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There.
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See that?
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We didn't see nothing, stranger.
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I see'd you sewing, though.
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First time I ever see a man sew like that.
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I done tailoring.
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How much you want to sew
the seat in a pair of britches?
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I don't want work here.
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I'm going west.
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I don't, uh,
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aim to take something for nothing.
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I'll... I'll patch them britches.
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Pretty square tailor, ain't ya?
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Sit down till I get my garment.
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Where you coming from, stranger?
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East.
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Where you heading?
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West.
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What do you want out there?
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Land.
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Don't talk much, do you?
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Not unless I get something to say.
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- Here she is.
- Uh...
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It might take a week of filing.
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I-if you get your nippers, you could...
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You're a fugitive.
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- I'd be aiding.
- You, uh...
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I--
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I was, uh, I was bound to a tailor
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back in Carolina.
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Runaway apprentice?
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You don't look young enough for that.
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You think I'm lying.
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Well, here.
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Read this.
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When an apprentice lights
out and gets caught again
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he's got to serve out his time, don't he?
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- Miss Eliza! Miss Eliza!
- Look!
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Well, where'd you get that?
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Howdy, Miss McCardle.
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Oh, good day, Blackstone.
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- Hello, Sam, Mordecai.
- Howdy, Miss McCardle.
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- McCardle.
- Hello, Mrs. Fisher.
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Good afternoon.
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You know those new boxes
of books that came?
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I figured out how much
shelf space is wanted, see?
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If you could bring some boards
and a hammer and some nails--
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I'll be right up to the library,
Miss McCardle,
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as soon as I get Mrs. Fisher's
mule shoed up.
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- Hello, Sheriff.
- Good afternoon, McDaniel.
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Mordecai, who is he?
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Says he's apprentice what lit out.
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That what it says there?
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Yes, but they can't touch
a runaway apprentice
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here in Tennessee, across the state line.
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Forget what I asked you,
I'll patch your britches,
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as pay for this file here
and be getting down the road.
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Never mind the britches now.
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Come here.
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Put your foot up here.
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This might hurt some, tailor.
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Huh, hurts worse where it is.
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What the Sam Hill?
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Well, that's like spring steel.
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Yeah. Get--get your hammer and chisel.
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But it'll half-kill you.
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It's been too long I got this thing on.
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I'm warning you, you might lose your ankle.
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Will you get your chisel?
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Go on, get it!
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He wants to be mule-headed...
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Speaking of mule..
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Gram of White Mule might help some.
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I.--I can't touch that stuff.
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It makes me sicker than a hound dog.
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You know, this town could
maybe use a man like you.
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Don't talk much, don't drink,
lots of spunk.
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Ain't been a tailor hereabouts
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since ol' Finney got drunk
and sewed his finger
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to a leg of the parson's pants.
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I ain't looking to do tailoring, ma'am.
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Man what can get to own land
don't get chained up.
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Man who can sew like you
could soon buy an acre here.
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Lots of folks here ain't got no basement
nor britches.
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Brace his foot.
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Good morning!
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- Morning, Miss McCardle.
- Morning, Miss Eliza.
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Oh, that's a fine job, Mordecai.
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I'm getting a pair of
brand-new britches for doing this.
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Well, I thought those old ones of yours
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would be too much for any tailor.
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Well, Mrs. Fisher!
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Them cobwebs ain't been swept out
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since the Grangers lit out west,
Miss McCardle.
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And I'll be choking and spitting for weeks
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to get the dust out of my lungs.
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Well, aren't you a good neighbor?
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I ain't been messing about in
there to help that mule head.
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I'm a-gettin' paid.
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I'm gonna have the first new dress
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since the one I wore the day
the parson tied me up.
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Good morning, Mr. Johnson.
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Morning.
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We haven't exactly met before.
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I'm Eliza McCardle
from the library across the street.
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Yes, miss.
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Everyone's so pleased to have
a tailor here again in Greeneville.
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Thank you, miss.
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I-it saves so much trouble
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not having to take my cloak
and dress down to Nashville.
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Am I your first customer?
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Oh.
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It was you left that?
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I guess you are, then, miss.
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Is my work ready?
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Oh, you shouldn't be about on that foot.
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It does a man's foot good
getting a shackle knocked off it.
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Yes, of course.
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Everyone's talking about what happened
at the blacksmith's shop.
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What happened at the blacksmith's
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ain't nobody's business!
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Mr. Johnson.
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Forgot myself, miss, don't...
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don't pay no mind.
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I'll take my clothes now, if you please.
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There ain't nothing been done
to them clothes, miss.
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Those clothes.
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But the instructions are plainly written.
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I know, miss, but...
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I can't read.
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"Will you please lengthen
the dress two inches at the hem
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and mend tear in cloak."
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I'll have it fixed tomorrow.
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Oh.
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How much will it cost?
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I ain't asking no favors
from anybody, but...
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a fair bargain's a fair bargain.
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I don't understand.
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You... you know about books?
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A little, yes, but...
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I asked you how much my work would cost.
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And you--you speak nice.
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"Them clothes," I said.
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Oh, I corrected you.
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It--it just slipped out.
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It was forward of me, I'm afraid.
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No, miss.
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I-I got to learn to speak right.
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You speak about the nicest I know of.
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Miss McCardle,
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I'll sew you all the clothes
you can bring me, homespun,
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if you'll learn me to read and write.
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Your proposal, Mr. Johnson,
seems rather unusual.
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Miss McCardle.
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I'll think it over.
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I--
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I'm making you a fair offer.
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I-I never had no chance to learn.
Will you learn me?
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I have never had a chance to learn.
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Will you teach me.
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Will you teach me?
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"There is a lady sweet and kind,
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was never face so pleased my mind,
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I did but see her passing by
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and yet I love her till I die."
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Please go on.
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It's past time to close the library.
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Got to get home and
read something besides poetry.
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Andrew.
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You've learned to read almost as well as I.
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You've made so many new clothes for me,
it's almost sinful.
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Why do you want to go on with the lessons?
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Is this the...
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Words, I read somewhere,
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are verses the heart sets to music.
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Eliza, there's...
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music inside me that
almost drowns out my thinking.
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But I'm a poor man
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and the law says a white man
without property
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is nothing but a mudsill
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for other men to wipe their boots on.
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Why, no law says that.
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It don't have to say it,
it's true, ain't it?
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Your people owned a house and land.
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How did my father get a house and land?
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By cobbling shoes for 20 years.
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My father was nothing
but a mudsill, and he died one.
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Poor white trash,
that was him, and that's me.
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I'll be going now.
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Andrew.
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Don't you know we were all mudsills once?
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Forget the history of England for tonight.
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Read your own history.
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Here.
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The Declaration of Independence.
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I've heard that spouted by stump speakers
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every Fourth of July since I can remember.
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Well, maybe you didn't understand it.
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Read this part here.
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident
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that all men are created equal."
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Uh, they're fine words,
but they ain't true.
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Ain't no equality for mudsills.
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Go on.
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"That they are...
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endowed by their Creator with certain...
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unalin--una--"
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"Unalienable rights."
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Rights no man can take away.
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Well, they have taken them away.
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What are you making me
read this for, anyway?
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Go on.
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"That among these are life, liberty,
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and the pursuit of happiness."
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Why, a man ain't even got a right to vote
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without he owns property.
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Then why don't you make it your business
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to see that men without property
are given the right to vote?
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- My business?
- Certainly.
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You've got a temper, Andrew,
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but people like you.
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Go out and talk to them.
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Make speeches.
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Stand up for your rights and theirs, too.
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People wouldn't listen to me.
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I think they would.
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Anyway, the Constitution says
you can try to make them listen.
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I s-suppose you'll be making me read
the Constitution out loud to you.
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I will, if it will help you
to understand it
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and realize that everything
in the Bill of Rights
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and the Declaration, too,
means you, personally.
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You, Andrew Johnson.
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It seems as--as if...
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Maybe I never really
understood this before.
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The Constitution, neither.
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I suppose plain people can't agitate
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the way you want me to
in them foreign countries.
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- Those foreign countries.
- Those.
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No, of course they can't.
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The reason this is a free country
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is because here,
what's wrong can be set right.
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Whatever is wrong has got
to be set right by the people.
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You're the people.
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This is your country as much as theirs.
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It's my--my fish in the stream.
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Your flag on the fort.
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"It's life, liberty..."
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Finish the sentence, Andrew.
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"The pursuit of happiness."
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They're all yours.
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The pursuit of happiness, too.
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The pursuit of happiness.
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And it says we were created...
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Go on.
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Equal.
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What it says must be right, Andrew.
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Created equal, you and me.
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Yes, Andrew.
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"Votes for all free men."
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More than a year now,
he's been putting leveling ideas like that
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into common folks' heads, Sheriff.
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Mm-hmm.
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White trash got enough to do
hustling to make a living.
264
00:17:46,566 --> 00:17:47,714
And not sticking their snouts
265
00:17:47,734 --> 00:17:49,444
into what don't rightly concern them.
266
00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:52,572
Goes on like this,
he'll rouse up the whole county.
267
00:17:52,739 --> 00:17:55,408
Too many property interests involved,
Sheriff Cass.
268
00:17:56,993 --> 00:17:58,369
You see, Mrs. Johnson,
269
00:17:58,953 --> 00:18:00,955
them that own the country should run it.
270
00:18:01,873 --> 00:18:04,000
A man with land pays taxes, don't he?
271
00:18:04,584 --> 00:18:06,544
So ain't it right that he should have a say
272
00:18:06,711 --> 00:18:07,962
how the money is spent?
273
00:18:08,671 --> 00:18:10,882
Now you tell your husband to leave voting
274
00:18:11,049 --> 00:18:12,175
to the men of property.
275
00:18:12,842 --> 00:18:15,887
They'll look after the interests
of folks like you.
276
00:18:16,888 --> 00:18:19,015
Well, surely, that's a matter
of opinion, Sheriff.
277
00:18:19,474 --> 00:18:21,392
You have no right
to keep him from speaking.
278
00:18:21,976 --> 00:18:23,816
Bill of Rights says
there should be no law made
279
00:18:23,937 --> 00:18:25,230
to abridge freedom of speech.
280
00:18:25,396 --> 00:18:26,940
We're living in Tennessee.
281
00:18:27,398 --> 00:18:29,567
Well, we ain't abiding by no federal laws,
282
00:18:29,734 --> 00:18:30,734
less'n they suit us.
283
00:18:31,361 --> 00:18:32,737
Well, nothing's legal in this town
284
00:18:32,904 --> 00:18:34,197
if the Aldermen don't like it.
285
00:18:34,656 --> 00:18:37,242
Now, they don't like tailors
rousing up the white trash
286
00:18:37,408 --> 00:18:39,077
and making leveling speeches.
287
00:18:41,204 --> 00:18:42,204
Goodnight.
288
00:18:43,998 --> 00:18:45,291
Uh, now don't forget,
289
00:18:45,708 --> 00:18:48,211
you tell Andy
he ain't gonna hold no more meetings.
290
00:18:49,129 --> 00:18:50,213
Now, he's got a temper.
291
00:18:50,588 --> 00:18:51,840
Better make him see reason,
292
00:18:52,632 --> 00:18:54,634
else'n he might get hurt.
293
00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:22,328
- Evening, Eliza.
- Evening.
294
00:19:23,997 --> 00:19:25,248
You're late for supper, dear.
295
00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:27,292
I had to go over and
fit Mr. Bronson's coat.
296
00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:31,254
What was that hard-shelled,
rum-dipped sheriff doing here?
297
00:19:33,798 --> 00:19:35,675
What's the matter, Martha?
298
00:19:36,217 --> 00:19:37,385
Hey, she ain't sick, is she?
299
00:19:38,887 --> 00:19:40,638
No, no, it's just her teeth bothering her.
300
00:19:41,097 --> 00:19:42,682
She used to sleep all the time.
301
00:19:43,016 --> 00:19:44,392
Now take your coats right off.
302
00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:47,395
Andrew, I kept a nice bit of salt pork warm
303
00:19:47,562 --> 00:19:50,148
and those baby cabbages you like so much.
304
00:19:50,648 --> 00:19:52,108
There's plenty for Mordecai, too.
305
00:19:52,275 --> 00:19:53,526
Uh, that's mighty fine of you,
306
00:19:53,693 --> 00:19:55,153
but it'll taste just as good cold.
307
00:19:56,112 --> 00:19:57,992
It's time to get my notes
and go to the meeting.
308
00:19:58,907 --> 00:20:00,283
You'd better mind little Martha.
309
00:20:00,909 --> 00:20:03,029
I'd make a lot better speech
with you there listening.
310
00:20:05,371 --> 00:20:07,165
Why, Eliza, you're all tensed up.
311
00:20:08,041 --> 00:20:09,959
Andrew, that meeting last week,
312
00:20:10,126 --> 00:20:11,606
there was some trouble, wasn't there?
313
00:20:12,170 --> 00:20:13,379
It didn't come to anything.
314
00:20:13,755 --> 00:20:15,590
Yes, but if one night it did,
315
00:20:16,090 --> 00:20:17,217
if someone got hurt...
316
00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:19,718
Eliza, what...
317
00:20:20,470 --> 00:20:21,638
what was Cass doing here?
318
00:20:22,096 --> 00:20:24,515
Ain't exactly like the sheriff
to come social visiting.
319
00:20:24,974 --> 00:20:25,974
Eliza?
320
00:20:26,351 --> 00:20:29,854
Well, he came to say that the Aldermen
won't allow the meeting tonight.
321
00:20:30,897 --> 00:20:31,897
Won't allow it?
322
00:20:32,815 --> 00:20:34,095
Well, I've got a piece to speak.
323
00:20:34,192 --> 00:20:36,361
That's what free speech
is in the Constitution for,
324
00:20:36,527 --> 00:20:37,612
so as I can speak it.
325
00:20:37,779 --> 00:20:39,539
- Come on, Milligan.
- We'll get our friends.
326
00:20:39,656 --> 00:20:40,856
What he really came to say was
327
00:20:41,032 --> 00:20:42,742
you can't hold meetings at all anymore
328
00:20:43,409 --> 00:20:44,535
or you might get hurt.
329
00:20:50,667 --> 00:20:52,710
Andrew, put away that gun. Please.
330
00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:54,295
- Stay home.
- No, Eliza.
331
00:20:54,629 --> 00:20:56,214
Andrew, you shan't do this. You shan't!
332
00:20:56,506 --> 00:20:57,882
Nothing can keep me from going.
333
00:20:58,049 --> 00:21:00,093
Andrew! Mordecai!
334
00:21:01,135 --> 00:21:02,303
Don't worry none, Eliza.
335
00:21:02,553 --> 00:21:04,193
I promise, nothing will happen to Andrew.
336
00:21:46,806 --> 00:21:48,516
Mrs. Johnson! Mrs. Johnson!
337
00:21:48,683 --> 00:21:50,476
There's been a bad ruckus at the town hall!
338
00:21:54,355 --> 00:21:55,648
No. No, you mind the baby.
339
00:22:17,962 --> 00:22:19,839
My husband. What happened?
340
00:22:20,214 --> 00:22:21,214
Where are they?
341
00:22:22,050 --> 00:22:25,470
Them that got hurt
was carried over to the blacksmith's shop.
342
00:22:34,937 --> 00:22:36,481
Water! Get some water!
343
00:22:50,661 --> 00:22:51,661
Wh-where is...
344
00:22:58,044 --> 00:22:59,044
Where is...
345
00:23:25,238 --> 00:23:27,573
Anybody want to buy
a first-rate blacksmith's shop?
346
00:23:28,157 --> 00:23:29,742
Mordecai Milligan's dead.
347
00:23:43,005 --> 00:23:45,967
- Where are you going?
- To get Sheriff Cass.
348
00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:48,010
That ain't no private affair of yourn.
349
00:23:48,344 --> 00:23:50,346
How many men can we get together?
350
00:23:50,972 --> 00:23:52,974
I got close to 20 cousins in the county
351
00:23:53,141 --> 00:23:54,976
ain't standing by
and see me get no hammering.
