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

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

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

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

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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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Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

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

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

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