1. No, son. Never.Copy !req
2. The blood stays on the blade.Copy !req
3. One day you'll understand.Copy !req
4. Some of it I half remember.Copy !req
5. And the rest...Copy !req
6. The rest I took from dreams.Copy !req
7. St. Michael, the archangel,
defend us in battle.Copy !req
8. Be our protector against the snares...Copy !req
9. and the wickedness of the devil.Copy !req
10. Now, son, who's that?Copy !req
11. - St. Michael.
- Who is it?Copy !req
12. - St. Michael!
- And what did he do?Copy !req
13. He cast Satan out of paradise.Copy !req
14. Good boy.Copy !req
15. May God put the steel
of the Holy Spirit in your spine...Copy !req
16. and the love of the Blessed Virgin
in your heart.Copy !req
17. - Hey, boyo!
- Johnny.Copy !req
18. - What's the battle?
- Natives against the Dead Rabbits.Copy !req
19. - Which are you?
- What do you think? Dead Rabbits.Copy !req
20. Well, well, Monk.Copy !req
21. Are you with us or not?Copy !req
22. For the last time, Vallon,
I'm with you if the money is right.Copy !req
23. I'll give you 10 per notch.Copy !req
24. - Ten?
- You have my word.Copy !req
25. - Ten per notch?
- Per new notch.Copy !req
26. Then I'm your man.Copy !req
27. Is this it, Priest?
The pope's new army?Copy !req
28. A few crusty bitches
and a handful of ragtags?Copy !req
29. Now, now, Bill, you swore this was
a battle between warriors...Copy !req
30. not a bunch of Miss Nancys.Copy !req
31. So warriors is what I brought.Copy !req
32. The O'Connell Guard.Copy !req
33. The Plug Uglies.Copy !req
34. The Shirt Tails.Copy !req
35. The Chichesters.Copy !req
36. The forty Thieves.Copy !req
37. On my challenge...Copy !req
38. by the ancient laws of combat,
we have met at this chosen ground...Copy !req
39. to settle, for good and all...Copy !req
40. who holds sway over the Five Points:Copy !req
41. Us Natives, born right-wise
to this fine land...Copy !req
42. or the foreign hordes defiling it.Copy !req
43. By the ancient laws of combat, I accept
the challenge of the so-called Natives.Copy !req
44. You plague our people at every turn.Copy !req
45. But from this day out,
you shall plague us no more.Copy !req
46. For let it be known that the hand
that tries to strike us from this land...Copy !req
47. shall be swiftly cut down.Copy !req
48. Then may the Christian Lord
guide my hand...Copy !req
49. against your Roman popery!Copy !req
50. Prepare to receive the true Lord!Copy !req
51. Priest!Copy !req
52. Look to me.Copy !req
53. Who is this under my knife?Copy !req
54. Father, get up. Get up!Copy !req
55. Where are you? Where are you?Copy !req
56. Oh, my son.Copy !req
57. Don't never look away.Copy !req
58. Soon be over, Priest.Copy !req
59. Finish it.Copy !req
60. You may need this across the river.Copy !req
61. Ears and noses will be
the trophies of the day.Copy !req
62. But no hand shall touch him!Copy !req
63. No hand shall touch him!Copy !req
64. He'll cross over whole...Copy !req
65. in honor.Copy !req
66. Not before I get what's owed.Copy !req
67. No!Copy !req
68. It's fair. A touch indelicate, but fair.Copy !req
69. My sympathies.Copy !req
70. What will we do with the boy?Copy !req
71. Look at me.Copy !req
72. Give him to the law.Copy !req
73. See he gets a good education.Copy !req
74. Okay, boy, say goodbye to your father.Copy !req
75. - Get him!
- Get him!Copy !req
76. Don't let him get away.Copy !req
77. Hurry, come in here!Copy !req
78. He's going downstairs.Copy !req
79. Come here, boy.Copy !req
80. - You're going to Hellgate, son.
- There he is. Get him.Copy !req
81. - Priest Vallon died a noble death...
- Let go of me!Copy !req
82. but his Dead Rabbits
is done and outlawed!Copy !req
83. Let no one even speak their name
from this time on.Copy !req
84. In this place, you have grown
from a boy into a man.Copy !req
85. Put to death the earthly things in you:
Immorality, impurity...Copy !req
86. passion, vengeance.Copy !req
87. The Lord has forgiven you.Copy !req
88. You also must forgive.Copy !req
89. You go forth to a country torn apart
by civil strife.Copy !req
90. Thank you, Reverend.Copy !req
91. Lend your hand to the work
that yet remains...Copy !req
92. that this war may end...Copy !req
93. and the plague of slavery
that brought this conflagration...Copy !req
94. down upon us vanish forever
from the earth.Copy !req
95. In the second year of the Civil War...Copy !req
96. when the Irish Brigade
marched in the streets...Copy !req
97. New York was a city full of tribes...Copy !req
98. war chiefs, rich and poor.Copy !req
99. - Down with Lincoln!
- Lincoln will make all white men slaves.Copy !req
100. It wasn't a city really.Copy !req
101. It was more a furnace where a city
someday might be forged.Copy !req
102. That's the spirit, boys.Copy !req
103. - Go off and die for your blackie friends.
- Down with the abolitionists!Copy !req
104. We shoulïve run a better man against
Lincoln when we had the chance.Copy !req
105. New York should secede
from the Union!Copy !req
106. They trying to say we're
no different than niggers?Copy !req
107. You ain't. Good evening, brother.Copy !req
108. - Praise the Union.
- The Union forever!Copy !req
109. Go back to Africa, nigger!Copy !req
110. - Go back to Africa!
- Leave him alone. We're free.Copy !req
111. The angriest talk was of the
new Conscription Act...Copy !req
112. the first draft in Union history.Copy !req
113. Join the Army, lads. Three square meals
a day and good pay in your pocket.Copy !req
114. When the Irish came,
the city was in a fever.Copy !req
115. Since the time of the great famine,
they'd come streaming off the boats.Copy !req
116. And they got a right warm welcome.Copy !req
117. - Go back to Ireland, you dumb micks!
- Remember that, you Irish gyps!Copy !req
118. Get back on the boat, Paddy!Copy !req
119. I only came two hours downriver
from Hellgate.Copy !req
120. But they all took me for an immigrant.Copy !req
121. Why not? There were a thousand
different accents in New York.Copy !req
122. And to the Natives, you see,
we was all the same.Copy !req
123. Welcome to America, son.
Your long, arduous journey is over.Copy !req
124. - Go back to your own country!
- Vote Tammany!Copy !req
125. New York loved William Tweed
and hated him.Copy !req
126. And those of us trying to be thieves,
well, we couldn't help but admire him.Copy !req
127. Mr. Cutting, gentlemen,
thank you for coming. Lt's an honor.Copy !req
128. Mr. Tweed.Copy !req
129. Sir, please. Excuse me.Copy !req
130. - I think you're frightening them.
- So?Copy !req
131. Don't mind him.
He used to be an Irishman.Copy !req
132. Ah, the Five Points.Copy !req
133. Murderers ' Alley. Brickbat Mansion.
The Gates of Hell.Copy !req
134. Here in this vile place.
Look upon the face of this poor child.Copy !req
135. She lives in squalor...Copy !req
136. in this godforsaken den
of vice and misery behind me.Copy !req
137. Every year the reformers came.Copy !req
138. Every year the Points got worse...Copy !req
139. as if it liked being dirty.Copy !req
140. - Where am I going to go?
- The Reverend wants you out of here.Copy !req
141. You can't do this!Copy !req
142. A glorious resurrection will spring
from the filthy depths...Copy !req
143. to which these miserable creatures
have fallen.Copy !req
144. In God, they will find their true home.Copy !req
145. You may or may not know, Bill,
that every day I go to the waterfront...Copy !req
146. with hot soup for the Irish
as they come ashore.Copy !req
147. It's part of building a political base.Copy !req
148. I've noticed you there.
You may have noticed me.Copy !req
149. Indeed I have. Throwing torrents
of pavers and withering abuse...Copy !req
150. - on everyone stepping off those boats.
- If only I had the guns...Copy !req
151. I'd shoot each and every one of them
before they set foot on American soil.Copy !req
152. Mulberry Street...Copy !req
153. and Worth.Copy !req
154. Cross and Orange and Little Water.Copy !req
155. Each of the Five Points is a finger.Copy !req
156. When I close my hand,
it becomes a fist.Copy !req
157. And any time that I wish,
I can turn it against you.Copy !req
158. I know, but we're talking
about different things.Copy !req
159. I'm talking about civic duty,
responsibilities we owe to the people.Copy !req
160. Schools and hospitals,
sewers and utilities.Copy !req
161. Street construction,
repairs and sweeping.Copy !req
162. Business licenses, saloon licenses...Copy !req
163. St. Michael, the archangel,
defend us in battle.Copy !req
164. Be our protector against the snares
and the wickedness of the devil.Copy !req
165. Street cars, ferries, rubbish disposal.Copy !req
166. There's a power of money
to be made in this city, Bill.Copy !req
167. With your help, the people
must be made to understand...Copy !req
168. that all these things are best kept
within the Tammany family...Copy !req
169. which is why I'm proposing
an alliance...Copy !req
170. between our two great organizations.Copy !req
171. - You're talking about muscle work.
- That too. Muscle to match our spirit.Copy !req
172. You own the crushers.
Get them to do it.Copy !req
173. The police? Oh, no. Jesus, no!Copy !req
174. The appearance of the law
must be upheld...Copy !req
175. especially while it's being broken.Copy !req
176. Give me the strength
for what I must do.Copy !req
177. Who are you?Copy !req
178. - Hey!
- No!Copy !req
179. I said, who are you?
What are you doing here?Copy !req
180. I just like it down here is all.Copy !req
181. See what's in his pockets, Jimmy.Copy !req
182. - Look, boys, I really don't want a fight.
- Don't want a fight?Copy !req
183. Don't worry, son,
ain't gonna be much a fight.Copy !req
184. Don't kill me.Copy !req
185. Where'd you get that?Copy !req
186. I told you I didn't want a fight!Copy !req
187. Why not? Look how good you done.Copy !req
188. - You're the Priest's son, aren't you?
- You, get away from me, understand?Copy !req
189. You don't remember me, do you?
I's the one tried to help you.Copy !req
190. - What?
- I's the one tried to help you...Copy !req
191. when the Natives took you.Copy !req
192. - Oh, that was you?
