Cushing moved to Texas in the early 1850s, while taking jobs as a teacher in
Galveston,
Brazoria, and
Columbia. While still working in Columbia, he started writing for the local paper, the
Democrat and Planter. Cushing was one of the Texas newspaper editors of the 1850s who were
Democrats in the mode of
John Calhoun. While Cushing was not a native southerner, but he was a booster for southern causes and policies benefitting Houston specifically. Among the latter, he used his editorship to advocate for railroad development with stations in Houston, but also the continued use of Houston as a steamship destination on
Buffalo Bayou. ==Death==