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. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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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

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In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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