352
00:23:55,518 --> 00:23:56,853
And how about Milligan's kin?
353
00:23:57,353 --> 00:23:59,230
They ain't gonna put up with his killing.
354
00:24:00,064 --> 00:24:01,816
We can raise a 100 men by midnight.
355
00:24:02,483 --> 00:24:04,527
Them with no guns have scythes and axes.
356
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:06,224
Round 'em up! Let's get started!
357
00:24:06,362 --> 00:24:08,242
If it's killing they want,
let's give it to 'em!
358
00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,412
If I hadn't toted that gun,
359
00:24:15,663 --> 00:24:17,999
Milligan would be asleep
in his bed in there.
360
00:24:18,666 --> 00:24:19,709
Not dead in it.
361
00:24:20,168 --> 00:24:21,168
That's right!
362
00:24:22,128 --> 00:24:24,005
And we're gonna make 'em pay for it!
363
00:24:24,464 --> 00:24:26,340
Put down those weapons!
364
00:24:27,049 --> 00:24:28,342
You're quitting on us, tailor?
365
00:24:28,509 --> 00:24:29,927
I ain't never quitting.
366
00:24:31,471 --> 00:24:32,680
From now on, never.
367
00:24:32,847 --> 00:24:34,140
Then come along! Join the party!
368
00:24:34,724 --> 00:24:35,892
You begun this, Andy,
369
00:24:36,601 --> 00:24:37,727
with your meetings
370
00:24:38,227 --> 00:24:40,354
and your telling us
to stick up for our rights.
371
00:24:40,521 --> 00:24:41,521
You led the scrimmage
372
00:24:41,647 --> 00:24:43,838
when the sheriff's bullies
started throwing us out the hall.
373
00:24:43,858 --> 00:24:46,235
You done more than your share
of fighting your own self.
374
00:24:46,402 --> 00:24:47,737
And who pulled the gun first?
375
00:24:53,242 --> 00:24:57,538
It'll take me more than all my life...
to pay for that.
376
00:24:58,539 --> 00:24:59,539
He's quitting on us.
377
00:24:59,624 --> 00:25:00,624
- Come on!
- No!
378
00:25:01,125 --> 00:25:04,754
Mob fighting, shooting,
and hanging and burning,
379
00:25:04,921 --> 00:25:05,921
that ain't the way!
380
00:25:06,047 --> 00:25:07,381
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth!
381
00:25:07,548 --> 00:25:08,549
That's Bible!
382
00:25:10,801 --> 00:25:12,803
So you want to start killing.
383
00:25:13,804 --> 00:25:14,931
First you kill,
384
00:25:15,723 --> 00:25:17,850
the militia comes from Nashville,
385
00:25:18,601 --> 00:25:20,019
then they start killing.
386
00:25:20,811 --> 00:25:23,272
And the dead they leave are you,
Maude Fisher.
387
00:25:24,524 --> 00:25:25,524
And, Dick, you.
388
00:25:25,942 --> 00:25:27,693
And, Ebenezer, you.
389
00:25:28,402 --> 00:25:29,987
And, Ethan, you. And you.
390
00:25:32,156 --> 00:25:33,282
And you, McDaniel.
391
00:25:33,866 --> 00:25:36,077
Yes, I--I tell you to fight
for your rights.
392
00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:38,177
But the Constitution ain't for the dead,
393
00:25:38,329 --> 00:25:39,622
it's to protect the living!
394
00:25:40,248 --> 00:25:42,917
Ain't nothing in it I know of says
not to hang a murdering sheriff!
395
00:25:43,251 --> 00:25:44,961
It--it says the law hangs murderers!
396
00:25:45,127 --> 00:25:47,672
It--it says the people got
the right to make the laws!
397
00:25:47,838 --> 00:25:48,838
That's--that's us!
398
00:25:49,507 --> 00:25:51,447
And that's how we're gonna win
our fight election day!
399
00:25:51,467 --> 00:25:54,512
And when we win it,
we'll--we'll get Cass indicted!
400
00:25:54,804 --> 00:25:55,471
How?
401
00:25:55,638 --> 00:25:57,098
Lots of us ain't even got a vote.
402
00:25:57,265 --> 00:25:58,891
You ain't got no vote, Andy.
403
00:25:59,058 --> 00:26:00,434
Well, a--a lot of us have.
404
00:26:00,601 --> 00:26:03,187
Come November, I'm gonna have
my acre paid for and a vote.
405
00:26:03,646 --> 00:26:05,314
Then we can elect one of our own sheriff,
406
00:26:05,481 --> 00:26:07,191
a common man, one of us.
407
00:26:07,358 --> 00:26:09,777
- Now you're talking crazy.
- Who'll we get?
408
00:26:10,111 --> 00:26:11,237
None of us is fitting.
409
00:26:11,404 --> 00:26:12,780
Most of us can't hardly read.
410
00:26:12,947 --> 00:26:14,073
We ain't good enough.
411
00:26:14,991 --> 00:26:16,909
We ain't got no rights!
412
00:26:17,159 --> 00:26:19,078
Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.
413
00:26:19,245 --> 00:26:21,080
Those are our rights, as well as theirs.
414
00:26:21,247 --> 00:26:22,407
It's o-our fish in the stream
415
00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:24,417
our... our flag on the fort.
416
00:26:25,543 --> 00:26:27,378
Hey! What about the tailor?
417
00:26:27,545 --> 00:26:28,588
- He's fitting!
- Yes!
418
00:26:28,754 --> 00:26:30,194
- That's right.
- Andy would be good.
419
00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:31,882
Me? Wh...
420
00:26:33,301 --> 00:26:34,301
No.
421
00:26:36,053 --> 00:26:37,053
No, I-I...
422
00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:39,807
I ain't fit enough.
423
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,018
You can read and write and figure!
424
00:26:42,184 --> 00:26:43,784
- And you can speak.
- And you can fight.
425
00:26:43,978 --> 00:26:46,105
How about it, Andy? You're good enough.
426
00:26:46,939 --> 00:26:48,149
And fit enough.
427
00:26:48,608 --> 00:26:49,839
- Eliza's right!
- Andy for sheriff!
428
00:26:49,859 --> 00:26:51,277
- We can put you in!
- Andy the man.
429
00:26:51,444 --> 00:26:52,486
We'll beat their pants off
430
00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:53,779
and let you sew 'em up!
431
00:26:54,113 --> 00:26:56,157
- Andy for sheriff!
- We want him!
432
00:26:56,907 --> 00:26:59,285
We want Andy! He'll be the sheriff!
433
00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:24,226
They put me up to do the introducing,
434
00:27:24,393 --> 00:27:26,145
here in Greeneville, of some old friends
435
00:27:26,312 --> 00:27:28,105
that don't need no introducing.
436
00:27:28,939 --> 00:27:31,984
Now most of you younger folks
didn't know this lady here
437
00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:33,486
when she was Miss McCardle,
438
00:27:33,653 --> 00:27:35,446
a-passing out books at the library.
439
00:27:39,742 --> 00:27:41,827
And there's her daughter, Martha.
440
00:27:42,078 --> 00:27:43,412
You remember her.
441
00:27:43,579 --> 00:27:45,456
Many of you played in the streets with her.
442
00:27:46,582 --> 00:27:48,376
And now she's grown-up, too,
443
00:27:48,709 --> 00:27:51,379
married, and has a little boy of her own.
444
00:27:55,549 --> 00:27:57,009
And I almost forgot.
445
00:27:57,426 --> 00:27:59,220
There's a man here, too.
446
00:28:00,262 --> 00:28:02,348
A man that got his start in politics
447
00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:04,809
when a bunch of us
made him run for sheriff.
448
00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:07,603
He said he wasn't fit enough.
449
00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:12,525
Well, he's been fit enough
to be made sheriff, assemblyman,
450
00:28:12,692 --> 00:28:14,318
congressman, governor,
451
00:28:14,485 --> 00:28:17,697
and now he comes back to
his home folks in his own town
452
00:28:17,863 --> 00:28:20,449
as senator of the United States.
453
00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:25,037
No, I ain't gonna introduce him,
not in Greeneville.
454
00:28:31,794 --> 00:28:34,338
Welcome home, Andy! Welcome home!
455
00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:40,386
I guess Blackstone McDaniel is right.
456
00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:42,138
I don't need any introducing to you.
457
00:28:42,304 --> 00:28:44,014
I've patched the britches of a lot of you.
458
00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:47,393
And your fathers' britches before you.
459
00:28:50,855 --> 00:28:53,482
I'm still wearing that first
little dress Andy made me.
460
00:28:55,818 --> 00:28:58,487
Well, it's mighty fine to be home again.
461
00:28:59,864 --> 00:29:00,865
My friends...
462
00:29:02,575 --> 00:29:06,078
I have been a Jacksonian democrat
all my political life.
463
00:29:06,620 --> 00:29:09,290
I hope we will lick
the Republicans this fall
464
00:29:09,457 --> 00:29:12,960
and send Abe Lincoln
back to splitting rails in Illinois!
465
00:29:18,215 --> 00:29:19,383
But people here in the South
466
00:29:19,550 --> 00:29:21,594
who threaten to break up this country
467
00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:23,888
if Lincoln is chosen president,
468
00:29:24,054 --> 00:29:25,347
forget that in our America,
469
00:29:25,514 --> 00:29:28,142
the verdict of the majority
must be accepted.
470
00:29:32,062 --> 00:29:35,232
That is what I will say
in the Senate in Washington
471
00:29:35,399 --> 00:29:37,485
even if Lincoln is chosen president.
472
00:29:40,237 --> 00:29:44,033
I repeat, that is what
I will say in the Senate
473
00:29:44,325 --> 00:29:46,827
whether you back me up
at home here in Tennessee
474
00:29:46,994 --> 00:29:48,120
or whether you don't!
475
00:29:53,125 --> 00:29:56,504
We of the South
have lost the election! Very well!
476
00:29:56,921 --> 00:30:00,174
Mr. Lincoln will be inaugurated
president in six weeks!
477
00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:02,092
The people have spoken!
478
00:30:02,384 --> 00:30:04,261
Let the will of the people be done!
479
00:30:05,513 --> 00:30:07,681
We can vote Mr. Lincoln
out of office in four years
480
00:30:07,848 --> 00:30:10,643
and I hope and believe we shall do so!
481
00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:13,687
Meanwhile, we southerners
should remain here
482
00:30:13,938 --> 00:30:16,398
and prevent him from carrying out policies
483
00:30:16,649 --> 00:30:18,192
that will ruin this country,
484
00:30:18,651 --> 00:30:20,152
our one country!
485
00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:23,572
Enough of this Yankee cackle,
you renegade to the South!
486
00:30:23,739 --> 00:30:25,074
I repeat, our one country!
487
00:30:25,241 --> 00:30:27,243
Does any senator dare to challenge that?
488
00:30:28,035 --> 00:30:29,787
Let us keep in our hearts
the immortal toast
489
00:30:29,954 --> 00:30:32,373
of that great democrat, Andrew Jackson.
490
00:30:32,832 --> 00:30:35,668
"Our federal union, it must be preserved."
491
00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:37,962
In the noble words of Daniel Webster,
492
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:43,300
"Liberty and union, now and forever,
one and inseparable."
493
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:46,345
The senator has been making
that same speech here
494
00:30:46,512 --> 00:30:48,472
day after day for the past two months.
495
00:30:49,473 --> 00:30:50,473
Like a parrot.
496
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:53,102
What can you expect from a mudsill tailor
497
00:30:53,269 --> 00:30:54,603
elected by the rabble of the city
498
00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:56,438
among the gentlemen of the South?
499
00:30:56,772 --> 00:30:58,440
I'm proud of having been a tailor
500
00:30:58,607 --> 00:30:59,839
and I'd rather sit among the rabble
501
00:30:59,859 --> 00:31:02,007
than some of you self-appointed
gentlemen of the South.
502
00:31:02,027 --> 00:31:04,113
- I demand an apology!
- An apology for what?
503
00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:08,617
Mr. President!
504
00:31:09,451 --> 00:31:11,829
While the Southern senators
make this place a beer garden
505
00:31:11,996 --> 00:31:14,164
business north and south
is at a standstill!
506
00:31:14,748 --> 00:31:16,041
And who is to blame?
507
00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:17,208
Yes, who is to blame?
508
00:31:17,251 --> 00:31:18,878
You are! You are!
509
00:31:19,086 --> 00:31:22,131
Men of the North, if you force us
to fight for our liberties,
510
00:31:22,298 --> 00:31:23,298
then we'll fight you!
511
00:31:23,424 --> 00:31:26,552
Don't you shake your fist at us!
We're not your slaves!
512
00:31:26,719 --> 00:31:28,888
- Don't you yell at us!
- Well, you started it!
513
00:31:30,723 --> 00:31:34,226
Gentlemen, this is the Senate
of the United States, not a pot house!
514
00:31:34,935 --> 00:31:37,062
Order in the galleries! Order on the floor!
515
00:31:40,316 --> 00:31:42,526
Jefferson Davis. He's finally got here.
516
00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:44,612
It's about time.
Now he can speak for all of us.
517
00:31:44,778 --> 00:31:45,821
For the whole South.
518
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,594
The chair recognizes
the senator from Mississippi.
519
00:32:21,148 --> 00:32:22,441
Mr. President of the Senate.
520
00:32:27,488 --> 00:32:28,488
Senators.
521
00:32:32,326 --> 00:32:33,619
I appear here...
522
00:32:36,997 --> 00:32:38,123
to announce to the Senate
523
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:40,709
that Mississippi, by solemn ordinance...
524
00:32:42,044 --> 00:32:43,879
and in convention assembled...
525
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:48,133
has declared her separation
from the United States.
526
00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:56,600
In so doing, she has followed
others of her sister states
527
00:32:57,685 --> 00:33:00,896
on whose behalf, as well as my own...
528
00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:05,150
I must pronounce our solemn farewell.
529
00:33:07,569 --> 00:33:10,781
Under these circumstances,
of course, my functions
530
00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:13,909
and those of my colleagues terminate here.
531
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,997
We but tread in the path of our fathers
532
00:33:18,163 --> 00:33:20,124
when we proclaim our independence
533
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:22,084
and take the hazard
534
00:33:23,585 --> 00:33:25,337
putting our trust in God...
535
00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:29,091
and in our own firm hearts...
536
00:33:30,217 --> 00:33:31,677
and strong arms...
537
00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:36,098
we will vindicate the right as best we may.
538
00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:38,684
I see now around me
539
00:33:38,851 --> 00:33:41,228
some with whom I have served long.
540
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:44,606
There have been points of collision.
541
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,527
For whatever offense I have given,
542
00:33:49,528 --> 00:33:50,863
I ask forgiveness.
543
00:33:52,114 --> 00:33:54,825
Or whatever of offense that has been to me,
544
00:33:55,993 --> 00:33:57,036
I leave here.
545
00:33:58,912 --> 00:34:01,832
I carry with me no hostile remembrance.
546
00:34:03,625 --> 00:34:07,796
I go hence unencumbered
of the remembrance of injury received...
547
00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:11,300
and having discharged the duty
548
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,762
of making the only reparation
in my power...
549
00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:17,931
for any injury offered.
550
00:34:22,978 --> 00:34:24,021
Mr. President,
551
00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:28,067
senators,
552
00:34:31,570 --> 00:34:32,738
having made the announcement
553
00:34:32,905 --> 00:34:35,491
which the occasion seemed to me to require,
554
00:34:37,534 --> 00:34:40,537
it remains
only for my colleagues and myself...
555
00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:45,501
to bid you a final...
556
00:34:47,086 --> 00:34:48,086
adieu.
557
00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,270
Now that Tennessee has left the Union
558
00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:07,416
and joined the Confederacy,
559
00:36:07,708 --> 00:36:11,295
I denounce Andrew Johnson as a traitor
to the sovereign state of Tennessee!
560
00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:14,715
May your black tongue rot
in your throat, you liar!
561
00:36:14,965 --> 00:36:16,675
No man can call me a traitor!
562
00:36:17,217 --> 00:36:18,217
Andrew.
