New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-21
SMOKED OUT.
The Times has at last been induced by our
"continuaI coming" to define Northern Section
% ol;s saws.

The Tim,s has at last been induced by our
4" continual coming" to define " Northern Section
80 alism. 1t says:
awe have not the slightest objection telling THs TRrRUsa
what we consider Northern sectionasm We should have
given our neghbor this important information long
saSI "a .uUpo,td mo be was really anTious for IT,
Nortbern ectiOnsism then in Judgment consist. IN
gnizsous newspapers inOie the people Of the North to
shsT o. arms bop ~ ., 1r, .Dy .m
with denunciaons of the South with taunts -arcsns nrers
to bring upon them tns eoneHp % @ Whsr sny
prompted sy the ;p o. sT6u 9yaon OF vrS, o
5s % es. and .sS Of S spIs.en @ n %
martyr in holy cause one whom PS%,ehy re viii honor
and and eR IN tvs E IL. t.%pe and it, tons
when Il with contempt endeavor TO promote
po a. m deelaIons Of devotion to the onion and every
emP calm the o. sG9hs @ Sts %
their does its best to provoke Southern fear
and sovhep a1seS for the purpose Of thereby % nh
spirit of Northern sectionalism."
The reader will not fail TO observe that our Of
enses in the matter of Old Brown have been COM
mitted since we first asked the question to which
our cotemporary so tardily responds. He certainly
did not refer to Browns raid when he first used the
phrase in question, for it bad not then occurred.
A few words now in reply to the general indict-
ment on which we are arraigned by The Times:
lhe essence OF tue WnOlt just lnis' lhE
TRIBUNE is earnestly hostile to Human Slavery,
and labors to prevent its extension and hasten its
abolition 1t utterly scouts the suggestion that the
enslayement of race or caste can be beneficial to
that race any other, or to any interest or section
II holds that the welfare and security alike of the
North and the South, the Black and the White, the
States and the Terrtories require that Slavery shall
l.. II la0al hOundarIpa with
a view TO its peaceful and speedy extinction And
while it has steadily deplored and condemned John
Browns mad irrupton into Virginia, it has pro-
claimed the manifest truth that its impulse was not
sectional that it sought not to nure but to benefit
the South by ridding her of the crime and blight
Of Slavery. BY no selfish, no mercenay, no sec
tional purpose were John Brown and his follow
ers inpelled to that lawless desperate enterprise,
but by an earnest and devoted love to Godand mau.
So much is manifestly true; and those who charge
the self-sae1ifced handful with seeking to gil the
South with carnage raplne and devastation are
willful calumDiators Of the heroic dead who gave
themselves willing sacrifice for a wronged aud
down.trodden race The end they sought was
good, but the means they employed we're bad, and
their lives have paid the forfeit Let them rest in
the owly graves to which their madness consigned
them, but which their impulse will ever haLow in
the hearts of all who hope for and would hasten the
reign of universal justice and freedom.
The TRIBUNE cherishes no hostility to " the
South, " to its "rights" nor its security; while
it is and will be hostile to Slavery 1t did its ut
most to promote spirit of peace and harmony
in the country at large by laboring with all its
might TO prevent the perfdious Annexation of
Texas, with its inevitable pendant, the Mexican
War; to exclude Slavery from the Territories to
defeat the Nebraska bill; and to crush the infa-
nous Lecompton Constitution. 1t is steadfastly
hostile to the efforts now systematically prosecuted
o force Slavery into New Mexico and Arizona; TO
extend its area by means Of further dismember-
ment and absorption of Mexico; and TO increase
its power in our Union by the purchase or con-
quest of Cuba. In almost every instance of col
lision between Slavery and Free Labor, We have
found the former the aggressOr; and long expe-
rence has convinced Us that there will never
more be quiet and harmony in our Union until
shall have been conelusively decided that Slavery
or Free Labor shall predominate in our National
councils. Twenty years Of arduous warfare upon
the new Heads successfully developed BY our
American Hydra have convinced US that the only
effective faht against them is to be made BY strik
ing at the monsters vitals. We mean to conins