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00:06:45There is the ugliest, laziest, smartest man in New Salem, ain't ya?
00:06:49Well, I don't mind my face, I'm behind it. It's the people in front that get judged.
00:06:53But you're George.
00:06:55Heh heh heh heh heh.
00:06:56What's any man of shoe leather?
00:06:58That ain't the hobby stand.
00:07:00Oh, if it does the bragging, I do the running.
00:07:02You better dust off them shoes, that stranger,
00:07:05cause you ain't here for long.
00:07:06Well, I was aiming to settle here awhile.
00:07:08This ain't no peaceable town.
00:07:10Well, I'm a peaceable man.
00:07:11Wait till Jack Armstrong gets hold of you.
00:07:13He'll throw you out that door like you was a sack of meal.
00:07:17Big fella?
00:07:17No bigger than you.
00:07:19But he's champion of this country.
00:07:21He ain't never been late.
00:07:23And when he sees you, folks can't eat and spit
00:07:25without his say-so.
00:07:28Took me out of that door, you say?
00:07:30Like a sack of meal.
00:07:33Well, that's a pretty long church for a peaceful man.
00:07:38Barbie!
00:07:39No, Armstrong!
00:07:40Can't you leave us be?
00:07:42You just busted up over in Stimson's place
00:07:44and scattered his new collect all over the county.
00:07:46Man, don't you ever rest.
00:07:48Barbie!
00:07:50That yellow-livered baboon from Indiana.
00:07:54I come from Indiana, but not that part.
00:07:57Well, get out!
00:07:59Let's see what bones I wants to crack first.
00:08:10Get a good hold of him, Jack!
00:08:12Get your neck broke!
00:08:13Get a good hold of him!
00:08:14This is the easiest rack you ever had!
00:08:16Watch your head!
00:08:17Go to him, Jack!
00:08:18Stay by him, Jack!
00:08:21Come on, get him!
00:08:52Watch him, Jack.
00:08:53Kill him.
00:08:54Come on.
00:08:54Kill him.
00:08:55That's a boy.
00:08:55That's a boy.
00:08:56That's a boy.
00:08:56Jack.
00:08:57Kill him.
00:08:57Kill him.
00:08:58Kill him.
00:08:58Kill him.
00:08:59Kill him.
00:08:59Kill him.
00:09:00Kill him.
00:09:00Kill him.
00:09:01Kill him.
00:09:01Now, come on over here.
00:09:02I'm the big buck of this, Nick.
00:09:04Yeah, you are, eh?
00:09:05Take him.
00:09:07Come on, boys.
00:09:08Take him, Bob.
00:09:09He's worth me, sir.
00:09:12What's your name?
00:09:14Lincoln.
00:09:15Abraham Lincoln.
00:09:17Well, Nick, we're going to make you one of us.
00:09:20Come on, boys.
00:09:21I'll set him up.
00:09:22You're both tired.
00:09:23Come on.
00:09:23I know.
00:09:24I can't believe it.
00:09:25I can't believe it.
00:09:26I can't believe it.
00:09:27I'm lifting him up.
00:09:28I can't stand it.
00:09:29I can't stand it.
00:09:30Get the boys a drink.
00:09:32You said he was a peaceful man.
00:09:34He's been peaceful like a wild cat.
00:09:36Yeah, that's what he thought.
00:09:38Looks like good corn liquor, eh?
00:09:40That is corn liquor.
00:09:44Come on, Abe.
00:09:45Why is yours?
00:09:46No, I don't care much for it.
00:09:47Oh, come on.
00:09:48Have a drink, Abe.
00:09:51Well, I'll drink if you take it like I do.
00:09:53How's that?
00:09:55Lift up the barrel and drink it out of the bong.
00:09:57Ain't no man living can do that.
00:09:59Well, I'll show you, boys.
00:10:01I don't believe it.
00:10:02You can't.
00:10:03Maybe you can.
00:10:04Try it anyway.
00:10:21Oh, Abe.
00:10:22Abe, stop.
00:10:23Don't stand him sitting there.
00:10:25I told you he was a strong man.
00:10:27I've seen him before.
00:10:28I've seen him.
00:10:29He changed.
00:10:30I told you.
00:10:32I told you he couldn't beat anybody.
00:10:33Aren't you drinking?
00:10:34No.
00:10:35Teetotal?
00:10:36No.
00:10:37The former?
00:10:39No, I don't regulate.
00:10:41Nobody's drinking.
00:10:43Just more.
00:10:44No, I can't do it.
00:10:46Don't do that.
00:10:50In this sense, the term law includes any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution,
00:11:06rule, etc.
00:11:09Well, my old daddy taught me how to work, but he never taught me how to like it.
00:11:25Reckon I'd better keep on with the lesson.
00:11:31I'd rather keep on with something else.
00:11:34You made a bad bargain making me the professor.
00:11:39Well, he told me about that, too.
00:11:42He said if you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
00:11:48But he didn't mean this kind of a bargain.
00:11:52Well, don't you like it, Ann, when I hold you tight?
00:12:00I guess every girl sort of likes that.
00:12:05Now, Abe, what is law?
00:12:10Well, professor, law is a rule of human conduct governing the...
