The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-05
KING ABSALOM.
Especial Dispatch to the New l ork News. !
WASHINGTON, August 25. 1868

Especial l1Spatcn 10 Cne new 1Ork NeWS.F
WASHINGTON, August rs, 1868. j
CALL UPON CONSERVATIVE MIMI q
The Constitutional Union of to-day, edi-
ted by the Hon. Thomas b. Florence, in
publishing q call for the meeting of the
Democratic National Committee in New
York on the 7th Of September, suggests in
an elaborate editorial, the re-assemblage
of the Committees and of the Conservative
men of the country in the Hall of The
September next, the anniversary of the
adoption of the Federal Constitution, to re-
new, upon the altar of our country, un-
ceasing devotion to the Constitution in let
ter and spirit, as it is resolved to insist
upon it's maintenance and to restore the
Union of our fathers just as it was given to
US for glorious inheritance. The sug-
gestion is hailed with great appreciation
here, and the movement is regarded as
of significant and important results.
- 1.-The Hon. Thomas B. Florence" was for
ten years a representative of the Philadek
phia Navy Yard in the House, and more
abject tool of the Slave Power than any
other Navy Yard could turn out. AS he
has ceased to be even Member of the
House, his proposal to pervert its grand
Hall the property of the Republic-to the
uses of the Copperhead gathering he in
vites, is striking illustration of that cool
effrontery which will not consider that
Slavery's mastery of our Government has
been recklessly staked and lost.
The two Democratic National Commit
tees and "the Conservative men of the
country are urged to assemble at Wash
wing Slavery from the doom which it has
cririnally invoked. The circumlocutory
verbiage employed by the Hon. Tom Flor
ence means exactly that, and nothing else.
We protest against the proposed gather
ing, in that it proposes virtually to wrest
from the Government of the United States
the grave responsibility Of fixing the terms
of accommodation with the defeated and
death-struck Rebellion. We protest against
it, because, under the mask of anxiety for
Peace, it tends directly and strongly to
keep alive the embers of that Rebellion by
exciting false, misleading hopes in the
minds Of its remaining vOtaries. There
never would have been any Shareholders
Rebellion but for sanguine expectations OF
Northern 'aid-hopes which the letters,
speeches, and conversations OF such men
as the Hon. Tom Florence fully author
lied. And the Rebels would have sue
cumbed long ago but for their daily expec-
tation of the promised Northern succOr.-
This meeting will give a new flip to the
sinking spirits of the traitors. They will say
to each other-"Hold out a little longer
the Presidential Election is hardly more
than, year off-meantime our Northern
| friends are busy-they have National
gathering in Washington already to devise
| measures for our relief, and they have
some hopes of organizing the House mex,
| December let US wait and see what they
can do for u.s. And so this most wretch.
ed, bloody, desolating struggle will be pro-
| tracted, long after all excuse for maintain.
! ing it has vanished at a cost of millions O.
money and thousands more of priceless
| lives.
Against all such conspiracies to supplan
the Government, we protest in the interes
of Layalty, of Liberty, and Of Humanity
| N. Y. Tribune.
The New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press TINS Dictures this citv thu