Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-05
acknowledgements Plat form.

! The Democratic party of the State of C9llior
| MIA in Convention assembled, make ana puDllsh
as their Platform and Resolutions;
| /. RESOLVED, That all just powers OF govern j.
ment are derived from the people; that ms prln-
ciplc is recognized as fundamental by all Alnerl-
can Consultations and by the Democratic party.
! . RESOLVED. That the right of the people to
/ form and regulate their political institutions IN
their own wav. subject only to the Constitution
of the United States, as guaranteed to Kansas and
Nebraska by their organic law, belongs alike to
the people OF all OF Ter Territories of the United
States.
8. RESOLVED, TIL It while we adhere to the fun
damental Democrat c principles embraced in the
Cincinnati Platform of 1856, we especially renew
and re-alrm that principle contained in the res
outior known as the popular Sovereignty Res
luton" declaring the true intent and meaning OF
that resolution to be, that the people of a State
or Territory are invested with the right of rati-
flying or rejecting at the ballot box any Consttu-
tion that may be framed for their government ;
and all attempts bv the Administration and Con-
gress to coerce and brbe the people into the adop-
ton of particular Constitution not thus ratified
by them, are subycrsiye of the principles ofpure
Democracy, and destructive of the equality OF the
States under the Constitution.
4. RESOLVED, That the recent attempts of the
Executive and Congress to force upon the people
of Kansas a Constitution which they have reject
ed at legal election is in violation of the prlncl-
pies of the party which placed them in power,
derogatory to the positions they occupy, and
destructive Of our form Of government
5. RESOLVED. That we regard with detestation
the passage by Congress- at its last session, OF the
bill known as the English Bill, aId look upon
it as an attempt to brbe free people into the in
dorsement of an odious Constitution as cacula-
ted to create sectional feelings and cause section
al iealousies as violation OF the Federal COM
pact breach Of the Compromises of the Consti-
tuuon, and a blow at the equality of the States,
IN that it proposes 80 make large donations OF
land, and admit Kansas into the Union without
reference to her population, if she adopts the Le-
compton Constitution, which establishes slavery,
while il refuses her peoble admission until they
obtain population of ninety or one hundred and
twenty thousand if they prefer any other than
the Lecompton Constitution.
6. RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the ac-
ton of those members of Congress who sustained
the Crttenden-Moutgomery Bill, aud who op-
posed the English Bill, at the last session 0fthat
body.
7. RESOLVED, That it is the right of the people
of the States to regulate, in their own way, their
political affairs that Federal Office holders are
servants ofthe people, and the constant interfer-
euce by those servants with the primary affairs of
party, whether by menances of dismissal from Of
flee, by forced leyies, or by the distribution of
promises and moneys at the polls and elsewhere,
is incompatible with the spirit of our Coustitu-
tons, State and Federal subversive of popular
liberty, and calculated to destroy the sovereignty
of the States, and centralze power at the Federal
Capital.
s. RESOLVED, That the immediate action of
Congress in securing the construction of Rail-
road to the Pacific is a recognized feature in our
party policy, in lispensable to our safety in war
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon the
Administration to redeem its pledges and devote
its energies to the consummvtion of this great
work
.. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor the
bill before Congresa at its past session, known as
tbs "Homestead Bill" which proposes to donate
to each actual settler upon the public lands of the
United States one hundred and sixty acres, and
earnestly recommend the passage of the same.
10. REsoLvED, That relying implicitly upon the
soundness and integrity Of the principles above
set forth, and upon the justice and intelligence OF
the masses, we present this platform to the peo-
pie of the State, and earnestly invoke the active
support of all in its vndicahon and success, cor
daily inviting to full and equal communion all
those of whatever creed who recognize the justice
of our cause in the doctrines we profess, and who
desire to participate in their triumph.