmony of the Delaware delegation.
399
00:25:08,355 --> 00:25:11,293
What are you saying, man?
You know perfectly well...
400
00:25:11,361 --> 00:25:14,561
that neither Rodney nor I can stand
the sight of this louse.
401
00:25:14,634 --> 00:25:16,763
- Now, Thomas...
- Gentlemen, please.
402
00:25:16,838 --> 00:25:20,973
This is Dr. Lyman Hall
of Georgia.
403
00:25:21,048 --> 00:25:23,041
- Caesar Rodney.
- An honor, sir.
404
00:25:23,118 --> 00:25:26,750
- George Read and Colonel Thomas McKean.
- Your servant.
405
00:25:26,825 --> 00:25:27,918
Dr. Hall.
406
00:25:27,994 --> 00:25:31,399
I wonder if I might speak
to you for a moment in private.
407
00:25:31,468 --> 00:25:32,630
By all means.
408
00:25:35,877 --> 00:25:38,575
- McNair!
- I'm coming! I'm coming!
409
00:25:38,649 --> 00:25:41,177
Help me. I'm stuck.
410
00:25:44,093 --> 00:25:46,030
Tell me, sir.
411
00:25:46,098 --> 00:25:50,870
Would you be
a doctor of medicine or theology?
412
00:25:50,941 --> 00:25:53,605
Both, Mr. Rodney.
Which one can be of service?
413
00:25:53,679 --> 00:25:56,344
By all means,
the physician first.
414
00:25:56,418 --> 00:25:59,686
Then we shall see
about the other.
415
00:25:59,758 --> 00:26:02,253
I shall call at your convenience.
416
00:26:11,314 --> 00:26:14,151
I trust, Caesar,
when you're through converting...
417
00:26:14,221 --> 00:26:16,157
the poor fellow
to independency...
418
00:26:16,225 --> 00:26:18,752
that you'll give the opposition
a fair crack at him.
419
00:26:20,299 --> 00:26:22,600
You're too late, John.
420
00:26:22,671 --> 00:26:25,301
Once I get them, they're got.
421
00:26:25,376 --> 00:26:30,251
Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia,
Mr. John Dickinson of Pennsylvania.
422
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,916
- An honor, sir.
- Your servant, sir.
423
00:26:32,991 --> 00:26:35,428
Tell me, Doctor.
424
00:26:35,497 --> 00:26:38,594
- Where do you stand on the question of...
- Independence?
425
00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:40,036
Treason.
426
00:26:42,879 --> 00:26:44,279
I've no stomach for it.
427
00:26:44,348 --> 00:26:47,149
Then be careful not to dine
with John Adams.
428
00:26:47,221 --> 00:26:49,157
Between the fish
and the souffle...
429
00:26:49,225 --> 00:26:51,627
You'll find yourself
hanging from an English rope.
430
00:26:51,696 --> 00:26:53,130
Your servant, sir.
431
00:26:56,372 --> 00:27:00,905
Judge Wilson, forgive me,
but how can anyone see you...
432
00:27:00,982 --> 00:27:06,083
if you insist on standing
in Mr. Dickinson's shadow?
433
00:27:06,158 --> 00:27:10,120
James Wilson,
also of Pennsylvania.
434
00:27:10,199 --> 00:27:12,432
Sir.
435
00:27:12,505 --> 00:27:14,941
An honor, sir.
436
00:27:15,010 --> 00:27:16,946
Good morning. Good morning.
437
00:27:19,885 --> 00:27:22,014
Good morning, ladies.
Good morning.
438
00:27:22,090 --> 00:27:24,994
Steady, steady.
439
00:27:25,063 --> 00:27:27,796
Make gangway, sir.
Make gangway!
440
00:27:27,869 --> 00:27:30,339
Good morning, Mr. Wilson.
Good morning.
441
00:27:30,407 --> 00:27:33,709
Watch where you're going.
Over there.
442
00:27:33,781 --> 00:27:39,248
McNair, get me out of this thing.
Watch out for my foot.
443
00:27:39,326 --> 00:27:42,229
- Good morning, all.
- Morning, Ben.
444
00:27:42,298 --> 00:27:45,828
Here you are. Two coppers a piece.
Now, straight back to jail with you.
445
00:27:45,905 --> 00:27:47,966
- Good morning, Stephen.
- Hi, Benjamin.
446
00:27:53,854 --> 00:27:57,350
What are you staring at? Haven't
you ever seen a great man before?
447
00:27:57,428 --> 00:27:59,728
Good Lord, sir, do you have
the honor to be Dr. Franklin?
448
00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:03,864
Yes, I have that honor. Unfortunately,
the gout accompanies that honor.
449
00:28:03,941 --> 00:28:05,432
Been living
too high again, pappy?
450
00:28:05,510 --> 00:28:09,451
Oh, Stephen, I only wish King George
felt like my big toe all over.
451
00:28:11,123 --> 00:28:14,926
McNair! Fetch a pillow
and two more rums.
452
00:28:14,996 --> 00:28:17,763
Franklin, where's that idiot Lee?
Is he back yet? I don't see him.
453
00:28:17,835 --> 00:28:20,808
Softly, John.
Your voice is hurting my foot.
454
00:28:20,876 --> 00:28:24,645
One more day. That's how long
I'll remain silent, not a minute longer.
455
00:28:24,716 --> 00:28:27,313
That strutting popinjay
was so damn sure of himself...
456
00:28:27,388 --> 00:28:29,585
he's had time to bring back
a dozen proposals by now.
457
00:28:29,659 --> 00:28:33,690
Tell me, James. How do you explain
the strange, monumental quietude...
458
00:28:33,767 --> 00:28:36,706
that Congress has been treated to
these past 30 days?
459
00:28:36,774 --> 00:28:41,010
Has the ill wind of independence
finally blown itself out?
460
00:28:41,083 --> 00:28:43,019
Well, if you ask me...
461
00:28:43,087 --> 00:28:46,890
For myself, I must confess that
a month free from New England noise...
462
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,988
is more therapeutic
than a month in the country.
463
00:28:49,065 --> 00:28:51,798
- Don't you agree, James?
- Well, I feel...
464
00:28:51,871 --> 00:28:53,807
Mr. Adams, pray look
for your voice, sir.
465
00:28:53,875 --> 00:28:58,907
It cannot be far, and God knows we need
the entertainment in this Congress.
466
00:29:02,992 --> 00:29:06,159
Congratulations. You just made your
greatest contribution to independence.
467
00:29:06,233 --> 00:29:08,898
- You kept your flap shut.
- One more day, Franklin...
468
00:29:08,972 --> 00:29:11,272
then I shall do the proposing.
469
00:29:12,813 --> 00:29:16,445
Gentlemen, the usual
morning festivities concluded...
470
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,254
I will now call Congress
to order.
471
00:29:19,326 --> 00:29:21,261
Mr. Thomson...
472
00:29:24,169 --> 00:29:28,132
Second Continental Congress, meeting
in Philadelphia, is now in session.
473
00:29:28,210 --> 00:29:31,581
Seven, June, 1776,
the 380th meeting.
474
00:29:31,651 --> 00:29:33,587
SweetJesus!
475
00:29:35,125 --> 00:29:38,393
The HonorableJohn Hancock
of Massachusetts Bay, president.
476
00:29:40,735 --> 00:29:43,331
Thank you, Mr. Thomson.
Mr. McNair...
477
00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:47,007
the stores of rum and other
drinking spirits are hereby closed...
478
00:29:47,082 --> 00:29:50,452
to the colony of Rhode Island
for a period of three days.
479
00:29:50,522 --> 00:29:53,688
- Yes, sir.
- Johnny, you can't do that.
480
00:29:53,761 --> 00:29:57,165
Sit down, Mr. Hopkins.
You've abused the privilege.
481
00:29:59,741 --> 00:30:01,734
The chair would like
to take this opportunity...
482
00:30:01,812 --> 00:30:04,612
to welcome Dr. Lyman Hall of Georgia
to this Congress...
483
00:30:04,683 --> 00:30:06,983
and hopes he will make
the best of it.
484
00:30:10,027 --> 00:30:12,555
My God, it's hot.
485
00:30:12,633 --> 00:30:15,070
The secretary will read the roll.
486
00:30:15,138 --> 00:30:17,665
All members present
with the following exceptions:
487
00:30:17,744 --> 00:30:20,715
Mr. Paine, Mr. Gerry,
Mr. Samuel Adams of Massachusetts...
488
00:30:20,782 --> 00:30:25,190
Mr. Morton of Pennsylvania, Mr. Wythe
and Mr. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia...
489
00:30:25,258 --> 00:30:28,128
and the entire delegation
of New Jersey.
490
00:30:28,197 --> 00:30:32,137
I'm concerned over the continual absence
of one-thirteenth of this Congress.
491
00:30:32,205 --> 00:30:33,571
Where is New Jersey?
492
00:30:33,642 --> 00:30:37,843
Somewhere between
New York and Pennsylvania.
493
00:30:40,322 --> 00:30:42,725
Thank you very much.
494
00:30:42,794 --> 00:30:46,427
Dr. Franklin, have you heard anything?
Your son resides there.
495
00:30:46,501 --> 00:30:47,935
Son, sir? What son?
496
00:30:48,706 --> 00:30:51,541
The royal governor
of New Jersey, sir.
497
00:30:51,610 --> 00:30:54,275
As that title
might suggest, sir...
498
00:30:54,350 --> 00:30:56,685
we are not in touch
at the present time.
499
00:30:56,755 --> 00:30:58,657
Yes.
500
00:30:58,726 --> 00:31:01,425
Well...
Now for the weather report...
501
00:31:01,498 --> 00:31:03,434
Mr. Jefferson of Virginia.
502
00:31:05,773 --> 00:31:09,075
- Mr. Jefferson!
- Present, sir.
503
00:31:09,146 --> 00:31:11,208
May we hear
about the weather?
504
00:31:11,284 --> 00:31:13,880
As if it weren't
speaking for itself.
505
00:31:15,493 --> 00:31:18,089
Eighty-seven degrees
of temperature...
506
00:31:18,164 --> 00:31:21,831
30-point-aught-six inches
of mercury.
507
00:31:21,905 --> 00:31:24,001
Wind...
508
00:31:24,077 --> 00:31:26,673
from the southwest
for the rest of the day.
509
00:31:26,748 --> 00:31:30,620
And tonight...
tonight I'm leaving for home.
510
00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:33,182
- On business?
- Family business.
511
00:31:33,262 --> 00:31:36,131
Give her a flourish for me,
young feller.
512
00:32:03,222 --> 00:32:05,385
From the commander,
army of the United Colonies.
513
00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:09,027
To New York,
dispatch number 1,137.
514
00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:11,502
Ah, sweet Jesus!
515
00:32:11,572 --> 00:32:14,441
To the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, president. "Dear sir...
516
00:32:14,511 --> 00:32:17,142
it is with grave apprehension
that I have learned this day...
517
00:32:17,216 --> 00:32:19,243
of the sailing
from Halifax, Nova Scotia...
518
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,314
of a considerable force
of British troops...
519
00:32:21,392 --> 00:32:23,589
in the company of foreign mercenaries
and under the command...
520
00:32:23,663 --> 00:32:25,599
of General Sir William Howe.
521
00:32:25,667 --> 00:32:27,372
There can be no doubt
that their destination is New York...
522
00:32:27,809 --> 00:32:30,906
for to take and hold this city
and the Hudson Valley beyond...
523
00:32:30,982 --> 00:32:33,886
would serve to separate New England
from the rest of the colonies...
524
00:32:33,954 --> 00:32:36,859
permitting both sections
to be crushed in turn.
525
00:32:36,928 --> 00:32:39,763
Sadly, I see no way of stopping them
at the present time...
526
00:32:39,833 --> 00:32:41,928
as my army is
absolutely falling apart.
527
00:32:42,004 --> 00:32:44,237
My military chest
is totally exhausted.
528
00:32:44,309 --> 00:32:47,475
My commissary general
has strained his credit to the last.
529
00:32:47,549 --> 00:32:51,284
My quartermaster has no food,
no arms, no ammunition...
530
00:32:51,356 --> 00:32:54,226
and my troops are in
a state of near mutiny.
531
00:32:54,296 --> 00:32:59,068
I pray God some relief arrives
before the armada, but fear it will not.
532
00:32:59,139 --> 00:33:01,074
Your obedient...
533
00:33:02,212 --> 00:33:03,647
G. Washington."
534
00:33:04,517 --> 00:33:06,885
- Mr. President!
- Colonel McKean.
535
00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:12,091
Surely we have managed to promote
the gloomiest man on this continent...
536
00:33:12,165 --> 00:33:14,101
to the head of our troops.
537
00:33:14,169 --> 00:33:18,508
Those dispatches are
the most depressing accumulation...
538
00:33:18,578 --> 00:33:24,215
of disaster, doom and despair in
the entire annals of military history.
539
00:33:24,289 --> 00:33:26,486
Colonel McKean, please!
540
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,261
- What?
- It's too hot.
541
00:33:31,271 --> 00:33:33,605
Well, I suppose so.
542
00:33:33,675 --> 00:33:38,139
General Washington will continue wording
his dispatches as he sees fit.
543
00:33:38,217 --> 00:33:40,210
And I'm sure we all pray...
544
00:33:40,288 --> 00:33:44,388
he finds happier thoughts
to convey in the near future.
545
00:33:45,465 --> 00:33:47,401
Mr. Thomson,
are there any resolutions?
546
00:33:47,469 --> 00:33:49,962
Dr. Josiah Barlett
of New Hampshire.
547
00:33:51,344 --> 00:33:54,612
"Resolved: That for the duration
of the present hostilities...
548
00:33:54,684 --> 00:33:57,747
the Congress discourage every type
of extravagance and dissipation...
549
00:33:57,823 --> 00:34:00,693
elaborate funerals
and other expensive diversions...
550
00:34:00,762 --> 00:34:03,461
especially all horse racing,
gambling...
551
00:34:03,535 --> 00:34:06,371
and other forms
of sinful activity...
552
00:34:06,441 --> 00:34:07,909
Fire wagon!
553
00:34:25,111 --> 00:34:28,050
- Where's the fire? Can anybody tell?
- Looks like the Pepperton house.
554
00:34:28,118 --> 00:34:31,113
- Couldn't be. It's brand-new.
- It might be the city tavern.
555
00:34:31,190 --> 00:34:33,126
Bite your tongue, man.
556
00:34:42,313 --> 00:34:45,284
Benjy, I'm back!
I'm back, Johnny!
557
00:34:51,264 --> 00:34:54,236
- Lee, is it done?
- First things first.
558
00:34:54,303 --> 00:34:58,677
Tom, your little bride wants to know:
"When is he coming home?"
559
00:34:58,746 --> 00:35:01,410
- I leave tonight.
- Never mind that, man. Is it done?
560
00:35:01,485 --> 00:35:04,354
Done? Why, certain-Lee.
561
00:35:04,423 --> 00:35:08,227
Mr. President, I have returned from
Virginia with the following resolution.
562
00:35:08,298 --> 00:35:11,897
"Resolved: That these united colonies
are, and of a right ought to be...
563
00:35:11,972 --> 00:35:13,498
free and independent states...
564
00:35:13,576 --> 00:35:16,138
that they are absolved
from allegiance to the British crown...
565
00:35:16,214 --> 00:35:19,482
and that all political connection
between them and Great Britain is...
566
00:35:19,554 --> 00:35:23,722
and ought to be
totally dissolved."
567
00:35:23,797 --> 00:35:26,324
Mr. President,
I second the proposal.
568
00:35:26,401 --> 00:35:28,394
The resolution has been
proposed and seconded.
569
00:35:28,472 --> 00:35:30,465
The chair will now
entertain debate.
570
00:35:32,012 --> 00:35:33,572
- Mr. Dickinson.
- Mr. President.
571
00:35:33,649 --> 00:35:36,245
Pennsylvania moves,
as always...
572
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,489
that the question of independence
be postponed indefinitely.
573
00:35:40,563 --> 00:35:42,294
I second the motion.
574
00:35:42,367 --> 00:35:44,701
Judge Wilson...
575
00:35:44,771 --> 00:35:47,538
in your eagerness to be loved,
you seem to have forgotten...
576
00:35:47,610 --> 00:35:50,480
that Pennsylvania
cannot second its own motion.
577
00:35:51,886 --> 00:35:53,822
Delaware seconds.
578
00:35:53,890 --> 00:35:55,951
You would, you lousy wart.
579
00:35:56,695 --> 00:35:59,758
The motion to postpone
has been moved and seconded.
580
00:35:59,834 --> 00:36:01,235
Mr. Thomson.
581
00:36:02,540 --> 00:36:04,476
On the motion
to postpone indefinitely...
582
00:36:04,544 --> 00:36:07,483
the resolution on independency
or proceed with the debate...
583
00:36:07,551 --> 00:36:10,990
all those in favor of debate say "yea,"
all those for postponement say "nay."
584
00:36:11,058 --> 00:36:15,123
- New Hampshire.
- New Hampshire favors debate. Yea.
585
00:36:16,868 --> 00:36:19,773
New Hampshire says yea.
Massachusetts?
586
00:36:19,842 --> 00:36:25,376
Massachusetts, having borne
the brunt of the king's tyranny...
587
00:36:25,453 --> 00:36:27,047
Yes, I said tyranny.
588
00:36:27,123 --> 00:36:30,789
Massachusetts now
and for all time says yea.
589
00:36:31,732 --> 00:36:34,170
Massachusetts says yea.
590
00:36:34,238 --> 00:36:35,729
Rhode Island?
591
00:36:36,643 --> 00:36:38,168
Mr. Hopkins.
592
00:36:39,014 --> 00:36:43,352
- Where's Rhode Island?
- Out visiting the necessary.
593
00:36:43,422 --> 00:36:46,987
After what Rhode Island's consumed,
I can't say I'm surprised.
594
00:36:47,063 --> 00:36:49,000
We'll come back to him,
Mr. Thomson.
595
00:36:49,068 --> 00:36:51,037
Rhode Island passes.
596
00:36:55,246 --> 00:36:56,715
Connecticut.
597
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,623
While Connecticut has,
till now...
598
00:37:01,693 --> 00:37:04,392
been against this proposal...
599
00:37:04,465 --> 00:37:06,833
our legislature has instructed me
that in the event...
600
00:37:06,903 --> 00:37:10,103
it is introduced by any colony
outside of New England...
601
00:37:10,176 --> 00:37:12,545
we could not any longer
withhold our support.
602
00:37:12,614 --> 00:37:14,777
- Connecticut says yea.
- Hear! Hear!
603
00:37:14,852 --> 00:37:17,619
Connecticut says yea.
New York.
604
00:37:18,626 --> 00:37:21,097
New York abstains, courteously.
605
00:37:21,165 --> 00:37:23,795
- New York abstains.
- Courteously.
606
00:37:26,242 --> 00:37:29,772
- New Jersey.
- Absent, Mr. Secretary.
607
00:37:30,852 --> 00:37:32,788
New Jersey's absent.
Pennsylvania.
608
00:37:33,791 --> 00:37:37,127
Pennsylvania, for the 24th time,
says nay.
609
00:37:37,197 --> 00:37:39,633
Pennsylvania says nay.
Delaware.
610
00:37:40,604 --> 00:37:45,171
Delaware, as ever for independence,
says yea.
611
00:37:45,247 --> 00:37:47,946
Delaware says yea.
Maryland.
612
00:37:48,019 --> 00:37:51,891
Maryland would welcome independence
if it were given...
613
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,330
but is highly skeptical
that it can be taken.
614
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,563
Maryland says nay.
615
00:37:58,874 --> 00:38:01,071
Maryland says nay.
Virginia.
616
00:38:01,145 --> 00:38:03,878
Virginia, the first colony,
says yea.
617
00:38:06,990 --> 00:38:09,517
Virginia says yea.
North Carolina.
618
00:38:09,595 --> 00:38:14,129
North Carolina respectfully yields
to South Carolina.
619
00:38:14,206 --> 00:38:17,200
- South Carolina.
- Mr. President...
620
00:38:17,278 --> 00:38:20,808
although we of South Carolina
have never seriously considered...
621
00:38:20,885 --> 00:38:22,980
the question of independence...
622
00:38:23,056 --> 00:38:27,327
when a gentleman proposes it,
attention must be paid.
623
00:38:28,634 --> 00:38:32,129
However, we in the Deep South...
624
00:38:32,208 --> 00:38:34,303
unlike our friends
in New England...
625
00:38:34,379 --> 00:38:38,911
have no cause for impatience
at the present time.
626
00:38:38,988 --> 00:38:42,621
If at some future date it becomes
the wish of all our sister colonies...
627
00:38:42,695 --> 00:38:46,226
to effect a separation,
we will not stand in the way.
628
00:38:46,303 --> 00:38:48,239
But for the time being...
629
00:38:48,307 --> 00:38:52,337
South Carolina
will wait and watch.
630
00:38:52,415 --> 00:38:54,784
The vote is nay.
631
00:38:56,858 --> 00:38:59,921
- North Carolina...
- Says nay. Yes, Mr. Hewes. I know.
632
00:39:02,201 --> 00:39:03,669
Georgia.
633
00:39:07,144 --> 00:39:08,580
Georgia.
634
00:39:09,850 --> 00:39:14,689
Mr. President, Georgia seems to be split
right down the middle on this issue.
635
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,028
The people are against it,
and I'm for it.
636
00:39:20,237 --> 00:39:23,506
However, I'm afraid
I'm not quite certain...
637
00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:27,575
whether representing the people means
relying on their judgment or on my own.
638
00:39:27,653 --> 00:39:29,816
In all fairness,
until I can figure that out...
639
00:39:29,890 --> 00:39:32,258
I'd better lean
a little on their side.
640
00:39:32,328 --> 00:39:33,762
Georgia says nay.
641
00:39:38,174 --> 00:39:40,667
Georgia says nay.
642
00:39:40,746 --> 00:39:42,682
Rhode Island.
643
00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:47,182
Second call, Rhode Island!
644
00:39:47,258 --> 00:39:48,852
Rhode Island!
645
00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:51,627
I'm coming! I'm coming!
646
00:39:51,701 --> 00:39:54,035
Hold your damn horses.
647
00:39:54,106 --> 00:39:57,943
- We're waiting on you, Mr. Hopkins.
- Well, it won't kill you.
648
00:39:58,013 --> 00:40:01,544
You'd think the Congress
would have its own privy.
649
00:40:01,621 --> 00:40:03,556
All right,
where does she stand?
650
00:40:03,624 --> 00:40:07,156
Five for debate, five for postponement,
one abstention and one absence.
651
00:40:07,232 --> 00:40:09,259
So it's up to me, huh?
652
00:40:09,336 --> 00:40:11,272
Well, I'll tell ya.
653
00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:15,277
In all my years I never seen,
heard nor smelled an issue...
654
00:40:15,499 --> 00:40:18,369
that was so dangerous
it couldn't be talked about.
655
00:40:18,439 --> 00:40:22,379
Hell, yes. I'm for debating anything.
Rhode Island says yea.
656
00:40:24,451 --> 00:40:27,423
McNair, get Mr. Hopkins a rum.
657
00:40:27,490 --> 00:40:30,929
Get him the whole damn barrel
if he wants.
658
00:40:31,932 --> 00:40:34,370
The chair now declares this Congress
a Committee of the Whole...
659
00:40:34,438 --> 00:40:37,842
for the purpose of debating
Virginia's resolution on independence.
660
00:40:37,911 --> 00:40:39,847
Mr. Dickinson.
661
00:40:41,051 --> 00:40:46,426
Well, now, you've got
your way at last, Mr. Adams.
662
00:40:46,495 --> 00:40:49,525
The matter
may now be discussed.
663
00:40:49,602 --> 00:40:52,631
I confess
I'm almost relieved.
664
00:40:52,708 --> 00:40:56,272
There's a question I've been
fairly itching to ask you.
665
00:40:58,753 --> 00:41:01,885
- Why?
- Why what, Mr. Dickinson?
