Lawrence escaped. He was last seen with four others on the extreme frontier, riding through the snow and disappearing into the forest. Their fate is unknown. Drummond was found hiding in Chickahominy Swamp and brought before the Governor. He was greeted with a mocking bow. "Mr. Drummond, you are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." He was treated with savage brutality, and then, after the pretence of a trial, hurried off to the scaffold.[56] Bacon and Drummond did not die in vain. Though they and thousands of others were stigmatized as rebels and traitors, though the cause they contended for ended in disastrous failure, Bacon's Rebellion had a lasting influence on American history. It served as a warning that Americans would not submit to misgovernment and despotism under whatever form. Had not the British Government under George III forgotten that warning there might have been no American Revolution. To contend, as some have done, that Bacon's Rebellion was no more than a quarrel between a rash young man and an old fool, is to make the most shallow interpretation. Men do not rush to arms, and risk their lives and property in a wild uprising because of a dispute between individuals. As Professor Charles M. Andrews has pointed out, revolutions "are the detonations of explosive materials, long accumulating and often dormant. They are the resultant of a vast complex of economic, political, social, and legal forces, which taken collectively are the masters, not the servants, of statesmen and political agitators. They are never sudden in their origin, but look back to influences long in the making." FOOTNOTES: [1] William Edmundson, _Journal_, 71, 72. [2] _Virginia Magazine_ 3: 134. [3] _Ibid._, 135. [4] _Virginia Magazine_ 3: 141, 142. [5] CO5-1371, p. 241. [6] _Bath papers_, "Virginia's Deplored Condition." [7] _Ibid._ 1: 173. [8] _Bath papers_, "Bacon's Manifesto." [9] _Ibid._, Berkeley to Right Honorable, Feb. 9, 1677. [10] CO1-21, Norwood to Williamson, 17, 1667. [11] G. L. Beer, _The old colonial system_. [12] CO1-21. [13] CO1-16. [14] CO1-26, p. 77. [15] COl-21, pp. 61, 62. [16] CO1-30, pp. 51, 53. [17] CO1-21. [18] CO1-30, pp. 17, 51. [19] _Bath papers_, "The Assembly to the King." Sept., 1674. [20] _Ibid._, July 1, 1776. [21] CO1-30, p. 51. [22] CO1-30, p. 78. [23] CO1-36, p. 37. [24] CO1-36, p. 55. [25] _Bath papers_, Berkeley to Bacon, Sept. 21, 1675. [26] _Ibid._, July 18, 1675. [27] _Ibid._ [28] Thomas Mathew, _Bacon's rebellion_. [29] T. J. Wertenbaker, _Virginia under the Stuarts_, 146, 147. [30] CO1-36, p. 78. 605-1381, p. 367. [31] _Bath papers._ May 23, 1676. [32] CO5-1371, pp. 373, 411. [33] CO5-1371, pp. 373, 411. [34] CO1-40, p. 106. [35] _Ibid._ p. 377. [36] _Bath papers_, "The Council to Most Honorable." [37] CO5-1371, p. 380. [38] Thomas Mathew, _Bacon's rebellion_, 12, 13.