Ride with the Devil

539 00:47:40,741 --> 00:47:42,576 He's not my nigger. 540 00:47:42,577 --> 00:47:47,213 He's just a nigger who I trust with my life every day and night, that's all. 541 00:47:48,708 --> 00:47:52,460 That's very high praise. Yes, ma'am, it is. 542 00:47:52,461 --> 00:47:54,462 I see. 543 00:47:54,463 --> 00:47:57,882 Well, gentlemen, I really must take my leave. 544 00:47:57,883 --> 00:48:01,094 I hope the food'll please you. It looks wonderful. 545 00:48:01,095 --> 00:48:04,180 Why, thank you. Now good night, all. 546 00:48:04,181 --> 00:48:06,600 Good night. Good night, ma'am. 547 00:48:06,601 --> 00:48:10,061 Holt, the lady said good night to all. 548 00:48:10,062 --> 00:48:12,063 Now touch your hat and say good night. 549 00:48:12,064 --> 00:48:14,399 Chiles, you don't tell him nothin'. He's bein' rude. 550 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,818 Gentlemen, please. He don't need no tellin', Chiles! 551 00:48:16,819 --> 00:48:19,112 It's all right, George. 552 00:48:19,113 --> 00:48:21,497 Good night, missy. 553 00:48:22,783 --> 00:48:25,043 Good night, Holt. 554 00:48:29,832 --> 00:48:32,300 I'll see the lady to her mule. 555 00:48:36,255 --> 00:48:39,933 Holt. It weren't no hardship, George. 556 00:48:41,177 --> 00:48:43,928 Well, let's eat. This smells good. 557 00:48:43,929 --> 00:48:46,397 Be careful. Good evening. 558 00:49:14,126 --> 00:49:17,053 Holt, you want my bacon? 559 00:49:22,301 --> 00:49:24,386 I could eat more. 560 00:49:24,387 --> 00:49:26,771 Go on then. 561 00:49:30,643 --> 00:49:32,860 Appreciate it. 562 00:49:35,648 --> 00:49:37,115 Roedel 563 00:49:39,652 --> 00:49:41,911 you want my bacon? 564 00:49:44,824 --> 00:49:46,825 Yes, I could eat it. 565 00:49:46,826 --> 00:49:49,494 Well, I'll shit it out by the oak tree in the mornin'. 566 00:49:49,495 --> 00:49:52,797 You can just go and help yourself. 567 00:50:03,342 --> 00:50:05,552 And why, if you do not mind my askin', 568 00:50:05,553 --> 00:50:07,846 did you not join the regular army? 569 00:50:07,847 --> 00:50:11,516 Army? Well, we thought of it. 570 00:50:11,517 --> 00:50:15,186 I suppose we decided this fight's got to be made in our own country, 571 00:50:15,187 --> 00:50:18,440 not where some general tells us it should happen. 572 00:50:18,441 --> 00:50:20,984 It soon will be everywhere. 573 00:50:20,985 --> 00:50:24,612 My family and I, we will be quittin' this house in the spring. 574 00:50:24,613 --> 00:50:29,284 As soon as the roads are clear, we're gonna be tryin' for Texas. 575 00:50:29,285 --> 00:50:32,245 About half of Missouri has went to Texas. 576 00:50:32,246 --> 00:50:35,373 Well, the whole state's thick with invaders. 577 00:50:35,374 --> 00:50:38,668 We cannot drive them away. 578 00:50:38,669 --> 00:50:42,297 We have different thoughts. I still wanna fight. 579 00:50:42,298 --> 00:50:46,350 Reckon I'll always want to fight them. 580 00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:49,645 Always. 581 00:50:55,478 --> 00:50:58,188 Have you ever been to Lawrence, Kansas, young man? 582 00:50:58,189 --> 00:51:01,274 No, I reckon not, Mr. Evans. 583 00:51:01,275 --> 00:51:04,110 I don't believe I'd be too welcome in Lawrence. 584 00:51:04,111 --> 00:51:06,112 I didn't think so. 585 00:51:06,113 --> 00:51:09,574 Before this war began, my business took me there often. 586 00:51:09,575 --> 00:51:12,118 As I saw those Northerners build that town, 587 00:51:12,119 --> 00:51:15,121 I witnessed the seeds of our destruction being sown. 588 00:51:15,122 --> 00:51:19,417 The foundin' of that town was truly the beginnin' of the Yankee invasion. 589 00:51:19,418 --> 00:51:21,419 I'm not speakin' of numbers, 590 00:51:21,420 --> 00:51:25,590 nor even abolitionist trouble-makin'. 591 00:51:25,591 --> 00:51:28,134 It was the schoolhouse. 592 00:51:28,135 --> 00:51:32,555 Before they built their church even, they built that schoolhouse. 593 00:51:32,556 --> 00:51:37,435 And they lettered every tailor's son and every farmer's daughter in that country. 594 00:51:37,436 --> 00:51:41,856 Oh, spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. 595 00:51:41,857 --> 00:51:43,858 Or a gun either. 596 00:51:43,859 --> 00:51:46,110 No, it won't, Mr. Chiles. 597 00:51:46,111 --> 00:51:51,115 But my point is merely that they rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse... 598 00:51:51,116 --> 00:51:54,244 because they fancied that everyone should think... 599 00:51:54,245 --> 00:51:57,580 and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do, 600 00:51:57,581 --> 00:52:03,253 with no regard to station, custom... propriety. 601 00:52:03,254 --> 00:52:05,797 And that is why they will win. 602 00:52:05,798 --> 00:52:10,059 Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. 603 00:52:11,470 --> 00:52:16,357 And we shall lose because we don't care one...