He was immediately elected to the first legislature of his state convened under the new Constitution. On taking his seal in that body his attention was at once directed to the demolition of the judicial code which had emanated from the British Parliament. The work of rearing a new superstructure was mostly performed by him. The first bill he introduced was aimed at the slave trade and prohibited the farther importation of negroes into Virginia. This is a triumphant refutation of the accusation often reiterated against Mr. Jefferson--_that he was an advocate of slavery_. To its _principles_ he and a large majority of the South were always opposed and submitted to it _practically_ by ENTAIL. It is a fact beyond dispute that he struck the first blow in the Colonies at the unhallowed trade of _importing_ human beings for the purpose of consigning them to bondage. That this was the first great step to towards a correction of the most cruel feature of this system, originated by philanthropic England, is equally true. To transfer those negroes, born in the United States, from one section of this country to another, bears no comparison in cruelty to the heart-rending barbarity of forcing the African from his native home--even should he fall into the hands of those _emancipators_ who, instead of returning him to his native shores--_put him an_ "APPRENTICE" _to hard labor on their own plantations_. Consistency thou art a jewel rather rare. Common humanity forbids the sudden emancipation of the slaves as proposed by emissary Thompson and his converts. Mr. Jefferson next effected the passage of bills destroying entails--primogeniture--the church as established by England and various others--assimilating the entire system of jurisprudence in the state to its republican form of government. He reported one hundred and twenty-six bills, most of which were passed and constitute the present much admired statutory code of Virginia.