Meanwhile, Japan groans under the yoke imposed upon her by the Treaty Powers in the days of her ignorance. “Extra-territorialty” is her curse. The selfishness and greed of strong nations infringe her just and sovereign rights as an independent nation. In the light of twenty-eight years of experience, treaty-revision is a necessity of righteousness and should be initiated by the United States.[68] This was the verdict of Townsend Harris, as declared to the writer, in 1874. This is the written record of the English and American missionaries in their manifesto of April 28th, 1884 at the Ozaka Conference.[69] Were Matthew Perry to speak from his grave, his voice would protest against oppression by treaty, and in favor of righteous treatment of Japan, in the spirit of the treaty made and signed by him; to wit: “There shall be a perfect, permanent, and universal peace, and a sincere and cordial amity, between the United States of America on the one part, and the Empire of Japan on the other, and between their people, respectively, without exception of persons or places.” ----- [51] Young Japan, J. R. Black. [52] A Cruise in Japan waters, and Japan fragments. [53] November 1st, 1859. [54] Commodore Tatnall told this to Gideon Nye. See Mr. Nye’s letter, January 31st, 1859, to the Hong Kong _Times_; reprinted in pamphlet form Macao, March 22, 1864. [55] See their names, and dates of the _Mississippi’s_ movements, in “A Cruise in the U. S. S. Frigate Mississippi,” July 1857 to February 1860, by W. F. Gragg, Boston, 1860. [56] It was in the educational service of this baron and his son, that the writer went to Japan and lived in Echizen. The Mikado’s Empire, pp. 308, 426-434, 532-536. [57] Episodes in a Life of Adventure, p. 163, by Laurence Oliphant, 1887. [58] Townsend Harris’s words to the writer, October 9th, 1874. [59] Cruise of the Marquesas, London, 1886. [60] The story of the Riu Kiu (Loo Choo) complication by F. Brinkley, in _The Chrysanthemum_, Yokohama, 1883. Audi Alteram Partem, by D. B. McCartee Esq. M. D. [61] Asiatic Soc. of Japan. Transactions Vol. I, p. 1; Vol. IV. p. 66. [62] Asiatic Society of Japan, Transactions Vol. IV, p. 3. [63] Asiatic Society and Japan Transactions, Vol. VI, part III, pp. 435-478. [64] Corea, the Hermit Nation, p. 423. [65] Hon. John A. Bingham to Mr. Evarts, U. S. Foreign Relations, 1880. [66] The Recent Revolutions in Japan, chapter XXVIII in The Mikado’s Empire, and pamphlet The Rutgers Graduates in Japan, New Brunswick N. J. 1886. [67] Transactions, Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. V. p. 207. [68] Japanese Treaty Revision by Prof. J. K. Newton, _Bibliotheca Sacra_, January 1887. [69] Published in _The Independent_, N. Y. [Illustration: COMMODORE PERRY’S AUTOGRAPH.] A P P E N D I C E S I. AUTHORITIES. WRITINGS OF M. C. PERRY. _Autograph._