dBooks desire

While so doing we forego no jot of our undoubted
right to exact exemplary and deterrent punishment of the responsible
authors and abettors of the criminal acts whereby we and other nations
have suffered grievous injury.
For the real culprits, the evil counselors who have misled the Imperial
judgment and diverted the sovereign authority to their own guilty ends,
full expiation becomes imperative within the rational limits of
retributive justice. Regarding this as the initial condition of an
acceptable settlement between China and the powers, I said in my message
of October 18 to the Chinese Emperor:
I trust that negotiations may begin so soon as we and the other offended
Governments shall be effectively satisfied of Your Majesty's ability and
power to treat with just sternness the principal offenders, who are
doubly culpable, not alone toward the foreigners, but toward Your
Majesty, under whose rule the purpose of China to dwell in concord with
the world had hitherto found expression in the welcome and protection
assured to strangers.


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