In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.
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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.Townsend Harris
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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If a man use opium once he cannot stop it, and it becomes a life-long habit to use opium hence the English want to introduce it into Japan.
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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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The two nations England and France are now engaged in war with China, and what will be the result as respects China no one can conjecture.
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If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.
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