Asheboro, March 16th, 1861.
You will please discontinue sending me the Presbyterian. Great as is my personal regard for you, I can not regard it as consistent with my sense of duty to patronize a paper, even if it were a political one, which advocates Secession and seeks to alienate one section of this country against the other. I view with abhorrence both Secession and Abolition, both equally tending and aimed, without sufficient cause, at the subversion of the Government.
[The remainder of the letter is illegible except for the following postscript]:
I object to any commentary on this communication through the press. I have directed my brother, J. A. Worth, to call on you and pay up my arrearage.
SOURCE: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Editor, The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, Volume 1, p. 135
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