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.

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

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.

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.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

The trade between Asia and the United States is very, very strong.