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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.
We know many Northerners who have moved here and many have only criticism for the Southern way of life. These people are plastic and snobish and remind me of muslims who immigrate and then demand sharia law be instituted.
His holdings on the plantation have dwindled to 10 acres.
He sounds like a nasty guy. I am glad that 10 acres are all that survive. I would find it funny if every parcel of land is owned by the Northern population. What an ignorant person.
Because you say it is, then it's easy to disbelieve it. Why do you deny what is undeniably on his tombstones and in his correspondence and in the public records of Dover, Ohio?
Or just too stupid to see through Lincoln's "plot"? Those seem to be the choices if y'all keep insisting that Lincoln tricked them into starting their war.
That's what your genes are made of, or what makes them fit so snug?
Alas in my case it's beef, barbecue, and Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat. The killer B's.
goldstategop,
Actually, you'll probably find folks here in the South to be the most hospitable in the world -- providing you don't come here and start looking down your nose at Southernors, and trying to push "the way we do it up nawth" on the folks here.
Really, that happens a lot. Northernors flee the highly taxed, highly regulated and screwed up areas up north to a fresh start in the South. But once here, they proceed to screw things here up. Look down on us Southernors and commence to telling us how to run things here.
I had a good example of this happen to me yesterday. I was in the Smokies, at a campground, crossing the road with a five year old holding my hand, on the way to the bathroom. A guy with a northern car tag and an attitude tried to run over me, I guess cause I wasn't moving fast enough and he just couldn't wait to get the 10 yards to where he was going.
What needs to happen to an idiot like that is a big burly Southern redneck needs to jerk his smart ass outta the car and proceed to rearrange his face and teeth. There really is no excuse for somebody being such an asshole.
And someone so miserable that they can't slow down a little and let a woman and kid cross the road (in a laid back vacation setting) really just needs to quit bothering with leisure, just stay up north and be a jerk till he falls over dead with a heart attack from his anger and stress.
Well, if you decide to stay to dinner I'll be happy to carry you there ;)
Yes
"Everything I know about the south I learned on that National Geographic show COPS."
ROTFLOL
If that won't scare you away from my region I don't know what will.
I'm Catholic too, what's more I'm a convert from ECUSA. My Baptist deacon GGG grandfather must be up to about 2400 rpm by now. . . . And you do meet some Jack Chick loonies around the South . . . mostly because they never met a Catholic before. I've had some interesting conversations. I can usually disarm all but the worst haters by quoting Archbishop Sheen that if the Catholic Church were really as bad as some people say, he'd hate it too.
Just offer it up! (It's taught me patience and charity.)
Thanks for seeing humor, not an attack. I actually enjoy the South and have spent good time everywhere from Jackson, MS to Raliegh/Durham area to the Florida Panhandle. I'm a native NYer and couldn't see myself living there (way to slow and family is here) or frankly, anywhere else, but I certainly see the attraction.
They had the good sense to move South though, and marry Southern girls. < g > My husband's mother is from N.J., but rural farming country in east central Jersey, not the city. She's a nice Irish Catholic farm girl, no nonsense about her and good as gold (great mother in law!) I agree that the real problem is the big-city Yankees who come down and try to tell everybody how much better it was up North.
It's not generally known that General Sherman was quite well liked in the South after the War. He was an opponent of the Radical Republicans who beat up on the South so badly and kicked everybody when they were down, so folks were willing to "forgive and forget" because he did first.
My gg grandfather was the Commander of the local UCV encampment at Eufaula AL, and they invited Sherman to speak at their convention, showed him every hospitality.
I think Charleston is a special case. I never had any problem there, because I can point to a couple of ancestors who were merchants in Charleston back in the 1830s, but they can be a little standoffish to outsiders. (The same is true of Rome GA and Augusta GA, though not to the same degree.)
Now, IIRC, one of the former Confederates in the Spanish American War (Wheeler?) forgot exactly who he was fighting in the heat of battle, and shouted "Go git 'em boys! We got them damyankees on the run!"
Horrible sight!
I have seen some older Englishmen with that ensemble as well, but it's almost always Yankee retirees telling us how much better things are up north . . .
LOL! Item 3 is a very nice touch.
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