4 Townsend Harris You Quotes

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. “


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


” 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. “


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


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.
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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