FOOTNOTES:
[1] The following is a decision of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Kentucky Reports, p. 644. Judge Shannon—“Slaves, although they are human beings, are, by our laws, placed on the same footing with living property of the brute creation. However deeply it may be regretted, or whether it be politic or impolitic, a slave by our code is not treated as a person, but (negotium,) a thing, as he stood in the civil code of the Roman Empire.”