Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-26
Regular Democratic Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Califor-
ma Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions;
!. RESOLVED, That all just powers of govern.
ment are derived from the people; that this prn-
ciple is recognized as fundamental by all Ameri-
can Constitutions and by the Democratic party.
2. RESOLVED, That the right of the people to
form and regulate their political institutions in
their own way, subject only to the Constitution
OF the United States, as guaranteed to Kansas and
Nebraska, by their organic law, belongs alike to
the people of all other Territories of the United
States.
8. RESOLVED, That while we adhere to the fun
damental Democratic principles embraced in the
CINCINNATI Platform of 1856, we especially renew
ana re-allrn that principle contained in the res
olutloh known as the Popular Sovereignty Res
luton, declaring the true intent and meaning of
that resolution to be, that the people of State
or Territory are invested with the right of rati-
flying or rejecting at the ballot box any Constitu-
ton that may be framed for their government !;
ana all attempts by the Administration and Con-
gress to coerce and bribe the people into the adop-
tion of a particular Constitution, not thus ratified
by them, are subvcrsive of the principles of pure
democracy, and destructive of the equality Of the
States under the Constitution.
4. RESOLVED, That the recent attempts of the
Executive and Congress to force upon the peope
OF Kansas Constitution which they have reject
ed at legal election, is in violation of the princi-
pies of the party which placed them in power,
derogatory to the positions they occupy, and
destructive of our form of government.
B. RESOLVED That we regard with detestation
the passage by Congress- at It's last session. the
Dill known as the English Bill aad look upon
u as an attempt to bribe free people into the in
d0rsement Of an Odous Constitution as calcula-
ted to create sectional feelings and cause section
al Jeaousies; as a violation OF the Federal com
pact; breach of the Compromises of the Const-
tuition, and blow at the equality of the States
IN that it proposes TO make large donations of
land, and admit Kansas into the Union without
reference to Ter population if she adopts the Le-
compton Constitution, which establishes slavery,
whllelt refuses her peoble admission until they
OBTAIN population Of ninety or one hundred and
twenty thousand if they prefer any other than
the Lecompton Constitution.
8. RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the ac-
ton OF those members Of Congress who sustained
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bill, " aud who OPP
posed the English Bill, at the last session ofthat
body.
z. RESOLVED, That it is the right of the people
OF the States to regulate, in their own way, their
political affairs; that Federal office holders are
servants of the people, and the constant interfer-
euce by those servants with the primary affairs of
party, whether by menances of dismissal from of
hce, by forced levies, or by the distribution C
promises and moneys at the polls and elsewhere
is Incompatible with the spirit of our Coustitu-
tions, State and Federal; subversive of popular
liberty, and calculated to destroy the sovereignty
OF the States, and centralize power at the Federal
Capital.
8. RESOLVED, That the immediate action of
Congress in securing the construction of Rail- |
road to the Pacific is recognized feature in our
party policy, indispensable to our safety in war
and prosperity in peace, aud we call upon the
Administration to redeem its pledges and devote |
ITS energies to the cOnsummBtion of this great /
work.
9. RESOLVED, That we regard with favor the |
bill before Congresa, at its past session, known as
tbs Homestead Bill" which proposes to donate
TO each actual settler upon the public lands of the
United States one hundred and sixty acres, and |
earnestly recommend the passage Of the same.
10. RESOLVED, That relying implicitly upon the |
soundness and integrity of the principles above
set FORTH and upon the justice and intelligence of
the masses, we present this platform to the peo-
pie of the State, and earnestly invoke the active
support of all in its vindicatlon and success, cor
daily inviting to full and equal communion all
those Of whatever creed who recognize the justice
Of our cause in the doctrines we profess, and who
desire to participate in their triumph.