Lenoir County NcArchives History....Letter, 1875

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, June 23, 2018.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

JUSTICE MATTHIAS EVANS MANLY TO J. E. SUTTON LETTER, 1875

Newbern Oct 21st 1875

Mr. J E Sutton
	Draft   
             I am obliged 
for the favors of letter & 
enclosure from S. I. Sutton 
yesterday. I enclose a new 
draft to you according to 
his donations.

   I shall be in Kinston 
in the early part of the
first week of your cases &
        I am respectful
          yours
               M E Manly

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Comments:

J. E. is Julius Eri or Junius Eli Sutton,both
of Bucklesberry. Judge Manly was the conservative 
party nominee for Craven County for the NC 
Legislature. Apparently he was soliciting support 
from Bucklesberrian and La Grange townsman, Samuel 
Ivey Sutton. See 
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67750052/

Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Evans_Manly:
 
"Matthias Evans Manly (1801–1881) was a jurist who 
served as a Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court 
from 1860 to 1865. He was the brother of North Carolina 
Governor Charles Manly."

"Manly graduated from the University of North Carolina 
at Chapel Hill (where he would later serve as a Trustee) 
in 1824. He practiced law in New Bern, North Carolina, 
was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons for 
a term, and served as a Superior Court judge for 
approximately twenty years, before being named to the 
Supreme Court. He filled the seat left vacant by Justice 
Thomas Ruffin's second retirement."

"Shortly after resigning from the Court, Manly was elected 
to the North Carolina Senate, where he served as Speaker. 
The state legislature elected Manly to the United States 
Senate, but he was not allowed to take his seat."