Daniel Worth was born a Quaker in Guilford Co., NC, the son of Job and Rhoda (Macy) Worth. Following his first marriage 5 Mar 1818 to Elizabeth Swaim (1797-1858) he became a Methodist, but left the Methodist church for the Wesleyan Methodists when the Wesleyans split from the main body of Methodists over the issue of slavery. He was the father of Emily, William, Sarah, Rhoda, Lydia, Mary, and William W - all with 1st wife Elizabeth. He married secondly 19 May 1859 in Randolph Co., NC, his first wife's sister, Huldah Swaim. He was an active abolitionist and was prosecuted and convicted for those activities. He jumped bail while appealing his 1860 prosecution in North Carolina and returned to Indiana.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1860
REV. DANIEL WORTH.
A Greensborough, Guilford Co., N. C. correspondent of the New York Herald, gives a lengthy account of the arrest in the former place of the Rev. Daniel Worth, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, a native of North Carolina, but for some time past, up to two years ago, a resident of Indiana, in which State he had been a member of the Legislature. He was arraigned on the 22d of December, on a charge of selling and circulating Helper's Impending Crisis, and of 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 the following day.
More than a dozen witnesses sustained the charges against his discourses, and one man testified that he had purchased a copy of Helper's book from Worth. It was also proved, that Worth in the pulpit on 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 whoremongers." The prisoner who conducted his own case, acknowledged that he had engaged in circulating the Helper's book, also a work on the 'War in Kansas," but did not consider it any harm to do so; that at first, he did not intend to admit having circulated the former, but he wanted to make them, as a lawyer would, bring evidence to substantiate the charge. The the council for the prosecution rejoiced that this case had arisen in old Guilford which had been claimed as an abolition county and denounced Helper and his book, reading extracts from the last. The prisoner in his own defence, attempted to argue the evils 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.
He then continued his remarks at considerable length on abolition, until the court told him that it had listened Iong enough to that strain, and desired him to speak as to the charges brought against him. The prisoner then spoke as to his course having been consistent with his calling, as a preacher and as a man; that when he heard there was 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 doing what others tn the State had long ago been doing unmolested; that he was a peace man and a Union man; that he sought not to dissever the Union; that he didn't endorse all the sentiments contained in Helper's work: that he had formerly been a majistrate 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; that, that wife had died, and he had married again, and had been engaged in preaching in several counties since; he was not conscious of having violated the laws of the State, either In his call as a preacher, or as a circulator of "Helper's Impending Crisis."
The court ordered him to find bail in $5000 for his 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-five a years of age. The punishment for the first offence of the kind for which he has been held to hail, is thirty-nine lashes; for the second, death.
The Evansville (IN) Daily Journal, Saturday, Dec. 1, 1860
Rev. Daniel Worth, the minister who was recently in such fearful peril of his life in North Carolina on a charge of tampering with slaves, and who only escaped through a forfeiture of his bail, is once more at his old home in Randolph county, this State.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Friday, Dec. 19, 1862
DIED--Worth--at his residence in Newport in this county, on Friday, the 12th inst. Rev. Daniel Worth, of erysipelas in the 69th years of his age.
The Indiana Herald, Huntington, IN, Wed. Dec 24, 1862
Dec'd--The Rev. Daniel Worth, a prominent minister of the Wesleyans, in this State, died at Newport, Wayne county, on the 12th of this month.
Note: his tombstone has the wrong year--it reads 1863 rather than 1862. Also, Newport was the former name of present day Fountain City.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1860
REV. DANIEL WORTH.
A Greensborough, Guilford Co., N. C. correspondent of the New York Herald, gives a lengthy account of the arrest in the former place of the Rev. Daniel Worth, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, a native of North Carolina, but for some time past, up to two years ago, a resident of Indiana, in which State he had been a member of the Legislature. He was arraigned on the 22d of December, on a charge of selling and circulating Helper's Impending Crisis, and of 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 the following day.
