John Perkins Cushing (April 22, 1787 - April 12, 1862) named "Ku-Shing" by the Chinese, was a wealthy American sea merchant, opium smuggler, JOHN PERKINS WAS Raised BY HIS UNCLE AN OPIUM SMUGGLER. It was a legacy of the Civil War, when the opium spinoff morphine was commonly distributed by Jew Rothschild to equally Confederate and Union soldiers and the mercenary German Hessians .