00:12:17Whoa!
00:12:20Abe, I ain't paying you no 40 cents a day to spark a pretty gal.
00:12:25Well, Uncle Jimmy, don't charge nothing extra for it.
00:12:28Just throw it in.
00:12:33I'm expecting a sight of rails out of you.
00:12:36He's the best rail splitter in the country.
00:12:39He'll be more than a rail splitter.
00:12:42How old are you, Uncle Jimmy?
00:12:45Nearly 40.
00:12:47I'll get you out 40 more rails than you expected.
00:12:54Maybe you'd better make it nearer to 70.
00:13:07Now, Abe, your professor needs a seat where there's more law and less temptation.
00:13:17Oh, Abe!
00:13:22Are you all right, Ann?
00:13:25Oh, I think so.
00:13:26Are you hurt?
00:13:27My legs are still on me.
00:13:31It scared me worse than it did you.
00:13:34Did it, Abe?
00:13:37You know, Ann, if anything happened to you, I don't think I could live.
00:13:44Funny, Abe.
00:13:45I feel the same about you.
00:13:49You taught me how to love.
00:13:52Have I taught you to like it?
00:13:55Have I taught you to like it?
00:14:25It's awful nice this time of day.
00:14:39Yes, Abe.
00:14:40Can I tell you a story, Ann?
00:14:43Why, of course, Abe.
00:14:45Well, there was a town in Illinois called, uh...
00:14:49Called, uh...
00:14:50New Salem?
00:14:51Yeah, that's it.
00:14:53And in that town lived the prettiest girl in the world.
00:14:57What was her name?
00:14:58Ann Rutledge.
00:15:00Oh, Abe.
00:15:04What I'd like to find out about that girl is, did she, uh...
00:15:07Did she ever take a little time off to think about, uh, getting married?
00:15:12Well, maybe.
00:15:14Because there's a named Lincoln hanging around that's a pretty good catch.
00:15:17What's he like?
00:15:19Oh, he's a big merchant, owner of three stores, all bankrupt.
00:15:24Well, is he handsome?
00:15:27Well, his pa said that Abe had been cut out with an axe.
00:15:32Politician, too, I hear.
00:15:35Yes, he's got less property and owes more debts than anybody ever run for the legislature.
00:15:40Oh, Abe, now you'll do all right when you get started.
00:15:48Well, there's something I'd like to start right now if I thought I could finish it.
00:15:54You know, Ann, I...
00:15:56I've always done a lot of dreaming.
00:15:59And lately it seems when I dream, your face gets mixed up in it.
00:16:06Does it really, Abe?
00:16:10Tell me about the mixing.
00:16:12Well, I...
00:16:14I feel as though I'm going to be seeing your face till the day I die.
00:16:22Of course, I know that that'll be pretty hard for you to have to look at my face that long.
00:16:27Everybody to their own opinion.
00:16:32Meaning?
00:16:35I think it's the dearest, kindest, most beautiful face in the whole world.
00:16:42Oh, Ann.
00:16:45Ann.
00:16:50Of course, I know that's just flattery, but I love it.
00:16:55You know, I feel like little Jimmy Watkins.
00:16:58He got a hunk of gingerbread the other day and says,
00:17:00I guess there's nobody who loves gingerbread like I does.
00:17:06Gets so little of it.
00:17:08Oh, Abe.
00:17:12Ann, will you...
00:17:14Will you marry me?
00:17:17I mean, of course, when I get out of debt and can support you.
00:17:22Well, you know, Abe, I've intended to for a long while.
00:17:29That is, of course, if you ask me.
00:17:34You...
00:17:36You mean?
00:17:38Yes, Abe.
00:17:40You've got your gingerbread.
00:17:45Oh, Ann.
00:17:53Oh.
00:18:18Pretty bad.
00:18:22He's been asking for you, Abe.
00:18:24I came as soon as I could.
00:18:27I had the fever pretty bad myself.
00:18:36I've got to tell you the truth, Abe.
00:18:40It's hopeless.
00:18:43Perhaps by tomorrow.
00:18:46No longer, Abe.
00:18:53I'm so glad you came, Abe.
00:18:58Are you all right now?
00:19:01No, don't bother.
00:19:03I'm fine.
00:19:05I'm fine.
00:19:07I'm fine.
00:19:09I'm fine.
00:19:11I'm fine.
00:19:13I'm fine.
00:19:15I'm fine.
00:19:17I'm fine.
00:19:19I'm fine.
00:19:21Now, don't bother about me, dear.
00:19:23I'm all right now.
00:19:26I know the truth, dear.
00:19:30It's goodbye.
00:19:33No, no, Ann, dear.
00:19:35You're not going to leave me.
00:19:37I won't let you.
00:19:39We must be brave, dear.
00:19:46Don't take me away.
00:19:49Don't take me away.
00:19:52It's so dark and lonesome going.
00:19:57Ann, you mustn't let go.
00:20:02If they'd sing, I wouldn't be so afraid.
00:20:09In the sweet quiet dark
00:20:16We shall meet on that beautiful shore
00:20:22We will meet there, dear.
00:20:26Oh, I love you so.
00:20:29I love you so.
00:20:33I love you so.
00:20:37I love you so.
