Gen. Taylor And The War

Il is the opinión of Mr. Calhoun and .1 vast numher of sensible persons Iliat the mar'-h of Oen. Tavlor from Corpus Chrisli was tho itnmcdinto canse of the war. Had th;it advance no'. taken placf1, it is 11' t probable war wmild have ensued. lis direct tendency and object was to assame a hostile and thretening attiludfi towards Mexico. Now it appear from statftmerts n llie Drinocralic prtpere, ihnt Gen. Tavlor wixim the wnr hnting Whigs intend to make President, that he was not only glruroental n tliis movement, bui that he u'gcd it strenuously upon llio War I)rpartment. On the 4th of Oclober, 1845, Gen. Tavlor, tiien at Corpus ClinVti, wrole to the Secretary of War, in epeakiDg ofthe Rio Grande, as follows: "I cannot. doubt, that the selllemenl icill bc greaüy facilitaied av.d hastrned by our aking possession at once of one or tu:o Siiitable ■places on or quite ncar that. river. Our strength and state of preparaiion slumd bc displayed in a manner not to bc mistaken, llowever salu'ary may lio the ciler.t producei] upon tlieborcier ['eoplo by "nr presenoo Iiere, wnarr, loo far from the frontier io impress the government of Mexico with our readiness to vindicóte, liy force of nrtns, if necessnry, our tille to the country as far as THE I1IO GRANDE." Our Whig neighbor of the State Journal, does notat all like the proposod noniination of Gen. Taylm. In au articlo last week. he says, - " Wc shojl sny nothing of the importation of Cuba blood-hounds ander Mr. Van Guren's admimstrntion, about which so graat sn ado wns made, for these bloodh"u;i.'s weren rather hnrrnfess animal. Tliey wei-e not intcnded to hite iho miserable Seminolps, hut lo track them tr their hammocks, nnd enable our human soldiers to drive ihe cold lead througl) thpm, and so, at lengih, hreak up the, rcjnge for runaway ncgrocs. But every man who condemns the commencment of the present war, must reprobóte Gen. Taytór'a ndvico to occupy the East bank of the Rio Orando iri ihe Moxican State of Tnmaalipas. This invasión as the minediate c;use of the war; if it had been forborne, the war might have been n voided-- so think our most jiklicious men. Yet Gen. Taylor talks as coolly nhout taking up that position nnd asserting our claim to the Rio Grande, as a retniler ol' dry-gnoda would of measuring (.tl a pattorn nf shilling cnlico ! We were shockp.á by the perusnl of that document."