Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-11
4ailg NatiOnal 9emutrat.
Nntlonal Democratic Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Caliior-
MIA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-atlirm the principles SET
forth in the Cincinnati Platform, aud recognize II
as an authorative exposition of the Democratic
Creed.
RESOLVED, That the right Of the people Of the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
Ia their own way is absolute and compete, "uu
that we are naturally opposed to any lnterletcIsoc %
with such right, either by the beg iSlauVe OF Elk
,cutive denartments of the General Government
RrsofvFn That the Administration of James
Buchanan. bv its outrages upon the rights OF the
neonIe of Kansas. its unrelentlng prescription o..
tried aud worthy Democrats for the oifense of ad-
herring to Democratic principles, its constant yio-
laon of the pledges which brought it into life its
attempt 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 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 changed, as to IN
crease the number of Judges of the Supreme
Court, and secure a speedy, honest ana altnlul
administration of justice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this Conven-
ton. Congress should enact law to protect actu-
al bona tile settlers upon public lands in their
Just rights.
Resolved, That we, as a Convention, repre-
sentipg the true Democracy of California adhere,
With unialtering 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-
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, aud will staad 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
ritores. 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 1t as the
heresy of a faction and condemn 1t 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 ll-timed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State and that we con-
denim the Administration for its refusal to place
the Central Overland Mail on the same footing, as
10 compensation, as the Southern route"