Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IV, Number 22, 1 June 1865 — HE FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

HE FOREIGN NEWS.

Five yearsagoon the 12th of April, 1861, commenced the terrible civil war in the United States. On that day the first shot was fired on Fort Sumter, and on the Bth of April 1865 Gen. Lee surrendered hi» army to Grant. The war waB begun by the rabeU- for ih* purpose of extending and perpetuating slavery. The result was to aholiah it entirely, and to free four millions of men for ever. The same men y in the north who hated the negro, and insulted him for tlie color of his skin, were the same men who sympathized with the rebels and voted against Pres. Lincoln's re-election. The same men who had been accustomed to cruelty towards the slaves, to starve, and scourge them, and hunt them with blood hounds when they ran away, were the satne men who starved Union prisoners to death by thousands, hunted them with b!ood hounds when they escaped, buried sick and wounded men at Fort Pillow, and bumed merchant ships on the high seas. The same *devilish spirit that fired the first Bhot on Sumter April 12, 1861, fired the last shot whieh killed the great and good Pres. Lineoln on the 14 of Apnl, 1865. Fit end for such a beginning. Glory be to God in the highest, that in this contest be hath given victory >to the right, and broken the chains of the oppressed ! We have no laler news from the United States but we are safe in' saying that the American war is over. The war is virtually closed, but a great work stiil remains. The slave gtates are to be regenerated; thejr Constitutions are to be tnodified, new men are to be put in ofiice, new laws are to be made, the slaves are to be set free, the Union men who have had their houses burned by the rebels and been imprisoned and l\ut\ted by them, must be compensated, and traitors must be punished. Desolated cities are to be rebuilt r the deserted plantations are to be again cultivated, and commerce must be re-establised. As soon as the guerrillas are disposed, of people of the north will be eager to go South to cultivate the cotton and tobacco and rice whieh now brings so high a price, and to trade in the t'urpentine aod lumber whieh that rich country produces. Fifty thousand soldiers are to be dismissed at onee. lt is the part of wisdom not to disband the whole army at onee, but gradūally. They will gladly return to their homes, and there will be an abundance of " work for them to do. Never was there so great «in emigration from Europe to America as now. We pray God that peaee may be given that great country, and that itmay not be involved in any foreign wars.