We  cannot,  however,  take  our  leave  of
the  President,  without  expressing  our
regret  that  he  should  have  attempted  to
disguise  the  truth  in  his  late  Message  to
Congress.  His  high  station  ought  to  have
placed  him  above  all  subterfuge  or  trick-
ery for  the  purpose  of  sustaining  a  favor-
ite theory.  This  dirty  work  should  have
been  left  to  the  understrappers  of  his
party  in  Congress  and  out  of  it.  When
he  gave  forth  the  responses  of  the  Treas-
ury department,  he  should  have  given  them
forth  fairly,  and  not  have  made  one-sided
statements.  Why  did  he  not  confine  him-
self to  the  fiscal  year  ending  the  30th  of
June  last  ?  Why  lug  in  five  months  of  the
following  year  ?  But  if  he  thought  proper
to  give  the  amount  of  revenue  under  the
tariff  of  1846,  why  did  he  not  also  give
the  imports  and  exports  of  that  year?
Was  he  afraid  that  the  people  would  see
that  the  revenue  under  the  tariff  of  1846
was  some  ten  or  twelve  millions  of  dollars
less  than  it  would  have  been  under  the  tariff
of  1842  ?  It  almost  surpasses  belief,  that  a
man  of  common  sense  could  be  sincere  in
the  opinion,  that  a  reduction  of  the  duties
would  increase  the  revenue ;  yet  it  cannot
be  doubted,  that  President  rolk  and  his
party  leaders  were  sincere  in  that  opinion,
or  they  never  would  have  passed  an  act
which  would  greatly  reduce  the  revenue,
at  the  same  time  that  they  entered  upon
an  expensive  war,  which  would,  at  least,
double  the  expenses  of  the  Government.