563
00:36:36,695 --> 00:36:37,779
Oh, thank you, Andrew.
564
00:36:37,946 --> 00:36:39,823
I was so afraid there'd be violence.
565
00:36:40,741 --> 00:36:43,660
From now on, there will be
nothing but violence, Eliza.
566
00:36:43,952 --> 00:36:45,621
Nationwide violence.
567
00:36:45,787 --> 00:36:46,914
No, it mustn't come to that.
568
00:36:47,581 --> 00:36:49,541
Isn't there
some peaceful way of settling it?
569
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:51,251
The Southern senators walked out.
570
00:36:51,418 --> 00:36:52,669
They declared war.
571
00:36:54,963 --> 00:36:57,132
I'm going to Lincoln now
and offer my services
572
00:36:57,299 --> 00:37:00,135
to raise troops in Tennessee
and fight for the Union.
573
00:37:03,597 --> 00:37:05,307
- Where's the general, sir?
- At his gun.
574
00:37:15,484 --> 00:37:16,484
Captain Brenner!
575
00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:21,782
- Message from General Williams?
- Only verbal, sir.
576
00:37:22,282 --> 00:37:24,993
General Williams was in action,
trying to rally the Zouaves.
577
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,680
Trying to rally them? What's happened?
578
00:37:26,828 --> 00:37:27,955
Our center is broken!
579
00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:30,312
General Williams asks that
all available reserves
580
00:37:30,332 --> 00:37:31,355
be sent to him immediately!
581
00:37:31,375 --> 00:37:32,834
There are no reserves!
582
00:37:33,293 --> 00:37:35,170
The rebels just sent
over another white flag
583
00:37:35,504 --> 00:37:37,172
with a demand to surrender Nashville!
584
00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:45,097
You order General Williams for me
585
00:37:45,264 --> 00:37:47,975
to shoot any man who talks of surrender!
586
00:37:49,434 --> 00:37:50,434
Yes, sir.
587
00:38:04,825 --> 00:38:08,495
Four more years! Four more years!
588
00:38:16,837 --> 00:38:18,630
Boys! Boys! Close the window!
589
00:38:19,214 --> 00:38:20,814
Come on. Let's get on with the business.
590
00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:25,721
Gentlemen, not that
anyone cares, of course,
591
00:38:25,887 --> 00:38:29,975
but we have one more tiresome formality
592
00:38:30,142 --> 00:38:32,477
now that we've done our duty by old Abe--
593
00:38:32,644 --> 00:38:35,105
Wasn't us delegates re-nominated
Lincoln by acclamation.
594
00:38:35,439 --> 00:38:36,440
The country done that.
595
00:38:36,773 --> 00:38:39,609
Sir, I'm not accustomed
to being interrupted.
596
00:38:41,236 --> 00:38:42,321
Thad Stevens.
597
00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:44,823
Most of us delegates ain't congressmen
598
00:38:45,115 --> 00:38:47,743
and you can't treat us like you do
that tame cattle of yours
599
00:38:47,909 --> 00:38:48,909
down in Washington.
600
00:38:50,662 --> 00:38:53,081
Eh, my Pennsylvania delegation
601
00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,417
and some others that I have friends in
602
00:38:56,001 --> 00:38:59,004
will support anyone
you men decide you want.
603
00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:01,715
Just agree on a name.
604
00:39:01,882 --> 00:39:04,343
Well, there'd be no trouble
if Lincoln would let us know
605
00:39:04,509 --> 00:39:05,907
who he wants on the ticket with him.
606
00:39:05,927 --> 00:39:06,967
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
607
00:39:08,013 --> 00:39:11,433
Well, it looks as though the White House
decided to tell us something.
608
00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:13,352
Ah, clear out of here, you men.
609
00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:18,689
How do you do?
610
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:20,577
- Oh, so glad to see you.
- Glad to see you.
611
00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:29,025
The president hopes you're better,
Congressman Stevens.
612
00:39:29,076 --> 00:39:30,160
Thank you, thank you.
613
00:39:30,369 --> 00:39:31,409
Afternoon, Senator Waters.
614
00:39:31,536 --> 00:39:32,871
Afternoon, BP.
615
00:39:33,246 --> 00:39:37,417
White House, Senate,
House of Representatives.
616
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:41,129
What we three agree on
ought to go down with this mob.
617
00:39:42,881 --> 00:39:45,550
The president is very grateful
for the plank and the platform
618
00:39:45,717 --> 00:39:46,917
that favors full emancipation.
619
00:39:47,052 --> 00:39:48,470
Well, I wrote it myself.
620
00:39:48,637 --> 00:39:51,264
But he wasn't so happy about
that other plank you forced in.
621
00:39:51,431 --> 00:39:55,435
Oh, that one demands that
the rebels and traitors
622
00:39:55,602 --> 00:39:57,145
are punished after the war.
623
00:39:58,188 --> 00:39:59,188
What's wrong with that?
624
00:39:59,314 --> 00:40:02,067
Well, he feels that it's a blow
to his policy of reconciliation.
625
00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:03,985
Well, that's just why it's there.
626
00:40:04,820 --> 00:40:06,696
Come on. Let's quit playing marbles.
627
00:40:07,197 --> 00:40:11,159
Lincoln sent you down here
to see Jim and me. What for?
628
00:40:11,701 --> 00:40:13,078
To discuss the vice presidency.
629
00:40:13,245 --> 00:40:16,331
Yeah, he wants to shove
Andy Johnson down our throats.
630
00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:19,000
The president feels
that Johnson, a democrat,
631
00:40:19,167 --> 00:40:21,378
will be supported by
the democrats who backed the war
632
00:40:21,795 --> 00:40:23,338
and so will help us win the election.
633
00:40:24,423 --> 00:40:27,050
He says to tell you that a vice president
634
00:40:27,217 --> 00:40:29,344
from a rebel state
will strengthen the Union.
635
00:40:29,928 --> 00:40:31,528
That the American people can never repay
636
00:40:31,596 --> 00:40:33,432
their debt of gratitude to Andrew Johnson.
637
00:40:33,723 --> 00:40:36,226
Oh, Johnson's a loyal man, uh...
638
00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:40,355
But as a southerner,
he'd be bound after the war
639
00:40:40,522 --> 00:40:43,024
to try and stop our vengeance on the South.
640
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,819
Mr. Lincoln does not approve
of vengeance on anyone.
641
00:40:46,987 --> 00:40:48,155
In the interest of unity,
642
00:40:48,321 --> 00:40:50,657
he's anxious for a unanimous nomination,
643
00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:52,701
no contest on the floor.
644
00:40:53,660 --> 00:40:54,870
You tell the president
645
00:40:55,036 --> 00:40:57,414
I'll support his wartime policy
646
00:40:57,581 --> 00:41:00,625
until the last rebel's dead or quits.
647
00:41:01,376 --> 00:41:02,376
He knows you will.
648
00:41:03,170 --> 00:41:06,298
The president regrets that you
don't agree with him on reconstruction,
649
00:41:06,465 --> 00:41:09,025
but he knows that you stand with him
on the two important issues,
650
00:41:09,342 --> 00:41:10,342
victory and freedom.
651
00:41:10,886 --> 00:41:14,097
I fought slavery all my political life.
652
00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:17,184
- What's that got to do with it?
- Oh, a great deal.
653
00:41:17,893 --> 00:41:20,020
Why, Johnson stands
with you and Lincoln there.
654
00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:22,147
He once said in a speech,
655
00:41:22,647 --> 00:41:25,275
"I do not mourn over
the dead body of slavery.
656
00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:28,195
I think we're freeing more whites
than blacks in Tennessee."
657
00:41:28,612 --> 00:41:30,322
I wouldn't want to free a white man
658
00:41:30,489 --> 00:41:31,698
if he was a rebel.
659
00:41:34,534 --> 00:41:36,745
Well, I've said all
the president asked me to say.
660
00:41:38,830 --> 00:41:41,333
What Lincoln wants will go down
with the delegates, then.
661
00:41:42,459 --> 00:41:44,628
What the president wishes will go down
662
00:41:44,794 --> 00:41:46,067
because you and the other delegates
663
00:41:46,087 --> 00:41:47,527
know that the country is behind him.
664
00:41:48,465 --> 00:41:49,465
Good afternoon.
665
00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:51,550
Ah.
666
00:41:53,011 --> 00:41:55,096
Thad, you can't fight Lincoln
on the floor here.
667
00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:58,850
If he wants Johnson,
you better make it unanimous.
668
00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:02,687
That mudsill tailor.
669
00:42:03,647 --> 00:42:05,774
From the heart of the rebel land...
670
00:42:06,608 --> 00:42:09,736
next vice president of the United States.
671
00:42:45,647 --> 00:42:47,691
The oath of office will now be administered
672
00:42:47,857 --> 00:42:49,442
to the vice president-elect
673
00:42:49,609 --> 00:42:52,654
by the Chief Justice of
the United States Supreme Court.
674
00:42:54,489 --> 00:42:56,032
Mr. Vice President-elect.
675
00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:59,494
Mr. Chief Justice.
676
00:43:00,412 --> 00:43:03,039
Raise your right hand, sir,
and repeat after me.
677
00:43:12,465 --> 00:43:13,842
I do solemnly swear...
678
00:43:15,510 --> 00:43:17,470
I do solemnly swear...
679
00:43:18,179 --> 00:43:19,931
...that I will faithfully
execute the office
680
00:43:20,098 --> 00:43:22,350
of vice president of the United States...
681
00:43:23,184 --> 00:43:27,105
...that I will faithfully
execute the office
682
00:43:27,272 --> 00:43:30,650
of the vice president
of the United States...
683
00:43:31,318 --> 00:43:32,838
...and will, to the best of my ability
684
00:43:32,902 --> 00:43:34,779
preserve, protect, and defend...
685
00:43:36,281 --> 00:43:39,242
...to the best of my ability, preserve...
686
00:43:40,994 --> 00:43:42,954
Protect, and defend...
687
00:43:43,455 --> 00:43:45,123
Protect, and defend...
688
00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:47,709
...the Constitution of the United States,
689
00:43:48,335 --> 00:43:49,586
so help me God.
690
00:43:50,253 --> 00:43:53,506
...the Constitution of the United States,
691
00:43:53,673 --> 00:43:55,258
so help me God.
692
00:43:57,552 --> 00:44:00,055
The President of the United States!
693
00:44:22,869 --> 00:44:24,871
Mr. President...
694
00:44:26,956 --> 00:44:28,249
senators...
695
00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:31,544
judges...
696
00:44:33,713 --> 00:44:36,633
people of the United States
697
00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:39,928
who are... are more--
698
00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:45,016
I ask your indulgence.
699
00:44:45,517 --> 00:44:47,394
Drunk again.
700
00:44:48,937 --> 00:44:52,774
I ask your indulgence
during my term of office.
701
00:44:53,692 --> 00:44:59,447
I, a plebeian, have studied
only how best to advance the...
702
00:45:00,365 --> 00:45:02,575
interest of my state and country.
703
00:45:03,868 --> 00:45:08,707
I have... risen from
the humblest walks of life
704
00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:12,836
to this--this... this proud position.
705
00:45:15,380 --> 00:45:17,507
"...with malice toward none."
706
00:45:18,925 --> 00:45:21,052
This is the way he wound up, Eliza.
707
00:45:23,012 --> 00:45:25,265
I wish you'd got to town
in time to hear him.
708
00:45:26,266 --> 00:45:27,350
I wouldn't have heard him.
709
00:45:27,976 --> 00:45:30,270
I'd have been right here,
looking after you in bed,
710
00:45:30,437 --> 00:45:31,437
where you belong.
711
00:45:33,523 --> 00:45:34,941
They sent me this this morning.
712
00:45:35,108 --> 00:45:37,819
It's a photograph
of the inaugural ceremony.
713
00:45:39,612 --> 00:45:41,448
See, there he is, reading his speech.
714
00:45:43,783 --> 00:45:46,786
The people will gaze on
that picture for ages to come.
715
00:45:50,457 --> 00:45:51,708
Where are you, Andrew?
716
00:45:55,295 --> 00:45:59,090
There I am, my dear,
in the custody of Hannibal Hamlin.
717
00:45:59,507 --> 00:46:01,801
The cool air out there cleared my head.
718
00:46:03,344 --> 00:46:05,805
You see, I'm holding my hat over my face.
719
00:46:06,431 --> 00:46:07,724
Perhaps you can guess why.
720
00:46:10,268 --> 00:46:12,188
Now, don't you want to hear
what they have to say
721
00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:13,688
about your husband's speech?
722
00:46:13,855 --> 00:46:15,106
No, Andrew, please.
723
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:16,983
"After being sworn in,
724
00:46:17,150 --> 00:46:19,235
the new vice president indulged
725
00:46:19,402 --> 00:46:21,321
in an incoherent harangue,
726
00:46:22,238 --> 00:46:24,532
concerning which,
the less said, the better,
727
00:46:25,241 --> 00:46:27,035
in view of the obvious condition
728
00:46:27,202 --> 00:46:28,953
of the man between whom
729
00:46:29,537 --> 00:46:31,039
and the presidency stands
730
00:46:31,206 --> 00:46:32,582
only one human life."
731
00:46:32,749 --> 00:46:33,750
Stop, Andrew.
732
00:46:34,375 --> 00:46:35,375
You were ill.
733
00:46:38,087 --> 00:46:39,964
I disgraced my president.
734
00:46:41,674 --> 00:46:45,470
I disgraced my country and our cause.
735
00:46:48,223 --> 00:46:49,223
Come in.
736
00:46:51,309 --> 00:46:52,811
From the White House, Mrs. Johnson.
737
00:46:53,228 --> 00:46:55,146
Flowers for you
and a letter for Mr. Johnson.
738
00:46:55,605 --> 00:46:56,605
Thank you.
739
00:47:02,737 --> 00:47:04,239
Aren't they beautiful?
740
00:47:06,825 --> 00:47:09,911
I... I'm afraid to open this.
741
00:47:10,078 --> 00:47:11,704
Oh, you needn't be.
742
00:47:12,038 --> 00:47:14,207
Mr. Lincoln sees deep into all hearts
743
00:47:14,374 --> 00:47:18,127
and he knows yours,
all wool and a yard wide.
744
00:47:24,926 --> 00:47:27,136
"You ornery old galoot.
745
00:47:30,348 --> 00:47:33,726
If only you took a drink now and then,
746
00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:35,812
you'd know enough about liquor
747
00:47:35,979 --> 00:47:38,356
not to fire yourself up with brandy
748
00:47:38,523 --> 00:47:40,650
on an empty stomach when you're sick.
749
00:47:43,027 --> 00:47:45,822
I know you only went
through the ceremony for me
750
00:47:45,989 --> 00:47:47,448
because I asked you to.
751
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,202
Don't worry at what they say.
752
00:47:51,828 --> 00:47:53,955
In hitting at you, they're hitting at me
753
00:47:54,122 --> 00:47:55,623
and I don't mind.
754
00:47:57,166 --> 00:47:59,127
We've got Lee all but whipped.
755
00:48:00,128 --> 00:48:01,963
You were a good tailor, Andy.
756
00:48:03,298 --> 00:48:06,926
And you're going to help me now,
you poor, loyal cuss,
757
00:48:07,969 --> 00:48:10,889
to patch up the torn garment of our Union.
758
00:48:12,849 --> 00:48:15,727
Gratefully yours, A. Lincoln."
759
00:48:22,901 --> 00:48:23,901
Didn't I tell you?
760
00:48:50,345 --> 00:48:52,722
Three cheers for Vice President!
761
00:48:52,889 --> 00:48:56,893
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
762
00:48:57,060 --> 00:48:58,144
Evening, Mr. Johnson.
763
00:48:58,353 --> 00:49:00,813
I'm afraid all this noise
will be disturbing Mrs. Johnson.
764
00:49:00,980 --> 00:49:03,441
I'm awfully sorry,
but there's nothing we can do about it.
765
00:49:03,608 --> 00:49:04,817
That's perfectly all right.
