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1E>Jttdge Battle g'miAyof "fraudulentr roting."
+ The Wilmington Chronicle, a rabid Coon print,
recently published an article charging the Hon,
Louis D. Henry with having voted fraudulcnrly
at Clinton, in Sampson county, and this article,
unqucsionably the offspring of partizan m1levo-
Ience, has gone the rounds of the Federal papers.


The facts in the briefly these: Ii has been
the custom in Sampson formor than twenty years,
for waggoncrs, witnesses, (the Presidential election
occurs during Court week) suitorS lawyers. so


liciors, and the like, from other counties, 10 vote.
by the permission Of all parties for President and
Vice President and in the present case Mr. Hen
ry did only what the PoI-kccpcrz sanctioned,
what had been done for years by both parties.
what was done at the late election BY number OF
others, and what no fcderaIist would have CON
demncd, if By any possibility, he had voted for
Henry Clay.


But this matter shall not stop here, Wedre


informed, upon good authority, tha, the Hon VIII
liam H. Battle, a Fcdcralist, and Judge Of our
Superior Courts of Lrw and Equity vot,d at the
late Presidential election in CiravcInnd county
We have no hard words TO u:!or against Judge
Battle He no doubt acted conScicnlion&ly. But
if Mr. Henry, who voted under long-cst.,hliSh,d d
custom, and at precinct where Tie thing haG met
the uniform approval Of both parties, aud with an
express declaration that he would not claim his
voc unless others similarly situated claimed
1heirs-if he voted ;;fraudulcntly," as 'hr Chron-
Gle charges, how will that print and its incnds re-
lieve Judge Battle from a still stronger charge
when it is not by any means in proof that any Gus
tom OF the sort prevailed in Clcaveland and when
indeed it could not have existed, because that is
new county? The truth is, there was no fraud
whatever in the vote given by MIR. Henry, for he
was unqncsonably entitled 10 his vote. and gave ii
in the presence both parties, and under a limo
honorcd custom. No man would Scorn, more
than he, any thing which might give count"nancc
TO fraudulent voting, and no man will go beyond
him in respect or reverence Tor the lau.S


The term "fraudnlrnt votino,h is the Chronicles
own. Like a mad-dog, he has turned upon and
bitten his own friends Let him aonr. His own
bad passions and petty partizan feelings viii them
selves punish him sufficiently.