666
00:41:01,961 --> 00:41:05,229
Well, why independence,
Mr. Adams?
667
00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:06,632
For the obvious reason...
668
00:41:06,703 --> 00:41:11,110
that our continued association with
Great Britain has grown intolerable.
669
00:41:11,178 --> 00:41:14,640
Well, to whom, Mr. Adams?
To you?
670
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,817
Well, then I suggest
you sever your ties immediately.
671
00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:20,089
But please be kind enough...
672
00:41:20,163 --> 00:41:23,693
to leave the rest of us
where we are.
673
00:41:23,770 --> 00:41:25,797
For myself,
I have no objection at all...
674
00:41:25,874 --> 00:41:28,505
to being part
of the greatest empire on earth...
675
00:41:28,580 --> 00:41:31,644
to enjoying its protection
and sharing its benefits.
676
00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:33,986
Benefits?
677
00:41:34,058 --> 00:41:36,221
What benefits?
678
00:41:36,296 --> 00:41:39,530
Crippling taxes?
Cruel repressions?
679
00:41:39,602 --> 00:41:41,538
Abolished rights?
680
00:41:42,808 --> 00:41:47,375
Is that all England means
to you, sir?
681
00:41:49,088 --> 00:41:52,356
Is that all the pride and affection
you can muster...
682
00:41:52,428 --> 00:41:54,830
for the nation
that bore you...
683
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:58,499
for the noblest, most civilized
nation on the face of this planet?
684
00:41:58,574 --> 00:42:02,446
What, would you have us forsake
Hastings and Magna Carta...
685
00:42:02,515 --> 00:42:05,954
Strongbow and Lionheart,
Drake and Marlborough...
686
00:42:06,022 --> 00:42:07,958
Tudors, Stuarts
and Plantagenets?
687
00:42:08,026 --> 00:42:09,859
For what, sir?
688
00:42:09,930 --> 00:42:11,867
Tell me. For what?
689
00:42:15,174 --> 00:42:17,109
For you?
690
00:42:19,816 --> 00:42:23,984
Some men are patriots,
like General Washington...
691
00:42:24,058 --> 00:42:26,359
and some are anarchists,
like Mr. Paine.
692
00:42:26,430 --> 00:42:29,266
Some even are internationalists,
like Dr. Franklin.
693
00:42:29,336 --> 00:42:31,863
But you, sir...
694
00:42:33,344 --> 00:42:37,409
you are merely an agitator,
disturbing the peace...
695
00:42:37,485 --> 00:42:41,722
creating disorder, endangering
the public welfare, and for what?
696
00:42:41,795 --> 00:42:44,129
Your petty little
personal complaints:
697
00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:47,501
"Your taxes are too high."
698
00:42:47,572 --> 00:42:51,945
Well, sir, so are mine.
699
00:42:54,152 --> 00:42:56,919
Come, come, Mr. Adams.
700
00:42:56,991 --> 00:43:00,589
If you have grievances,
and I'm sure you have...
701
00:43:00,665 --> 00:43:04,366
our present system must provide
a gentler means of redressing them...
702
00:43:04,439 --> 00:43:06,966
short of revolution.
703
00:43:07,044 --> 00:43:09,242
Yes, that's what he wants.
704
00:43:09,316 --> 00:43:11,411
Nothing less will satisfy him.
705
00:43:11,488 --> 00:43:14,654
Violence, rebellion, treason.
706
00:43:16,898 --> 00:43:19,995
Now, Mr. Adams...
707
00:43:20,071 --> 00:43:23,238
are these the acts
of Englishmen?
708
00:43:23,311 --> 00:43:25,838
Not Englishmen, Dickinson.
Americans.
709
00:43:25,916 --> 00:43:27,886
No, sir. Englishmen!
710
00:43:27,953 --> 00:43:32,053
Please, Mr. Dickinson, must you start
banging? How is a man to sleep?
711
00:43:33,564 --> 00:43:37,027
Forgive me, Dr. Franklin,
but must you start speaking?
712
00:43:37,106 --> 00:43:39,041
How is a man to stay awake?
713
00:43:40,646 --> 00:43:42,843
We'll promise
to be quiet, sir.
714
00:43:42,917 --> 00:43:46,117
I'm sure everyone prefers
that you remain asleep.
715
00:43:46,189 --> 00:43:48,625
If I'm to hear myself
called an Englishman, sir...
716
00:43:48,694 --> 00:43:50,665
I assure you I'd prefer
I'd remained asleep.
717
00:43:50,732 --> 00:43:54,467
Oh, now, what's so terrible
about being called an Englishman?
718
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:57,410
- The English don't seem to mind.
- Nor would I...
719
00:43:57,479 --> 00:43:59,881
were I given the full rights
of an Englishman.
720
00:43:59,951 --> 00:44:03,721
But to call me one without those rights
is like calling an ox a bull.
721
00:44:03,792 --> 00:44:06,059
He's thankful for the honor,
but he'd much rather have restored...
722
00:44:06,130 --> 00:44:07,564
what's rightfully his.
723
00:44:14,212 --> 00:44:17,013
When did you first notice
they were missing, sir?
724
00:44:22,496 --> 00:44:25,366
Fortunately,
the people of these colonies...
725
00:44:25,435 --> 00:44:28,339
maintain a higher regard
for their mother country.
726
00:44:28,408 --> 00:44:31,938
Higher, certainly,
than she feels for them.
727
00:44:32,015 --> 00:44:33,952
Never was such
a valuable possession...
728
00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:36,183
so stupidly
and so recklessly managed...
729
00:44:36,257 --> 00:44:39,127
than this entire continent
by the British crown.
730
00:44:39,196 --> 00:44:42,430
Our industry discouraged,
our resources pillaged.
731
00:44:43,772 --> 00:44:46,140
Worst of all,
our very character stifled.
732
00:44:47,347 --> 00:44:49,544
We've spawned
a new race here, Mr. Dickinson...
733
00:44:49,618 --> 00:44:54,788
rougher, simpler, more violent,
more enterprising, less refined.
734
00:44:55,363 --> 00:44:59,189
We're a new nationality.
We require a new nation.
735
00:45:02,577 --> 00:45:04,513
Well...
736
00:45:04,581 --> 00:45:08,351
that may be your opinion,
Dr. Franklin, but...
737
00:45:08,423 --> 00:45:12,761
as I said, the people
feel quite differently.
738
00:45:12,831 --> 00:45:16,202
Now, what do you know
about the people, Dickinson?
739
00:45:16,272 --> 00:45:19,733
You don't speak for the people.
You represent only yourself.
740
00:45:19,812 --> 00:45:22,045
And that precious status quo...
741
00:45:22,117 --> 00:45:25,317
you keep imploring the people
to preserve for their own good...
742
00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:30,025
is nothing more than the eternal
preservation of your own property.
743
00:45:31,135 --> 00:45:33,868
Mr. Adams, you have
an annoying talent...
744
00:45:33,941 --> 00:45:39,509
for making such delightful words
as "property" sound quite distasteful.
745
00:45:39,585 --> 00:45:43,081
In heaven's name,
what's wrong with property?
746
00:45:43,159 --> 00:45:46,427
Perhaps you've forgotten that many
of us first came to these shores...
747
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:48,970
in order to secure rights
to property...
748
00:45:49,037 --> 00:45:53,375
and that we hold these rights no less
dear than the rights you speak of.
749
00:45:53,446 --> 00:45:57,854
Yes. So safe, so fat,
so comfortable in Pennsylvania.
750
00:45:57,922 --> 00:46:00,450
And what is this
independence of yours...
751
00:46:00,528 --> 00:46:03,090
except the private grievance
of Massachusetts?
752
00:46:03,166 --> 00:46:06,263
Why is it always Boston
that breaks the king's peace?
753
00:46:06,338 --> 00:46:10,370
My dear Congress,
you must not adopt this evil measure.
754
00:46:10,448 --> 00:46:12,611
It is the work of the devil.
755
00:46:12,685 --> 00:46:17,593
Leave it where it belongs...
in New England.
756
00:46:17,662 --> 00:46:21,192
Brother Dickinson, New England has
fought the devil more than 100 years.
757
00:46:21,268 --> 00:46:23,534
And as of now,
Brother Sherman...
758
00:46:23,606 --> 00:46:26,408
the devil
has been winning hands down.
759
00:46:27,148 --> 00:46:30,348
Why, at this very moment, he's
sitting right here in this Congress.
760
00:46:30,421 --> 00:46:34,384
Don't let him deceive you.
This proposal is entirely his doing.
761
00:46:34,462 --> 00:46:36,397
Oh, it may bear
Virginia's name...
762
00:46:36,466 --> 00:46:40,304
but it reeks
of Adams, Adams and more Adams.
763
00:46:40,374 --> 00:46:42,640
Look at him.
Ready to lead this continent...
764
00:46:42,712 --> 00:46:45,183
down the fiery path
of total destruction.
765
00:46:45,251 --> 00:46:49,658
Oh, good God! Why can't you acknowledge
what already exists?
766
00:46:49,726 --> 00:46:53,188
It has been more than a year
since Concord and Lexington.
767
00:46:53,267 --> 00:46:55,704
Damn it, man,
we're at war right now!
768
00:46:55,772 --> 00:46:59,108
You may be at war.
You... Boston and John Adams.
769
00:46:59,178 --> 00:47:01,774
But you will never speak
for Pennsylvania.
770
00:47:01,850 --> 00:47:04,047
- Nor for Delaware.
- Mr. Read...
771
00:47:04,121 --> 00:47:07,493
you represent
only one-third of Delaware.
772
00:47:07,563 --> 00:47:09,624
The sensible third,
Mr. Rodney.
773
00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:12,866
Sit down,
or I'll knock you down.
774
00:47:13,507 --> 00:47:17,345
Sit down, all three of you! McNair,
do something about that damn dog!
775
00:47:17,415 --> 00:47:20,478
- Fetch me a rum.
- Get the dog first.
776
00:47:20,554 --> 00:47:22,491
I only got two hands.
777
00:47:27,535 --> 00:47:30,302
Christ, it's hot!
778
00:47:40,328 --> 00:47:43,664
Oh. Please do go on,
gentlemen.
779
00:47:43,735 --> 00:47:46,103
You're making the only breeze
in Philadelphia.
780
00:47:47,441 --> 00:47:53,216
Mr. Adams, perhaps you could
clear up something for me.
781
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:55,553
After we have
achieved independence...
782
00:47:55,625 --> 00:47:58,357
who do you propose
would govern in South Carolina?
783
00:48:00,234 --> 00:48:01,703
The people, of course.
784
00:48:01,771 --> 00:48:05,108
Which people, sir?
The people of South Carolina...
785
00:48:05,178 --> 00:48:07,580
or the people of Massachusetts?
786
00:48:07,649 --> 00:48:12,318
Admit it, Neddy. You're against
independence now and you always will be.
787
00:48:12,392 --> 00:48:13,917
Aye.
788
00:48:15,532 --> 00:48:19,336
Gentlemen,
you refuse to understand us.
789
00:48:19,406 --> 00:48:22,902
We desire independence. Yes.
790
00:48:22,980 --> 00:48:27,044
For South Carolina.
That is our country.
791
00:48:27,121 --> 00:48:30,321
And as such,
we don't wish to belong to anyone.
792
00:48:30,395 --> 00:48:33,299
Not to England
and not to you.
793
00:48:34,136 --> 00:48:36,835
We intend to have
one nation, Rutledge.
794
00:48:36,908 --> 00:48:40,108
A nation of sovereign states,
Mr. Adams.
795
00:48:40,181 --> 00:48:43,381
United for our mutual
protection, but...
796
00:48:43,454 --> 00:48:45,925
separate for our
individual pursuits.
797
00:48:45,993 --> 00:48:49,090
Now, that is what
we have understood it to be...
798
00:48:49,166 --> 00:48:52,468
and that is what
we will support.
799
00:48:53,876 --> 00:48:56,403
As soon as everyone
supports it.
800
00:48:59,821 --> 00:49:02,816
Well, there you are,
Mr. Adams.
801
00:49:02,894 --> 00:49:05,421
You must see
that we need time.
802
00:49:05,499 --> 00:49:10,942
Time to make certain who we are and
where we stand in regard to one another.
803
00:49:11,010 --> 00:49:14,848
For if we do not determine the nature
of the beast before we set it free...
804
00:49:14,918 --> 00:49:17,583
it will end
by consuming us all.
805
00:49:17,657 --> 00:49:20,720
For once in your life,
Wilson...
806
00:49:20,796 --> 00:49:22,732
take a chance.
807
00:49:24,102 --> 00:49:27,040
I say the time is now.
808
00:49:27,108 --> 00:49:29,102
It may never come again.
809
00:49:29,180 --> 00:49:31,412
Your clock is fast, Mr. Adams.
810
00:49:31,484 --> 00:49:33,477
I say we're not yet ripe
for independence.
811
00:49:33,555 --> 00:49:37,153
Not ripe?
Hell, we're rotting for want of it.
812
00:49:37,229 --> 00:49:41,431
Gentlemen, please, what in God's name
is the infernal hurry?
813
00:49:41,503 --> 00:49:43,497
Why must this question
be settled now?
814
00:49:43,575 --> 00:49:45,841
What's wrong with now,
Mr. Chase?
815
00:49:45,914 --> 00:49:48,316
General Washington
is in the field.
816
00:49:48,385 --> 00:49:52,416
If he's defeated as it now appears,
we'll be inviting the hangman.
817
00:49:52,493 --> 00:49:56,730
But if, by some miracle,
he should actually win...
818
00:49:56,802 --> 00:49:59,500
we can then declare anything
we damn please.
819
00:49:59,574 --> 00:50:02,375
The sentiments
of North Carolina precisely.
820
00:50:02,948 --> 00:50:05,043
Has it ever occurred
to either of you...
821
00:50:05,119 --> 00:50:07,487
that an army needs
something to fight for...
822
00:50:07,557 --> 00:50:09,493
in order to win?
823
00:50:09,562 --> 00:50:13,092
A purpose? A goal?
A flag of its own?
824
00:50:13,168 --> 00:50:15,571
Mr. Adams...
825
00:50:15,641 --> 00:50:18,738
how can a nation
of only two million souls...
826
00:50:18,813 --> 00:50:21,079
stand up to an empire
of ten million?
827
00:50:21,151 --> 00:50:25,024
Think of it. Ten million.
How do we compensate for that shortage?
828
00:50:25,093 --> 00:50:27,859
It's simple, Mr. Chase.
Increase and multiply.
829
00:50:27,931 --> 00:50:30,528
How's that?
830
00:50:30,604 --> 00:50:33,576
We will more than compensate
with spirit.
831
00:50:33,643 --> 00:50:36,637
I tell you that there is
a spirit out there among the people...
832
00:50:36,716 --> 00:50:38,777
that is sadly lacking
in this Congress.
833
00:50:38,854 --> 00:50:42,020
Yes, of course.
Now it's spirit.
834
00:50:42,094 --> 00:50:44,029
Why didn't I think of that?
835
00:50:44,097 --> 00:50:48,436
No army, no navy,
no arms, no ammunition...
836
00:50:48,506 --> 00:50:52,675
no treasury, no friends.
837
00:50:52,749 --> 00:50:56,848
But bless our soul, spirit.
838
00:50:56,924 --> 00:50:59,326
Mr. Lee, Mr. Hopkins...
839
00:50:59,395 --> 00:51:01,888
Mr. Rodney, Colonel McKean...
840
00:51:01,966 --> 00:51:04,460
Dr. Franklin.
841
00:51:04,538 --> 00:51:09,606
Why have you joined
this incendiary little man...
842
00:51:09,683 --> 00:51:12,951
this Boston radical...
843
00:51:13,022 --> 00:51:15,458
this agitator...
844
00:51:15,527 --> 00:51:18,020
this demagogue...
845
00:51:18,098 --> 00:51:19,863
this madman?
846
00:51:19,935 --> 00:51:22,965
Are you calling me
a madman, you...
847
00:51:23,042 --> 00:51:25,308
you fribble!
848
00:51:26,449 --> 00:51:30,014
You and your
Pennsylvania proprietors.
849
00:51:30,090 --> 00:51:33,027
Oh, you cool, considerate men.
850
00:51:33,096 --> 00:51:36,729
You hang to the rear on every issue
so that if we should go under...
851
00:51:36,804 --> 00:51:38,740
you'll still remain afloat.
852
00:51:38,808 --> 00:51:43,476
- Are you calling me a coward?
- Yes. Coward.
853
00:51:43,550 --> 00:51:45,919
- Madman!
- Landlord!
854
00:51:45,988 --> 00:51:47,684
Lawyer!
855
00:51:53,771 --> 00:51:55,741
Stop it! Stop it!
856
00:51:57,477 --> 00:52:00,780
This is the Congress.
Stop it, I say!
857
00:52:00,852 --> 00:52:03,847
- The enemy's out there.
- No, Mr. Rodney, the enemy is here.
858
00:52:03,924 --> 00:52:06,828
No. I say he's out there.
859
00:52:06,897 --> 00:52:12,135
England. England closing in,
cutting off our air.
860
00:52:12,207 --> 00:52:14,143
There's no time!
861
00:52:17,252 --> 00:52:19,722
No air.
862
00:52:19,789 --> 00:52:21,725
Dr. Hall.
863
00:52:25,434 --> 00:52:29,772
- Colonel McKean.
- Aye. It's the cancer.
864
00:52:29,843 --> 00:52:32,610
But he should go home.
865
00:52:32,683 --> 00:52:35,985
A man should die
in his own bed.
866
00:52:37,492 --> 00:52:41,090
- John. John Adams.
- I'm here, Caesar.
867
00:52:44,406 --> 00:52:46,536
I leave you...
868
00:52:46,611 --> 00:52:48,877
a divided Delaware.
869
00:52:50,151 --> 00:52:53,920
- Forgive me.
- I'll take you home, Caesar.
870
00:53:19,075 --> 00:53:21,068
I'll be back within the week.
871
00:53:28,328 --> 00:53:33,031
Mr. President, South Carolina
calls the question.
872
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,402
- What's that, Mr. Rutledge?
- I said, Mr. President...
873
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:42,387
South Carolina
desires to end the debate...
874
00:53:44,060 --> 00:53:46,428
and calls the question
of independence.
875
00:53:46,497 --> 00:53:48,433
- Delaware seconds.
- Thank you.
876
00:53:50,204 --> 00:53:52,937
Gentlemen, please!
877
00:53:53,010 --> 00:53:56,006
The question
has been called and seconded.
878
00:53:57,086 --> 00:53:59,283
The secretary
will record the vote.
879
00:53:59,356 --> 00:54:01,417
Franklin, do something. Think.
880
00:54:01,494 --> 00:54:03,623
I'm thinking,
but nothing's coming.
881
00:54:03,698 --> 00:54:05,827
All those in favor
of the resolution on independence...
882
00:54:05,902 --> 00:54:08,601
as proposed by the colony of Virginia,
signify by saying...
883
00:54:08,675 --> 00:54:10,703
Mr. Secretary...
884
00:54:10,780 --> 00:54:12,773
would you please read
the resolution again?
885
00:54:12,851 --> 00:54:13,978
What?
886
00:54:15,388 --> 00:54:18,258
- I'd forgotten it.
- Now, please.
887
00:54:20,665 --> 00:54:23,228
"Resolved:
These united colonies are...
888
00:54:23,304 --> 00:54:26,003
and of a right ought to be
free and independent..."
889
00:54:32,556 --> 00:54:35,926
Excuse me.
Is this the Continental Congress?
890
00:54:35,996 --> 00:54:39,437
Well, yes, I can see
that it must be.
891
00:54:39,504 --> 00:54:42,373
It's all right. We found it.
892
00:54:42,442 --> 00:54:45,039
We've been looking for you
everywhere, you see.
893
00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:47,711
Someone told us that you
might be at Carpenters' Hall...
894
00:54:47,786 --> 00:54:50,519
and someone else
suggested Library Hall.
895
00:54:50,592 --> 00:54:53,224
- So finally we asked a constable...
- Excuse me, sir, but...
896
00:54:53,299 --> 00:54:56,533
if you don't mind, the Congress
is about to decide...
897
00:54:56,605 --> 00:54:58,541
the question
of American independence.
898
00:54:59,911 --> 00:55:02,347
How splendid.
That means we're not too late.
899
00:55:02,416 --> 00:55:04,352
These gentlemen are
Mr. Francis Hopkinson...
900
00:55:04,420 --> 00:55:08,361
Mr. Richard Stockton,
and I'm the Reverend John Witherspoon.
901
00:55:11,668 --> 00:55:13,968
We're the new delegates
from New Jersey.
902
00:55:14,039 --> 00:55:16,772
New Jersey?
903
00:55:19,718 --> 00:55:25,219
Dr. Franklin, I regret that I must be
the bearer of unhappy tidings, sir...
904
00:55:25,296 --> 00:55:27,892
but your son,
the royal governor of New Jersey...
905
00:55:27,967 --> 00:55:29,903
has been taken prisoner...
906
00:55:29,971 --> 00:55:34,242
and has been moved under guard to the
colony of Connecticut for safekeeping.
907
00:55:34,314 --> 00:55:37,582
- Is he unharmed, sir?
- When last I heard, he was. Yes, sir.
908
00:55:37,654 --> 00:55:41,321
Then why the long face? I hear
Connecticut is an excellent location.
909
00:55:41,395 --> 00:55:44,765
Tell me. Why did they arrest
the little bastard?
910
00:55:46,872 --> 00:55:48,432
Our...
911
00:55:48,510 --> 00:55:52,244
New Jersey legislature has recalled
the old delegation to this Congress...
912
00:55:52,317 --> 00:55:55,448
and has sent a new one.
913
00:55:55,523 --> 00:55:57,993
Quickly, man, where do you
stand on independence?
914
00:55:58,061 --> 00:56:01,227
Well, haven't I made that clear?
Well, I suppose I haven't.
915
00:56:01,301 --> 00:56:03,237
But that's the reason
for the change.
916
00:56:03,305 --> 00:56:06,608
We've been instructed
to vote for independence.
917
00:56:06,679 --> 00:56:11,586
Massachusetts is now ready
for the vote on independence...
918
00:56:11,655 --> 00:56:15,994
and reminds the chair of its privilege
to decide all votes that are deadlocked.
919
00:56:16,064 --> 00:56:18,467
I won't forget, Mr. Adams.
920
00:56:19,638 --> 00:56:23,577
The chair takes this opportunity
to welcome the New Jersey delegation...
921
00:56:23,646 --> 00:56:27,141
and appoints the Reverend Witherspoon
congressional chaplain...
922
00:56:27,220 --> 00:56:31,389
- if he will accept the post.
- With much pleasure, sir.
923
00:56:32,631 --> 00:56:38,131
Very well. Mr. Thomson, you may now
proceed with the vote on independence.
924
00:56:38,208 --> 00:56:40,975
All in favor of the resolution
on independence...
925
00:56:41,047 --> 00:56:44,350
- as proposed by the colony of Virginia...
- Mr. President.
926
00:56:45,690 --> 00:56:50,462
Pennsylvania moves that any vote
in favor of independence...
927
00:56:51,569 --> 00:56:53,505
must be unanimous.
928
00:56:54,374 --> 00:56:56,971
- What?
- I second the motion.
929
00:56:57,046 --> 00:57:00,508
- Judge Wilson!
- Oh, my God.
930
00:57:00,587 --> 00:57:02,819
Delaware seconds, Mr. President.
931
00:57:02,891 --> 00:57:05,385
No vote has ever had to be unanimous,
Dickinson, and you know it.
932
00:57:05,464 --> 00:57:07,832
- Yes, but this one must be.
- On what grounds?
933
00:57:07,901 --> 00:57:11,773
That no colony be torn from its
mother country without its own consent.
934
00:57:11,843 --> 00:57:13,210
Hear! Hear!
935
00:57:13,279 --> 00:57:17,049
But it will never be unanimous,
damn it.
936
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,886
If you say so, Mr. Adams.
937
00:57:21,462 --> 00:57:24,798
It has been moved and seconded
that the vote on independence...