- Yeah. I thought you was killed.Copy !req
193. They just locked me up,
you know that?Copy !req
194. This long?Copy !req
195. Well, I kept trying to escape, you know.
They add on time for that.Copy !req
196. So, what are you doing back here?Copy !req
197. I guess I missed the place.Copy !req
198. Bowery Boys.Copy !req
199. Get back here!Copy !req
200. The Five Points, Paradise Square.Copy !req
201. The streets here are always lively
of an evening.Copy !req
202. Who are the gangs around now?Copy !req
203. The Daybreak Boys
and the Swamp Angels.Copy !req
204. They work the river, looting ships.Copy !req
205. The frog Hollows shanghai sailors
by the Bloody Angle.Copy !req
206. The Shirt Tails was rough,
but they've become a bunch of dandies...Copy !req
207. Iolling around Murderers' Alley,
looking like Chinamen.Copy !req
208. Hell-Cat Maggie, she tried to open
her own grog shop.Copy !req
209. She drunk her own liquor
and got throwed on the street.Copy !req
210. - Beautiful.
- Now she's on the lay for anything.Copy !req
211. The Plug Uglies are from deep
in the old country.Copy !req
212. Got their own language
no one understands.Copy !req
213. They love to fight the cops.
The Night Walkers of Ragpicker's Row.Copy !req
214. They work on their backs
and kill with their hands.Copy !req
215. They're so scurvy only the Plug Uglies
talk to them. But who understands them?Copy !req
216. The Slaughter Housers
and the Broadway Twisters.Copy !req
217. They're a fine bunch of bingo boys.
And the Little forty Thieves.Copy !req
218. I used to run with them...Copy !req
219. till they got took over
by Bendrick the Cockroach.Copy !req
220. Bendrick carries a germ.Copy !req
221. If you try to leave the gang,
he hacks up blood on you.Copy !req
222. The lime-juicers are nothing but
a bunch of rapacious grab-ups.Copy !req
223. The True Blue Americans
say they're a gang...Copy !req
224. but all they do is stand on corners
damning England.Copy !req
225. If you believe one word
the British say, you're a fool.Copy !req
226. Do any of them got the sand
of the Dead Rabbits?Copy !req
227. You don't say that name.Copy !req
228. That name died with your...
They been outlawed.Copy !req
229. In the blockhouse,
the Chinks told me...Copy !req
230. that the Natives celebrate their victory
every year. Is that true?Copy !req
231. Aye, that they do. Lt's quite the affair.Copy !req
232. The Butcher himself's got to invite you,
or you don't go.Copy !req
233. Look where you're going, Johnny.Copy !req
234. You look stunned and poorly, sir.Copy !req
235. Quite a pair of conversationists,
aren't you?Copy !req
236. Maybe not, but we're deep thinkers.Copy !req
237. Well, gentlemen, I leave you
in the grace and favor of the Lord.Copy !req
238. Jenny, the finest bludget
in all the Points.Copy !req
239. She is a prim-looking stargazer.Copy !req
240. But I'd check my pockets if I was you...Copy !req
241. because I do believe she lifted
your timepiece.Copy !req
242. Well, I let her take it.Copy !req
243. I let her take things all the time.Copy !req
244. - Is that right?
- Yeah.Copy !req
245. We always liked a good fire
in the Points.Copy !req
246. You could pick up a little swag. And
if the cops came, you really got a show.Copy !req
247. The Municipal Police fought
the Metropolitan Police.Copy !req
248. The Metropolitan Police,
they fought the street gangs.Copy !req
249. Hurry up, men,
before the Black Joke get there!Copy !req
250. There were 37 amateur fire brigades,
and they all fought each other.Copy !req
251. The Black Joke are on their way, Tweed,
and they'll beat the shite out of you.Copy !req
252. Okay, boys, get the hose out!Copy !req
253. It's the Black Joke!Copy !req
254. Go get them, boys!Copy !req
255. Give those Bowery Boys hell!Copy !req
256. - Quick, before there's nothing left.
- Go back to the Bowery, you bums!Copy !req
257. Stop them. For Goïs sake,
they're taking everything!Copy !req
258. In your next time of trouble,
call on Tammany first.Copy !req
259. But it's not too late.
You can still save my house.Copy !req
260. Let's go.Copy !req
261. I thought you said you was hungry.Copy !req
262. Grab what you can, Johnny.
Let's get out of here.Copy !req
263. May I point out that this building
is burning to ashes?Copy !req
264. May I point out this area is the province
of my own Americus fire Brigade...Copy !req
265. and that you lot belong
only in the Bowery?Copy !req
266. May I point out that you're outmanned,
outmaneuvered...Copy !req
267. and, in a moment, outfought?Copy !req
268. Am I?Copy !req
269. There's the Black Joke!
Let's take them on the cobbles.Copy !req
270. Go spill some claret, boys.
Go on, Shorty, have a nice muss.Copy !req
271. Clear the way for Bill the Butcher.Copy !req
272. Okay, boys, to work.Copy !req
273. What's the point? The fire's near burned
anything of value inside.Copy !req
274. Boys, forget that one.
Next building over.Copy !req
275. Mustn't let it spread.
Take what you want from that one.Copy !req
276. What are you doing?Copy !req
277. There's nothing wrong with this one.
This is my house.Copy !req
278. - Johnny!
- Help!Copy !req
279. - Johnny!
- Help!Copy !req
280. Help! Help!Copy !req
281. Help!Copy !req
282. Come on. Come on, Johnny, get up.Copy !req
283. Leave that!Copy !req
284. You two, out of the way!Copy !req
285. His name's Amsterdam.Copy !req
286. - How's the beak?
- Ain't so bad.Copy !req
287. You. You got anything,
you give it up or you get out.Copy !req
288. Is that it?Copy !req
289. That's it.Copy !req
290. Right. Here's the rake.
Everything comes here. We fence it.Copy !req
291. Johnny takes our tribute to the Natives,
and we chop up the winnings...Copy !req
292. each to his equal portion,
amongst the gang.Copy !req
293. Does that meet
with your approval, Hellgate?Copy !req
294. My approval?Copy !req
295. What's the matter, Jack Sprat?
Can't think for yourself?Copy !req
296. - I'll slit your fucking throat!
- Hey, come on!Copy !req
297. Hey!Copy !req
298. You boys will settle with me
before settling with each other.Copy !req
299. I come for my due and proper.Copy !req
300. Well, this ain't a bad haul.Copy !req
301. When folks start in to saying
to where the country is going to hell...Copy !req
302. I always tell them,
"You just look at all the hard work...Copy !req
303. our fine young lads is doing
down in the Five Points."Copy !req
304. Oh, yeah. Now this is just
the thing for Mrs. Mulraney.Copy !req
305. All right there, Happy Jack,
leave us something...Copy !req
306. to quarter to Bill the Butcher, eh?Copy !req
307. Would you?Copy !req
308. Not my favorite tune.Copy !req
309. Thank you, boys.Copy !req
310. You keep out of trouble now.Copy !req
311. Every year the Natives celebrated
the killing of my father all over again...Copy !req
312. at Sparrow's Chinese Pagoda
in Mott Street.Copy !req
313. The Chinks hated the Natives
worse than we did.Copy !req
314. The drum rolls, and the Butcher
drinks a glass of fire.Copy !req
315. When you kill a king...Copy !req
316. you don't stab him in the dark.Copy !req
317. You kill him where the whole court
can watch him die.Copy !req
318. Hey, you got any timber?Copy !req
319. - Hey, Maggie. Right ear or left ear?
- Give us a drink, you idiot.Copy !req
320. Help yourself.Copy !req
321. - Final bets!
- To health.Copy !req
322. Place your bets.
Betting closes in two minutes.Copy !req
323. Place your bets.Copy !req
324. Gentlemen, the match
is due to commence.Copy !req
325. The count to beat is 25 rodents
in three minutes.Copy !req
326. Towser against the vermin.Copy !req
327. - Are the enumerators satisfied?
- Fifty!Copy !req
328. - Yes!
- Let them go!Copy !req
329. - Where you going, boy?
- I'm here to pay tribute to Bill.Copy !req
330. Are you now? Give it to me.
I'll give it to him.Copy !req
331. No, thanks. I'll give it to him myself.Copy !req
332. What do you want to keep,
the money or your teeth?Copy !req
333. John.Copy !req
334. Welcome.Copy !req
335. From me and me lads, sir.Copy !req
336. Mate of yours? Where's he from?Copy !req
337. Oh, he's not from here, sir.Copy !req
338. You.Copy !req
339. That's close enough.Copy !req
340. Your friend can't look me in the eye.
That's not an admirable characteristic.Copy !req
341. No one can look you in the eye, Bill.
Not when you're playing cards.Copy !req
342. This is whist. Lt's a gentleman's game.
Make a gentleman's bet.Copy !req
343. - I'm betting large, Bill.
- That ain't large.Copy !req
344. Please, don't make that noise again,
Harvey.Copy !req
345. I like a man who's willing
to burn for his swag.Copy !req
346. How do you fare on water?
Come closer.Copy !req
347. Close, John. I ain't gonna bite. Close.Copy !req
348. There's a Portuguese ship lying low
in the harbor, quarantined three weeks.Copy !req
349. Get there before
the Daybreak Boys strip her...Copy !req
350. maybe you and me will talk more.Copy !req
351. - Consider it done, sir.
- Good boy.Copy !req
352. And you, whatever your name is...
What is your name?Copy !req
353. - Amsterdam, sir.
- Amsterdam. I'm New York.Copy !req
354. Don't you never come in here
empty-handed again.Copy !req
355. You gotta pay for the pleasure
of my company.Copy !req
356. Take him for a boat ride, John.Copy !req
357. Who knows, but he might
save your life again.Copy !req
358. The Daybreak Boys catch us,
they'll slit our throats.Copy !req
359. I'll do it myself in a minute
if you don't keep quiet.Copy !req
360. I never liked the harbor after dark.Copy !req
361. And now each night they brung ashore
the bodies of the soldiers.Copy !req
362. Many mothers have not
even the solace...Copy !req
363. of knowing where
their sons have fallen.Copy !req
364. I lost my own eldest at Antietam.Copy !req
365. His mother and I were unable
to recover his remains.Copy !req
366. - It was a mournful sight.
- The war can't last forever.Copy !req
367. But we had business of our own.Copy !req
368. The Daybreak Boys have been here,
and there's nothing left. Let's go back.Copy !req
369. What the hell?Copy !req
370. Jimmy, get down!Copy !req
371. Jesus, that'll bring the harbor cops
for sure. Fuck off.Copy !req
372. Let's take a look.Copy !req
373. Jesus, they killed everybody.Copy !req
374. There's nothing here but a bunch
of dead sea-crabs.Copy !req
375. Come on, let's go.Copy !req
376. - Shove off.
- No, wait for Amsterdam.Copy !req
377. Where's Amsterdam?Copy !req
378. - No, you damn fool, take him!
