Lincoln2012

Thaddeus Stevens:
I wish you'd been present.

Lydia Hamilton Smith:
I wish I'd been.

Thaddeus Stevens:
It was a spectacle.

Lydia Hamilton Smith:
You can't bring your housekeeper to the House. I won't give them gossip. This is enough. This is... it's more than enough for now.

Thaddeus Stevens:
Read it to me again, my love.

Lydia Hamilton Smith:
Proposed.

Thaddeus Stevens:
And adopted.

Lydia Hamilton Smith:
Adopted. An amendment to the Constituion of the United States. Section One. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Thaddeus Stevens:
Section two.

Lydia Hamilton Smith:
Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.