American - Businessman | October 3, 1804 - February 25, 1878
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
Townsend Harris
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The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
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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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We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
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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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The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
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By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.
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The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
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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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Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
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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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