Lee Pace credited as playing...
Fernando Wood
- Fernando Wood: Estimable colleagues, two bloody years ago this month, his Highness, King Abraham Africanus the First, our Great Usurping Caesar, violator of habeas corpus and freedom of the press, abuser of states' rights.
- Fernando Wood: [Clay Hawkins enters] Bless my eyes, if it isn't the Post Master of Millersburg Ohio!
- George Pendleton: Mr. LeClerk felt honor-bound to inform us... of your disgusting betrayal. Your prostitution.
- Fernando Wood: Is that true, Postmaster Hawkins? Is your maidenly virtue for sale?
- George Pendleton: Are you despairing, or merely lazy? This fight is for The United States of America! Nothing suffices. A rumor? Nothing! They're not lazy! They're busily buying votes! While we hope to be saved by the national mood?
- [looks over at Stevens, at his desk consulting with Ashley and Julian]
- George Pendleton: Before this blood is dry, when Stevens next takes the floor, taunt him. You excel at that. Get him to proclaim what we all know he believes in his coal-colored heart. That this vote is meant to set the black race on high, to niggerate
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- George Pendleton: America...
- Fernando Wood: George, please. Stay on course.
- George Pendleton: Bring Stevens to full froth. I can ensure that every newspaperman from Louisville to San Francisco will be here to witness it and print it.
- [Colfax gavels the chamber to order]
- Fernando Wood: We are once again asked, nay commanded, to consider a proposed 13th Amendment which, if passed, shall set at immediate liberty four million coloreds while manacling the limbs of the white race in America. If it is passed, but it shall not pass.