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 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.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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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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We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
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