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 l the expression of an honest opinion. IIfitis wrong, let us be convinced of the error. Some strange obliquity of wis

 c:s te attach ts ts some editors, and even to overpower their faculties, the moment they take their station in the ranks of a party; they seem 10 sec with eyes, to speak with tongues, to under stand with minds, that did not belong to them, and with which they had little ac- quaintance, prior to such enlistment.- We dol not believe there can be any good effected by concealing what we know or believe to be true, although the truth may be such one as our friends and our party may gricve to hear and sucha one as may be still more gTiesoas to us to tell.

 "0na q former occasion VIC spoke with some doubt as to the utility of the Nation al Convention, assembling ssto nominate Mir. Clay as candidate for the Presi- dency.' Although we should not op- pose such a convention, our doubts have not been entirely removed, and we think that a National Convention might be as- sembled for better purpose. It must be evident, that the present wicked and corrupt administration cannot be put down without some extraordinary effort, and by nionof the honest and patriotic men of all other parties. Why then should not the honest and patriotic of all other parties, meet in grand convention and agree upon some decisive measure to stay the current of political corruption which portends tho overthrow of the constitution and the Union, and threat ems to entail on the people a system of rewards and punishments to be meted out by Gen. Jackson and Mir. Van Blu ren, and whoever else it may please the latter gentleman to appoint as his success sor. Why should not Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Richard Rush, and fifty other strong men of the nation, that might be mentioned, assem- 'ble in Convention, and sacrifice their personal animositics, if they have any, upon the altar of patriotism, and unite their friends in so holy cause? A con vention of the partizans of one man or another can do but little good, for what ever should emanate from such a body, could have little operation or effect upon the partizans of a rival. But 1t strikes us, that an assembly of those, who are not merely political partiz;lns, but who are themselves the prominent objects to which the solicitude and affection of the people are directed, and on which the confidence of the people reposes, might devise measure that would not fail to promote the prosperity and glory of the country, and place the administration in hands that would not pervert all it's pat ronage, and devote all it's energies 10 the aggrandizement ofa few politicalfriends, and to the puaishmentof all who would not bow down to idols, without reference to the happiness of the people or the perpetnity of theirunion and indepen- dence.o