He might well have reflected, as he undoubtedly failed to do, that when men of the George Washington type fast and pray on account of political misdoings, it is well for their opponents to look to it carefully.
Meantime Boston had sent forth appeals to form a league among the colonies, and thereupon another meeting was held in the Raleigh tavern, and a letter was dispatched advising the burgesses to consider this matter of a general league and take the sense of their respective counties.

Virginia and Massachusetts had joined hands now, and they were sweeping the rest of the continent irresistibly forward with them.

As for Washington, he returned to Mount Vernon and at once set about taking the sense of his county, as he had agreed.

Before doing so he had some correspondence with his old friend Bryan Fairfax.

The Fairfaxes naturally sided with the mother-country, and Bryan was much distressed by the course of Virginia, and remonstrated strongly, and at length by letter, against violent measures.