01x34 - Conflict in the South

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I still I

know the truth will R and

fall that's just

wles a word now to the

wise the world was made change each a

surprise I'm looking at life my own eyes

I'm searching for a hero don't idiz

feeling pain as

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innocent I take my heart battle that

freed Rattle My independence declare it

on the line the for your freedom bring

and patriotic voices sing blue never

give up you represent America anding for

a brigh day I listen to heart and I oy

how can I see it any other way I'm

looking

at

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The Plan

my here are some exciting scenes from

today's episode of Liberty's Kids The

British are preparing for a large scale

foray into the South my plan is to hit

him when and where he's not EXP

expecting us then run like the wind

before he can catch us he'll have to

take new supplies from the local

population they will despise him for

that then the people in the South will

move over to our cause and Cornwallis

will withdraw I hope if we don't stop

Cornwallis there he will drive north and

Crush Virginia

Honor

General green being appointed to command

the southern Army is quite an honor

honor is an interesting word for it

James the southern Army is exhausted and

the British have a great deal of support

in the South we must rally the

population here to our side or we could

lose the w*r my greatest hope is that

the governor of Virginia will provide me

with much needed men and supplies my

greatest hope is that he'll provide us

with some much needed Southern dessert

and I'm looking forward to writing a

story about the man who wrote the words

all men are created

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equal the Governor's Mansion Just think

in a few minutes I'll be talking with

Thomas

Jefferson how do you address the author

of the Declaration of

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Jefferson

Independence your

Excellency no too

formal Mr

Jefferson no too familiar I hope we get

to see him soon I can't take much more

of this she looks kind of like a chicken

trying to dance in sticky mud sir great

to see you again Ah that's

better the governor will see you

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now sir great to see you again sir great

to see you

again sir great to see you again we met

before in Philadelphia you remember oh

maybe you don't I was disguised as a

chambermaid and I stole some of your

trash well I didn't really steal it

after all it was trash and I was just

doing some investiga reporting and I was

investigating you no that's not right I

was just trying to find out what goes on

in that brilliant mind of yours anyway

hello

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James tell me that wasn't perfectly

awful it was better than I could have

ever

hoped forgive me I was jotting down a

thought about developing free schools

that all our nation's children could

attend a pleasure

General Sir great to see you again

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and you must be

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HRI

from yum so how may I be of help to you

General Governor Jefferson the British

are preparing for a large scale foray

into the South I'm not surprised most

Southerners are country folk whose main

concern is earning their daily bread

they don't care which side they're on in

the w*r quite so here's the situation we

face this half of the desk is the

Carolinas this half

Virginia you're here the traitor

Benedict Arnold is off the coast and

corn Wallace holds strong British

positions at Georgetown Camden windsboro

and 96 oh yes and here is the small

Force Horatio Gates has left me Force I

have not yet had the pleasure of sea I

will take my forces to the Carolinas if

we don't stop Cornwallis there we will

drive north and Crush

Virginia governor I'll need Virginia

militia men and weapons if I'm to have

any chance of preventing Cornwallis from

winning the

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South I evened things out now it's a

fair

fight yours is a difficult position

General

I will help you the moment I can but

right now I have no weapons to give you

and all my militia men have served their

required time and gone home I'm afraid I

can be of no help General

green I'm

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sorry soldiers can be asked to serve

additional time but cannot be forced to

do

so the idea of a People's Army is

unfathomable I admire what governor is

saying sir giving men the right to

choose whether they will or will not

fight sounds to me like freedom but

we're in a w*r Sarah we won't have any

freedom if we have no soldiers you do

have a point James General I hope you

are successful in North Carolina and

James HRI I'll keep you up on events

here in

Virginia in the meantime I plan to find

out how Thomas Jefferson found the

inspiration to write the Declaration of

Independence

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I hope you don't end up as disappointed

in Governor Jefferson as I am be well

Sarah be

Sarah

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safe look up ahead soldiers are they

British no probably some leftover

Virginia militia

I am General Nathaniel Green who's your

commanding officer General Horatio Gates

sir at least he used to be this is the

continental army with these soldiers and

without Jefferson's militia we're no

match for the

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British you're full of good question

question

Sarah yes I think we should educate

everyone men women even sl*ves and how

exactly would you do it ah there's the

problem having ideas and implementing

them are two very different

things are they really I mean the stores

are in place the firewood has been cut

your home is secured for the winter

Master thank you great George I'll need

tuo secured as well and let let me give

you some letters for my wife and

daughter excuse me Sarah we'll talk more

later being Governor takes a great deal

of time for my family fortunately I have

help in remaining in contact with them

help you own other human beings and you

refer to them as help you own

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sl*ves you the man who wrote the

Declaration of Independence is what I

wanted to say but I didn't have the

nerve and by the way Governor Jefferson

is still unable to raise any militian to

send to General green as always

Sarah have you noticed that every week

it gets harder to tell what's in the

soup we've got the usual bear fat but

this batch looks to have beaver tail and

muskrat that can't be beaver tail it's

got a tooth in it a

tooth I'm not eating

this B first but don't complain to the

Cook poor guy has to make meals out of

anything he can

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catch there's only one way we can even

hope to beat corn Wallace beat corn

Wallace half the men aren't well enough

to walk shh come

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on my plan is to hit him when and where

he he's not expecting us then run like

the wind before he can catch us chasing

us will force Cornwallis to use up all

his supplies he'll have to take new

supplies from the local population they

will despise him for that then the

people in the South will move over to

our cause and corn Wallace will withdraw

I

hope that's his

plan where's that coming from we're

under attack take cover

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dear Sarah I don't know if General

