New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-08
CHRISTzAN MINISTER IN THE SOUTH.
THE STORY OF REV. DANIEL WORTH.

was recently tried in North Carolina on indictments
oharging him with circulating four copies OF Helpers
Impending Crisis.
The meeting was called to order by Lewis TappaB,
who called upon Edgar Ketchum, esq, to preside.
A prayer war offered by the Rev. Mr. Johnson.
The PRESIDENT then made u brief address.
Mr.. KETcHAM said that in the beginning Of the An.
niyersary week, when many coming to attend
these gatherings, It was permitted that one shoud
come from the South that We might hear from there
also He came with somethngt 10 communicate, though
his vision had been limited within the prison walls for
four months. lie was native OF North Carolina,
missionary Of the American Missionary Society. Ills
ofense that he had sold four copies OF Helpers
book-a book written by North CaroIinisn to
convince the people of that State OF the i'm
policy of Slavery. and was not addressed to slaves.
Mr.. Kechum said that he had received North Caro-
lima paper which stated the facts in reference to Mr..
Worth's two trials, and in which it was said that
bail had been granted he "had probably made his
escape to the NORTH But Mr. Worth not
criminal; He minister Of the Lord Jesus Chrst.
The facts which they would hear were not done in
Russia Turkey but in country, amid
churches and civilization. Indeed, it appeared by this
very paper that church at Greensboro where he had
been incarceated had contributed many thousand dol
lars advance the interests of religion the Sabbath
School, &c, and even domestic missions. From the
paper alec appeared that they had appreciation Of
what was religious bigotry and they spoke of the
of An English child baptisen in the Catholic Church
the child having died and been buried in
and renterred in the Catholic cemetery However
they were sensitive upon this point, they had words
Of reprobaon for the conduct Of the Iuen of North
Carolina for persecution ofthe Rev. Daniel Worth,
for preaching the everlasting Gospel of our Lord Mr..
Worth would be heard among u.s. If we could hear
with careless disregard of such case, how hong would
il he before in the State of New-York would have
this bitter experience pressed upon nsl Ii the petition
Of thousands of merchants to make law granting the
shareholders the right bring their slaves here were
granted did this audience think that they would not
use their power if they got il! But he did not
desire to dctain them further, but woud eloge his
remarks by introducing TO them the Rev. Daniel
Worth of North Carolina.
On rising before the audience, Mr.. Worth was re-
revived with loud applause. lie is gentleman of
20 years, though his activity and power would not
Indicate him TO he advanced His How OF language
j. excellent and his style impresses by its earnestness
and strength. He said that be here to address the
audience in relation TO matters connected with his
mission as minister in the South. IL had been
than five months since he had been privileged 10
speak, or to hear scarce any sounds but those of
basphemy, which around him while incar-
ccrated IN prison. The part of the South where ne
bad been aboring, nearly the very center
Of the Atlantic Slave States, and, perhaps the audi
ence would be curious to know how it that, in the
center of that country, there were Anti-Slavery
churches. lie had gone there as a missionary, under
the auspices of the American Missionary Association,
10 take charge of some Anti-Slavery churches. Per.
haps the seed of Ant-Sayery truth had been planted
there bv friends, the Quakers, who had settled
there many years ago (appause and from the iesti-
mony they against it, had sprung this Anti
Slavery feeling. When but Is or 10 years of
age, he engaged in an Anti-Savery effort
in that country, and which, at that tnio,
toeraby well received, and there were persons in
this congregation now who were in possession OF docu-
ments then printed and circulated, and which con-
tanned an ultra Anti-Slayery truth could be found IN
his friends Mr.. Helpers book. But times had changed
since then. They had to be intensely Pro-
Slavery. Though born a North Caroiinan, he had
left there when q young man to return again late III
life \ few years back ministers had been sent INTO
that country al the request of the people, to
organize Anti-Slavery churches. Two or three
had gone there, and lad succeeded toeraby well in
gathering into church organizations men, women AMI
children. Their bad aroused the jealousy OF
the religious professors and ministers, mainly Of other
organizafiOns-men who protested to believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and yet sold mothers and babes on
the auction block. Cries of d" Shame. Opposition,
resulting in persecution, was brought TO bear against
them and they driven by mob violence ont of the
land. Their churches were broken up and men and
women. thinking that they sh0uldneveragan ENJOY the
rights Of conscience scattered, gong mostly to the
Free States of the West. Still there were some left
who signifcd their desire that some minister would
come from the North, TO be their guide and teacher.
After few wears he had been solicited to go there,
thinking that he would be better received on account
of being native of the State lie had consented and
had aborcd for two years in their midst and probably
had it not been for the terrible affair at Harper
Ferry, which had shaken the whole South, he
might have still been mere nnus'ufDCu. W men ne
went there he was well aware of the jealousy Of South
erners and he had formed bis plan of operations 1t
was stand alOOf from the c0lorcd population, and
especially from the slaves; and be did not know that
even mmor had charged him with holding CONVERSE
ton with coored person. if il had had charged
falsely: and he did not believe that he had III his
pcrence in the South spoken to except in the
presence of white persons in his congregation,
Indeed when he addressed them in his church.
he had ncucaed in them obedience to their masters,
and Christian endurance of their bonds; that to this
they must for the present submit and by 30 dong
show themselves capable of those virtues which most
adorned human character His success had seemed to
answer somewhat TO that which his predecessor had
experienced After laboringa while they seemed to
have got the palsy which had attached 10 the cause
in consequence OF the persecution Of thr ministers, ne
had enjoyed the pleasure there when al
of seeing sinners awakened 10 sense Of their lost
dtion and aferward had heard them singing the song
of the ransomed captive. Warm attachments had
sprung mp between him and his congregation, 80 much
80 that though he had intended to return North he did
not feel AT liberty snder the ties that bound him 10
them. He had supposed that if he absaned entirely
from communications with the colored population he
would not have been held amenable to the law OF the
State the penalty of which had been visited upon him,
which law provided against the circulation Of anything
which should tend to make slaves uneasy IN their
bonds. He did not suppose that one slave had seen or
understood the argument OF Helpers book, winch ne
Rad circulated there. When he had been there short
time lie had written communication To The Amertcon
MssioHdry in which he had stated the result of his
first meeting in North Carolina. In il he had said
that beside the usual division Of mankind into saints
and sinners he had among his flock "chatels,
and chaties who seemed to act and To listen to the
words of exhoration and TEACHING, if they were
human beings, and had souls like other persons.
IAppause. Shortly after that the Rev. George
Mcneil editor OF TIE North Carolina Presbyterian,
wrote article in his paper headed, An Abolition
Emissary" The Rev. gentleman expressed his aston
shment at the impudence of any who should come
and undertake to preach he (Air Worth had done.
what profassad Ia he a hand of blOod- thirsty