Chapter 49

“Americans possess a will of such stubborn strength, no one has yet been able to stand against them. Seen as individuals, they are not always notable. The preacher who yelled at you last summer was a subject of derision. Put him with ten others, and he becomes a different person. The traders, Hatcher and Rickles, were impressive men, but with ten others, they will stop a buffalo stampede.

“The white man lives under a written code of law that all may read and understand.” I stretched the truth to make a point. “Every child grows up knowing if he steals or kills, the force of those laws will crush him. But above all else, the white man is human. He is able to do great things, but he is also capable of great errors. His code promises justice to every man, but because men administer this code, there are injustices at times. To some, the red man’s word is not as good as the white man’s. Nor is the black man’s, nor the Jew’s, nor the yellow man’s. This is where the human fails the code.