In the brief debate that ensued, Mr. Lane, of Indiana, said:--

“The sword and the cannon are the reapers now, and the

Rebels are the harvest; and to that purpose and to those

reapers I shall devote my attention.”

The joint resolution was lost,--yeas 17, nays 22; so that at

the London Exhibition the United States had no representation.

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