The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-21
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.

The Intelligencer treats It's readers this morning
to two OF It's "most laughable" artcles-the one
entitled "a distinction without difference" and
the other "a difference without distinetion"-bott
of which were penned with view of showing
some of the amusing blunders" into which, II says
we sometimes fall.
As to the frst-"the distinction without differ
ence"-we can well afford to make the lnteilgencer
present Off, inasmuch as it aids in setting before
the public the true facts Of the When we
read the statement in the ST. Louis Republican that
"the sub-treasury law passed subsequent to the
delivery TO Major Walker of the immense sum OF
treasury drafts TO which we have alluded,p we are
free TO confess that misnteroreted the sentence,
msled by the company of "blunders" in which we
found it to appear. But our explanation could not
certainly do much harm, it cited the fact precise
y as our wing friends had claimed il to exist. But
enough Of the Inteigencer's hypercrtcal wit. Ia
its lack Of argument, cannot find il in our heart
to quarrel with It's jokes.
And now as to the Intelligencer's Difference
without distinction" II says:
"'Msforunes never come alone (they say;)
and thus in its eagerness contradict the ST Louis
al blundsr Of conradictlng itself In It's number Of
August ~, In an article defending the Treasury
Department from some blame Oh the subject OF
these treasury drafts, the Union contained this
statement
Some OF these treasury d, have been issued in June
last not predsed would Insist Tor the purpose Of
eyading the law for we repeat the Law has not prohibited
their issue OAeys haze issd since, aud the current
month" tAugustl
"Such was its statement on tho 2lst Of August;
yet in the paper Of Friday night last, the 18Th Of
September, II presents us contra, with the follow
ing admission:
THE whoI OF these treasury drafts issued was
$3.50 600 The hstssue the 2Jd June 1916 and the
last issue on the 22d July lsi6. None have been issued
since, OF will be issued
Thus in August, this sentinel, defender, and or.
gan Of the executive, says, the law has not prohb
tied the issue Of these drafts, and some have been
issued in the current month Yet, in September
(ObIiyous Of what it said in August it asserts that
the last issue was on the 22d July, and none hare
been issued since Alas!n
When We penned the article referred to, ION the
2lst August,) we spoke from memory alone, not
having access, at the moment, To the precise dates
on which these drafts were issued. Our impression
was, that some Of them were issued through June
and July, and some late as the first of Au.
gust. We professed no precision about dates
the occasion required none, and we intended
none. In our article of Friday last we gave
the eraet period of the last issue, when it APP
peared that our former recollection had varied few
land that, too, in matter that did affect
the issue one iota. Really, if no worse "mis-
fortunes" overtake US than this, the In,egencer may
well spare some of its eremiads for its special
benefit That "a drowning man will catch at a straw"
Is amusingy exempfed in the above articles Of the
Integencer upon which we have been commenting
When the great "organ" Of the universal wing par
~" can hnd nothing better to carp at than TWO or
three passages in the "Unon," which explain them.
selves to every of the least intelligence it is in.
lIcave to US, least that our facetious neighbor,
inding nothing to assai in the course of the admin.
stration, would fain turn his shafts at our devoted
head. "Alas 7"
However, to prevent any misconception hereafter,
as to the issues of treasury drafts, we give below
the exact dates and the amounts issued thereon.