Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-23
The Var History Of the Year--Mr.s Seuarl,s
&~~Despatehto eur Ministers Ahfosd.

Hy SETARD, on tie 18th ultima addressed
diplomatic circular TO our ministers in Eu
nops, reeisings che suecesses IF eur armies
during the Present > ear, and seaneluding a.
foliows 2ss@3S - 4 s = =
Jefferson Davis, the leader of the sedition,
has since proclaimed levy OF all the able
bodied men within his military lines. This,
if carried.into effect, win xhaust the whole
mater of which soldiers be made The
Insurgents estimate the total number of con-
scripts thus to be gained at from 10000 to
$4,000. Our armies now confront the insur-
gents at a Il points with superior numbers A
draft for 100000 more is in progress to re-
place those whose terms of service have ex-
pred, and TO fill up the wasted ranks of our
veteran regiments, and the people, just so
fast as the evidence of thesneeessity for that
measure il received and digested submit
wit che erfulness to theaseer- ained demands
Our armies everywhere are well equipped,
abundantly fed, and supplied with ali the
means of transportation. The soldiers of two
years service bear themselves as veterans.
amt show gre ater steadineSs in very conflic
The men, accustomed to the camp. and har-
dened by exercise and experience, make
marches which would have been impossible
in the beginning of the contest. The nation
is becoming familiar with arms and easily
takes on the habits of war. Large voluntary
enlistments continually augment our military
force. All supplies are abundantly and
cheaply purchased within our lines The
country shows no signs Of. exhaustion of
money, material or men. A requisition for
SIX thousand two hundred remount horses was
filled and the animals despatched from w ash
ington all i'll four days. Our loan is purchased
at par by our own citizens, at the average
rate Of Sl,20O,0OO daily, Gold sells in our
market at one hundred and twenty three to
one hundred and twenty eight, while in the
insurrectionary regions it commands twelve
hundred per cent. premium.
every insurgent port is either blockaded,
besieged, or occupied by the national forces
The field of the projected Confederacy is di-
vided by the Mississippi. All the fortifca-
lions on Its banks are in our hands, and its
food is patrolled by the national fleet
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland,
ali slave states-support the federal gov
eminent. Missouri has already in convention
ordained the gradual abolition of slavery, to
take effect at the expiration of seven years
Four-ffths of Tennessee, two-thirds of Vir-
ginia, the coasts and sounds of North Carroll
ma, half of Mississippi and half of Louisiana,
with all their large cities, part of Alabama,
and the whole sea-coast of Georgia and South
Carolina, and no inconsiderable part of the
coast of Florida, are held by the United
States. The insurgents, with the slaves " HON
they yet hold IN defiance OF the Presidents
proclamation, are now crowded into the cen
tral and southern portions of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama, while the pioneer slave holding ;nsur-
gents beyond tue Mississippi are cut off from
the main force. On the other hand, although
it is less than six months since the laws or
customs of the United States would allow
man OF African descent to bear arms in de-
fence of his country, there are now in the
field twenty-five thousand regularly enlisted
armed and equipped soldiers of that class
while fifty reg ments of two thousand each
are in process OF organization, aud sixty-two
thousand eight hundred persons of the same
class are employed as teamsters laborers, and
camp followers. These facts show that, as
the instruction continues, the unfortunate
serVile population, which was at the begin
ming an element of its strength, is being
transferred to the support of the Union.
You viii use the facts presented ia this
paper Ia such way may be most effective
to convince those who seek a renewal of COM
mercial prosperity through the restoration of
peace in America, that the quickest and short
est way to gam that desirable end, Is to with
draw support and favor from the insurgents
and to leave the adjustment of our domestic
controversies exclusively with the people of
the United States.
81 am, sir, your obedient servant,
CIVILIAN IL. SEWARD"