938
00:57:24,869 --> 00:57:27,102
must be unanimous
in order to carry.
939
00:57:27,174 --> 00:57:29,737
All those in favor,
signify by saying yea.
940
00:57:29,813 --> 00:57:30,746
Yea!
941
00:57:30,815 --> 00:57:35,279
One, two, three,
four, five, six.
942
00:57:35,357 --> 00:57:38,955
- Six colonies say yea. Against?
- Nay!
943
00:57:39,030 --> 00:57:43,267
One, two, three,
four, five, six.
944
00:57:43,339 --> 00:57:46,243
Six colonies say nay.
945
00:57:46,312 --> 00:57:51,254
Mr. Secretary, New York
abstains, courteously.
946
00:57:51,322 --> 00:57:55,661
Mr. Morris, why does New York
constantly abstain?
947
00:57:55,731 --> 00:57:58,396
Why does New York
simply stay in New York?
948
00:58:00,106 --> 00:58:02,269
Very well.
The vote is tied.
949
00:58:03,513 --> 00:58:06,953
The principles of independence
have no greater advocate in Congress...
950
00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:09,184
than its president...
951
00:58:09,259 --> 00:58:12,595
and that is why I must join those
who vote for unanimity.
952
00:58:12,665 --> 00:58:15,796
Good God, John!
What are you doing? You've sunk us.
953
00:58:15,871 --> 00:58:20,039
Now, hear me out. Don't you see that
any colony who opposes independence...
954
00:58:20,113 --> 00:58:22,049
will be forced to fight
on the side of England?
955
00:58:22,117 --> 00:58:24,850
That we'll be setting
brother against brother...
956
00:58:24,923 --> 00:58:29,331
that our new nation will carry
as its emblem the mark of Cain.
957
00:58:29,399 --> 00:58:31,335
I can see no other way.
958
00:58:31,403 --> 00:58:36,037
Either we all walk together
or together we must stay where we are.
959
00:58:37,682 --> 00:58:41,679
- The man's from Massachusetts.
- Very well. Proceed, Mr. Thomson.
960
00:58:41,757 --> 00:58:44,126
A unanimous vote
being necessary to carry...
961
00:58:44,195 --> 00:58:46,665
if any be opposed
to the resolution on independence...
962
00:58:46,733 --> 00:58:50,001
- as proposed by the colony of Virginia...
- Mr. President.
963
00:58:50,073 --> 00:58:52,841
Oh, for heaven's sake,
let me get through it once.
964
00:58:52,913 --> 00:58:54,849
Mr. President.
965
00:58:55,919 --> 00:58:58,481
- I move for a postponement.
- Postponement?
966
00:58:58,557 --> 00:59:00,493
I wish you the same luck
I had with it.
967
00:59:00,561 --> 00:59:02,497
Mr. Adams is right.
We need a postponement.
968
00:59:02,565 --> 00:59:05,936
- On what grounds?
- On what grounds?
969
00:59:06,006 --> 00:59:10,470
Mr. President, how can this Congress
vote on independence...
970
00:59:10,548 --> 00:59:15,650
without a written declaration
of some sort defining it?
971
00:59:16,827 --> 00:59:18,922
What sort of declaration?
972
00:59:20,134 --> 00:59:24,302
Well, you know. Listing
the reasons for the separation...
973
00:59:24,375 --> 00:59:27,780
our purposes, goals,
so forth, so on.
974
00:59:27,850 --> 00:59:30,252
- Ditto, Ditto.
- Ditto, ditto, et cetera, et cetera.
975
00:59:30,321 --> 00:59:31,789
We know those, don't we?
976
00:59:33,962 --> 00:59:36,559
Oh, yes, good God,
we know them.
977
00:59:36,634 --> 00:59:39,606
But what about
the rest of the world?
978
00:59:39,673 --> 00:59:42,041
Certainly we require
the assistance...
979
00:59:42,111 --> 00:59:45,606
of a powerful nation
such as France or Spain...
980
00:59:45,684 --> 00:59:50,457
and such a written declaration would
be consistent with European delicacy.
981
00:59:51,531 --> 00:59:55,061
Come now, Mr. Adams.
You'll have to do better than that.
982
00:59:55,137 --> 00:59:58,473
Answer straight.
What would be its purpose?
983
00:59:58,544 --> 01:00:01,345
Yes. Well...
984
01:00:03,956 --> 01:00:08,920
To place before mankind
the common sense of the subject...
985
01:00:08,998 --> 01:00:12,232
in terms so plain and firm...
986
01:00:12,305 --> 01:00:15,106
as to command their assent.
987
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:25,427
Mr. Jefferson,
are you seriously suggesting...
988
01:00:25,498 --> 01:00:28,402
that we publish a paper
declaring to all the world...
989
01:00:28,471 --> 01:00:32,742
that an illegal rebellion is,
in reality, a legal one?
990
01:00:32,814 --> 01:00:35,649
Oh, Mr. Dickinson,
I'm surprised at you.
991
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:38,486
You should know the rebellion
is always legal in the first person...
992
01:00:38,558 --> 01:00:40,083
such as our rebellion.
993
01:00:40,161 --> 01:00:43,429
It's only in the third person...
"their" rebellion... that it is illegal.
994
01:00:45,673 --> 01:00:49,612
Mr. President, I second the motion
to postpone the vote on independence...
995
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,518
for a period of time sufficient
for the writing of a declaration.
996
01:00:53,588 --> 01:00:55,956
It has been moved and seconded.
Mr. Thomson.
997
01:00:56,026 --> 01:00:59,660
All those in favor of the motion
to postpone, signify by saying yea.
998
01:00:59,734 --> 01:01:01,134
Yea!
999
01:01:01,203 --> 01:01:05,439
One, two, three,
four, five, six.
1000
01:01:05,512 --> 01:01:08,484
- Six colonies say yea. Against?
- Nay!
1001
01:01:08,551 --> 01:01:13,153
One, two, three,
four, five, six.
1002
01:01:13,228 --> 01:01:15,197
Six colonies say nay.
1003
01:01:17,503 --> 01:01:21,499
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains, courteously.
1004
01:01:25,988 --> 01:01:30,326
Mr. Morris, what in hell
goes on in New York?
1005
01:01:30,396 --> 01:01:34,096
I'm sorry, Mr. President,
but the simple fact is that...
1006
01:01:34,169 --> 01:01:39,578
our legislature has never sent us
explicit instructions on anything.
1007
01:01:39,646 --> 01:01:42,118
Never?
1008
01:01:42,186 --> 01:01:44,122
That's impossible.
1009
01:01:44,926 --> 01:01:47,192
Mr. President,
have you ever been present...
1010
01:01:47,264 --> 01:01:50,293
at a meeting
of the New York legislature?
1011
01:01:50,370 --> 01:01:52,840
They speak very fast
and very loud...
1012
01:01:52,908 --> 01:01:55,380
and nobody listens
to anybody else...
1013
01:01:55,447 --> 01:01:58,817
with the result
that nothing ever gets done.
1014
01:02:00,891 --> 01:02:02,952
I beg the Congress's pardon.
1015
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,964
My sympathies, Mr. Morris.
1016
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,809
The vote again being tied, the chair
decides in favor of postponement.
1017
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:13,645
So ruled.
1018
01:02:13,717 --> 01:02:15,914
A committee will now be formed
to manage the declaration.
1019
01:02:15,988 --> 01:02:18,858
Said document to be written, debated,
approved by the beginning ofJuly...
1020
01:02:18,927 --> 01:02:21,832
some three weeks hence,
at which time...
1021
01:02:21,901 --> 01:02:25,840
Virginia's resolution on independence
will finally be voted.
1022
01:02:25,908 --> 01:02:28,471
Is that clear? Very well.
1023
01:02:28,547 --> 01:02:32,145
Will the following gentlemen serve on
the Declaration Committee: Dr. Franklin?
1024
01:02:32,220 --> 01:02:33,313
Gladly.
1025
01:02:33,389 --> 01:02:35,382
- Mr. John Adams?
- Yes.
1026
01:02:35,460 --> 01:02:36,554
Mr. Sherman?
1027
01:02:37,632 --> 01:02:39,397
- Mr. Livingston?
- Right.
1028
01:02:39,469 --> 01:02:41,371
And, of course, Mr. Lee.
1029
01:02:41,439 --> 01:02:45,812
Oh, excuse me, but I must be returning
to the sovereign colony of Virginia...
1030
01:02:45,881 --> 01:02:48,478
as I have been asked
to serve as governor.
1031
01:02:48,553 --> 01:02:52,459
And therefore I must decline,
respectful-Lee.
1032
01:02:56,670 --> 01:02:58,902
Very well, Mr. Lee.
You're excused.
1033
01:02:58,974 --> 01:03:01,537
I supposed we could leave it
a four-man committee.
1034
01:03:01,613 --> 01:03:03,981
Just a moment.
This business needs a Virginian.
1035
01:03:04,051 --> 01:03:06,580
Therefore, I propose a replacement...
Mr. Thomas Jefferson.
1036
01:03:06,657 --> 01:03:09,720
- No. Mr. Adams...
- Very well. Mr. Jefferson will serve.
1037
01:03:09,797 --> 01:03:12,324
- I'm going home, too, to my wife.
- Move to adjourn.
1038
01:03:12,401 --> 01:03:13,869
- Wait.
- I second.
1039
01:03:13,938 --> 01:03:17,342
Mr. Hancock,
I haven't seen her for six months.
1040
01:03:17,411 --> 01:03:19,348
Moved and seconded.
Any objections?
1041
01:03:19,416 --> 01:03:21,579
I have objections.
I have lots of objections.
1042
01:03:21,654 --> 01:03:23,783
So ruled!
Congress stands adjourned!
1043
01:03:23,858 --> 01:03:26,226
John, I need to see my wife.
1044
01:03:26,296 --> 01:03:29,963
- It's all right. Come along.
- No. I'm going home tonight.
1045
01:03:30,037 --> 01:03:35,743
Of course you are. Of course.
McNair, some rum up to my office.
1046
01:03:35,815 --> 01:03:39,755
Don't worry, Tom.
Let me handle it.
1047
01:03:39,823 --> 01:03:41,759
I'll get Adams to write it.
1048
01:03:41,827 --> 01:03:44,297
I don't know.
He had a funny look on his face.
1049
01:03:44,365 --> 01:03:45,765
He always does.
1050
01:03:45,834 --> 01:03:48,602
All right, gentlemen,
let's get on with it.
1051
01:03:48,674 --> 01:03:51,703
Which of us will write
our Declaration of Independence?
1052
01:03:53,283 --> 01:03:57,348
Mr. Adams
I say you should write it
1053
01:03:57,424 --> 01:03:59,725
To your legal mind
and brilliance we defer
1054
01:03:59,797 --> 01:04:03,293
Is that so
Well, if I'm the one to do it
1055
01:04:03,371 --> 01:04:05,238
They'll run their quill pens
through it
1056
01:04:05,308 --> 01:04:08,040
I'm obnoxious and disliked
You know that, sir
1057
01:04:08,113 --> 01:04:11,085
- Yes, I know.
- I say you should write it, Franklin
1058
01:04:11,152 --> 01:04:12,883
- Yes, you
- Hell, no
1059
01:04:12,956 --> 01:04:15,519
Yes, you, Dr. Franklin, you
1060
01:04:15,595 --> 01:04:17,360
- But, but
- You, you
1061
01:04:17,432 --> 01:04:19,595
- You
- But
1062
01:04:21,674 --> 01:04:25,273
Mr. Adams
But, Mr. Adams
1063
01:04:25,348 --> 01:04:28,788
The things I write
are only light extemporanea
1064
01:04:28,856 --> 01:04:32,420
I won't put politics on paper
It's a mania
1065
01:04:32,495 --> 01:04:36,367
So I refuse to use the pen
in Pennsylvania
1066
01:04:36,437 --> 01:04:40,207
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
1067
01:04:40,278 --> 01:04:44,082
Refuse to use the pen
1068
01:04:54,873 --> 01:04:58,336
Mr. Sherman
I say you should write it
1069
01:04:58,415 --> 01:05:01,147
You were never controversial
as it were
1070
01:05:01,220 --> 01:05:04,351
- That is true.
- Whereas, if I'm the one to do it
1071
01:05:04,426 --> 01:05:06,362
They'll run
their quill pens through it
1072
01:05:06,430 --> 01:05:07,990
I'm obnoxious and disliked
1073
01:05:08,067 --> 01:05:09,763
- You know that, sir
- Yes, I do.
1074
01:05:09,836 --> 01:05:12,638
So I say you should write it
Roger, yes, you
1075
01:05:12,710 --> 01:05:16,548
- Good heavens, no.
- Yes, you, Roger Sherman, you
1076
01:05:16,618 --> 01:05:18,485
- But, but
- You, you
1077
01:05:18,555 --> 01:05:20,582
But
1078
01:05:22,095 --> 01:05:25,626
Mr. Adams
But, Mr. Adams
1079
01:05:25,703 --> 01:05:29,370
I cannot write with any style
or proper etiquette
1080
01:05:29,444 --> 01:05:33,008
I don't know a participle
from a predicate
1081
01:05:33,084 --> 01:05:35,920
I am just a simple cobbler
from Connecticut
1082
01:05:37,025 --> 01:05:40,624
Connecticut
Connecticut
1083
01:05:40,699 --> 01:05:44,366
A simple cobbler, he
1084
01:05:54,628 --> 01:05:58,465
Mr. Livingston
maybe you should write it
1085
01:05:58,535 --> 01:06:01,302
You have many friends
and you're a diplomat
1086
01:06:01,374 --> 01:06:04,244
- Oh, that word.
- Whereas, if I'm the one to do it
1087
01:06:04,313 --> 01:06:06,043
They'll run their quill pens
through it
1088
01:06:06,116 --> 01:06:08,554
He's obnoxious and disliked
Did you know that
1089
01:06:08,623 --> 01:06:11,492
- I hadn't heard.
- So I say you should write it, Robert
1090
01:06:11,561 --> 01:06:13,121
- Yes, you
- Not me, Johnny
1091
01:06:13,198 --> 01:06:15,965
Yes, you, Robert Livingston, you
1092
01:06:16,037 --> 01:06:16,970
- But
- You
1093
01:06:17,039 --> 01:06:18,302
- But, but
- You, you
1094
01:06:18,375 --> 01:06:22,373
But
1095
01:06:22,451 --> 01:06:25,753
Mr. Adams
Dear Mr. Adams
1096
01:06:25,824 --> 01:06:29,388
I've been presented with a new son
by the noble stork
1097
01:06:29,464 --> 01:06:33,097
So I am going home to celebrate
and pop a cork
1098
01:06:33,171 --> 01:06:36,872
With all the Livingstons together
back in old New York
1099
01:06:36,946 --> 01:06:40,816
New York
1100
01:06:40,887 --> 01:06:46,957
Livingston's
going to pop a cork
1101
01:06:56,952 --> 01:06:59,583
Mr. Adams
1102
01:06:59,658 --> 01:07:03,290
Leave me alone
1103
01:07:04,801 --> 01:07:07,034
- Mr. Jefferson.
- Mr. Adams, I beg of you.
1104
01:07:07,107 --> 01:07:10,443
I've not seen my wife
these past six months.
1105
01:07:10,513 --> 01:07:14,350
"And we solemnly declare
that we will preserve our liberties...
1106
01:07:14,420 --> 01:07:17,415
being with one mind
resolved to die free men...
1107
01:07:17,493 --> 01:07:19,088
rather than to live slaves."
1108
01:07:19,164 --> 01:07:23,901
Thomas Jefferson, on the "Necessity
ofTaking up Arms," 1775.
1109
01:07:23,973 --> 01:07:25,408
Magnificent.
1110
01:07:25,476 --> 01:07:31,078
You write ten times better
than any man in Congress, including me.
1111
01:07:31,154 --> 01:07:37,066
For a man of only 33 years, you possess
a happy talent for composition...
1112
01:07:37,133 --> 01:07:40,628
and a remarkable felicity
of expression.
1113
01:07:40,707 --> 01:07:43,838
Now, then, sir.
Will you be a patriot...
1114
01:07:43,913 --> 01:07:45,849
or a lover?
1115
01:07:47,187 --> 01:07:49,123
A lover.
1116
01:07:50,661 --> 01:07:55,830
- But I burn, Mr. A.
- So do I, Mr.J.
1117
01:07:55,903 --> 01:07:57,395
- You?
- You do?
1118
01:07:57,474 --> 01:07:58,965
Who'd have thought it?
1119
01:08:00,781 --> 01:08:02,876
Mr. Jefferson
1120
01:08:02,952 --> 01:08:06,118
Dear Mr. Jefferson
1121
01:08:06,191 --> 01:08:11,828
I'm only 41
I still have my virility
1122
01:08:11,902 --> 01:08:16,845
And I can romp through Cupid's grove
with great agility
1123
01:08:18,115 --> 01:08:23,422
But life is more
than sexual combustability
1124
01:08:23,492 --> 01:08:25,519
- Jefferson, stop right there.
- Bustability
1125
01:08:25,596 --> 01:08:27,759
Bustability
1126
01:08:27,834 --> 01:08:31,331
- Combustabili...
- Quiet!
1127
01:08:35,016 --> 01:08:37,749
Now, you'll write it, Mr.J.
1128
01:08:37,822 --> 01:08:40,588
Who will make me, Mr. A.?
1129
01:08:40,661 --> 01:08:42,597
I.
1130
01:08:42,665 --> 01:08:44,225
You?
1131
01:08:44,302 --> 01:08:45,736
Yes.
1132
01:08:49,579 --> 01:08:52,243
How?
1133
01:08:52,317 --> 01:08:56,314
By physical force, if necessary.
1134
01:08:56,393 --> 01:08:59,388
It's your duty, damn it.
Your duty.
1135
01:09:01,336 --> 01:09:03,568
Mr. Adams
1136
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:07,101
Damn you, Mr. Adams
1137
01:09:07,180 --> 01:09:09,845
You're obnoxious and disliked
1138
01:09:09,919 --> 01:09:12,790
That cannot be denied
1139
01:09:12,859 --> 01:09:18,803
Once again you stand
between me and my lovely bride
1140
01:09:18,870 --> 01:09:22,833
Lovely bride
1141
01:09:23,914 --> 01:09:29,517
Oh, Mr. Adams
you are driving me to homicide
1142
01:09:29,592 --> 01:09:31,619
- Jefferson, stop right there!
- Homicide
1143
01:09:31,696 --> 01:09:32,789
Homicide
1144
01:09:32,866 --> 01:09:34,801
Quiet!
1145
01:09:39,947 --> 01:09:43,910
The decision is yours, Mr. Jefferson.
Do as you like with it.
1146
01:09:47,863 --> 01:09:55,676
We may see murder yet
1147
01:10:02,693 --> 01:10:04,629
Damn the man.
1148
01:10:07,303 --> 01:10:09,239
Goddamn the man.
1149
01:10:56,969 --> 01:10:58,905
Sorry.
1150
01:11:00,676 --> 01:11:02,612
Pardon me, sir.
1151
01:11:04,551 --> 01:11:06,578
How are you?
1152
01:11:21,218 --> 01:11:22,447
What is that racket?
1153
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,615
Latest thing from Europe, John.
It's called music.
1154
01:11:24,691 --> 01:11:28,061
I came here hoping to hear
a pen scratching, not a bow.
1155
01:11:30,804 --> 01:11:34,004
Jefferson,
I know you're in there!
1156
01:11:36,215 --> 01:11:38,276
Are you finished?
1157
01:11:39,521 --> 01:11:41,457
Well, is it written yet?
1158
01:11:44,331 --> 01:11:46,894
Well, you've had
a whole week, man.
1159
01:11:46,970 --> 01:11:49,999
Is it done?
1160
01:11:50,076 --> 01:11:52,046
Can I see it?
1161
01:11:59,061 --> 01:12:01,554
"There comes a time in the lives of men
when it becomes necessary...
1162
01:12:01,633 --> 01:12:04,969
to advance from that subordination
in which they have hitherto rem..."
1163
01:12:05,039 --> 01:12:08,273
This is terrible.
Where's the rest of it?
1164
01:12:14,625 --> 01:12:18,725
Do you mean to say
that it is not yet finished?
1165
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:23,264
No, sir. I mean to say
that it's not yet begun.
1166
01:12:23,342 --> 01:12:26,280
Good God!
1167
01:12:26,348 --> 01:12:28,785
A whole week!
1168
01:12:28,853 --> 01:12:31,882
The entire earth
was created in a week.
1169
01:12:35,634 --> 01:12:39,334
Someday you must
tell me how you did it.
1170
01:12:42,047 --> 01:12:44,917
Disgusting.
1171
01:12:44,987 --> 01:12:48,983
Look at him, Franklin.
Virginia's most famous lover...
1172
01:12:49,562 --> 01:12:51,589
Virginia abstains.
1173
01:12:55,273 --> 01:12:57,301
Well, cheer up, Jefferson.
1174
01:12:57,378 --> 01:12:59,314
Get out of the dumps.
It'll come out all right, I assure you.
1175
01:12:59,382 --> 01:13:02,445
Now, get back to work.
1176
01:13:02,521 --> 01:13:05,118
Franklin, tell him
to get back to work.
1177
01:13:05,193 --> 01:13:07,755
I think he's asleep.
1178
01:13:09,936 --> 01:13:12,099
Wake up, Franklin!
1179
01:13:15,982 --> 01:13:19,250
View, hello!
And who, little girl, are you?
1180
01:13:23,095 --> 01:13:26,365
- John, who is she?
- His wife.
1181
01:13:27,405 --> 01:13:29,875
I hope.
1182
01:13:29,943 --> 01:13:31,879
What makes you think so?
1183
01:13:31,947 --> 01:13:36,012
- Because I sent for her.
- You what?
1184
01:13:36,089 --> 01:13:38,652
It simply occurred to me that
the sooner his problem was solved...
1185
01:13:38,728 --> 01:13:40,755
the sooner our problem
is solved.
1186
01:13:40,832 --> 01:13:43,599
That's good thinking, John.
Good thinking.
1187
01:13:43,671 --> 01:13:46,973
Madam, may I present myself?
John Adams.
1188
01:13:55,094 --> 01:13:57,291
Oh, and Dr. Franklin.
1189
01:13:59,669 --> 01:14:01,798
The inventor of the stove.
1190
01:14:06,383 --> 01:14:09,651
Jefferson, kindly present me
to your wife.
1191
01:14:12,095 --> 01:14:14,189
She is your wife, isn't she?
1192
01:14:14,266 --> 01:14:16,998
Of course she is.
Look at the way they fit.
1193
01:14:19,008 --> 01:14:20,945
Come along, John,
come along.
1194
01:14:21,013 --> 01:14:23,279
- Franklin, where are you going?
- Come along, John.
1195
01:14:23,350 --> 01:14:25,616
Come along where?
There's work to be done.
1196
01:14:25,688 --> 01:14:27,817
Obviously.
1197
01:14:27,892 --> 01:14:32,128
Good God.
You don't mean to say that...
1198
01:14:32,201 --> 01:14:35,265
I mean, they're not going to...
1199
01:14:35,341 --> 01:14:37,904
In the middle
of the afternoon?
1200
01:14:37,980 --> 01:14:41,350
Not everybody's from Boston, John.
1201
01:14:41,420 --> 01:14:43,356
Incredible.
1202
01:14:43,424 --> 01:14:47,626
- Well, good-bye, John.
- Uh, Franklin?
1203
01:14:47,699 --> 01:14:50,364
- Uh, have you eaten?
- Not yet, but...
1204
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,534
I understand the turkey's fresh
at Bunch O' Grapes.
1205
01:14:52,610 --> 01:14:55,672
Well, the fact is,
I have a rendezvous, John.
1206
01:14:55,749 --> 01:14:59,085
I'd ask you along,
but talking makes her nervous.
1207
01:15:01,627 --> 01:15:03,564
Yes, of course.
1208
01:15:23,037 --> 01:15:25,702
Incredible.