- What in the hell for?Copy !req
379. Look in my glims.
I said no less than 15.Copy !req
380. - Is this fresh?
- Four hours most.Copy !req
381. Much obliged, gents.Copy !req
382. What's that word?Copy !req
383. - It means body snatchers.
- I didn't ask the meaning.Copy !req
384. I asked the word.Copy !req
385. Ghoul.Copy !req
386. Ghoul? That's a good word.Copy !req
387. "Ghoul Gang Slaughters.
A fresh Outrage in the Five Points."Copy !req
388. - That's a notice you can be proud of.
- Thank you.Copy !req
389. A low thing, to do that to a body.
Low.Copy !req
390. Why? They could have left
that ship with nothing.Copy !req
391. Instead they made The Police Gazette,
a periodical of note.Copy !req
392. A body's supposed to stay
beneath the earth...Copy !req
393. wearing a wooden coat
until the Resurrection.Copy !req
394. These two are a pair of sons
of Irish bitches, same as you.Copy !req
395. It don't seem to bother them none.Copy !req
396. But then maybe they don't share
your religious scruples.Copy !req
397. Maybe they're just a couple
of fidlam Bens.Copy !req
398. I've been called a lot of things, mister,
but I ain't never been called...Copy !req
399. - fidlam Bens.
- Fidlam Bens. Right.Copy !req
400. Well, if I knew what in the hell that
meant, I'd be inclined to take offense.Copy !req
401. A fidlam Bens is a fellow
who steals anything, dead or alive...Copy !req
402. because he's too low to work up
a decent lay for himself.Copy !req
403. Count that careful, Bill.
Count that careful.Copy !req
404. - I'm telling you, that's all there is...
- Now, chiseler...Copy !req
405. If you'd said "chiseler," now there's
a word I understand. You know?Copy !req
406. - Now, is that what you're calling us?
- I can think of many things to call you.Copy !req
407. Right. But I asked
if you was calling us chiselers.Copy !req
408. Supposing I am?Copy !req
409. Well, then we got business.Copy !req
410. That we do.Copy !req
411. - A fight! There's a fight!
- Two bucks on McGloin.Copy !req
412. - Four bits on the kid.
- Five bits on the kid.Copy !req
413. I got two on Amsterdam.Copy !req
414. Come on, McGloin, he's just a kid.Copy !req
415. Four bits to back Amsterdam.Copy !req
416. Watch his left, McGloin. Watch his left.Copy !req
417. - All right, that'll do. That'll do.
- Anything to say now, huh?Copy !req
418. That'll do, for chrissake.
Drag him off.Copy !req
419. - That's enough, kid.
- You got him. Come on, kid, you won.Copy !req
420. McGloin. He's a kid too, McGloin.Copy !req
421. You're getting too old for it, McGloin.Copy !req
422. McGloin, how would that head look
without the ears and the nose on it?Copy !req
423. You'd better leave
that head alone, Bill.Copy !req
424. I think I'm gonna trim the ears
and the beak off of that head.Copy !req
425. Make a nice pot of soup of that head.Copy !req
426. You could find a tastier head
than that, Bill.Copy !req
427. I ain't got the stomach for no Irish stew.Copy !req
428. The mighty McGloin
almost fishhooked by a sprat.Copy !req
429. On the seventh day, the Lord rested,
but before that he did...Copy !req
430. he squatted over the side of England,
and what came out of him was Ireland.Copy !req
431. - No offense, son.
- Oh, none taken, sir. I grew up here.Copy !req
432. All I ever knew of Ireland was in the
talk of the others at the orphan asylum.Copy !req
433. In which part of that excrementitious
isle were your forebears spawned?Copy !req
434. I've been told Kerry, but I lost proof
of it in my language at the asylum.Copy !req
435. I was raised in a very similar
establishment myself.Copy !req
436. Now everything you see belongs to me,
to one degree or another.Copy !req
437. The beggars and newsboys
and quick thieves here in Paradise.Copy !req
438. The sailor dives and gin mills
and blind tigers on the waterfront.Copy !req
439. The anglers and amusers,
the she-hes and the Chinks.Copy !req
440. Everybody owes, everybody pays...Copy !req
441. because that's how you stand up
against the rising of the tide.Copy !req
442. - Is that right, boys?
- Yeah, Bill. That's right.Copy !req
443. Enlist. Join up. Serve your country.Copy !req
444. Come on in out of the draft, boys.Copy !req
445. Volunteer and get your $50 bonus.Copy !req
446. We need 30,000 volunteers, and we're
prepared to pay $677 per volunteer.Copy !req
447. - Please read this. Thank you.
- Thanks.Copy !req
448. Would you like to take
one of these to fill out?Copy !req
449. Three square meals a day.
Three square meals a day.Copy !req
450. Young man, enlist
and serve your country.Copy !req
451. Three square meals a day, gentlemen.Copy !req
452. If you're interested,
read this and consider joining.Copy !req
453. Everywhere you went
people talked about the draft.Copy !req
454. Now, you could buy
your way out for $300...Copy !req
455. but who had $300?Copy !req
456. For us it might as well
have been 3 million.Copy !req
457. The recruiters? They was too scared
of the gangs to come after us.Copy !req
458. Besides, we never dreamt the war
would ever touch New York.Copy !req
459. Good morning, sir.Copy !req
460. You!Copy !req
461. Don't you run into me.Copy !req
462. Fair enough.Copy !req
463. I said, don't run into me!Copy !req
464. Well, sorry.Copy !req
465. - Everything in place?
- It seems so.Copy !req
466. Well, then I leave you
in the grace and favor of the Lord.Copy !req
467. - Thank you.
- That's right.Copy !req
468. Oh, the dirty mab!Copy !req
469. Oh, no.Copy !req
470. - I'm sorry.
- Allow me.Copy !req
471. - Thank you kindly, sir.
- Oh, it's my pleasure.Copy !req
472. I hope you won't think
me rude if I speak.Copy !req
473. I wouldn't want to appear forward.Copy !req
474. Well, sir, that depends
on what you say.Copy !req
475. Would you call me reckless if I said
you were the prettiest girl in New York?Copy !req
476. Only New York?Copy !req
477. This is my stop.Copy !req
478. May I walk with you a little then?Copy !req
479. That, sir, would be too bold.Copy !req
480. Good morning.Copy !req
481. For every lay we had a different name.Copy !req
482. An "angler" put a hook
on the end of a stick...Copy !req
483. to drop behind
store windows and doors.Copy !req
484. An "autumn diver"
picked your pocket in church.Copy !req
485. A "badger" gets a fellow
into bed with a girl...Copy !req
486. then robs his pockets
while they're on the go.Copy !req
487. Jenny was a "bludget,"
a girl pickpocket...Copy !req
488. and a "turtledove."Copy !req
489. A turtledove goes uptown
dressed like a housemaid...Copy !req
490. picks out a fine house
and goes right through the back door.Copy !req
491. Robs you blind.Copy !req
492. It takes a lot of sand
to be a turtledove.Copy !req
493. I'll have my medal back. Oh, Jesus!Copy !req
494. Don't do that again.Copy !req
495. Listen! I said, don't do that...Copy !req
496. Go back to the Points
and leave me to my business...Copy !req
497. or I will open your throat,
so help me God.Copy !req
498. All right.Copy !req
499. Go on then.Copy !req
500. I would.Copy !req
501. Go on then.Copy !req
502. Now give me back my medal.Copy !req
503. Make it quick!Copy !req
504. I don't know which one's yours.Copy !req
505. Suppose I help myself to everything?Copy !req
506. Suppose you do.Copy !req
507. May I walk with you a little then?Copy !req
508. What do you suppose a fellow
could earn here in a day?Copy !req
509. - Maybe we could pal in together.
- Oh, I think you're a bit...Copy !req
510. rough for this sort of game.
Besides, I work alone.Copy !req
511. Alone? Well, what do you quarter
to the Butcher?Copy !req
512. - Me? Nothing.
- Nothing?Copy !req
513. The Butcher and me
have a special arrangement.Copy !req
514. - I don't want to see you again.
- Well, I don't blame you.Copy !req
515. Pennies in their pockets
and hope in their eyes...Copy !req
516. they peer to the west...Copy !req
517. searching the horizon
for a glimpse of land and salvation.Copy !req
518. A glimpse of America.Copy !req
519. Seeing all this poverty must be
most unsettling, Miss Schermerhorn.Copy !req
520. Some days, of course,
the uptown gangs come down to us.Copy !req
521. The Schermerhorns was one
of the oldest families in New York.Copy !req
522. They didn't run the city...Copy !req
523. but they was listened
to carefully by them that did.Copy !req
524. Commissioner Brunt
said you wished to view...Copy !req
525. the Points in all
its splendor and squalor.Copy !req
526. "Spare nothing concerning
the conditions," said he.Copy !req
527. Yeah, nothing except
our safety, constable.Copy !req
528. I'm sure we can be in no danger
while we're in the constable's company.Copy !req
529. Quite so, madam. Witness.Copy !req
530. - Shall we continue on?
- What, you dare to leave it there?Copy !req
531. Safe as a bank, Mr. Greeley,
since all know it's mine.Copy !req
532. - Is that man drunk?
- Dead as Good friday, miss.Copy !req
533. - Good day to you, Mulraney.
- Boys.Copy !req
534. - Jack.
- Slum sociable?Copy !req
535. Fact-finding. Reforms-studying.Copy !req
536. - May I present...?
- The Schermerhorns of fifth Avenue...Copy !req
537. scarcely require
an introduction from you.Copy !req
538. Schermerhorn, indeed. Their daughter.
This gentleman, of course...Copy !req
539. Horace Greeley, the famous publisher.
A pleasure and an honor.Copy !req
540. - Of the Tribune.
- I'm William Cutting.Copy !req
541. How do you do, Mr. Cutting?Copy !req
542. As of this moment, extremely well,
thank you. How do you do?Copy !req
543. Orange blossom. Delicious.Copy !req
544. - Mr. Cutting is...
- What a peach.Copy !req
545. She could have a fine career
on the stage.Copy !req
546. - one of Five Points' local...
- A pleasure to meet you.Copy !req
547. - leaders.
- Mr. Greeley.Copy !req
548. - Pleased to meet you.
- The Points welcomes you.Copy !req
549. You are welcome to these streets
and will pass in safety.Copy !req
550. Oh, I'll see to their safety.
Thank you, Bill. There we are.Copy !req
551. Good day, lads.
Criminal's braggadocio, you see.Copy !req
552. - He knows who I am.
- You're well-known in these parts.Copy !req
553. I must say that I find
that strangely flattering.Copy !req
554. - I never did like crushers.
