The Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye

KING ABSALOM.
[Special Dispatch to the New York News.]
Washington, August 25, 1863.
CALL UPON CONSERVATIVE MEN
The Constitutional Union of to-day, edited by the Hon. Thomas B. Florence, in publishing a 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 House of Representatives on the 17th of September next, the anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, to renew, upon the altar of our country, unceasing devotion to the Constitution in letter and spirit, as it is resolved to insist upon its maintenance and to restore the Union of our fathers just as it was given to us for a glorious inheritance. The suggestion is hailed with great approbation here, and the movement is regarded as of significant and important results.
The Hon. Thomas B. Florence was for ten years a representative of the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the House, and a more abject tool of the Slave Power than any other Navy Yard could turn out. As he has ceased to be even a Member of the House, his proposal to pervert its grand Hall the property of the Republic--to the uses of the Copperhead gathering he invites, is a 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 Committees and "the Conservative men of the country" are urged to assemble at Washington for the sole, naked purpose of saving Slavery from the doom which it has criminally invoked. The circumlocutory verbiage employed by the Hon. Tom Florence means exactly that, and nothing else.
We protest against the proposed gathering, 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 Slaveholders' Rebellion but for sanguine expectations of Northern aid--hopes which the letters, speeches, and conversations of such men as the Hon. Tom Florence fully authorized. And the Rebels would have succumbed long ago but for their daily expectation of the promised Northern succor. This meeting will give a new fillip 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 a year off--meantime our Northern friends are busy--they have a National gathering in Washington already to devise measures for our relief, and they have some hopes of organizing the House next December--let us wait and see what they can do for us." And so this most wretched, bloody, desolating struggle will be protracted, long after all excuse for maintaining it has vanished at a cost of millions of money and thousands more of priceless lives.
Against all such conspiracies to supplant the Government, we protest in the interest of Loyalty, of Liberty, and of Humanity.
N. Y. Tribune.