60 THE FO(iY DAYS AND NOW ; 



ered eartb, and where to-day can be found a brighter galaxy 

 of names and more honorable men than these recorded on the 

 roll of the Pendleton Farmers' Society. 



Once more, I say, let it be remembered in this ascending 

 farmers' era, that from this little leaven came the leaven that 

 shall leaven the whole lump. 



There, too, was published one of the first agricultural 

 monthlies in the South, under the proprietorship and manage- 

 ment of Major George Seabourne, " The Farmer and Planter," 

 a most able and valuable ally to the Farmers' Society^ and did 

 much to jiromote the spirit of agriculture in that section in its 

 day. 



It is the opinion of many persons now living that the author 

 of the Junius Letters, so famous in their day, was a Pendle- 

 tonian, one John Miller, formerly the King's printer, in Lon- 

 don, and who fled from England on account of some political 

 offense, settled at Pendleton, and was one of the founders 

 and proprietors of the " Pendleton Messenger," seventy-five 

 years ago. As far back as I can remember, the authorship of 

 those letters were currently attributed to him. 



But the glory of the old tow^n has long since departed — in 

 the first place shorn of her Samson locks, robbed of her terri- 

 tory^ and capitolcy, the great district cut up into Anderson, 

 Pickens and Oconee ; and the railroads, of which she little 

 dreamed then, have ignored her claims, stolen away her thrift, 

 and now the good old town of auld-lang-syne stands out for- 

 lorn, gray and dilapidated in her tottering senility. But there 

 still lingers a fragrance of intelligence and refinement in her 

 social atmos2:)heie that ever strikes the visitor with admiration 

 and respect. 