- Well, draw it mild, son.Copy !req
555. Happy Jack don't fill his lungs
without I tell him he may do so.Copy !req
556. Do you think my watch
would be safe up on that lamppost, Bill?Copy !req
557. Why don't you hang it up there and see?Copy !req
558. Someday.Copy !req
559. Someday is right.Copy !req
560. This a new lad?Copy !req
561. Just another bastard son of Erin
I folded in the warmth of my embrace.Copy !req
562. - Hey!
- I just want to see your face, son.Copy !req
563. No harm intended.Copy !req
564. You get to know a lot butchering meat.Copy !req
565. We're made up of the same things:
Flesh and blood...Copy !req
566. tissue, organs.Copy !req
567. I love to work with pigs.Copy !req
568. The nearest thing in nature to the flesh
of a man is the flesh of a pig.Copy !req
569. - Pig, huh?
- That's right.Copy !req
570. This is for you, mother.Copy !req
571. There you go.Copy !req
572. - God bless you, Mr. Cutting.
- God bless you.Copy !req
573. - She ain't really my mother.
- I knew that, Bill.Copy !req
574. This is the liver.Copy !req
575. The kidneys.Copy !req
576. The heart.Copy !req
577. This is a wound.
The stomach will bleed and bleed.Copy !req
578. This is a kill. This is a kill.Copy !req
579. The main artery. This is a kill.Copy !req
580. You try.Copy !req
581. Go ahead.Copy !req
582. The lung. Good.
Don't foul the blade on the rib.Copy !req
583. Very good. Main artery.Copy !req
584. Bleed him slow.
Let him think about it for a while.Copy !req
585. Slow death. Good.Copy !req
586. You'll each bill the city $5000
a month for supplies and services...Copy !req
587. of which you'll receive 10%.Copy !req
588. Bill! Mr. Killoran will work out
the details. Thank you, gentlemen.Copy !req
589. That's how we do things
around Tammany, gentlemen.Copy !req
590. Who's this then?Copy !req
591. Thank you, boys.Copy !req
592. Good day, sir.Copy !req
593. You got something on your mind?Copy !req
594. Bill's taken quite a liking to you.Copy !req
595. Now, if you're up to something, bene.Copy !req
596. Only I don't want no part in it.Copy !req
597. I was in Hellgate for 16 years.Copy !req
598. I'm just trying to make my way is all.Copy !req
599. Just like you.Copy !req
600. Unless, of course,
you got a better notion?Copy !req
601. No.Copy !req
602. Bill, I can't get a day's work done
for all the good citizens...Copy !req
603. coming in here to harass me
about crime in the Points.Copy !req
604. Some even go so far
as to accuse Tammany...Copy !req
605. of connivance in this so-called
rampant criminality.Copy !req
606. What am I to do? I can't have this.
Something has to be done.Copy !req
607. - What do you have in mind?
- I don't know.Copy !req
608. I think maybe we should
hang someone.Copy !req
609. - Who?
- No one important, necessarily.Copy !req
610. Average men will do.
Back-alley amusers with no affiliations.Copy !req
611. - How many?
- Three or four.Copy !req
612. - Which?
- Four.Copy !req
613. You stand here convicted varyingly...Copy !req
614. of lewdness, jack-rolling...Copy !req
615. sneak-thievery,
chloral-hydrating...Copy !req
616. sodomy, strangulation...Copy !req
617. and enthusiastic corruption
of the public good.Copy !req
618. - We all go someday, huh?
- Chin up.Copy !req
619. Handsome bunch of gallows fruit.
There's my old friend.Copy !req
620. - How are you feeling, Arthur?
- I'm okay. I'm okay.Copy !req
621. Say hello to Amsterdam. Nearly
fishhooked McGloin the other day.Copy !req
622. - How do you do?
- Nearly.Copy !req
623. See you dressed for the occasion.Copy !req
624. You know me,
always like to look me best.Copy !req
625. That's the spirit.Copy !req
626. Nice locket.
I'll give you a dollar for it.Copy !req
627. It's me mother's.Copy !req
628. Dollar and a half?Copy !req
629. Done.Copy !req
630. We'll miss you, Arthur.Copy !req
631. - See you in the hot country, Seamus.
- Hot corn!Copy !req
632. Ears of early white corn!
Hot corn!Copy !req
633. Is my son present here?Copy !req
634. Where's my little fella?Copy !req
635. Look at your dad.Copy !req
636. Farewell, dear boy.Copy !req
637. I never struck a foul blow,
nor turned a card.Copy !req
638. May God greet me as a friend.Copy !req
639. And grace my fears relievedCopy !req
640. How precious
Did that grace appearCopy !req
641. That night,
the reformers held a dance.Copy !req
642. That was the Five Points, all right.Copy !req
643. Hangings of a morning,
dancings of an evening.Copy !req
644. Sure meself, but...Copy !req
645. it's not a matter of words.
I can tell by the way she smiles at me.Copy !req
646. - She smiles at a lot of people.
- Sir.Copy !req
647. You don't know her.Copy !req
648. A penny of gratitude
for a fighting Irishman, young sir.Copy !req
649. - You from Kerry?
- I am, sir. I am.Copy !req
650. - It ain't much.
- Thank you, sir. Thank you.Copy !req
651. Ladies and gentlemen,
we are delighted to see...Copy !req
652. so many young faces
at our first annual Mission dance.Copy !req
653. This'll be a real ballum rancum, eh?Copy !req
654. The Mission welcomes Christians
of every stamp...Copy !req
655. and we are particularly happy
to greet our Roman Catholic friends...Copy !req
656. who join us here tonight.Copy !req
657. - Ladies! Come with me. Come with me.
- Shall we dance?Copy !req
658. We're going to start the dancing
in just a moment.Copy !req
659. No.Copy !req
660. - Good evening, Reverend.
- Good evening, Your Holiness.Copy !req
661. Good evening, Reverend.Copy !req
662. Looks as though
you should have shaved closer.Copy !req
663. Good evening, Reverend.
I do beg your pardon.Copy !req
664. Miss...?Copy !req
665. - Everdeane.
- Miss Everdeane.Copy !req
666. Now, gentlemen, over here,
if you don't mind. Thank you.Copy !req
667. Open it. Hold it up.Copy !req
668. Into the mirror.Copy !req
669. That one.Copy !req
670. Our queen has chosen.Copy !req
671. Sir...Copy !req
672. - your lady.
- Right.Copy !req
673. Regular services are held
at the church at 6 and 8.Copy !req
674. Go to hell.Copy !req
675. - What do you think you're doing?
- Dancing.Copy !req
676. - I said, why'd you pick me?
- That's none of your business.Copy !req
677. Would you mind telling me?Copy !req
678. I'm sorry.Copy !req
679. Goddamn it!Copy !req
680. I'm sorry.
I'm not much of a dancer.Copy !req
681. Just try to keep calm.Copy !req
682. - I never been to a stepping-ken before.
- Lt's best not to look down.Copy !req
683. You can hold me tighter if you like.Copy !req
684. - All right?
- Aye.Copy !req
685. So why didn't you dance with Johnny?Copy !req
686. Because...Copy !req
687. I didn't want him.Copy !req
688. I'm not wanting this.Copy !req
689. - Wait.
- What?Copy !req
690. Wait.Copy !req
691. How does this open?Copy !req
692. It takes too long to lace back up.
We'll be here all night.Copy !req
693. Sure, all right, I'll take it off.Copy !req
694. There was a baby.
They cut it out.Copy !req
695. I'm sorry.Copy !req
696. Oh, it's fine.Copy !req
697. Have you got any scars?Copy !req
698. One or two.Copy !req
699. What's that, then?Copy !req
700. That?Copy !req
701. It's a gift from Mr. Cutting.Copy !req
702. A gift?Copy !req
703. A gift.Copy !req
704. Was it your birthday?Copy !req
705. No.Copy !req
706. What'd you give him, then?Copy !req
707. The answer to that
has nothing to do with you.Copy !req
708. - Don't tell me you're angry with me.
- No.Copy !req
709. I'm through with you.Copy !req
710. Well, you're quicker
than most fellows.Copy !req
711. Generally, they wait till afterwards.Copy !req
712. I ain't interested
in the Butcher's leavings.Copy !req
713. Hey! Bill says
keep clear of the pikers.Copy !req
714. - Fifteen to one, Bug-Eye Moran.
- Amsterdam!Copy !req
715. Everyone was working
for the Butcher.Copy !req
716. We ran his errands,
made his money...Copy !req
717. took a piece and said,
"Thank you, sir."Copy !req
718. - Gentlemen, it's a raid!
- Even Tweed.Copy !req
719. - The fight's over.
- Even me.Copy !req
720. - All right, you stupid...
- My father's son.Copy !req
721. - What the hell is this?
- Sorry, Bill.Copy !req
722. The city ordinance against boxiana's
a blight, I grant you, but some...Copy !req
723. I'm losing revenue while you speechify.
Collect those bets!Copy !req
724. How do I collect
if no one won the fight?Copy !req
725. This counts as a "no decision."
You got that covered, right?Copy !req
726. Didn't anybody pay off the police?Copy !req
727. We paid the Municipal Police.
This is Metropolitan.Copy !req
728. - You'll repay me every cent.
- Mr. Tweed...Copy !req
729. - Who asked for your opinion?
- Let him speak!Copy !req
730. He don't answer to you.Copy !req
731. The law says there's no boxing
in the city, right?Copy !req
732. - That's right. In the city.
- Well, where does the city end?Copy !req
733. The winner, in the 75th round...Copy !req
734. Allow me to acknowledge the man whose
vision and enterprise made possible...Copy !req
735. the staging of this noble combat...Copy !req
736. in these awe-inspiring
and entirely legal surroundings:Copy !req
737. Mr. William Cutting!Copy !req
738. And... And his young associate!Copy !req
739. That's you, boy.Copy !req
740. Come on, get in there.
Come on, son.Copy !req
741. You done very good.
How do you like them apples?Copy !req
742. We done good.
We done all right.Copy !req
743. - While I have your attention...
- It was a good show.Copy !req
744. may I remind you of the wonders
that await you...Copy !req
745. at my muzeum located on Broadway!Copy !req
746. P.T. Barnum's Gallery of Wonders!Copy !req
747. - That's my money!
- Get your hands out of me pockets!Copy !req
748. It's a funny feeling being took
under the wing of a dragon.Copy !req
749. It's warmer than you think.Copy !req
750. That's the building of our country
right there, Mr. Cutting.Copy !req
751. Americans aborning.Copy !req
752. I don't see no Americans.
I see trespassers.Copy !req
753. Irish harps will do a job for a nickel
what a nigger does for a dime...Copy !req
754. and a white man used to get
a quarter for.Copy !req
755. What have they done?
Name one thing they've contributed.Copy !req
756. - Votes.