766
00:49:04,984 --> 00:49:06,304
She only wishes she could get out
767
00:49:06,361 --> 00:49:08,571
and join in the jollification herself.
768
00:49:08,738 --> 00:49:09,572
She'll be up tomorrow.
769
00:49:09,739 --> 00:49:11,199
Sleep well, Mr. Vice President.
770
00:49:11,532 --> 00:49:13,910
We'll all sleep well now,
the first time in four years.
771
00:49:14,077 --> 00:49:15,266
Oh, just a moment, please, sir.
772
00:49:15,286 --> 00:49:16,646
I forgot something, if you please.
773
00:49:19,207 --> 00:49:21,042
This gentleman called while you were out.
774
00:49:25,171 --> 00:49:26,631
No, I don't know the name.
775
00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:29,467
Probably he's just some office-seeker.
776
00:49:39,060 --> 00:49:40,603
- Hello, hello, dear.
- Hello.
777
00:49:42,230 --> 00:49:44,357
Well, you should see that city out there.
778
00:49:44,524 --> 00:49:46,609
Oh, I can feel it even lying here in bed.
779
00:49:46,776 --> 00:49:48,945
It's a new Washington
since Lee surrendered.
780
00:49:49,445 --> 00:49:53,241
New country, same crowd,
same bands all over the north.
781
00:49:53,408 --> 00:49:56,619
People don't seem ugly or vindictive
now that we've won, do they?
782
00:49:56,786 --> 00:49:58,454
No, this is the start of a new era
783
00:49:58,621 --> 00:50:00,790
of good feeling in a United States
784
00:50:01,207 --> 00:50:03,668
really united and for the first time.
785
00:50:04,002 --> 00:50:06,671
And we both know
whom the country has to thank.
786
00:50:07,046 --> 00:50:08,172
Yes, we all know,
787
00:50:08,923 --> 00:50:11,551
except that little knot
of his enemies down on Capitol Hill.
788
00:50:11,884 --> 00:50:13,970
His enemies and yours.
789
00:50:14,178 --> 00:50:15,178
Mm-hmm.
790
00:50:15,638 --> 00:50:17,515
Just listen to that noise
out there, will you?
791
00:50:17,682 --> 00:50:18,683
We want Andy!
792
00:50:18,850 --> 00:50:20,476
They're calling for you, Andrew.
793
00:50:21,561 --> 00:50:25,148
We want Andy! We want Andy!
794
00:50:38,244 --> 00:50:39,454
Stop the music! Stop it!
795
00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,205
Yeah! We want to hear Andy!
796
00:50:42,790 --> 00:50:44,500
My friends and fellow countrymen...
797
00:50:44,792 --> 00:50:48,171
Hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree!
798
00:50:50,256 --> 00:50:52,008
Hang Lee, too!
799
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:53,342
My friends...
800
00:50:54,552 --> 00:50:55,678
Never mind me.
801
00:50:55,970 --> 00:50:58,097
You go around the corner
and serenade the president,
802
00:50:59,098 --> 00:51:00,618
but don't grieve him with shouts about
803
00:51:00,683 --> 00:51:01,976
hanging our fellow countrymen.
804
00:51:02,310 --> 00:51:05,229
Come on down, Andy,
and have a drink, you old toper!
805
00:51:07,982 --> 00:51:11,444
I repeat, you should be around
at the White House. Not here.
806
00:51:11,778 --> 00:51:15,031
We just came from there, Andy.
Ain't nobody home.
807
00:51:15,281 --> 00:51:17,450
Abe Lincoln's gone to Ford's Theater.
808
00:51:21,454 --> 00:51:23,956
Few words I shall say to you,
and not my own.
809
00:51:25,875 --> 00:51:27,293
"With malice toward none,
810
00:51:28,753 --> 00:51:30,421
with charity for all,
811
00:51:31,631 --> 00:51:33,758
let us bind up the nation's wounds."
812
00:51:35,218 --> 00:51:37,428
And General Grant, when he took Lee's army,
813
00:51:38,387 --> 00:51:40,181
there was no pride, no boasting.
814
00:51:41,015 --> 00:51:44,560
He just said, "Let us have peace."
815
00:51:46,896 --> 00:51:50,274
Now, you trust and follow Mr. Lincoln
to guide us under God
816
00:51:50,691 --> 00:51:52,151
for four years more!
817
00:51:58,616 --> 00:52:00,409
Oh, splendid, Andrew.
818
00:52:00,660 --> 00:52:02,328
You said just the right thing.
819
00:52:03,913 --> 00:52:05,164
Now, you try to get some sleep.
820
00:52:05,331 --> 00:52:06,687
Let's hope there will be no more bands
821
00:52:06,707 --> 00:52:07,792
to keep you awake tonight.
822
00:52:07,959 --> 00:52:08,959
I will.
823
00:52:09,210 --> 00:52:10,290
Here, what are you reading?
824
00:52:10,837 --> 00:52:11,837
Poetry.
825
00:52:13,172 --> 00:52:16,259
"There is a lady, sweet and kind,
826
00:52:17,343 --> 00:52:18,803
it was never a face
827
00:52:19,428 --> 00:52:21,139
so pleased my mind."
828
00:52:21,305 --> 00:52:23,432
Oh, please don't close the doors
829
00:52:23,766 --> 00:52:26,352
and don't you sit up
working half the night.
830
00:52:27,019 --> 00:52:28,688
I won't. Just a half-hour or so.
831
00:52:39,282 --> 00:52:40,282
Yes.
832
00:52:42,577 --> 00:52:43,577
Who is it?
833
00:52:44,370 --> 00:52:46,789
Mr. Johnson, the president's been shot.
834
00:52:52,336 --> 00:52:54,422
Don't go, sir.
There's murder all through the city.
835
00:52:54,672 --> 00:52:56,487
Secretary Seward's just been
stabbed at his house
836
00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:57,822
and we got here just in time to save you
837
00:52:57,842 --> 00:52:59,242
from an assassin outside your door.
838
00:52:59,385 --> 00:53:00,469
It's a general conspiracy.
839
00:53:00,636 --> 00:53:01,701
I'm going to the president.
840
00:53:01,721 --> 00:53:02,721
You must stay here, sir.
841
00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:04,307
I'm posting a guard outside.
842
00:53:08,811 --> 00:53:10,146
I must go, Eliza.
843
00:53:10,563 --> 00:53:11,731
Of course you must.
844
00:53:26,621 --> 00:53:28,623
Now he belongs to the ages.
845
00:54:02,615 --> 00:54:06,035
It is now my duty to ask
when it will be convenient
846
00:54:06,202 --> 00:54:10,414
to administer the oath of office...
Mr. President.
847
00:54:19,298 --> 00:54:21,676
All right, Major, take these away.
848
00:54:23,427 --> 00:54:26,472
And, uh... I want that report
849
00:54:26,639 --> 00:54:28,724
on the Freedmen's Bureau
to work on tonight.
850
00:54:30,351 --> 00:54:32,645
Thank heavens there's nobody else
waiting here to see me.
851
00:54:34,188 --> 00:54:36,399
Has this young lady an appointment,
Major Crook?
852
00:54:36,565 --> 00:54:38,651
- She didn't ask for one, sir.
- Mm-hmm.
853
00:54:39,068 --> 00:54:40,591
Here, here, wait a minute, wait a minute.
854
00:54:40,611 --> 00:54:44,365
Oh, Major, don't forget those two bills.
855
00:54:44,615 --> 00:54:47,285
We got to write a couple more
veto messages after dinner.
856
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,833
I must have seen 60 people
in this room today
857
00:54:54,542 --> 00:54:57,062
and you're the first one
didn't come in to ask me for something.
858
00:54:57,211 --> 00:54:58,211
Oh.
859
00:54:58,546 --> 00:54:59,922
Where did you get your flowers?
860
00:55:00,256 --> 00:55:02,049
I picked them on the lawn with Martha.
861
00:55:02,466 --> 00:55:04,635
She just had the children
out there for a romp.
862
00:55:04,802 --> 00:55:07,054
How did they stand the trip from Nashville?
863
00:55:07,221 --> 00:55:08,973
They loved every minute of it.
864
00:55:10,641 --> 00:55:12,643
It'd be kind of homelike, Eliza,
865
00:55:12,810 --> 00:55:15,146
to have Martha and the kids living here.
866
00:55:15,896 --> 00:55:18,524
This place seems sort of lonesome.
867
00:55:19,608 --> 00:55:21,569
I don't know. Maybe it's just the job.
868
00:55:23,070 --> 00:55:25,239
Must be the lonesomest job in the world.
869
00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:27,491
Such a big place, isn't it?
870
00:55:29,994 --> 00:55:31,996
Glad I don't have to pay the taxes on it.
871
00:55:33,039 --> 00:55:34,999
And so full of ghosts.
872
00:55:35,833 --> 00:55:37,752
Ghosts that are hard to live up to.
873
00:55:40,629 --> 00:55:42,548
I bark out at people.
874
00:55:44,300 --> 00:55:47,303
He knew how to turn 'em down
with just a funny story.
875
00:55:48,804 --> 00:55:50,097
The wonder of it...
876
00:55:51,223 --> 00:55:53,225
that you should work in his study...
877
00:55:54,894 --> 00:55:56,312
sit at his desk.
878
00:55:57,730 --> 00:56:00,900
The terror of it,
to ask myself every day, every hour,
879
00:56:01,067 --> 00:56:02,276
"What would he have done?"
880
00:56:04,028 --> 00:56:05,237
And not to know.
881
00:56:07,573 --> 00:56:10,409
Eliza... I ain't fit.
882
00:56:12,661 --> 00:56:15,456
Andrew, it came to us at Milligan's forge
883
00:56:15,623 --> 00:56:16,916
that you were fit to be sheriff
884
00:56:17,249 --> 00:56:18,709
and you've grown a lot since then.
885
00:56:18,876 --> 00:56:21,462
You trying to tell me
that I'm fit to follow him?
886
00:56:21,796 --> 00:56:22,836
You know better than that.
887
00:56:22,963 --> 00:56:26,217
To follow him who is whoever will be.
888
00:56:27,093 --> 00:56:29,095
The trouble with me, Eliza, I was never fit
889
00:56:29,261 --> 00:56:31,806
to lace up his boots,
let alone stand in them.
890
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,601
You were the man he chose,
Andrew, to stand in his boots
891
00:56:35,768 --> 00:56:37,311
if anything should happen to him.
892
00:56:43,567 --> 00:56:44,567
Oh, let me.
893
00:56:47,780 --> 00:56:49,782
I told Martha she could
bring the children in
894
00:56:49,949 --> 00:56:50,949
to say goodnight.
895
00:56:51,325 --> 00:56:52,785
Well, I must be the first president
896
00:56:52,952 --> 00:56:54,161
with grandchildren here.
897
00:56:54,328 --> 00:56:55,728
We'll let them come in every night.
898
00:56:55,871 --> 00:56:58,332
Grandpa, my doll! Isn't she beautiful?
899
00:56:58,499 --> 00:56:59,750
Oh, isn't she?
900
00:56:59,917 --> 00:57:01,293
Hey, Andy, Andy!
901
00:57:01,460 --> 00:57:03,337
Hey there, Andy! What--
902
00:57:03,838 --> 00:57:05,297
Well, now, what have we got here?
903
00:57:05,464 --> 00:57:08,134
Major Crooks gave it to me.
It's a gun to shoot bears.
904
00:57:08,300 --> 00:57:10,928
Well, now, we'll go out tomorrow
morning right after breakfast
905
00:57:11,095 --> 00:57:12,179
and shoot us some bears.
906
00:57:12,346 --> 00:57:14,181
- Come on! Let's go now!
- No!
907
00:57:14,348 --> 00:57:17,435
Tell me a bedtime story, Grandpa,
908
00:57:17,601 --> 00:57:21,564
like you always used to
in Nashville when I was little.
909
00:57:21,730 --> 00:57:23,065
All right.
910
00:57:23,232 --> 00:57:25,943
Here... we go.
911
00:57:27,153 --> 00:57:28,696
Well, now.
912
00:57:29,238 --> 00:57:32,700
Once upon a time,
there was a beautiful princess.
913
00:57:33,617 --> 00:57:35,369
Oh, look! There's a great bad bear!
914
00:57:36,328 --> 00:57:37,608
Oh, come in, gentlemen, come in.
915
00:57:37,663 --> 00:57:40,332
You know my wife, my daughter,
Mrs. Paterson, the children.
916
00:57:40,833 --> 00:57:42,835
Congressman Stevens, Senator Waters,
917
00:57:43,085 --> 00:57:44,295
and Congressman Hargrave.
918
00:57:44,795 --> 00:57:47,035
Yes, it's quite a thing to
have a typical American family
919
00:57:47,131 --> 00:57:48,691
in the White House again, Mrs. Johnson.
920
00:57:49,049 --> 00:57:51,330
It's a great pleasure to welcome
you to Washington, ma'am.
921
00:57:51,927 --> 00:57:54,555
All Washington hopes,
Mrs. Johnson, for a revival
922
00:57:54,722 --> 00:57:57,933
of the fine, old White House
traditions of before the war.
923
00:57:58,642 --> 00:58:01,979
Well, then I'm afraid Washington
will be disappointed.
924
00:58:02,146 --> 00:58:05,274
Oh, we're just plain people
from the hills, that's all.
925
00:58:05,524 --> 00:58:06,942
A brief stay in high places
926
00:58:07,109 --> 00:58:09,403
can't be expected to change us very much.
927
00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:10,820
Martha.
928
00:58:11,614 --> 00:58:13,574
Now, children, it's your bedtime.
929
00:58:14,283 --> 00:58:17,828
Grandpa hasn't told me my story yet.
930
00:58:18,078 --> 00:58:19,798
Well, he'll come up
and tell you one in bed.
931
00:58:20,122 --> 00:58:23,209
- Promise?
- Yes, I promise.
932
00:58:23,459 --> 00:58:25,336
Now, you say goodnight to the gentlemen.
933
00:58:26,795 --> 00:58:27,796
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
934
00:58:27,963 --> 00:58:29,163
May I have a kiss, little one?
935
00:58:29,256 --> 00:58:31,383
Yes, if you want one.
936
00:58:34,094 --> 00:58:35,429
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
937
00:58:37,890 --> 00:58:39,475
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
938
00:58:40,059 --> 00:58:41,477
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
939
00:58:42,561 --> 00:58:44,730
Do you want to have a kiss, too?
940
00:58:45,356 --> 00:58:47,650
I couldn't think of
anything more delightful,
941
00:58:47,983 --> 00:58:51,654
but I'm not going to submit you
to any such dubious pleasure.
942
00:58:54,406 --> 00:58:55,991
You killed the bear!
943
00:58:56,659 --> 00:58:58,118
I didn't mean to.
944
00:59:01,121 --> 00:59:02,915
Now, children, that's enough. Goodnight.
945
00:59:03,082 --> 00:59:04,750
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
946
00:59:07,419 --> 00:59:10,422
Well, we've had enough
homespun humor in the White House.
947
00:59:10,589 --> 00:59:13,259
Let's quit being whimsical
and run the country.
948
00:59:13,509 --> 00:59:14,509
Sit down, gentlemen.
949
00:59:15,177 --> 00:59:16,617
You know, I've often thought
if I could speak
950
00:59:16,637 --> 00:59:18,430
with your culture and learning,
951
00:59:18,764 --> 00:59:20,724
with your eloquence, Mr. Hargrave,
952
00:59:21,559 --> 00:59:22,851
or the power and force
953
00:59:23,018 --> 00:59:25,521
that you blast your opponents with,
Mr. Stevens,
954
00:59:25,688 --> 00:59:27,940
I'd probably make a much better president.
955
00:59:28,190 --> 00:59:32,695
Why, Mr. President, I've never found you
lacking in eloquence, sir.
956
00:59:33,362 --> 00:59:37,074
But unfortunately, you are as stubborn
957
00:59:37,241 --> 00:59:40,244
as the orneriest mule
in your own Tennessee.
958
00:59:40,411 --> 00:59:43,289
He just plants his feet
wide apart like that
959
00:59:43,455 --> 00:59:45,374
and you couldn't budge him with a cannon.
