As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.
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I replied that the customs of my country forbade any one to eat in a house where the host, or his representative, did not sit down to table with him.Townsend Harris
By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.
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Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.
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Eighteen years ago a war broke out between England and China, which might have been avoided by an agent residing in the capital of China.
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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
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If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.
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