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him to judge whether or not this law came within the
lines of the constitution, and his honorable career is
a sufficient guarantee that he never would have ap-
proved an act for any purpose whatever which con-
travened the constitution of the State. And since
the constitutionality of the law has been questioned,
he has been greatly worried because of the delay thus
brought about in carrying out its provisions and
hindering the worthy objects of the law from receiv-
ing the stipend provided therein for them.
  This question is being considered on this third
day of June, when in every city and town and ham-
let of the South, and in many cities of the North,
memorial services are being held and addresses de-
livered in memory of Confederate soldiers; graves be-
ing decked with flowers, in honor of the memory of
those of this class who are gone and to pay homage to
those who remain. Yea, in many places, where one
lone soldier, buried by himself, in an out-of-the-way
place, loving hands on this day are placing flowers,
bedewed with tears, on his grave.
   There are more than fifty monuments erected on
Kentucky soil in honor of Confederate soldiers by
the Daughters of the Confederacy. That organiza-
tion engaged in the noblest and grandest work ever
undertaken by a body of women in purely human
affairs since history commenced to be written. Would
any man or set of men on earth believe for one
moment that these women were engaged in thus
honoring a body of men who had rendered no ser-
vice to their country or State in any of the ways set
out by the Court of Appeals in its construction of
the term "public service" as used in construing the
old constitution Who are the Daughters of the