960
00:59:45,541 --> 00:59:47,251
A mule, huh?
961
00:59:48,419 --> 00:59:50,579
Is that why you fellas
in Congress lit a fire under me?
962
00:59:52,047 --> 00:59:55,509
You don't act like our fire done much more
than keep your belly nice and warm.
963
00:59:56,135 --> 00:59:57,803
Unfortunately, Mr. President,
964
00:59:57,970 --> 00:59:59,555
the contraption you're hitched to
965
00:59:59,722 --> 01:00:01,473
is the United States of America.
966
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,017
We've gotta keep it on the move.
967
01:00:03,267 --> 01:00:06,395
Stevens, if you'll just state your case
and let me state mine,
968
01:00:06,562 --> 01:00:08,188
I think we'll see better where we stand.
969
01:00:08,647 --> 01:00:10,149
Very good, Mr. President.
970
01:00:11,317 --> 01:00:13,193
I propose that we treat the South
971
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,654
as an outside conquered people,
972
01:00:16,196 --> 01:00:19,992
that we confiscate
all estates worth 10,000 dollars
973
01:00:20,159 --> 01:00:21,952
and containing 200 acres.
974
01:00:23,662 --> 01:00:28,334
Then, sir, I would give
every adult colored man
975
01:00:29,043 --> 01:00:31,003
forty acres of land.
976
01:00:31,670 --> 01:00:33,464
Sell the rest and pay for the war with it.
977
01:00:33,797 --> 01:00:35,758
No use vetoing that program, Johnson.
978
01:00:35,924 --> 01:00:39,136
We have the votes to override your vetoes.
979
01:00:39,845 --> 01:00:41,055
So it comes to this.
980
01:00:41,221 --> 01:00:43,432
You fought a war to preserve the Union.
981
01:00:43,599 --> 01:00:46,727
Having preserved it,
now you deny that it exists.
982
01:00:48,062 --> 01:00:52,733
Gentlemen, my one aim
is to carry out Lincoln's policies.
983
01:00:53,359 --> 01:00:54,610
Try and get into your head
984
01:00:54,777 --> 01:00:56,820
that Lincoln's reconstruction
program died with him.
985
01:00:56,987 --> 01:01:01,116
Oh, shut up, Waters.
Let the president state his own case.
986
01:01:02,868 --> 01:01:04,411
Lincoln always held
987
01:01:04,662 --> 01:01:06,538
that the Confederate states
could not secede.
988
01:01:06,955 --> 01:01:09,416
That they were therefore
never out of the Union.
989
01:01:10,834 --> 01:01:12,086
Now, they stopped fighting.
990
01:01:12,628 --> 01:01:14,963
They took the oath of allegiance
to the United States.
991
01:01:15,714 --> 01:01:18,175
They ratified the amendment
abolishing slavery
992
01:01:18,425 --> 01:01:20,678
that you yourself, Stevens,
piloted through congress.
993
01:01:20,844 --> 01:01:22,054
Ah, yes, yes, yes.
994
01:01:22,721 --> 01:01:25,057
It follows from Lincoln's policy
995
01:01:25,933 --> 01:01:28,268
that they therefore were entitled
996
01:01:28,435 --> 01:01:30,729
to the same rights as the rest of us.
997
01:01:31,063 --> 01:01:33,273
Now, gentlemen,
it's just as simple as that.
998
01:01:35,943 --> 01:01:38,362
Well, no use making him
our offer now, Stevens,
999
01:01:38,529 --> 01:01:39,947
after what he just said.
1000
01:01:40,114 --> 01:01:42,491
Offer? You have some compromise to suggest?
1001
01:01:42,908 --> 01:01:44,223
I should think it would be rather difficult
1002
01:01:44,243 --> 01:01:46,161
to compromise our points of view.
1003
01:01:46,620 --> 01:01:50,499
I never compromise.
I came here to make a deal.
1004
01:01:50,666 --> 01:01:53,544
To secure your cooperation
with us, Mr. President.
1005
01:01:53,711 --> 01:01:54,920
For the next eight years.
1006
01:01:56,213 --> 01:01:57,213
Oh, I see.
1007
01:01:57,339 --> 01:01:59,967
That's, uh, an offer to buy me...
1008
01:02:01,301 --> 01:02:02,511
with a second term.
1009
01:02:02,761 --> 01:02:05,389
One practical man to another, yeah.
1010
01:02:10,018 --> 01:02:11,645
What in tarnation is that thing?
1011
01:02:12,187 --> 01:02:14,189
What you're trying to put on my leg again
1012
01:02:14,356 --> 01:02:16,150
and I don't like being chained up.
1013
01:02:17,609 --> 01:02:19,987
That's why I've kept this
for nearly 40 years now,
1014
01:02:20,237 --> 01:02:23,198
just to remind me what being
chained up feels like.
1015
01:02:24,908 --> 01:02:26,807
Well, gentlemen,
there's a little girl waiting for me
1016
01:02:26,827 --> 01:02:29,997
to tell her a bedtime story,
so I guess that's all.
1017
01:02:30,164 --> 01:02:32,416
Oh, no, no. That's not all, Mr. President.
1018
01:02:32,583 --> 01:02:33,751
That's only half.
1019
01:02:34,168 --> 01:02:36,003
Now, wait outside, will you?
1020
01:02:36,170 --> 01:02:38,547
I want a word alone with the president.
1021
01:02:38,797 --> 01:02:40,320
- Goodnight, Mr. President.
- Goodnight, Mr. President.
1022
01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:41,759
Goodnight, gentlemen. Goodnight.
1023
01:02:47,055 --> 01:02:49,016
First, Lincoln tried to block me.
1024
01:02:49,349 --> 01:02:50,350
Now it's you.
1025
01:02:51,977 --> 01:02:55,689
Well, that's a poor substitute, but now me.
1026
01:02:57,274 --> 01:02:59,067
Stevens, why did you want to see me alone?
1027
01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:02,571
To tell you that since
you've turned me down,
1028
01:03:02,738 --> 01:03:04,907
I fear I'll have to turn you out.
1029
01:03:07,785 --> 01:03:08,785
Impeachment?
1030
01:03:09,203 --> 01:03:12,623
You know the House would prefer
charges of high crimes
1031
01:03:12,790 --> 01:03:16,460
and misdemeanors against you anytime I say.
1032
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:18,545
I hope that never happens.
1033
01:03:19,004 --> 01:03:21,590
Unfortunately, it takes
a two-thirds vote of the Senate
1034
01:03:21,757 --> 01:03:25,260
to sustain a conviction.
That's the Constitution.
1035
01:03:25,511 --> 01:03:28,222
You're a great stickler for
the Constitution, aren't you?
1036
01:03:28,972 --> 01:03:31,308
Well, you might as well know,
then, we can get you out
1037
01:03:31,475 --> 01:03:34,019
by strictly Constitutional means.
1038
01:03:34,603 --> 01:03:35,938
Why aren't you more reasonable?
1039
01:03:37,523 --> 01:03:39,483
And when there's no vice president,
1040
01:03:39,817 --> 01:03:42,194
the man who succeeds an impeached president
1041
01:03:42,361 --> 01:03:45,405
is the acting presiding officer
of the Senate.
1042
01:03:45,572 --> 01:03:46,572
Right, right.
1043
01:03:59,127 --> 01:04:02,756
Well, they'll never put me out
to put Jim Waters in.
1044
01:04:03,382 --> 01:04:06,343
Well, that is kind of funny, at that.
1045
01:04:07,469 --> 01:04:10,347
The Senate would never have
elected him to pound that gavel
1046
01:04:10,514 --> 01:04:13,559
if they realized that
it might make him president.
1047
01:04:14,101 --> 01:04:16,186
I have infinite faith in the people.
1048
01:04:16,395 --> 01:04:19,022
Oh, this country
isn't ruled by a plebiscite.
1049
01:04:19,606 --> 01:04:20,816
Congress would be against you
1050
01:04:20,983 --> 01:04:22,693
and the money power and the press.
1051
01:04:22,901 --> 01:04:25,737
Yes, every power would be against me
1052
01:04:26,697 --> 01:04:28,198
except the common people
1053
01:04:28,365 --> 01:04:30,576
that Abe Lincoln said
the Lord must have loved
1054
01:04:30,742 --> 01:04:32,327
because He made so many of them.
1055
01:04:32,578 --> 01:04:34,162
Well, go ahead, then, take the stump.
1056
01:04:34,329 --> 01:04:35,831
Swing around the circle.
1057
01:04:35,998 --> 01:04:38,000
Make your speeches to the people.
1058
01:04:38,959 --> 01:04:41,044
Only you get all het-up.
1059
01:04:41,545 --> 01:04:43,714
You don't make very good speeches.
1060
01:04:43,881 --> 01:04:47,092
Yes, and you'd rig the press
and pack my meetings.
1061
01:04:48,427 --> 01:04:53,724
Well, we're not likely
to meet socially anymore
1062
01:04:54,725 --> 01:04:58,020
so I have to tell you that
nothing would make me do
1063
01:04:58,186 --> 01:05:00,480
what I fear I have to do,
1064
01:05:01,148 --> 01:05:05,527
no personal or party interests,
just one thing.
1065
01:05:06,403 --> 01:05:07,821
The safety of our country
1066
01:05:08,322 --> 01:05:10,282
which your policies would destroy.
1067
01:05:11,158 --> 01:05:14,119
You have the impudence
to sit there and tell me
1068
01:05:14,286 --> 01:05:16,413
you're doing this to save the country?
1069
01:05:17,623 --> 01:05:19,625
Why, you hypocrite,
if you weren't a cripple,
1070
01:05:19,791 --> 01:05:22,336
I'd pick you up and
throw you through that bay window
1071
01:05:22,502 --> 01:05:25,172
right out on the White House lawn,
wheelchair and all!
1072
01:05:28,216 --> 01:05:31,219
You know, most people think
that drink is your weakness
1073
01:05:31,553 --> 01:05:34,222
on account of that thing that
happened at the inauguration.
1074
01:05:34,389 --> 01:05:37,476
But I know better. It's temper.
1075
01:05:55,035 --> 01:05:57,037
I've got to see Mr. Stevens at once.
1076
01:05:57,204 --> 01:05:59,456
You can't, sir. He's sick, Mr. Secretary.
1077
01:05:59,623 --> 01:06:02,417
- The doctor just left--
- Now, don't argue with me.
1078
01:06:03,085 --> 01:06:06,046
Thad, he's turned me out.
The tailor turned me out.
1079
01:06:06,213 --> 01:06:07,653
You've got to do something to help me.
1080
01:06:07,673 --> 01:06:09,883
Now, sir, Mr. Stevens is a very sick man.
1081
01:06:10,050 --> 01:06:12,010
You can't be bothering him.
I won't let you.
1082
01:06:12,177 --> 01:06:14,221
Mr. Stevens, you've got to rest.
1083
01:06:14,388 --> 01:06:17,265
Oh, Addie, what do they
care whether I live or die,
1084
01:06:17,432 --> 01:06:18,809
as long as I hold a job?
1085
01:06:18,976 --> 01:06:21,520
Now, please, sir,
don't say nothing about dying.
1086
01:06:21,687 --> 01:06:22,709
There it is, Thad. Read it.
1087
01:06:22,729 --> 01:06:23,729
Run along, Addie.
1088
01:06:24,147 --> 01:06:26,525
If'n you get the lung fever,
don't blame me.
1089
01:06:26,817 --> 01:06:28,068
I done told you, the doctor,
1090
01:06:28,235 --> 01:06:30,320
he say you've got to get your rest.
1091
01:06:30,487 --> 01:06:32,322
So the tailor threw you out, huh?
1092
01:06:33,323 --> 01:06:36,284
And after all the trouble
we took to have that bill passed
1093
01:06:36,451 --> 01:06:39,413
that he couldn't fire
any of Lincoln's cabinet
1094
01:06:39,579 --> 01:06:42,040
without the express consent of the Senate.
1095
01:06:42,249 --> 01:06:45,002
He's violated a law
passed over his own veto.
1096
01:06:46,628 --> 01:06:48,714
That's going to cost him the presidency.
1097
01:06:49,548 --> 01:06:51,675
I've got him just where I want him.
1098
01:06:53,010 --> 01:06:55,262
Now, you go back and stay in your office.
1099
01:06:55,512 --> 01:06:57,014
But I've been dismissed.
1100
01:06:57,931 --> 01:07:00,976
You don't think I'm going to let
him do a thing like that to you?
1101
01:07:02,019 --> 01:07:03,478
Now, you go and get some troops
1102
01:07:03,645 --> 01:07:05,485
and a couple of cannon to
protect the building.
1103
01:07:05,564 --> 01:07:06,606
Troops? Cannon?
1104
01:07:06,773 --> 01:07:09,276
Sure. And just stay in office.
1105
01:07:09,943 --> 01:07:11,463
- You mean, never leave it?
- Leave it?
1106
01:07:11,570 --> 01:07:13,030
No, of course not!
1107
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:16,408
You just stay, stay, and stay.
1108
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,120
Well, you better get a bed
and some canned food
1109
01:07:20,287 --> 01:07:21,538
because in all probability,
1110
01:07:21,705 --> 01:07:23,345
you'll be there for three or four months.
1111
01:07:23,999 --> 01:07:27,377
But after Johnson's out
and Jim Waters is president,
1112
01:07:27,544 --> 01:07:30,380
well, then you can go home
and get all cleaned up.
1113
01:07:30,630 --> 01:07:32,799
I'll do exactly as you say.
1114
01:07:35,969 --> 01:07:39,639
Ah, it's amazing what privations
a politician will endure
1115
01:07:39,806 --> 01:07:41,141
just to stay in office.
1116
01:07:43,185 --> 01:07:45,187
Here's the last report
on the cabinet meeting
1117
01:07:45,353 --> 01:07:47,397
and that's the last bit
of what you call spying
1118
01:07:47,564 --> 01:07:48,607
I'll have to do for you.
1119
01:07:48,774 --> 01:07:49,858
You never can tell.
1120
01:07:50,358 --> 01:07:53,320
I might want you to spy on Jim Waters
when he's president.
1121
01:07:58,158 --> 01:08:00,368
Addie! Addie!
1122
01:08:00,535 --> 01:08:01,535
- Yes, sir?
- Come here!
1123
01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:02,996
Yes, sir, Mr. Stevens!
1124
01:08:04,998 --> 01:08:07,417
- Order my carriage.
- Tonight, in this rain?
1125
01:08:07,584 --> 01:08:08,984
No, sir! You'll get your death of--
1126
01:08:09,127 --> 01:08:10,837
Order my carriage!
1127
01:08:11,004 --> 01:08:13,381
If'n you go out in this rain
and get the lung fever--
1128
01:08:13,548 --> 01:08:14,591
Get me my crutches!
1129
01:08:14,758 --> 01:08:17,302
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
1130
01:08:17,469 --> 01:08:20,931
Who are you to tell me what
I can do and what I can't do.
1131
01:08:21,098 --> 01:08:22,098
Yes, sir.
1132
01:08:23,266 --> 01:08:24,726
I'll do what I want.
1133
01:08:25,811 --> 01:08:28,021
I'll die when I feel like it.
1134
01:08:28,855 --> 01:08:30,440
The president will see you now.
1135
01:08:37,030 --> 01:08:40,075
What's this about some
amnesty idea of yours, Johnson?
1136
01:08:41,493 --> 01:08:44,162
So your spy in my cabinet
told you that, too.
1137
01:08:45,622 --> 01:08:47,249
Well, after you broke up my meetings,
1138
01:08:47,415 --> 01:08:50,210
I got to wondering whether
I had any powers left at all,
1139
01:08:50,627 --> 01:08:52,462
if I hadn't better resign and go back home.
1140
01:08:52,629 --> 01:08:53,839
Oh, cut the cackle.
1141
01:08:54,923 --> 01:08:57,384
And then I remembered
a power vested in the president
1142
01:08:57,551 --> 01:09:00,554
by the Constitution that even
Congress can't touch, Stevens.
