Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-19
From the Cincinnati Commercial

From the Cincinnati Commercial
WASHINGTON. Nov. i6.-The Cuban
dilemma is the Sunday talk Of the city.
President Grant being absent to-day, visit
inc his mother, at the house of Abel X.
COrbin. at Elizabeth. New Jersey, the cor
respondents have been edited by the views
of Mr.. Casey. Grants brOther-in-law, and
Collector of the Port Of New Orleans,
Casey saws that Gen. Longstreet has for a
year past been organizing pioneer eNpedi-
ton i'm New Orleans for an advance upon
Cuba. at the moment the Government
would be embroiled, which he has all along
anticipated. This expedition enrolls ten
thousand men. The shortest time ever
made steaming from New Orleans to Ha-
vana is forty-three hours. The average
time is from sixty TO eighty hours. Havana,
he saws, can be starved out. Eight dollars
a head is the duty upon the importation OF
Texas cattle to the island, and SllO per
head for horses, for which the entire cayal-
~ reliance Of the island is dependent upon
the United States.
Mr.. Casey saws that every member of the
Cabinet is stiff for maintaining the whole
dignity of the country, including Mr.. Fish,
whom he regards as conservative, not only
Oh lillS NllltSLlOll- bNli VII dlAls AAAN hN'A
dent, he saws, is particularly earnest. but
got such soaring from Mr.. Sumner on ac-
count of the decisive measures of one of
our ships-of war, off the coast OF Hayti,
that he is too considerate to adopt warlike
measures before Congress meets, in the
small lapse of only fortnight. The Con
federate element, says Mr.. Casey, has been
sensatiOnalized in view Of a conflict with
Cuba, which shall avenge the fate of Lopez
and Crittenden. There are some iron
clads at New Orleans, but he cannot speak
as to their condition. The French element
in Louisiana has hated the Spanish ever
since the wantOn execution of the leading
French colonistS by OReilly, who built
the Moro Castle at Havana, and falling to
take possession of Louisiana after its ces-
sion to Spain, set the precedent for the Nir-
ginius massacre by shooting the noblest
creOles for merely protesting against their
surrender to Spain without their
consent. Casey says that the Amer
lean war ships, if inferior To
the Spanish, have superior officers and
artillerists, and that the distance between
Cuba and Spain, and Spanish contentious
at home, besides the exhaustion Of the
Spanish military levies by the Cuban in,
suTTectiOn, would give us numerical SUI
premacy i'm land forces such as the English
had when they captured Havana by siege
in the last century. Pensacola navy yard
would be our natural base Of operations.
The President has considered all these
questions, and sees that the only problem
is to neutralize the Spanish navy, for the
Cubans not only throughout the island
but in Havana, not only exceed both the
Spanish military forces and volunteers that
an instruction would spring up SIM
ultaneously with our naval interference
and the Spanish fleet unable to get coal O
provisions, would be starved out like TIKI
Spanish gaTTiSOnS.
Mr.. Casey says that no member Of the
Cabinet wants to see Cuba possessed by MS
but that commercial relations with Cub;
are demanded, and also a more equal con
sideration at the Spanish customs, whicl
shall place ms on an equality with tn,
English who have not been ANNOYED il
anv way, while American citizens, NATIVE
and naturalized, have been put to death, a
if everything was to be feared from Eng
land and nothing from America.