Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PLATFORM.

The Democratic party of the State Of Cali.or
MIA, in Convention assembled, make ana puoilsh
as their Platform and Resolutions;
l. RESOLVED, That all just powers Of govern
ment are derived from the people; that this prin-
ciule is recoguized 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 ouly TO the Constitution
of the United States, as guaranteed to Kansas and
Nebraska, by their organic law, belongs alike t.
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 1885, we especially renew
and re-aliirm that principle contained in the res
olution known as the popular Sovereignty Res
luton" declaring the true iutent and meaning OF
that resolution 10 be, that the people Of . State
or Territory are invested with the right of rati-
flying or rejecting at the ballot box any COnstltu
ton that may be framed for their government
and all attempts by the Administration and Cor
gress to coerce and brbe the people into the adp.
tiOn of particular Constitution, not thus ratified
by them, are subycrsiye Of the principles of pure
| Democracy and destructive Of the equality of the
States under the Constitution.
L. 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 prnci-
| pies Of the party which placed them in power,
| derogatOry to the positions they occupy, ana
| destructive of our form of government.
s. RESOLVED That we regard with detestaton
the passage BY Congress- at ts last session, OF the
| bill known as the "Engsh Bill, aad look upon
il MS 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 iealouses; rs 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 il propose 70 make large donations OF
land and adm. Kansas into the Union without
reference 10 ner population if she adopts the Lc
compton Constitution, which establishes slavery
while it refuses her peoble admission until they
obtain population Of ninety or one hundred and
twenty thousand if they prefer any other thar
the Lecompton Constitution.
6. RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the ac
tion of those members of Congress who sustained
the Crttenden-Montgomery 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, their
political affairs that Federal Office holders are
servants ofthe people, and the constant interter-
euce by those servants with the primary affairs Of
party, whether by menances of dismissal from Of
flee, by forced levies, or by the distribution OF
promises aud moneys at the polls and elsewhere
is incompatible with the spirit of our Coustitu-
tions, State and Federal subversive of popular
liberty and calculated to destroy the sovereignty
Of the States, and centraize power at the Federal
Capital.
s. RESOLVED, That the immediate action ot
| Congress in securing the construction Of Rail
road to the Pacific is a recognized feature in oui
party policy indispensable to our safety in wal
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon thu
Administration to redeem its pledges and deyot
its energies to the eOnsummgtion Of this grea
work
9. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor tx
bill before Cungresa, at its past session. known al
tbs "Homestead Bill" which proposes to donat,
to each actual settler upon the public lands of tht
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-
Pile of the State, and earnestly invoke the active
support Of all in its vndcaton 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.