Mr.Bacon had made an unpleasant impression upon Sir William Berkeley.

This young man, the Governor said, was "popularly inclined"-- had "a constitution not consistent with" all that Berkeley stood for.

Bacon and his neighbors listened with bent brows to their envoy's report.

Murmurs began and deepened.

"Shall we stand idly here considering formalities, while the redskins murder ?" Commission or no commission, they would march; and in the end, march they did--a considerable troop--to the up-river country, with the tall, young, eloquent man at their head.
News reached the Governor at Jamestown that they were marching.