Worcester Daily Spy

Circular from Mr. Seward to American Representatives Abroad.-The following circular by Mr. Seward, addressed to all the diplomatic and consular agents of the United States, is published in the Paris papers. It will be noticed that the circular is dated on the same day as the emancipation proclamation :-

Department of State,
Washington, Sept. 22, 1862.

Gentlemen :-You will receive by the mail which will carry you this dispatch evidence which will convince you that the aggressive movement of the rebels against the states remaining faithful to the Union is arrested, and that the forces of the Union, strengthened and reanimated, are again ready to undertake a campaign on a vast scale. If you consult the newspapers you will easily perceive that the financial resources of the insurrection decline rapidly, and that the means of raising troops have been exhausted.

On the other side you will see that the financial situation of the country is good, and that the call for fresh troops, without which the material force of the nation would be seriously crippled, is being promptly responded to.

I have already informed our representatives abroad of the approach of a change in the social organization of the rebel states. This change continues to make itself each day more and more apparent. In the opinion of the president, the moment has come to place the great fact more clearly before the people of the rebel states, and to make them understand that if these states persist in imposing upon the country the choice between the dissolution of this government, at once necessary and beneficial, and the abolition of slavery, it is the Union and not slavery that must be maintained and saved. With this object the president is about to publish a proclamation, in which he announces that slavery will no longer recognized in any of the states which shall be in rebellion on the first of January next. While all the good and wise men of all countries will recognize this measure as a just and proper military act, intended to deliver the country from a terrible civil war, they will recognize at the same time the moderation and magnanimity with which the government proceeds in a matter so solemn and important. I am, gentlemen,

your obedient servant,

William H. Seward.