Year: 1860

y FAuOlhAIh Ny thN
State Convention in Sacramento on
9th September.


RsslLvsn. Thlt the Democracy of Cllif0 rnia
IN Convention assembled, relying upon the Justice
and patriotism of the people, reiterats their firm
determination to stand by and maintain in all
their integrity, the wise, Just and liberal princl
Piles enunciaed in the Cincuatti Platform by the
Democratic party. in 1856, aud re-athrmed by 1t
at Charleston and Baltimore by the National Dem
ocratic organization, to-wit


That tits the duty Of the United States to az
ford ample and complete protection to all its citi-
zens. at home and abroad, and whether native or
Hreign born


" That one ofthe necessities of the age. in a
military and commercial point of view,is speedy
communication between the Atlantic and Pacific
States, aud the Democratic party pledge them.
selves 10 such constitutional enactment as will
insure the construction ofa railroad To the Pacific
coast at the earliest practicable period.


THAT the Democratic party are in favor OF the
acquisition Of the Island ofCuba. on such terms
as shall be honorable to ourselves and just to
Spain.


'"That the enactmeuts Of State Legislatures to
defeat the faithful execution Of the Fugitive Slave
Law are hostile in character, subversive Of the
Constitution, and revolutionary in their charac-
ter:


That II is in accordance with the Cincinnati
Platform that, during the existence of Territorial
Governments the measures of restriction, what
ever they may be, imposed by the Federal Consti-
tuition on the power of the Territorial Legislature
over the subject Of the domestic relations, the
same has been or shall hereafter be finally deter
mined by the Supreme Court of the United States,
shall be respected bv all good citizens, and eniorc
cd with promptness and fidelity by every branch
of the General Government.


! RESOLVED, 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
and Vice President of the United States, as in ac-
cordance with the usages and discipline of the
Democratic party; and, as such nominees they
are entitled to the support ofal good Democrats;
and believing the platform adopted by the Con-
veution which nominated them to be patriotic,
national 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 naton-we will give them hearty support
at the next November election.


RESOLVED that the compromise measures OF
1850 were intended as full and final settlement
of the slavery question in Congress, as is fully evil
denced BY the endorsement given them in 1852
by the Wing and Democratic National Conven-
tions and we deprecate any interference calcua-
ted to disturb that settlement and we repeat with
renewed energy the following resolution adopted
by the State Convention of S59,which nominated
Milton 5. Latham for Governor, to-wit: "That
the organized Territories Of the United States,
although not endowed with all the attributes OF
sovereignty, are yet Justly entitled to the right of
self government and the undisturbed regulation
oftheir domestic and local affairs, subject to the
Constitution of the United States and that any
attemptby Congress or any of the States to pro.
hlbit or abolish the relation of master and sav
In Territory would be a departure from t h
original doctrine of our American institutions ::
and that We adhere immovably to the doctrine o
'non-nterventon' by Congress with slavery in the
States and Territories, declared in the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and openly discain fellowship with
those, whether at the South the North, the East
or the West, who consult the abandonment linn
1taton or avoidance OF that principle"


RESOLVED, That we repudiate and dsavow the
action OF that portion Of the California delegation
which withdrew from the last National Conven-
tion n. Charleston and Baltimore excepting from
This cepsure Major John Bidwell the only one
among them who has as yet disavowed that aet)
and that we never can and never will acknow-
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 whichwoud tend in any way to disturb the
harmony ofThe Federal Union, no matter wheth.
er it comes in the shape ofNorthern Congresson-
al intervention for the prohibition of slavery in
the Territories or Southern Congressional inter
vention for the maintenance of slavery in the
Territories


RESOLVED, That we are in favor of a Homestead
Bill, the establishment offs daily Overland Mail
the building of an Overland Telegraph and Pacific
Railroads and that there is no constitutional OBJ





sure the speedy construction of such road.


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


RESOLVED, That excessive, wastetul and special
egislaton has been the bane of California, and
has imposed upon the people a burden of taxation
which is almost intOerable that these evils should
be corrected and the business of Legislation re-
stored to the Democratic basis infiexlble 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 ofthe people depends the advancement
and honor of the State.


RESOLVED, That we cordially indorse the Ad.
ministration of Governor John G. Downey as en-
lnenty calculated to advance the true intrests Of
California.


RESOLVED, That we heartily endorse the action
of the Democratic State Central Committee, pre-
sided over by Joseph p. Hoge Esq, and recognize
their action IN calling this Convention as right
proper and Democratic.