From The NeU York G0cette.
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We have, in the course Of our life, seen great
many ridiculous and a great many wicked
things. We have seen abolition embraced by
sensible men, and we have seen Mormonsm de-
Tended III very good langurge-we have seen
animal magnetism made the sub ject of grave dis
cusslon, and we have even seen the poor, mlsera-
BILE, and unntiga,ed poltroon Birge pronounced
"a man of '.undaun,ed courage!'' All this we
have seen, and seen lately; but it has not been
our lot to look upon any ac of beings calling
themselves rational, and protesting to belong to
the genus denominated by Latin scholars Honlo


that approached either the folly or the criminality
of certain proceedings at Buffalo, and which have
also taken place at Cleveland, Ohio. These pro-
ceedings bear about the same relation to ''human
freedom that one of Robnson's carica,ures bears
to the reality Of the scenes which have actually
occurred between Gen. Jackson Mr.. Van Buren,


Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Webster, Amos Kendall, and the
devil. AT Buffalo, in particular, the qualification
appears to have been complete. A meeting, said
to have been attended bv six hundred individuals
has actually passed resolutions and adopted me.
mortal to Congress against the neutrality act o
the last session OF Congress, and PRAYING for its
repeal! We wonder these people don't pray for
The rerem Of all The reuiies IN which we are
recognised as belonging 10 the tunaiiy Of cirik.
zed nations. How is it they are willing to sub
nit to the law which enforces contracts between
private individuals! Why do they not resol e
that it is better for us to be Algerines at once,
and disdain any of the international trammels
which distinguish us from the savages of New
Zealand! Don't they consider it inconsistent
with liberty and equal rights that our people
are restrained from making Hottentots of them
selves! They ought to have considered in tha,
same meeting at Buffalo, and framed resolution
accordingly, that it is 'unbecoming in moral
and religious people to suffer such matters as
the faith of national treaties and the common obi
cations Of national neutrality TO interfere with the
nobler propensties of frontier loaferism to force
the aforesaid liberty and equality upon our neigh
bors against their willard against their inter
est-especially as the Canadians have already as
much liberty, and great many more privileges
and exemptions than we have ourselves!


10 b. quite serious, however, with the foolish
ana infatuated patriotism OH our northern border,
we say, without hesitation, that ii is quite time
Tor the country to be i'll earnest with il. The
time has arrived Tor it to he told, and told en-
phaticaly, that it has rihed long enough with
the rational community Of the United States. We
not TO what political party these crazy dis
tnrhers Of the public peace belong; we care not
what individuals, otherwise respectable. are iden-
tilted with the insanity. The mischief mast be
met manfully and iearlessly. The nuisance must
be abated! If our Government is too weak to
suppress piracy ii is quite time 10 strengthen it,


AS 10 The repeal OF. the neutrality law, we have
only TO say that we are willing enough to see
repealed, and hope 1t will be, because we wish