Lionel Barrymore credited as playing...
Thaddeus Stevens
- Thaddeus Stevens: Unfortunately, the contraption you're hitched to is the United States of America, and we've got to keep it on the move.
- Andrew Johnson: Stevens, if you'll just state your case and let me state mine, I think we'll see better where we stand.
- Thaddeus Stevens: Very good Mr. President. I propose that we treat the South as an outside conquered people: that we confiscate all estates worth $10,000 and containing 200 acres. Then sir, I would give every adult colored man 40 acres of land. Sell the rest pay for the war with it.
- Lincoln's Emissary: No use vetoing that program, Johnson.
- Congressman Hargrove: We have the votes to override your veto.
- Andrew Johnson: So it comes to this: you fought a war to preserve the union. Having preserved it, now you deny that it exists. Gentlemen, my one aim is to carry out Lincoln's policies.