The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-01-05
NORTH CAROLlNA-THE EIGHT ARTICLES
OF IMPEACHMENT.

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OF IMPEACHMENT.
| The articles of Impeachment of Governor
Holden, submitted by the Judiciary Commit
tee of the North Carolina House of Repre-
sentativcs, and approved by that body, are
eight in number They are quite long, and
would occupy, if printed in full, about three
columns of this paper. The following is
synopsis;
Article / charges that W. w. Holden, did,
| in defiance of his oath of office, and intending
to stir up civil war and to degrade and humi-
late the people Of the State, proclaim the
county of Aamance to be in state of insur-
| rcction on the 18th of March, 1869; that he
| sent bands Of desperate, lawless, and armed
men into said county, numbering 80, when
there was not, in truth, any Instruction,
which the said Holden we'll knew, whereby
he was guilty of high crimes in office.
| Article charges that Holden intending
to subvert personal and civil liberty, the Con
stituton and laws of the State and people
| thereof, did likewise declare the county of
| Caswell in a state of Instruction on the 9Th
of July 1870; did, by desperate and lawless
| armed bodies, arrest and detain citizens by
military force, when the said Holden knew
| the civil authorities both of the State and
| county were peacefully and regularly exer-
ciscd in all respects, the courts being open
| and the due administration of the laws unin-
! terrupted.
| Article charges that Holden did, on the
ID of August. 1870, in the County of Orange,
| in defiance of the Constitution and under
colo' Of his office. incite one John Hunnicutt
and others to seize, detain and deprive Of his
| T.. off e hot
county, tor ten days.
| Article 4 charges that Holden did, on the
list of August, 1870, in the County of Cas-
well, incite, procure and command one
| George w. Kirk and one B. G. George, and
| other desperate persons, to assault and de-
| prive of their liberty as frcemen, John Kerr,
Samuel II. Hill, William B. Bowe and
Nathaniel M. Roam for one month and more.
Article 5 charges that Holden, in the
months of June, July and August last, did,
under color of his office, recruit, organize,
arm and equip % large number Of men as
soldiers, with one George w Burke rs Col
oncl, one B. G. Bergen as Lieutenant Colonel
and one ii. c. Yates rs Major, and sundry
| Captains and Lieutenants, and sent such
| bands into the County of Alamance, where
they arrested one Adolphus e. Moore; said
Moore made due application to the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the State, as
| by law he might do, for writ of Habeas
| Corpus, to the end that the said Chief Justice
Of the Sureme Court might enquire into such
unlawful detention; the ChieI-Justice issued
| the writ the writ was served on the 18th
day of July, 1870, and Kirk refused to make
return before the Chief-Justce, declaring
that he was acting under the orders of w.
W Holden upon which the Judge made en-
qury of Holden if he had ordered the arrest
and detention Of said Moore, to which said
Holden responded in the affirmative; where
| upon the Chief-Justice wrote in substance
! to the said Holden and Kirk that they were
in duty bound to produce the body of the
said Moore, to which, Holden again replied
that he did so order, and still refused to obey
the said writ.
Article is substantially the same Us Ar
ticc 5, except that it recites the case of 19
citizens of Caswell who obtained writs of
habcas corpus, which Kirk refused make
return to, stating that he held said prisoners
by the orders Of Gov. w. w. Holden, Com
mandcr-in- Chief of the militia, and that he
refused to produce their bodies
Article 7 charges Holden with the incarcer-
alton Of Josiah Turner of Orange County in
loathsome dungeon in Alamance County,
among telons, one Of whom was condemned
to death; that Kirk, Burgin, Yates, and
other desperadoes from the state of Tennessee,
acting under lIolden's orders, did hang by
the neck William Patten and Lucien H.
Murray, and, to maintain said armed force,
did, without lawful authority, make his war
rant upon David w. jenkins, Treasurer Of
North Carolina, for large sums of money
to wit, $70,000-and did cause the said Jen-
kins to recognize the said unlawful warrant.
Article charges that the said Holden did,
in the months Of June, July, and August,
under color of his office rs Governor, and
without the sanction of the Constitution and
laws of the State, make his warrants upon
the treasury of the State for large sums of
money--to wit, $4,000 and more-to be
used tor the unlawful purposes of maintain
ing large bodies of armed desperadoes; that
he did not incite and procure the Treasurer
of said State to recognize said unlawful war
rants on the treasury Of said State; that he
did further on such warrants, obtain in the
said manner other large sums of money-to
!, wit, 900; that Richard Nj. Allison, citi-
zen of Iredel County, did bring suit in his
own behalf, and in behalf of all taxpayers
of said State, to restrain the Treasurer from
paying any such and all sums to the said
Holden; that Judge Mitchell of the State Su-
) perior Court granted writ restraining and
rejoining the said Treasurer from paying
| such funds; that the said Treasurer was duly
} served with such writ of Injunction but the
said Holden did command the said Treasurer
to disregard the injunction and to deliver the
funds to other agents of the said Holden, to
be used for the purpose aforesaid; that the
said Treasurer did deliver such funds, in to-
tai disregard of said writ Of injunction.
HWINTERpoRr RAILROAD. The annual
meeting Of the Stockholders in the Winter
c port Railroad Co., was held at the Bangor
House yesterday. Eighty thousand four
e hundred dollars of stock was represented,
d and the following named gentlemen were
elected Directors: Charles E. Dole LOOMS
Taylor and Charles Hamlin of Bangor; T. H.
q Gushing, Wlnterport; Lathley Rich, Boston
James I. Sanford, New York, and Gideon
If Mayo, Orono. meeting of the Directors
l. will be held at the Bangor House next Mon
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