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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
It is of course not to be supposed that they possess much sensibility or refinement of feeling; such are entirely incompatible with political policy or miserable cowardice. Still, there is something human in all natures, and some portion of the heart not entirely ossified by selfishness, and we may hope that are long they may be able to feel the humiliation of their position. Before leaving this subject I cannot forbear mentioning more particularly one of these traitors. I refer to David H. Strother, better known as "Porte Crayon" --he who, though bore and reared on Southern soil, has, uninfluenced by any principle but mere selfish policy, embraced the side he supposed to be the strongest, asserting that the "North would crush the South like an egg;"and under this delusion he, in this town, where he has near relations distinguished for pure patriotism and devotion to the Southern cause, dared to ride through our streets at the head of the Federal army, with a huge white rag tied