Is this an anti-semitic slur?
Oy vey! Since when are Jews know for having little noses?
Judah P. Benjamin
Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
It appears that the Northern invasion of the South is complete -- at least it is on a patch of land known as Delta Plantation in Jasper County.
There, a diehard rebel named Henry E. Ingram Jr. made his last stand against the onslaught of Yankees, only to be thwarted by a man from Long Island, N.Y., and now -- gasp -- a French Canadian.
Ingram promised to keep Yankees out of Delta Plantation in Jasper County when he bought 1,700 acres there in 1998. His resolve to keep them out still is strong, but the covenants he put on the land don't seem to have any teeth.
Those covenants did, however, scare Canadian-raised Bluffton resident Louise Legare a bit as she was close to signing a contract to buy a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the land from Bluffton Home Builders.
The list of rules she got from the builders was missing the first pages, so she went to the Jasper County Courthouse to get the missing ones. There, she found the covenants, or rules, that Ingram demanded of buyers:
1. They could not be Yankees.
2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).
3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman.
Clearly, Ingram doesn't like Northern folk.
Now, however, Legare and Bluffton Home Builders are working with Ingram's son, Ashley Ingram, to remove the covenants. The former Delta Plantation is on both sides of U.S. 17, just north of the Georgia state line.
"When (Legare) brought it to us, we all kind of had a good laugh," said Jim Hobbs, a partner in the home-building firm.
In fact, Legare is buying the land and home from Bill Cook, another partner in the company, who happens to be a native of Long Island, N.Y. No one at Bluffton Home Builders had seen the covenants before Legare found the missing pages, and no one has ever tried to enforce them, Hobbs said.
If Henry Ingram had his way, he still would keep Yankees off of the 1,700 acres he once owned. His holdings on the plantation have dwindled to 10 acres.
Ingram, now a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, said his son and attorney, who are both local, should be looking out for his anti-northerner wishes now.
"Yankees destroy everything they have up North, then they come down here," Ingram said. "When they destroy everything (in the South), where are they going to move next? Another country?"
Legare, who grew up north of Montreal, figures her far-northern upbringing must be especially abhorrent to Ingram.
"I must be more of a Yankee," she said. "I'm the person he really doesn't want to live there."
Amazingly, Legare is a much better choice to own Southern land than a New Yorker, according to Ingram.
"French people are much better and more desirable than a Yankee," said Ingram, who once owned video-poker casinos in Jasper County. "They don't stick their noses in other people's business."
The same feature drew Legare and Ingram to the land -- nature. Ingram said he's seen Carolina panthers, bald eagles and fox squirrels on the land. It is that quiet beauty Legare is after.
"I was raised in a very nature-like environment," Legare said. "I think the nature is beautiful in South Carolina."
Ingram, who says he is leaving Texas for Costa Rica soon, cites the boorish manners of Yankees as one of his prime dislikes for them.
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."
Contact Jim Faber at 706-8137 or jfaber@islandpacket.com. To comment on this story, please go to islandpacket.com.
Good point.
I actually like Southerners and I like Yankees too. I am proud to say that I have friends in both camps. I don't care where someone is from. I do care about what kind of person they really are.
People who want to divide us by region, race, religion etc. are all a**holes in my book. Those that hate us don't differentiate between Southerner or Yankee, or black, white or red. They hate us because we're Americans.
I might be naive but I believe that Americans look out for one another and stick together. We might disagree on some things but when the stuff hits the fan, we don't leave our fellow Americans behind.
You'd also think that the man himself would know how to spell it, and he spelled it "Quantrill" in every surviving document.
Clement Vallandingham of Ohio, the "man without a country".
When I lived in the North all my neighbors were Catholic. They very hospitably invited me to go to mass with them on Sunday. When I declined with a polite smile, on grounds that I'm not Catholic, they were horrified and suspicious. One woman cancelled plans to have her daughter babysit my child when she learned that Mr. Fairview and I aren't Catholic. And I have Protestant Southern kin who think even another conservative Protestant church is of the wrong type, its membership destined for hell. So it cuts both ways; there is ignorance and religious prejudice among Christians everywhere and it can't be ascribed to Northerners or Southerners. The Devil rejoices.
Not to mention that his concept of "The Union" having been perpetual was wrong and his calling up of 75,000 troops was unconstitutional. Lincoln, Stanton, Seward, Stevens - all political tools of the Northern industrialists.
Hey, somebody lifted your rock.
And a colossal boob to boot.
And you slithered in.
It's unfortunate that Quantrill didn't have stand watie there to tell him how wrong he was.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Where I'm from that's called looking down your nose...
Amen!
Well, they did draw Davis into firing the first shot. Of course he could have turned down that honor. Winfield Scott knew Davis well enough to know they he would not. Mr. Davis was a too-proud man.
A small, but important correction. The man was a former member of Congress (voted out by his constituents as I hope John Murtha will be in November) who published a newspaper that encouraged Union soldiers to desert from the Army.
Lincoln said something along the lines of "Should I arrest one old fool or allow him to continue and be forced to shoot some young men foolish enough to listen to him".
Lincoln arrested the old bastard and had him shipped South (they didn't want him either).
It would be fun to watch Lincoln deal with John Murtha today.
John Brown?
Is this an anti-semitic slur?
Oy vey! Since when are Jews know for having little noses?
Judah P. Benjamin
>>1. They could not be Yankees.
2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).
3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman. <<<
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me...
Of course I was raised in a family where Grand Daddy was the mayor of his tiny little town and also the Baptist preacher - the only curse word we were allowed to say was damnyankee because Grand Daddy said it wasn't really two different words.
I'm sure you recognize your own kind.
No, I'm content to see you under it.
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