Old Virginia and her neighbours

86 OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS.ledging such Errors and Excesse, as are yett past, theremay bee hope of remission.I perceived his cogitations were much on this discourse,hee nominated, Carolina, for the watch word.Three days after I asked his leave to goe home, heesullenly Answered, you may goe, and since that time, Ithank God, I never saw or heard from him.This interesting dialogue reveals the nature ofthe situation into which Bacon had drifted. Asthe days went by, he could hardly failBacon'sperilous to scc"^that-, i • i-i ithe king was more likely tosituation.i -r» i . .take Berkeley's view of the case than his.According to that view the deliverer of Virginiafrom the Indians was a proscribed rebel who must" fly or hang for it." There was little hope forBacon in " seasonable submission." He would,therefore, consider itsafer and better for Virginiato hold out until the king could be induced totake Bacon's view of the case ; or failing this, itmight still be possible to wear out the king's troopsand achieve independence for Virginia, with theaid of the discontented j^eople in the neighbouringcolonies. These were the speculations of a manwhom circumstances were making desperate, andthe effect which they wrought upon John Goodewas likely to be repeated with many who hadhitherto loyally followed his fortunes.Thus far Bacon's fighting had been againstIndians. His quarrel with the governor had beenconfined to fulminations. Now the two men wereto come into armed collision and give Virginia abrief taste of civil war. Bacon sent Giles Bland," a gentleman of an active and stirring dispo-