The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-27
ADDRESS OF THE HON. D. F.
PERRY,
Delivered Before the Pendleton Farmer.'
Society, October 9th, 1884.
From the Cotton Plant.

Delivered Before the Pendleton Farmers
Society, October 9th, 1884.
From the Cotton Plant.
GENrLnMnx: OF THE pENDLEroN
FARMERS SoCIETYs I have been invited;
as the oldest surviving member of your
Association to address you on this, the
69th Anniversary of your, Society. I duly
appreciate the honor, but feel a dif6dence
in attempting to discuss the great and all.
important question of agriculture, before
intelligent, educated and practical farm.
ers, such as you are.: Isjl:
Twas brought up on farm in Pendle.
ton district, and accustomed to all the
duties and labors of farmer but soon
entered on professional duties, which, for
more than halfa century, have withdrawn
my attention from this, the noblest occu-
patton ofsm I have, however, never
lost an interest in agriculture, and have
read and studied much on the subject. I
am now living on an extensive farm and
in some measure supervise it, which is
under the direction of my youngest.son.
] have noticed. with great pleasure the
progress of agriculture and the wonder.
ful improvements in agricultural imple-
ments since my youthful days as a
farmer. ,i5:' =. -, :. -
The Pendleton; Farmers' Society was
organized in 1916, and is now one of the
oldest Agricultural Societies in South
Carolina. That its existence should have
been continued 80 long is highly credita-
BILE to the agriculturists of this commu-
nifty. Hspeaks well for theirintelligence,
patriotism, science and love of improve
'meDt. ia. ,:f. e.g5,ali = ~
The war with Great Britain had just
closed before the organization of your
society; and the country was greatly de-.
pressed In all of her resources and indus,
tries. Agriculture and commerce were
especially, at low ebb.. 1.-The farmers
around ,Pendleton village in 1916 we're
educated land highly cultivated citizens,
and many ofthem quite distinguished in
the State. may mention Gov. Andrew.
Pickens, aud his brother Ezekiel Pickens;:
sons of the patriot and Revolutionary!
General, Pickens Col. Robert Andrews,
the son ofanother Revolutionary General,
and for many,years Clerk of the House Of
Representatives, Col. Warren, a gallant
soldier Of the Revolution, who lost leg
in the war of independence, and for
many years representative in. the Leg
islature from Pendleton district; General
j. B. Earle, a member of Congress, and
for many yearssAdjutant General of the
State; Samueh9Earle, member of Con-
gress; Mr.. North, 8 highly cultivated
.gentlenansaf great moral worth; Thomas
Harrison, distinguished lawyer, and
the State Treasurer John E. Calhoun, the
son of one of our first United States SEN
ators, and an accomplished gentleman;
Col. Richard Lewis, Joseph Whitner, Mr..
.Gaillard, the Taylors, Maxwells, Sloans,
Bensons, ,Cherrys and many, very many
others Of fortune and, cultivation. These
patriotic gentlemen farmers determined
to try and advance the cause of agricul-
tare in their district, and hence the origin
of the :Pendleton Farmers Society. To
the credit of your district this Associa-
tion has continued to flourish, and has
added to it's members, ,sJ ohn.C. Calhoun,
Vice-President ofthe United States, John
Gaillard, President, pro tenn of the Senate
of. the United States, Judge Cheves, one
of the purest and wsest men South Car.
olins ever produced, Governor James
Hamilton, tho Bayard of the South; Col.
Francis Hugee, the Liberator of Lafay-
ette from The dungeon of Olmutz; Col.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckuey, the Hon.
Richard F.. Simpson. for many years our
in Congress, and many
others of the most distinguished men;of
the State..\
Some thirty or forty years ago was
invited by my friend, Major George Sea-
born, then President of this Society, to
address its members at one of their ami
versary meetings. When 1 look around
me, now, see but two members (Mr.
John Sitton and Mr.. Gaillard) of the
Pendleton Farmers Society who were
then present on that occasion. They
have all gone to that bourne from whence
no traveller ever returns-John G. CAL
houn, Governor Burt, DR.. Symms, Major
Seaborn, j. Cyerton Lewis, the Taylors,
the Maxwells, sthe Bensons, the Sloans,
and others, who were here then, are here
no longer.
And what great events, my friends, in
the history of our country have taken
place since that period. A civil war has
swept off hundreds and thousands of our
most gallant and patriotic sons, fallen in
battle with the lost Confederacy, the
Southern States have been depleted by
hostile armies, and our slaves emancipa.
ted. But worse than all this, these freed
negroes were set over us as our political
masters, under control of rogues and
scoundrels from the North, who came
here to steal and plunder! Nothing in
history is more infamous than this cruel
outrage on the part of the Republican
party of the Northern States. a
But in 1876, the Centennial of Ameri-
can Independence, the white people Of
South Carolina, under the patriotic and
gallant lead of General Wade Hampton,
rose up in mass, and proclaimed that they
would no longer submit to be governed
by ignorant negroes, plundering carpet
baggers and Infamous scalawags. In
the providence of God this movement
was successful, and the leaders of that
regime have fled from the just indigna-
tion of an outraged people. r. K. Scott,
the first Radical Governor of South Caro-
lima, fed with his stolen wealth to his
home in Ohio, where he murdered an in
nocent young man, who was trying to
conceal the disgrace of his son. F. j.
Moses, the successor of Scott in the Ex-
ecutiye chair, of debased and degraded
Radical South Carolina. fled TO New
York, where he has been convicted of
crimes and sent to the Penitentiary sew
eral times.
Since this overthrow of negro. carpet
ag-scalawag rule, in South Carolina, we
have made rapid strides in all the
branches of industry. Agriculture has
revived, and our crops are almost doubled.
The white people have put their hands to
the plow and are no longer above culti-
waiting their farms by their own manual
labor. They have been greatly aided,
too, by the recent wonderful improve
ments in all -icultural implements.
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