Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Califor
MIA, 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 this prin-
ciple is recognized as fundamental by all Ameri-
can Constitutions and by the Democratic party.
9. 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.
g. RESOLVED, That while we adhere to the fun
damenta Democratic principles embraced in the
Cincinnati Platform of 1856, we especially renew
and re-aliirm that principle contained in the res
olution known as the Popular Sovereignty Res
lutiou," 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-
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-
ton 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.
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 at legal election, is in violation of the princi-
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" and look upon
it as attempt to bribe free people into the in
dorsement of an odious Constitution as calcula-
ted to create sectional feelings, and cause section
al jeaOusies as a violation OF tie Federal COM
pact; breach Of the Compromises of the Consti-
III. H.
III that it proposes 10 make large donations of
land, and adm. Kansas into the Union without
reference u II 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.
6. Resolved That we heartily endorse the &C.
tion OF those members of Congress who sustained
the Observation-Disclosures 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 interior
euce by those servants with the primary affairs OF
party, whether by menances of dismissal from Of
ice, by forced levies, or by the distribution of
promises aud moneys at the polls and elsewhere,
ls Incompatible with the spirit of our Coustitu-
tlOnS, oLate anu feueral suDVerslVe OF popular
liberty, and calculated to destroy the sovereignty
of the States, and centralze power at the Federal
Capital
S. RESOLVED, That the immediate action OF
Congress in securing the construction of Rail
road to the Pacific is recognized feature in oui
party policy. indispensable to our safety in wal
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon tn,
Administration to redeem its pledges and devote
its energies to the consummUtOn Of this grea
work
9. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor thu
bill before Congresa, at its past session, known al
tbs Homestead Bill" which proposes to donat,
to each actual settler upon the pubic lands of tn,
United States one hundred and sixty acres, anC
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 o
the masses, we present this platform to the peo
pie of the State, and earnestly invoke the achv,
support Of all in its vindcatlon and success, cor
daily inviting to u full and equal communion al
those of whatever creed who recognize the justice
Of our cause in the doctrines we profess, and whC
desire to participate in their triumph.