- Votes, you say?Copy !req
757. They vote how the archbishop
tells them. And who tells him?Copy !req
758. Their king in the pointy hat
what sits on his throne in Rome.Copy !req
759. Bill's got mixed feelings
as regards the Irish.Copy !req
760. Deliver these good and fervent folk
to the polls on a regular basis...Copy !req
761. and there'll be a handsome price
for each vote goes Tammany's way.Copy !req
762. My father gave his life
making this country what it is.Copy !req
763. Murdered by the British with all his men
on the 25th of July, anno Domini 1814.Copy !req
764. You think I'm gonna help you
befoul his legacy...Copy !req
765. by giving this country over to them
what's had no hand in fighting for it?Copy !req
766. Why? Because they come off a boat,
crawling with lice and begging for soup?Copy !req
767. You're a great one for the fighting,
I know, but you can't fight forever.Copy !req
768. - I can go down doing it.
- And you will.Copy !req
769. What did you say?Copy !req
770. I said, you're turning your back
on the future.Copy !req
771. Not our future.Copy !req
772. That document makes you a citizen. This
makes you a private in the Union Army.Copy !req
773. Now go fight for your country.Copy !req
774. Next.Copy !req
775. Sign here, son.
Or make your mark.Copy !req
776. You're in the Army now.
Three square meals a day.Copy !req
777. Uniforms first, then weapons.Copy !req
778. - I haven't eaten in two days.
- Keep moving, men.Copy !req
779. There's your musket.
Keep it dry on the boat.Copy !req
780. - Same for this cartridge case.
- Where are we going?Copy !req
781. - I heard Tennessee.
- Where's that?Copy !req
782. Do they feed us now, do you think?Copy !req
783. My children! My children!Copy !req
784. We must heal the divisions
between us.Copy !req
785. This war must cease.Copy !req
786. North and South must stand united!Copy !req
787. You're a liar! Rubbish!Copy !req
788. - What happens at the finish, then?
- Then we have ourselves a rowdy-dow.Copy !req
789. - Ain't you been to the theater before?
- No.Copy !req
790. Mr. Legree, lay down your whip.Copy !req
791. Miss Eliza,
join hands with Mr. Shelby.Copy !req
792. And, Topsy, dear little Topsy,
cradle Uncle Tom's head.Copy !req
793. Leave the nigger dead!Copy !req
794. Get me down!Copy !req
795. Down with the Union!Copy !req
796. Down with the Union!Copy !req
797. Down with the Union!Copy !req
798. - Down with the Union!
- Down with the Union!Copy !req
799. - For the blood of the Irish!
- Bill, get down!Copy !req
800. Somebody's popped the Butcher!Copy !req
801. Stifle that rat bastard down!Copy !req
802. God, forgive me.Copy !req
803. Whose man are you?Copy !req
804. Speak smart and speak up.Copy !req
805. What's he saying, boy?Copy !req
806. I think he's making his peace
with God.Copy !req
807. The hell with that.
He makes peace with me.Copy !req
808. I'm hearing confession tonight,
you mother-whoring Irish nigger!Copy !req
809. Whose man are you?
We speak English in this country.Copy !req
810. Whose man are you?
See this knife?Copy !req
811. I'm gonna teach you to speak English
with this fucking knife!Copy !req
812. Whose man are you?Copy !req
813. Whose man are you?Copy !req
814. Well, that didn't tell us very much.Copy !req
815. Fine waistcoat.Copy !req
816. Shame about it.
I don't think it can be mended.Copy !req
817. Will I keep it as a souvenir?Copy !req
818. Where's Legree? Where's Mopsy?Copy !req
819. Tragedians, let's continue.
Intermission is over!Copy !req
820. Now that was bloody Shakespearean.Copy !req
821. - What?
- Do you know who Shakespeare was?Copy !req
822. He was the fellow who wrote
the King James Bible.Copy !req
823. I don't know what you're talking about.Copy !req
824. That's because you're a thick,
ignorant, barbarous Irish whelp.Copy !req
825. Just like your father.Copy !req
826. That's it.Copy !req
827. Tear my head off and destruct the world,
just like the rest of the stupid Irish.Copy !req
828. - That's why I never ran with your dad.
- Get off me, you crazy bastard!Copy !req
829. It means, if you're not strong,
you'd better be smart.Copy !req
830. I don't know if you're being
too clever or too dumb.Copy !req
831. Whichever it is,
just remember this much.Copy !req
832. For all his faults, your father
was a man who loved his people.Copy !req
833. Amsterdam! Amsterdam!Copy !req
834. New York is calling you.Copy !req
835. Look at that.
What in Christ's name is that?Copy !req
836. Rhythms of the Dark Continent thrown
into the kettle with an Irish shindig.Copy !req
837. Stir it around a few times, pull it out,
it's a fine American mess.Copy !req
838. A jig doing a jig.Copy !req
839. A little keepsake.Copy !req
840. - Good on you, sir.
- Come upstairs with me, Bill.Copy !req
841. Have I ever had you before?Copy !req
842. So you don't call me
by my Christian name.Copy !req
843. Bill! Thank God you're all right.Copy !req
844. I heard the news
and came as quick as I could.Copy !req
845. You're as timely as the Angel of Death.Copy !req
846. Bill, you're not suggesting that I would
stoop to what you're suggesting?Copy !req
847. Stop slabbering. If I thought it was you,
you'd be in a wooden coat.Copy !req
848. The hole in my shoulder hurts,
so have a drink and shut up.Copy !req
849. Or shut up and get out.Copy !req
850. I believe I'll have a drink.Copy !req
851. Careful, Tweedy,
the mort's frenchified.Copy !req
852. No, no, I'm clean.
Come on, let's go to the bar.Copy !req
853. - Jenny.
- Bill.Copy !req
854. It's gotta be tight.Copy !req
855. She loves to make me cry.Copy !req
856. You can take it.Copy !req
857. There's my boy.Copy !req
858. It's all right.Copy !req
859. To the Butcher.Copy !req
860. We're all much obliged.Copy !req
861. Forever.Copy !req
862. - Bill the Butcher.
- To the Butcher.Copy !req
863. Why don't you get out of here, Johnny?Copy !req
864. Go on. Go.Copy !req
865. Is there anyone in the Five Points
you haven't fucked?Copy !req
866. You!Copy !req
867. Calm down!Copy !req
868. Try it and I'll bite you!Copy !req
869. If you were gonna bite me,
I don't think you'd warn me, huh?Copy !req
870. Find out.Copy !req
871. I can't sleep.Copy !req
872. I hope you don't mind us
laying out tonight here, sir.Copy !req
873. Whatever takes your fancy,
my young friend.Copy !req
874. Is it your shoulder
that's keeping you up?Copy !req
875. No, I don't never sleep too much.Copy !req
876. I have to sleep with one eye open.
I only got one eye, right?Copy !req
877. How old are you, Amsterdam?Copy !req
878. I'm not too sure.Copy !req
879. I never did figure it.Copy !req
880. I'm 47.Copy !req
881. Forty-seven years old.Copy !req
882. You know how I stayed alive this long?
All these years?Copy !req
883. Fear.Copy !req
884. The spectacle of fearsome acts.Copy !req
885. Somebody steals from me,
I cut off his hands.Copy !req
886. He offends me,
I cut out his tongue.Copy !req
887. He rises against me,
I cut off his head, stick it on a pike...Copy !req
888. and raise it high up
so all in the streets can see.Copy !req
889. That's what preserves
the order of things.Copy !req
890. Fear.Copy !req
891. That one tonight...Copy !req
892. who was he?Copy !req
893. A nobody.Copy !req
894. A coward.Copy !req
895. What an ignominious end
that would have been.Copy !req
896. I killed the last honorable man
15 years ago. Since then, it's...Copy !req
897. You've seen his portrait downstairs?Copy !req
898. Is your mouth glued up with
cunny juice? I asked you a question!Copy !req
899. I said, I seen it, sir.Copy !req
900. Oh, you got a murderous rage
in you, and I like it.Copy !req
901. It's life boiling up inside of you.
It's good.Copy !req
902. The Priest and me,
we lived by the same principles.Copy !req
903. It was only faith divided us.Copy !req
904. He give me this, you know.Copy !req
905. That was the finest beating
I ever took.Copy !req
906. My face was pulp...Copy !req
907. my guts was pierced
and my ribs was all mashed up.Copy !req
908. And when he came to finish me...Copy !req
909. I couldn't look him in the eye.Copy !req
910. He spared me because
he wanted me to live in shame.Copy !req
911. This was a great man.Copy !req
912. A great man.Copy !req
913. So I cut out the eye that looked away.Copy !req
914. Sent it to him, wrapped in blue paper.Copy !req
915. I would have cut them both out
if I could have fought him blind.Copy !req
916. Then I rose back up again
with a full heart...Copy !req
917. and buried him in his own blood.Copy !req
918. Well done.Copy !req
919. He was the only man I ever killed
worth remembering.Copy !req
920. I never had a son.Copy !req
921. Civilization is crumbling.Copy !req
922. God bless you.Copy !req
923. If you got anything to say...Copy !req
924. now is the time to say it.Copy !req
925. Who is he to you, Jenny?Copy !req
926. I was 12 years old.Copy !req
927. My mother was dead.
I was living in a doorway.Copy !req
928. He took me in, took care of me...Copy !req
929. in his own way.Copy !req
930. After they cut out the baby...Copy !req
931. Well, he doesn't fancy girls
that scarred up.Copy !req
932. You should know in your own mind...Copy !req
933. that he never laid a hand on me
until I asked him to.Copy !req
934. Who are you?Copy !req
935. Who are you?Copy !req
936. Gentlemen. Fine gentlemen,
you are most welcome...Copy !req
937. to this palace of wonder
and enchantment...Copy !req
938. where visions to rival the finest
imaginings of Scheherezade...Copy !req
939. and her tales from
the perfumed nights of Arabia...Copy !req
940. will greet your famished eyes.Copy !req
941. What am I bid for this
flaxen-haired Teutonic beauty?Copy !req
942. Feast your eyes on the magnificent
plumage of these exotic creatures.Copy !req
943. Gentlemen, you've seen
our caged birds.Copy !req
944. Well, how'd you like
to make them sing?Copy !req
945. Let me see the color of your money,
and they could be singing for you.Copy !req
946. May God put the steel of the Holy Spirit
in my spine...Copy !req
947. and the love of the Blessed Virgin
in my heart.Copy !req
948. Amen.Copy !req
949. Easy now.Copy !req
950. What did you say?Copy !req
951. He's not who he says he is.Copy !req
952. He's not who he says he is?Copy !req
953. What am I bid? What am I bid?
What am I bid?Copy !req
954. Count your blessings
he considers you a friend.Copy !req
955. The only thing he considers, every day
and every night, is how best to kill you.Copy !req
956. You got a loose tongue in your head.
You want me to take it out for you?Copy !req
957. I'll bury it right up your fundament
where it belongs.Copy !req
958. I can read right through you.
You're empty...Copy !req
959. His name is Vallon!Copy !req
960. Don't do it, Bill. His name's Vallon.Copy !req
961. They're curious people,
these Celestials.Copy !req
962. Don't trust this guy.Copy !req
963. - Know why he wears short sleeves?