1209
01:15:32,323 --> 01:15:35,055
Abigail?
1210
01:15:35,128 --> 01:15:37,598
I'm very lonely, Abigail.
1211
01:15:37,666 --> 01:15:40,695
Are you, John? Then as long as
you were sending for wives...
1212
01:15:40,772 --> 01:15:42,708
why didn't you
send for your own?
1213
01:15:42,776 --> 01:15:45,680
Oh, now, don't be
unreasonable, Abigail.
1214
01:15:45,750 --> 01:15:47,982
Oh, now I'm unreasonable.
1215
01:15:48,054 --> 01:15:52,757
- You must add that to your list.
- List?
1216
01:15:52,830 --> 01:15:57,568
The catalog of my faults
you included in your last letter.
1217
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:01,205
Oh, they were
fondly intended, madam.
1218
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,514
- That I play at cards badly?
- A compliment.
1219
01:16:04,587 --> 01:16:08,960
- That my posture is crooked?
- An endearment.
1220
01:16:09,029 --> 01:16:13,164
- That I read, write and think too much?
- An irony.
1221
01:16:13,238 --> 01:16:15,299
That I'm pigeon-toed?
1222
01:16:17,246 --> 01:16:19,843
Oh, well, now there
you have me, Abby.
1223
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,552
I'm afraid
you are pigeon-toed.
1224
01:16:25,629 --> 01:16:29,968
Please. Come to Philadelphia.
Please come.
1225
01:16:30,038 --> 01:16:32,440
Oh, thank you, John.
1226
01:16:32,509 --> 01:16:34,536
I do want to, but you know now
it's not possible.
1227
01:16:34,613 --> 01:16:36,846
The children have the measles.
1228
01:16:36,919 --> 01:16:38,911
So you wrote.
1229
01:16:40,125 --> 01:16:42,061
Tom and little Abby.
1230
01:16:42,129 --> 01:16:44,430
Only now it's Quincy and Charles.
1231
01:16:46,772 --> 01:16:50,040
And it appears the farm here
in Braintree is failing, John.
1232
01:16:51,447 --> 01:16:54,544
The chickens and the geese
have all died.
1233
01:16:54,620 --> 01:16:57,923
And the apples never
survived the late frost.
1234
01:16:59,297 --> 01:17:03,361
How do you suppose
she managed to get away?
1235
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:06,673
Well, the winters
are softer in Virginia.
1236
01:17:06,745 --> 01:17:09,615
And their women, John?
1237
01:17:09,684 --> 01:17:14,922
Fit for Virginians, madam, but pale,
puny things beside New England girls.
1238
01:17:18,101 --> 01:17:20,128
I thank you for that.
1239
01:17:23,947 --> 01:17:26,885
Abigail, how goes it with you?
1240
01:17:26,953 --> 01:17:30,015
Not well, John.
Not at all well.
1241
01:17:30,293 --> 01:17:34,255
I live like a nun
in a cloister
1242
01:17:34,334 --> 01:17:38,274
Solitary, celibate
I hate it
1243
01:17:38,342 --> 01:17:40,278
And you, John?
1244
01:17:40,346 --> 01:17:44,650
I live like a monk
in an abbey
1245
01:17:44,721 --> 01:17:47,124
Ditto, ditto
I hate it
1246
01:17:48,462 --> 01:17:56,275
Write to me with
sentimental effusion
1247
01:17:56,345 --> 01:18:04,783
Let me revel
in romantic illusion
1248
01:18:04,861 --> 01:18:11,900
Do you still smell
of vanilla and spring air
1249
01:18:13,412 --> 01:18:17,253
And is my favorite lover's pillow
1250
01:18:17,453 --> 01:18:21,256
Still firm and fair
1251
01:18:22,030 --> 01:18:27,106
What was there, John
1252
01:18:27,574 --> 01:18:34,199
Still is there, John
1253
01:18:35,223 --> 01:18:39,103
Come soon as you can
to my cloister
1254
01:18:39,498 --> 01:18:44,099
I've forgotten
the feel of your hand
1255
01:18:44,299 --> 01:18:48,469
Soon, madam, we shall walk
in Cupid's grove together
1256
01:18:48,585 --> 01:18:54,410
And we'll fondly survey
1257
01:18:55,030 --> 01:19:02,274
That promised land
1258
01:19:02,346 --> 01:19:06,878
Till then, till then
1259
01:19:06,954 --> 01:19:12,522
I am as I ever was
1260
01:19:12,598 --> 01:19:17,303
And ever shall be
1261
01:19:17,825 --> 01:19:20,039
Yours
1262
01:19:20,239 --> 01:19:22,213
Yours
1263
01:19:22,456 --> 01:19:24,856
Yours
1264
01:19:25,100 --> 01:19:27,700
Yours
1265
01:19:28,127 --> 01:19:31,588
Yours
1266
01:19:31,804 --> 01:19:34,207
Saltpeter
1267
01:19:35,412 --> 01:19:38,873
John
1268
01:19:50,809 --> 01:19:52,972
- What?
- What are you doing down here?
1269
01:19:53,046 --> 01:19:55,073
I thought you'd be up there,
cracking the whip.
1270
01:19:55,150 --> 01:19:59,923
- Well, the shutters are still closed.
- My word!
1271
01:19:59,994 --> 01:20:02,362
So they are.
1272
01:20:03,968 --> 01:20:07,202
- Well, as the French say...
- Oh, please, Franklin!
1273
01:20:07,275 --> 01:20:11,773
Spare me your bawdy mind,
first thing in the morning.
1274
01:20:11,852 --> 01:20:13,115
Dare we call?
1275
01:20:13,187 --> 01:20:15,282
A congressman dares anything.
1276
01:20:15,358 --> 01:20:17,453
- Go ahead.
- Me?
1277
01:20:17,529 --> 01:20:21,697
Your voice is more piercing.
1278
01:20:21,770 --> 01:20:25,801
- Oh, John, look at her.
- Oh, I am.
1279
01:20:25,879 --> 01:20:28,316
She's even more magnificent
than I remember.
1280
01:20:30,288 --> 01:20:32,851
Of course, we didn't see
much of her front last night.
1281
01:20:32,927 --> 01:20:34,920
- Good morrow, madam.
- Good morrow.
1282
01:20:38,504 --> 01:20:42,468
Is it the habit in Philadelphia
to shout at ladies from the street?
1283
01:20:42,546 --> 01:20:44,778
- Not really, but...
- And for men of your age...
1284
01:20:44,851 --> 01:20:48,346
it is not only unseemly,
it is unsightly.
1285
01:20:49,559 --> 01:20:52,793
Excuse me, madam,
but we met last evening.
1286
01:20:53,801 --> 01:20:56,865
- I spoke to no one last evening.
- Indeed, you did not.
1287
01:20:56,942 --> 01:20:59,539
Nonetheless, we did present ourselves.
1288
01:20:59,614 --> 01:21:02,677
This is Mr. John Adams.
I'm Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
1289
01:21:03,956 --> 01:21:07,087
The inventor of the stove.
1290
01:21:07,318 --> 01:21:10,915
Oh, please! I know your names
very well, but...
1291
01:21:10,990 --> 01:21:13,618
Well, you said you
presented yourselves last night?
1292
01:21:13,693 --> 01:21:16,389
It's of no matter.
Your thoughts are well-taken elsewhere.
1293
01:21:18,999 --> 01:21:21,160
As my husband
is not yet up.
1294
01:21:21,235 --> 01:21:23,864
Well, then shall we start over again?
Won't you join us?
1295
01:21:23,938 --> 01:21:26,806
Why, yes, of course!
1296
01:21:28,577 --> 01:21:30,101
No wonder
the man couldn't write.
1297
01:21:30,179 --> 01:21:32,113
Who would think of independence
married to her?
1298
01:21:32,181 --> 01:21:34,514
- I'd feel an absolute fool.
- That's good for you, John.
1299
01:21:34,584 --> 01:21:36,519
I tell you, Franklin,
it's positively indecent.
1300
01:21:36,587 --> 01:21:40,114
- John, they're young and in love.
- Not them, Franklin. Us.
1301
01:21:40,191 --> 01:21:44,492
Standing down here,
waiting for them to...
1302
01:21:44,563 --> 01:21:46,497
Well, what will people think?
1303
01:21:46,565 --> 01:21:49,933
Don't worry, John.
The history books will clean it up.
1304
01:21:50,003 --> 01:21:51,266
Well, it doesn't matter.
1305
01:21:51,338 --> 01:21:54,967
I'll not appear in the history books
anyway. Only you.
1306
01:21:55,042 --> 01:21:57,307
Franklin did this
and Franklin did that...
1307
01:21:57,379 --> 01:22:00,007
and Franklin did
some other damned thing.
1308
01:22:00,081 --> 01:22:02,777
Franklin smote the ground
and out sprang...
1309
01:22:02,851 --> 01:22:04,786
George Washington...
1310
01:22:04,854 --> 01:22:07,449
fully grown and on his horse.
1311
01:22:07,524 --> 01:22:10,755
Franklin then electrified him
with his miraculous lightning rod...
1312
01:22:10,827 --> 01:22:14,628
then the three of them...
Franklin, Washington and the horse...
1313
01:22:14,699 --> 01:22:17,930
conducted the entire revolution
all by themselves.
1314
01:22:21,041 --> 01:22:26,447
- I like it.
- I beg your pardon, gentlemen.
1315
01:22:27,014 --> 01:22:31,008
It is indeed an honor to meet
the two greatest men in America.
1316
01:22:31,086 --> 01:22:33,385
Certainly the greatest
within earshot anyway.
1317
01:22:33,756 --> 01:22:35,690
I'm not an idle flatterer,
Dr. Franklin.
1318
01:22:36,058 --> 01:22:38,297
My husband
admires you both greatly.
1319
01:22:38,497 --> 01:22:39,557
Then we are doubly flattered
1320
01:22:39,757 --> 01:22:43,628
for we admire very much
that what your husband admires.
1321
01:22:48,465 --> 01:22:50,696
Did you sleep well, madam?
1322
01:22:52,370 --> 01:22:55,306
Well, I mean, uh,
did you lie comfortably?
1323
01:22:57,043 --> 01:22:59,205
- Damn it, you know what I mean.
- Yes, we know what you mean.
1324
01:22:59,279 --> 01:23:02,248
Tell us about yourself.
We've heard precious little.
1325
01:23:02,315 --> 01:23:04,283
- What's your first name?
- Martha.
1326
01:23:04,351 --> 01:23:08,289
Martha! He might at least
have told us that.
1327
01:23:08,357 --> 01:23:10,291
Your husband
doesn't say very much.
1328
01:23:10,359 --> 01:23:13,453
Most silent man in Congress. I've never
heard him utter three sentences together.
1329
01:23:13,529 --> 01:23:15,464
Not every man's a talker, John.
1330
01:23:15,532 --> 01:23:19,935
Yes, it's true, you know.
Tom is not a talker.
1331
01:23:22,441 --> 01:23:26,036
Oh, he never speaks his passions
1332
01:23:26,111 --> 01:23:28,978
He never speaks his views
1333
01:23:29,047 --> 01:23:32,745
Whereas other men speak volumes
1334
01:23:32,819 --> 01:23:37,154
The man I love is mute
1335
01:23:37,224 --> 01:23:39,819
In truth I can't recall
1336
01:23:39,894 --> 01:23:43,125
Being wooed with words
1337
01:23:43,198 --> 01:23:45,632
At all
1338
01:23:45,700 --> 01:23:49,570
Even now
1339
01:23:49,639 --> 01:23:53,006
- Oh, don't stop, madam.
- No. Tell us, how did he win you?
1340
01:23:53,076 --> 01:23:56,342
And how does he hold on
to a bounty such as you?
1341
01:23:56,414 --> 01:23:59,872
Well, surely you've noticed that Tom
is a man of many accomplishments.
1342
01:23:59,951 --> 01:24:04,617
Author, lawyer,
statesman, architect, farmer.
1343
01:24:04,691 --> 01:24:08,889
And still one more
that I hesitate to mention.
1344
01:24:08,962 --> 01:24:11,796
- Don't hesitate, madam.
- No, tell us.
1345
01:24:11,866 --> 01:24:15,097
What else can that
redheaded tombstone do?
1346
01:24:16,837 --> 01:24:21,867
He plays the violin
1347
01:24:21,944 --> 01:24:26,279
He tucks it
right under his chin
1348
01:24:26,350 --> 01:24:28,477
And he bows
1349
01:24:28,552 --> 01:24:30,486
Oh, he bows
1350
01:24:30,554 --> 01:24:34,617
For he knows
Yes, he knows
1351
01:24:34,693 --> 01:24:38,925
That it's heigh, heigh
heigh diddle-diddle
1352
01:24:38,998 --> 01:24:42,594
'Twixt my heart
Tom and his fiddle
1353
01:24:42,669 --> 01:24:46,162
My strings are unstrung
1354
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:49,368
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1355
01:24:49,443 --> 01:24:52,811
Heigh
1356
01:24:52,881 --> 01:24:55,975
I am undone
1357
01:24:56,051 --> 01:24:57,382
The violin, madam?
1358
01:24:57,452 --> 01:25:01,083
I hear his violin
1359
01:25:01,158 --> 01:25:04,423
And I get that feeling within
1360
01:25:04,495 --> 01:25:08,398
And I sigh
Oh, I sigh
1361
01:25:08,466 --> 01:25:11,867
He draws near
very near
1362
01:25:11,937 --> 01:25:16,137
And it's heigh, heigh
heigh diddle-diddle
1363
01:25:16,210 --> 01:25:19,805
And good-bye to the fiddle
1364
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:23,544
My strings are unstrung
1365
01:25:23,618 --> 01:25:26,451
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1366
01:25:26,521 --> 01:25:29,890
Heigh
1367
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,121
I'm always undone
1368
01:25:32,195 --> 01:25:34,163
That settles it, John.
We're taking up the violin.
1369
01:25:34,231 --> 01:25:37,132
Very well, madam. You have us playing
the violin. What happens next?
1370
01:25:37,201 --> 01:25:39,965
- Next, Mr. Adams?
- Yes. What does Tom do now?
1371
01:25:40,037 --> 01:25:42,939
Why, just what you'd expect.
1372
01:25:44,176 --> 01:25:47,305
- We dance.
- Dance?
1373
01:25:47,380 --> 01:25:49,644
Dance? Incredible!
1374
01:25:49,716 --> 01:25:52,708
One, two, three.
One, two, three.
1375
01:25:57,259 --> 01:25:59,193
Who's playing the violin?
1376
01:25:59,261 --> 01:26:01,355
Oh, John, really!
1377
01:26:36,905 --> 01:26:39,374
Oh, John, you can dance.
1378
01:26:39,442 --> 01:26:42,640
We still do a few things
in Boston, Franklin.
1379
01:26:56,997 --> 01:26:59,727
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1380
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:04,364
Heigh
1381
01:27:04,438 --> 01:27:08,274
When heaven calls to me
1382
01:27:08,344 --> 01:27:11,336
Sing me no sad elegy
1383
01:27:11,413 --> 01:27:13,348
Say I died
1384
01:27:13,416 --> 01:27:15,350
Loving bride
1385
01:27:15,418 --> 01:27:18,683
Loving wife
Loving life
1386
01:27:18,755 --> 01:27:22,750
For it was heigh, heigh
heigh, diddle-diddle
1387
01:27:22,828 --> 01:27:26,559
'Twixt my heart
Tom and his fiddle
1388
01:27:26,631 --> 01:27:31,092
And ever 'twill be
1389
01:27:35,042 --> 01:27:37,603
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1390
01:27:37,679 --> 01:27:41,410
- Heigh
- Heigh
1391
01:27:41,483 --> 01:27:45,944
- Through eternity
- He plays the violin
1392
01:27:46,021 --> 01:27:54,463
He plays the violin
1393
01:28:02,641 --> 01:28:05,975
Look! Look, Franklin, he's done it.
He's written it.
1394
01:28:08,048 --> 01:28:10,608
"Dear Mr. Adams,
I am taking my wife back to bed.
1395
01:28:10,684 --> 01:28:14,586
Kindly go away.
Your obedient, T. Jefferson."
1396
01:28:14,655 --> 01:28:16,590
Incredible!
1397
01:28:18,027 --> 01:28:20,757
You know, perhaps I should have
written the declaration after all.
1398
01:28:20,830 --> 01:28:24,733
At my age, there's little doubt
the pen is mightier than the sword.
1399
01:28:27,204 --> 01:28:32,007
For it's heigh, heigh
heigh, diddle-diddle
1400
01:28:32,077 --> 01:28:36,104
And God bless
a man who can fiddle
1401
01:28:36,182 --> 01:28:40,017
And independency
1402
01:28:40,086 --> 01:28:42,884
Heigh, heigh, heigh
1403
01:28:42,956 --> 01:28:45,255
Heigh
1404
01:28:45,326 --> 01:28:50,458
Ya da da da la
1405
01:28:50,532 --> 01:28:53,592
Through eternity
1406
01:28:53,669 --> 01:28:58,471
He plays the violin
1407
01:28:58,541 --> 01:29:08,512
Violin
1408
01:29:14,595 --> 01:29:16,722
Pennsylvania, Delaware...
1409
01:29:16,797 --> 01:29:19,288
Maryland...
Virginia's absent...
1410
01:29:19,366 --> 01:29:23,667
and North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.
1411
01:29:23,738 --> 01:29:26,832
And what follows is a complete
and up-to-date list...
1412
01:29:26,908 --> 01:29:29,208
of all the committees
of this Congress...
1413
01:29:29,279 --> 01:29:33,739
now sitting, about to sit
or just having sat.
1414
01:29:33,817 --> 01:29:36,912
"A committee formed to investigate
a complaint made against...
1415
01:29:36,988 --> 01:29:40,549
the quality of yeast manufactured
by Mr. Henry Pendleton's mill...
1416
01:29:40,625 --> 01:29:42,890
designated as the Yeast Committee.
1417
01:29:42,961 --> 01:29:47,262
A committee formed to consider the most
effective method of dealing with spies...
1418
01:29:47,333 --> 01:29:51,361
designated as
the Spies Committee.
1419
01:29:51,438 --> 01:29:54,498
A committee formed
to think, perhaps to do...
1420
01:29:54,575 --> 01:29:57,841
but in any case, to gather,
to meet, to confer, to talk...
1421
01:29:57,913 --> 01:30:01,543
and perhaps even to resolve
that each rifle regiment...
1422
01:30:01,617 --> 01:30:05,553
be allowed at least one drum and
one fife attached to each company...
1423
01:30:05,621 --> 01:30:08,318
designated as
the Drum and Fife Committee.
1424
01:30:08,392 --> 01:30:10,554
A commitee formed to..."
1425
01:30:10,628 --> 01:30:12,562
Where is that committee?
1426
01:30:12,630 --> 01:30:16,067
What do you think of it,
Doctor? Democracy.
1427
01:30:16,135 --> 01:30:19,662
What Plato called
"a charming form of government...
1428
01:30:19,738 --> 01:30:22,707
full of variety and disorder."
1429
01:30:22,775 --> 01:30:25,575
I never knew Plato
had been to Philadelphia.
1430
01:30:25,646 --> 01:30:29,377
Ben, I want you to see some cards
I've gone and had printed up.
1431
01:30:29,450 --> 01:30:31,749
Oughta save everybody here
a lot of time and effort...
1432
01:30:31,820 --> 01:30:36,655
considering the epidemic of
bad disposition that's been going on.
1433
01:30:36,725 --> 01:30:39,958
"Dear sir, you are, without any doubt,
a rogue, a rascal...
1434
01:30:40,030 --> 01:30:42,498
a villain, a thief, a scoundrel
and a mean, dirty...
1435
01:30:42,566 --> 01:30:44,796
stinking, sniveling, sneaking,
pimping, saqueador...
1436
01:30:44,868 --> 01:30:46,803
thrice double-damned
no-good son-of-a-bitch."
1437
01:30:46,871 --> 01:30:48,805
And you sign your name.
What do you think?
1438
01:30:48,873 --> 01:30:52,310
- I'll take a dozen right now.
- Aha! Here it is.
1439
01:30:52,378 --> 01:30:55,405
"A committee formed to answer
all congressional correspondence...
1440
01:30:55,482 --> 01:30:58,417
designated as the Congressional
Correspondence Committee."
1441
01:31:00,921 --> 01:31:03,288
All right, Franklin, enough socializing.
There's work to be done.
1442
01:31:03,358 --> 01:31:05,292
- Good morning, John.
- What?
1443
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:07,659
- Good morning.
- Oh, good morning, good morning.
1444
01:31:07,730 --> 01:31:09,664
- Now, then, let's get to it.
- Get to what?
1445
01:31:09,732 --> 01:31:11,724
Unanimity, of course.
Look at that board.
1446
01:31:11,801 --> 01:31:13,996
Six nays to win over
in little more than a week.
1447
01:31:14,070 --> 01:31:16,903
"A commitee formed to consider
the problem of counterfeit money...
1448
01:31:16,973 --> 01:31:18,908
"designated as the
Counterfeit Money Committee."
1449
01:31:18,976 --> 01:31:21,571
- Oh, God! What...
- All right, John, all right.
1450
01:31:21,647 --> 01:31:23,740
- Where shall we start?
- Well, what about Delaware?
1451
01:31:23,815 --> 01:31:27,047
Sad thing to see them on the wrong side
after all this time.
1452
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,452
- Any news of Rodney?
- Yes. McKean's back.
1453
01:31:29,522 --> 01:31:31,717
- Thomas!
- "A committee formed to study...
1454
01:31:31,791 --> 01:31:34,387
the causes of our military defeat
in Canada."
1455
01:31:34,462 --> 01:31:38,330
Thomas, how did you leave Caesar?
Is he still alive?
1456
01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:42,269
Aye, but the journey to Dover
was fearful hard on him.
1457
01:31:42,338 --> 01:31:46,274
He never complained, but I could see
the poor man was sufferin' terrible.
1458
01:31:46,342 --> 01:31:48,277
But you got him safely home.
1459
01:31:48,345 --> 01:31:52,112
I did, but I doubt he'll never
set foot out of it again.
1460
01:31:52,183 --> 01:31:54,674
That leaves you and Read split
down the middle. Will he come over?
1461
01:31:54,752 --> 01:31:57,482
I don't know.
He's a stubborn ignoramus.
1462
01:31:57,555 --> 01:31:59,547
Work on him. Keep after him
till you wear him down.
1463
01:31:59,625 --> 01:32:03,118
John, face facts, will ya? If it were
just Read standin' in our way...
1464
01:32:03,196 --> 01:32:05,790
it wouldn't be so bad,
but look for yourself, man.
1465
01:32:05,865 --> 01:32:09,893
Maryland, Pennsylvania
and the entire South. It's impossible!
1466
01:32:09,970 --> 01:32:13,167
Well, it's impossible if we all
stand around complaining about it.
1467
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,903
To work, McKean!
One foot in front of the other!
1468
01:32:15,977 --> 01:32:18,879
I believe I put it a better way:
Never leave off until tomorrow...
1469
01:32:18,948 --> 01:32:20,882
Oh, shut up, Franklin.
1470
01:32:20,950 --> 01:32:23,010
But what good will it do?
1471
01:32:23,087 --> 01:32:26,579
You know Dickinson.
He'll never give in.
1472
01:32:26,657 --> 01:32:28,591
And you haven't heard
the last of Rutledge either.
1473
01:32:28,659 --> 01:32:30,720
Never mind about them.
Your job is George Read.
1474
01:32:30,796 --> 01:32:33,594
Talk him deaf if you have to,
but bring us back Delaware.
1475
01:32:33,666 --> 01:32:36,260
- There's a simpler way.
- What?
1476
01:32:36,335 --> 01:32:39,828
- This'll break the tie.
- All right, John, who's next?
1477
01:32:39,906 --> 01:32:42,101
"A committee formed
to keep secrets...
1478
01:32:42,175 --> 01:32:44,370
designated as
the Secrets Committee."
1479
01:32:44,444 --> 01:32:48,439
Pennsylvania and Maryland. I suggest
you get your own house in order...
