Daily national Democrat., 1859-11-12
9alIg 9atiOnaI 4emutrat.
National pemocrntic Platform.


The Democratic party Of the State of Califor-
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-afirm the principles sci
Forth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recognize il
as an authoritative exposition of the Democratic
Greed.
RESOLVED, That the right of the people Of the
terrtaries to form all their domestic institutions
IA their own way, is absolute aud complete and
that we are naturally opposed to any interference
With such right, either by the Legislative OF EA-
.cutive departments Of the General Government
Resolved, That the Administration OF james
Suchanan, by its Outrages upon the rights OF the
people of Kansas its unrelentlng prescription o;
tried and worthy Democrats for the offense of I'D
herring t0 Democratic principles, its constant vio-
atic of the pledges which brought it into life its
attempt to render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department and its gross extravagance,
mismanagement and corruption, has forfeited the
respect aud lost the confidence of the American
people
RESOLVED. That the immediate construction OF
the Pacific Railroad ought TO be encouraged by
the Federal and 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 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 n speedy, honest and faithful
administration ofjustice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this COnven-
tion, Congress should enact law TO protect actu-
al bona ffe settlers upon public lands in their
ust rights.
REssLvED, That we, as a Convention, repre-
sentIpg the true Democracy of California, adhere
with unfatering trmness, 70 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 as citizens,
at the polls, inthe Ides ofSeptember, and that by
our labors and V1r voices, we show to the world
that the freemeu of California are unbought by
Federal patronage, and are unawed by Federal
power, and will staud by the sacred principles of
Democracy in defiance of treacherOus Presidents
and their Cabinets.
RESOLVED, That the doctrine of Intervention
by Congress TO establish 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 repudate II 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, whiOa pledges were announced in
his il-timed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State and that we con-
demn the Administration for its refusal 10 place
the Central Overland Mail on the same footing, as
10 compensation, as the Southern route"