- Why?Copy !req
964. So everyone can see
he's got nothing stashed.Copy !req
965. Jesus, let's hope that never
becomes the fashion.Copy !req
966. Johnny.Copy !req
967. Get up.Copy !req
968. Ladies and gentlemen,
if I may have your kind attention.Copy !req
969. As some of you have surely noticed...Copy !req
970. our friend and benefactor
Mr. William Cutting...Copy !req
971. is tonight wearing a waistcoat
of certain distinction.Copy !req
972. Might we...Copy !req
973. Might we tonight appeal
to him to favor us...Copy !req
974. with another exciting exhibition
of skill...Copy !req
975. courage, daring and drama!Copy !req
976. - The Sword of Damascus!
- The Tomahawk!Copy !req
977. Bill's going up.Copy !req
978. Show us your knives.Copy !req
979. Strut your stuff, Billy boy.Copy !req
980. Sword of Damascus!Copy !req
981. - The Spider's Kiss!
- The River of Blood!Copy !req
982. - The Morning Glory!
- The Wheel of Death!Copy !req
983. - William Tell!
- The Butterfly!Copy !req
984. - The Tomahawk!
- The Spider's Kiss!Copy !req
985. The Butcher's Apprentice!Copy !req
986. The Butcher's Apprentice.Copy !req
987. - Command performance.
- Command performance.Copy !req
988. - Command performance.
- Where have you been?Copy !req
989. A command performance indeed!Copy !req
990. - Get out of here.
- Don't do it.Copy !req
991. And for this I must beg the indulgence
of my former assistant...Copy !req
992. in matters of impalement.Copy !req
993. The Butcher's original apprentice.Copy !req
994. What do you say, Jen?
One more time for the sweet souvenir?Copy !req
995. Come on.Copy !req
996. Don't you do it.Copy !req
997. Good girl, Jenny.Copy !req
998. - Don't be afraid.
- What a woman.Copy !req
999. Good evening, Bill.Copy !req
1000. She'll be all right.Copy !req
1001. - Remember this?
- Of course.Copy !req
1002. You may feel more comfortable
without that garment, Miss Everdeane.Copy !req
1003. You'll have to filch me a new one, Bill.Copy !req
1004. Anything in your pockets tonight?Copy !req
1005. Oh, I ain't started working yet.Copy !req
1006. What about that locket
that I gave you?Copy !req
1007. Apologies, my dear. Pick it up.Copy !req
1008. Whoopsie-daisy!Copy !req
1009. Now it's good and broke.Copy !req
1010. I can't seem to get anything
right tonight.Copy !req
1011. You got the sand to give them
a grand finale?Copy !req
1012. Maybe when you're aiming
a little straighter.Copy !req
1013. Still got some blood in you, Jen?
Enough of this heathen music!Copy !req
1014. Get rid of these goddamn monkeys.
Strike up, boys!Copy !req
1015. Ready? This is a night for Americans!Copy !req
1016. - Jenny!
- Get your hands off me.Copy !req
1017. - Go away.
- Get your hands off me!Copy !req
1018. Move.Copy !req
1019. Amsterdam!Copy !req
1020. Hats off!Copy !req
1021. We hold in our hearts the memory
of our fallen brothers...Copy !req
1022. whose blood stains the very streets
we walk today.Copy !req
1023. Also on this night, we pay tribute
to the leader of our enemies...Copy !req
1024. an honorable man
who crossed over bravely...Copy !req
1025. fighting for what he believed in.Copy !req
1026. To defeat my enemy,
I extinguish his life...Copy !req
1027. and consume him
as I consume these flames.Copy !req
1028. In honor of Priest Vallon.Copy !req
1029. That's a wound.Copy !req
1030. God!Copy !req
1031. I want you all to meet
the son of Priest Vallon.Copy !req
1032. I took him under my wing...Copy !req
1033. and see how I'm repaid?Copy !req
1034. - You bastard!
- Saves my life one day...Copy !req
1035. so he can kill me the next
like a sneak-thief...Copy !req
1036. instead of fighting like a man.Copy !req
1037. A base defiler,
unworthy of a noble name.Copy !req
1038. God! Jesus!Copy !req
1039. All right, that'll do, McGloin.
Splay him out.Copy !req
1040. This show ain't for blackies.
You! You get to watch.Copy !req
1041. Don't you hear, nigger?Copy !req
1042. This is fresh meat.
You know what I mean?Copy !req
1043. We need to tenderize this meat
a little bit.Copy !req
1044. All right, let's kiss good night
to that pretty young face of yours.Copy !req
1045. No!Copy !req
1046. No!Copy !req
1047. What'll it be, then? Rib or chop?
Loin or shank?Copy !req
1048. - The liver!
- The spleen!Copy !req
1049. - The tongue!
- Kidneys!Copy !req
1050. - The lungs!
- The liver!Copy !req
1051. - The tongue!
- The kidneys!Copy !req
1052. - The stomach!
- The heart! The heart!Copy !req
1053. The heart? This boy has no heart.Copy !req
1054. - Then kill him!
- Kill him!Copy !req
1055. He ain't earned a death.
He ain't earned a death at my hands.Copy !req
1056. No. He'll walk amongst you
marked with shame...Copy !req
1057. a freak worthy of Barnum's
Muzeum of Wonders.Copy !req
1058. Goïs only man spared
by the Butcher.Copy !req
1059. No, Bill!Copy !req
1060. No! No!Copy !req
1061. No! No! No!Copy !req
1062. No! No! No!Copy !req
1063. Here. Here!Copy !req
1064. This way. Come on. Come on!Copy !req
1065. I wanna show you something.Copy !req
1066. My mother's bones share this grave.Copy !req
1067. I've saved 10 cents out of every dollar
I've ever earned since I was 13.Copy !req
1068. That's $ 215.Copy !req
1069. That's $215 for bludgeting
and the rest.Copy !req
1070. This is what I wanted to show you.Copy !req
1071. This is where we're gonna go
as soon as you get well.Copy !req
1072. San francisco, California.Copy !req
1073. You can have anything you want
out there.Copy !req
1074. These men are pulling gold right out
of the river with their own hands.Copy !req
1075. We're here, and we need to get there.Copy !req
1076. We start here, go down around here...Copy !req
1077. to San francisco.Copy !req
1078. Shortest way to go.Copy !req
1079. Would you go with me?Copy !req
1080. No need to fire that, miss.
Or even aim it.Copy !req
1081. An audience with your mangled friend
is all I want.Copy !req
1082. I got 44 notches in my club.Copy !req
1083. Do you know what they're for?Copy !req
1084. To remind me of what I owe God
when I die.Copy !req
1085. My father was killed in battle too.Copy !req
1086. In Ireland, in the streets...Copy !req
1087. fighting those who would take
as their privilege...Copy !req
1088. what could only be got and held
by the decimation of a race.Copy !req
1089. That war is 1000 years old or more.Copy !req
1090. We never expected it to follow us here.Copy !req
1091. It didn't.Copy !req
1092. It was waiting for us when we landed.Copy !req
1093. Your father tried to carve out a corner
in this country for his tribe.Copy !req
1094. That was him.
That was his Dead Rabbits.Copy !req
1095. I often wondered,
if he'd lived a bit longer...Copy !req
1096. would he have wanted a bit more?Copy !req
1097. Why'd you rifle through
his pockets then?Copy !req
1098. For safekeeping.Copy !req
1099. I thought maybe you could do with it.Copy !req
1100. The blood stays on the blade.Copy !req
1101. That's a sorry-looking pelt.Copy !req
1102. And it's been so nice and quiet
for the last three months.Copy !req
1103. Tell me, this charge,
does it sit uneasy with you?Copy !req
1104. No, it's...Copy !req
1105. not uneasy, Bill.Copy !req
1106. No, I wouldn't say that.Copy !req
1107. But my allegiance is to the law.Copy !req
1108. I'm paid to uphold the law.Copy !req
1109. What in heaven's name
are you talking about?Copy !req
1110. You may have misgivings,
but don't go believing that.Copy !req
1111. That way lies damnation.Copy !req
1112. I'm in no danger of damnation, Bill.Copy !req
1113. Here's the thing.Copy !req
1114. I don't give a tuppenny fuck
about your moral conundrum...Copy !req
1115. you meatheaded shit-sack.Copy !req
1116. That's more or less the thing.Copy !req
1117. And I want you to go out there...
You, nobody else.Copy !req
1118. None of your little minions.
I want you to go out there...Copy !req
1119. and I want you...Copy !req
1120. to punish the person...Copy !req
1121. who's responsible...Copy !req
1122. for murdering
this poor little rabbit.Copy !req
1123. Is that understood?Copy !req
1124. Right.Copy !req
1125. Help yourself to some decent meat
on the way out.Copy !req
1126. Damn it.Copy !req
1127. Is that you, boy?Copy !req
1128. I didn't mean nothing
by that shot, you know.Copy !req
1129. You scared me is all.Copy !req
1130. Sure you know I'd never do you harm.Copy !req
1131. Come out now, lad.Copy !req
1132. Remember your father and me.Copy !req
1133. Are you too young to remember
your old Uncle Jack?Copy !req
1134. Oh, the times we had.Copy !req
1135. You know I won't hurt you.Copy !req
1136. Is he dead?Copy !req
1137. I'm gonna get Andrew.
Andrew, come see.Copy !req
1138. Andrew, come see, quick!
Everybody, quick!Copy !req
1139. This is bad for everybody.
What's next? Dead politicians?Copy !req
1140. I could spare half a dozen of you
easier than I can spare him.Copy !req
1141. Still, I think it shows dash.Copy !req
1142. Give the boy some time.
We'll settle with a good dustup.Copy !req
1143. There's more of us coming
off these ships every day.Copy !req
1144. I heard 15,000 Irish a week.Copy !req
1145. And we're afraid of the Natives.Copy !req
1146. Get all of us together,
we ain't got a gang. We got an army.Copy !req
1147. And all you neeïs a spark, right?
Just one spark.Copy !req
1148. Something to wake us all up.Copy !req
1149. It was me played you false.Copy !req
1150. - I'd take it back if I could.
