It is extremely important for a nation, as well as an individual, to preserve their respective rights uninjured on any occasion.  Well if there prevail a national power, under the same proportion a national right is by no means depraved, for which the peace and the war are resolved an the treaties of commerce and navigation are also established.  Indeed, lose any nation such an important right even a day by other’s encroachment, the nation deserves no longer the denomination as a nation.  So in an individual.  There is a person who never exasperates other’s derisions and knock, when he has no cause to be treated in that way.  Truly enough, having lost his personal right, he shall not fail to extract the disgraces of women and even children since the time.

Lately the Corea Authority has despised our ambassador and has disregarded our state-letter, by whose haughty and unpoliteness, too inpatient say, the highest and the lowest capacities that is, from the Emperor Highness to the commoners, have undertaken so great an unexampled dishonor, that on October of the last year our Government passed unanimously the expedition of Corea, in hearing of which a great excitement spread through the whole Island.  In the mean time, however, the contrary sentiment insisted by some ministers, who inclined to exempt themselves from care of that vigorous measure, so prevailed as to darken his Majesty will and at last put an end to the popular resolution “The expedition of Corea.”  Alas! the position of our country now attains to the summit of being destroyed in the respect of the national right and is indeed nothing but of the foresaid person, who does not provoke at other’s insults . . .