If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.Townsend Harris
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
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The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.
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We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
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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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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.
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