00:20:44I love you so.
00:20:52I love you so.
00:21:04Are you feeling any better, Bolton?
00:21:10No, not much.
00:21:12I'll tell you, doctor.
00:21:14He's just like a sick child.
00:21:16He was lost for five days before we found him.
00:21:18Yeah, I know.
00:21:20We took his pocket knife away from him.
00:21:22We were so afraid something might happen.
00:21:26Well, good gracious, Abe, you're looking better.
00:21:34No use trying to talk to him.
00:21:36He just can't answer.
00:22:04We could only think of something that would just bring him back.
00:22:10I guess time's the only thing.
00:22:15Why?
00:22:17Why should the spirit of the mortal be proud?
00:22:21Like a swift, fleeting meteor, fast fly to the crowd.
00:22:27Flash of the lightning, break of the wave.
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00:34:19There must be no issue of slavery.
00:34:39We must face the fact.
00:34:47We must run Mr. Lincoln out of this campaign.
00:34:57I will not so much.
00:35:07We will not allow the extension of slavery to any state.
00:35:35We will not allow the secession of any state.
00:35:43Above all, and before all, the Union must be preserved.
00:35:55A house divided against itself must fall.
00:36:25Mary.
00:36:39Come home Mary.
00:36:49You must be tired Mr. Lincoln.
00:36:59Sit down.
00:37:09You just sit right here.
00:37:19I'll get your supper for you in a minute.
00:37:29Billy, I feel like a little boy that stubbed his toe, hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big to cry.
00:37:38I'm 50 years old Billy, failure and everything.
00:37:42I've died today and nobody would ever know I've lived.
00:37:46Come in.
00:37:52Mr. Lincoln, I want you to meet Mr. Fell.
00:37:55One of the most important men in Eastern politics.
00:37:59I'm pleased to meet you Mr. Fell.
00:38:01I'm honored indeed Mr. Lincoln.
00:38:02Meet my partner Mr. Herndon.
00:38:03How do you do Mr. Herndon?
00:38:04Happy to meet you sir.
00:38:06You sit down gentlemen.
00:38:07Thank you.
00:38:08Mr. Lincoln, your campaign against Douglas has made you a national figure.
00:38:13I am here to ask you if you will consider being the Republican Party's candidate for the presidency.
00:38:26Did you say a failure and everything?
00:38:33Here's a telegraph for you Mr. Fell.
00:38:34Thank you.
00:38:42Mr. Lincoln, you know ever since John Brown slaved, the South has been infuriated.
00:38:47The East on the verge of revolt.
00:38:49And now New York threatens to quit the Union.
00:38:51No, no, New York mustn't do that.
00:38:53They must keep the front door on the hinge.
00:38:55There can be no secession.
00:38:59The Union must be preserved.
00:39:02The crisis is at hand Mr. Lincoln and we believe you are the man.
00:39:11Well gentlemen, I feel deeply grateful.
00:39:17Paul, Ma says if you don't come on home you won't get no supper.
00:39:21See Mr. Fell, I have another crisis.
00:39:23The soup and the country are boiling over together.
00:39:26Ma's boiling too.
00:39:31It needs deep consideration.
00:39:34Well Mr. Lincoln, maybe we'll meet you at our hotel later.
00:39:40I'll be there within the hour.
00:39:42Thank you.
00:39:43Come on, come on.
00:40:04They've started it.
00:40:05This is going to mean war.
00:40:08John Brown and a gang of abolitionists have captured the army at Hoppers Ferry.
00:40:12They're arming the slaves to rise up and murder us all.
00:40:16They think it's all right.
00:40:18What do you do with York?
00:40:20What I do?
00:40:21I throw the dam.
00:40:23Now if they keep you here.
00:40:25They can't invade Virginia.
00:40:28Boys, go home and get your guns.
00:40:31What's all this talk about guns?
00:40:32This thing has gone far enough.
00:40:34We'll be murdered in our beds by our own slaves.
00:40:37Pardon me, ladies, while I find out about this desecration.
00:40:40John Brown, ladies.
00:40:42It's an outrage.
00:40:44Outrage isn't for words.
00:40:47I'll shoot on sight every abolitionist who dares defile the soil of old Virginia.
00:40:54Who's he?
00:40:55That's the actor, John Wilkes Boone.
00:40:57He can't act.
00:40:58The women don't know it.
00:40:59All right, men, get your guns and we'll meet at the square.
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00:41:37You minds now?
00:41:41Can't say much for her disposition.
00:41:43Hush.
00:41:44They can't hit you.
00:41:46They can't even carry a cross.
00:41:52Are you love this stupid looking one?
00:41:53Put that over there and.
00:41:54Idiot!
00:41:55Good heaven.
00:41:56Don't look at me like a duck in a thunder storm.
00:41:57Hurry.
00:41:58Hurry, will you?
00:41:59Put them in there.
00:42:00Oh, I never saw such a lot of incompetence.
00:42:01Say, you in the whiskey of that?
00:42:02I told you to put it in there.
00:42:05Oh, is it going to take forever?
00:42:09Thank heavens, that's the last.
00:42:12Imbecile.
00:42:14Well, Mary, we're here.
