There are scores of men who would see in our enterprise a second attempt like Bacon's, and, though they might approve of our aims, would never hear of one of Bacon's folk serving with us.

I was never a Bacon's man, for I was with Berkeley in Accomac and at the taking of James Town, but I know the quality of the rough fellows that Bacon led, and I want them all for this adventure.

Besides, who can deny that there is more in our plans than a defence against Indians?
There are many who feel with me that Virginia can never grow to the fullness of a nation so long as she is cooped up in the Tidewater.

New-comers arrive by every ship from England, and press on into the wilderness.

But there can be no conquest of the wilderness till we have broken the Indian menace, and pushed our frontier up to the hills--ay, and beyond them.