He believed in "free trade within the Empire," which is not free trade.

He was for an imperial tariff, a thing made in Germany, and called a Zollverein.
But his practical experience and personal observation taught him that proposals for closer union with the Colonies must come from the Colonies themselves.

The negroes were a difficulty.

They were not really fit for self-government, as the statesmen of the American Union had found.

Personal freedom, the inalienable right of all men and all women, is a very different thing from the possession of a vote.