Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-15
lailp ylatimaI qrnrutrat.
National Democratic Platform.

The nemocratic party of the State Of Calitor-
MIA. in Convention assembled. make and publish
a. their Platform and Resolutions:
Resolved That we re-afirm the principles set
Fbrth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recognize It
as an authoritative exposition OF the Democratic
Greed.
RrsoLvEp, That the right of the people of the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
ia their own way is absolute and complete, ana
that we are naturally opposed 70 any interference
With such right, either by the Legislative OF En-
.cutve departments of the General Government.
Resolved, That the Administration OF 'e',ieS
Buchanan, by its outrages upon the rights oi 'he
peope Of Kansas its unrelenting prescription %
tried and worthy Democrats. for the ohense OF ad-
herring 10 Democratic principles. its constant vl@
alton Of the pledges which brought 1t into lie ITS
qttempt to render the Legislative subject 10 the
Executive Department and its gross extravaganza,
mismanagement aud 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 ANA State Governments by all means
in their power, and that meanwhile the mail ser,
vice by the Overland routes should be sustained
aud increased.
RESOLVED, That our State Judiciary system
needs a thorough and complete revision, ana tna'
the Constitution should be so changed as 10 ih-
crease the number Of Judges OF the supreme,
Court, and secure a speedy, honest ana Ia''I'u'
administration of justice.
RESOLVED That in the opinion oi TINS CohVeh-
ton. Congress should enact alaw to protect actu-
al bona fde settlers upon public lands In thelr
Just rights.
REsoLvEp. That we, as q Convention, repre-
sentng the true Democracy Of California, adhere,
with uhialtering trnucss TO the principles OF De
mocracy. as taught bv 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 lab0rs ana VI voices, we show 10 the world
that the freemeu OF California are unbought by
Federal patronage, and are unawed by Fedora
power, and will sta d bv the sacred principles o
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 o
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati and we repudlate II as the
heresy Of "a faction and condemn II 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 illtimed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State I; and that we con-
denim tne Administration for its refusal 20 place
the Central Oterhnd Mail on the same footing, as
to compensation, as the Southern route"