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.
Are you actually offended or put off by this? We don't just ask this of the imports but we ask each other too. Then eventually establish that our granddaddies might have been first cousins. That's just how we are.
Your post is a great example of exactly what we're talking about though...coming here and telling us what to do and what not to do. That's even more rude than making small talk.
Lincoln's Murtha.
Very true! I've met some great yankee freepers. I've also met some downright obnoxious southerners that I thought should move north where they would fit in better.
Excellent post! {{applause}}
So... you can always move back home where you won't have to put up with those southern habits that annoy you.
It was the Slaveocracy that intentionally split the Democrat party in 1860 into sections that assured any Republican on the ballot would be elected President knowing full well that was the only way they could even get the Deep South to agree to secession.
The had pushed for secession for 10 full years, even before anyone outside if Springfield IL. knew who Lincoln was.
And to get the Upper South to go along with secession, they had to start a shooting war. Without Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, the Slave Power of the Cotton States was a joke. They needed the war to form a nation and they saw Lincoln as a week, country bumkin who would not be able to mobilize a response.
It is not entirely different than people saw Reagan in 1980, or Bush pre 9-11.
They figured wrong.
"psychotic butcher" well describes most any of the DY redlegs/jayhalkers from KS, but especially "Colonel" james lane & ""doc" jennison.
BOTH were nothing more or less than COMMON CRIMINALS, who preyed on innocent civilians on BOTH sides of the war.
BOTH deserved HANGING. (i realize that "wearing the blue" makes every CRIME perfectly OK with DAMNyankee apologists, but aren't you ASHAMED to defend FILTH like the KS criminals???
free dixie,sw
but them everyone here knows, that as the DAMNyankee Minister of Propaganda, it is your job to lie, confuse, evade the truth & deceive the ignorant & naive.
so we are NOT surprised by your bilge.
free dixie,sw
he is, as far as i'm concerned, DEAD.
nonetheless, he STUPIDLY continues to address posts to me. talk about DUMB ,clueLESS & "has no life"!
free dixie,sw
No, I meant Sherman.
The actual restrictions and conveyance, courtesy of Prof. Patrick Rohan, St. John's University School of Law:
COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS CREATED AND RECORDED BY HENRYE. INGRAM
The property described particularly in Exhibit "A", affixed hereto, and known generally as "Delta Plantation," which was conveyed on or about January 23, 1998 to Henry E. Ingram
(Purchaser) from Cullum's Lumber Mill, Inc. (Seller), (hereafter "the Property"), shall be hereafter subject to the following covenants and/or restrictions:
1. The property shall never be leased, sold, bequeathed, de
vised or otherwise transferred, permanently or temporarily, to
any person or entity that may be described as being part of the
Yankee race. "Yankee" as used herein, shall mean any person or
entity born or formed north of the Mason-Dixon line, or any per
son or entity who has lived or been located for a continuous period of one (1) year above said line. In determining a "continuous period" as used herein, intermittent periods of one week or less shall not be construed as severing continuity;
2. No person with the last name of Sherman shall ever own, lease, enter, occupy, walk upon, or hold any interest, of any nature or kind in the Property. Any person born up North whose last name may be spelled by using the letters found in the name Sherman is subject to the same restrictions and covenants as if his name were Sherman. No business entity with the name Sherman in its name, trade name, or any previous business name, shall ever acquire or maintain any interest in the Property or provide any goods or services thereon.
3. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as active discrimination against those Southern persons of African descent. In fact, Southern persons of African descent shall not be subject to, and are expressly excluded from, the restrictions and covenants contained in paragraph two (2) above; provided that all subsequent transferors shall be so subject, as will the initial transfer of the Property from the Southern person of African descent to the subsequent transferor. Southern persons of African descent may be given permission upon written request to use, hunt, fish and/or own the Property. Any Southern person of African descent is entitled to a ten percent (10%) discount if he or she purchases the Property from Henry E. Ingram or his heirs and/or assigns.
4. Any of the above restrictions, covenants and conditions may be waived in writing by Henry E. Ingram, his heirs or assigns; provided that, in the event that the waiver is being granted by a person other than Henry E. Ingram or his son Sterling Ashley Ingram, the written waiver requires the written approval of at least one other person, related by blood to Henry E. Ingram, who was born in a State of the Union located geographically at least 15 miles South of the State of Virginia.
5. The covenants and restrictions discussed above in Paragraphs one (1) through four (4) are necessary to ensure that the Yankees will never again own or control large tracts of land that rightfully belong in Southern hands and under Southern dominion. They are intended to prevent Yankee ownership of property stolen or conscripted after the great war of Northern aggression after 1865 by the Yankee Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.
6. Delta Plantation will once again be available to the true Southerners to view, camp, hunt, fish, use, enjoy and share as true.Southerners are taught from birth. Thank you Sir.
7. No redwood lumber may be used by any person who builds any wooden structure on the property. This restriction is due in part to a certain large redwood tree in the Western United States that is named after the late coward and war criminal William T. Sherman. Additionally this restriction is due in part to certain environmental views shared and held by the authors to these restrictions.
8. These covenants and restrictions were drafted and executed by a true Southerner, Henry E. Ingram, Jr., this 2nd day of February in the year of our God, 1998.
HENRY E. INGRAM, JR.
