"All men are created equal" vs. "the merciless Indian Savages" - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

An 18th century depiction of the casta racial classification system created by the Spanish. The painting is in the Museo de Virreinato, Tepozotlan; image from

From the U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776), world-wide known for its initial statement that "[A]ll men are created equal," also included the following passage:

"[T]he inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Perhaps a not-so-crazy "alternative history" question: Would Jefferson, the drafter of the Declaration, have advocated building a wall in the newly-created United States of America to keep (to use contemporary US political language) "drug-dealing, rapist hombres" out of the city upon a hill?

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More on slave-owning Jefferson [footnote notations are from original entry]:

Thomas Jefferson believed Native American peoples to be a noble race [1] who were "in body and mind equal to the whiteman" [2] and were endowed with an innate moral sense and a marked capacity for reason. [3] 

Nevertheless, Jefferson developed plans for Indian Removal to lands West of the Mississippi, [JB: See also (1) (2)] including forced removal such as that carried out by later presidents in the Trail of Tears. [4][5][6]

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IS THE ONLY "AMORAL" LESSON FROM ALL THIS  IS THAT HISTORY IS COMPLICATED/MERCILESS? ...