Daily national Democrat., 1859-07-07
9arlg 9ationaI Democrat.
National Democratic Platform.

The Democratic party of the State of Califor-
MIA, in Convention assembled make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-atfirm the principles set
forth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recornize il
as an authoritative exposition of the Democratic
Greed.
Resolved, That the right Of the people of the
Territories to form all their domestic institutions
their own way, is absolute and complete, and
that we are naturally opposed 10 any interference
with such right, either by the Leg slative or EX-
ecutlve departments Of the General Government
RESOLVED, That the Administration Of James
Buchanan, by its outrages upon the rights of the
people Of Kansas, its ulrelenting prescription o:
tried and worthy Democrats. for the otfanse of ad-
herring to Democratic principles, its constant viO-
lation If the pledges which brought il into life its
attempt to render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department and It's gross extravaganza
miSmlaagsneat and corruption, has forfeited the
respect and lost the c1nileace of the American
people.
RssoLvgD That the immediate construction of
tle Pacific Railroad ought TO be encouraged by
the Federal and State Governments by ali 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 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 speedy, honest and faithful
ad administration of Justice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion Of this Conven-
ton, Congress should enact law to protect actu-
al bona file settlers upon public lands in their
Just rights.
RESOLVED, That we, as a Convention, repre-
scnting 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
journs, 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 unbought by
Federal patronage and are unawed by Federal
power, and will stapd by the sacred principles of
Democracy ia 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 gross departure from the principles of
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati and we repudate it as the
heresy of a 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, which pledges were announced in
his illtimed 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
to compensation, as the Southern route"