New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-30

We, the evenings latest born,
Hail the children Of the morn
We, the new creations birth,
Greet the lords OF ancient earth
From the stored walls and towers
Wandering to these tents of ours!
Land of wonders, fair Cathay,
Who long has Stunned the staring day,
Hid in mist of poets dreams
By the blue and yellow streams
Let US thy Swallowed form behold
Teach us as thou didst of old.
knowledge dwells with length of days;
Wisdom walks in ancient ways;
Thine the compass that could guide
A nation over the stormy tide,
Scourged by passions, doubts and fears,
Safe through thrice thousand years!
Looking from thy turrets gray
Thou hast seen the worlds decay
Egypt drowning in her sands
Athens rent by robbers hands
Rome. the wild barbarian's prey,
Like storm cloud swept away.
Looking from thy turrets gray
Still we see thee. Where are they?
And 10! q newborn nation waits
Sitting at the golden gates
That glitter by the sunset sea
Waits with outspread arms for thee.
Open wide, ye gates of gold,
To the dragons banner-fold!
Builders OF the mighty wall,
Bid your mountain barriers fall
So may the girdie of the sun
Bind the East and West in one;
Till Nevada's breezes fan
The snowy peaks of Ta-Sieue-Sham;
Till Erie blends its waters blue
With the waves of Tung Ting.Hu;
Till deep Missouri lends its flow
Toswell the rushing Hoang>Ho
Hon. Caleb Gushing, the first American
Minister to China, in 1912 and lS43, and
the negotiator of the first treaty between
that empire and the. United States, was
called up by the seventh regular senti.
ment--" Diplomacy" He spoke in the fol-
lowing terms: G
Remarks OF Hon. Caleb Cushing.
/ rise to discharge the duty assigned me
ON this occasion, with sincere satisfaction,
as affofding an opportunity to express my
respect for yourself, and the city over
whose administration you preside, as well
as for your eminent guests. rejoice to see
that they receive peculiar attention here.
It especially becomes this State, SO many of
whose merchant princes have been and are
the merchant princes of China also, to well
come the ambassadors Of China. 1t Is iit-
ting that the representatives of country
whose education, science, literature, the
cultivation of the spiritual as distinguished
from the material man, are held in the
highest estimation, should meet with SYM
pathetic acclaim In the State Of Massachu-
sets. And here, above all, should welcome,
acclaim and applause be awarded to an
embassy, which, while representing the
power and the wisdom of the Ia Using EN-
pire in the person Of these the native sub
jects of the great Yellow Khan. has at its
head statesman who attracted distinction
in the arst instance as representative of
Massachusetts, In the Congress of the United
States. M as
To him, (Mr. Burlingame), therefore, at
the outset, be all honor rendered. l, as the
humble pioneer In that new region of dip
lomacy which be has explored to such great
results, can we'll judge Of the magnitude Of
| the events he personifies, and presume to
say that no imagination of oriental romance
could conceive for It's hero u career Of use
| fulness and glory more marvellous than that
which il exhibited by the Minister of the
United States In China become its Minister
to the powers of Europe and America.
And vet, on rejecting on this incident. IL
ceases 70 astonssh me. take pleasure In
saving here in the hearing of all the mem
bers Of the embassy, and especially Of the
| two eminent Tajens, and their cou1trvmen,
what / have never failed 10 say On other
proper occasions, that the Manchu and
Chinese statesmen with whom 1t was my
| fortune to come into official contact in
China, were men Of the highest cultivation
and Accomplishment, Yefsed Ia the disec-
ton OF the largest public affaira, possessed