--Vanity Fair.
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Letter from United States Senator Lane.--We have great pleasure in publishing the following letter from that brilliant statesman, the Hon. Joseph Lane, of Oregon.
It may seem somewhat paradoxical that a Pacific statesman should be ferociously warlike, but that is evidently none of our business.
We cannot comply with Mr. Lane's request in regard to hoisting the Palmetto flag, but we will say that we admire his (we allude to Mr. Lane, and not the flag, of course) boldness, candor, and eloquence:
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Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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