"From what I see of the Eastern States I do not anticipate any very great things as likely to come out of the Americans.

Their physical frames seem hung together rather than organically grown ....

They are generous with their money, have much tenderness and quiet good feeling; but the Anglo- Saxon power is running to seed, and I don't think will revive.
Puritanism is dead, and the collected sternness of temperament which belonged to it is dead also." This language seems strange, written as it was only seven years after the great war.

Froude, however, considered that there was much hysterical passion in the policy of the North, and he shared Carlyle's dislike of democratic institutions.

Moreover, he was disappointed with the result of his mission.