Daily national Democrat., 1859-12-01
4allg 9ationaI 5lrmutnt.
National Democratic Platform.

The Democratic party of the State Of Califor-
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we reafiirm the principles set
forth in the Cincinnati Platform, aud recognize it
as an authoritative exposition of the Democratic
Greed.
REsoLvED, That the right Of the people OF the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
10 their own way, is absolute and complete, ana
that we are naturally opposed 20 any interference
with such right, either by the Legislative OF Elk
ecutive departments of the General government
RESOLVED That the Administration of James
buchanan, BY its outrages upon the rights of the
people Of Kansas, its unrelentng prescription o.
tried and worthy Democrats. for the otfense Of ad-
herring to Democratic principles, its constant vio-
alton Of the pledges which brought il into life its
Vttempt 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.
RESOLVED That the immediate construction O.
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 q 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 and faithful
administration ofjustice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion Of this Conven.
tion, Congress should enact law TO protect actu.
al bona tide settlers upon public lands in their
just rights.
RESOLVED That we, as Convention, repre-
sentIDg the true Democracy Of California, adhere
with unfaltering firmness 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 U~r voices, we show TO the worlC
that the freemen OF California are unbought b.
Federal patronage, aud are unawed by Federa
power, and will staad by the sacred principles o
Democracy ia defiance Of treacherous President
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 repudiate il as the
heresy Of faction and condemn it as an outrage
upon the great charter ofAmerican 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, wh,Oa pledges were announced in
his illtimed 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
70 compensation, as the Southern route"