Bloomington Herald

From the Richmond Enquirer.

THE LANDMARKS.

The Principles of '98-'99.—The indomitable spirit of Democracy quails not—falters not. It displays its energies in all parts of the republic—from the Gulf of Mexico to the Lakes—from Maine to Louisiana. The Republican journals are every where raising the flag, standing to their arms, rallying round the principles of '98, and prepared to resist every aggression. It is indeed no time to disarm, to disband, or relax a muscle, when we see Daniel Webster about to be elevated to the first post in the coming cabinet!

We are delighted to see so many of the old Republican journals adopting the principles of '98 as their landmarks, and publishing the Virginia Resolutions and Madison's Report.—It is cheering to read such articles as the following:

From the N. O. Morning Intelligencer of Dec. 15.

The Unterrified And unsubdued Democracy.—It is with the highest emotions of pride and satisfaction, that we observe the buoyant and elastic spirit of the Democratic party and their presses throughout the Union, since their late disastrous defeat by the combined forces of Northern Federalists and Abolitionists and disappointed aspirants of the South. The Democratic party, though overpowered, have nothing to dishearten them; their vote throughout the Union, shows a large increase over that of any former period; and notwithstanding Mr. Van Buren's popular vote is considerably larger than it was when he was elected in 1836 by a very decided and handsome majority, yet the Federal Whigs have managed to throw an extraordinary increase of their vote, in every quarter of the Union; such an increase, in fact, as not only to bring them up with the increase of the Democratic vote, but to outstrip it, perhaps to the extent of nearly a hundred thousand votes throughout the Union, thus presenting the remarkable picture of an increase of nearly two hundred thousand Federal votes over any former estimate, while the Democratic party has not only maintained the ground upon which it has always been heretofore successful, but also shows a reasonable increase.

That the election of Gen. Harrison, from the facts which are presented, and the evidence which comes thickly upon us from all parts of the Union, has been effected by extensive frauds on the ballot boxes, and unexampled corruptions practised by the Federal party, through the means of foreign aid, and the use of thousands of dollars sent over here by European speculators and stock jobbers, there cannot be a doubt.

When it is known that from twenty to thirty thousand votes have been cast in a single State, more than there were legal voters in that State, and from eight hundred to a thousand in a single county, more than there were legal voters in that county, we do not hesitate to say that, if the fraudulent votes which have been cast in the late Presidential election could be ascertained and cast out of the account, the Federal party would be found to be in a most lean minority.

The Democracy never stood on higher ground. We say they have been overpowered—not by the strength of Federal numbers, but by the basest Federal frauds and corruptions. Such a power cannot stand. The light of truth and the power of reason will soon disperse the dark spell which seems to have hovered over the senses of the people, and show to them, in their odious and horrid features, the true principles of Federalism, and the whole world will be made sensible of the glorious truth, that, if in the late Presidential contest, the bright principles of liberty and the exalted character of this great nation has been deeply sullied, the Democracy stands proudly above the disgraceful stain which must and will ever rest upon those whose conduct has made manifest their infamous guilt in the most indelible colors.