00:42:16Thanks to me. If it wasn't for my advice, you'd be out in Oregon chopping trees.
00:42:20Yes, you're always right, Mary.
00:42:28Well, I found out one thing, Abraham Lincoln.
00:42:31Servants here are no better than they are in Springfield.
00:42:35This place hasn't been cleaned in over a year.
00:42:41Why, Mr. President.
00:42:46Huh?
00:42:53Then we agree that the situation of our country is most ominous.
00:42:57Most alarming.
00:42:58Certainly.
00:42:59We agree that we must yield to the demands of the South.
00:43:03And evacuate for some time.
00:43:06Absolutely.
00:43:07It's the only solution.
00:43:09That must be done.
00:43:10We agree that our president must be firmly guided by us.
00:43:16We must make every effort to control his inexperienced judgment.
00:43:22We certainly must.
00:43:24Yes.
00:43:25Yes.
00:43:31Gentlemen.
00:43:32Mr. President.
00:43:33Mr. President.
00:43:34Good morning, Mr. President.
00:43:35Thank you.
00:43:55Thank you.
00:44:12Thank you, gentlemen.
00:44:15I will shoulder all responsibility.
00:44:19The relief shall go to Fort Sumter.
00:44:25That means war.
00:44:28Mr. Seward, I am a man of peace.
00:44:34But the union shall be preserved.
00:44:56What is this?
00:45:0275,000.
00:45:05It might be difficult to get that many volunteers.
00:45:25Thank you.
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00:48:22The country is discouraged.
00:48:29We must do something, Mr. President.
00:48:31Well, that reminds me of a story about a man building a boat to cross the river.
00:48:37He got impatient building the boat, and started swimming.
00:48:41Well, sir, what happened?
00:48:44He drowned.
00:48:46And gentlemen, we've got to be careful not to drown this country.
00:49:00Ready here? Ready here?
00:49:03One minute to general. Ready here? Ready here?
00:49:08Ready. Ready. I'm going out.
00:49:12Well, how did you make out?
00:49:14Make out? You darn near kissed me.
00:49:16Oh, secretary of war.
00:49:18Gee, boys, we're just licking the tar out of them all along the line.
00:49:21Who's next?
00:49:22I am. Gosh, I hope it's for the president.
00:49:24I'd like to see his face when he hears the good news.
00:49:27There he is.
00:49:28Right.
00:49:30Commentary.
00:49:31Hurray! General Scott, Mark Thomas.
00:49:35It's victory!
00:49:42Well, General Scott, what news?
00:49:44We're winning, sir. I am sure of it.
00:49:47Oh, I... I wish...
00:49:49Come in.
00:49:58Rebel resistance broken at full run.
00:50:01Our army sweeping everything before it.
00:50:04Mr. President, if we can capture Richmond now, it means the end of the war.
00:50:09Oh, thank God.
00:50:11And you, sir, this victory will silence your enemies forever.
00:50:17And you will be the greatest president in our history.
00:50:20Well, it... it doesn't matter what they think of me, General.
00:50:25We will have saved the Union.
00:50:27Yes.
00:50:28It doesn't matter what they think of me, General.
00:50:31We will have saved the Union.
00:50:33Yes.
00:50:36General, would you... would you mind letting me have that telegram?
00:50:39I'd like to show it to Mrs. Lincoln myself.
00:50:41Why, certainly not, Mr. President.
00:50:45And would you mind not calling me Mr. President?
00:50:49Just Lincoln.
00:50:51All right, Lincoln.
00:50:59Ready here? Headquarters.
00:51:02Sergeant, all messages to General Scott, hold.
00:51:05All messages to General Scott, hold.
00:51:07All messages to General Scott, hold.
00:51:09Commanding off.
00:51:15Ready?
00:51:16Ready here?
00:51:17What if I need a...
00:51:18Bad news?
00:51:19That's it. Give it to me.
00:51:21Bad news? That's it. Give it to me.
00:51:34Well, General, what news now?
00:51:38And the first report?
00:51:42Overconfidence.
00:51:46Yes, I... I should have known.
00:51:52Impossible to reform lines.
00:51:55The men are a confused mob, entirely demoralized.
00:52:00You must make every effort to save Washington.
00:52:22HALT!
00:52:261, 2, 3, 4...
00:52:291, 2, 3, 4...
00:52:311, 2, 3, 4...
00:52:35Battalion halt!
00:52:37Right turn!
00:52:39Right turn!
00:52:41Hey!
00:52:43Halt!
00:52:45Halt!
00:52:48Right turn!
00:52:50Right turn.
00:52:50Full right.
00:52:51Forward.
00:52:52Ho.
00:52:54Right turn.
00:52:55Full right.
00:52:57Forward.
00:52:58Full first.
00:52:59Forward ho.
00:53:02Right turn, in order, ho.
00:53:06Well, they're gathering.
00:53:34The reserves are gathering, sir.
00:53:35How many regulars can we muster?
00:53:37About 5,000.
00:53:38Volunteers?
00:53:39Doubtful, sir.
00:53:40Can we hold Washington?
00:53:41We'll do our best, sir.
00:53:42Mr. Hayes, is it true we have to get out of Washington?
00:53:53It is very serious, madam.
