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

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

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

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

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

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

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.