1480
01:32:48,517 --> 01:32:50,951
and I'll take a crack
at old vacant-face...
1481
01:32:51,019 --> 01:32:53,249
Lord, look at him stuff himself.
1482
01:32:53,322 --> 01:32:55,723
Ah, Mr. Chase!
1483
01:32:55,792 --> 01:32:59,058
How about it, Chase? When are you
coming to your senses, man?
1484
01:32:59,130 --> 01:33:02,225
Please, Mr. Adams,
not while I'm eating.
1485
01:33:02,300 --> 01:33:04,791
Mr. Wilson, sir?
1486
01:33:04,870 --> 01:33:06,838
It's time to assert yourself.
1487
01:33:06,905 --> 01:33:08,930
Tell me something.
When you were a judge...
1488
01:33:09,007 --> 01:33:11,806
how in hell did you ever
make a decision?
1489
01:33:11,878 --> 01:33:16,543
The decisions I made were all based
on legality and precedence.
1490
01:33:16,617 --> 01:33:20,748
But there is no legality here
and certainly no precedent.
1491
01:33:20,822 --> 01:33:25,658
Because it's a new idea, you clot!
1492
01:33:25,728 --> 01:33:28,493
We'll be setting
our own precedent!
1493
01:33:28,565 --> 01:33:32,160
No, Mr. McKean.
No, no, no!
1494
01:33:32,235 --> 01:33:36,002
Damn your eyes, Read!
You come into this world screamin' no...
1495
01:33:36,073 --> 01:33:39,804
and you're determined to leave it
the same way, ya slimy worm!
1496
01:33:41,748 --> 01:33:44,376
The Congress is
waiting on you, Chase!
1497
01:33:44,450 --> 01:33:48,216
America is waiting!
The whole world is waiting!
1498
01:33:48,288 --> 01:33:50,223
What's that? Kidney?
1499
01:33:50,291 --> 01:33:54,421
Leave me alone, Mr. Adams!
You're wasting your time.
1500
01:33:54,495 --> 01:33:58,058
If I thought we could win this war,
I'd be at the front of your ranks...
1501
01:33:58,134 --> 01:34:01,160
but you must know
it's impossible.
1502
01:34:01,237 --> 01:34:03,296
You've heard
General Washington's dispatches.
1503
01:34:03,372 --> 01:34:05,364
His army has fallen to pieces.
1504
01:34:05,442 --> 01:34:08,172
Washington is exaggerating
the situation...
1505
01:34:08,245 --> 01:34:10,942
in order to arouse
this torpid Congress into action.
1506
01:34:11,015 --> 01:34:13,712
Why, as chairman of the War Committee,
I can state for a fact...
1507
01:34:13,786 --> 01:34:16,220
that the army has never been
in better shape.
1508
01:34:16,288 --> 01:34:18,984
Never have troops
been more cheerful.
1509
01:34:19,058 --> 01:34:21,357
Never have soldiers
been more resolute.
1510
01:34:21,428 --> 01:34:24,296
Never have training and discipline
been more spirited.
1511
01:34:25,066 --> 01:34:27,000
Oh, good God.
1512
01:34:36,178 --> 01:34:39,809
May we have your ears, gentlemen?
Mr. Thomson has a dispatch.
1513
01:34:39,884 --> 01:34:42,284
From the commander, army of
the United Colonies in New York...
1514
01:34:42,353 --> 01:34:44,548
dispatch number 1,157...
1515
01:34:44,622 --> 01:34:47,456
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, President. "Dear sir...
1516
01:34:47,525 --> 01:34:50,460
it is with the utmost despair
that I must report to you...
1517
01:34:50,528 --> 01:34:53,499
the disorder and confusion
that reign in every department.
1518
01:34:53,567 --> 01:34:56,468
Oh, sweetJesus!
1519
01:34:58,038 --> 01:35:00,769
The Continental soldier
is as nothing ever seen...
1520
01:35:00,842 --> 01:35:02,776
in this or any other century.
1521
01:35:02,844 --> 01:35:05,176
He is a misfit,
ignorant of hygiene...
1522
01:35:05,246 --> 01:35:08,410
destructive, disorderly and
totally disrespectful of rank.
1523
01:35:08,484 --> 01:35:10,419
Only this last is understandable...
1524
01:35:10,487 --> 01:35:15,083
as there is an incredible reek
of stupidity amongst the officers.
1525
01:35:15,158 --> 01:35:17,093
The situation is most desperate...
1526
01:35:17,161 --> 01:35:19,722
at the New Jersey training ground
in New Brunswick...
1527
01:35:19,798 --> 01:35:22,790
where every
able-bodied whore in the..."
1528
01:35:22,868 --> 01:35:25,269
Whore?
1529
01:35:25,338 --> 01:35:27,397
"In the colonies has assembled.
1530
01:35:27,473 --> 01:35:31,603
There are constant reports of
drunkenness, desertion, foul language...
1531
01:35:31,678 --> 01:35:34,205
naked bathing
in the Raritan River...
1532
01:35:34,282 --> 01:35:36,375
and an epidemic...
1533
01:35:36,451 --> 01:35:40,148
of the French disease.
1534
01:35:40,221 --> 01:35:43,953
I have placed this town off-limits
to all military personnel...
1535
01:35:44,026 --> 01:35:46,119
with the exception of officers.
1536
01:35:46,195 --> 01:35:49,792
I beseech the Congress to dispatch
the War Committee to this place...
1537
01:35:49,867 --> 01:35:54,634
in the hope of restoring some of the
order and discipline we need to survive.
1538
01:35:54,706 --> 01:35:57,107
Your obedient...
1539
01:35:57,176 --> 01:35:59,167
G. Washington."
1540
01:36:01,246 --> 01:36:04,217
That man would depress a hyena.
1541
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,985
Well, Mr. Adams, you're chairman
of the War Committee.
1542
01:36:09,056 --> 01:36:13,255
Do you feel up to whoring, drinking,
deserting and New Brunswick?
1543
01:36:13,328 --> 01:36:18,426
There must be some mistake. I have
an aunt who lives in New Brunswick.
1544
01:36:19,769 --> 01:36:22,830
You must tell her
to keep up the good work.
1545
01:36:25,442 --> 01:36:27,672
Come, come, Mr. Adams.
1546
01:36:27,745 --> 01:36:29,839
You must see
that it's hopeless.
1547
01:36:29,914 --> 01:36:31,849
Let us recall
General Washington...
1548
01:36:31,917 --> 01:36:36,014
and disband the Continental Army
before we're overwhelmed.
1549
01:36:36,089 --> 01:36:39,217
Oh, yes, indeed. The English
would like that, now, wouldn't they?
1550
01:36:39,292 --> 01:36:43,251
Why not ask them yourself?
They ought to be here any minute.
1551
01:36:43,330 --> 01:36:46,267
And when they hang you,
Mr. Adams...
1552
01:36:46,335 --> 01:36:49,304
I hope you will put in a good word
for the rest of us.
1553
01:36:57,847 --> 01:37:00,716
Face facts, Mr. Adams.
1554
01:37:00,786 --> 01:37:06,122
A handful of drunk and disorderly
recruits against the British Army...
1555
01:37:06,191 --> 01:37:08,990
the finest musket men
on earth.
1556
01:37:09,062 --> 01:37:13,159
How can we win?
How can we even hope to survive?
1557
01:37:13,233 --> 01:37:15,167
Answer me straight, Chase.
1558
01:37:15,235 --> 01:37:18,797
If you thought
we could beat the Redcoats...
1559
01:37:18,873 --> 01:37:21,307
would Maryland say yea
to independence?
1560
01:37:21,376 --> 01:37:24,471
- Well, I suppose...
- No supposing.
1561
01:37:24,547 --> 01:37:27,016
Would you or wouldn't you?
1562
01:37:29,486 --> 01:37:32,081
Very well, Mr. Adams.
1563
01:37:32,156 --> 01:37:34,488
Yes, we would.
1564
01:37:34,559 --> 01:37:38,325
- Then come and see for yourself.
- John, are you mad?
1565
01:37:38,396 --> 01:37:40,365
You heard what Washington said.
It's a shambles.
1566
01:37:40,433 --> 01:37:43,197
- They're pushing you into it, Johnny!
- What do you say, Chase?
1567
01:37:43,269 --> 01:37:46,102
Go ahead, Sam.
It sounds lively as hell up there.
1568
01:37:46,172 --> 01:37:48,107
All right. Why not?
1569
01:37:48,175 --> 01:37:51,110
And maybe it'll beJohn Adams
who comes to his senses.
1570
01:37:51,178 --> 01:37:54,272
Mr. President, the War Committee
will heed General Washington's request.
1571
01:37:54,348 --> 01:37:57,649
A party consisting of Chase, Franklin
and myself will leave immediately.
1572
01:37:57,720 --> 01:37:59,779
Is, uh...
1573
01:37:59,856 --> 01:38:03,224
Is that satisfactory with you,
Dr. Franklin?
1574
01:38:03,293 --> 01:38:05,591
Wake up, Franklin!
You're going to New Brunswick.
1575
01:38:05,662 --> 01:38:08,894
- Like hell I am. What for?
- The whoring and the drinking.
1576
01:38:11,103 --> 01:38:14,129
All right, Chase! Move all that lard.
Not a moment to lose.
1577
01:38:14,206 --> 01:38:17,642
Left, right, left, right.
Left, right, left, right.
1578
01:38:17,710 --> 01:38:19,702
Left, right, left!
1579
01:38:30,392 --> 01:38:34,328
Mr. McNair, all this talk
of independence...
1580
01:38:34,396 --> 01:38:37,128
has left a certain
foulness in the air.
1581
01:38:37,201 --> 01:38:41,297
My friends and I would appreciate it
if you could open some windows.
1582
01:38:41,372 --> 01:38:43,432
Well, what about the flies?
1583
01:38:43,508 --> 01:38:46,068
The windows, Mr. McNair.
1584
01:38:47,746 --> 01:38:50,945
Open the windows,
close the windows.
1585
01:38:51,018 --> 01:38:53,009
SweetJesus!
1586
01:39:01,863 --> 01:39:06,198
Oh, say, do you see
what I see
1587
01:39:06,268 --> 01:39:10,069
Congress sitting here
in sweet serenity
1588
01:39:10,140 --> 01:39:13,337
I could cheer
The reason's clear
1589
01:39:13,410 --> 01:39:15,675
For the first time in a year
1590
01:39:15,746 --> 01:39:17,805
Adams isn't here
1591
01:39:17,882 --> 01:39:21,319
And look
The sun is in the sky
1592
01:39:21,386 --> 01:39:23,480
A breeze is blowing by
1593
01:39:23,556 --> 01:39:27,356
And there's not a single fly
1594
01:39:27,427 --> 01:39:29,588
I sing, Hosanna
1595
01:39:29,662 --> 01:39:32,223
Hosanna
1596
01:39:32,299 --> 01:39:35,963
Hosanna, Hosanna
1597
01:39:36,037 --> 01:39:38,369
And it's cool
1598
01:39:39,642 --> 01:39:44,238
Come, ye cool, cool
conservative men
1599
01:39:44,313 --> 01:39:48,149
Our like may never, ever
be seen again
1600
01:39:48,219 --> 01:39:51,711
We have land
Cash in hand
1601
01:39:51,789 --> 01:39:55,658
Self-command
Future planned
1602
01:39:55,728 --> 01:39:59,425
Fortune thrives
Society survives
1603
01:39:59,498 --> 01:40:01,558
In neatly ordered lives
1604
01:40:01,635 --> 01:40:05,231
With well-endowered wives
1605
01:40:05,306 --> 01:40:08,036
Come sing, Hosanna
1606
01:40:08,109 --> 01:40:10,340
Hosanna
1607
01:40:10,412 --> 01:40:14,246
In our breeding
and our manner
1608
01:40:14,316 --> 01:40:17,844
We are cool
1609
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:22,290
Come, ye cool, cool
considerate set
1610
01:40:22,359 --> 01:40:25,988
We'll dance together
to the same minuet
1611
01:40:26,064 --> 01:40:30,001
To the right
Ever to the right
1612
01:40:30,069 --> 01:40:33,903
Never to the left
Forever to the right
1613
01:40:33,974 --> 01:40:37,307
Let our creed be
never to exceed
1614
01:40:37,377 --> 01:40:39,572
Regulated speed
1615
01:40:39,646 --> 01:40:43,083
No matter what the need
1616
01:40:43,686 --> 01:40:45,916
Come sing, Hosanna
1617
01:40:45,988 --> 01:40:47,922
Hosanna
1618
01:40:47,990 --> 01:40:55,420
Emblazoned on our banner is
Keep cool
1619
01:41:03,975 --> 01:41:07,275
To the right
Ever to the right
1620
01:41:07,347 --> 01:41:11,681
Never to the left
Forever to the right
1621
01:41:11,751 --> 01:41:16,019
Hands attach
Tightly latch
1622
01:41:16,091 --> 01:41:17,456
Everybody match
1623
01:41:17,525 --> 01:41:20,085
I have a new dispatch
1624
01:41:23,666 --> 01:41:26,067
From the commander, army of
the United Colonies in New York...
1625
01:41:26,136 --> 01:41:28,195
dispatch number 1,158...
1626
01:41:28,271 --> 01:41:31,400
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, president. "Dear sir...
1627
01:41:31,476 --> 01:41:33,706
I awoke this morning
to find that General Howe...
1628
01:41:33,778 --> 01:41:36,372
has landed 25,000 British regulars
and Hessian mercenaries...
1629
01:41:36,447 --> 01:41:38,382
on Staten Island...
1630
01:41:38,450 --> 01:41:42,319
and that the fleet, under the command
of his brother, Admiral Lord Howe...
1631
01:41:42,389 --> 01:41:46,190
controls not only the Hudson and
the East River, but New York Harbor...
1632
01:41:46,260 --> 01:41:49,423
which now looks like
all of London afloat.
1633
01:41:49,497 --> 01:41:51,431
I can no longer,
in good conscience...
1634
01:41:51,499 --> 01:41:55,335
withhold from the Congress my certainty
that the British object at this time...
1635
01:41:55,405 --> 01:41:57,339
is Philadelphia.
1636
01:41:57,407 --> 01:42:00,308
Happy should I be if I could see
the means of preventing them...
1637
01:42:00,376 --> 01:42:03,369
but at present,
I confess I do not.
1638
01:42:03,447 --> 01:42:07,247
Oh, how I wish I had never seen
the Continental Army.
1639
01:42:07,317 --> 01:42:10,254
I would have done better
to retire to the back country...
1640
01:42:10,322 --> 01:42:12,882
and to live in a wigwam.
1641
01:42:12,958 --> 01:42:15,586
Your obedient...
1642
01:42:15,661 --> 01:42:17,596
G. Washington."
1643
01:42:18,365 --> 01:42:22,530
What we do
we do rationally
1644
01:42:22,603 --> 01:42:25,835
We never, ever go off
half-cocked, not we
1645
01:42:25,908 --> 01:42:29,469
Why begin till we know
that we can win
1646
01:42:29,545 --> 01:42:33,141
And if we cannot win
why bother to begin
1647
01:42:33,216 --> 01:42:37,620
We say this game's
not of our choosing
1648
01:42:37,688 --> 01:42:41,090
Why should we risk losing
1649
01:42:41,159 --> 01:42:44,993
We're cool, cool men
1650
01:42:46,898 --> 01:42:51,701
Mr. Hancock, you're a man
of property, one of us.
1651
01:42:51,772 --> 01:42:54,263
Why don't you join us
in our minuet?
1652
01:42:54,341 --> 01:42:57,140
Why do you persist in
dancing with John Adams?
1653
01:42:57,212 --> 01:42:59,237
Good Lord, sir,
you don't even like him.
1654
01:42:59,314 --> 01:43:03,080
That is true
He annoys me quite a lot
1655
01:43:03,151 --> 01:43:06,554
But still I'd rather trot
to Mr. Adams new gavotte
1656
01:43:06,623 --> 01:43:10,150
Why? For personal glory?
For a place in history?
1657
01:43:10,227 --> 01:43:13,959
Be careful, sir. History will brand him
and his followers as traitors.
1658
01:43:14,031 --> 01:43:16,761
Traitors, Mr. Dickinson?
To what?
1659
01:43:16,834 --> 01:43:20,566
The British crown
or the British half crown?
1660
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:24,371
Fortunately, there are not enough men of
property in America to dictate policy.
1661
01:43:24,444 --> 01:43:28,107
Perhaps not, but don't forget
that most men with nothing...
1662
01:43:28,181 --> 01:43:31,208
would rather protect the possibility
of becoming rich...
1663
01:43:31,285 --> 01:43:34,187
than face the reality
of being poor.
1664
01:43:36,424 --> 01:43:38,893
And that is why
they will follow us...
1665
01:43:38,961 --> 01:43:42,453
To the right
Ever to the right
1666
01:43:42,532 --> 01:43:46,492
Never to left
Forever to the right
1667
01:43:46,570 --> 01:43:49,768
Where there's gold
A market to behold
1668
01:43:49,841 --> 01:43:51,775
Tradition that is old
1669
01:43:51,843 --> 01:43:53,778
Reluctant to be bold
1670
01:43:53,846 --> 01:43:55,973
I sing, Hosanna
1671
01:43:56,048 --> 01:43:58,073
Hosanna
1672
01:43:58,150 --> 01:44:01,417
In a sane
and lucid manner
1673
01:44:01,489 --> 01:44:03,480
We are cool!
1674
01:44:03,558 --> 01:44:07,756
We're the cool, cool
considerate men
1675
01:44:07,828 --> 01:44:11,629
Whose like may never, ever
be seen again
1676
01:44:11,700 --> 01:44:15,398
We have land
Cash in hand
1677
01:44:15,471 --> 01:44:19,408
Self-command
Future planned
1678
01:44:19,476 --> 01:44:23,071
And we'll hold
to our gold
1679
01:44:23,147 --> 01:44:25,275
Tradition that is old
1680
01:44:25,350 --> 01:44:27,318
Reluctant to be bold
1681
01:44:27,385 --> 01:44:32,256
We say this game's
not of our choosing
1682
01:44:32,326 --> 01:44:35,818
Why should we risk losing
1683
01:44:35,896 --> 01:44:40,334
We're cool, cool
cool, cool, cool
1684
01:44:40,401 --> 01:44:44,236
Cool, cool, cool
cool, cool
1685
01:44:44,306 --> 01:44:56,448
Cool, cool men
1686
01:45:10,169 --> 01:45:14,835
How'd you like to try and borrow
a dollar from one of them?
1687
01:45:14,909 --> 01:45:19,039
- You want some more rum, General?
- General?
1688
01:45:19,114 --> 01:45:21,481
Lord, I ain't even a corporal.
1689
01:45:21,550 --> 01:45:25,647
Yeah, well,
what's the army know?
1690
01:45:27,057 --> 01:45:29,618
Here, son.
There you go.
1691
01:45:33,431 --> 01:45:38,199
Sit down, gentlemen. The chair rules
it's too damn hot to work.
1692
01:45:48,015 --> 01:45:51,007
Well, General,
what's it like out there?
1693
01:45:51,085 --> 01:45:53,418
You probably
know more than me.
1694
01:45:53,488 --> 01:45:55,753
Sittin' here?
SweetJesus...
1695
01:45:55,825 --> 01:45:59,728
this is the last place
to find out what's going on.
1696
01:45:59,797 --> 01:46:01,731
I'm aimin' to join up.
1697
01:46:01,799 --> 01:46:04,597
What are you talkin' about?
You don't have to join up.
1698
01:46:04,668 --> 01:46:07,034
- You're in Congress.
- What's that got to do with it?
1699
01:46:07,104 --> 01:46:10,200
Well, you don't see them
rushing off to get killed, do ya?
1700
01:46:10,276 --> 01:46:13,336
They sure are great ones for
sending others, I can tell ya that.
1701
01:46:13,412 --> 01:46:15,608
Hey, who sits here?
1702
01:46:15,682 --> 01:46:17,980
Caesar Rodney
of Delaware.
1703
01:46:18,051 --> 01:46:19,985
Where are you from,
General?
1704
01:46:20,053 --> 01:46:22,022
Watertown.
1705
01:46:22,090 --> 01:46:25,151
- Where's that?
- Massachusetts.
1706
01:46:25,227 --> 01:46:27,457
Well, then you
belong over there.
1707
01:46:33,403 --> 01:46:34,768
But be careful.
1708
01:46:34,838 --> 01:46:38,707
There's something about that chair
that makes a man awful noisy.
1709
01:46:42,781 --> 01:46:44,874
You seen any fighting?
1710
01:46:46,051 --> 01:46:48,282
Sure did.
1711
01:46:48,354 --> 01:46:52,121
I see'd my two best friends
get shot dead on the very same day.
1712
01:46:53,427 --> 01:46:55,862
And at Lexington it was too.
1713
01:46:55,930 --> 01:46:58,626
Right on the village green.
1714
01:46:58,700 --> 01:47:02,933
When they didn't come home, their mamas
went down the hill lookin' for 'em.
1715
01:47:03,005 --> 01:47:05,372
Mrs. Lowell,
she found Timothy.
1716
01:47:07,577 --> 01:47:09,511
Right off.
1717
01:47:12,250 --> 01:47:14,184
But Mrs. Pickett...
1718
01:47:16,788 --> 01:47:20,749
she looked near
half the night for William.
1719
01:47:20,827 --> 01:47:24,319
He went and crawled off
the green...
1720
01:47:24,397 --> 01:47:26,331
before he died.
1721
01:47:34,409 --> 01:47:38,312
Mama, hey, Mama
1722
01:47:38,381 --> 01:47:43,342
Come lookin'for me
1723
01:47:43,420 --> 01:47:47,790
I'm here in the meadow
1724
01:47:47,859 --> 01:47:53,230
By the red maple tree
1725
01:47:53,299 --> 01:47:57,201
Mama, hey, Mama
1726
01:47:57,269 --> 01:47:59,636
Look sharp
1727
01:47:59,706 --> 01:48:03,074
Here I be
1728
01:48:03,144 --> 01:48:07,707
Hey, hey
1729
01:48:07,783 --> 01:48:12,880
Mama, look sharp
1730
01:48:15,259 --> 01:48:19,320
Them soldiers, they fired
1731
01:48:19,396 --> 01:48:24,061
Oh, Ma, did we run
1732
01:48:24,135 --> 01:48:27,935
But then we turned round
1733
01:48:28,006 --> 01:48:33,446
And the battle begun
1734
01:48:33,513 --> 01:48:37,347
Then I went under
1735
01:48:37,417 --> 01:48:42,789
Oh, Ma, am I done
1736
01:48:42,858 --> 01:48:47,057
Hey, hey
1737
01:48:47,130 --> 01:48:52,693
Mama, look sharp
1738
01:48:54,739 --> 01:48:58,972
My eyes are wide open
1739
01:48:59,044 --> 01:49:03,880
My face to the sky
1740
01:49:03,950 --> 01:49:07,579
Is that you I'm hearin'
1741
01:49:07,654 --> 01:49:12,525
In the tall grass nearby
1742
01:49:12,594 --> 01:49:15,995
Mama, come find me
1743
01:49:16,064 --> 01:49:20,331
Before I do die
1744
01:49:20,403 --> 01:49:24,237
Hey, hey
1745
01:49:24,307 --> 01:49:26,675
Mama
1746
01:49:26,744 --> 01:49:30,544
Look sharp
1747
01:49:32,750 --> 01:49:37,120
I'll close your eyes
1748
01:49:37,189 --> 01:49:40,387
My Billy
1749
01:49:40,460 --> 01:49:46,400
Them eyes that cannot see
1750
01:49:46,467 --> 01:49:49,562
And I'll bury ya
1751
01:49:49,638 --> 01:49:52,732
My Billy
1752
01:49:52,808 --> 01:49:59,875
Beneath the maple tree
1753
01:49:59,950 --> 01:50:02,544
And
1754
01:50:02,619 --> 01:50:06,920
Never again
1755
01:50:06,992 --> 01:50:13,365
Will ya whisper to me
1756
01:50:13,433 --> 01:50:18,602
Hey
1757
01:50:18,672 --> 01:50:21,734
Oh, Mama
1758
01:50:21,810 --> 01:50:30,515
Look sharp
1759
01:50:45,605 --> 01:50:48,768
The secretary will now read the report
of the Declaration Committee.
