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his culture influenced by the psuedo-scientific and
amoral philosophy that recognized slavery.
In his notes he portrayed the Negro as an
inferior human being and yet out of him came the majestic
words that all men are created equal, but in the culture
of that time, it meant all white men.
But in his heart he knew that slavery was
wrong, and that it degraded the white man's mind and soul
as well as the Negro. In his notes on Virginia
he wrote "Indeed, I trouble for my country when I reflect
that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep for-
ever. The Almighty has no attribute which can take sides
with us in such a contest."
And in 1820 he wrote "But the momentous
question, slavery, like a firebell in the night awakened
me and filled me with terror. I considered it at once
as the knell of the Union. I regret that I am now to die
in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves
by the generation of 1776 to acquire SGif-governmcn-b and
happiness to thoir country is to h<? thrown away by tho
unwise and unworthy passion of their sons, and that "iy