Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-08
acknowledgements Platform.

The Democratic party of the State Of Calitur
nia, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform aud Resolutions:
|. RESOLVED, That all just powers OF govern =
ment are derived from the people that TINS prin-
ciple is recognized as fundamental by all Ameri-
can Constitutions and by the Democratic party.
. RESOLVED. That the right of the people to
form and regulate their political institutions in
their own way, subject only to the Constitution
of the United States, us guaranteed to Kansas and
Nebraska, by their organic law belongs alike to
the people OF all other Territories OF the United
States.
3. RESOLVED That while we adhere to the fun
damental Democratic principles embraced in the
Cincinnati Platform Of 1855, we especially renew
and re-alrm that principle contained in the res
OlutiOG known rs the Popular Sovereignty Res
luton" declaring the true intent and meaning of
that resolution to be, that the people of 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 by the Administration and Con-
gress to and bribe the people into the adup-
ton of particular Constitution, not thus ratiii d
by them, are subvcrsive of the principles of pure
Democracy, and destructive of the equality of the
States under the Constitution.
4. RESOLVED, That the recent attempts of the
| Executive aud Congress to force upon the people
| of Kansas Constitution which they have reject
ed ut legal election, is in violation of the princi-
| plies of the party which placed them in power,
| dcrogatory 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, and look upon
it as an attempt to bribe free people into the in
d0rsement of an odious Constitution as calcula-
ted to create sectional feelings, and cause section
al ealOusies Il violation of the Federal COM
pact a breach of the Compromises of the Consti-
tuition, aud blow at the equality of the States,
IN That it proposes TO make large donations OF
land, and admit Kansas into the Union without
reference t. ner population, if she adopts the Le-
compton Constitution which establishes slavery,
while it refuses her poodle admission until they
obtain population of ninety or one hundred and
twenty thousand if they prefer any other than
the Lecompton Constitution.
g. RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the ac.
ton Of those members of Congress who sustained
the "Critteuden- Montgomery Bill )" aud who OPP
posed the English Bill, at the last session of that
body.
Z. 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 interlcr-
eucc by those servants with the primary affairs of
party, whether by menances of dismissal from Of
lice, by forced evies 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 ceutralize power at the Federal
Capital.
s. RESOLVED, That the immediate action OF
Congress in securing the construction OF a Rail
road to the Pacific is a recognized feature III our
party policy, indispensable to our safety i'll wal
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon the
| Administration to redeem its pledges and devote
its energies to the cOnsummBtion Of this great
work
.. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor the
bill before Congresa, at its past session, known
tbs "llomestead Bill" which proposes to donate
each actual settler upon the public lands of thu
| United States one hundred and sixty acres, and
earnestly recommend the passage of the same
TO- RESOLVED, That relying implicitly upon the
soundness and integrity of the principles above
set forth, and upon the justice and intelligence o.
the masses, we present this platform to the peo
pie of the State, and earnestly invoke the active
support of all in its vndcation and success, cor
daily inviting to full and equal communion al
those of whatever creed who recognize the justice
of our cause in the doctrines we profess, aud who
desire to participate in their triumph.