The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-07-03
Is the KANSAS QUESTION SETTLED?

Although tie Richmond Enquirer aud Sauil lall
tlik that the K,usa- question is an extinct issue. "
a hg9a portion q the southern press haze different
opinion. Prominent among those Is lie Cll,...,oa
Mercury which ihus expresses il.oIr2
Internal di.,pn.ion. and contests -tl lrago ii the
h1,om Of The l.nion. H. Who suppo-rs that tbcy ars
dead. is fit to wear cap aud bells in The pres of
an imperial master. Th, two sections Or lhe Onion
woreneycr moro divided and cXasperatad AGAINST caeb
olAnr. After five months legislation on the subject
Of slavery, 1t only adjourned over III al mobabili-
iy. to the next Congress, TO come back with deeper
demonstrations ol sy e.oaal aatipathy and hate The
only party nj the North with any affinity with d.
Souii-the Triumphant party which. wil' a united
@nlh. pluc the present administration III power
went 10 pieces at the North on the i-t contest on
,arclS, The first message Of the President to Co.-
gross met On II reception m opposition which III
once divided tie Democratic party. \ patriotic re.
ead iar ila onion, or What Mr. Calhoun las called
" the cohesive power Of public plapder," still holds
together portion Of h. party in the North. true IL
the Sonth. But let The Land Ordinance, with The Ie-
compton Constitution, be rejected by the people Of
Ea,sas at the polls TO be held in August next and
even that party may turn againstus."
Upon Ibis, an exchange traly ana Justly remark, .
/" The Charicsson Mercury is right. Its predictions
will be more than realized. The man Is either nat.
nrnl born fool or an interruptions damagognc, who
maintains that the late Congress did anything to re-.
coAcle The differences between the North and South
or that greater eXasp Of feeling does not now
prevail between the two sections than ever before"
T'sH Some Of the eanti-slayery journals have struck
bright idea. They propose to ciylizc Africa and
to c0ionze Central America with free blacks from
the United States The first object has been tried.
aud with poor success. The second may be tried
without effect. The laws Of nature have set up n
barrier that no effort Of man can transgress. The
world viii glide along rs it has douo and the negro
race will not lose its characteristic under any sort of
practicable teaching. What time and discipline un-
der the white race may do with the black man. is a
question that lies far in the fulure for its solution! II
Whlo men wish to reform the world, they can find a
great deal more promising material than the black
race. They can fluid enough to do to help their own
race, without wasting their efforts on mpracticables
FLORIDA SEMNoLEs--The Tampa Penlnsular of the
10th MI. says:
Late adycos from Fort Myers inform us that In.
dian signs are occasionally seen in tho vicinity of
that post and old Fort Daymud They have moi as
yet been induced to come in although white flags are
displayed at many points under the charge of Capt
l.. G. Lesley.
With this judcious officer we may reasonably cy-
pect communications will be opened with the few re-
naming Indians very soon, as he intends extending
his rambes to the Big Cypress. His force is about
lorly men OF the genuine stamp-rcady at a moment
ior any emergency.
~ Sec Mhgelaneo9a reading, on fourth pugo