Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-01-11
An Indiana Preacher Arrested in
North Carolina.

A Greensborough, Guilford co., n
O., correspondent of the New York
Herald, gives a lengthy account of the
arrest in the former place of the Rev.
Daniel Worth, Wesleyan Methodist
preacher native of North Carolina,
but for some time past, up to two years
ago, resident of Indiana, IN which
State he had been a member of the
Legislature. He was arraigned on
the Esd of December, on a charge of
selling and circulating Helper I'm.
pending Crisis, and uttering in the
pulpit language calculated to make
slaves and free negroes discontented.-
He was refused bail and sent to jail
whence he was taken for examination
on the following day. More than a
dozen witnesses sustained the charges
against him. and one man testified
that he had purchased copy of Hell
per's book from Worth. 1t was also
proved. that Worth in the pulpit on
Sunday, hal said that the laws of
North Carolina ought not to be obeyed,
and that they were made by a "set of
drunkards. gamblers and whoremon.
gers" The prisoner, who conducted
his own case, acknowledged that he
had been engaged in circulating the
Helper book, and also work on the
"War IN Kansas but did not consid.
er il any harm to do SO: that at first
he did not intend to admit having cir
culated the f,rmer, but that he wanted
to make them. as lawyer would,
bring evidence TO subsiantiate the
charges. The counsel for the prose.
cutIon rejniced that tins case had arisen
in oil Gulfpd which had been claim.
ed as an abolition county, and denoun-
ced iielp~r and his book. reading ex.
tracts from the last. The prisoner, IN
his own defence, attempted to argue
the evil of slavery, and to convince the
Court that he was right in preaching
against it. He was, however, COM
PEELED to conine himself to the point
at issue. s1.4-. s.l aal
He then continued his remarks at
considerable length on abolition. until
the Court told him that it had listened
long enough to that strain, and desired
him to speakas to the charges brought
against him. The prisoner then spoke
as to his course having been consistent
with his calling as preacher and a
man; that when he heard there was a
warrant for his arrest, he had started
for this place to surrender himself; that
IN his preaching and practice he had
only been doing what others in the
State had long ago been doing unmo-
Tested; that he was a peaceIman and a
Union man; that he sought not to dis
sever the Union; that he didn't endorse
all the sentiments contained in Hell
per's work; that he had formerly been
a magistrate in this county; that he
had been living in Indiana many years,
and came back to North Carolina
about two years since, to benefit the
health of an invalid wife; thatthat wife
had died and he had married again,
and had been engaged in preaching in
several counties since: he was not con-
scious of having violated the laws OF
the State, either in his calling as a
preacher or as circulatorof Helpers
Impending Crisis"
The Court ordered him to find bail
in $4,000 for his appearance at the
next term of court, and the same
amount to keep the peace until that
time.
At last accounts, the required bail
had not been found. Worth is about
sixty-fve years of age. The punish.
ment for the first offence of the kind
for which he has been held to bail, is
thirty-nine lashes; for the second
death.
This Mr.. Worth was member OF
the Legislature of this State from Ran
dolph county for several years, from
1925 to 1880, or thereabout.