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.
Have you seen that cute book, "Being Dead is No Excuse" about funeral customs and food in the South? They maintain that social pecking order of religions, with each looking down on the other for the quality of their food offerings. :)
Actually they could, and they did. The first person locked up for political purposes was a Pensacola newspaper reporter who printed something Braxton Bragg didn't like on the day after Sumter was fired on. Bragg threw him in prison.
some years ago, a "lady from Ft Worth" gave a large plot of land to Texas Women's University, with the understanding that none of the land or proceeds therefrom were to be used for educating "persons of the male gender". she specifically stated in the transfer document that she had no problem with TWU spending other funds on "males", but NOT her land/money.
the donor stated that "her land or the proceeds therefrom" were to be used to assure that "poor girls from Texas, who were otherwise qualified to attend TWU" were able to attend the university.
a clause in the document giving the land to TWU stated that in the event that the land or $$$$$$ from it's sale or rental were used for "the benefit of men", that the whole parcel and or money from it's sale/lease would revert to her or ,in the event of her death, to her estate.
the courts held that this clause was UNJUST & told TWU that the clause was "null & void". TWU then sold the land & placed the proceed in the "University General Fund". (btw, the lady, at least the last time i heard, was still alive & hasn't given another DIME to TWU. does anyone blame her???
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btw, do you believe that the rector of St John's Church in NY "made up" the historical documents on file there over 150 years ago, just to confuse everyone who might read the documents, in the future??
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"spaniels" was the "term of derision for Spaniards" during the SAW.
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To maintain their pecking order, though, the small Southern town Episcopalians are going to have to leave the national church, which has gone barking mad.
Wheeler is reported to have said, "Only a PRISSY DAMNyankee would haul around a damn knife, when he could carry four pistols"!
fwiw, Gen Wheeler routinely is reported to have carried as many as EIGHT (8) Colt's revolvers in Cuba. - 4 on his saddle, two spares in his saddlebags & 2 on his belt (one of his "belt guns" was his engraved 1851 Navy Colt, which he had carried during the WBTS!). he was, to say the least, WELL-armed!
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Oh yeah - 114 degrees in the shade and dripping humidity! Not my idea of "great". Sweet tea! Boy is that an understatement! More like a glass of sugar syrup with a bit of brown crayon melted in it.
Many Southerns I know can really shovel what you described.
Boo.
Oh, by the way, nice job getting the other thread shut down.
No, I believe that if anyone is making anything up it's you.
I had wondered what had happened to it.
My DH has been known to carry as many as three. I content myself with one concealed and one in the car.
(No Navy Colts though. Wish I had one!)
Worth noting is that Lincoln, Stanton,Grant and Sherman were all men from the Old Northwest. Four more different men I cannot imagine, but one had better not cross any of them.
PITY. i once thought better of you.
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No, in other words I'm saying you make up the 90% or so of what you posts that aren't out and out lies.
PITY. i once thought better of you.
Sorry to hear that. My opinion of you hasn't changed a bit.
i could write a owner's critique of it called "The Colt's Police Positive, After the Blue Wears Off". (chuckle)
still shoots GREAT though!
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1. you don't like me exposing what your clay-footed, secular saint, DIShonest Abe actually was,a TYRANT,
2.you hate that i point out the EXCESSES & WAR CRIMES of the lincoln maladministration,
3.my posts make the members of the "DY coven" look like the motley collection of lunatics, weirdos, 1/2wits, BIGOTS & arrogant fools that they demonstrably are &
4. you can't stand the thought that someone disagrees with you and/or proves you WRONG.
you didn't used to be so HATEFUL. did you have a "falling out" with your lady or something??? (frankly, i miss the days when you & i sparred without you constantly accusing me of dishonesty. you KNOW better.)
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