Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — An Indiana Preacher and Legislator Arrested ill North Carolina. [ARTICLE]

An Indiana Preacher and Legislator Arrested ill North Carolina.

A correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from Guilford county, N. C., gives a lengthy account of the arrest, in Greensborough, N. C., 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 and a member of the Legislature. He 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 on the following day. An examination was then had, in which the prisoner plead his own defense. The Court ordered him to find bail in §5,000 for his appearance at the next term of court, and the same amount to keep the peace until that time. The punishment for the first offence of the kind, for which he has been held to bail, is thirty-nine lashes; for the second, death.