1760
01:50:48,841 --> 01:50:50,776
Mr. Thomson.
1761
01:50:50,844 --> 01:50:54,337
"A declaration by the representatives
of the United States of America...
1762
01:50:54,416 --> 01:50:57,510
in general Congress assembled.
1763
01:50:57,585 --> 01:51:00,679
When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people...
1764
01:51:00,755 --> 01:51:04,352
to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another...
1765
01:51:04,428 --> 01:51:07,056
and to assume among
the powers of the earth...
1766
01:51:07,130 --> 01:51:09,827
the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature...
1767
01:51:09,901 --> 01:51:12,301
and of nature's god entitle them...
1768
01:51:12,370 --> 01:51:15,100
a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind...
1769
01:51:15,173 --> 01:51:17,233
requires that they should
declare the causes...
1770
01:51:17,309 --> 01:51:19,471
which impel them to the separation.
1771
01:51:19,546 --> 01:51:22,709
We hold these truths
to be self-evident...
1772
01:51:22,782 --> 01:51:25,547
that all men are created equal.
1773
01:51:25,619 --> 01:51:29,316
They're endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable rights...
1774
01:51:29,390 --> 01:51:32,953
that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
1775
01:51:33,029 --> 01:51:34,963
that we secure these rights..."
1776
01:51:35,031 --> 01:51:39,229
Jefferson, we're back,
and we've got Maryland.
1777
01:51:39,302 --> 01:51:42,033
That is, we will, as soon as Chase gets
through telling the Maryland assembly...
1778
01:51:42,106 --> 01:51:44,233
what we saw
in New Brunswick.
1779
01:51:44,308 --> 01:51:49,646
He's in Annapolis, describing a ragtag
collection of provincial militiamen...
1780
01:51:49,715 --> 01:51:52,650
who couldn't drill together,
train together or march together.
1781
01:51:52,718 --> 01:51:54,743
But when
a flock of ducks flew over...
1782
01:51:54,820 --> 01:51:57,847
and they saw their first meal
in three full days...
1783
01:51:57,924 --> 01:51:59,892
sweetJesus,
could they shoot together!
1784
01:51:59,960 --> 01:52:02,259
- It was a slaughter.
- A slaughter.
1785
01:52:02,330 --> 01:52:04,264
They're reading the declaration.
1786
01:52:04,332 --> 01:52:06,927
Good God!
How far have they gotten?
1787
01:52:07,002 --> 01:52:10,699
"To render the military independent of
and superior to the civil power."
1788
01:52:10,772 --> 01:52:14,210
"...independent of
and superior to the..."
1789
01:52:19,650 --> 01:52:22,347
Nothing to fear.
It's a masterpiece.
1790
01:52:23,054 --> 01:52:25,614
I'm to be congratulated.
1791
01:52:25,690 --> 01:52:27,715
You?
1792
01:52:27,792 --> 01:52:30,695
- For making him write it.
- Oh, of course.
1793
01:52:32,099 --> 01:52:35,000
It's a masterpiece, I say
1794
01:52:35,068 --> 01:52:39,028
They will cheer
every word, every letter
1795
01:52:39,107 --> 01:52:42,201
I wish I felt that way
1796
01:52:42,278 --> 01:52:45,612
I believe I can put it better
1797
01:52:45,682 --> 01:52:48,242
Now then attend
as friend to friend
1798
01:52:48,318 --> 01:52:50,946
Our Declaration Committee
1799
01:52:51,021 --> 01:52:54,788
For us I see immortality
1800
01:52:54,859 --> 01:52:59,888
In Philadelphia City
1801
01:52:59,966 --> 01:53:03,129
A farmer, a lawyer
1802
01:53:03,203 --> 01:53:06,297
And a sage
1803
01:53:06,372 --> 01:53:09,467
A bit gouty in the leg
1804
01:53:09,543 --> 01:53:12,980
You know it's quite bizarre
to think that here we are
1805
01:53:13,048 --> 01:53:17,713
Playing midwives to an egg
1806
01:53:17,787 --> 01:53:21,245
- Egg? What egg?
- America. The birth of a new nation.
1807
01:53:21,324 --> 01:53:24,488
If only we could be sure of what kind
of a bird it's going to be.
1808
01:53:24,562 --> 01:53:27,156
Tom has a point.
What sort of bird shall we choose...
1809
01:53:27,232 --> 01:53:29,325
as the symbol
of our new America?
1810
01:53:29,400 --> 01:53:32,893
- The eagle.
- The dove.
1811
01:53:32,972 --> 01:53:35,702
The turkey.
1812
01:53:35,774 --> 01:53:38,038
The eagle.
1813
01:53:38,110 --> 01:53:41,809
- The dove.
- The eagle.
1814
01:53:41,882 --> 01:53:44,874
- The eagle.
- The turkey.
1815
01:53:44,952 --> 01:53:46,886
The eagle is a majestic bird.
1816
01:53:46,954 --> 01:53:49,856
The eagle is a scavenger,
a thief and a coward.
1817
01:53:49,925 --> 01:53:53,623
A symbol of over ten centuries
of European mischief.
1818
01:53:53,696 --> 01:53:56,928
- The turkey?
- The turkey is a truly noble bird.
1819
01:53:57,001 --> 01:54:00,232
Native American. Source of
sustenance of our original settlers.
1820
01:54:00,304 --> 01:54:02,431
An incredibly brave fellow
who will not flinch...
1821
01:54:02,506 --> 01:54:05,567
at attacking a regiment of
Englishmen single-handedly!
1822
01:54:05,644 --> 01:54:08,512
Therefore, the national bird
of America is going to be...
1823
01:54:08,581 --> 01:54:11,574
- The eagle!
- The eagle!
1824
01:54:11,652 --> 01:54:15,588
We're waiting for
the chirp, chirp, chirp
1825
01:54:15,656 --> 01:54:18,216
Of an eaglet being born
1826
01:54:18,292 --> 01:54:21,457
Waiting for
the chirp, chirp, chirp
1827
01:54:21,530 --> 01:54:24,761
On this humid Monday morning
1828
01:54:24,833 --> 01:54:28,861
In this congressional incubator
1829
01:54:28,938 --> 01:54:31,873
God knows the temperature's
hot enough
1830
01:54:31,941 --> 01:54:35,470
To hatch a stone
let alone an egg
1831
01:54:37,082 --> 01:54:40,540
We're waiting for
the scratch, scratch, scratch
1832
01:54:40,619 --> 01:54:43,851
Of that tiny little fellow
1833
01:54:43,923 --> 01:54:46,949
Waiting for the egg to hatch
1834
01:54:47,026 --> 01:54:49,996
On this humid Monday morning
1835
01:54:50,064 --> 01:54:54,229
In this congressional incubator
1836
01:54:54,302 --> 01:54:57,294
God knows the temperature's
hot enough
1837
01:54:57,372 --> 01:55:02,436
- To hatch a stone
- But will it hatch an egg
1838
01:55:02,511 --> 01:55:06,973
The declaration will be a triumph.
I tell you, a triumph.
1839
01:55:07,051 --> 01:55:09,110
If I was ever sure of anything,
I'm sure of that.
1840
01:55:09,187 --> 01:55:11,621
A triumph.
1841
01:55:11,689 --> 01:55:16,093
And if it isn't, we still got four days
left to think of something else.
1842
01:55:16,161 --> 01:55:19,962
The eagle's going
to crack the shell
1843
01:55:20,033 --> 01:55:22,695
Of the egg that England laid
1844
01:55:22,769 --> 01:55:25,796
Yes, sir
we can tell, tell, tell
1845
01:55:25,873 --> 01:55:28,865
On this humid
Monday morning
1846
01:55:28,943 --> 01:55:33,075
In this congressional incubator
1847
01:55:33,149 --> 01:55:36,277
And just as Tom here
has written
1848
01:55:36,352 --> 01:55:39,151
Though its shell may
belong to Great Britain
1849
01:55:39,223 --> 01:55:42,750
The eagle inside
belongs to us
1850
01:55:42,826 --> 01:55:46,024
And just as Tom here
has written
1851
01:55:46,097 --> 01:55:48,589
We say to hell
with Great Britain
1852
01:55:48,667 --> 01:55:50,794
The eagle inside
1853
01:55:50,870 --> 01:55:53,896
Belongs to us
1854
01:56:04,953 --> 01:56:06,887
"...and to do all other
acts and things...
1855
01:56:06,955 --> 01:56:09,219
which independent states
may of right do.
1856
01:56:09,291 --> 01:56:11,692
And for the support
of this declaration...
1857
01:56:11,761 --> 01:56:14,287
we mutually pledge
to each other our lives...
1858
01:56:14,365 --> 01:56:16,959
our fortunes
and our sacred honor."
1859
01:56:19,104 --> 01:56:22,073
Thank you, Mr. Thomson.
1860
01:56:22,140 --> 01:56:26,475
The Congress has heard the report
of the Declaration Committee.
1861
01:56:26,546 --> 01:56:28,742
Are there any here who
wish to offer alterations...
1862
01:56:28,816 --> 01:56:31,751
deletions, amendments
to this declaration?
1863
01:56:32,820 --> 01:56:34,948
Mr. President!
1864
01:56:35,023 --> 01:56:40,017
Gentlemen!
Gentlemen, please!
1865
01:56:40,094 --> 01:56:42,894
Colonel McKean,
I saw your hand first.
1866
01:56:42,966 --> 01:56:44,900
Mr. Jefferson...
1867
01:56:44,968 --> 01:56:48,062
it's a funny paper you've written, Tom,
but somewhere in it...
1868
01:56:48,138 --> 01:56:52,940
you mention Scottish and foreign
mercenaries sent to destroy us.
1869
01:56:53,010 --> 01:56:54,500
Scottish, Tom?
1870
01:56:54,579 --> 01:56:56,741
That is in reference
to a Highland regiment...
1871
01:56:56,815 --> 01:56:59,842
which stood against us
at Boston.
1872
01:56:59,919 --> 01:57:04,583
It's more likely Germans wearin' kilts
to disguise their bein' there.
1873
01:57:04,657 --> 01:57:09,391
I ask you to remove the word and
avoid givin' offense to a good people.
1874
01:57:09,463 --> 01:57:12,297
Mr. Jefferson?
1875
01:57:12,367 --> 01:57:15,462
- The Reverend, uh...
- Witherspoon.
1876
01:57:15,538 --> 01:57:19,975
Mr. Jefferson, nowhere do you mention
the Supreme Being.
1877
01:57:20,042 --> 01:57:24,208
Surely this was an oversight, for how
could we hope to achieve a victory...
1878
01:57:24,282 --> 01:57:26,216
without his help?
1879
01:57:26,284 --> 01:57:30,619
Therefore, I suggest the following
addition to your final sentence.
1880
01:57:30,689 --> 01:57:34,523
"With a firm reliance on
the protection of Divine Providence."
1881
01:57:34,593 --> 01:57:37,791
Mr. Jefferson?
1882
01:57:39,100 --> 01:57:41,728
Mr. Read.
1883
01:57:41,802 --> 01:57:44,862
Among your charges against
the king, Mr. Jefferson...
1884
01:57:44,939 --> 01:57:48,899
you accuse him of depriving us
of the benefits of trial by jury.
1885
01:57:48,977 --> 01:57:53,609
This is untrue, sir. In Delaware,
we've always had trial by jury.
1886
01:57:54,351 --> 01:57:56,876
In Massachusetts,
we have not.
1887
01:57:56,954 --> 01:58:00,685
Well, then I suggest that the words
"in many cases" be added.
1888
01:58:01,660 --> 01:58:03,594
Mr. Jefferson?
1889
01:58:03,662 --> 01:58:06,894
"In many cases"?
Brilliant!
1890
01:58:06,966 --> 01:58:09,332
I suppose every time
you see those three words...
1891
01:58:09,402 --> 01:58:11,735
your puny chest
will swell with pride...
1892
01:58:11,805 --> 01:58:14,501
over your great
historical contribution.
1893
01:58:14,575 --> 01:58:18,478
It's more memorable than your
unprincipled whitewash of that...
1894
01:58:18,546 --> 01:58:20,207
race of barbarians!
1895
01:58:20,281 --> 01:58:23,911
Race of barbarians?
Why, I'll have you...
1896
01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:26,887
Colonel McKean,
Mr. Read, that's enough!
1897
01:58:29,225 --> 01:58:31,159
- Mr. Hopkins.
- I've no objections, Johnny.
1898
01:58:31,227 --> 01:58:33,628
- I'm just trying to get a drink.
- I should've known.
1899
01:58:33,698 --> 01:58:35,690
McNair, get him a rum.
1900
01:58:40,572 --> 01:58:44,475
- Mr. Barlett.
- Mr. Jefferson.
1901
01:58:44,544 --> 01:58:47,775
I beg you to remember that we
still have friends in England.
1902
01:58:47,847 --> 01:58:52,582
I see no purpose in antagonizing them
with such phrases as...
1903
01:58:52,654 --> 01:58:55,452
"unfeeling brethren"
and "enemies at war."
1904
01:58:55,523 --> 01:58:58,891
Our cause is with the British king,
not the British people.
1905
01:58:58,961 --> 01:59:01,156
Be sensible, Bartlett.
1906
01:59:01,230 --> 01:59:04,894
Remove those phrases and the entire
paragraph becomes meaningless.
1907
01:59:04,968 --> 01:59:08,302
And it so happens that it's
one of the most stirring and poetic...
1908
01:59:08,373 --> 01:59:11,672
of any passage in
the entire document. Now...
1909
01:59:11,743 --> 01:59:15,339
We're a Congress, Mr. Adams,
not a literary society.
1910
01:59:15,414 --> 01:59:19,249
- I ask that the paragraph be stricken.
- Mr. Jefferson?
1911
01:59:21,722 --> 01:59:26,022
Oh, good God, Jefferson, when are you
going to speak up for your own work?
1912
01:59:26,093 --> 01:59:29,188
I had hoped that the work
would speak for itself.
1913
01:59:29,264 --> 01:59:33,099
- Mr. Hancock?
- What is it, Mr. McNair?
1914
01:59:33,169 --> 01:59:38,472
I'm not fond of"The United States
of America" as a name for a new country.
1915
01:59:40,277 --> 01:59:42,745
I don't care what
you're fond of, Mr. McNair.
1916
01:59:42,813 --> 01:59:46,444
You're not a member
of this Congress!
1917
01:59:48,521 --> 01:59:50,853
Mr. Sherman.
1918
01:59:50,923 --> 01:59:56,021
BrotherJefferson, I noted at least
two distinct and direct references...
1919
01:59:56,096 --> 01:59:58,724
to the British Parliament
in your declaration.
1920
01:59:58,799 --> 02:00:01,531
Do you think it's wise
to alienate that august body...
1921
02:00:01,603 --> 02:00:05,266
in light of our contention that they've
never had any authority over us anyway?
1922
02:00:05,340 --> 02:00:07,865
This is a revolution,
damn it!
1923
02:00:07,943 --> 02:00:10,003
We're going to have
to offend somebody.
1924
02:00:10,080 --> 02:00:12,344
Brother Hancock!
1925
02:00:18,156 --> 02:00:20,750
You'll give yourself an attack
of apoplexy if you're not careful.
1926
02:00:20,826 --> 02:00:22,851
- Have you heard what they're doing?
- I heard.
1927
02:00:22,928 --> 02:00:26,330
And that's just our friends. Can you
imagine what our enemies will do?
1928
02:00:26,399 --> 02:00:29,494
The word "parliament" will be
removed wherever it occurs.
1929
02:00:29,570 --> 02:00:32,665
They won't be satisfied till they remove
one of the F's from Jefferson's name.
1930
02:00:32,741 --> 02:00:35,904
Courage, John.
It won't last much longer.
1931
02:00:38,780 --> 02:00:40,715
Mr. Dickinson.
1932
02:00:40,783 --> 02:00:44,743
Mr. Jefferson, I have very little
interest in your paper...
1933
02:00:44,821 --> 02:00:48,656
as there's no doubt in my mind that
we've all but heard the last of it...
1934
02:00:48,726 --> 02:00:52,025
but I am curious
about one thing.
1935
02:00:52,096 --> 02:00:57,331
Why do you refer
to King George as a tyrant?
1936
02:00:57,403 --> 02:01:00,133
Because he is a tyrant.
1937
02:01:00,206 --> 02:01:05,804
I remind you, Mr. Jefferson,
that this tyrant is still your king.
1938
02:01:05,880 --> 02:01:08,178
When a king
becomes a tyrant...
1939
02:01:08,249 --> 02:01:11,845
he thereby breaks the contract
binding his subjects to him.
1940
02:01:11,920 --> 02:01:15,880
- How so?
- By taking away their rights.
1941
02:01:15,958 --> 02:01:18,825
Rights that came from him
in the first place?
1942
02:01:18,895 --> 02:01:24,358
All except one. The right to be free
comes from nature.
1943
02:01:24,435 --> 02:01:27,370
And are we not free,
Mr. Jefferson?
1944
02:01:29,074 --> 02:01:31,508
Homes entered
without warrant.
1945
02:01:31,577 --> 02:01:34,705
Citizens arrested
without charge.
1946
02:01:34,780 --> 02:01:38,274
And in many places,
free assembly itself denied.
1947
02:01:38,352 --> 02:01:43,187
No one approves of such things,
but these are dangerous times.
1948
02:01:43,257 --> 02:01:45,192
Be careful, Mr. Dickinson.
1949
02:01:45,260 --> 02:01:49,492
Those who'd give up some liberty
in order to obtain temporary safety...
1950
02:01:49,565 --> 02:01:52,001
deserve neither liberty
nor safety.
1951
02:01:53,637 --> 02:01:56,333
Mr. Wilson.
1952
02:01:56,407 --> 02:02:01,311
Do we in Pennsylvania
consider King George a tyrant?
1953
02:02:01,379 --> 02:02:04,314
Well, I don't know.
1954
02:02:04,382 --> 02:02:06,317
He...
1955
02:02:06,385 --> 02:02:10,550
Oh, uh, no.
No, we don't.
1956
02:02:10,624 --> 02:02:13,149
He's not a tyrant...
1957
02:02:13,227 --> 02:02:16,220
- in Pennsylvania.
- There you are, Mr. Jefferson.
1958
02:02:16,297 --> 02:02:18,231
Your declaration
does not speak for us all.
1959
02:02:18,299 --> 02:02:21,633
- I demand the word "tyrant" be removed.
- Very well.
1960
02:02:21,704 --> 02:02:23,935
Just a moment,
Mr. Thomson.
1961
02:02:24,007 --> 02:02:26,475
I do not consent.
1962
02:02:26,543 --> 02:02:31,447
The king is a tyrant
whether we say so or not.
1963
02:02:31,515 --> 02:02:34,917
- We might as well say so.
- But I already scratched it out.
1964
02:02:34,987 --> 02:02:38,650
Then scratch it back in.
1965
02:02:38,724 --> 02:02:41,717
Put it back, Mr. Thomson.
The king will remain a tyrant.
1966
02:02:45,832 --> 02:02:49,031
- Mr. Hewes.
- Mr. Jefferson.
1967
02:02:49,104 --> 02:02:52,130
Nowhere do you mention
deep-sea fishing rights.
1968
02:02:53,508 --> 02:02:58,446
Oh, good God!
Fishing rights!
1969
02:02:58,514 --> 02:03:01,381
How long is this
piddling to go on?
1970
02:03:01,450 --> 02:03:04,944
We have been here
for three full days.
1971
02:03:05,023 --> 02:03:08,652
We have endured, by my count,
85 separate changes...
1972
02:03:08,726 --> 02:03:12,288
and the removal
of close to 400 words.
1973
02:03:12,364 --> 02:03:15,458
Now, would you whip it and beat it
till you break its spirit?
1974
02:03:15,534 --> 02:03:21,475
I tell you that document is a masterful
expression of the American mind!
1975
02:03:26,314 --> 02:03:28,249
If there are no more changes...
1976
02:03:28,317 --> 02:03:31,685
then I can assume the report of
the Declaration Committee has been...
1977
02:03:31,754 --> 02:03:36,317
- Just a moment, Mr. President.
- Look out.
1978
02:03:37,261 --> 02:03:39,821
I wonder if we might prevail
upon Mr. Thomson...
1979
02:03:39,897 --> 02:03:44,927
to read again a small portion
of Mr. Jefferson's declaration.
1980
02:03:45,004 --> 02:03:48,303
The one beginning
"He has waged cruel war."
1981
02:03:50,710 --> 02:03:52,906
Uh, "He has affected.
He's combined.
1982
02:03:52,980 --> 02:03:55,448
He's abdicated.
He's plundered.
1983
02:03:55,515 --> 02:03:58,211
He's constrained.
He's excited. He's incited.
1984
02:03:58,285 --> 02:04:00,778
He's waged cruel war."
Here it is.
1985
02:04:00,856 --> 02:04:03,552
"He has waged cruel war
against human nature itself...
1986
02:04:03,625 --> 02:04:06,526
in the persons of a distant people
who never offended him...
1987
02:04:06,596 --> 02:04:10,498
captivating and carrying them into
slavery in another hemisphere...
1988
02:04:10,567 --> 02:04:14,299
determined to keep open a market
where men should be bought and sold.
1989
02:04:14,372 --> 02:04:18,707
- He has prostituted his..."
- That will suffice, Mr. Thomson.
1990
02:04:18,777 --> 02:04:23,545
Mr. Jefferson, I can't quite make out
what it is you're talking about.
1991
02:04:25,184 --> 02:04:27,153
Slavery, Mr. Rutledge.
1992
02:04:27,221 --> 02:04:31,158
Oh, yes. You're referring to us
as slaves of the king.
1993
02:04:31,226 --> 02:04:33,888
No, sir. I'm referring
to our slaves.
1994
02:04:33,962 --> 02:04:36,453
Black slaves.
1995
02:04:38,299 --> 02:04:40,860
Black slaves.
1996
02:04:40,937 --> 02:04:43,269
Why didn't you say so, sir?
1997
02:04:43,340 --> 02:04:46,572
Were you trying to hide
your meaning?
1998
02:04:46,644 --> 02:04:47,906
No, sir.
1999
02:04:47,979 --> 02:04:52,040
Just another
literary license, then.
2000
02:04:52,116 --> 02:04:54,050
If you like.
2001
02:04:54,118 --> 02:04:57,783
I don't like at all,
Mr. Jefferson.
2002
02:04:57,857 --> 02:05:01,588
To us in South Carolina, black slavery
is our peculiar institution...
2003
02:05:01,661 --> 02:05:03,596
and a cherished way of life.
2004
02:05:03,664 --> 02:05:06,690
Nevertheless,
we must abolish it.
2005
02:05:06,767 --> 02:05:09,703
Nothing is more certainly
written in the Book of Fate...
2006
02:05:09,771 --> 02:05:11,706
than that this people
shall be free.
2007
02:05:11,774 --> 02:05:15,608
I am not concerned with the Book of Fate
right now, Mr. Jefferson.
2008
02:05:15,678 --> 02:05:18,512
I'm more concerned with what is
written in that little paper there.
2009
02:05:18,582 --> 02:05:22,643
That little paper there
deals with freedom for Americans.
2010
02:05:24,089 --> 02:05:26,820
Oh, really.
2011
02:05:26,892 --> 02:05:28,826
Mr. Adams...
2012
02:05:28,894 --> 02:05:33,422
is now callin' our black slaves
"Americans."
2013
02:05:33,499 --> 02:05:35,593
- Are they, now?
- Yes, they are.
2014
02:05:35,669 --> 02:05:37,831
They're people
and they're here.
2015
02:05:37,905 --> 02:05:39,839
If there's any other requirement,
I've never heard of it.
