Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-01-06

was helping the destroyer, he was pros
trated upon death bed. Unable then to
pen those messages to his sister, which
had become necessary to his new ex-
istence, he confded to his partner
and friend all that that sister had been
to him and entrusted to his eympa-
thetic hand the brotherly Office. Through
all the last days of the sickness the young
Englishman made the deputed labor of
love his own most earnest mission and
when death finally closed the eyes of the
exile, wrote the last message, and closed
the memorial lock of hair to her whose
love for and trust in the redeemed brother
had never faltered. When, about year
ago, the English gentleman, visited New
York on his circuitous way home to Eng
land, his visit to the family of his late
partner was as that of E dear friend to dear
friends, and what he had been to the son
and brother was his all-sutficient intro
ductiOn to parental and sisterly esteem,
needing no aid from his own fine character
to make it certain and permanent. Early
| in the new yea, now so close at hand, he
will resume the journey to his own English
home, taking with him as q bride one in
whom lives the likeness of the purified and
| rGgenera.ed old partner of his, whore last
breath was a blessing on her name. In all
the current records of fashionable we'd
d:nes on the avenue, it is seldom that such
graceful prelude as this can be given.
G"|s IOiden's Impeachment
That naaty tenderness which fondIes the
poor, dear murderer, and says the raVisher
has been only too acutely moved by emo
lions capable Of making him grandsire in
Israel if you let him go, is a. work to de-
fand Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
against the articles of impeachment ex-
hibited against him by the Legislature Of
that State lawess tyraDt, an arrester,
| an impriSOncr, putter upon the rack of
honest men unhappily delivered over by
circumstances into his oppressive hands.
The charges against him are eight in num-
Der, with many specifications, each one
blacker than the other, and giving name,
day, date fact, and circumstance, accusing
him of melting civil war, of setting on
foot vagabond standing army, of defy
ing the process Of the courts and tearing
up with ignominy the writ Of habeas cor
pus-hateIul alone to tyrants; OF arrestiDg
and putting into sinking iron cage, side
by edo with q murderer in few days to
DO hanged, q most eStimable private citi-
yea ana an unimpugned honest man of
hanging up by the neck another citizen,
and letting him down and then UP again :;
of c!appiug nineteen citizens i'll one vi
cinage into all and eighty three citizens
in another OF drawing out, contrary to
all law or forms of law, many thousands
of dollars from the Stats treasury to keep
his t;uculent soldiery on foot and of re
polling by force and fraud the effort to
prevent this or any other wrong by him
committed in his career as despot, fire
brand, q kidnapper, brigand, and robber.
It is TO be hoped that, above all things,
the exactest justice be adhered to in this
impeachment matter ; that to the last
farthing of his rights by the law this &C
cused receives his own that he he deemed
innocent till proven guilty, but. if guilty,
out with him. No man mean and malIQ-
malt enough to insult in the dav of his
power other men in their low estate has q
right to forbearance. We have had SO
much of this putting Of bayonets to honest
mems throats and applying of shackles to
honest mems legs and arm4, that even in
the case of this paltry practitioner it con-
Germs the whole country to see him get
the fit punishment for such misdeeds. Men
have said that the reason why Americans
endure SO many public ignOminies from
their puffed-up and insolent servants is be-
cause we have lost the old British pluck
which fired at an Insult to one mans
liberty as a menace to the freedom of the
whole commonwealth because we have
become q composite people, and, with
soLAeUnlA8 VI 14Atlh Ht0 Ahu buPpiehesS
gained, have gained also touch of the
Latin disposition to bow. There is per
haps better reason than tits. A great
deal OF blood has been lost in this part of
the world simultaneous with the antics of
men in office and extensive phlebotomiz-
ing expenditures debility, we know. We
have been too tired to object much, but
that day is passing, and if this impeached
North Carolina Governor be rightly proven
guilty, out with him neck and crop. Non
ignadruS mali is a good rule, if they will
take it, for the North Carolinlans. In the
slang Of the day it means, You know how
it is yourself North Carolina has been
prosecuted by this man, and that should
be a most special reason 7hy he should
have every possible legal right at her
hands cut if, with these rights, proven
guilty, let her lay him by the heels.
NaIu York HO9.II