Year: 1859

The following is the Platform adopted by the
Anti-Lecompton Democratic Convention on the
10th of June, 1852


l. Resolved, That we re-affirm the principles
set forth in the Cincinnati Platform, and recog-
nize it as an authoritative exposition of the
Democratic Greed.


2. That in order to preserve the peace and
harmony Of the Union, and prevent the frequent
recurrence of sectional agitation, it is essential
that the people of the Territories should legis
late or omit to legislate upon the subject of sla
yery as well as upon other matters of domestic
policy, according to their own will, without any
interference direct or indirect, on the part of
either Congress or the Executive.


3. That the right of the people Of the Terrific
ries to form all their domestic institutions in
their own way, is absolute and complete, and
that we are naturally opposed to any interference
with such right either by the Legislative or Ex-
ecutiye departments of the General Govern
ment.


A. That the Administration of James Buchan-
an, by its outrages upon the rights of the people
of Kansas, its unrelenting prescription OF tried
and worthy Democrats, for the offense of adher-
ing to Democratic principles, its constant viola
ton of the pledges which brought it into life its
attempts to render the Legislative subject to the
Executive department, and its gross extrava-
gance, mismanagement and corruption, has for
feited the respect and lost the confidence Of the
American people.


s. That the Immediate construction of the Pa
cifc Railroad ought to be encouraged by the
Federal and State Governments, by all means in
their power, and that meanwhile the mail SER
vice BY the Overland routes should be sustained
and increased.


g. That our State Judiciary system needs a
thorough and complete revision, and that the
Constitution should be changed, as to in
crease the number of Judges of the Supreme
Court, and secure a speedy. honest and faithful
administration of justice.


T. That in the opinion of this Convention,
Congress should enact law to protect actual,
bona ide settlers upon public lands in their just
rights.


8 That we, as a Convention, representing the
true Democracy of California, adhere, with un-
falterng firmness, to the principles of Democra-
cy, as taught by Thomas Jefferson, ard which
guided the counsels of the immortal jackson.


g. That when this Convention adjourns, its
members adjourn to meet, as citizens, at the
polls, in the ldes of September, and that by our
labors and our voices we show to the world that
the Freemen of California are pnbought By Fed
eral patronage and are unawed by Federal pow
er, and will stand by the sacred principles of
Democracy in defiance Of treacherous Presidents
and their Cabinets.


TO- That the doctrine of Intervention by Con-
gress to establish slave code for the Territories
assumed by the Administration adherents, is a
gross departure from the principles of true Dem
ocracy as laid down in the Platform made at
Cincinnati, and we repudiate it as the heresy of
a faction, and condemn it as an outrage upon the
great charter of American liberty


II. 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 aceeks previous TO the election IN
this State, and that we condemn the Administra-
ton for its refusal to place the Central Overland
Mail on the same footing as to compensation,
&c. as the Southern Route.