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.
1. Is private ownership of property primary?
It's up there in the top three for me. Life, liberty, property, not necessarily in that order. Pursuit of happiness sounds pretty but it should have been property.
2. Can a human being be property?
Yes. I assume we will depart ways there. But I also say this on the basis of the Constitution, which allowed for indentured servitude and slavery, both of which forfeit to some degree a person's right in their own selves and labor. I think that it is generally a better principle not to allow such a thing, and that slavery is abolished in the U.S. was certainly the most positive outcome of the Civil War, but it's hard to argue that a human can't be property when they obviously can be, and have been, as long as humans have been humans. You might argue that they SHOULDN'T be, but that isn't the same thing as arguing that they CAN'T be, either pragmatically or Constitutionally (under the unimposed pre-1861 Constitution, of course).
3. Can the SCOTUS overrule State murder laws?
To my reading, no. The eighth amendment states:
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
The Founders didn't find the death penalty cruel or unusual. There is no Constitutional way it could ever happen that the SCOTUS do such a thing.
4. Is the 2nd Amendment valid?
Where? In states and all U.S. territory? The plain reading of the law says so. "The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
5. Can the federal government insist on religious silence?
Where? I think I need more detail, there, but generally, no. Further, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" certainly doesn't apply to the States. States can have their own religion, if they wish, subject to their own limitations, of course. That's part of the reason States were not included here--some did have strong traditions like that as of the signing of the Constitution.
6. Can 49 states ratify an Amendment that compels the sole dissenting state to conform?
Under the Constitution, maybe. It would probably depend on the subject and circumstances. After all, Article I does give the feds SOME jurisdiction, and in the same article, prevents certain other laws that might affect states under particular circumstances (bills of attainder, ex post facto laws). I would generally say that 49 states can't single out another state to comply with a law they don't comply with, but that I don't know the situation you're talking about limits my answer here. No matter the Amendment put forth, in my opinion, the lone State will always have the option to secede, as well.
1. the MURDER of unborn babies was LAWFUL,
2.that Dredd Scott was NOT a human (but rather was PROPERTY, not unlike a horse/cow/dog),
3.that prayer/religious readings was UNLAWFUL in the public schools &
4.that "separate but equal" in education was A-OK.
fwiw, i have little or no respect for those decisions & daily LESS for the court/"justices".
NOW a group on the court want international law, UN rules & "certain international agreements" to SUPERCEDE the Constitution & the BOR!
tell me, N-S, WHICH one of those mandates do YOU find ACCEPTABLE????
free dixie,sw
when the congress & POTUS allowed that to happen, the "jig was up", imVho.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Article III, Clause I and Clause II.
but since lincoln DID prosecute the UNnecessary war against the southland (in which EVERY citizen lost FREEDOM!), we'll never know for sure.
free dixie,sw
I believe you are wrong in that. Source please.
Oh you were banged up a bit, but totally destroyed? Bull. That's what you get when you start a war. You can't dictate where it will go and how it will end. Better luch next time.
like i said before: when you've "been there & done that", perhaps i'll think more of your UNfounded & frankly DUMB personal opinions.
lol AT you!
free dixie,sw
Okay, you are exceptable as a SCJ.
i note you didn't tell me which (if any of those decisions) you AGREE with & find either correct or even wise.
free dixie,sw
You have to rely on me to expose my stupidity you are incapable of doing it on your own.
The yankees have given this country Ted Kennedy, Patrick Leahy, Bernie Sanders, Chuckie Schumer, John Murtha, Joe Biden, Joe Corzine, Charlie Rangel, John Kerry and the rest of the socialist filth. Most of those in the south of that ilk are usually elected by yankees who happened to have moved south. They should be forced to live in the high tax, high crime mess that they've created. It reminds me of the Hollywood left. They push socialis then go to buy homes in conservative areas of California, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
Did you happen to catch the plate? New Hampshire has such stringent crosswalk laws that I have seen MANY a near-accident caused by drivers slamming on the brakes because someone standing on the sidewalk happened to turn toward the curb; regardless of whether or not they intended to cross the street. The driver you encountered (sounds like New Jersey or Massachusetts) certainly deserved an old fashioned ass-kickin'...
1. DUMB personal opinions
2.simplistic answers to complex questions (which you seem INCAPABLE of understanding are simplistic),
3. laughable nonsense, that wouldn't fool my 5yo niece and
4. personal (ad.hominum) attacks on me.
why not go do some reading at the library & then we'll talk??? you seem to KNOW little about the WBTS period.
free dixie,sw
Every been to the Confederate Musuem in New Orleans, Stand?
I used to work there. I have forgotten more about the War between the States then you have made up.
Actually it was an Ohio plate.
In the campgrounds in the national park here pedestrians have the right of way, but this guy was a typical asshole who thought he was tough.
What really needs to happen (and often does) with these idiots, is that someone calls them on their behavior, gives them a good old fashioned ass whompin.
That's a time honored proven recipe for attitude adjustment here in my South. Some people just need an ass whompin.
Couldn't agree more. Just got back to Tennessee a few days ago, and I'm lovin' it.
I'm up here in the mountains in Tennessee. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
Except maybe fishing in Montana or Wyoming, or Alaska.
But I'd still be glad to get home to Tennessee, even if I did catch a lot of fish (grin).
BTW, I went to Asheville N.C. and stayed four days last week. That place really is the San Francisco of the east now isn't it?
On the way there, going down 25W near Morristown, I had a big black bear run across the highway in front of me. A decade ago that would have been unheard of, they were found only in pockets in the Smokies and Cherokee National Forest. Guess those hunter's dollars (sole funding for wildlife management) are really working wonders.
Let me try to understand your warped logic....are you saying that all these Southern leftists are the fault of Yankee's too ???
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Lyndon Johnson
John Edwards
Robert Byrd
Ann Richards
Kathleen Blanco
A whole crop of Landrieu's
Jimmy Carter
William Jefferson
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