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.
Too bad Sherman was not still around, since the same type of traitors still are.
Partly right. It was dispersed following the Gettysburg campaign in part due to the southern sharpshooters. Douglas Wicklund, Curator of the NRA Museum (and a descendant of Union soldiers) has an interesting presentation about this. Your last sentence is correct.
And just about every yankee state there is!!
Would he have a problem with Derek Jeter buying a house there?
all 3 of those make me GAG!
free dixie,sw!
"had lincoln, the TYRANT, chosen PEACE instead of a needLESS, imperialist war of conquest against the new dixie republic (and in which a MILLION people died for NO good reason!), the CSA would have been very much like the USA was, before the BOR was subverted by the federal government/courts."
Assuming justices like Taney hadn't tainted that multistate alliance as well, you mean. If you're an on-the-bench-activist in a good cause, you're still an activist.
I like to imagine that there could have been such a free alliance of independent states, such that the people had established laws predisposed AGAINST government instead of for it. Heck, I like to imagine that the U.S. could one day again be such a state. However the Constitution may be flawed, it's a whole lot better than what we have now.
"Okay, you are acceptable as a SCJ."
Thanks. Let Dubya know, will you?
free dixie,sw
period. end of story!
better people like me than then CREEPS, SCUM & HATERS out of the LIBERAL, south-HATING halls of northeastern academia.
free dixie,sw
i just DESPISE all HATERS, anti-Indian bigots & the 10-15% of northerners who are arrogant, hate-FILLED, terminally ignorant, LOUDmouths. we southerners call such creatures, DAMNyankees.
DAMNyankees are NOT born as bigots. i believe DYism is a LEARNED prejudice against the southland, our flags/memorials/martyrs/culture & all of our wonderful southern people.
being a DY is in no way different than being a racist. BOTH are UNthinking, ignorant prejudices, of which (at least imVho) they should be ashamed.
if that offends you, don't BE one!
btw, N-S is the ONLY member of the "DY coven" who has both a functioning brain & a sound education. i actually like N-S most of the time. also, the 2 of us have sparred for YEARS on these threads.
free dixie,sw
Mr. Stand , have you ever seen this sir?
http://www.37thtexas.org/html/chboys.html
otoh, you could try to look at things through my eyes. IF your family (including my deceased, but much-beloved, wife!), tribe, state and your person were constantly attacked by a mob of lunatics, haters, weirdos & BIGOTS, wouldn't you respond???
free dixie,sw
i'm getting worried about you. maybe you're catching the mental disease that afflicts the rest of the DY coven???
free dixie,sw
i lived in Jefferson Parish in "fat city" for 3 years, while a grad student at TU. the building we lived in is GONE, thanks to Katrina.
free dixie,sw
less than 20% is my guess.
free dixie,sw
that's why he is PERMANENTLY banned from FR & is now active & "fits right in" on DU.
he is keeping company with any number of FORMER "DAMNyankee coven members", like whisky papa, #3fan, cvn76 & a host of other FOOLS/bigots/lunatics. may i gently point out that NO former members of the "rebel forces" left FR for membership in DU. that should tell you something about the "coven".
free diixe,sw
BOTH sides purchased & issued TENS of THOUSANDS of smooth-bores, of both domestic & foreign make.
even Brown Bess muskets from the Revolution were issued early in the war & were WELL-LIKED by the users form close quarters fighting,especially when converted to percussion & loaded with "buck & ball" or "fluff".
free dixie,sw
ROFLLLL!!!
so this would be called being nice to them?
this is tooooooooooo funny
the Whitworth rifle, with mounted telescopic sight, was DEADLY to at least 800 yards, as many a blue-clad lad sadly discovered.
99% of the coven members are wrong most of the time & are too IGNORANT to know it.
PITY!
free dixie,sw
and once more, your using that "term of abuse" marks YOU as a FOOL & a BIGOT. but then everyone here knew that about you, as you are a "target of opportunity" for RIDICULE & the BUTT of many an inside joke!
head over to DU & sup with your friends. you will NOT be missed here on FR, even by the other members of the "coven of weirdos, lunatics, haters & LOSERS".
free dixie,sw
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