1143
01:09:01,388 --> 01:09:02,764
Maybe you can guess what it is.
1144
01:09:03,181 --> 01:09:04,766
A power Congress can't touch?
1145
01:09:05,433 --> 01:09:06,433
Yes.
1146
01:09:06,685 --> 01:09:08,895
Lincoln would've got
around to that before now,
1147
01:09:09,062 --> 01:09:10,982
but I had to wait till
things settled down a bit.
1148
01:09:11,148 --> 01:09:12,566
You wouldn't dare.
1149
01:09:13,525 --> 01:09:16,486
That's right, you've guessed it,
the pardoning power.
1150
01:09:18,446 --> 01:09:19,739
I'm gonna sign something now
1151
01:09:19,906 --> 01:09:22,450
and I'm glad you came over
here to watch me do it.
1152
01:09:25,078 --> 01:09:28,206
Here at this desk where
Lincoln freed the slaves
1153
01:09:29,499 --> 01:09:31,793
I now free their former masters.
1154
01:09:37,090 --> 01:09:41,094
This proclamation pardons all
and restores full citizenship
1155
01:09:41,261 --> 01:09:43,180
to all who fought for the lost cause
1156
01:09:43,346 --> 01:09:44,973
in the war between the states.
1157
01:09:45,515 --> 01:09:47,976
All? Did you say all?
1158
01:09:48,143 --> 01:09:49,143
All.
1159
01:09:50,061 --> 01:09:52,397
- Not Jeff Davis?
- Jeff Davis, too.
1160
01:09:53,315 --> 01:09:54,315
Lee?
1161
01:09:54,608 --> 01:09:56,193
Oh, yes, Lee, as well.
1162
01:09:57,819 --> 01:09:59,863
Well, you're right, you have the power.
1163
01:10:01,656 --> 01:10:03,450
Congress can't stop you.
1164
01:10:06,244 --> 01:10:08,788
Now every rebel snake in the South
1165
01:10:08,955 --> 01:10:12,334
will crawl out of its hidden den
into the daylight.
1166
01:10:14,294 --> 01:10:18,048
Johnson, what you've just done tonight...
1167
01:10:19,132 --> 01:10:23,220
and what you plan to do
means a new Civil War.
1168
01:10:24,721 --> 01:10:26,806
You honestly believe that, don't you?
1169
01:10:27,307 --> 01:10:28,516
You know I do.
1170
01:10:29,851 --> 01:10:31,311
I haven't long to live.
1171
01:10:32,729 --> 01:10:36,274
Just kept alive for the day
of retribution and justice
1172
01:10:37,192 --> 01:10:41,696
so I could die happy knowing
I'd bequeathed the country peace.
1173
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:43,239
Peace?
1174
01:10:45,075 --> 01:10:50,580
You call revenge, confiscation,
and disfranchisement peace?
1175
01:10:50,747 --> 01:10:53,708
Have you no pity for those four million
1176
01:10:53,875 --> 01:10:57,837
injured, depressed, hopeless colored people
1177
01:10:58,338 --> 01:11:01,091
under bondage for two centuries?
1178
01:11:02,008 --> 01:11:05,178
I want the two races
to live together peacefully,
1179
01:11:05,762 --> 01:11:07,055
to respect one another.
1180
01:11:07,806 --> 01:11:09,808
Your way of making slaves of the whites
1181
01:11:09,975 --> 01:11:11,726
would put that off another century.
1182
01:11:16,731 --> 01:11:21,111
Johnson, if you withdraw this thing...
1183
01:11:22,153 --> 01:11:25,115
for the sake of peace,
I'll quash the impeachment.
1184
01:11:26,741 --> 01:11:28,285
So you'd drop the impeachment.
1185
01:11:28,743 --> 01:11:29,743
Uh, yeah.
1186
01:11:31,121 --> 01:11:34,249
Well, Stevens, I decline your offer.
1187
01:11:34,916 --> 01:11:36,147
But I want to tell you one thing.
1188
01:11:36,167 --> 01:11:38,295
I never really understood
you until this minute.
1189
01:11:40,005 --> 01:11:43,258
I always thought you wanted
a puppet President you could boss.
1190
01:11:43,591 --> 01:11:44,634
I called you a hypocrite.
1191
01:11:46,469 --> 01:11:48,555
You're not. You're a very sincere man...
1192
01:11:49,723 --> 01:11:51,975
and that's what makes you so dangerous.
1193
01:11:52,892 --> 01:11:56,062
You have the sincerity and will and force.
1194
01:11:56,646 --> 01:11:58,982
You have the drive of a great fanatic.
1195
01:11:59,566 --> 01:12:01,693
You'll not rob me of all I've lived for.
1196
01:12:03,069 --> 01:12:05,447
You'll not ruin the country
with another war.
1197
01:12:05,822 --> 01:12:07,824
I'll live long enough to stop that.
1198
01:12:10,410 --> 01:12:12,203
My policies will go through
1199
01:12:12,370 --> 01:12:13,621
with you out of the way.
1200
01:12:15,707 --> 01:12:17,500
Even if I'm not here to see it.
1201
01:12:19,878 --> 01:12:22,839
Stevens... what's the matter with you?
1202
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,365
You'd better let me get you some coffee.
1203
01:12:27,385 --> 01:12:29,179
Huh? No.
1204
01:12:29,471 --> 01:12:31,598
I'll crush you, Johnson.
1205
01:12:32,849 --> 01:12:35,310
I'll save our country yet.
1206
01:12:38,396 --> 01:12:39,396
Stevens.
1207
01:12:40,815 --> 01:12:42,942
Stevens! Major Crooks!
1208
01:12:44,778 --> 01:12:45,778
Mr. President.
1209
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:50,199
What happened?
1210
01:12:50,575 --> 01:12:51,575
Get a doctor.
1211
01:12:51,993 --> 01:12:52,993
Ah...
1212
01:13:12,972 --> 01:13:14,852
Would you deny any other tailor
his day in court
1213
01:13:14,933 --> 01:13:15,934
if you were his lawyers?
1214
01:13:16,518 --> 01:13:18,311
If I took refuge in your technicalities
1215
01:13:18,478 --> 01:13:19,709
and cowered here in the White House
1216
01:13:19,729 --> 01:13:21,086
while you fellows fought
for me in the Senate,
1217
01:13:21,106 --> 01:13:22,186
what could Stevens call me?
1218
01:13:22,315 --> 01:13:23,795
Whatever he calls you, Mr. President,
1219
01:13:23,942 --> 01:13:25,582
he mustn't spatter you with mud and filth
1220
01:13:25,693 --> 01:13:26,758
while you sit there in person.
1221
01:13:26,778 --> 01:13:28,154
Yes, like a man in the dock.
1222
01:13:28,405 --> 01:13:29,656
President is more than a man.
1223
01:13:29,989 --> 01:13:31,096
He's a symbol of the whole nation.
1224
01:13:31,116 --> 01:13:33,139
And that's why, for the sake
of the dignity of your office--
1225
01:13:33,159 --> 01:13:34,759
Look, you--you can't--you can't fool me!
1226
01:13:34,786 --> 01:13:35,892
You're afraid if I went down there,
1227
01:13:35,912 --> 01:13:37,102
Stevens and his gang would bait me
1228
01:13:37,122 --> 01:13:39,040
in making a howling jackass of myself.
1229
01:13:39,290 --> 01:13:40,980
That's your real reason
for trying to keep me
1230
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:42,377
from going to my own trial.
1231
01:13:42,961 --> 01:13:45,380
Well, I choose to face
my enemies in person.
1232
01:13:46,214 --> 01:13:48,094
I'm going to the capitol.
Come along, gentlemen.
1233
01:13:48,842 --> 01:13:51,845
- Andrew.
- Wish me luck, Eliza.
1234
01:13:52,512 --> 01:13:54,013
There's no hurry, Andrew.
1235
01:13:54,431 --> 01:13:56,891
Why sit down there alone
in the President's room
1236
01:13:57,058 --> 01:13:58,935
fidgeting until they summon you?
1237
01:13:59,686 --> 01:14:02,021
The President will drive to
the Senate a little later.
1238
01:14:02,188 --> 01:14:04,816
- Uh, will I have time?
- Oh, yes, Mr. President.
1239
01:14:04,983 --> 01:14:06,256
The preliminaries and the swearing-in
1240
01:14:06,276 --> 01:14:07,777
will take another hour or so.
1241
01:14:09,237 --> 01:14:10,237
You see?
1242
01:14:27,922 --> 01:14:30,008
- Reserved seats.
- Reserved seats. Huh.
1243
01:14:30,550 --> 01:14:32,427
It's like walking into Ford's Theatre
1244
01:14:32,594 --> 01:14:33,928
knowing what's going to happen.
1245
01:14:34,095 --> 01:14:36,014
Yes, another assassination
of the President.
1246
01:14:37,515 --> 01:14:39,184
Any statement for the AP, Mr. Stevens?
1247
01:14:39,350 --> 01:14:42,230
Well, don't quote me, but I think I got
the tailor just where I want him.
1248
01:14:42,270 --> 01:14:43,980
- But for quotation?
- Quote.
1249
01:14:44,147 --> 01:14:46,733
The days of the tyrant
are numbered. Unquote.
1250
01:14:46,900 --> 01:14:48,943
The country's greatly
disturbed about your illness.
1251
01:14:49,110 --> 01:14:51,070
Well, tell the country I'm all right.
1252
01:14:51,237 --> 01:14:54,699
I just had a stroke, that's all.
No further statement.
1253
01:14:55,033 --> 01:14:56,513
- Thank you, Mr. Stevens.
- Thank you.
1254
01:14:57,619 --> 01:15:00,622
The honorable managers
of the House of Representatives.
1255
01:15:07,545 --> 01:15:08,963
Who's going to carry me about
1256
01:15:09,130 --> 01:15:11,341
when you two boys are dead and gone?
1257
01:15:16,346 --> 01:15:18,223
The President of the Senate pro tempore
1258
01:15:18,389 --> 01:15:20,934
recognizes the spokesman for
the House of Representatives.
1259
01:15:21,684 --> 01:15:23,895
In the name of the House of Representatives
1260
01:15:24,062 --> 01:15:26,397
and of all the people of the United States
1261
01:15:27,398 --> 01:15:31,486
we do impeach Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1262
01:15:31,653 --> 01:15:33,613
of high crimes and misdemeanors.
1263
01:15:34,572 --> 01:15:36,908
We shall exhibit our
articles of impeachment
1264
01:15:37,075 --> 01:15:38,368
and make them good.
1265
01:15:38,785 --> 01:15:40,370
In fulfillment of the mandate laid down
1266
01:15:40,537 --> 01:15:43,206
in article one, section three
of the Constitution,
1267
01:15:43,790 --> 01:15:45,625
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1268
01:15:45,792 --> 01:15:47,126
shall preside over the Senate
1269
01:15:47,877 --> 01:15:49,963
when, as now, this body is called to sit
1270
01:15:50,129 --> 01:15:51,339
as a high court of justice
1271
01:15:51,506 --> 01:15:54,050
in judgment upon
the President of the United States.
1272
01:15:55,134 --> 01:15:57,095
The honorable Chief Justice!
1273
01:16:04,477 --> 01:16:05,477
Your Honor.
1274
01:16:13,945 --> 01:16:16,114
The chair recognizes Mr. Stevens.
1275
01:16:16,781 --> 01:16:21,452
Mr. Chief Justice, before the 11 articles
of impeachment are formally read
1276
01:16:21,953 --> 01:16:24,372
let me state to the Senate and the country
1277
01:16:24,539 --> 01:16:26,457
the essence of our indictment.
1278
01:16:29,210 --> 01:16:32,380
We do not intend to cite the obvious fact
1279
01:16:32,547 --> 01:16:34,632
that Andrew Johnson is unmindful
1280
01:16:34,799 --> 01:16:36,467
of the dignity of his office,
1281
01:16:36,634 --> 01:16:41,014
his disgraceful speeches of rage,
if not intoxication.
1282
01:16:42,348 --> 01:16:45,768
We will confine ourselves
to the Constitution and the law.
1283
01:16:47,353 --> 01:16:51,274
Now, in a public speech,
the President of the United States
1284
01:16:51,441 --> 01:16:55,778
suggested hanging certain
elected representatives of the people,
1285
01:16:55,945 --> 01:16:57,196
including myself.
1286
01:16:58,031 --> 01:17:01,743
He has denied, also in a public speech,
1287
01:17:02,118 --> 01:17:04,412
that this congress is a lawful body.
1288
01:17:05,163 --> 01:17:07,373
He has termed us an "illegal rump"
1289
01:17:07,540 --> 01:17:12,003
because we refuse to admit what he terms
1290
01:17:12,170 --> 01:17:14,297
"legally elected representatives
1291
01:17:14,464 --> 01:17:16,674
of states in the American Union,"
1292
01:17:17,425 --> 01:17:20,261
meaning unreconstructed rebels.
1293
01:17:21,262 --> 01:17:23,097
Now, our main case, however,
1294
01:17:23,556 --> 01:17:26,934
is based on his violation of a law
1295
01:17:27,101 --> 01:17:29,479
passed over his veto by Congress.
1296
01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:32,357
The Tenure of Office Act.
1297
01:17:33,566 --> 01:17:35,443
Now, everyone in the country knows
1298
01:17:35,610 --> 01:17:39,364
that that forbids a President
to dismiss from his cabinet
1299
01:17:39,947 --> 01:17:41,991
any member who was belonged to the cabinet
1300
01:17:42,158 --> 01:17:44,118
of a President who died in office.
1301
01:17:46,454 --> 01:17:47,830
Now, in so doing,
1302
01:17:48,247 --> 01:17:52,919
Andrew Johnson, who was sworn
to maintain the Constitution,
1303
01:17:53,419 --> 01:17:57,548
created the highest possible
Constitutional crime.
1304
01:17:58,716 --> 01:18:01,969
If this is condoned,
Congress will be powerless.
1305
01:18:02,178 --> 01:18:05,598
It will be ruled over by
an irresponsible tyrant.
1306
01:18:07,392 --> 01:18:10,645
So the House of Representatives,
by solemn resolution,
1307
01:18:10,812 --> 01:18:14,357
has instructed us, its managers,
to demand that the Senate,
1308
01:18:14,732 --> 01:18:17,026
as made mandatory by the Constitution,
1309
01:18:17,610 --> 01:18:22,281
forthwith summon and do justice
upon the accused, Andrew Johnson.
1310
01:18:25,243 --> 01:18:28,913
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!
1311
01:18:29,706 --> 01:18:32,458
All persons are commanded to keep silent
1312
01:18:32,917 --> 01:18:35,545
while the Senate of the United States
is sitting for the trial
1313
01:18:35,712 --> 01:18:36,952
of the articles of impeachment.
1314
01:18:37,255 --> 01:18:38,589
Summon the accused.
1315
01:18:39,590 --> 01:18:42,176
Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1316
01:18:42,427 --> 01:18:44,220
appear and answer
the articles of impeachment
1317
01:18:44,387 --> 01:18:46,681
exhibited against you
by the House of Representatives
1318
01:18:46,848 --> 01:18:48,182
of the United States.
1319
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:50,768
Andrew Johnson.
1320
01:18:54,063 --> 01:18:55,273
Andrew Johnson.
1321
01:18:58,276 --> 01:18:59,569
Andrew Johnson!
1322
01:19:14,917 --> 01:19:16,002
What's this mean, Thad?
1323
01:19:16,169 --> 01:19:18,004
Ah, Johnson isn't coming.
1324
01:19:19,922 --> 01:19:22,196
Mr. Chief Justice,
the President desires to be represented
1325
01:19:22,216 --> 01:19:24,177
throughout this trial
solely by his counsel.
1326
01:19:25,470 --> 01:19:28,014
Mr. Chief Justice,
the President has been summoned
1327
01:19:28,181 --> 01:19:29,307
and refused to appear.
1328
01:19:29,891 --> 01:19:32,143
This action defies the Senate, Congress,
1329
01:19:32,310 --> 01:19:34,020
and the whole American people.
