Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-04
1allp 0ationaI Democrat.
National Democratic Platform.


The Democratic party Of the State of Cafor-
MA, in Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform and Resolutions:
RESOLVED, That we re-allirm the principles set
f6rth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recognize it
as an authoratve 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 to any interference
With such right, either by the Legislative or EN-
cutve departments of the General Government
RESOLVED, That the Administration OF James
Suchanan, by its outrages upon the rights oil the
people Of Kansas, its unreeutng prescription @:
tried and worthy Democrats. for the oifenSe Of ad
herring % Democratic principles, its constant viO-
htion of the pledges which brought it into life, its
9ttefnpt 20 render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department and its gross extravaganza,
mismanagement and corruption has forfeited the
respect and lost the confidence of the American
people.
Resolved. That the immediate instruction of
the Pacific Railroad Ought 10 be encouraged BY
the Federal ana State Governments by oil 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 and secure speedy, honest and faithful
administration of justice.
RESOLVED That in the opinion Of this Conven-
ti0n, Congress should enact law to protect actu-
81 bona ffs settlers upon public lands in their
just rights.
REsoLvED. That we, as a Convention, repre-
sentIng the true Democracy of California, adhere,
With Nniatering frmuess, to the principles of De-
mOcracy Us taught by Thomas jefferson, and
which guided the councils of the immortal Jack
on.
RESOLVED That when this Convention ad-
iourns its members adjourn 10 meet citizens,
at the polls, inthe Ides ofSeptember, and that by
our labors ana v~r voices, we show to the world
that the freemeu of California are unbought by
Federal patronage and are unawed by Federal
power, and will staad by the sacred principles o
Democracy la defiance oftreacherous 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
ents, is a gross departure from the principles o
the true Democracy as laid down IN the Platform
made at Cincinnati, and we repudiate II as the
heresy of a faction and condemn II 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-
denim the Administration for its refusal to place
the Central Overland Mail on the same footing as
70 compensation, as the Southern route"