Great quote!
Credit where credit is due:
James Lois Petigru, 1789-1863
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.
An ironic and funny twist to a local legend.
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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.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
Confederate alert!! Ping the Lincoln haters.
=D
"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."
I would have to say that anyone North or South, who broadly generalizes a whole group of people like Mr. Ingram does, is indeed dumb.
It must be the snow and ice that makes Yankee noses "little" and "pointy". I guess the heat and sun makes Johnny Reb's nose huge and bulbous...or is that the moonshine?
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said.
Is this an anti-semitic slur?
Is this an anti-semitic slur?
Hey, plenty of people are "polite and nice" besides just Jewish folk. ;-)
D-I-X-I-E ping
"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."
I remember moving to Illinois from the high plains of Texas when I was 9 years old. We marveled at the ridicule we received from the local farming community because of our accents, cowboy boots, etc. I was called a dumb hillbilly. I guess they had never seen Levelland, Texas. One of our neighbors was in his seventies and had never been outside of two counties there in Illinois and yet was an authority on how backwards and racist all of us "southerners" were. So I can sort of understand where Mr. Ingrahm is coming from.
This has always been a local legend and I was surprised to see it make front page and actually be REAL.
It's highly ironic and to top it off, he's moving to Costa Rica! Bet it won't be five minutes before HE's telling THEM how to do things...
I don't think so, it does not fit the stereotype. Anyway, I think it is meant to convey that we Yankees are snobbish and nosy, and we are >:P
Well, if Bush were to do what Lincoln did, he would most likely be impeached. Lincoln had a Member of Congress arrested as a Confederate sympathizer becauise the guy disagreed openly wiht his war policy.
I love South Carolina. Its too small to be a country and too big to be an insane asylum.
Great quote!
Credit where credit is due:
James Lois Petigru, 1789-1863
He wasn't Superman's girlfriend...
I read somewhere that on the University of Texas campus, nothing can be named "North."
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