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boats beyond the reef to conduct them to good 

 anchorage, for which service they should be pro- 

 perly compensated. This treaty was duly ratified 

 on the llth of July, 1854, by Commodore Perry 

 and the Recent of the Kingdom of the Lew-Chew 



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Islands ; and its accomplishment adds much to the 

 facilities of trade and the profits of commerce to 

 those American vessels which visit the remoter 

 climes of the East. 



On the 17th of July Commodore Perry resumed 

 his return voyage. He arrived in New York on the 

 12th of January, 1855 ; having employed two years 

 and two months in the acnievement of one of the 

 most difficult, important, and beneficial alliances 

 which adorns the history and promotes the welfare 

 of our country. Few negotiations have ever been 

 conducted and completed which were attended with 

 such immense obstacles ; in which success was so pro- 

 blematical ; which called for the exercise of greater 







prudence, perseverance, and sagacity; in which 

 failure would have been more ignominious, and in 

 which success would be more honorable and more 

 remunerative. And as one of the Japanese com- 

 missioners publicly asserted, that the " name of 

 Commodore Perry would live forever in the history 

 of Japan;" so also may it be declared, with equal 



