Joint Debates Between George Northrop, Democratic, and Hon. Wm, D. Kelley, Republican
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Excerpt from Joint Debates Between George Northrop, Democratic, and Hon. Wm, D. Kelley, Republican: Nominees for Congress in the Fourth Congressional District of Penna Positions and a few questions: as it devolves upon me to open this discussion and i presume to certain extent, to suggest the topics of the evening´s discussion, as well perhaps as those of canvass. The first proposition which I announce is this: That the Constitution of the United States, within its limitations, is the supreme law of the land, and the only bond of the Union of the States. 2. The only mode by which the Constitution can be altered or amended is prescribed by that instrument itself. 3. Whenever any department of government exercises any power beyond or antagonistic to the Constitution, it is revolution. 4. A successful revolution against the Constitution by those in power, subverts the principles of our Government, produces anarchy and establishes a despotism. 5. The theory of the equality of the negro with the white man is not a justifiable principle of revolution. In addition to these, I have a few questions which I will propound as I proceed in the argument. Gentlemen, although you may understand perfectly well all the theories of government which may have existed prior to the adoption of the Constitution, we can never too often revert to the fact that, when it was framed, it embraced, as a principle of government, a new element. There had been governments from time out of mind; but there had always existed an antagonism between the governing element and the people. You recognize the fact that history has been but one single succession of statements in relation to the dynasties and families and men who have governed; and the "divise right of kings" has been taught, with the divine right.of transmitting their divinity to their successors. The people suffered and groaned, but, nevertheless, ordinarily submitted to the power of the government which they recognized to be the supreme power to control them. Once in a while, during this history of the past, men of the people arose, and questioned this "divine right of kings." They believed that there was a right on the part of the people to have something to say with regard to the government and the principles of government, and they did not believe at last that it was a settled fact, against which the people could raise no voice of protest, that there should be this divinity and this succession of power. They did not believe that the people were made simply to fill armies and to be taxed. They believed that the people had a right to be heard - had a right to control the government - in other words, they taught boldly that government was for the people, and for the benefit of the people, and not for the benefit of the ruling caste. These teachings created revolutions and disturbances in the different nations of Europe. The whole history of many of the years of the past has been a simple history of the struggles of the people against power. Now and then the people would gain a foothold; but the tide of despotism was strong; they would lose that which they had gained; and everything would relapse into the old channels. The principle thus contended for from time to time was that upon which our ancestors acted when they laid down the broad foundation and placed it in the Constitution as a cardinal principle, that Government was for the people, and not for those who executed the Government. In other words, they built a structure of government in which the sovereignty of the people was the ruling element, and not the right and power of monarch or prince. Accordingly, they framed a Constitution embodying the principle that those who conduct the Executive Department of the Government are the servan
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