Reply #315: That does not contradict what I said though.

[No Elephants]

I was responding to a statement by defendandprotect that the founders feared capital (or money, wealth, etc).

In the quote you provided, Jefferson is not saying he fears capital. To the contrary, he is saying he fears that banks might take his capital away from him.

Jefferson, as a gentleman farmer and slave owner, was a wealthy man and liked that way so much that he did not free his slaves even though he knew it was evil--and some of them seem to have been his own children. However, he did free his slaves in his will. That tells me he was willing to do evil to his own offspring so as not to cramp his own lifestyle.

That is not a man who fears capital.

He did run up debts, but that was because he loved his lifestyle and building Monticello, not because he feared capital.