Year: 1860

EAuofrE AdOpteu py the DemOcrauc
state Convention In. Sacramento on
9Th September.


REssLvsD. That the Democracy of Califo rnia
in Convention assembled, relying upol the justice
Rn6 patriotism of the people, reiterate their firm
determination to stand by aud maintain, in all
their integrity, the wise just and liberal princi-
pies enuncated in the Cncinatti Platform by the
Democratic party, in 1856 and re-aihrmed by it
ut Charleston and Baltimore by the National Dem
ocratc organization, to-wit:


That Il is the duty of the United States to a +
f6rd ample and complete protection 70 all its citi.
zens, at home and abroad and whether native OF
hreign born.


." That one ofthe necessities of the age, in a
military and commercial point of viewis speedy
COMMUNICATION between the Atlantic and Pacific
States, and the Democratic party pledge them
selves 30 such a constitutional enactment as viii
insure the construction of railroad to the Paehe
coast at the earliest practicable period.


THAT the Democratic party are in favor OF the
acquisition of the Island Of Cuba, on such terms
rs shall be honorable to ourselves and just 10
Spain.


defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave
Law are hostile in character subversive Of the
Constitution, and revolutionary in their eharac-
ter -.


"Thai IL is in accordance With the Cincinnati
Platform that during the existence OF Territorial
Governments, the measures Of restriction, what



tuition on the power OF the Territorial Legislature
over the subject of the domestic relations, as the
same has been or shall hereafter be finally deter
mined by the Supreme Court OF the United States,
shall be respected by all good ctizens,and eniorc
ed with prOmptuess and fidelity by every branch
Of the General Government


, REsoLvEp That we recognize and sustain the
action of the National Convention in nominating
Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, and Herschel V.
Johnson Of Georgia, for the offices of President


.f 4t,,I T,sf. in
eordance with the usages and discipline Of the
Democratic party; aud, as such nominees they
are entitled to the support ofall good Democrats;
and believing the platform adopted by the Con
vention which nominated them TO be patriotic
natioual and sound-being the same, in fact, as
that upon which the great political battle Of 1856
was fought and won by the Democracy OF the
whole nation-we will give them hearty support
at the next November election.


RESOLVED, that the compromise measures OF
1850 were intended as a full and final settlement
of the slavery question in Congress, as is iuly evl-
denced by the endorsement given them in 1852
by the Whig and Democratic National Conveu-
ti0ns, and we deDrecate any interference calcula-
ted TO disturb that settlement, and we repeat with
renewed energy the following resolution adopted
by the State Convention of 1855, which nominated
Milton S. Latham for Governor, to-wit: "That
the organized Territories of the United States
although not endowed with all the attributes OF
sovereignty, yet justly entitled to the right of
self government and the mdisturbed regulation
Oftheir domestic aud local affairs subject to the
Constitution of the United States and that any
attempt by Congress or any Of the States to pro
hibit or abolish the relation of master and slav
in Territory would be departure from h
original doctrine of our American institutions I;
and that we adhere mmovably to the doctrine OF
'non-lntervention by Congress with slavery in the
States and Territories, declared in the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and openly disclain fellowship with
those whether at the South, the North, the East
or the West, who consult the abandonment lin
itation or avoidance of that principle"


RESOLVED, That we repudate and disavow the
action of that portion of the California delegation
which withdrew from the last National Conven-
ton at Charleston and Baltimore excepting from
this censure Major John Bdwell, the only one
among them who has as yet disavowed that act)
and that we never can and never will acknowl-
edge the right of a minority of the members of a
Convention to break up and destroy the Demo-
cratic party organization.


RESOLVED, That we are opposed to all section
Alism whichwould tend in any way to disturb the
harmony ofThe Federal Union, no matter wheth-
er il comes in the shape of Northern COngression-
al Intervention for the prohibition of slavery in
the Territories or Southern Congressional inter
venton for the maintenance of slavery in the
Territories.


RESOLVED, That we are in favor Of a Homestead
Bill, the establishment Of daily Overland Mail
the building fan Overland Telegraph and Pacific
Railroad; aud that there is no constitutional OBJ
lection to Congress extending such aid as will in
sure the speedy construction of such road.


RESOLVED, That in the judgment of this Con-
vention the title of the United States to the island
of San Jnan on our northwest coast is as good as
il is to the District of Columbia; that the recent
history of our territorial relations with England
in that quarter may well make fear that the
delays of diplomacy are full of danger to our
rights that the man or the Administration that
will allow a grasping power a second time to
Overreach us on that coast will merit and receive
the lasting indignation of the American people


RESOLVED, That excessive wasteful aud special
egislation has been the bane of California, and
has imposed upon the people burden of taxation
which is almost ntoerable; that these evils should
be corrected and the business of legislation re-
stored to the Democratic basis of in8exble opposi-
tion to large public debt; to the granting of
special privileges to the few at the expense of the
many; TO the eXtravagant expenditure of the pub.
lie moneys; that this much needed reform cannot
be Withheld without wrong TO the State and vio-
lation Of the plain duty of the representative to
the constituents, and of the true policy and cardi.
nal principles of the Democratic party.


RESOLVED, That it is imperatively necessary for
the true interests of the State that the Legislature
should use all constitutional power to increase
the Public School Fund and advance the interests
OF education, believing, as we do, that upon the
education of the people depends the advancement
and honor ofihe State.


RESOLVED, That we cordially ndorse the Ad.
mnistraton of Governor John G. Downev. as en-
inently calculated to advance the true intrests of
California.


REsoLvED, That we heartily endorse the action
OF the Democratic State Central Committee nre
sided over by Joseph p. Hoge Esq, and recognize
their action in calling this Convention as right,
proper and Democratic.