00:53:55For heaven's sakes, what sort of an army have we, anyhow?
00:53:57They did the best they could, Mrs. Lincoln.
00:53:59They might have considered us.
00:54:00It'll take forever to get those trunks packed.
00:54:03I'm sorry, madam, for all of us.
00:54:10Well, Miss Lincoln, I hear we're leaving.
00:54:13Just a moment, Mary, please.
00:54:16Well, after all the trouble we had getting here, I must say we had a very short stay.
00:54:24Mary, I've hung up my hat right here and here it stays till they knock it off with a bayonet.
00:54:30From now on, Mary, I'm going to run this war.
00:54:45Halt!
00:54:46Headquarters!
00:54:47Post number four!
00:54:50Post!
00:54:52Guard!
00:54:53Forward march!
00:55:00Counsel for the accused, have you anything further to say in defense of the prisoner?
00:55:04No, sir.
00:55:05The court finds you guilty.
00:55:08And the sentence?
00:55:10Death.
00:55:16Just a minute.
00:55:17The president.
00:55:18Head job.
00:55:19You must pardon me, gentlemen, for this intrusion.
00:55:23I overheard one of our soldiers sentenced to death.
00:55:26Yes, Mr. President.
00:55:28A bad example of cowardice and desertion.
00:55:32Well, young man, tell me about it.
00:55:39I'm sorry, Mr. President, but I can't.
00:55:42Well, young man, tell me about it.
00:55:49I think the findings of the court were just, sir...
00:55:53Is that all you have to say?
00:55:57Well, sir, it was our first big battle.
00:56:01We were trying to take a stone wall.
00:56:04We've been trying, it seems, for years.
00:56:06Go on.
00:56:08Finally, though, we got there.
00:56:12I was fighting.
00:56:14Bayonets.
00:56:16We were all crazy.
00:56:18On top of the wall?
00:56:20Yes.
00:56:22There was my boyhood chum looking up at me from the ground.
00:56:28No, no, sir.
00:56:29Not alive.
00:56:32We had killed him a long time ago.
00:56:34But I knew him.
00:56:37And then?
00:56:38I guess I went really crazy, sir.
00:56:44That's all.
00:56:45Your captain reports that you threw your rifle away.
00:56:48Yes, sir.
00:56:49That must be right, sir.
00:56:51Making excuses, Colton?
00:56:53Oh, no, sir, only...
00:56:55Oh, get it over with, quick!
00:57:01Hanging.
00:57:04Killing.
00:57:05Blood.
00:57:16I'm tired.
00:57:21My generals are right.
00:57:23We must maintain discipline.
00:57:25That's all.
00:57:30Wait a minute.
00:57:31Wait a minute.
00:57:33Bring that young man back.
00:57:39I have it.
00:57:41It's a leg case.
00:57:42I beg your pardon, sir?
00:57:44A leg case.
00:57:45Yes, yes, my shelves are full of them.
00:57:49But not quite like this one.
00:57:52If the Lord Almighty gives a man a cowardly pair of legs,
00:57:56and that man gets frightened,
00:57:58he can't help his legs running away with him, can he?
00:58:06Young man, I'm going to pardon you.
00:58:11Go back and do your duty.
00:58:14Oh, I will, sir.
00:58:16I will.
00:58:19I'm trusting you.
00:58:21I'm trusting you.
00:58:28Well, Senator?
00:58:31Mr. President,
00:58:33my state of New York is crying out against this endless slaughter.
00:58:37And mine, sir.
00:58:41We are holding services here today, sir,
00:58:44for those who were sacrificed,
00:58:47as they are everywhere.
00:58:49From the east to the west, sir.
00:58:51It can't go on, sir.
00:58:54New England,
00:58:56the west,
00:58:57the entire country,
00:58:59are in mourning for this useless waste of lives.
00:59:04Let the southern states go their way, Mr. President,
00:59:08and we will go ours.
00:59:09For I tell you, Mr. President...
00:59:11Out of the wilderness, out of the wilderness,
00:59:15out of the wilderness,
00:59:19out of the wilderness down in Illinois...
00:59:25Daddy,
00:59:26Mother won't let me stay out.
00:59:28She wants me to go to bed, and I don't want it.
00:59:31Now, don't you think it's time for little boys to be in bed, Tad?
00:59:34But I want to stay up with you.
00:59:36But your mother.
00:59:37If you say so, she can't make me.
00:59:40You're the president.
00:59:42Tad, I suppose you're the only person in the country
00:59:45who thinks I should have any authority.
00:59:52Run along.
00:59:53No, I want to stay with you.
00:59:56Please.
00:59:57Can't I, Daddy?
00:59:58No, we're very busy here now, Tad.
01:00:01Run along.
01:00:03All right, then.
01:00:08Good night, Tad.
01:00:09Good night.
01:00:10Sleep tight.
01:00:12Good night.
01:00:21Gentlemen, don't you suppose my heart bleeds
01:00:24for all the sorrows this war has brought upon us?
01:00:28Do you suppose there is a human being
01:00:30who wants peace more than I do?
01:00:34But we want lasting peace.
01:00:37And we can have that only by preserving the Union.
