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CAUSES OF THE WAR.--lnstead of talking about the march to the Rio Grande having brought on the war, the whigs can find the causes of il nearer home. Mr. Lester, in his Life of Houston. page G, says:

 "if, then, il be asked, why Mexico has. at last, not only made war upon Texas, after the Grea, Powers recognized her indepen- dence, but against the United States after an nexaiion, we answer, that there IS no man who knows enough about this subject to qualify him to hazard an opinion who does not understand and believe that Mexico has been emboldened to provoke the war, only because of the long, powerful Perseveriug. and desperate hostility with which thou sand newspapers and thousand public men, in this countryc have resisted the annexation. These presses and these public men have held the very same language, and displayed the very spirit towards Texas, that Santa Anna, and Bravo. aad Bustamenie, and Al- monte, and Herrera, and Paredes. and their hireling presses, have done. In fact, the hopes of these military despots have all res ted upon the efforts of the enemies of Texas in the United States. aud not upon their pop ularity at home. or the power of their can non, or the justice of their cause"