1330
01:19:34,937 --> 01:19:37,857
We demand that he be brought
before this tribunal
1331
01:19:38,024 --> 01:19:41,068
and stand his trial
like any other man accused of crime.
1332
01:19:41,694 --> 01:19:44,447
The Constitution does not require
the presence of the respondent.
1333
01:19:45,156 --> 01:19:46,796
The chair rules that he may, at his wish,
1334
01:19:46,908 --> 01:19:48,201
be represented by counsel.
1335
01:19:49,118 --> 01:19:51,118
The clerk will now read
the articles of impeachment
1336
01:19:51,162 --> 01:19:53,831
exhibited against Andrew Johnson
by the House of Representatives.
1337
01:19:57,835 --> 01:20:02,215
"Article One, whereas Andrew Johnson,
1338
01:20:02,381 --> 01:20:04,884
President of the United States,
1339
01:20:05,343 --> 01:20:07,887
has been accused of conduct..."
1340
01:20:08,638 --> 01:20:10,807
Well, Blackstone, it's good to see you.
1341
01:20:10,973 --> 01:20:11,641
Andy.
1342
01:20:11,808 --> 01:20:13,309
Come on in here now and sit down.
1343
01:20:14,310 --> 01:20:15,603
Oh, I, uh...
1344
01:20:16,103 --> 01:20:17,688
I wanted to, uh, wanted to thank you
1345
01:20:17,855 --> 01:20:19,774
for calming down the folks back home.
1346
01:20:20,399 --> 01:20:21,442
Just sit down, sit down.
1347
01:20:22,693 --> 01:20:23,986
Well, what's on your mind, now?
1348
01:20:25,905 --> 01:20:27,949
Things ain't so good down there, Andy.
1349
01:20:29,408 --> 01:20:30,451
What, in Greeneville?
1350
01:20:30,993 --> 01:20:31,993
The Senate.
1351
01:20:32,370 --> 01:20:34,080
Ah, sitting there at my trial every day,
1352
01:20:34,247 --> 01:20:35,603
listening to the way they kick me around
1353
01:20:35,623 --> 01:20:36,749
kind of makes you sore, huh?
1354
01:20:37,416 --> 01:20:39,126
It sure does, Andy.
1355
01:20:40,211 --> 01:20:41,879
Now, Blackstone, here's the way I figure.
1356
01:20:42,463 --> 01:20:46,717
Out of 54 votes, they need 36
to get the two-thirds for conviction.
1357
01:20:47,218 --> 01:20:48,886
Now we only need 19 for acquittal
1358
01:20:49,053 --> 01:20:51,138
and we know we got 16 to start with.
1359
01:20:52,682 --> 01:20:55,101
Wish I knew where
those other three were coming from.
1360
01:20:56,227 --> 01:20:58,813
Why, from honest senators
who really believe
1361
01:20:58,980 --> 01:21:00,690
that I violated the Constitution
1362
01:21:00,857 --> 01:21:03,067
when I got rid of that spy in my cabinet.
1363
01:21:03,234 --> 01:21:05,111
But they'll switch when they hear the truth
1364
01:21:05,278 --> 01:21:06,821
from the other cabinet members.
1365
01:21:07,321 --> 01:21:09,574
You go on back there now
and listen to our side.
1366
01:21:11,450 --> 01:21:15,621
Andy... what I come up here for to tell you
1367
01:21:17,415 --> 01:21:19,250
before anybody else did was, uh...
1368
01:21:22,336 --> 01:21:24,589
they ain't gonna let
your witnesses testify.
1369
01:21:25,798 --> 01:21:26,798
Who won't?
1370
01:21:28,175 --> 01:21:30,177
The Chief Justice?
That's--that's not possible.
1371
01:21:30,344 --> 01:21:31,178
He's an honest man.
1372
01:21:31,345 --> 01:21:32,847
Oh, he ruled for you, all right,
1373
01:21:33,014 --> 01:21:35,057
but the Senate overruled
him on every point.
1374
01:21:36,058 --> 01:21:38,936
Now, now, Andy, don't fly off the handle.
1375
01:21:39,645 --> 01:21:41,898
Well, I expected everything but this.
1376
01:21:44,066 --> 01:21:46,444
Accusations of drunkenness!
1377
01:21:46,861 --> 01:21:50,239
Galleries packed with my enemies
howling and yelling against me!
1378
01:21:51,115 --> 01:21:54,535
Even that old charge in Congress
that I conspired to murder Lincoln!
1379
01:21:55,536 --> 01:21:57,246
But I never expected this!
1380
01:21:58,497 --> 01:22:01,083
Well, I'll--I'll issue a statement
to the country right now.
1381
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:04,503
It's too late, Andy.
1382
01:22:04,670 --> 01:22:06,756
They're gonna start voting right soon.
1383
01:22:14,347 --> 01:22:15,973
I should have gone down there
1384
01:22:16,140 --> 01:22:18,142
and stood up to them in the beginning.
1385
01:22:20,645 --> 01:22:24,231
This is no state trial.
It's a criminal conspiracy!
1386
01:22:25,650 --> 01:22:27,693
They're... they're doing this to me
1387
01:22:27,860 --> 01:22:30,738
because I'm trying to
carry out his policies.
1388
01:22:31,072 --> 01:22:32,929
They'd be doing it to him,
too, if he were alive
1389
01:22:32,949 --> 01:22:33,949
and in my shoes!
1390
01:22:34,033 --> 01:22:35,826
They'd be trying to destroy the--
1391
01:22:37,328 --> 01:22:38,328
Andrew.
1392
01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:44,502
We could hear you shouting
all over this end of the White House.
1393
01:22:45,086 --> 01:22:47,797
People all over Washington
are gonna hear me shouting!
1394
01:22:48,422 --> 01:22:50,529
People all over this country
are gonna hear me shouting!
1395
01:22:50,549 --> 01:22:53,094
Those senators up on that hill
are gonna hear me shouting!
1396
01:22:58,307 --> 01:23:01,143
Once more I must caution
the galleries to keep quiet.
1397
01:23:01,519 --> 01:23:02,770
Mr. Chief Justice,
1398
01:23:02,937 --> 01:23:04,939
the case for the House of Representatives
1399
01:23:05,106 --> 01:23:07,900
and the people
of the United States is concluded.
1400
01:23:09,735 --> 01:23:12,321
After the closing speech
for the defense has been made,
1401
01:23:12,905 --> 01:23:15,116
vote will be taken upon
the guilt or innocence
1402
01:23:15,366 --> 01:23:17,493
of the President of the United States.
1403
01:23:20,955 --> 01:23:22,435
- Mr. Chief Justice--
- The President!
1404
01:23:23,624 --> 01:23:25,042
- The President?
- The President?
1405
01:23:27,753 --> 01:23:30,464
Mr. President, this is highly inadvisable.
1406
01:23:31,007 --> 01:23:32,216
You should have notified us.
1407
01:23:36,095 --> 01:23:38,264
I've been waiting a long time for this.
1408
01:23:40,766 --> 01:23:43,060
Mr. Chief Justice,
the closing speech for the defense
1409
01:23:43,227 --> 01:23:46,105
will be made, at his own desire,
by the respondent.
1410
01:23:47,523 --> 01:23:48,566
That will be in order.
1411
01:23:50,151 --> 01:23:54,113
He'll blow up higher than a kite
and cook his own goose.
1412
01:24:01,162 --> 01:24:02,163
Mr. Chief Justice...
1413
01:24:19,430 --> 01:24:21,140
One of the first rules of...
1414
01:24:22,391 --> 01:24:23,642
When the people of U--
1415
01:24:28,689 --> 01:24:30,816
Will the President please be seated?
1416
01:24:43,162 --> 01:24:45,394
After repeated warnings,
the chair now orders the attendants
1417
01:24:45,414 --> 01:24:46,415
to clear the galleries.
1418
01:24:46,999 --> 01:24:48,250
Clear the galleries!
1419
01:24:51,378 --> 01:24:53,839
Mr. Chief Justice,
I protest against your order
1420
01:24:54,006 --> 01:24:55,674
to exclude the people from this chamber
1421
01:24:55,841 --> 01:24:57,551
where their fate is about to be decided.
1422
01:24:57,718 --> 01:24:59,970
Yes, there's an organized
focus of disorder.
1423
01:25:00,638 --> 01:25:02,139
The ruling of the chair must stand.
1424
01:25:04,433 --> 01:25:06,268
I move the galleries be not cleared!
1425
01:25:06,435 --> 01:25:07,478
I second the motion!
1426
01:25:07,728 --> 01:25:09,814
Those in favor of overruling the chair
1427
01:25:10,022 --> 01:25:11,357
respond by saying "Aye."
1428
01:25:11,524 --> 01:25:12,191
- Aye!
- Aye!
1429
01:25:12,358 --> 01:25:13,358
- Aye!
- Aye!
1430
01:25:13,484 --> 01:25:14,568
- Contrary, no.
- No.
1431
01:25:14,735 --> 01:25:15,735
- No.
- No.
1432
01:25:15,820 --> 01:25:16,820
The ayes have it.
1433
01:25:17,404 --> 01:25:18,906
The galleries will not be cleared.
1434
01:25:27,873 --> 01:25:29,959
The Chief Justice of the United States
1435
01:25:30,334 --> 01:25:32,753
must now decline to preside over this body
1436
01:25:33,420 --> 01:25:36,590
while an organized clack
denies respectful hearing
1437
01:25:36,757 --> 01:25:38,884
to the President of the United States.
1438
01:25:39,260 --> 01:25:41,679
Article one, section three
of the Constitution says
1439
01:25:41,846 --> 01:25:45,141
the Chief Justice must preside
when the President is impeached.
1440
01:25:45,307 --> 01:25:48,060
True, but I must decline
to continue to do so
1441
01:25:48,435 --> 01:25:50,275
on the grounds that
it was obviously the intent
1442
01:25:50,396 --> 01:25:52,773
of the Constitution to place
the Chief Justice in the chair
1443
01:25:52,940 --> 01:25:54,220
in order to insure a fair trial.
1444
01:25:54,316 --> 01:25:56,610
Under the Constitution,
this trial cannot proceed
1445
01:25:56,777 --> 01:25:58,337
without the Chief Justice in the chair.
1446
01:26:00,781 --> 01:26:03,409
Of course, a way out of
the difficulty might be found
1447
01:26:03,909 --> 01:26:06,328
if the galleries would
cease these interruptions.
1448
01:26:16,380 --> 01:26:18,340
Now that order has been restored,
1449
01:26:18,632 --> 01:26:20,342
the President will proceed.
1450
01:26:26,473 --> 01:26:28,267
Mr. Chief Justice.
1451
01:26:33,564 --> 01:26:35,858
If, as has been charged,
1452
01:26:37,109 --> 01:26:39,778
I have sometimes not been mindful enough
1453
01:26:39,945 --> 01:26:42,281
of the dignity of my office,
1454
01:26:43,741 --> 01:26:46,076
I am certainly mindful of it now.
1455
01:26:48,412 --> 01:26:50,915
I kept away from my own trial...
1456
01:26:52,583 --> 01:26:54,919
following the best advice I know of...
1457
01:26:56,795 --> 01:26:59,048
to avoid the sort of rough-and-tumble
1458
01:26:59,215 --> 01:27:02,051
that would heat up not only this body
1459
01:27:02,885 --> 01:27:07,431
but the whole country to a fever point
1460
01:27:07,598 --> 01:27:11,727
where riot and bloodshed
might have swept our people.
1461
01:27:16,273 --> 01:27:18,817
I am charged with the high crime
1462
01:27:20,402 --> 01:27:21,862
or is it a misdemeanor?
1463
01:27:22,780 --> 01:27:28,494
Of making speeches in a state of
mingled intoxication and rage.
1464
01:27:29,036 --> 01:27:30,746
You were drunk inauguration day!
1465
01:27:31,121 --> 01:27:32,122
You know you were!
1466
01:27:32,289 --> 01:27:34,009
The attendants will remove the interrupter!
1467
01:27:34,124 --> 01:27:36,085
Please, Mr. Chief Justice,
1468
01:27:36,252 --> 01:27:39,171
I... I want that man to hear my answer.
1469
01:27:39,588 --> 01:27:40,588
Very well.
1470
01:27:42,841 --> 01:27:44,593
I have a letter in my pocket.
1471
01:27:46,178 --> 01:27:48,118
I didn't bring it down here
to read to the Senate.
1472
01:27:48,138 --> 01:27:51,850
I have it with me because
I always carry it.
1473
01:27:53,102 --> 01:27:55,104
It's my most precious possession.
1474
01:27:56,689 --> 01:27:59,984
I shall now read
a few lines from this letter
1475
01:28:00,901 --> 01:28:04,280
as my only reference
now or ever to what my...
1476
01:28:05,614 --> 01:28:07,866
my friend in the gallery has touched upon.
1477
01:28:10,369 --> 01:28:12,413
"You ornery old galoot,
1478
01:28:14,164 --> 01:28:16,709
if only you took a drink now and then,
1479
01:28:17,751 --> 01:28:20,504
you would know enough about liquor
not to fire yourself up
1480
01:28:20,671 --> 01:28:23,382
with brandy on an empty stomach
when you're sick.
1481
01:28:24,967 --> 01:28:27,511
I know you only went through
the ceremony for me
1482
01:28:27,678 --> 01:28:29,138
because I asked you to.
1483
01:28:30,514 --> 01:28:32,516
Don't worry at what they say.
1484
01:28:33,684 --> 01:28:36,270
In hitting at you they are hitting at me
1485
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:38,564
and I don't mind."
1486
01:28:40,357 --> 01:28:42,860
This letter is dated from the White House
1487
01:28:43,861 --> 01:28:46,739
March the fifth, 1865.
1488
01:28:51,368 --> 01:28:53,078
I just heard that the Senate
1489
01:28:53,662 --> 01:28:56,582
had refused to hear
the evidence of my cabinet.
1490
01:28:58,292 --> 01:29:02,338
Gentlemen, prepare to prove
that my removal of a cabinet member
1491
01:29:03,380 --> 01:29:06,800
was solely intended
to test the Constitutionality
1492
01:29:07,509 --> 01:29:10,637
of the Tenure of Office Act
before the Supreme Court.
1493
01:29:12,848 --> 01:29:17,394
So... I won't deny that
I was a little hot under the collar
1494
01:29:17,561 --> 01:29:18,812
when I left the White House.
1495
01:29:19,855 --> 01:29:22,941
But the ride down
Pennsylvania Avenue cooled me off.
1496
01:29:24,860 --> 01:29:26,278
And I came to realize
1497
01:29:27,529 --> 01:29:29,990
that the crime
for which I am being tried here
1498
01:29:31,825 --> 01:29:33,994
is not contained in the flimsy charges
1499
01:29:34,161 --> 01:29:36,580
trumped up in the articles of impeachment.
1500
01:29:38,540 --> 01:29:41,251
It appears to have been
one of misunderstanding.
1501
01:29:43,212 --> 01:29:45,672
I thought the war had ended.
1502
01:29:47,091 --> 01:29:50,677
It seemed so,
no enemy confronted us on any field.
1503
01:29:51,804 --> 01:29:55,516
The hand of friendship was stretched out,
and I clasped it.
1504
01:29:57,601 --> 01:29:59,311
Is forgiveness a crime?
1505
01:30:00,896 --> 01:30:03,607
My enemies think so.
They're not willing to forgive.
1506
01:30:05,109 --> 01:30:07,820
For, senators, in this crowded chamber
1507
01:30:08,987 --> 01:30:11,907
there still stand 20 empty desks.
1508
01:30:13,867 --> 01:30:15,911
Why are those desks empty?
1509
01:30:17,371 --> 01:30:20,207
Where are the senators
who should be sitting at them?
1510
01:30:21,083 --> 01:30:23,710
They have been lawfully elected,
but they're not here.
1511
01:30:25,546 --> 01:30:26,546
Why?
1512
01:30:30,467 --> 01:30:33,053
The man most responsible
1513
01:30:33,220 --> 01:30:35,889
for the fact that we are still at war
1514
01:30:37,641 --> 01:30:39,518
although the guns are silent...
