Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-19
Daily NationaI qmutrat.
National Democratic Platform.

The Democratic party Of the State Of Calior-
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-afiirm the principles set
Birth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recognize it
es an authcrative exposition Of the Democratic
Greed
REsoLvEn. That the right of the people II the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
IN their own way, is absolute aud complete ana
that we are naturally opposed 70 any interference
With such right, either by the Leg siat'e vi EN-
.cutive departments of the General GoVerhmehI
RESOLVED. That the Administration Oh James
3,lchanan bv its outrHgcs upon the rights ot the
people of Kansas, its unreleniing prescription oi
hied and worthy Democrats. for the otiense OF ad-
herring 10 Democratic principles, its constant vio-
alton Of the pledges which brought it into life its
sltempt to render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department and its gross extravaganza,
mismanagement aud corruption, has forfeited the
respect and lost the confidence of the American
people.
REsoLvaD. That the immediate construction OF
the Pacific Railroad ought TO be encouraged by
the Federal ani State Governments by all means
in their power, and that meanwhile the mail SER
vice by the Overland routes should be sustained
and increased
Resolved That our State Judiciary system
needs a thorough and complete revision, and that
the Constitution should be so changed, as to IN
crease the number of Judges OF the Supreme
Court, and secure speedy, honest ana IaitL'HI
administration fjustice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this Conven'
kon, Congress should enact law 10 protect acu-
al bona ffs settlers upon public lands in their
Hst rights.
RESOLVED, That we, rs q Convention, repre-
sentipg the true Democracy Of California, adhere,
WITH uhfaltering firmness TO the principles of De-
mocracy, as taught by Thomas Jefferson, and
which guided the councils OF the immortal Jack
on.
RESOLVED, That when this Convention ad-
iourns, its members adjourn to meet, ns citizens,
at the polls, nthe Ides ofSeptembcr, and that by
our labors and u-r voices, we show To the world
that the freemen OF California are unbought by
Federal patronage. and are unawed by Fedora
power, and viii sta d by the sacred principles o
Democracy in defiance oftreacheruus Presidents
and their Cabinets.
RESOLVED That the doctrine of Intervention
by Congress to establish a slave code for the Ter
ritories, assumed by the Administration adher-
ents, is gross departure from the principles OF
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati, and we repudiate u as the
heresy Of a faction and condemn IL as an outrage
upon the great charter Of American Liberty.
:" RESOLVED, That the Chief Executive Of the
Nation has broken his pledges to the people of
the State Of California. in regard to the Pacific
Railroad which pledges were announced in
his ill-timed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State; and that we con-
denim tne Administration for its refusal TO place
the Central Overland Mall on the same footing, as
10 compensation, as the Southern route"