Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-04
9ailg gationaI 4rmutrat.
National Democratlc Platrorm.

The Democratic party Of the State of Calfor-
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-aihrm the principles set
forth in the Cincinnati Platform and recognize it
as authoritative exposition of the Democratic
Creed
REsoLvEn. That the right Of the people of the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
ia their own way, is absolute and complete, and
that we are naturally opposed to any interference
With such right, either by the Legl slatlve or En-
.cutive departments of the General GoVerhTheul'
RESOLVED, That the Administration OF JAMES
Buchanan, by its outrages upon the rlghts OF tne
peonle of Kansas. its unrelenting prescription OF
tried and worthy Democrats. for the o1ense OF au-
herring h Democratic principles, its constant vio-
ation of the pledges which brought 1t into life, its
attempt to render the Legislative subject to the
Exeontiye Department and its gross extravaganza,
n,ismanagement aud corruption, has forfeited the
respect and lost the confidence of the American
people.
RESOLVED. That the immediate construction of
the Pacific Railroad ought to be encouraged by
the Federal ana 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 Speedy honest anu ldlthi"'
administration of justice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this Conven-
ton Congress should enact a law to protect actu-
al bona f3e settlers upon public lands in their
just rights
RESOLVED. That we, as q Convention, repre-
senting the true Democracy of California, adhere,
with anialterug frmness, to the principles of De.
mocracy, as taught by Thomas Jefferson, and
which guided the councils of the immortal Jack
son.
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 our voices, we show to the world
that the freemen 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 a gross departure from the principles OF
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati, and we repudlate 1t as the
heresy of a faction and condemn it 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 il-timed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State; and that we con-
demn the Administration for its refusal to place
the Central Overland Mail on the same footing, as
TO compensation, as the Southern route