Most of these writers were in the prime of youth, and Socialism was their first love. It would be interesting to trace their several careers in after time, when acquaintance with "stern reality" put another face on their early dream, and turned them aside to other pursuits. Certain it is, that the socialistic revival, barren as it was in direct fruit, fertilized in many ways the genius of these men, and through them the intellect of the nation. NATIONAL CONVENTION. Report from _The Phalanx_ condensed. Pursuant to a call published in the _Phalanx_ and other papers, a Convention of Associationists assembled on Thursday morning, the 4th of April, 1844, at Clinton Hall, in the city of New York. The following gentlemen were appointed officers of the Convention: _President_, George Ripley. _Vice Presidents_, A.B. Smolnikar, Parke Godwin, Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana, A. Brisbane, Alonzo M. Watson. _Secretaries_, Osborne Macdaniel, D.S. Oliphant. _Committee on the Roll and Finance._ John Allen, James P. Decker, Nathan Comstock, Jr. _Business Committee._ L.W. Ryckman, John Allen, Osborne Macdaniel, George Ripley, Horace Greeley, Albert Brisbane, Parke Godwin, James Kay, Charles A. Dana, W.H. Channing, A.M. Watson, Solyman Brown. Before proceeding to business, the secretary read letters addressed to the Convention by a number of societies and individuals in different parts of the United States. The style of these letters may be seen in a few brief extracts. E.P. Grant wrote: "The day is speedily coming when justice will be done to Fourier and his doctrines; when monuments will rise from ten thousand hills, surmounted by his statue in colossal proportions, gazing upon a happy people, whose God will be truly the Lord, because they will live in spontaneous obedience to his eternal laws." John White and others wrote: "We behold in the science of associated industry, a new social edifice, of matchless and indescribable beauty, and true architectural symmetry! Surely, it must be no other than that 'house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens;' for its foundation is justice, and the superstructure, praise; in every department of which dwell peace and smiling plenty, and whose walls are every where inscribed with manifold representations of that highest Divine attribute--love." H.H. Van Amringe wrote: