Take another look at this...
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.
fwiw, i helped at the NOCM in 1976-79 when i was a grad student at tulane.
some of the artifacts they have there was donated by yours truly, as well.
free dixie,sw
Here are some details about this arrest of yours [Link]:
A man by the name of MATHEWS, the correspondent of the Pensacola Observer, under the signature of ‘Nemo,’ was arrested yesterday, and sent under guard to this city. The charge against him is furnishing information to the enemy. It was the intention of General BRAGG to make an attack upon Pickens on Friday night, according to this correspondent, and the information, after being published, was sent to the fort. Lieut. SLEMMER at once signalled the fleet, and during the day one hundred men were landed upon Santa Rosa Island, together with a large quantity of shot. Thus the plans of General BRAGG were frustrated. What will be done with this prisoner I am unable to say, but it does seem as if such important information ought to have been known only to the commander himself, until time to commence the attack. MATHEWS is now under examination at the War Department.
Some "political" arrest.
Completely political. All Lawrence Mathews did was print a rumor widely circulated in Pensacola. He didn't send a message to Slemmer at Fort Pickens. He didn't spy. He didn't print any secret information not being spread by dozens of other people. But he was locked up, without charges. Held, without trial. And his 5 year old son left to fend for himself.
I'll see those men, and raise you Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Lyndon Johnson. All solid sons of the South.
"It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution: if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law: the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty."
So where in that statement is Chief Justice Marshall wrong? Is it not the duty of the court to interpret and apply the law. Is that not the very definition of 'jurisdiction'? And if not the judiciary then who interprets the constitution? People like you?
I named 9 and you named three. Should we take a look at what regions are painted red?
BTW... Gore couldn't win in his home state... and North Carolina voted against the Kerry/Edwards ticket. Can you say the same for the northern states?????
Any single one of those three did more damage than the nine you named put together. What's the matter? Can't face the fact that the three biggest disasters in recent presidential history are fellow southerners?
Take a look at the map above... can you not face that?
Re:stand waitie
I really had to exert some true self control today not to take a poke at him myself.
I just keep saying to myself,"Riverman,be nice,be nice.This is a test of your self control"
Glad YOU have no qualms about taking a potshot or two at him tho!
We took a road trip along that coast in May and spent a night in Navarro. My intention had been to visit Fort Pickens and buy books there about local history. However, my trip had been delayed by a day, and I wasn't able to make it to Fort Pickens.
We did drive past Cape San Blas on our way east along the coast.
I had been along the upper Florida coast a year earlier, and hurricane damage was much more in evidence then. Some recovery has been made.
Thirty to forty years ago that coast was much less developed than now and probably for good reason -- hurricanes seem to prefer going across that section of coast to get from the Gulf to the Atlantic. Beautiful coast though.
I was surprised on my most recent trip to find very little rebuilding along the Mississippi coast next to the coast. House ruins had been bulldozed down, leaving blocks and blocks of foundation after foundation. Jefferson Davis' home still stands, but was damaged.
Sure I can. Look at the results from '60 and '76 and call me back.
Why don't you post the county election map and then you'll see my point. There was an awful lot of red in the northeast and intense spots of blue in the south.
Maybe in your world, everything is black & white but from where I sit, there are lots of shades of gray.
stand watie reminds me of that John Lovitz character from "Saturday Night Live" a number of years back. "And...the confederacy had nuclear weapons, too...and a death ray! But they were too gentlemanly to use them. Yeah, that's the ticket." How can you get angry at someone as hopeless as that?
YOU were a grad student at Tulane???
They never taught you that"I",a first person pronoun,should be capitalized?
For shame!
Just for the record,I lived on General Taylor at Magazine in 1976-77.
Good one!
Oops,broke my promise not to clown good ol'stande.I just couldn't believe he got into Tulane University Grad School!
Maybe there was an affirmative action program there for deluded souls of lost causes.
So says the Kansas correspondent of the New York Times. No doubt you feel that it was his duty to publish what people might have been whispering about the coming attack.
Here is what you said some time ago in defense of Northern arrests of newspaper editorial writers and publishers:
But what you forget to mention, rusty, is that the men were not arrested because of their newspaper policy. They were arrested because they corresponded with and offered aid to the Davis regime.
Which you never proved.
Publishing what people were saying about when an attack would happen was not helping the enemy? Putting such information in a newspaper would insure it getting to the enemy. Dumb move on his part.
Wow!!! You came up with two elections in the last 50 years! ... and you still cannot address the more recent elections. You should have been with me at Gettysburg on July 3rd where you could have seen all the Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers on Cemetary Ridge and all the Bush/Cheney bumper stickers on Seminary Ridge. It was remarkable and undeniable.
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