The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

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

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

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

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

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

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.