Northern News Reports: Reconstruction Times

July 16th 1865 Page 2
Northern News Reports
Reconstruction Times
The bloody years are over! After the four years of civil war the soldiers that were against each other are now friends. God bell on this day the 364,000 healthy young men in witch 38,000 were powerless African Americans and the 260,000 adults that died on those bloody days. American bloodshed will probably never be as much as in the past years.
The results of the war were disastrous. While young children that are unable to take care of themselves without parents are out on the streets as orphans, wives are widows with no husbands to care for them. The plantation owners loosing a lot of money will be forced to sell their farms to pay off their debts from the war. Now that the Sothern farmers have no free labor because of the freedom of all black raced people, their farms are but naked fields. The North still strong welcomes African Americans to work in factories or in northern farms. Some black still choose to stay are workers in the farms they were in before the war.
Sorry is what we should be for the brave president Lincoln (see more on page 1) that was just assassinated, but we cheer Andrew Johnson to continue the plan that the one that has left us began. Congress is taking a break during these days. Our leaders agreed that slavery should be eliminated, and that secession has to be totally omitted. We are glad to welcome in our government the 13th and 14th amendments which will provide opportunity for more people. We can only hope that the reconstruction will be over by 1877.