More than a dozen witnesses sustained the charges against his discourses, and one man testified that he had purchased a copy of Helper's book from Worth. It was also proved, that Worth in the pulpit on 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 whoremongers." The prisoner who conducted his own case, acknowledged that he had engaged in circulating the Helper's book, also a work on the 'War in Kansas," but did not consider it any harm to do so; that at first, he did not intend to admit having circulated the former, but he wanted to make them, as a lawyer would, bring evidence to substantiate the charge. The the council for the prosecution rejoiced that this case had arisen in old Guilford which had been claimed as an abolition county and denounced Helper and his book, reading extracts from the last. The prisoner in his own defence, attempted to argue the evils 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.
He then continued his remarks at considerable length on abolition, until the court told him that it had listened Iong enough to that strain, and desired him to speak as to the charges brought against him. The prisoner then spoke as to his course having been consistent with his calling, as a preacher and as a man; that when he heard there was 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 doing what others tn the State had long ago been doing unmolested; that he was a peace man and a Union man; that he sought not to dissever the Union; that he didn't endorse all the sentiments contained in Helper's work: that he had formerly been a majistrate 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; that, that wife had died, and he had married again, and had been engaged in preaching in several counties since; he was not conscious of having violated the laws of the State, either In his call as a preacher, or as a circulator of "Helper's Impending Crisis."
The court ordered him to find bail in $5000 for his 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-five a years of age. The punishment for the first offence of the kind for which he has been held to hail, is thirty-nine lashes; for the second, death.
The Evansville (IN) Daily Journal, Saturday, Dec. 1, 1860
Rev. Daniel Worth, the minister who was recently in such fearful peril of his life in North Carolina on a charge of tampering with slaves, and who only escaped through a forfeiture of his bail, is once more at his old home in Randolph county, this State.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Friday, Dec. 19, 1862
DIED--Worth--at his residence in Newport in this county, on Friday, the 12th inst. Rev. Daniel Worth, of erysipelas in the 69th years of his age.
The Indiana Herald, Huntington, IN, Wed. Dec 24, 1862
Dec'd--The Rev. Daniel Worth, a prominent minister of the Wesleyans, in this State, died at Newport, Wayne county, on the 12th of this month.
Note: his tombstone has the wrong year--it reads 1863 rather than 1862. Also, Newport was the former name of present day Fountain City.
Daniel Worth was born a Quaker in Guilford Co., NC, the son of Job and Rhoda (Macy) Worth. Following his first marriage 5 Mar 1818 to Elizabeth Swaim (1797-1858) he became a Methodist, but left the Methodist church for the Wesleyan Methodists when the Wesleyans split from the main body of Methodists over the issue of slavery. He was the father of Emily, William, Sarah, Rhoda, Lydia, Mary, and William W - all with 1st wife Elizabeth. He married secondly 19 May 1859 in Randolph Co., NC, his first wife's sister, Huldah Swaim. He was an active abolitionist and was prosecuted and convicted for those activities. He jumped bail while appealing his 1860 prosecution in North Carolina and returned to Indiana.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1860
REV. DANIEL WORTH.
A Greensborough, Guilford Co., N. C. correspondent of the New York Herald, gives a lengthy account of the arrest in the former place of the Rev. Daniel Worth, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, a native of North Carolina, but for some time past, up to two years ago, a resident of Indiana, in which State he had been a member of the Legislature. He was arraigned on the 22d of December, on a charge of selling and circulating Helper's Impending Crisis, and of 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 the following day.
More than a dozen witnesses sustained the charges against his discourses, and one man testified that he had purchased a copy of Helper's book from Worth. It was also proved, that Worth in the pulpit on 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 whoremongers." The prisoner who conducted his own case, acknowledged that he had engaged in circulating the Helper's book, also a work on the 'War in Kansas," but did not consider it any harm to do so; that at first, he did not intend to admit having circulated the former, but he wanted to make them, as a lawyer would, bring evidence to substantiate the charge. The the council for the prosecution rejoiced that this case had arisen in old Guilford which had been claimed as an abolition county and denounced Helper and his book, reading extracts from the last. The prisoner in his own defence, attempted to argue the evils 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.
