time of this conversation between us in July
I heard nothing of Mr. Campbell until since the late Convention at
Hillsborough, where he appeared in the character of a delegate from
the County of Cumberland and there, according to my information,
unasked and unsolicited and without provocation of any sort was
guilty of the base Treachery of promulgating all I had said to him in
confidential secrecy, which he had promised sacredly and inviolably
to observe, and of the aggravating crime of falsehood in making
additions of his own invention and declaring that he had rejected all
my propositions."[37]

The governor again refers to him in his letter to the same, dated
November 12, 1775:

"From Capt. McLeod, who seems to be a man of observation and
intelligence, I gather that the inconsistency of Farquhard Campbell's
conduct * * * has proceeded as much from jealousy of the Superior
consequence of this Gentleman and his father in law with the
Highlanders here as from any other motive. This schism is to be
lamented from whatsoever cause arising, but I have no doubt that I
shall be able to reconcile the interests of the parties whenever I
have power to act and can meet them together."[38]

Finally he threw off the mask, or else had changed his views, and openly
espoused the cause of his country's enemies. He was seized at his own
house, while entertaining a party of royalists, and thrown into Halifax
gaol. A committee of the Provincial Congress, on April 20, 1776;
reported "that Farquhard Campbell disregarding the sacred Obligations he
had voluntarily entered into to support the Liberty of America against
all usurpations has Traitorously and insidiously endeavored to excite
the Inhabitants of this Colony to take arms and levy war in order to
assist the avowed enemies thereof. That when a prisoner on his parole of
honor he gave intelligence of the force and intention of the American
Army under Col. Caswell to the Enemy and advised them in what manner
they might elude them."[39]

He was sent, with other prisoners, to Baltimore, and thence, on parole,
to Fredericktown, where he behaved "with much resentment and
haughtiness." On March 3, 1777, he appealed to Governor Caswell to be
permitted to return home, offering to mortgage his estate for his good
behavior.[40] Several years after the Revolution he was a member of the
Senate of North Carolina.

The stormy days of discussion,