New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-21

Colonel Cnsey's Views ON the situation.

Colonel Casey's Views ON the Situation
special dispatch from Washington, No
vember l6, to the St. Louis Republican
contains the following:
The Cuban dilemma is the Sunday talk
OF the city. President Grant being absent
to day visiting his mother at the house OF
Abel K. Corbin, at Elizabeth, New Jersey
| the correspondents have been edited by the
views of Mr.. Casey, Grants brotherin, law
and collector If the port of New Orleans
Casey says that General Longstreet has for
| year past been organizing a pioneer expe-
| dition Ill New Orleans for an advance upon
| Cuba, at the moment the government would
be embrs lied, which all along he antici-
| patel. This expedition enrolls 0G00 men.
| The sht rtest time ever made by steaming
| from New Orleans to Havana was forty
| three hours; the average time is FROM sixty
to eighty hours. Havana, he says. can be
starved out. Eight dollars head is the
| duty upen the importation of Texas cattle
to the island. and $40 per head for horses,
| Tor which the entire cavalry reliance of the
| island liz dependent upon the United States
Mr.. Casey says that every member of the
Cabinet is stiff for maintaining the whole
| dignity OF the country, including Mr.. Fish,
whom no regards as ConSerVa i've. not only
| on this question, hut on all. The President
he says, is particularly in earnest, but got
such scoring from Mr.. Sumner on account
OF the decisive measures of one of our ships
OF war oft the coast of Hayti that he is too
| considerate to adopt warlike measures be-
fore Congress meets as it will in the small
lapse of only fortnight.
The Confederate element, says Mr.. Casey
has been sensationalized in view of CON
fict for Cuba which shall avenge the fate
of Lopez and Crittenden. There are some
ironclads at New Orleans, but he can not
speak as to their condition The French
element in Louisiana has hated the Spanish
ever since the wanton executions OF the
leading French colonists by O'Reilly, who
built the MORO Castle at Havana, and sail.
ing to take possession of Louisiana after its
cession to Spain, set fhe precedent for the
tirginius massacre by shooting the noblest
Creoles for merely protesting against their
surrender to Spain without their consent.
Casey says that the American war ships,
II Inferior to the Spanish. have superior
officers and artillerists, and that the dis
tance between Cuba and Spain, and the
Spanish contentious at home, besides the
exhaustion Of the Spanish military levies
by the Cuban insurrection, would give us
a numerical supremacy in land forces such
IA the English had when they captured
Havana by siege in the last century.
Pensacola navy yard would be our nat
ural base of operations. The President
has considered all these questions and secs
that the only problem is to neutralze the
Spanish navy; for the Cubans, not only
throughout the island but even in Havana,
30 greatly exceed both the Spanish military
forces and the volunteers, thar an insurrec-
ton would spring up simultaneously with
our naval interference and the Spanish
fleet, unable to get coal or provisions,
would DE starved out like the Spanish gar
risOns.
Casey Gays that no member of the Cahi-
net wants to see Cnba possessed by the
Inlred States, but that c0mmerc al relations
with Cubs are demanded. and also a
more equal consideration at she hands of
the Spanish authorities, which shall place
us on an equality with the English. who
have not been annoyed in any way, while
American citizens have been put to death,
as if everything was 60 be feared sSom
Ens!and and nothing from 3merie.so