Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.Townsend Harris
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
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The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.
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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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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
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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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