D[aniel] Worth to Frederick Douglass, September 23, 1859

THE QUAKERS OF NORTH CAROLINA

New Salem, N.C. Sep. 23, 1859.

FREDERICK DOUGLAS, Esq.: Dear Sir:—

You will perhaps recognise, on receipt of this, an old friend with whom you formerly made some acquaintance in Indiana and Ohio. I have been in N. Carolina some two years, preaching an anti-slavery gospel. You will recollect our preachers being expelled from the South by mob violence some years back. I am occupying the same ground. I send you for publication the enclosed letter, addressed by myself to Dr. Nathan Hill, a Quaker of some eminence in this community. The Quakers in N. Carolina belong too the old, rotten, defunct Whig party, and have always voted for slavery. I have been remonstrating with them, and thought I had persuaded several to vote right previous to the late election, and had actually gotten the name of this Dr. Hill before the public as our liberty candidate for Congress, when lo, both Hill and all his brother Quakers went over to the enemy, and voted for the Slaveholder J. A. Gilmer, lest a Democrat should succeed. The letter has been seen by several who wish its publication. You are aware that it could be got through the Southern press. For several reasons I have chosen your paper as the means of giving it to the public should it meet your views.

I have been circulating a book here which takes well with the people, with which perhaps you are acquainted. The title is 'My Bondage and My Freedom.'

Truly yours,

D. WORTH.