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Show IMPEACHMENT OP GOVERNOR Governor Holden has been impeached by the representatives of the North Caroliua Legislature, on a vote of sixty to forty-three; and a commute of seven has been appointed to draw up articles arti-cles of impeachment aud conduct the prosecution at the bar of the State Senate. Holden will be suspended from exercising the functions of his office as soon as he is arraigned before the Senate. Chief Justice Pearson will preside at the trial. Governor Holden is one of a clas widely known throughout the Union aa '"carpet-baggers." Like others of a kindred stripe, he seemed to imagine that military rule still continued; that absolutism was a sine qua non of gov ernment; and that all the powers of government, executive, legislative and judicial were vested in his own person. Had he ruled over the destinies of a Territory he might to-day have been lauded as a noble, firm aDd fearless Governor, who was determined to maintain main-tain the laws, while only maintaining, by every extra stretch of power, his own partisan will; but being in a State where such antagonism to and repudiation repudi-ation of republican principles are not tamely submitted to, he is impeached before the Senate of the State a portion por-tion of whose citizens elected him Governor. Gov-ernor. His proceedings are before the country. coun-try. His high-handed attacks upon ihe liberties of the people, by "Kirke's lambs," as the militia under his subaltern, subal-tern, Kirke, were called, are well known. He has Ween accused of tak ing the course he did to secure a Democratic Dem-ocratic defeat in the State election. If so he failed, for the Democrats wtre successful, suc-cessful, and the result is his impeachment impeach-ment before the Senate. If the impeachment im-peachment should be sustained and Holden could secure sufficient influence to obtain the appointment of Governor of a Territory say Montana, where the Democrats are in the majority, or Utah, where the citizens may be treated treat-ed almost any way without exciting comment, he would be in his element One thing is tolerably certain, even if allowed to occupy the gubernatorial chair of North Carolina until the expiration ex-piration of his term, he will then vacate va-cate it forever. |