Daily national Democrat., 1860-01-21
National Democratic pla..srm.

The Democratic party Of the State of Califor-
MA, IN Convention assembled, make and publish
as their Platform aud Resolutions:
hEsoLVED, That we re-afirm the principles set
forth 10 the Cincinnati Platform, and recognize il
as an authoritative exposition Of the Democratic
Creed
RESOLVED, That the right Of the people Of the
Territories to form ell their domestic institutions
10 their own way, is absolute and complete. and
that we are naturally opposed to any interference
WIN such right either by the Legislative or Ex-
ecutlve departments of the General Government
RESOLVED. That the Administration of James
Suchanan, by its outrages upon the rights Of the
people Of Kansas, its unrelentinQ prosecution of
tried and worthy Democrats. for the oflense of ad-
herring to Democratic principles, its constant yio-
alton of the pledges which brought it into life its
attempt to render the Legislative subject to the
Executive Department and its gross extravapance
mlsmanagement and corruption, has forfeited the
respeotand lost the confidence of the American
people.
RESOLVED That The immediate construction Of
the Pacific Railroad ought to be encouraged bv
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 so changed, as to in
crease the number of Judges OF the Supreme
Court and secure a speedy honest and faithful
administration ofjustice.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this Conven.
ton, Congress should enact a law to protect actu-
al bona fde settlers upon public lands in their
Just rights.
RESOLVED, That we as a Convention, repre-
sentpg the true Democracy of California, adhere,
with Nnalterng tirmness, to the principles of De-
moCraey, as taught by Thomas Jefferson, and
| which guided the councils of the immortal Jack
| son.
! RESOLVED That when this Convention ad.
! ourns, its members adjourn to meet, as citizens,
at the polls, inthe Ides ofSeptember, and that by
our labors ana ulF voices, we show to the world
that the freemen of California are unboupht bv
Federal patronage, and are unawed by Federal
power, and will staud by the sacred principles of
Democracy in defiance Of treacherous Presidents
and their Cabinets.
RESOLVED, That the doctrine Of Intervention
by Congress 20 establish slave code for the Ter
rtories, 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 it as the
heresy Of a faction and condemn il 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, winch pledges were announced in
his illtimed letter of 1856, two weeks previous
to the election in this State and that we con
demn the Administration for its refusa, TO place
the Central Overland Mail on the same footing. as
to tocompensatlon, as the Southern route"