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And all the gentle daughters in her train, March in our ranks, and in our service wield Long spears of golden grain!

A yellow blossom as her fairy shield,

June flings her azure banner to the wind,
While in the order of their birth

Her sisters pass, and many an ample field
Grows white beneath their steps, till now,

behold,

Its endless sheets unfold

The snow of Southern summers!

HENRY TIMROD

(Ethnogenesis)

Kentucky admitted to the Union, 1792

Tennessee admitted to the Union, 1796
John H. Morgan born, 1825

June Second

In regard to African Slavery, which has played so important a part in our political history, Randolph was an Emancipationist, as distinguished from an Abolitionist. This distinction was a very broad one; as broad as that between Algernon Sidney and Jack Cade; or between Charlemagne and Peter the Hermit -in fact, it was the difference between Reason and Fanaticism. On this subject Randolph and Clay concurred; both were Emancipationists, and both denounced the Abolitionists; as did also Webster, and all the best, wisest, and purest men of that day.

JUDGE DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS

John Randolph born, 1773

June Third

Other leaders have had their triumphs. Conquerors have won crowns, and honors have been piled on the victors of earth's great battles, but never, sir, came man to more loving people. HENRY W. GRADY

Jefferson Davis born in Kentucky, 1808

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June Fourth

In the hallowed stillness of your bridal eve, ere the guests have all assembled, lift up to yours the pale face, love's perfect image, and you shall see that vision to which God our Father vouchsafes no equal this side the jasper throne-you shall see the ineffable eyes of innocence entrusting to you, unworthy, oh! so unworthy, her destiny through time and eternity. Inhale the perfume of her breath and hair, that puts the violets of the wood to shame; press your first kiss (for now she is all your own), your first kiss upon the trembling petals of her lips, and you shall hear, with ears you knew not that you had, the silver chiming of your wedding bells far, far up in heaven. GEORGE W. BAGBY

June Fifth

THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH

Instead of superficial adornments and supine action, the intellectual sympathies and interests of these women were large, and they undertook with wise and just guidance, the management of households and farms and servants, leaving the men free for war and civil government. These noble and resolute women were the mothers of the Gracchi, of the men who built up the greatness of the Union and accomplished the unexampled achievements of the Confederacy. J. L. M. CURRY

June Sirtb

To the brave all homage render,
Weep ye skies of June!

With a radiance pure and tender,
Shine, oh saddened moon!
Dead upon the field of glory,

Hero fit for song and story,

Lies our bold dragoon.

JOHN R. THOMPSON

Turner Ashby killed in Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862

Patrick Henry dies, 1799

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