He then continued his remarks at considerable length on abolition, until the court told him that it had listened Iong enough to that strain, and desired him to speak as to the charges brought against him. The prisoner then spoke as to his course having been consistent with his calling, as a preacher and as a man; that when he heard there was 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 doing what others tn the State had long ago been doing unmolested; that he was a peace man and a Union man; that he sought not to dissever the Union; that he didn't endorse all the sentiments contained in Helper's work: that he had formerly been a majistrate 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; that, that wife had died, and he had married again, and had been engaged in preaching in several counties since; he was not conscious of having violated the laws of the State, either In his call as a preacher, or as a circulator of "Helper's Impending Crisis."
The court ordered him to find bail in $5000 for his 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-five a years of age. The punishment for the first offence of the kind for which he has been held to hail, is thirty-nine lashes; for the second, death.
The Evansville (IN) Daily Journal, Saturday, Dec. 1, 1860
Rev. Daniel Worth, the minister who was recently in such fearful peril of his life in North Carolina on a charge of tampering with slaves, and who only escaped through a forfeiture of his bail, is once more at his old home in Randolph county, this State.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Friday, Dec. 19, 1862
DIED--Worth--at his residence in Newport in this county, on Friday, the 12th inst. Rev. Daniel Worth, of erysipelas in the 69th years of his age.
The Indiana Herald, Huntington, IN, Wed. Dec 24, 1862
Dec'd--The Rev. Daniel Worth, a prominent minister of the Wesleyans, in this State, died at Newport, Wayne county, on the 12th of this month.
Note: his tombstone has the wrong year--it reads 1863 rather than 1862. Also, Newport was the former name of present day Fountain City.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Thursday, Jan. 5, 1860
REV. DANIEL WORTH.
A Greensborough, Guilford Co., N. C. correspondent of the New York Herald, gives a lengthy account of the arrest in the former place of the Rev. Daniel Worth, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher, a native of North Carolina, but for some time past, up to two years ago, a resident of Indiana, in which State he had been a member of the Legislature. He was arraigned on the 22d of December, on a charge of selling and circulating Helper's Impending Crisis, and of 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 the following day.
More than a dozen witnesses sustained the charges against his discourses, and one man testified that he had purchased a copy of Helper's book from Worth. It was also proved, that Worth in the pulpit on 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 whoremongers." The prisoner who conducted his own case, acknowledged that he had engaged in circulating the Helper's book, also a work on the 'War in Kansas," but did not consider it any harm to do so; that at first, he did not intend to admit having circulated the former, but he wanted to make them, as a lawyer would, bring evidence to substantiate the charge. The the council for the prosecution rejoiced that this case had arisen in old Guilford which had been claimed as an abolition county and denounced Helper and his book, reading extracts from the last. The prisoner in his own defence, attempted to argue the evils 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.
He then continued his remarks at considerable length on abolition, until the court told him that it had listened Iong enough to that strain, and desired him to speak as to the charges brought against him. The prisoner then spoke as to his course having been consistent with his calling, as a preacher and as a man; that when he heard there was 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 doing what others tn the State had long ago been doing unmolested; that he was a peace man and a Union man; that he sought not to dissever the Union; that he didn't endorse all the sentiments contained in Helper's work: that he had formerly been a majistrate 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; that, that wife had died, and he had married again, and had been engaged in preaching in several counties since; he was not conscious of having violated the laws of the State, either In his call as a preacher, or as a circulator of "Helper's Impending Crisis."
The court ordered him to find bail in $5000 for his 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-five a years of age. The punishment for the first offence of the kind for which he has been held to hail, is thirty-nine lashes; for the second, death.
The Evansville (IN) Daily Journal, Saturday, Dec. 1, 1860
Rev. Daniel Worth, the minister who was recently in such fearful peril of his life in North Carolina on a charge of tampering with slaves, and who only escaped through a forfeiture of his bail, is once more at his old home in Randolph county, this State.
The Richmond (IN) Weekly Palladium, Friday, Dec. 19, 1862
DIED--Worth--at his residence in Newport in this county, on Friday, the 12th inst. Rev. Daniel Worth, of erysipelas in the 69th years of his age.
The Indiana Herald, Huntington, IN, Wed. Dec 24, 1862
Dec'd--The Rev. Daniel Worth, a prominent minister of the Wesleyans, in this State, died at Newport, Wayne county, on the 12th of this month.
Note: his tombstone has the wrong year--it reads 1863 rather than 1862. Also, Newport was the former name of present day Fountain City.
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