2016
02:05:39,907 --> 02:05:42,934
They are here, yes, but they are
not people. They are property.
2017
02:05:43,011 --> 02:05:47,209
No, sir. They are people who are
being treated as property.
2018
02:05:47,282 --> 02:05:50,047
I tell you, the rights
of human nature...
2019
02:05:50,120 --> 02:05:53,420
are deeply wounded by
this infamous practice.
2020
02:05:53,491 --> 02:05:57,724
Then see to your own wounds,
for you are a practitioner!
2021
02:05:57,796 --> 02:06:00,230
Are you not?
2022
02:06:05,370 --> 02:06:11,072
I have already resolved
to release my slaves.
2023
02:06:29,432 --> 02:06:31,628
Then I'm sorry...
2024
02:06:31,702 --> 02:06:35,901
for you've also resolved
the ruination of your personal economy.
2025
02:06:35,974 --> 02:06:39,467
Economy.
Always economy.
2026
02:06:39,546 --> 02:06:42,515
There's more to this
than a filthy purse string, Rutledge.
2027
02:06:42,582 --> 02:06:44,641
It's an offense
against man and God.
2028
02:06:44,717 --> 02:06:48,246
It's a stinking business,
Mr. Rutledge. A stinking business.
2029
02:06:48,323 --> 02:06:50,291
Is it really, Mr. Hopkins?
2030
02:06:50,358 --> 02:06:52,451
Then what is that I smell...
2031
02:06:52,527 --> 02:06:55,019
floatin' down from the North?
2032
02:06:56,465 --> 02:06:58,797
Could that be the aroma
of hypocrisy?
2033
02:06:58,868 --> 02:07:02,806
For who holds the other end
of that filthy purse string, Mr. Adams?
2034
02:07:06,511 --> 02:07:11,882
Our northern brethren feelin'
a bit tender toward our slaves.
2035
02:07:11,951 --> 02:07:14,317
They don't keep slaves.
2036
02:07:14,386 --> 02:07:16,582
Oh, no.
2037
02:07:16,656 --> 02:07:20,457
But they're willin' to be
considerable carriers...
2038
02:07:20,528 --> 02:07:22,996
of slaves to others.
2039
02:07:23,064 --> 02:07:26,034
They're willin'...
2040
02:07:26,101 --> 02:07:28,194
for the shillin'.
2041
02:07:28,270 --> 02:07:31,729
Or haven't you heard,
Mr. Adams?
2042
02:07:31,808 --> 02:07:35,475
Clink, clink.
2043
02:07:35,546 --> 02:07:38,310
Molasses to rum
2044
02:07:38,382 --> 02:07:41,375
To slaves
2045
02:07:41,453 --> 02:07:47,120
Oh, what a beautiful waltz
2046
02:07:47,193 --> 02:07:49,662
You dance with us
2047
02:07:49,730 --> 02:07:52,130
We dance with you
2048
02:07:52,199 --> 02:08:00,301
In molasses and rum
and slaves
2049
02:08:00,376 --> 02:08:04,039
Who sail the ships
out of Boston
2050
02:08:04,113 --> 02:08:07,982
Laden with Bibles and rum
2051
02:08:08,051 --> 02:08:11,612
Who drinks a toast
to the Ivory Coast
2052
02:08:11,688 --> 02:08:15,751
Hail, Africa
the slavers have come
2053
02:08:15,827 --> 02:08:19,319
New England with Bibles
2054
02:08:19,398 --> 02:08:22,562
And rum
2055
02:08:22,635 --> 02:08:25,229
Then it's off with the rum
and the Bibles
2056
02:08:25,305 --> 02:08:28,139
Take on the slaves
Clink, clink
2057
02:08:28,208 --> 02:08:32,168
Then hail and farewell
to the smell
2058
02:08:32,247 --> 02:08:36,981
Of the African coast
2059
02:08:39,822 --> 02:08:44,761
Molasses to rum
to slaves
2060
02:08:44,829 --> 02:08:50,597
'Tisn't morals
'Tis money that saves
2061
02:08:50,668 --> 02:08:55,733
Shall we dance to the sound
of the profitable pound
2062
02:08:55,809 --> 02:09:03,876
In molasses and rum
and slaves
2063
02:09:03,951 --> 02:09:07,318
Who sail the ships
out of Guinea
2064
02:09:07,388 --> 02:09:10,951
Laden with Bibles
and slaves
2065
02:09:11,027 --> 02:09:14,724
'Tis Boston can boast
to the West Indies's coast
2066
02:09:14,797 --> 02:09:18,598
Jamaica, we brung
what ye craves
2067
02:09:18,669 --> 02:09:22,036
Antigua, Barbados
2068
02:09:22,106 --> 02:09:25,566
We brung Bibles
2069
02:09:25,644 --> 02:09:29,375
And slaves
2070
02:09:29,448 --> 02:09:32,509
Gentlemen, you mustn't think
that our northern friends...
2071
02:09:32,586 --> 02:09:36,022
see our black slaves as
merely figures in a ledger.
2072
02:09:36,089 --> 02:09:42,030
Oh, no. They see them
as figures on a block.
2073
02:09:42,097 --> 02:09:44,827
Look at the faces
at the auctions, gentlemen.
2074
02:09:44,900 --> 02:09:47,425
White faces on African wharves.
2075
02:09:47,503 --> 02:09:50,963
Seafaring faces.
New England faces.
2076
02:09:51,041 --> 02:09:53,509
"Put them in the ships.
2077
02:09:53,577 --> 02:09:56,547
Cram them in the ships.
2078
02:09:56,615 --> 02:09:59,880
Stuff them in the ships."
2079
02:09:59,951 --> 02:10:03,648
Hurry, gentlemen.
Let the auction begin.
2080
02:10:03,723 --> 02:10:08,855
Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah
2081
02:10:08,929 --> 02:10:12,832
Gentlemen, do you hear?
That's the cry of the auctioneer.
2082
02:10:12,901 --> 02:10:17,838
Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah
2083
02:10:17,906 --> 02:10:20,342
Slaves, gentlemen!
2084
02:10:20,410 --> 02:10:22,810
Black gold!
2085
02:10:22,879 --> 02:10:25,211
Livin' gold!
2086
02:10:25,282 --> 02:10:28,912
Gold from Angola!
2087
02:10:28,986 --> 02:10:30,920
Guinea, Guinea, Guinea!
2088
02:10:30,988 --> 02:10:33,719
Blackbirds for sale
2089
02:10:33,792 --> 02:10:38,526
Ashanti, ebo, ebo, ebo!
2090
02:10:38,598 --> 02:10:41,567
Blackbirds for sale
2091
02:10:41,634 --> 02:10:45,662
Handle them!
2092
02:10:45,739 --> 02:10:49,198
Fondle them!
2093
02:10:49,277 --> 02:10:52,270
But don't finger them!
2094
02:10:52,348 --> 02:10:57,479
They're prime
They're prime
2095
02:10:57,553 --> 02:11:04,654
Ya ha, ya ha ma
Cundah
2096
02:11:04,729 --> 02:11:08,291
For the love of God,
Mr. Rutledge, please.
2097
02:11:17,078 --> 02:11:20,138
Molasses to rum
2098
02:11:20,214 --> 02:11:23,446
To slaves
2099
02:11:23,519 --> 02:11:28,616
Who sail the ships
back to Boston
2100
02:11:28,690 --> 02:11:34,358
Laden with gold
See it gleam
2101
02:11:34,431 --> 02:11:39,062
Whose fortunes are made
in the triangle trade
2102
02:11:39,137 --> 02:11:43,540
Hail, slavery
the New England dream
2103
02:11:43,608 --> 02:11:47,307
Mr. Adams,
I give you a toast.
2104
02:11:47,381 --> 02:11:49,542
Hail, Boston
2105
02:11:49,616 --> 02:11:52,107
Hail, Charleston
2106
02:11:53,754 --> 02:12:03,598
Who stinketh the most
2107
02:12:08,872 --> 02:12:11,866
Mr. Rutledge, please!
2108
02:12:14,179 --> 02:12:16,170
Mr. Hewes.
2109
02:12:19,118 --> 02:12:21,086
Dr. Hall.
2110
02:12:31,066 --> 02:12:33,660
Don't worry, John.
They'll be back.
2111
02:12:33,735 --> 02:12:36,864
Aye, to vote us down.
2112
02:12:42,547 --> 02:12:46,847
Adams! Franklin!
2113
02:12:46,918 --> 02:12:51,083
It's done. I have it.
And the Maryland Assembly's approved it.
2114
02:12:51,156 --> 02:12:56,390
I told them about one of the greatest
military engagements in history...
2115
02:12:56,463 --> 02:12:58,591
against a flock of, uh...
2116
02:13:01,769 --> 02:13:05,705
Well, what's wrong?
I thought...
2117
02:13:05,773 --> 02:13:07,765
You'll have to forgive them,
Mr. Chase.
2118
02:13:07,843 --> 02:13:10,608
They just suffered
a slight setback.
2119
02:13:10,680 --> 02:13:13,274
And after all,
"What is a man profited...
2120
02:13:13,349 --> 02:13:17,719
if he shall gain Maryland
and lose the entire South?"
2121
02:13:18,922 --> 02:13:23,486
Matthew, chapter 16,
verse 26.
2122
02:13:23,562 --> 02:13:25,530
McNair.
2123
02:13:25,598 --> 02:13:29,398
- Oh, I know. The flies.
- No.
2124
02:13:29,468 --> 02:13:31,403
The rum.
2125
02:13:35,442 --> 02:13:37,707
Well, what are we all
sitting around for?
2126
02:13:39,381 --> 02:13:41,315
We're wasting time.
Precious time.
2127
02:13:41,383 --> 02:13:43,544
Thomas, I want you to ride
down into Delaware...
2128
02:13:43,619 --> 02:13:46,350
- and fetch back Caesar Rodney.
- John, are you mad?
2129
02:13:46,423 --> 02:13:50,325
- It's 80 miles, and he's a dyin' man.
- No, he's a patriot.
2130
02:13:50,393 --> 02:13:53,192
John, what good will it do?
The South's done us in.
2131
02:13:53,264 --> 02:13:55,199
And suppose they
change their minds?
2132
02:13:55,267 --> 02:13:57,667
Can we get Delaware
without Rodney?
2133
02:14:00,305 --> 02:14:04,140
God!
What a bastardly bunch we are.
2134
02:14:06,013 --> 02:14:09,107
- Stephen, I want you to...
- I'm going to the tavern, Johnny.
2135
02:14:09,183 --> 02:14:13,712
If there's anything I can do
for you there, let me know.
2136
02:14:13,788 --> 02:14:17,019
Chase. Bartlett!
2137
02:14:17,092 --> 02:14:20,655
What's the use, John?
The vote's tomorrow morning.
2138
02:14:20,731 --> 02:14:23,325
There's less than a full day left.
2139
02:14:26,471 --> 02:14:31,067
- Roger.
- Face facts, John. It's finished.
2140
02:14:33,312 --> 02:14:35,406
I'm sorry, John.
2141
02:14:43,190 --> 02:14:46,250
We have no choice, John.
2142
02:14:46,327 --> 02:14:48,262
The slavery clause
has got to go.
2143
02:14:50,867 --> 02:14:52,801
Franklin, what are you saying?
2144
02:14:52,869 --> 02:14:55,133
It's a luxury
we can't afford.
2145
02:14:56,205 --> 02:14:58,265
A luxury?
2146
02:14:59,977 --> 02:15:03,846
A half million souls
in chains...
2147
02:15:03,915 --> 02:15:07,784
and Dr. Franklin
calls it a luxury.
2148
02:15:07,853 --> 02:15:10,287
Maybe you should've
walked out with the South.
2149
02:15:10,356 --> 02:15:12,449
You forget yourself, sir.
2150
02:15:12,525 --> 02:15:15,553
I founded the first antislavery
society on this continent.
2151
02:15:15,630 --> 02:15:19,828
Don't wave your credentials at me.
Perhaps it's time you had them renewed.
2152
02:15:19,901 --> 02:15:23,030
The issue here is independence.
2153
02:15:23,105 --> 02:15:25,630
Perhaps you've forgotten
that fact, but I have not.
2154
02:15:25,707 --> 02:15:31,841
How dare you jeopardize our cause
when we've come so far!
2155
02:15:33,250 --> 02:15:35,810
These men...
2156
02:15:35,886 --> 02:15:38,151
no matter how much
we may disagree with them...
2157
02:15:38,223 --> 02:15:41,488
are not ribbon clerks
to be ordered about.
2158
02:15:41,560 --> 02:15:44,860
They're proud, accomplished men.
The cream of their colonies.
2159
02:15:44,931 --> 02:15:47,924
And whether you like it or not,
they and the people they represent...
2160
02:15:48,001 --> 02:15:51,903
will be part of this new nation
you'd hope to create.
2161
02:15:51,972 --> 02:15:55,170
Now either learn how to live with them
or pack up and go home.
2162
02:16:00,583 --> 02:16:03,576
In any case, stop acting
like a Boston fishwife.
2163
02:16:17,937 --> 02:16:20,906
Good God.
What's happened to me?
2164
02:16:20,974 --> 02:16:24,341
John Adams.
The greatJohn Adams.
2165
02:16:24,410 --> 02:16:26,346
What have I come to?
2166
02:16:26,414 --> 02:16:30,407
Law practice down the pipe.
Farm mortgaged to the hilt.
2167
02:16:30,485 --> 02:16:33,649
At a stage in life
when other men prosper...
2168
02:16:33,723 --> 02:16:36,055
I'm reduced to living
in Philadelphia.
2169
02:16:38,461 --> 02:16:40,396
Philadelphia.
2170
02:16:49,308 --> 02:16:51,833
Abigail, what am I
going to do?
2171
02:16:51,911 --> 02:16:54,506
Do, John?
2172
02:16:54,581 --> 02:16:56,812
I need your help.
2173
02:16:56,884 --> 02:16:59,444
You don't usually
ask my advice.
2174
02:16:59,520 --> 02:17:02,978
Yes, well, there doesn't appear
to be anyone else right now.
2175
02:17:03,057 --> 02:17:05,856
Very well, John.
What is it?
2176
02:17:05,928 --> 02:17:10,059
The entire South has just
walked out of this Congress...
2177
02:17:10,133 --> 02:17:13,968
George Washington is on
the verge of total annihilation...
2178
02:17:14,038 --> 02:17:17,030
and the precious cause for which
I have labored these several years...
2179
02:17:17,107 --> 02:17:19,041
has come to nothing.
2180
02:17:20,712 --> 02:17:24,274
And it seems that I'm
obnoxious and disliked.
2181
02:17:24,350 --> 02:17:26,682
Nonsense, John.
2182
02:17:26,752 --> 02:17:29,221
That I am unwilling
to face reality.
2183
02:17:29,289 --> 02:17:31,416
Foolishness, John.
2184
02:17:31,491 --> 02:17:33,652
That I'm pigheaded.
2185
02:17:33,727 --> 02:17:35,661
Ah, well, there you have me, John.
2186
02:17:35,729 --> 02:17:37,858
I'm afraid you are pig-headed.
2187
02:17:41,170 --> 02:17:43,229
Well, yes.
2188
02:17:45,442 --> 02:17:48,343
Oh, Abby.
2189
02:17:48,411 --> 02:17:51,711
Has it been any kind
of a life for you?
2190
02:17:51,782 --> 02:17:54,217
God knows I haven't
given you very much.
2191
02:17:54,286 --> 02:17:57,619
I never asked for more.
2192
02:17:57,689 --> 02:17:59,623
After all, I am Mrs. John Adams.
2193
02:17:59,691 --> 02:18:02,388
That's quite a lot
for one lifetime.
2194
02:18:04,531 --> 02:18:07,796
- Is it, Abby?
- Well, think of it, John.
2195
02:18:07,869 --> 02:18:11,930
To be married to the man who is
always the first in line to be hanged.
2196
02:18:16,245 --> 02:18:18,680
Yes. The agitator.
2197
02:18:20,951 --> 02:18:24,046
Why, Abby?
2198
02:18:24,122 --> 02:18:27,285
You must tell me
what it is. L...
2199
02:18:27,358 --> 02:18:31,989
Well, I have always been dissatisfied.
I know that.
2200
02:18:32,064 --> 02:18:36,502
But lately, I find that I reek
of discontentment.
2201
02:18:36,569 --> 02:18:40,336
It fills my throat,
and it floods my brain.
2202
02:18:44,311 --> 02:18:48,579
Sometimes I fear
there is no longer a dream.
2203
02:18:48,651 --> 02:18:51,176
Only the discontentment.
2204
02:18:56,727 --> 02:19:01,062
Can you really know
so little about yourself?
2205
02:19:01,132 --> 02:19:03,157
And can you think so little of me
that you'd believe...
2206
02:19:03,234 --> 02:19:05,897
I'd marry the man
you've described?
2207
02:19:07,474 --> 02:19:10,602
Have you forgotten what
you used to say to me? I haven't.
2208
02:19:12,613 --> 02:19:15,708
"Commitment, Abby.
2209
02:19:15,784 --> 02:19:18,549
Commitment.
2210
02:19:18,621 --> 02:19:23,490
There are only two creatures of value
on the face of this earth...
2211
02:19:23,559 --> 02:19:25,925
those with a commitment...
2212
02:19:25,995 --> 02:19:29,194
and those who require
the commitment of others."
2213
02:19:31,302 --> 02:19:33,361
Do you remember, John?
2214
02:19:35,274 --> 02:19:37,469
Yes, I remember.
2215
02:19:37,543 --> 02:19:41,070
Mr. Adams!
2216
02:19:41,147 --> 02:19:44,118
Are you up there,
Mr. Adams?
2217
02:19:44,185 --> 02:19:45,914
What do you want?
2218
02:19:45,987 --> 02:19:49,980
There's a delivery
down here for ya.
2219
02:19:50,057 --> 02:19:53,255
What is it?
2220
02:19:53,328 --> 02:19:55,421
Where did it come from?
Who sent it?
2221
02:20:01,806 --> 02:20:06,437
Compliments of
the Concord Ladies'coffee club
2222
02:20:06,511 --> 02:20:11,381
And the Sisterhood of
the Truro Synagogue
2223
02:20:11,451 --> 02:20:16,355
And the Friday evening
Baptist sewing circle
2224
02:20:16,423 --> 02:20:21,383
And the Holy Christian
Sisters of St. Claire
2225
02:20:21,462 --> 02:20:25,366
All for you
2226
02:20:25,434 --> 02:20:28,562
John
2227
02:20:28,637 --> 02:20:34,201
I am, as I ever was
2228
02:20:34,277 --> 02:20:39,012
And ever shall be
2229
02:20:39,084 --> 02:20:44,545
Yours, yours, yours
2230
02:20:44,623 --> 02:20:47,491
Yours
2231
02:20:47,560 --> 02:20:51,155
Abigail,
what's in these kegs?
2232
02:20:51,231 --> 02:21:02,133
Saltpeter, John
2233
02:21:05,615 --> 02:21:07,584
McNair!
2234
02:21:07,651 --> 02:21:10,746
McNair, go out and buy every damned
pin you can find in Philadelphia.
2235
02:21:10,822 --> 02:21:12,756
Pin?
What sort of pin?
2236
02:21:12,824 --> 02:21:15,759
Well, I don't know. Whatever
the ladies use for their sewing.
2237
02:21:15,827 --> 02:21:19,161
Franklin, Jefferson, what are you all
sitting around for?
2238
02:21:19,231 --> 02:21:22,861
- Didn't you hear a word I said before?
- Oh, never mind about that.
2239
02:21:22,936 --> 02:21:26,703
- Here's what I want you to do.
- John, I'm not even speaking to you.
2240
02:21:26,774 --> 02:21:29,572
It's too late for that, damn it.
There's work to be done.
2241
02:21:29,644 --> 02:21:31,578
Jefferson, go find Rutledge.
2242
02:21:31,646 --> 02:21:33,581
Don't come back
until you've worn him down.
2243
02:21:33,649 --> 02:21:35,618
Now, you're both
southern aristocrats.
2244
02:21:35,685 --> 02:21:37,846
If he'll listen to anybody,
he'll listen to you.
2245
02:21:37,921 --> 02:21:39,855
Franklin, out of that chair!
2246
02:21:39,923 --> 02:21:42,552
What good is the South
if you can't deliver Pennsylvania?
2247
02:21:42,626 --> 02:21:45,493
Talk to Wilson.
Get him away from Dickinson.
2248
02:21:45,563 --> 02:21:49,091
That's the only way to do it.
Go on, now, both of you.
2249
02:21:49,167 --> 02:21:52,399
- John?
- Time's running out, damn it.
2250
02:21:52,471 --> 02:21:54,598
Now move.
2251
02:21:56,776 --> 02:22:00,110
I'm still from
Massachusetts, John.
2252
02:22:00,180 --> 02:22:04,277
You know where I stand.
I'll do whatever you say.
2253
02:22:10,225 --> 02:22:14,185
No. You're the president
of Congress.
2254
02:22:14,264 --> 02:22:16,789
You're a fair man, Hancock.
Stay that way.
2255
02:22:38,927 --> 02:22:43,159
Tell me, Mr. Thomson,
out of curiosity...
2256
02:22:43,231 --> 02:22:46,964
do you stand with Mr. Dickinson,
or do you stand with me?
2257
02:22:48,772 --> 02:22:50,706
I stand with the general.
2258
02:22:52,676 --> 02:22:57,011
Well, lately, I've had
the oddest feeling that he's been...
2259
02:22:57,081 --> 02:23:00,176
writing to me.
2260
02:23:02,422 --> 02:23:05,687
I have been in expectation
2261
02:23:05,759 --> 02:23:08,991
Of receiving a reply
2262
02:23:09,063 --> 02:23:16,300
On the subject of
my last 15 dispatches
2263
02:23:16,371 --> 02:23:22,743
Is anybody there
2264
02:23:22,812 --> 02:23:28,377
Does anybody care
2265
02:23:29,587 --> 02:23:35,424
Does anybody care
2266
02:23:37,163 --> 02:23:40,064
"Your humble and obedient..."
2267
02:24:12,773 --> 02:24:15,105
"Is anybody there?
2268
02:24:18,112 --> 02:24:20,877
Does anybody care?"
2269
02:24:24,120 --> 02:24:30,617
Does anybody see what I see
2270
02:24:34,264 --> 02:24:36,790
They want me to quit
2271
02:24:37,668 --> 02:24:42,129
They say
John, give up the fight
2272
02:24:42,207 --> 02:24:45,109
Still to England, I say
2273
02:24:45,178 --> 02:24:49,672
Good night forever
Good night
2274
02:24:49,749 --> 02:24:54,415
For I have crossed
the Rubicon
2275
02:24:54,489 --> 02:24:57,424
Let the bridge
be burned behind me
2276
02:24:57,492 --> 02:24:59,687
Come what may
2277
02:24:59,761 --> 02:25:02,959
Come what may
Commitment
2278
02:25:03,032 --> 02:25:07,493
The croakers all say
we'll rue the day
2279
02:25:07,571 --> 02:25:13,010
There'll be hell to pay
in fiery purgatory
2280
02:25:13,077 --> 02:25:16,741
Through all the gloom
Through all the gloom
2281
02:25:16,816 --> 02:25:20,878
I can see the rays
of ravishing light
2282
02:25:20,954 --> 02:25:23,320
And glory
2283
02:25:23,390 --> 02:25:26,883
Is anybody there?
2284
02:25:26,961 --> 02:25:30,055
Does anybody care?
2285
02:25:30,131 --> 02:25:34,125
Does anybody see
what I see?
