A dispute arose.

The white men, waxing angry, slew the envoys--an evil deed which their own color in Maryland and in Virginia reprehended and repudiated.

But the harm was done.

From the Potomac to the James Indians listened to Indian eloquence, reciting the evils that from the first the white man had brought.

Then the red man, in increasing numbers, fell upon the outlying settlements of the pioneers.
In Virginia there soon arose a popular clamor for effective action.