01:00:50And, gentlemen,
01:00:52the Union is going to be preserved.
01:00:55Working!
01:00:57Working!
01:00:59Working!
01:01:01Working!
01:01:03Working!
01:01:05All that lives are great!
01:01:13Freedom!
01:01:15Freedom!
01:01:17Freedom!
01:01:19Freedom!
01:01:21Freedom!
01:01:23Freedom!
01:01:25Freedom!
01:01:27Freedom's flying far, far away!
01:01:36Angels sang,
01:01:39and they walked around loose.
01:01:44It was trying,
01:01:47but it came to use.
01:01:51And we're fighting,
01:01:54fighting,
01:01:56fighting,
01:01:58fighting,
01:02:00fighting for that freedom day.
01:02:07Come on, now! Get along with it!
01:02:09Way up here!
01:02:10And by virtue of the power
01:02:12and for the purpose aforesaid,
01:02:15I do order and declare
01:02:17that all persons held as slaves
01:02:19within said designated states
01:02:21and parts of states
01:02:23are henceforward
01:02:25and forever shall be
01:02:27free.
01:02:30Well, gentlemen,
01:02:32it is done.
01:02:34Cease fire!
01:02:37Pa-cum-mer-ti-pse!
01:02:39Pa-cum-mer-ti-pse!
01:02:40Pa-cum-mer-ti-pse!
01:02:44Pa-cum-mer-ti-pse!
01:02:46Pa-cum-mer-ti-pse!
01:02:48Well, gentlemen, it is done.
01:03:17More bad news, eh?
01:03:19I'm afraid there is.
01:03:20Well, let's have it.
01:03:21The Secret Service reports that there are 600,000 copperheads in the north, under oath and armed.
01:03:26To get me?
01:03:27Yes.
01:03:28Well, that many ought to keep me dodging.
01:03:30We're taking every precaution to guard you.
01:03:34Where are they mostly?
01:03:36Ohio has 100,000 armed men ready to rise up and depose you.
01:03:40Illinois, 135,000.
01:03:42Illinois.
01:03:43My old stamping ground.
01:03:47That makes me feel badly.
01:03:51You mustn't tell Mary.
01:03:54But, Mr. President, we are worried about you.
01:03:57Don't mind me, eh?
01:03:59Go on to bed. You're tired.
01:04:13Mr. Lincoln, come on to bed.
01:04:31I'm worried, Mary.
01:04:33You can't be in this war worrying and walking around on your stocking feet.
01:04:38I can't sleep.
01:04:40Neither can I.
01:04:42At least we could sleep in Springfield, couldn't we?
01:04:47Did we ever sleep?
01:05:11Now stand still.
01:05:18I've got it, Mary.
01:05:22I found the man to win this war.
01:05:27And his name is Grant.
01:05:40Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. President.
01:05:42But smoking is one of my most persistent habits.
01:05:46And winning victories is another.
01:05:50Thank you.
01:05:54And you do believe in me, sir?
01:05:57I sent for you.
01:06:02General, the North is desperate.
01:06:07We need you.
01:06:16And should I assume command, there will be no interference?
01:06:20None. I promise you that.
01:06:24Grant, Lieutenant General is the highest Army command the President can bestow.
01:06:32We haven't had one since General Washington.
01:06:37He was a fair sort of a soldier, too.
01:06:41Lieutenant General Grant, my orders are win the war.
01:06:49I'll give my best, Mr. President.
01:06:52I know you will.
01:06:56Unfortunately, many of us have failed to recognize a great Confederate soldier.
01:07:03Lee.
01:07:06On the other hand, we have thus far failed to take advantage of a great Northern soldier.
01:07:13I hope I am not too late in correcting the error.
01:07:17Well, Mr. President, I think it only fair to warn you.
01:07:23Many people don't approve of me.
01:07:25Nor of me.
01:07:28But rest assured, there will be no interference.
01:07:35No intrusion.
01:07:38We are holding. Who locked the door?
01:07:42My wife.
01:07:45All right, Mary.
01:07:52For heaven's sake, where did all the smoke come from?
01:07:55Mary, meet General Grant. Mrs. Lincoln.
01:07:59A pleasure indeed to meet the First Lady of the land.
01:08:02Thank you.
01:08:04I want to talk to you, Mr. Lincoln.
01:08:05But Mary, you...
01:08:06I want to talk to you about discharging some of the servants in this house.
01:08:10Well, I don't see how anybody can talk in here with all this smoke.
01:08:15Why don't you open the window?
01:08:18I can't stand it.
01:08:20Pardon me, General.
01:08:22I'll have to talk to you later.
01:08:26Well, I'm very sorry about...
01:08:27There, there, General. No apologies.
01:08:31You've given me an idea.
01:08:34I may take up smoking myself.
01:08:40But to resume, General,
01:08:43we will give you all the help you need.
01:08:46Every man capable of bearing arms shall go.
01:08:50We've got to win this war.
01:08:54It is a duty we owe the South as well as the North.
01:08:59It's a big job, Mr. President.
01:09:02A big job.
01:09:04But they will be done.
01:09:11They will be done.
01:09:19We're in a tight place now.
01:09:21Yes, we generally are, Stanton.
01:09:23Everything depends upon Sheridan.
