Perry, June 1853: "My plan is to establish a colony at Port Lloyd, Peel Island, the principal of the Bonin group, leaving the question of sovereignty to be discussed hereafter."
Hawks, Francis L., ed. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States. Compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his officers at his request, and under his supervision. Washington, DC: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856.
Perry, 1856: "To me it seems that the people of America will, in some form or other, extend their dominion and their power, until they shall have brought within their mighty embrace multitudes of the Islands of the great Pacific, and placed the Saxon race upon the eastern shores of Asia."
Matthew Calbraith Perry, A Paper by Commodore M.C. Perry, U.S.N., read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society at a meeting held March 6th, 1856 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1856), quote from pp. 28-29.