ALL those certain pieces, parcels or tracts of land situate,
lying and being in Jasper County, South Carolina, containing
1606.86 acres, more or less, and 63.02 acres, more or less, and being a portion of Tract A and of the Poindexter Tract of the Delta Plantation Tracts as shown and delineated on that certain plat of survey prepared by Coastal Surveying Company, Inc. dated July 1, 1975 for Chevron Oil Company, which Plat is recorded in Plat Book 18 at Page 60 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Jasper County, South Carolina. The 1606.86 acre tract being shown and designated as Tract "A", and the 63.02 acre tract being shown and designated as Tract "B" on that certain plat of survey entitled "Plat of 1,674.88 acres, Portion of Delta Plantation Surveyed for Henry Ingram", prepared by Paul D. Wilder, R.L.S. of Wilder Surveying and Mapping, dated January 12, 1998 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Jasper County, South Carolina in Plat Book 23 at Page 47. Said Tract "A" being generally bounded and described as follows: on the North by Tract "C" as shown on the aforesaid plat and by the R/W of SC Hwy. 170 and by lands, now or formerly of Collum's Lumber Mill, Inc.; on the Northeast by lands of John E. Cay, III; on the East by the Centerline of the Old Screven Ferry Road and a 30' access easement, and other lands of Collum's Lumber Mill, Inc.; on the South by lands of the Georgia Department of Transportation, and on the West by lands of Tench C. Coxe, III, lands of Daniel E. Huger, and the eastern edge of the R/W of U.S. Highway 17-A. Said Tract "B" being generally bounded and described as follows; on the North by lands of Robert Minis; on the East by the R/W of U.S. Hwy. 17-A; on the South by lands of Carswell; on the Southwest by lands of Clydesdale Club, and on the Northwest by lands of A. Minis, Jr. For a more particular description, reference is hereby made to the aforesaid plat of record.
TOGETHER with those certain easement rights appurtenant to the above described property reserved by Chevron Stations, Inc. in that certain Deed from Chevron Stations, Inc. to Department of Transportation, State of Georgia, dated October 17, 1985 and recorded in Book 89, Page 168, in the records for the Office of the Clerk of Court for Jasper County, South Carolina and all rights of reversion and other rights to the roadbed of U.S. Highway 17-A retained pursuant to that ..certain Right of Way Deed dated August 17, 1953 and recorded in Book 30, Page 39, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Jasper County, South
Carolina.
EXCEPTING AND RESERVING UNTO CHEVRON STATIONS, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, all rights as delineated in that certain deed from Chevron Stations, Inc. to Delta Plantation Corporation, dated June 25, 1987 and recorded in Deed Book 91 at Page 1483 in the Office of the Clerk of Court
for Jasper County, South Carolina.
BEING the same property conveyed to Henry E. Ingram, Jr. by Deed of Collum's Lumber Mill, Inc. dated January 23, 1998 and recorded January _, 1998 in Deed Book at Page
in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Jasper County, South Carolina.
Jasper County Tax Map Reference: 037-00-02-002 (portion
of).
SOUTHERN OATH
Of my own free will and choice, I do hereby in the presence of these witnesses swear to be loyal to the South. With the sole exception of my immediate family, I hereto swear to never utter any good words regarding the dastardly Yankee race even if by some chance I observe some redeeming quality amongst their steed. I will never mention the word Sherman unless it is to describe his cowardly and inhuman characteristics.
When speaking of Yankees, I will refer to them as scalawags or carpetbaggers. I will love, honor and obey the true Southern way of life by never saying anything disrespectful to my wife or children.
I will now whistle or hum Dixie as a sign of my loyalty and as a token of my new out-look on life. I swear this oath on the grave of Robert E. Lee.
TIME 2:25 PM DATE 1124198
SOUTHERN WITNESSES: FULL NAME OF OATH SWEARER:
I will swear Openly on Videotape This Oath.
for example, had lincoln, the TYRANT, chosen PEACE instead of an imperialist, UNjust, war against the new CSA, there would have been NO needLESS loss of about a MILLION American lives,who perished for NO good reason.
btw, it is now 1861 & YOU are POTUS. Mr President, how many MILLION people will YOU willingly kill to preserve "the union of the UNwilling"??? i million, 5 million, ALL of us??? or will you choose PEACE???
free dixie,sw
Good find!
Henry Ingram made his fortune in video poker. I would presume that since South Carolina outlawed video poker he is looking for someplace to start over. From what I have heard Costa Rica is big into video poker.
It's worth noting that he exempted Black Southerners from the Sherman covenants- obviously to avoid this being interpreted as a racial covenant- which the Supreme Court held as unconstitutional in the 50's.
Also, not allowing redwood on the land partly because there is one named after Sherman and partly due to "certain environmental views shared and held by the authors." That's an attempt to get around the "touch and concern" requirement. I don't know the law in South Carolina, but in NY courts will usually strike down a negative covenant if it doesn't "touch and concern" the land.
Some clever lawyering, there.
All that money and dumb too, how lucky can a city girl be?
No, that'd be a dead on description of THIS guy:
Where he went wrong is in putting these in covenants and not putting them into the grant as reversionary clauses in the contract of sale or transfer to his money-grubbing kid, and a general reversion clause setting the transfer aside upon return of the payment within thirty days if those clauses were ruled invalid. He had to know full well the courts would never enforce a covenant like this. He really screwed the pooch on this one if he believed it would hold up.
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