01:09:26He's a fighting Irishman.
01:09:28Then why doesn't he fight?
01:09:33One division, Sheridan's army, routed.
01:09:37Now trying to hold left flank.
01:09:42How the blood it takes to hold this union together.
01:09:47It will undo everything Grant has done.
01:09:51It's hopeless.
01:09:53I don't think so.
01:09:56Before each victory, I've had a vision of a ship
01:09:59with white sails.
01:10:02That vision has just come to me.
01:10:05With all respect, sir,
01:10:07I'd rather trade your ship for good news from Sheridan.
01:10:16Is that General Sheridan in there?
01:10:19Sure, it is General Sheridan.
01:10:30Doesn't that sound like cannon fire?
01:10:35I don't hear anything, sir.
01:11:00Hey, come here.
01:11:05Have you good ears?
01:11:07Pretty good when they're washed.
01:11:09Then try them.
01:11:11Do you hear anything like cannon fire?
01:11:18It's cannon all right.
01:11:20Over to the swamp.
01:11:22They may have caught General right by surprise.
01:11:24Mount those horses.
01:11:30All right, let's go.
01:11:38Sheridan's entire army has met an overwhelming defeat.
01:11:46Incredible.
01:11:49And no word from Sheridan.
01:11:52I'm afraid he was away.
01:11:56It means the defeat of all our plans.
01:12:00Yes, but we'll have to withdraw Grant from Richmond
01:12:04to protect Washington.
01:12:13Come on, boys.
01:12:15Come on.
01:12:25Come on.
01:12:55Come on.
01:13:25Come on.
01:13:48General, the right wing is in full retreat.
01:13:50It's possible to hold our position, sir.
01:13:53And hold at all costs.
01:13:55We're going back.
01:14:04We're going back.
01:14:06Let's go.
01:14:20All right, boys, let's go.
01:14:22Let's go.
01:14:37Let's go.
01:14:43Come on.
01:14:45Come on.
01:15:06Come on.
01:15:37Arrived in time to reform forces.
01:15:41Have struck the enemy
01:15:43and have won an overwhelming victory.
01:15:46Sheridan.
01:15:48I knew it.
01:15:50I knew it.
01:15:57Better and better.
01:15:59Look, here.
01:16:01Tremendous number of prisoners.
01:16:04Well, prisoners.
01:16:07Prisoners.
01:16:09Oh, I hope there's nothing but prisoners from now on.
01:16:18The ship.
01:16:20Stanton.
01:16:23Yes, Mr. President.
01:16:25And Sheridan.
01:16:34Let's go.
01:17:04Come on.
01:17:30Surrender.
01:17:32My poor army.
01:17:35I'd rather die a thousand deaths than do that to them.
01:17:39There, there, General.
01:17:41You must lie down and rest.
01:17:44Rest.
01:17:48That's a beautiful word.
01:18:02Rest.
01:18:29They've caught a spy
01:18:31and the order for his execution approved, sir.
01:18:51Colonel Marshall.
01:18:53Who was that?
01:18:55Only a courier, sir.
01:18:57What did he want?
01:18:58They've caught a spy.
01:18:59I approve the execution order, sir.
01:19:01Colonel.
01:19:03The only reason for shooting a spy
01:19:06is the protection of an army, isn't it?
01:19:08Yes, sir.
01:19:10Well.
01:19:13You and I know that this army can't exist much longer.
01:19:18Isn't that right?
01:19:21Yes, sir.
01:19:22That is why I am unwilling that there shall be a single life lost.
01:19:27Unnecessarily.
01:19:33Colonel.
01:19:34I wonder if you'd mind
01:19:36countermanding that order.
01:19:40I will, yes, sir.
01:19:57Thank you, sir.
01:20:20I drink?
01:20:23Not much.
01:20:27Thank you.
01:20:44Mr. President, we have them.
01:20:46It can only last a few days more.
01:20:50General Sherman and I are glad of this chance to talk with you.
01:20:54The Union.
01:20:56We've saved it at last.
01:20:58They must surrender soon.
01:21:01The Union.
01:21:03We'll have them all back.
01:21:06United, free.
01:21:08One country.
01:21:10And meanwhile, Mr. President,
01:21:13I've heard the country wishes all rebel property confiscated.
01:21:17And the rebel generals, such as Lee,
01:21:21shot for treason.
01:21:23He's put up a grand battle.
01:21:27And they've robbed the cradle and the grave, sir.
01:21:31And General Lee is fighting with his last breath.
01:21:36Shoot Robert E. Lee?
01:21:39Someone will have to shoot Abraham Lincoln first.
01:21:43They're rebels, not traitors.
01:21:47And their horses and baggage, sir?
01:21:50They'll need them for the spring plowing.
01:21:53Let them keep them and get to work.
01:21:56Very good, sir.
01:21:58Oh, just one thing more, Mr. President.
01:22:01The head of the rebel government,
01:22:04Jefferson Davis.
01:22:08Jefferson Davis.
01:22:10Do you wish his capture?
01:22:14Well, that reminds me of a story.
01:22:18We had a terrible drunkard once
01:22:22in Springfield.
01:22:24Finally, he signed the pledge.
