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Townsend Harris

"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."

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"The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country."

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Townsend Harris
"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also."

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

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"The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed."

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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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"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."

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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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"The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter."

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"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."

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

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