” 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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