Old Hickory (1939)

Frank Wilcox: Capt. Abraham Lincoln

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• [last lines] 

  Narrator : Even the farthest outposts of the nation rejoiced in the news of a Union preserved. On the western plains, a frontier expedition made it's slow way homewards from the Indian Wars. A young village lawyer, serving as Captain of Militia, was reading over the mail that had just come in.

  Tim : What are ya readin', Captain?

  Capt. Abraham Lincoln : President's proclamation to South Carolina.

  Tim : Andy Jackson's proclamation, eh?

  Capt. Abraham Lincoln : Yeah. You knew him pretty well, didn't you, Tim?

  Tim : Andy? Sure. He give me this pipe. What does Andy say in his proclamation?

  Capt. Abraham Lincoln : [reading from the proclamation]  'The Constitution forms a government, not a league. To say that any state may, at pleasure, secede from the Union is to say the United States is not a nation.' Tim, if ever - in my small way - I'm called to serve the Union, I'll shape my course by those words.

  Tim : You won't go wrong, Abe Lincoln, if ya follow in the footsteps of Old Hickory.

  [the End]