The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-01-05
REV pASIu. WORTH.

4 Greensborough. Gailiord Co. \. C..
correspondent of the New \ ork Herald. gives
a lengthy account of the arrest IN the former
place. Of the Rev. Daniel Worth. a Wesley
Methodist preacher. native OF North
Carolina. but for some time past, up TO two
years ago, a resident of Iudis. a, IN winch
State he had been a member OF The Legisia-
ture. He was arraigned on the ed OF DE
cember. on charge of selling and circuia'
ting Helpers impending Crisis. and OF utter
ing IN the pulpit language calculated to make
slaves and free negroes discontinued. lie was
refused bail, and sent TO Jail, whence he was
taken for examination The following day
More than a dozen witnesses sustained
the charges against his discourses, aud one
man testified that he had purchased copy
OF Helpers book from Worth. 1t was also
proved, that Worth in the pulpit Sunday
had said that the laws of North Carolina
ought not TO be obeyed. and that they were
made by a set Of drunkards. gamblers and
whoremougers The prisoner who cen
Quoted his own case. ackowledged that he
had been engaged in circulating the Helper
book. also work on the War in Kansas,
but did not consider il any harm to do so.
that ut first, he did not intend 10 admit har-
ing circulated the former, but lie wanted to
make them, lawyer would bring evI-
dence TO substantlate the charge. The
the council for the prosecution reIolced that
this case bad arisen in cid Gullford which
had been claimed an abolition county
md denounced Helper and his book, reading
extracts from the last The prisoner in lis
own defence, attempted to argue the evll> OF
slavery, and TO convince the court that he
was right in preaching against IT. He was
however, compelled to confine himself to the
point at issue.
IT then continued his remarks at coEsid
cradle length on abolition, until the court
told him that it had listened long enough to
that strain, and desired him to speak as to
the charges brought against him. The pris-
oner then spoke as to his course having been
consistent with his calling, as preacher and
as a man: that W hen he heard there a
warrant out for his arrest, he had started for
this place TO surrender himself: that in his
preaching and practice he had only been do
ing what Others IN the State had long ago
been doing unmolasted that he peace
man and Union man; that he sought not to
discover the Union; that he didn't endorse
all the sentiments contained IN Helpers
works: that he had formerly been mails
trate in this county. that he had been living
in Indiana many years and came back to
North Carolina about two wears since to
benefit the health of an invalid wife; that,
that wife had died ard he had married again
and had been engaged in preaching in sew
eral counties since he was not conscious OF
having violated the laws of the State. either
in his call as a preacher, or as circulator
of "Helpcl's Impending Crisis
The court ordered him to find bail in
$4,000 for bis appearance at the next term of
court. and the same amount to keep the
peace till that time.
At last accounts, the required bail had not
been found. Worth is about sixty-fve
years of age. The punishment for the first
offence Of the kind for which he has been
hell bail. is thirty nine lashes; for the
second. death.