The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-25
MR.. SEWARD S DISPATCH TO OUR MINISTERS
ABROAD.

Mr.. Seward, on the 18th ultimo, adj
dressed di plomatic circular to our minis
tiers in Europe, reciting the successes of
our armies during the present year, and
concluding as follows:
Jefferson Davis, the leader of the sedition,
has since proclaimed levy of all the able bod
led men within his military lines. This, if
carried into effect, will exhaust the whole ma
terial of which soldiers can be made. The in
surgents estimate the total number of con-
scripts thus to be gained at from 20, 900 to
80, goo. Our armies now confront the inSur-
gents at all points with superior numbers A
draft for 300, 600 more is in progress to replace
those whose terms OF service have expired, and
to fill up the wasted ranks of our veteran regi-
ments, and the people, just SO fast as the evil
dence OF the necessity for that measure is re-
ceived and digested, submit with cheerfulness
to the ascertaned demands. Our armies
everywhere are well equipped, abundant
ly fed, and supplied with all the means
of easy and safe transportation The soldiers
of two years service bear themselves as vete-
rams and show greater steadiness in every con-
flict, the men, accustomed to the camp, and
hardened by exercises 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 enlist
All supplies are abundantly and cheaply pur-
chased within our lires. The country shows
no signs of exhaustion of money, material or
men. A requisitiOn for six thousand two hun
bred remount horses was filled and the animals
despatched from Washington all in four days.
Our loan is purchased at par by our own eiti-
Zens, at the average rate of 81, 200, 600 daily.
Gold sells in our market at one hundred and
twenty-three to one hundred and twenty-eight,
while in the insurrectionary region it COM
mands twelve hundred per cent. premium
Every insurgent port is either blockaded. be-
sieged, or occupied by the national forces. The
field of the projected COnfederacy is divided by
the Mississippi. All the Notifications on its
banks are in our hands, and its flood is pa
trOlled by the natl Dnal fleet.
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland -
all slave States upport the Federal Govern
ment. Missouri has already in convention, Or
damned the graau al abolition of slavery. to take
effect at the end of seven years. FOar-fiftlrs of
sTennessee, twO-thirds of Virginia, the coasts
and sounds of North Carolina, half of Missis-
sippi and half of Louisiana, with all their
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 whom they yet hold in defiance
of the Presidents proclamation, are now crowd
ed into the central and southern portions of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina Geor-
gia and Alabama, while the pioneer slavehold-
inc insurgents beyond the Mississippi are cut
OfFfrom the main force. Il On the other hand
although it is less than six months since
the laws and the customs of the United
States would by any means allow man of
African descent to bear arms in defence
of his country, there are now in the field
twenty-five thousand regularly enlisted, armed,
and equipped soldiers OF that class, while fifty
roo-;,on,ts Of tuO thOuSand Zach are in Y,rOcocc
of organization, and sixty-two thousand eight
hundred persons of the same class are employed
as teamsters, laborers, and camp followers
These facts show that, as the insurrection con-
tinues, the unfortunate servile population,
which was at the beginning an element of its