2286
02:25:34,203 --> 02:25:36,832
I see fireworks
2287
02:25:36,906 --> 02:25:40,308
I see the pageant
and pomp and parade
2288
02:25:40,377 --> 02:25:42,937
I hear the bells ringing out
2289
02:25:43,013 --> 02:25:45,948
I hear the cannons roar
2290
02:25:46,016 --> 02:25:48,543
I see Americans
2291
02:25:48,621 --> 02:25:52,250
All Americans free
2292
02:25:52,325 --> 02:25:55,557
Forevermore
2293
02:26:08,244 --> 02:26:13,774
How quiet
How quiet the chamber is
2294
02:26:15,218 --> 02:26:22,058
How silent
How silent the chamber is
2295
02:26:25,731 --> 02:26:31,103
Is anybody there
2296
02:26:32,506 --> 02:26:37,706
Does anybody care
2297
02:26:39,681 --> 02:26:42,650
Does anybody see...
2298
02:26:42,717 --> 02:26:44,812
what I see?
2299
02:26:46,823 --> 02:26:48,757
Yes, Mr. Adams.
2300
02:26:50,227 --> 02:26:51,388
I do.
2301
02:26:54,899 --> 02:26:57,060
Dr. Hall.
2302
02:26:57,135 --> 02:26:59,503
I didn't know anyone was...
2303
02:27:00,507 --> 02:27:03,305
I'm sorry if I startled you.
2304
02:27:03,376 --> 02:27:05,901
I couldn't sleep.
2305
02:27:05,979 --> 02:27:09,575
And in trying to resolve
my dilemma...
2306
02:27:09,650 --> 02:27:12,483
I remembered something
I'd once read.
2307
02:27:12,553 --> 02:27:16,457
"That a representative
owes the people not only his industry...
2308
02:27:16,526 --> 02:27:18,858
"but his judgment...
2309
02:27:18,928 --> 02:27:22,625
and he betrays them
if he sacrifices it to their opinion."
2310
02:27:25,636 --> 02:27:28,868
That was written by
Edmund Burke...
2311
02:27:29,674 --> 02:27:31,836
a member
of the British Parliament.
2312
02:28:01,112 --> 02:28:03,138
Good night, Mr. Adams.
2313
02:28:03,215 --> 02:28:05,149
Good night.
2314
02:28:15,362 --> 02:28:17,296
It's never been done before.
2315
02:28:17,364 --> 02:28:20,129
No colony has ever broken from the
parent stem in the history of the world.
2316
02:28:20,201 --> 02:28:22,635
If you have grievances,
and I'm sure you have...
2317
02:28:22,704 --> 02:28:25,731
our present system must provide
a gentler means of redressing them...
2318
02:28:25,808 --> 02:28:28,039
- We've spawned a new race here.
- Revolution?
2319
02:28:28,111 --> 02:28:32,070
Rougher, simpler, more violent,
more enterprising, less refined.
2320
02:28:32,149 --> 02:28:35,677
''My quartermaster has no food,
no arms, no ammunition...
2321
02:28:35,753 --> 02:28:38,484
and my troops are
in a state of near mutiny.
2322
02:28:38,557 --> 02:28:42,824
I pray God some relief arrives before
the armada, but fear it will not. "
2323
02:28:42,896 --> 02:28:45,797
And when they hang you,
Mr. Adams...
2324
02:28:45,865 --> 02:28:48,390
I do hope you'll put in
a good word for the rest of us.
2325
02:28:48,468 --> 02:28:52,372
England closing in,
cutting off our air. There's no time!
2326
02:28:52,441 --> 02:28:56,104
Place before mankind
the common sense of the subjects.
2327
02:28:56,178 --> 02:28:58,113
The issue here is independence.
2328
02:28:58,181 --> 02:29:00,115
Perhaps you've lost sight
of that fact, but I have not.
2329
02:29:00,183 --> 02:29:02,117
''We mutually pledge
to each other our lives...
2330
02:29:02,185 --> 02:29:05,416
our fortunes
and our sacred honor. "
2331
02:29:05,488 --> 02:29:09,449
Can you really know
so little about yourself?
2332
02:29:13,866 --> 02:29:15,891
Very well.
2333
02:29:17,103 --> 02:29:20,562
The Congress will now vote on
Virginia's resolution on independence.
2334
02:29:29,217 --> 02:29:32,949
Thank you for coming, Caesar,
and God bless you, sir.
2335
02:29:38,696 --> 02:29:40,994
The secretary
will call the roll.
2336
02:29:41,065 --> 02:29:44,159
And I remind you,
gentlemen...
2337
02:29:44,235 --> 02:29:47,467
that a single "nay" vote...
2338
02:29:47,539 --> 02:29:49,474
will defeat the motion.
2339
02:29:50,810 --> 02:29:52,744
Mr. Thomson.
2340
02:29:57,151 --> 02:30:00,211
- New Hampshire.
- New Hampshire says yea.
2341
02:30:00,287 --> 02:30:02,723
New Hampshire says yea.
Massachusetts.
2342
02:30:02,791 --> 02:30:05,783
- Massachusetts says yea.
- Massachusetts says yea.
2343
02:30:05,861 --> 02:30:08,022
- Rhode Island.
- Rhode Island says yea.
2344
02:30:08,097 --> 02:30:10,362
Rhode Island says yea.
Connecticut.
2345
02:30:10,433 --> 02:30:13,197
- Connecticut says yea.
- Connecticut says yea.
2346
02:30:13,270 --> 02:30:14,794
New York.
2347
02:30:14,871 --> 02:30:18,104
Mr. Secretary,
New York abstains courteously.
2348
02:30:18,177 --> 02:30:21,840
- New York abstains.
- Courteously.
2349
02:30:21,914 --> 02:30:24,906
- New Jersey.
- New Jersey says yea.
2350
02:30:24,983 --> 02:30:27,544
New Jersey says yea.
Pennsylvania.
2351
02:30:29,656 --> 02:30:33,924
Mr. Secretary, Pennsylvania is not
ready. Please come back to us later.
2352
02:30:33,995 --> 02:30:37,487
Pennsylvania passes.
Delaware.
2353
02:30:38,633 --> 02:30:42,468
Delaware,
by majority vote...
2354
02:30:42,538 --> 02:30:45,030
- Aye.
- Says yea.
2355
02:30:45,108 --> 02:30:48,236
Delaware says yea.
Maryland.
2356
02:30:48,312 --> 02:30:50,406
- Maryland says yea.
- Maryland says yea.
2357
02:30:50,481 --> 02:30:52,415
- Virginia.
- Virginia says yea.
2358
02:30:52,483 --> 02:30:54,542
Virginia says yea.
North Carolina.
2359
02:30:54,619 --> 02:30:58,249
North Carolina yields
to South Carolina.
2360
02:30:58,324 --> 02:31:00,316
South Carolina.
2361
02:31:00,393 --> 02:31:02,190
Well, Mr. Adams?
2362
02:31:03,296 --> 02:31:04,593
Well, Mr. Rutledge?
2363
02:31:07,802 --> 02:31:11,329
Mr. Adams...
2364
02:31:11,405 --> 02:31:15,468
you must believe that I will
do what I promised to do.
2365
02:31:22,152 --> 02:31:23,744
What is it you want?
2366
02:31:23,821 --> 02:31:27,588
Remove the offending passage
from your declaration.
2367
02:31:27,659 --> 02:31:33,155
If we did that, we would be guilty of
what we ourselves are rebelling against.
2368
02:31:35,167 --> 02:31:37,830
Nevertheless, remove it...
2369
02:31:37,904 --> 02:31:41,102
or South Carolina
will bury now and forever...
2370
02:31:41,175 --> 02:31:44,269
your dream of independence.
2371
02:31:44,345 --> 02:31:47,611
John, I beg you,
consider what you're doing.
2372
02:31:54,658 --> 02:31:57,355
Mark me, Franklin...
2373
02:31:57,428 --> 02:32:02,662
if we give in on this issue,
posterity will never forgive us.
2374
02:32:02,734 --> 02:32:06,898
That's probably true, but we won't
hear a thing. We'll be long gone.
2375
02:32:06,972 --> 02:32:11,673
Besides, what will posterity
think we were? Demigods?
2376
02:32:11,745 --> 02:32:14,908
We're men... no more, no less...
trying to get a nation started...
2377
02:32:14,982 --> 02:32:20,080
against greater odds than a more
generous God would have allowed.
2378
02:32:20,155 --> 02:32:23,421
First things first, John.
Independence. America.
2379
02:32:23,492 --> 02:32:28,260
If we don't secure that,
what difference will the rest make?
2380
02:32:34,572 --> 02:32:36,540
Jefferson, say something.
2381
02:32:38,777 --> 02:32:42,043
What else is there to do?
2382
02:32:42,115 --> 02:32:45,607
Well, man,
you're the one that wrote it.
2383
02:32:45,685 --> 02:32:49,383
I wrote all of it, Mr. Adams.
2384
02:33:09,848 --> 02:33:11,816
There.
There it is, Rutledge.
2385
02:33:11,884 --> 02:33:14,250
You have your slavery.
Little good may it do you.
2386
02:33:14,320 --> 02:33:17,619
Now vote, damn you!
2387
02:33:17,690 --> 02:33:22,652
Mr. President, the fair colony
of South Carolina...
2388
02:33:22,730 --> 02:33:25,927
- says yea.
- South Carolina says yea.
2389
02:33:26,000 --> 02:33:29,368
- North Carolina says yea.
- North Carolina says yea.
2390
02:33:31,306 --> 02:33:33,468
- Georgia.
- Georgia says yea.
2391
02:33:33,543 --> 02:33:36,308
Georgia says yea.
2392
02:33:36,380 --> 02:33:38,314
Pennsylvania, second call.
2393
02:33:40,418 --> 02:33:45,379
Mr. President, Pennsylvania regrets
all of the inconvenience...
2394
02:33:45,457 --> 02:33:50,657
that such distinguished men
as Adams, Franklin and Jefferson...
2395
02:33:50,730 --> 02:33:52,665
were put to just now.
2396
02:33:52,733 --> 02:33:57,170
They might've kept their document intact
for all the difference it will make.
2397
02:33:57,237 --> 02:34:00,571
Mr. President,
Pennsylvania says...
2398
02:34:00,642 --> 02:34:03,373
Just a moment.
2399
02:34:03,446 --> 02:34:05,437
I ask the delegation
to be polled.
2400
02:34:05,514 --> 02:34:08,245
Dr. Franklin,
don't be absurd.
2401
02:34:08,318 --> 02:34:11,845
A poll, Mr. President.
It's a proper request.
2402
02:34:11,922 --> 02:34:15,552
Yes, it is. Poll the delegation,
Mr. Thomson.
2403
02:34:15,626 --> 02:34:18,494
- Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
- Yea.
2404
02:34:18,564 --> 02:34:22,000
- Mr. John Dickinson.
- Nay.
2405
02:34:22,067 --> 02:34:24,161
Mr. James Wilson.
2406
02:34:26,339 --> 02:34:28,569
Judge Wilson?
2407
02:34:31,446 --> 02:34:34,074
There it is, Mr. Wilson.
It's all up to you now.
2408
02:34:34,149 --> 02:34:38,415
The question of American independence
rests squarely on your shoulders.
2409
02:34:38,487 --> 02:34:42,219
An entirely new nation ready
to be born or to die at birth...
2410
02:34:42,291 --> 02:34:44,988
all on your say-so.
2411
02:34:45,062 --> 02:34:47,554
Which will it be, Mr. Wilson?
2412
02:34:47,632 --> 02:34:51,864
Every mapmaker in the world
is waiting for your decision.
2413
02:34:51,936 --> 02:34:55,031
Oh, come now, James.
Nothing has changed.
2414
02:34:55,107 --> 02:34:57,803
We mustn't let Dr. Franklin
create one of his confusions.
2415
02:34:57,877 --> 02:35:00,278
The question is clear.
2416
02:35:00,347 --> 02:35:03,749
Most questions are clear
when someone else has to decide them.
2417
02:35:03,818 --> 02:35:08,084
It'd be a pity for a man who's handed
down hundreds of wise decisions...
2418
02:35:08,155 --> 02:35:10,089
from the bench...
2419
02:35:10,157 --> 02:35:15,028
to be remembered only for the one
unwise decision he made in Congress.
2420
02:35:16,666 --> 02:35:19,465
James, you're
keeping everybody waiting.
2421
02:35:19,537 --> 02:35:21,562
The secretary has
called for your vote.
2422
02:35:22,506 --> 02:35:25,031
Please.
2423
02:35:25,109 --> 02:35:29,309
Don't push me, John.
I know what you want me to do.
2424
02:35:31,417 --> 02:35:34,979
But Mr. Adams is correct
about one thing.
2425
02:35:36,790 --> 02:35:39,452
I'm the one who'll be
remembered for it.
2426
02:35:39,526 --> 02:35:41,995
What do you mean?
2427
02:35:46,535 --> 02:35:49,800
I'm different from you, John.
2428
02:35:49,872 --> 02:35:53,240
I'm different from
most of the men here.
2429
02:35:53,310 --> 02:35:56,769
I don't want
to be remembered.
2430
02:35:56,847 --> 02:35:59,476
I just don't want the...
2431
02:35:59,551 --> 02:36:01,485
responsibility.
2432
02:36:02,220 --> 02:36:04,916
Yes, well, whether you
want it or not, James...
2433
02:36:04,990 --> 02:36:07,050
there's no way of avoiding it.
2434
02:36:07,126 --> 02:36:09,618
Not necessarily, John.
2435
02:36:09,697 --> 02:36:15,568
If I go with them,
I'll just be one among dozens.
2436
02:36:15,637 --> 02:36:18,868
No one will ever remember
the name ofJames Wilson.
2437
02:36:20,442 --> 02:36:23,880
But if I vote with you...
2438
02:36:23,947 --> 02:36:27,474
I'll be the man who prevented
American independence.
2439
02:36:29,987 --> 02:36:33,048
I'm sorry, John.
2440
02:36:33,124 --> 02:36:36,856
I just didn't bargain for that.
2441
02:36:36,929 --> 02:36:41,867
And is that how
new nations are formed?
2442
02:36:41,935 --> 02:36:44,301
By a nonentity
trying to preserve...
2443
02:36:44,371 --> 02:36:48,638
the anonymity
he so richly deserves?
2444
02:36:48,709 --> 02:36:52,043
Revolutions come into this world
like bastard children, Mr. Dickinson.
2445
02:36:52,114 --> 02:36:54,845
Half improvised
and half compromised.
2446
02:36:54,917 --> 02:36:57,181
Our side has provided
the compromise.
2447
02:36:57,253 --> 02:36:59,778
Now Judge Wilson
is supplying the rest.
2448
02:37:04,161 --> 02:37:06,323
James.
2449
02:37:06,398 --> 02:37:09,458
I'm sorry, John.
2450
02:37:09,534 --> 02:37:13,164
My vote is yea.
2451
02:37:13,572 --> 02:37:15,938
Mr. Secretary,
Pennsylvania says yea.
2452
02:37:18,412 --> 02:37:24,181
The count,
being twelve to none...
2453
02:37:24,252 --> 02:37:25,719
with one abstention...
2454
02:37:25,787 --> 02:37:30,225
the resolution
on independence...
2455
02:37:30,292 --> 02:37:32,556
is adopted.
2456
02:37:32,628 --> 02:37:34,621
It's done.
2457
02:37:38,002 --> 02:37:39,936
It's done.
2458
02:37:41,740 --> 02:37:45,699
Mr. Thomson, is the declaration
ready to be signed?
2459
02:37:45,777 --> 02:37:50,273
- It is.
- Then I suggest we do so.
2460
02:37:51,318 --> 02:37:57,450
And the chair further proposes,
for our mutual security and protection...
2461
02:37:57,524 --> 02:38:02,054
that no man sit in this Congress
without attaching his name to it.
2462
02:38:05,034 --> 02:38:09,301
I'm sorry, Mr. President.
2463
02:38:09,372 --> 02:38:15,073
I cannot, in good conscience,
sign such a document.
2464
02:38:15,146 --> 02:38:19,982
I will never stop hoping for our
eventual reconciliation with England.
2465
02:38:21,353 --> 02:38:24,551
But because...
2466
02:38:24,624 --> 02:38:27,092
in my own way...
2467
02:38:27,160 --> 02:38:31,098
I regard America no less
than does Mr. Adams...
2468
02:38:32,734 --> 02:38:38,071
I will join the army
and fight in her defense...
2469
02:38:38,141 --> 02:38:41,440
even though I believe
that fight to be hopeless.
2470
02:38:46,918 --> 02:38:48,909
Good-bye, gentlemen.
2471
02:38:50,688 --> 02:38:52,986
Gentlemen of the Congress...
2472
02:38:53,057 --> 02:38:55,618
I say yea,
John Dickinson.
2473
02:39:07,008 --> 02:39:09,204
Very well.
2474
02:39:09,278 --> 02:39:12,806
Are there objections to the declaration
being approved as it now stands?
2475
02:39:12,882 --> 02:39:16,841
- I have one, Mr. Hancock.
- You, Mr. Adams?
2476
02:39:16,921 --> 02:39:20,049
Yes. Mr. Jefferson...
2477
02:39:20,124 --> 02:39:23,992
it so happens that
the word is "unalienable,"
2478
02:39:24,061 --> 02:39:25,997
not "inalienable."
2479
02:39:27,567 --> 02:39:31,867
I'm sorry, Mr. Adams,
but "inalienable" is correct.
2480
02:39:33,307 --> 02:39:36,174
I happen to be a Harvard graduate,
Mr. Jefferson.
2481
02:39:39,513 --> 02:39:43,645
I attended William and Mary,
Mr. Adams.
2482
02:39:43,719 --> 02:39:49,158
Gentlemen, please! Mr. Jefferson,
will you yield to Mr. Adams's request?
2483
02:39:50,994 --> 02:39:53,189
No, sir, I will not.
2484
02:39:59,471 --> 02:40:01,735
Oh, very well.
I withdraw it.
2485
02:40:01,807 --> 02:40:05,175
Oh, good for you, John.
2486
02:40:08,482 --> 02:40:11,042
I'll speak to the printer
about it later on.
2487
02:40:13,755 --> 02:40:15,985
Very well, gentlemen.
2488
02:40:16,057 --> 02:40:20,825
We're about to brave the storm
in a skiff made of paper.
2489
02:40:20,897 --> 02:40:24,925
And how it shall end,
God only knows.
2490
02:40:26,703 --> 02:40:28,797
That's a pretty
large signature, Johnny.
2491
02:40:28,873 --> 02:40:32,274
So Fat George in London
can read it without his glasses.
2492
02:40:34,512 --> 02:40:38,974
Step right up, gentlemen. Don't miss
your chance to commit treason.
2493
02:40:40,420 --> 02:40:44,687
Hancock is right. This paper
is our passport to the gallows.
2494
02:40:44,759 --> 02:40:47,284
But there's no backing out now,
for if we do not hang together...
2495
02:40:47,361 --> 02:40:50,798
we shall most assuredly
hang separately.
2496
02:40:52,435 --> 02:40:54,995
In my case,
hangin' won't be so bad.
2497
02:40:55,071 --> 02:40:58,234
One snap and it'll be all over,
just like that.
2498
02:40:58,308 --> 02:41:03,042
But look at Read there. He'll be
dancin' a jig long after I'm gone!
2499
02:41:04,482 --> 02:41:07,883
Gentlemen, forgive me
if I don't join in the merriment...
2500
02:41:07,953 --> 02:41:09,922
but if we are arrested now...
2501
02:41:09,989 --> 02:41:14,585
my name is still the only one
on the damn thing!
2502
02:41:33,784 --> 02:41:38,244
From the commander,
army of the United Colonies in...
2503
02:41:38,322 --> 02:41:42,225
army of the United States
in New York...
2504
02:41:42,294 --> 02:41:44,285
dispatch number 1,209...
2505
02:41:44,363 --> 02:41:47,561
to the Honorable Congress,
John Hancock, President. "Dear sir...
2506
02:41:47,633 --> 02:41:49,602
I can now report
with some certainty...
2507
02:41:49,670 --> 02:41:51,604
that the eve of battle
is near at hand.
2508
02:41:51,672 --> 02:41:56,508
Toward this end, I have ordered
the evacuation of Manhattan...
2509
02:41:56,578 --> 02:42:01,016
and directed our defenses to take up
stronger positions on Brooklyn Heights.
2510
02:42:01,083 --> 02:42:06,522
At the present time, my forces consist
entirely of Haslet's Delaware Militia...
2511
02:42:06,590 --> 02:42:08,524
and Smallwood's Marylanders...
2512
02:42:08,592 --> 02:42:12,552
a total of 5,000 troops
to stand against...
2513
02:42:14,599 --> 02:42:17,501
25,000 of the enemy.
2514
02:42:17,569 --> 02:42:19,800
And I begin to notice
that many of us...
2515
02:42:19,873 --> 02:42:23,900
are lads under 15 and old men...
2516
02:42:23,977 --> 02:42:28,347
none of whom
could truly be called soldiers.
2517
02:42:28,416 --> 02:42:32,217
One personal note
to Mr. Lewis Morris of New York.
2518
02:42:32,287 --> 02:42:36,725
I must regretfully report that his
estates have been totally destroyed...
2519
02:42:36,793 --> 02:42:39,887
but that I have taken the liberty
of transporting Mrs. Morris...
2520
02:42:39,962 --> 02:42:43,491
and eight of the children
to Connecticut and safety.
2521
02:42:43,568 --> 02:42:48,596
The four older boys are now enlisted
in the Continental Army.
2522
02:42:48,673 --> 02:42:51,073
As I write these words...
2523
02:42:51,142 --> 02:42:55,580
the enemy is plainly in sight
beyond the river.
2524
02:42:55,648 --> 02:42:59,552
How it will end,
only Providence can direct.
2525
02:42:59,620 --> 02:43:02,714
But dear God,
what brave men...
2526
02:43:06,194 --> 02:43:10,291
I shall lose...
2527
02:43:10,365 --> 02:43:12,800
before...
2528
02:43:12,869 --> 02:43:14,803
this business...
2529
02:43:16,774 --> 02:43:18,833
ends.
2530
02:43:21,745 --> 02:43:23,771
Your obedient...
2531
02:43:27,186 --> 02:43:30,485
G. Washington."
2532
02:43:54,318 --> 02:43:56,253
Very well, gentlemen.
2533
02:43:57,422 --> 02:43:59,481
McNair.
2534
02:44:02,829 --> 02:44:04,888
Go ring the bell.
2535
02:44:11,673 --> 02:44:15,074
- Mr. President.
- Mr. Morris.
2536
02:44:15,143 --> 02:44:18,978
To hell with New York.
I'll sign it anyway.
2537
02:44:19,048 --> 02:44:21,175
Thank you, Mr. Morris.
2538
02:44:27,625 --> 02:44:29,923
Stephen, sit down.
2539
02:44:32,597 --> 02:44:37,263
I want to remember
each man's face as he signs.
2540
02:44:38,104 --> 02:44:39,799
Very well.
2541
02:44:41,174 --> 02:44:43,268
Mr. Thomson.
2542
02:44:45,813 --> 02:44:49,772
New Hampshire.
Dr. Josiah Bartlett.
2543
02:44:59,230 --> 02:45:02,859
Massachusetts.
Mr. John Adams.
2544
02:45:22,424 --> 02:45:25,257
Rhode Island.
Mr. Stephen Hopkins.
2545
02:45:32,403 --> 02:45:35,372
Connecticut.
Mr. Roger Sherman.
2546
02:45:41,880 --> 02:45:45,043
New York.
Mr. Lewis Morris.
2547
02:45:51,759 --> 02:45:55,059
New Jersey.
The Reverend John Witherspoon.
2548
02:46:01,504 --> 02:46:05,737
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
2549
02:46:11,382 --> 02:46:14,819
Delaware.
Mr. Caesar Rodney.
2550
02:46:25,231 --> 02:46:27,757
Maryland.
Mr. Samuel Chase.
2551
02:46:38,915 --> 02:46:41,783
Virginia.
Mr. Thomas Jefferson.
2552
02:46:49,027 --> 02:46:51,724
North Carolina.
Mr. Joseph Hewes.
2553
02:46:57,538 --> 02:47:00,132
South Carolina.
Mr. Edward Rutledge.
2554
02:47:06,615 --> 02:47:10,142
Georgia.
Dr. Lyman Hall.
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