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Updated: May 21, 2025
Following this there was a jangling confab which was almost a riot. Two or three, and among them the man who wanted us to show our map, openly counseled violence. We were but two, and there were by this time a dozen against us, with more coming up the gulch. They could have rushed us easily at some little cost of life, maybe but again the every-man-for-himself idea broke the charm.
For the first time the Chinaman stirred, and raising himself painfully to his elbow, turned to Uncle Bill. "You go, I think." Griswold shook his head. "That 'every-man-for-himself' talk aint the law we know, Toy." The Chinaman reiterated, in monotone: "You go, I think." "You heard what I said." "You take my watch, give him Chiny Charley. He savvy my grandson, the little Sun Loon.
In the circumstances, a novice could now destroy me as easily as a Langdon. Still, Ball's news seemed to take away my courage. I reminded myself that I was used to treachery of this sort, that I deserved what I was getting because I had, like a fool, dropped my guard in the fight that is always an every-man-for-himself. But I reminded myself in vain. Langdon's smiling treachery made me heart-sick.
He has been occupied all the day in the attempt to convince me that the ancient Amriccans governed themselves! did ever anybody hear of such an absurdity? that they existed in a sort of every-man-for-himself confederacy, after the fashion of the "prairie dogs" that we read of in fable.
The convention system introduced into Illinois in 1835 by the Democrats had been zealously opposed by all good Whigs, Lincoln included, until constant defeat taught them that to resist organization by an every-man-for-himself policy was hopeless and wasteful, and that if they would succeed they must meet organization with organization.
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