Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harriswas a successful New York City merchant and minor politician, and the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the "Harris Treaty" between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened the Empire of Japan to foreign trade and culture in the Edo period...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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If a man use opium once he cannot stop it, and it becomes a life-long habit to use opium; hence the English want to introduce it into Japan.
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We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.
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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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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.
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I replied that the customs of my country forbade any one to eat in a house where the host, or his representative, did not sit down to table with him.
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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.
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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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By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.
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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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Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
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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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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
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It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.