Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-21
0allp elatloNal Democrat
National Democratic Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Califor-
nil, in Convention assembled. make aud publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-a(irm the principles set
forth in the Cincinnati Platform aud recognize il
as an authorative exposition Of the Democratic
Greed.
RESOLVED, That the right Of the people of the
Territories TO form all their domestic institutions
IN their own way IS absolute and complete, aud
that we are naturally opposed to any interference
with such right, either BY the Legislative or EX-
ecuhve departments of the General Government
RESOLVED, That the Administration of James
Buchanan, by its outrages upon the rights of the
people Of X lnsas, its uarslenting prescription o!
tried and worthy Democrats. for the oh'ense Of ad.
herring to Democratic principles its constant vic.
lation Of the pledges which brought it into life its
attempt 20 render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department aud its gross extravaganoe
mismanagement aud corruption, has forfeited the
respect aud lost the couddoncl of the American
people.
REsoLvEp. That the immediate construction of
the Pacific Railroad ought to be encouraged bv
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, aud secure a speedy, honest and faithful
administration of justice.
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
just rights.
RESOLVED, That we, as a Convention, repre-
sentiDg the true Democracy of California, adhere,
with Nhialtering irmness 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-
l~lrns 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 uubought by
Federal patronage, and are unawed by Federal
power and will sta d by the sacred principles of
Democracy in defiance of treacherous Presidents
and their Cabinets.
RESOLVED, That the doctrine of Intervention
by Congress to establish a slave code for the Ter
ritores, assumed by the Administration adher-
euts, is gross departure from the principles of
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati, and we repudiate it as the
heresy of faotiOn 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, which pledges were announced in
his ill-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"