8. What was next done by the Governor?
9. To what judge did the people next go for protection? What did Judge Brooks do?
10. What was Governor Holden's next step? Where were Kirke's prisoners taken?
11. Where were the prisoners then carried?
12. What tribute is made to Judge Brooks? What are the reflections upon this matter?
CHAPTER LXVIII.
THE IMPEACHMENT OF GOVERNOR HOLDEN.
A. D. 1870 TO 1872.
The election of 1870 resulted in a great triumph for the people. Opponents of the administration were elected to the Legislature in overwhelming majorities, and a determination to bring Governor Holden to trial for his crimes against the Constitution and liberties of the people was at once apparent.
2. Nothing can be more important; in a civilized government than protection to the liberties of the people. Nothing is truer than that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," Even in the royal government of England, for more than two centuries the King has had no power to deprive a citizen of the right to be heard in the courts, when restrained by legal process or otherwise. Neither there nor in America could anything but foreign invasion or positive insurrection justify even Parliament or Congress in suspending the right to this palladium of civil liberty.