- Take it back?Copy !req
1151. Johnny, I gotta kill you.Copy !req
1152. Get out of the Points
and don't come back.Copy !req
1153. Where you going, boyo?Copy !req
1154. Come along.Copy !req
1155. Come on.Copy !req
1156. Tell us, John, what's the trouble?Copy !req
1157. No trouble, Bill.Copy !req
1158. Still hiding out with your friends?Copy !req
1159. No, I'm... I'm not with them, Bill.Copy !req
1160. I'm with you. I'm with the Natives.Copy !req
1161. You always was a Native
as far as I'm interested, John...Copy !req
1162. till you became a stag.Copy !req
1163. You tell me you're a Native.
Do you want to know what a Native is?Copy !req
1164. A Native is a man...Copy !req
1165. what's willing to give his life
for his country...Copy !req
1166. like my father done.Copy !req
1167. Are you willing to do that,
my young friend?Copy !req
1168. John. Johnny!Copy !req
1169. Johnny?Copy !req
1170. John...Copy !req
1171. It hurts too much.Copy !req
1172. Just kill me.Copy !req
1173. Just kill me.Copy !req
1174. Please, please.Copy !req
1175. Please.Copy !req
1176. Please.Copy !req
1177. I'm sorry, Johnny.Copy !req
1178. Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us sinners...Copy !req
1179. now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.Copy !req
1180. Rest in peace, Ma.Copy !req
1181. What're you doing here, boyo?Copy !req
1182. What's a nigger doing in this church?Copy !req
1183. What's a Dead Rabbit doing
with the Natives?Copy !req
1184. There's no niggers in the Natives.
Natives and Rabbits is one thing.Copy !req
1185. A nigger in the church
is something else!Copy !req
1186. You run with the Natives,
pray with them!Copy !req
1187. You're gonna wind up on a stake
like your man did!Copy !req
1188. McGloin.Copy !req
1189. Father! Jesus, did you know
there's a nigger in your church?Copy !req
1190. Jesus.Copy !req
1191. The earth turns...Copy !req
1192. but we don't feel it move.Copy !req
1193. Then one night you look up.Copy !req
1194. One spark, and the sky is on fire.Copy !req
1195. It's a touching spectacle.Copy !req
1196. We'll come back
when you're ready for us.Copy !req
1197. The past is the torch
that lights our way.Copy !req
1198. Where our fathers have shown us
the path, we shall follow.Copy !req
1199. Our faith is the weapon most feared
by our enemies.Copy !req
1200. For thereby shall we lift our people up
against those who would destroy us.Copy !req
1201. Our name is called the Dead Rabbits
to remind all of our suffering...Copy !req
1202. and as a call to those who suffer still
to join our ranks...Copy !req
1203. however so far they may have strayed
from our common home across the sea.Copy !req
1204. For with great numbers
must come great strength...Copy !req
1205. and the salvation of our people.Copy !req
1206. - We don't want your business.
- How many men live here?Copy !req
1207. - You have to register.
- You can't force me to join.Copy !req
1208. - Have you got $300?
- Of course not.Copy !req
1209. - Who's got $300?
- If you're drafted, release from service...Copy !req
1210. can only be secured for $300,
according to the Conscription Act.Copy !req
1211. - Otherwise, you have to serve!
- Who the hell's got $300?Copy !req
1212. You have to serve, sir,
unless you have $300!Copy !req
1213. - Boys!
- Go back to where you came from!Copy !req
1214. I'm born in this country. You immigrated
here. You will fight for this country!Copy !req
1215. Sweet Jesus!
War does terrible things to men.Copy !req
1216. - Get back uptown where you belong!
- $300? So it's another rich man's war.Copy !req
1217. Sir, I request an audience
with this man.Copy !req
1218. No one speak English
in New York anymore?Copy !req
1219. - Don't understand.
- You do speak English.Copy !req
1220. I wonder if Miss Everdeane could
angle her rifle in some other direction.Copy !req
1221. I wonder, Mr. Vallon, if you understand
the true value of this sort of publicity.Copy !req
1222. The archbishop himself, shoulder to
shoulder with the Irish in the Five Points.Copy !req
1223. I'm offering to form an alliance
with you against Bill Cutting...Copy !req
1224. and his slate
of Nativist candidates.Copy !req
1225. I'll negotiate a handsome fee for every
Irish vote you send Tammany's way...Copy !req
1226. in the coming elections.Copy !req
1227. I need a new friend
in the Five Points, son.Copy !req
1228. I'd like that friend to be you.Copy !req
1229. Now, just a moment, Mr. Tweed.Copy !req
1230. Suppose we do
get you those votes.Copy !req
1231. Would you back an Irish candidate
of my choosing?Copy !req
1232. - I don't think so.
- What if we get you all the Irish votes?Copy !req
1233. That will only happen
in the reign of Queen Dick.Copy !req
1234. - Beg your pardon?
- It will never happen.Copy !req
1235. I might be persuaded to back an
Irish candidate for, say, alderman.Copy !req
1236. - Alderman?
- We've already got Irish aldermen.Copy !req
1237. - So we have. That's why...
- Well, what's bigger than alderman?Copy !req
1238. Sheriff. Sheriff.
All right, Mr. Tweed.Copy !req
1239. You back an Irishman for sheriff
of the city and county of New York...Copy !req
1240. and we'll get him elected.Copy !req
1241. I love the Irish, but higher than alderman
you shall never climb.Copy !req
1242. - Well, why not?
- For one thing, no man living...Copy !req
1243. - can consolidate the Irish vote.
- I can.Copy !req
1244. And for another,
I mean no effrontery...Copy !req
1245. no one's yet found an Irish candidate
for sheriff worth voting for.Copy !req
1246. Monk.Copy !req
1247. Here.Copy !req
1248. He's to have me looking as sober
as me own grandfather.Copy !req
1249. - Another great man, I'm sure.
- A thorough drunken bastard.Copy !req
1250. Could I say what I want?Copy !req
1251. Well, that's why I wanted you.Copy !req
1252. Our elected representatives
are a gang of thieves...Copy !req
1253. who swear to better our lot...Copy !req
1254. while dipping their hands deep
into our pockets.Copy !req
1255. I stand shoulder to shoulder with
community leaders like Bill Cutting...Copy !req
1256. against any and all inroads
into our fine democracy.Copy !req
1257. I'll see to it that no one takes away what
you've earned by pluck and application.Copy !req
1258. To invading hordes of Hibernians!Copy !req
1259. You go to the polls and you put your
mark next to the name Walter McGinn.Copy !req
1260. Against the potato eaters, like them
over there, thieving our jobs!Copy !req
1261. Why should so many
Irish die down south...Copy !req
1262. when the first war to win is not down
in Dixie, but right here in these streets?Copy !req
1263. And who's the finest street fighter
in the Five Points?Copy !req
1264. - Monk!
- That's right.Copy !req
1265. Now, let the whole damn city hear it!Copy !req
1266. That man was right born for this.Copy !req
1267. Well, he's killed 44 men,
laid low a couple hundred more.Copy !req
1268. - Is that right?
- That's right.Copy !req
1269. I should have run him for mayor.Copy !req
1270. All right, line them up.
It's election day!Copy !req
1271. Not so fast,
you little yellow bastard!Copy !req
1272. Come on!Copy !req
1273. Come on, you bastard,
we need your vote.Copy !req
1274. Bastard? I fought for you, nigger.
I lost an arm for you.Copy !req
1275. Well, that's a start.
Now, come on.Copy !req
1276. Rise and shine.
Rise and shine.Copy !req
1277. In this great country of ours,
even the hop fiends get to vote!Copy !req
1278. Less art and more haste, Don.Copy !req
1279. - Where are you going?
- I already voted today.Copy !req
1280. Cast for Monk and Tammany,
by God. Twice.Copy !req
1281. Twice? Only twice? You call that doing
your civic duty? Come with me.Copy !req
1282. Oh, no, you don't.
Get back and sit down.Copy !req
1283. Here's another one.
Clean him up good.Copy !req
1284. Shave their beards and send them back
to vote again.Copy !req
1285. All right, boys. Vote Monk, Tammany.
Monk, Tammany!Copy !req
1286. So, gentlemen, what our great city
needs is a new courthouse.Copy !req
1287. I propose it should be a modest,
economical structure.Copy !req
1288. Excuse me one moment.Copy !req
1289. Monk's already won by 3000
more votes than there are voters.Copy !req
1290. Three? Make it 20, 30. We don't need
a victory. We need a Roman triumph!Copy !req
1291. - But we don't have any more ballots.
- Remember the first rule of politics:Copy !req
1292. The ballots don't make the results,
the counters make the results.Copy !req
1293. Keep counting.Copy !req
1294. It's from Bill.Copy !req
1295. Monk.Copy !req
1296. Citizens of the Five Points...Copy !req
1297. Mr. Bill Cutting is attempting
to draw me into an argument...Copy !req
1298. that would no doubt end in bloodshed
and the compromising of my office.Copy !req
1299. What do you think?Copy !req
1300. Should I engage in silence
this relic of the ancient law?Copy !req
1301. Or shall I be your chosen voice
in a new testament, in the new world?Copy !req
1302. There you are, Bill.Copy !req
1303. The people have spoken.Copy !req
1304. The very notion of violent reprisal
benumbs them.Copy !req
1305. Come on up.Copy !req
1306. Let's see if we can resolve
our grievances the democratic way.Copy !req
1307. That, my friends,
is the minority vote.Copy !req
1308. Now you've tasted my mutton.
How do you like it?Copy !req
1309. Look.Copy !req
1310. I want you to see this.Copy !req
1311. This is you. Right here.Copy !req
1312. Notch 45, you Irish bog bastard.Copy !req
1313. Why don't you burn him,
see if his ashes turn green.Copy !req
1314. Fortune favors the bold!Copy !req
1315. - You killed an elected official?
- Who elected him?Copy !req
1316. You don't know what
you've done to yourself.Copy !req
1317. I know your works.Copy !req
1318. You are neither cold nor hot.Copy !req
1319. So because you are lukewarm,
I will spew you out of my mouth.Copy !req
1320. You can build your filthy world
without me.Copy !req
1321. I took the father.
Now I'll take the son.Copy !req
1322. You tell young Vallon I'm gonna
paint Paradise Square with his blood.Copy !req
1323. Two coats.Copy !req
1324. I'll festoon my bedchamber
with his guts.Copy !req
1325. As for you,
Mr. Tammany-fucking-Hall...Copy !req
1326. you come down
to the Points again...Copy !req
1327. and you'll be dispatched
by mine own hand.Copy !req
1328. Now get back to your celebration
and let me eat in peace. I paid you fair.Copy !req
1329. Stop.Copy !req
1330. Raise.Copy !req
1331. You son of a bitch!Copy !req
1332. Challenge.Copy !req
1333. Challenge accepted.Copy !req
1334. And then it came,
the first day of the draft.Copy !req
1335. Thomas O'Neill. Andrew Lewis.
Joseph flynn.Copy !req
1336. They read out the draftees ' names
like they was dead already.Copy !req
1337. Andrew Martin. J.B. Gleason.Copy !req
1338. - The O'Connell Guard.