01:22:26The next day, he got thirsty and went to a bar
01:22:29in order to laminate.
01:22:31While the bartender was fixing it,
01:22:33the old drunk got sadder and sadder.
01:22:37Finally, he leaned over and said to the bartender,
01:22:40Mike,
01:22:42while you're fixing that,
01:22:44couldn't you put a nice little shot of whiskey in it,
01:22:46unbeknownst to me, sir?
01:22:48Well, sir?
01:22:51Couldn't you sort of let Jeff Davis escape,
01:22:54unbeknownst to yourself?
01:22:58We'll do our part, sir.
01:23:03We're going to take them back as though they'd never been away.
01:23:15Lincoln.
01:23:20He freed the Negroes.
01:23:25He suppressed the right of trial by jury.
01:23:31He muzzled the press.
01:23:37Now, with the aid of his bayonets,
01:23:40his army and his Negroes,
01:23:42he'll make himself King of America.
01:23:46Lincoln.
01:23:52I drink to him.
01:23:56And his damnation!
01:24:04Right.
01:24:06You're right.
01:24:08For my part,
01:24:13go on.
01:24:15You're among friends.
01:24:19The man who kills Abraham Lincoln
01:24:24will be an immortal.
01:24:28Now, listen.
01:24:35I plan
01:24:38on going
01:24:40on going.
01:24:54Don't mind my smoking, Mrs. Lincoln?
01:24:57No, not much.
01:25:01You don't know how glad we all are that you were really elected, Mr. President.
01:25:05I'm sure this lady will be glad to spend four more years in the White House.
01:25:08Glad? I've just hired two new maids.
01:25:13Abraham Lincoln, will you ever learn to keep your feet in shoes?
01:25:18Oh, by the way, Mrs. Lincoln,
01:25:20have you met General Grant?
01:25:22I met him.
01:25:23It took us a week to get the smoke out of the curtains.
01:25:28There's always been one human being who has fault.
01:25:32Party of Prohibitionists called on me the other day
01:25:35and complained about Grant's drinking.
01:25:37I told them if they could find out what brand he uses,
01:25:40I'd send barrels of it to my other generals.
01:25:44Two new maids.
01:25:47And we're going to be here four more years.
01:25:52Four years.
01:25:55Four more years.
01:25:57Now, Mr. Lincoln, don't you go thinking about any of those dreams again.
01:26:00You'll live to a hundred.
01:26:02And after we set everything right over here,
01:26:05we'll travel around the world and have a nice long rest.
01:26:10Oh, Daddy, won't that be fun?
01:26:13You're not going without me.
01:26:15Why, of course not, Dad.
01:26:21You can depend on Mother Surratt.
01:26:23And everything's straight with me.
01:26:25I said I'd go through with it.
01:26:27And I will.
01:26:29Tonight will be remembered throughout the ages.
01:26:35I play my best part.
01:26:43How much better a dagger would look?
01:26:50Cassius used a dagger.
01:26:57But this is safer.
01:27:05THE END
01:27:36THE END
01:27:47Again, I... I say...
01:27:51With malice toward none,
01:27:55with charity for all,
01:27:59with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right,
01:28:05we shall bind up the nation's wounds and cherish peace.
01:28:13That government of the people,
01:28:17by the people,
01:28:19for the people,
01:28:22shall not perish from the earth.
01:28:29Thank you.
01:28:32God bless you all.
01:28:47Mr. Hinton, I'm... I'm just proud of you.
01:28:55Here, Peanuts, hold my horse for me, will you?
01:28:58Yes, sir.
01:29:02Oh, will you be long, sir?
01:29:07No, not very long.
01:29:13Lord Gunther, would you mind bringing me a draft?
01:29:16I need a draft.
01:29:18Now, I'm afraid you must be mistaken.
01:29:21Mr. Lincoln has just stopped the draft.
01:29:31I know.
01:29:34He's an orphan.
01:29:51I reckon I'm going to be elected on that as a guard.
01:29:55I would be too if it wasn't for that terminal servant critter
01:29:58with brass buttons on his coat.
01:30:04Well, it sounds as if he was like an old jerky cop, you know.
01:30:10It would be as if I'd been to a school like this.
01:30:16I don't know if they'd even feel it.
01:30:18I'm sure they wouldn't feel it.
01:30:20A man as obstinate as he can still squalor.
01:30:25Couldn't lie down, couldn't stand up.
01:30:28Couldn't fight a bullet, couldn't go backwards.
01:30:33Well, I don't know what they're going to do with me.
01:30:36But whatever they do, and wherever they put me,
01:30:39I hope it'll be up to each of them.
01:30:43I'm a real punk, I am.
01:30:45I like it kind of lively.
01:30:49Well, you see, I don't know the manners of the old man anymore.
01:30:54I guess I know enough to turn that old gal inside out.
01:30:59I'm going to be old fast now.
01:31:02I can't go on here any longer.
01:31:05I can't bear to leave this place.
01:31:07I can't take my leave.
01:31:19Sieg Semper Tyrannis!
01:31:25Mr. Bacon! Mr. Bacon has been shot!
01:31:41You're not free!
01:31:48You're not free!
01:32:18You're not free!
01:32:48THE END
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