"HARPER'S WEEKLY" OF FIFTY YEARS AGO ON THE "SPECTATOR."
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SIRCIATOR."1 S18,-I think the following quotation from a leading article In Harper's Weekly of October lath, 1865, which I have lately come across, may interest your readers. It is pleasant to see how fifty years ago the Spectator was recognized in America, as it is now, as "a liberal and friendly English Journal!' and one that had done " signal service to the good eanse."— The New York Correspondent of the London Spectator, a liberal and friendly English journal, has done signal service to the good cause during the war by his temperate and lucid letters. Under the signature of 'A Yankee' he has given a TIER of the situation, with which we could not always agree, but which was the fair expression of a certain elates of Americans. The signature seems to us infelicitous, because the word Yankee, as it was used during the war, really signified the antagonistic spirit to 'Use South.' Now in our politics 'the South' means privilege, aristocracy, slavery—in a word, caste; while Yankee means equal rights. We have looked In vain through all the pleasant and clever letters of 'A Yankee' for any proof of his sympathy with the principle represented by the name he has chosen."
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