Daily National Democrat

Regular Democratic Platform.
The Democratic party of the State of California, Convention assembled, make and publish as their Platform and Resolutions:
1. Resolved, That all just powers of government are derived from the people; that this principle is recognized as fundamental by all American Constitutions and by the Democratic party.
2. Resolved, That the right of the people to form and regulate their political institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, as guaranteed to Kansas and Nebraska, by their organic law, belongs alike to the people of all other Territories of the United States.
3. Resolved, That while we adhere to the fundamental Democratic principles embraced in the Cincinnati Platform of 1856, we especially renew and re-affirm that principle contained in the resolution known as the "Popular Sovereignty Resolution," declaring the true intent and meaning of that resolution to be, that the people of a State or Territory are invested with the right of ratifying or rejecting at the ballot box any Constitution that may be framed for their government; and all attempts by the Administration and Congress to coerce and bribe the people into the adoption of a particular Constitution, not thus ratified by them, are subversive of the principles of pure Democracy, and destructive of the equality of the States under the Constitution.
4. Resolved, That the recent attempts of the Executive and Congress to force upon the people of Kansas a Constitution which they have rejected at a legal election, is in violation of the principles of the party which placed them in power, derogatory to the positions they occupy, and destructive of our form of government.
5. Resolved, That we regard with detestation the passage by Congress, at its last session, of the bill known as the "English Bill," and look upon it as an attempt to bribe a free people into the indorsement of an odious Constitution: as calculated to create sectional feelings, and cause sectional jealousies; as a violation of the Federal compact; a breach of the Compromises of the Constitution, and a blow at the equality of the States, in that it proposes to make large donations of land, and admit Kansas into the Union without reference to her population, if she adopts the Lecompton Constitution, which establishes slavery, while it refuses her people admission until they obtain a population of ninety or one hundred and twenty thousand if they prefer any other than the Lecompton Constitution.
6. Resolved, That we heartily endorse the action of those members of Congress who sustained the "Crittenden-Montgomery Bill," and who opposed the English Bill, at the last session of that body.
7. Resolved, That it is the right of the people of the States to regulate, in their own way, their political affairs; that Federal office holders are servants of the people, and the constant interference by those servants with the primary affairs of party, whether by menaces of dismissal from office, by forced levies, or by the distribution of promises and moneys at the polls and elsewhere, is incompatible with the spirit of our Constitutions, State and Federal; subversive of popular liberty, and calculated to destroy the sovereignty of the States, and centralize power at the Federal Capital.
8. Resolved, That the immediate action of Congress in securing the construction of a Railroad to the Pacific is a recognized feature in our party policy, indispensable to our safety in war and prosperity in peace, and we call upon the Administration to redeem its pledges and devote its energies to the consummation of this great work.
9. Resolved, That we regard with favor the bill before Congress, at its past session, known as the "Homestead Bill," which proposes to donate to each actual settler upon the public lands of the United States one hundred and sixty acres, and earnestly recommend the passage of the same.
10. RESOLVED, That relying implicitly upon the soundness and integrity of the principles above set forth, and upon the justice and intelligence of the masses, we present this platform to the people of the State, and earnestly invoke the active support of all in its vindication and success, cordially inviting to a full and equal communion all those of whatever creed who recognize the justice of our cause in the doctrines we profess, and who desire to participate in their triumph.
Democratic State Central Committee.
B. B. Redding, William S. Manlove, G. W. Colby, John F. Morse, Josiah Johnson, W. W. Presbury, G. W. Bloor, E. McGarry, Edmund Randolph, Herman Wohler, Elliott J. Moore, David C. McCarthy, W. J. Knox, Geo. A. Pearce, D. J. Carpenter, P. E. Jordan, Judge Fitzsimmons, Charles F. Lott, William Higbee, A. Winemiller, Thomas Eager.