1515
01:30:41,311 --> 01:30:42,813
sits there at that table.
1516
01:30:44,648 --> 01:30:47,776
I wish to say that he is a sincere man.
1517
01:30:49,069 --> 01:30:51,113
It is his honest belief
1518
01:30:51,655 --> 01:30:54,450
that by pardoning the Confederate leaders,
1519
01:30:55,117 --> 01:30:57,578
I made inevitable another Civil War.
1520
01:30:59,705 --> 01:31:05,002
He hates the South
with such consuming passion
1521
01:31:06,253 --> 01:31:09,756
that he thinks, as he has said,
1522
01:31:09,923 --> 01:31:13,218
that it must be kept
in subjugation and slavery
1523
01:31:13,385 --> 01:31:15,179
for the next 100 years.
1524
01:31:17,306 --> 01:31:21,977
If I am removed from office,
the new President,
1525
01:31:22,144 --> 01:31:24,688
who shares the sentiments of Mr. Stevens,
1526
01:31:25,898 --> 01:31:27,024
will set up a junta
1527
01:31:27,191 --> 01:31:29,985
that will be no government
of United States,
1528
01:31:30,986 --> 01:31:33,739
but a self-perpetuating, corrupt tyranny
1529
01:31:33,906 --> 01:31:38,118
based upon bayonets, confiscation,
and disfranchisement.
1530
01:31:41,622 --> 01:31:45,542
Abraham Lincoln fought this war
to restore the Union.
1531
01:31:46,627 --> 01:31:48,545
Long ago, the fighting stopped.
1532
01:31:51,048 --> 01:31:53,675
But while those desks remain empty,
1533
01:31:54,343 --> 01:31:55,677
there is no Union.
1534
01:31:58,013 --> 01:32:01,016
Senators, while we were
fighting one another,
1535
01:32:01,934 --> 01:32:03,435
a European tyrant,
1536
01:32:04,102 --> 01:32:06,688
master of the strongest army in the world,
1537
01:32:07,397 --> 01:32:09,733
seized our sister Republic of Mexico.
1538
01:32:11,735 --> 01:32:13,570
If we continue a divided nation,
1539
01:32:13,737 --> 01:32:17,866
the day will come when still
stronger armies and fleets from overseas
1540
01:32:18,408 --> 01:32:22,538
will conquer and enslave not only
our central and south American brethren,
1541
01:32:22,829 --> 01:32:24,456
but ourselves as well.
1542
01:32:30,212 --> 01:32:31,797
As our forefathers knew,
1543
01:32:32,256 --> 01:32:34,550
united we stand, divided we fall.
1544
01:32:37,010 --> 01:32:40,931
Senators, the issue before you
and before the whole country
1545
01:32:41,723 --> 01:32:43,725
is not my fate as an individual.
1546
01:32:45,227 --> 01:32:48,897
It is the issue of union or disunion
1547
01:32:50,607 --> 01:32:52,693
and upon its solution depends,
1548
01:32:53,652 --> 01:32:55,862
for our descendants if not ourselves,
1549
01:32:56,780 --> 01:32:59,074
this nation's survival
1550
01:33:00,409 --> 01:33:01,868
or its destruction.
1551
01:33:05,330 --> 01:33:07,541
The event is in the hands of God.
1552
01:33:27,352 --> 01:33:29,605
Order must be maintained in the galleries.
1553
01:33:30,522 --> 01:33:31,982
The clerk will now call the roll.
1554
01:33:32,149 --> 01:33:33,149
Mr. Albert.
1555
01:33:33,692 --> 01:33:35,736
Mr. Senator Albert, how say you?
1556
01:33:36,403 --> 01:33:39,823
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1557
01:33:39,990 --> 01:33:42,367
guilty or not guilty?
1558
01:33:43,368 --> 01:33:44,368
Guilty.
1559
01:33:49,207 --> 01:33:51,126
- What goes on?
- It's Huyler. He's fainted.
1560
01:33:51,710 --> 01:33:54,254
Go get a doctor! We can't do without him!
1561
01:33:55,213 --> 01:33:56,213
Mr. Arnold.
1562
01:33:56,632 --> 01:33:58,675
Mr. Senator Arnold, how say you?
1563
01:33:59,509 --> 01:34:02,846
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1564
01:34:03,013 --> 01:34:05,057
guilty or not guilty?
1565
01:34:05,474 --> 01:34:06,516
Not guilty.
1566
01:34:12,856 --> 01:34:13,856
Mr. President.
1567
01:34:21,114 --> 01:34:22,574
Andrew, Andrew.
1568
01:34:25,118 --> 01:34:26,828
Oh, Andrew.
1569
01:34:28,246 --> 01:34:29,456
As my husband,
1570
01:34:30,207 --> 01:34:32,417
you've always held my love and respect,
1571
01:34:32,584 --> 01:34:36,380
but today you really stand forth for me,
1572
01:34:36,880 --> 01:34:39,132
the President of the United States.
1573
01:34:40,550 --> 01:34:43,637
Well, Eliza, I'm--I'm glad
to hear you say that
1574
01:34:43,804 --> 01:34:45,806
since I'm not likely to hold this job
1575
01:34:45,972 --> 01:34:47,974
for more than a couple of minutes longer.
1576
01:34:48,642 --> 01:34:51,186
Well, if that should be true,
1577
01:34:52,229 --> 01:34:54,856
nothing... nothing in your presidency
1578
01:34:55,023 --> 01:34:58,694
has become you so much
as... as your leaving it.
1579
01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:03,990
Then this means, if you can vote Huyler--
1580
01:35:04,157 --> 01:35:05,200
We'll vote him.
1581
01:35:05,534 --> 01:35:07,619
We're gonna carry him in, drag him in.
1582
01:35:07,869 --> 01:35:09,371
- The voting's nearly over.
- Come on.
1583
01:35:09,538 --> 01:35:11,748
Man, even with Huyler,
the whole thing turns on me.
1584
01:35:12,082 --> 01:35:14,231
Just think what it means,
asking me to make myself President
1585
01:35:14,251 --> 01:35:16,545
with my own single vote,
judge in my own cause.
1586
01:35:16,712 --> 01:35:18,630
Stevens isn't asking you. He's telling you.
1587
01:35:18,964 --> 01:35:20,862
But he agreed the dignified
thing was for me to sit there
1588
01:35:20,882 --> 01:35:22,781
and just answer "present"
when they called my name.
1589
01:35:22,801 --> 01:35:25,137
He told you that when he thought
we could win without you.
1590
01:35:25,554 --> 01:35:27,661
What will the country say
if the case turns on my vote?
1591
01:35:27,681 --> 01:35:28,682
What will history say?
1592
01:35:30,851 --> 01:35:32,936
Mr. Senator Vincent,
how say you? Is the r--
1593
01:35:33,103 --> 01:35:34,396
- Guilty.
- Senator Vincent,
1594
01:35:34,563 --> 01:35:36,064
is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
1595
01:35:36,231 --> 01:35:38,692
President of the United States,
guilty or not guilty?
1596
01:35:38,859 --> 01:35:39,859
Guilty.
1597
01:35:40,652 --> 01:35:42,362
Mr. Waters.
1598
01:35:44,573 --> 01:35:46,241
Mr. Senator Waters, how say you?
1599
01:35:46,992 --> 01:35:49,786
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1600
01:35:49,953 --> 01:35:51,163
guilty or not guilty?
1601
01:35:55,208 --> 01:35:55,876
Guilty.
1602
01:35:56,042 --> 01:35:58,170
Good old Jim.
1603
01:35:58,545 --> 01:36:00,046
We're still one short.
1604
01:36:00,797 --> 01:36:02,883
Well, Huyler can still vote if he gets here
1605
01:36:03,049 --> 01:36:04,593
before the acquittal's announced.
1606
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:06,360
- He's unconscious.
- Well, bring him to.
1607
01:36:06,428 --> 01:36:09,014
- I can't--
- We mustn't lose the country by one vote.
1608
01:36:17,522 --> 01:36:18,940
I think we're safe.
1609
01:36:19,107 --> 01:36:20,667
- I must go and tell him.
- Not so fast.
1610
01:36:20,692 --> 01:36:22,332
The formalities will take another minute.
1611
01:36:22,444 --> 01:36:25,071
We might still lose
if they get Huyler in here to vote.
1612
01:36:27,324 --> 01:36:30,410
Upon the roll call, 53 votes were cast
1613
01:36:30,911 --> 01:36:33,163
and one senator did not answer to his name.
1614
01:36:33,872 --> 01:36:36,041
Under the Constitution, the vote...
1615
01:36:36,208 --> 01:36:37,209
Huyler just came to.
1616
01:36:37,375 --> 01:36:38,535
They're dragging him in here.
1617
01:36:38,794 --> 01:36:41,379
Well, hurry up, I'll keep the Chief Justice
1618
01:36:41,546 --> 01:36:42,923
from finishing the announcement.
1619
01:36:43,089 --> 01:36:44,209
...necessary for conviction.
1620
01:36:46,718 --> 01:36:50,931
Mr. Chief Justice, in the name
of the House of Representatives
1621
01:36:51,097 --> 01:36:54,017
and of the people
of the United States, I protest!
1622
01:36:54,476 --> 01:36:56,311
Senator Huyler has publicly announced
1623
01:36:56,478 --> 01:36:57,598
he was going to vote guilty!
1624
01:36:57,771 --> 01:37:00,440
The manager is out of order.
1625
01:37:00,941 --> 01:37:02,484
Senator Huyler must vote.
1626
01:37:02,692 --> 01:37:04,945
His vote is necessary to save the country.
1627
01:37:06,279 --> 01:37:08,490
Would you throw the nation into chaos
1628
01:37:08,657 --> 01:37:11,409
and start a new Civil War
on a point of order?
1629
01:37:12,744 --> 01:37:15,872
Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1630
01:37:16,373 --> 01:37:19,000
has been adjudged guilty by 35 senators.
1631
01:37:19,209 --> 01:37:23,213
If this outrage
is consummated on this floor,
1632
01:37:23,380 --> 01:37:26,633
guns and knives will be brought into play
within the hour...
1633
01:37:27,259 --> 01:37:28,760
on every street corner,
1634
01:37:29,135 --> 01:37:32,889
in every city, town,
and hamlet in the United States!
1635
01:37:33,974 --> 01:37:35,684
You stand in most gross contempt, sir!
1636
01:37:36,268 --> 01:37:37,811
Remove Mr. Stevens from the floor.
1637
01:37:38,645 --> 01:37:41,147
Why, Senator Huyler's vote
should be counted, anyhow.
1638
01:37:41,648 --> 01:37:44,067
Everyone knows
it was pledged against Johnson.
1639
01:37:44,526 --> 01:37:46,653
A new Civil War,
that's what you're starting,
1640
01:37:46,820 --> 01:37:48,196
a new Civil War.
1641
01:37:48,488 --> 01:37:50,824
This is
the most gross miscarriage of justice
1642
01:37:50,991 --> 01:37:52,033
in human history.
1643
01:37:52,784 --> 01:37:55,287
If the Chief Justice pronounces those words
1644
01:37:55,453 --> 01:37:57,664
that are even now trembling on his tongue,
1645
01:37:57,956 --> 01:38:00,083
the only hope for the salvation of this--
1646
01:38:02,627 --> 01:38:03,627
Here's Huyler!
1647
01:38:16,600 --> 01:38:18,810
- There you are, Huyler.
- Good old boy.
1648
01:38:18,977 --> 01:38:20,270
I knew we could count on you.
1649
01:38:21,438 --> 01:38:23,044
Mr. Chief Justice,
the roll call was completed.
1650
01:38:23,064 --> 01:38:24,816
The President stands acquitted by one vote.
1651
01:38:25,233 --> 01:38:27,944
Mr. Chief Justice, under the rules,
1652
01:38:28,111 --> 01:38:29,905
any senator who appears on the floor
1653
01:38:30,071 --> 01:38:32,115
before the result has been announced
1654
01:38:32,490 --> 01:38:34,159
has the right to vote!
1655
01:38:41,583 --> 01:38:43,543
The chair had not completed
the announcement.
1656
01:38:44,544 --> 01:38:46,254
The clerk will call Senator Huyler's name.
1657
01:38:46,588 --> 01:38:48,173
Mr. Huyler.
1658
01:38:51,635 --> 01:38:53,136
Mr. Senator Huyler, how say you?
1659
01:38:53,845 --> 01:38:56,806
Is the respondent, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States,
1660
01:38:56,973 --> 01:38:58,767
guilty or not guilty?
1661
01:39:02,354 --> 01:39:04,105
The senator need not rise.
1662
01:39:06,858 --> 01:39:07,858
My...
1663
01:39:11,071 --> 01:39:13,573
my vote is pledged.
1664
01:39:27,337 --> 01:39:28,337
I say...
1665
01:39:30,382 --> 01:39:31,758
not guilty.
1666
01:39:53,279 --> 01:39:54,364
You're acquitted, sir.
1667
01:39:54,739 --> 01:39:56,199
Andrew! Andrew!
1668
01:39:56,366 --> 01:39:57,701
Thirty-five to 19.
1669
01:39:58,326 --> 01:39:59,452
Senator Huyler's vote.
1670
01:39:59,744 --> 01:40:00,829
- Andy!
- Mr. President.
1671
01:40:00,996 --> 01:40:02,622
- Andy.
- One vote!
1672
01:40:02,789 --> 01:40:05,250
Mr. President, congratulations!
1673
01:40:05,417 --> 01:40:09,379
- Thirty-five to 19!
- Huyler decided it.
1674
01:40:09,963 --> 01:40:11,563
You should have seen Thad Stevens' face!
1675
01:40:17,012 --> 01:40:18,847
On behalf of President Grant,
1676
01:40:19,264 --> 01:40:21,474
of the Senate, and of the entire nation,
1677
01:40:21,641 --> 01:40:24,853
the chair extends welcome
to the new senator elect.
1678
01:41:08,396 --> 01:41:11,024
Before the gentleman from Tennessee
is escorted to the bar
1679
01:41:11,191 --> 01:41:12,525
to take the oath of office,
1680
01:41:12,984 --> 01:41:14,944
the Senate would welcome a few remarks
1681
01:41:15,361 --> 01:41:17,322
from the only former President
1682
01:41:17,489 --> 01:41:21,367
to be elected a member of this body
after he left the White House.
1683
01:41:22,827 --> 01:41:23,953
Mr. President.
1684
01:41:27,248 --> 01:41:28,291
Senators.
1685
01:41:31,211 --> 01:41:35,465
My... my fellow Americans.
1686
01:41:38,843 --> 01:41:41,805
When I last occupied this...
1687
01:41:43,056 --> 01:41:45,391
this seat in 1861,
1688
01:41:47,185 --> 01:41:49,771
I was surrounded by empty desks.
1689
01:41:52,607 --> 01:41:55,860
Now I... I see that
they are no longer vacant.
1690
01:41:57,570 --> 01:42:03,868
Virginia and the Carolinas,
Alabama, Louisiana,
1691
01:42:04,035 --> 01:42:08,289
and... Texas, Mississippi,
1692
01:42:09,582 --> 01:42:14,379
Florida, Arkansas, and Georgia.
1693
01:42:17,215 --> 01:42:20,635
You are all back in the fold...
1694
01:42:22,137 --> 01:42:25,640
as Tennessee stands here in your midst.
1695
01:42:30,145 --> 01:42:31,145
I...
1696
01:42:32,981 --> 01:42:36,025
I see as I greet you
who sit here about me...
1697
01:42:38,528 --> 01:42:41,197
that what Lincoln fought for...
1698
01:42:44,075 --> 01:42:48,204
lived for, and... and died for
1699
01:42:48,371 --> 01:42:50,832
at long last, has come to pass.
1700
01:42:52,584 --> 01:42:54,836
The union of these states.
1701
01:42:56,880 --> 01:43:00,175
One and inseparable.
1702
01:43:03,803 --> 01:43:04,971
Now and forever.128627
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