Green's plan to get the British to chase

us all over the Carolinas is helping us

win the hearts and minds of the

population but I sure him getting to see

a lot of the country

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I do hope though that Thomas Jefferson

can convince his militia to reinforce us

before we get to see much more of

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him but Sarah how are you have you

finished your interview with Thomas

Jefferson I can't wait to read

it no James what can I possibly ask him

that wouldn't be horribly

disrespectful Governor would you please

tell your sl*ves about how all men are

created equal and on top of it all

Benedict Arnold is attacking from the

north the

traitor James we are forced to evacuate

Richmond

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sir the British are nearing the city

1,500 strong what of our militia of the

4600 men you called up only 200 have

reported that means Arnold will March

into Richmond unopposed I never thought

the traitor would make it all the way to

Richmond we must speed up our

evacuation over there in the tree seek

cover

follow in not under the

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trees we've got to get these men out of

the rain they could get struck by

lightning the trees attracted it is what

gave Benjamin Franklin his idea for the

lightning

rod I'll yield to Dr Franklin's science

away from the trees we'll try that Barn

over there let's

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go hul we heard you a coming General get

off my land Shelter From The Rain sir

that's all we require I want nothing to

do with your Insurrection you and your

men keep moving we'll take his barn

whether he likes it or not take it

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hold you heard the man we'll continue up

the road move out

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James

what I don't think this strategy always

running from the enemy is

working that's because you don't

understand General Green's brilliant

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tactics at least this is an army now an

army people might

join an army that can't feed its surgers

or keep them dry oh sure I join that

Army we have to put our faith in general

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green general con walis sir all signs

indicate that the enemy passed through

here only hours ago I told you burning

our wagons and excess baggage would

speed us up yes sir but it's also left

us woefully short of

food there's a farm ahead we'll take

what we

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need no stop you can't do that i a

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no Madam your husband would do well to

cooperate Harry on we're loyalist we've

never supported the fight against

England if you take our stock how are we

to eat we are at w*r my good woman the

king's soldiers come

first I have every confidence you will

survive this incon

convenience move

out I'm all right I'm all

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right dear James and on the British have

withdrawn to Portsmouth and we are

returning to Richmond prior to our

evacuation

Governor Jefferson had finally made some

progress toward convincing the Virginia

legislature to provide men and supplies

for General green now he must start all

over and as for my interview with the

governor it will instead be an expose

revealing his awful hypocrisy on the

issue of

sl*very I'm sorry to be the bearer of

bad news

Sarah James are we ever going to eat

tonight I found some icory nuts a hunk

of ox jerky and uh well I think this was

a squirrel get that thing out of here

hey that was hard to find is food all

you ever think about I was just there's

more to this w*r than filling your

belly I'm sorry

James wait hry I'm sorry it's not you I

just found out there are still no

reinforcements coming from Virginia so

the arm's going to have to keep

running just like in New York and New

Jersey just like in Philadelphia just

like they've been doing for the whole

w*r General green says if we make it

across the Dan River tomorrow the

running might be over so what you were

right his plan's not working it's not

winning anyone over to our cause what am

I supposed to tell the people who read

our news newspaper tell them tell them

our forces are so thin that General

green does not want to risk their lives

in an uneven fight and tell them that

the food in the south is not what it's

cracked up to be unless they like

squirrel

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hold on hold

on I need to get my men across the river

and quickly the British catches here

will be destroyed where are the

Fords Fords yes the best places to cross

the river use your eyes Colonel the

river's in

frood then I'll need your boats is that

so British or Continentals you you boys

are all the same think you can take

whatever you want well I know you're not

going to send my boats back not just be

given the red Court a way to cross the

river so you're going to have to pay for

them before you can take them that's

only fair I'll make you a trade you will

I'll give you 20 horses for your boats

good

ones why am I just watching this is a

great story

the southern Army owes you a debt of

gratitude sir thank you General I was

neutral in this w*r but from now on

consider me a a what are we calling

ourselves these days revolutionaries

Sons of Liberty just Americans

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maybe we'll win their hearts and Minds

After

All

American I'm an American

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sl*very

I'm disappointed that the legislature

has once again refused my call for more

militia but I can't say I'm

surprised if you need men sir what about

learning from the British you could

promise freedom to sl*ves who will fight

for America I might support it but the

Virginia legislature never will the

state's economy is dependent upon

sl*very is the economy as important as

the fact that all men are created

equal no Sarah it isn't nearly as

important but Governor Jefferson you own

sl*ves yes but I have proclaimed sl*very

an Abomination that must be brought to

an end proclaimed with respect sir

proclaiming isn't

doing this is a young country Sarah

still locked in a battle for its own

Survival there are countless issues to

be addressed Limitless problems to be

solved sl*very is one of the

biggest and Sarah we will solve

it do you view me and my colleagues as

great men yes sir I do well we are great

great with human flaws as well as human

hopes I doubt there's a man among us

great enough to see the horror of

sl*very eliminated in our life

time I have tried and I will keep trying

and if we cannot correct this

Abomination then those who follow us

shall take courage in

that Governor Jefferson I must confess

I've been writing an expose about you

and your sl*ves for Dr Franklin's

Gazette but now after listening to

you I don't think I'll publish

it I commend your passion Sarah when the

w*r ends I tend to draft a plan for

freeing all the sl*ves in this country

I'd welcome your thoughts on the subject

Governor Jefferson you don't know what

you're getting yourself

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into through my searching for a hero to

idiz feeling the pain as

inocent looking at my

I take my heart battle give that freedom

get

my it on the line blue never up you

represent America

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