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The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
W. Davies testified that he had heard Frear use words in conversation calculated to produce that impression on his mind. He had vaunted the superiority in numbers and efficiency of Northern troops, and said that if Lincoln sent his army into Virginia the people would be so frightened that they would vote down the Ordinance of Secession, which he alleged was passed by a very small majority. Frear said what he did was done to put the people on their guard. He was a resident of Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Va. Had been to New York on business and returned; had lived seventeen years in the South; some of his children were born there; he saw the preparation made for the subjugation of the South, and thought they should be acquainted with the extent to which they had been carried.--Was as good a citizen as anybody. Could furnish reputable references. In reply to a question of Mr. Wm. W. McCreery, he said he was born in New York. Mr. McC. said F. was an unfaithful scamp, he would not b