, 1855-04-14

japanese require. They replied, but our
men will not come back to Japan, they
will stay in your country Where said
they, are oil the crew of the other junks
Of ours, which were shipwrecked, which
men Dee-zee-no-skee tells us were in Cali
fornia? No one has brought any of our
people to us but you, Mr.. Burrows, and
your name will never be forgotten in Japan
for it. Commodore. Perry said they
brought one of that crew in his ship, but
that Japanese had forgotten his country
and will not return to us, aud had not you
brought Dee-zeeno-skee home, we should
have continued to suppose that you wanted
to keep all Japanese who visited your
country
" informed them that our government
was one Of liberty, where every person
could do as they please, if they committed
no improprety, and that our government
could not compel any japanese in our
country to leave unless they wished TO 90,
unless they were the crews, and belonged
TO foreign ship, then the government
would place them in the slip and make
them go in her TO their country; that if
Japanese ships went to America, they must
have the crew sigma paper, agreeing to
come back to Japan, and our government
would compel the sailors to return.
informed them that saw the Japan
ese they spoke of in California, and they
all wanted to return to Japan, and did all
leave California to come to Japan. As the
men all left San Francisco in q U. S. ship
ofwar our government can answer this
question. informed them that Dee-zee-
no-skee would not stay in California, but
came to Japan by the first opportunity.
Never was courtship succeeding more
rapidly than was my mission OF peace to
Japan; never were the two parties more
perfectly happy than the japanese and the
writer, and the treaty Of commerce was in
fair way to be concluded and ratified,
when the government of SJeddO, about ten
miles distant from us, became alarmed at
the rapid growth Of friendship, and nrres-
ted it; but there are seeds left that will
vegetate and ripen to maturity, and Japan
will be eventually received into the
family of nations. 1t must, however, be
all accomplished by producing the same
effects and friendship on the Emperor and
his advisers at Jeddo that has been ac-
complished with his greatest men at Ura-
ga, which is the seaport town Of Jeddo.
1t cannot be accomplished with heavy
naval force, although Jeddo and the towns
on the coast are perfectly defencelcss, but
their capture and destruction would not OBJ
tain what we desire, and would postpone
for generations what should be the wish Of
the Government of the United States to
accomplish without further delay .
Commodore Perry did all that could be
done, l have no doubt, and had lie not
preceded me, it is not certain that we should
have been received as VIC were; but the
Japanese were alarmed and mortified at
his powerful armament, and submitted
through fear, and when the Lady Pierce
arrived in Jeddo Bay, their national pride
was aroused 10 do all for US voluntarily
that they had yielded to Com. Perry. They
determined then, no doubt to show to the
world that the ship Lady Pierce with no
missiles of war, and nothing offensive to-
their national feelings, should receive every
attention and liberty that was obtained by
Commodore PCrry's squadron, and these
decisions were carried out with high toned
national spirit. Ny heart was set on an
choring the Lady Pierce off Jeddo, and
showing the people of that great city the
stars and stripes Of my country. With
this view we ran past the first battery, and
escaped the first and second cutter that
pursued us; but were intercepted by the
Lieutenant-Governor Of Uraga, Nagasma
Sabouroshe, in port cutter, and had to
run his cutter on board or heave to, when
the top sails were thrown to the mast, and
the Japanese came on board. We then
filed away for Jeddo, and after some time
the japanese asked where we would an-
chor; to which replied that we wished to
go to Jeddo. They said, at is not good
to go to Jeddo. Com. Perry did not 90
to Jeddo" And 10 please them VIC an
chored by their chart eight miles from jed
,sdo, where Commodore Perry's steamer lay.
! Com. Perry's treaty found arrested our
proceeding to Jeddo; but my feelings will
not be satisfied until l see that city, and
display to its inhabitants the 'star spangled
banner"
went on shore twice in Jeddo Bay,
and visited the great city of the dead,
which was one of the most interesting pla-
ces that saw in Japan. The monuments
are of gray stone well executed. 1t was
lovely spot, on the shore Of the Bay, where
the evergreen, and the northern pine were
standing as ,sentinels Of protection, and
and whose branches threw lovely shade
over the monuments and ashes Nhe de-
parted who are sleeping beneath them.
There was a gentle south wind blowing
which passing through the branches of the
pines seemed TO greet me with joyous well
come, and 1 felt as if would make any
sacrifice if the Japanese would bow down
and worship the God of Israel. They are
q nation Of Atheists.
1t is an interesting country, and the ia
panese are a superior race of people to any
Asiatics have seen. Their coasting COM