Grover Cleveland said "It was not possible for this Government to ask his surrender, but the Japanese Government of its own motion caused his delivery as a friendly act." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 8, 1886

It was not possible for this Government to ask his surrender, but the Japanese Government of its own motion caused his delivery as a friendly act.

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