Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Califor
MIA, in Convention assembled, make ana puollsh
as their Platform and Resolutions:
|. RESOLVED, That all just powers OF govern
ment are derived from the people that this prn-
ciplc is recognized as fundamental by all Ameri-
can Constitutions and by the Democratic party.
2. 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, as guaranteed to Kansas and
Nebraska, by their organic law, belongs alike to
the people OF all other Territories OF the United
States.
8. RESOLVED, That while we adhere to the fun
damental Democratic principles embraced in the
Cincinnati Platform of 1855, we especially renew
and reatfirm that principle contained in the res
oluton known as 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 Constitu-
ton that may be framed for their government
and all attempts by the Administration and Con-
gress to coerce and bribe the people into the adOp
tion Of particular Constitution, not thus ratified
by them, are subvcrsve 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 and Congress to force upon the people
of Kansas a Constitution which they have reject
ed OF legal election, is in violation of the prlnc
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, aad look upon
it as an attempt to bribe free people into the in
| dorsement of an odious Constitution as calcula
ted to create sectional feelings and cause section
al jealOusies; as n violation OF the Federal com
pact breach of the Compromises of the Consti
/ ! l. d.,
III that it proposes % make large donations o
land, and admit Kansas into the Union without
reference to Eer population, if she adopts the lie
compton Constitution, which establishes slavery
while it refuses her peoble admission until they
| obtain population of ninety or one hundred anc
twenty thousand if they prefer any other thar
the Lecompton Constitution.
g. RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the &C
ton of those members of Congress who sustained
the Observation-Disclosures Bill" aud who op
posed the English Bill, at the last session oftha
body.
Z. RESOLVED. That it is the right of the people
of the States to regulate in their own way, theil
political affairs that Federal office holders are
servants ofthe people, and the constant interler
euce by those servants with the primary affairs Of
party whether by menanccs of dismissal from of
flee, by forced leves, or by the distribution Of
promises and moneys at the polls and elsewhere
is incompatible with the spirit of our Coustitu
| TONS, state ana teueral SuDVerSlVe OF popular
liberty, and calculated to destroy the sovereignty
of the States, and centralize power at the Fedora
Capital
s. RESOLVED, That the immediate action G
Congress in securing the construction Of Raj
road to the Pacific is recognized feature in ou
party policy indispensable to our safety in wa
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon tn
Administration TO redeem its pledges and devot
its energies to the consummvtion of this grea
work
g. RESOLVED That we regard with favor tn
bill before Congresa, at its past session, known a
tbs Homestead Bill, which proposes to donat
to each actual settler upon the public lands of th
United States one hundred and sixty acres, an
earnestly recommend the passage Of the same.
10. RESOLVED, That relying implicitly upon th
soundness and integrity Of the principles abov
set forth, and upon the justice and intelligence c
the masses, we present this platform to the pee
pie of the State, and earnestly invoke the actiy
support of all in its vindicatlon and success, col
daily inviting to full and equal communion a
those of whatever creed who recognize the justc
Of our cause in the doctrines we profess, and VIII
desire to participate in their triumph.