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

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.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

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

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

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