Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-22
Regular Democratic 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-
cplel is recognized aS fundamental bv 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.
3. RESOLVED, That while we adhere to the fun
damental Democratic principles embraced in the
Cincinnati Platform of S56, we especially renew
and re-afirm that principle contained in the res
ontlon 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-
tying or rejecting at the ballot box any Constitu-
tion 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 a 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 Constitution which they have reject
ed at legal election, is in violation of the princi
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derogatory to the positions they occupy, and
destructive of our form of government.
D. RESOLVED, That we regard with detestation
the passage by Congress- at its last session. of the
bill known as the English Bill, ald look upon
1t 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 ealouses as violation OF tie Federal com
pact a breach of the Compromises of the Consti-
tuition, and blow at The equality of the States
IN that it propose TO make large donations of
land and adm Kansas into the Union without
reference t. tr population, if she adopts the Lee
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 than
the Lecompton Constitution.
g. RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the ac-
tlon OF those members of Congress who sustained
the "Crlttenden-Mon Bill" aud who op-
posed the English Bill at the last session ofthat
body.
Z. RESOLVED That it is the right of the people
of the States to regulate, in their own wav their
political affairs that Federal Office holders are
servants the people, and the constant iuterfer-
euce by those servants with the primary affairs of
party, whether by menauces 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-
tions; State and Federal subversive of 1opiiar
llDefLy, ana Calculated 10 destroy tne sovereignty
of the States, aud eentraze 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 recognized feature in our
party policy, Indispensable 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 cOnsummBtiOn of this great
work
8. 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, present this platform to the peo-
pie of the State, and earnestly invoke the active
support of all in its vindcatIon and success cor
daily inviting to a 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.