Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-21
ReguInrDemocratic Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Califor
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
|. RESOLVED, That all just powers of govern.
ment are derived from the people; that this prin-
ciple is recognized fundamental by all Ameri-
can Constitutions aud 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 1856, we especially renew
and re-alfrm that principle contained in the res
olution 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-
fying OF 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 brbe the people into the adop-
tiOn of particular Constitution not thus ratified
by them, are subvcrsive of the principles of pure
Democracy, and destructive of the equality of the
States under the Constitution.
T. 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 a legal election is in violation of the princ
Piles 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.
d0rsement of an odous Constitution; as calcula-
ted to create sectional feelings, and cause section
al iealouses; as a violation of the Federal com
pact a breach of the Compromises of the Consti
tuition, and blow at the equality of the States
IN that it proposes TO make large donations O
land, and adm Kansas into the Union without
reference to uer population, if she adopts the Le
compton Constitution, which establishes slavery
while it refuses her peobe admission until they
obtain a 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 "Crittenden-M Montgomery Bill, aud who op
posed the English Bill, at the last session ottha
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 art
| servants ofthe people, and the constant interer
euce by those servants with the primary affairs o
/ party, whether by menances of dismissal from OF
| flee, by forced levleS, or by the distribution o
promises and moneys at the polls and elsewhere
| is incompatible with the spirit OF our Coustitu
tions, State and Federal subyersiye 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 O
| Congress in securing the construction of Rail
road to the Pacific is a recognized feature in oul
party policy, indispensable to our safety in wal
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon the
Administration to redeem its pledges aud devote
its energies to the eonsummBtion of this grea
work
9. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor The
hill before Congresa, at its past session, known as
| tbs "IIomestead Bill,' which proposes to donate
IN 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 aboye
set forth, and upon the justice and intelligence
the masses, we present this platform to the peo
pie of the State and earnestly invoke the active
support of all in its vindicaton and success cor
daily inviting to a fulIand equal communion al
those of whatever creed who recognize the Juslic'
of our cause in the doctrines we profess, ana wh'
desire to participate in their triumph.