The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-08-10
"OUR CHINA MISSION

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we shall notice the article in the Globe Of
tuesday last, under the head as quoted above,
brleiiv and we trust to the point.
|. The editor is guilty of Intentional I'm fair
ness 40 speaking, throughout his article, as if
MIR. Gushing still remained at Washington and
had not actually set sail.
q The charge that there has been deay is
uniounded. There has been none. The OBJ
Jects OF the Mission require that The Minister
should enter the Chinese waters in public
ship. The frigate Brandywine is on the way
there from. Rio, and Mr.. Gushing is TO meet her
at bombay. He will get there before her, if the
steamship Missouri which takes him to Alexan-
dria meets the expectations of her officers In
going am0nth sooner he would only have had
month mare in Europe. He could not have
re'ched China any sooner. Meanwhile we
know, hes has been ready and anxious to gel
away fot 4 month past, and had actually taken
his russ2se from Boston in the steamer of the
10th of June, as all the world knows, but was
detained by publicycauses wholly beyond his
control.
8. AS TO his costume. The Card of Owen,
Evans & Co., who made it, in Yesterdays
Globe, stamps the charge that he qDailed for
his dress to be ''cut, sewed and tinselled" as an
untruth. His costume was completed more
than SIX weeks since. But perhaps the Globe
is vexed that an American Minister should pre-
sumo to be so much attached to home n,anufac-
ture as to get his entire diplomatic costume
made in the United States, even at a great ad-
dltIonal cost TO himself, instead of purchasing il
In Europe as, we believe, most of our Minis
tiers have been in the habit OF doing. We should
suppose that, instead of being censured, Mr.
Gushing deserved TO be commended for thus re.
solving that all the clothes he might take and
wear should be from the hands of his own
countrymen. But there is no accounting for
the Globes taste
4. The time that has elapsed since the ap-
pontment of Mr.. Gushing has been proftably
occupied in collecting and maturing information
Tor Mission altogether new, requiring the |
greatest elaboration on the part of the Govern
ment and the Minister. The People probably |
will be satisfied to have the Government pro- |
coed with due degree of wisdom in the estab- |
lshment OF this new and important Mission, |
even if the Washington Globe is not
5. The Globe revives the old question as to |
the legality of the appointment OF Mr.. Cushing
We had thought this given up by all reasonable
men long since There is no need of repeating
here the unanswerable arguments in support of
the entire Legality OF the appointment which ap-
peared at the time it was made
g. Much of the Globes ordinary vulgarity
and characteristic coarseness, are expended in
the editors elaborated jokes about the course OF
practice which he supposes Mr.. Gushing may
have gone through with TO enable him properly
10 approach the Court of the Emperor of China.
Those who have read the article and know Mr.
Cushing, will not expect us tn condescend to re-
ply TO such vulgar illusions.
7. The Globe copies from the Intelisencer
a letter from China, to show that the American
interests are suffering for want of Minister al
that Court, and complains that the British Min |
lister should thus be allowed to overreach and
take the advantage of us-and yet the wonder
fully consistent editor would have the President
wait whole year more for the Senate TO be in
session, before appointing Minister. O rare
fault-fnder!