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4 Herald, & a coadjutor of John Brown in the Kansas Border wars, laid the matter before Messers. Poppleton & Webster, leading lawyers of the State, & they generously undertook to conduct the case without fee. It was brought before Judge Dundy, who decided that under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, the Indian is [[underline]] a person [[/underline]], entitled to the protection which the Courts give to any other person, not a citizen. This decision, if supported by the Supreme Court of the United States is likely to be of great importance in delivering the