Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-25
'vLLE, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY MORNING,
Regular Democratic Plutf,ru1.

The Democratic party of the State of Calfor-
MA, Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
|. RESOLVED, That all lust 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.
2. RESOLVED That the right of the peonlc 70
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.
D. RESOLVED, That while we adhere to the fun
damental Democratic principles embraced in the
Cincinnati Platform of 1856 we especially renew
and re-aIirm that principle contained in the res
oiutloG 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-
Tying or 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-
ton OF particular Constitution not thus ratified
by them, are subvcrsive Of the principles of pure
Democracy and destructive of Inequality OF the
States under the Constitution.
4. 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-
pies OF the party which placed them in power.
derogatory to the positions they occupy, and
destructive of our form Of government.
.. RESOLVED, That we regard with detestation
the passage by Congress- at It's last session off the
bill known as the English Bill J." and look upon
It as an attempt to bribe free people into the in
d0rsement of an odiOus Constitution; as calcula-
TED TO create sectional feelings and cause section
al Jeal0uses; as violation OF the Federal com
pact; breach of the Compromises of the Consti-
tuition, aud blow at the equality of the States
IN that 1t proposes 20 make large donations of
land, and admit Kansas into the Union without
reference to Ter population, if she adopts the Le-
compton Constitution, which establishes slavery.
while 1t 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 ac-
tion OF those members Of Congress who sustained
the ''Crttenden-Montgom Bill" aud who op-
posed the English Bill at the last session ofthat
body.
z: RESOLVED, That It's the right oi lie p.1pie
OF the states to regulate, IN their own way, their
political affairs that Federal Office holders are
servants ofthe people, and the constant interier-
euce by those servants with the primary nff rs of
party, whether by menances of dismissal from Of
hce, by forced levies, or by the distribution C
promises and moneys at the polls and elsewhere
Is incompatible with the spirit of our Coustu..
tlons, State and Federal subversive of popular
liberty, and calculated to destroy the sovereignty
Of the States, and centnlize 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 arecognized feature in our
party policy, indispensable to our safety in war
and prosperity in peace, and we call upon the
to redeem its pledges and devote
It's energies to the consummUton of this great
work.
0. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor the
1il before Congresa, at its past session, known as
his 'llomestead Bill" which proposes to donate
10 each actual settler upon the public lands of the
United States one hundred and sixty acres, and
earnestly recommend the passage of the same.
TO- RESOLVED, That relying implicitly upon the
'oundness and integrity of the principles above
set forth, and upon the justice and intelligence of
he masses, we present this platform to the peo-
Die of the State, and earnestly invoke the active
support of all in its vindicahon and success, cor
Italy inviting to full and equal communion all
hose of whatever creed who recognize the Justice
IF our cause in the doctrines we profess, and who
1esire to participate in their triumph.