- The Plug Uglies.Copy !req
1339. - As for us, the tribes were gathered.
- Forty Thieves.Copy !req
1340. - The Chichesters.
- The drums was beating.Copy !req
1341. The Dead Rabbits.Copy !req
1342. - The American Guard.
- The Atlantic Guard.Copy !req
1343. - The Slaughter Housers.
- The Bowery Boys.Copy !req
1344. The Confederation
of American Natives.Copy !req
1345. James Mooney.Copy !req
1346. But all we could see
was the hand in front of us.Copy !req
1347. Sean O'Connell.Copy !req
1348. G.W. Morris. John Doyle.Copy !req
1349. - When?
- Whenever you like.Copy !req
1350. - Daybreak tomorrow.
- Ground?Copy !req
1351. Paradise Square.Copy !req
1352. Weapons?Copy !req
1353. - That I leave up to you.
- Bricks, bats, axes, knives...Copy !req
1354. Pistols?Copy !req
1355. No pistols.Copy !req
1356. Good boy.Copy !req
1357. The terms are resolved.
The council's concluded.Copy !req
1358. Thomas McEvoy. W.H. Miles.Copy !req
1359. - To hell with your damned draft!
- Give them hellfire, boys!Copy !req
1360. Rip them apart!Copy !req
1361. Kill the rich bastards!Copy !req
1362. Uptown!Copy !req
1363. You're not getting my son!Copy !req
1364. Uptown at the draft office...Copy !req
1365. the cops broke a few skulls,
and everybody run away.Copy !req
1366. But the word was spreading...Copy !req
1367. and the dark.Copy !req
1368. Up on Fifth Avenue...Copy !req
1369. the Schermerhorns and their mob
breathed a little easy.Copy !req
1370. Just a brief burst of anger
over Mr. Lincoln's draft.Copy !req
1371. Entirely justifiable in my view.Copy !req
1372. - There are two sides to that question...
- There are several sides...Copy !req
1373. but only one right side,
as with any question...Copy !req
1374. that involves the abuse
of executive power.Copy !req
1375. In any case, Mr. Greeley...Copy !req
1376. we can all be thankful
that it wasn't any worse.Copy !req
1377. It may be worse yet. I saw them.
I don't know what to think.Copy !req
1378. Now what is it that you are
so fond of saying, Mr. Tweed?Copy !req
1379. Mr. Greeley, you won't like this.
But what is it?Copy !req
1380. I don't remember.Copy !req
1381. "You can always hire one half
of the poor to kill the other half."Copy !req
1382. I've come to say goodbye.Copy !req
1383. I've booked passage for California.Copy !req
1384. Jenny, give me one more day,
and I'll go with you.Copy !req
1385. You'll be dead by then.Copy !req
1386. - Well, what would you have me do?
- I don't know.Copy !req
1387. - This will all be finished tomorrow.
- No, it won't.Copy !req
1388. No.Copy !req
1389. This whole place
is gonna burn anyway.Copy !req
1390. I've heard that the poor are going
from door to door in the Five Points...Copy !req
1391. asking those supporters
who wish to see further riots...Copy !req
1392. to place a lighted candle
in the window.Copy !req
1393. Irish, Poles, Germans, all of them.Copy !req
1394. Mr. Greeley, the city is not mad.
I prophesy a very dark night.Copy !req
1395. Nobody goes to work today!
We'll shut the factories down!Copy !req
1396. When the sun rose next,
the city had split in half.Copy !req
1397. From all over New York they came:Copy !req
1398. Ironworkers, factory boys,
street cleaners...Copy !req
1399. Irish, Polish, German...Copy !req
1400. anyone who never cared
about slavery or the Union...Copy !req
1401. anyone who couldn't buy his way out.Copy !req
1402. "Let the sons of the rich
go and die, " they cried.Copy !req
1403. "Let the sons of the poor stay home."Copy !req
1404. The earth was shaking now.Copy !req
1405. But I was about my father's business.Copy !req
1406. A bunch of fifth Avenue scums!Copy !req
1407. Almighty Lord,
you are the dagger in my hand.Copy !req
1408. Guide my hand
on this day of vengeance.Copy !req
1409. We give thanks to the Lord,
for he is good.Copy !req
1410. With you, the swift cannot flee,
nor the strong escape.Copy !req
1411. Let my sword devour until its thirst
is quenched with blood...Copy !req
1412. and my enemies sleep forever.Copy !req
1413. For you are the Lord God of Retribution.Copy !req
1414. For the Lord crushes the wicked.Copy !req
1415. The Lord is merciful...Copy !req
1416. and his love endures forever.Copy !req
1417. - Amen.
- Amen.Copy !req
1418. Amen.Copy !req
1419. - Run away, you sons of bitches!
- Come on out!Copy !req
1420. - Upstairs! Get the women upstairs!
- Father! Father!Copy !req
1421. Let's take the bastards!Copy !req
1422. The mob are sacking
houses, 27th Street and Seventh Ave.Copy !req
1423. We have no force to send.Copy !req
1424. All the stores
are closing on Eighth Avenue...Copy !req
1425. from fear of the mob in 17th Street.Copy !req
1426. Show us what you got,
you cowardly bastards!Copy !req
1427. The rioters are robbing
colored boarding houses...Copy !req
1428. and setting them on fire.
From 21st:Copy !req
1429. The mob have just broken open
gun store and are arming.Copy !req
1430. - Get the nigger! Kill him!
- Tear Tammany down!Copy !req
1431. The marshal's office is burning down.
The police is of no avail.Copy !req
1432. Show yourself, Tweed!Copy !req
1433. Two colored men brought
in almost dead.Copy !req
1434. There are more Negroes who need help.
They're being attacked all over.Copy !req
1435. Hey! There's a $300 man.
Get him!Copy !req
1436. Did your daddy buy you out of the Army?
Can he buy me out too?Copy !req
1437. There's danger of mob attacking armory,
corner 21st Street, Second Avenue.Copy !req
1438. There is about 500 stand of arms in it.Copy !req
1439. The line is dead!
They're trying to cut all the wires!Copy !req
1440. Riot at Pier 4, North River.
They have killed Negroes.Copy !req
1441. A crowd is here
and are going to destroy this station.Copy !req
1442. Get her bag! Get her bag!Copy !req
1443. From 18th Precinct:Copy !req
1444. The mob have attacked the armory.
There is danger of firing the building.Copy !req
1445. All 300 police wounded
or unaccounted for.Copy !req
1446. Find the military
and send them...Copy !req
1447. Send 100 men to disperse
mob assailing Mayor Opdyke's house.Copy !req
1448. Building set on fire by the mob.Copy !req
1449. Barnum's American Muzeum on fire.
Animals are escaping.Copy !req
1450. Let go! Let go!Copy !req
1451. Hush the shickster! Hold her down!Copy !req
1452. Gunboat Liberty and ironclad Passaic
now lying off the foot of Wall Street.Copy !req
1453. They are ready to open fire on the mob.Copy !req
1454. Very large mob going
to attack Tribune office.Copy !req
1455. Mob's coming down
to station. We have no men.Copy !req
1456. - The mob is very wild.
- 7th Regiment has arrived.Copy !req
1457. Foot of Canal, they are
on their way to Broadway.Copy !req
1458. Take your hands off me!Copy !req
1459. The mob is about 4500 strong.Copy !req
1460. They're going to burn down
Harlem Bridge. It is to be torched.Copy !req
1461. - Mr. Greeley!
- The rats have taken over the city!Copy !req
1462. There is an attack on the
colored people in Second Avenue...Copy !req
1463. Mob headed for the Colored Orphans
Asylum. Protect the children!Copy !req
1464. Rioters on Seventh Avenue,
28th Street.Copy !req
1465. - They have killed a Negro.
- Get him!Copy !req
1466. What do we do with captured prisoners?Copy !req
1467. Prisoners? Don't take any.
The mob isn't taking prisoners!Copy !req
1468. Don't take a prisoner in
until you've put the mob down!Copy !req
1469. Soldiers now on 38th Street.
The mob will not disperse.Copy !req
1470. What are your orders?
What are your orders?Copy !req
1471. - No draft! No draft!
- Show them what we think of their draft!Copy !req
1472. - Stick together!
- All right.Copy !req
1473. Troop, halt!Copy !req
1474. Present arms!Copy !req
1475. On your order, Vallon.Copy !req
1476. Hold fast, there.
Hold fast, there.Copy !req
1477. I order you to disperse!Copy !req
1478. Fire!Copy !req
1479. Fire starboard!Copy !req
1480. Starboard battery, fire!Copy !req
1481. Come on, let's go!Copy !req
1482. Fire over their heads!Copy !req
1483. Drive them into the square!Copy !req
1484. Bill!Copy !req
1485. Fire!Copy !req
1486. Advance!Copy !req
1487. Bill!Copy !req
1488. I can't walk!Copy !req
1489. Get up!Copy !req
1490. Fire!Copy !req
1491. - Bastards!
- Shang! Shang, hold off!Copy !req
1492. Thank God.Copy !req
1493. I die a true American.Copy !req
1494. Tomorrow morning,
get our people down to the docks.Copy !req
1495. I want every man and woman coming off
the boats given hot soup and bread.Copy !req
1496. We're burying a lot of votes
down here tonight.Copy !req
1497. In the end, they put candles
on the bodies so's their friends...Copy !req
1498. if they had any,
could know them in the dark.Copy !req
1499. The city did this free of charge.Copy !req
1500. Shang, Jimmy Spoils,
Hell-Cat, McGloin and more.Copy !req
1501. Friend or foe,
it didn't make no difference now.Copy !req
1502. It was four days and nights before the
worst of the mob was finally put down.Copy !req
1503. We never knew how many
New Yorkers died that week...Copy !req
1504. before the city was finally delivered.Copy !req
1505. My father told me we was all born
of blood and tribulation.Copy !req
1506. And so then too was our great city.Copy !req
1507. But for those of us what lived
and died in them furious days...Copy !req
1508. it was like everything we knew
was mightily swept away.Copy !req
1509. And no matter what they did
to build the city up again...Copy !req
1510. for the rest of time...Copy !req
1511. it would be like no one even knew
we was ever here.Copy !req