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.
me too.<P.free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
also, i enjoy poking SELF-important,semi-educated, pedantic, twits "in the eye".
once, long ago (when people still used TYPEWRITERS. are you old enough to remember those days?) i had "the caps" removed from my machine because it so intensely "irritated" some of the MOST pedantic of the TWITS/dunces on the faculty.
btw, are you a TWIT???
free dixie,sw
baseball is NOT my thing. i haven't even seen part of a game in about 30 years.
otoh, there is no more crazed WAR EAGLE fanatic than i.
i once turned down "really great seats" to the ballet in NYC to "stay home" & attend a Auburn game. my late wife was "not amused" when she found out! (chuckle)
free dixie,sw
lol, bump to read later
sadly, i must tell you that the quality of the average unionist and "member-in-goodstanding" of the DY coven has gone DOWN in the last year or so. the coven-members have always been hate-FILLED but until recently they have not ALL (with the exception of N-S) been only semi-literate & apparently STUPID, too.
free dixie,sw
Of course you would, because no matter how big a disaster they were they were still southerners, and y'all stick with your own. If Josef Stalin had been Billy Bob Joe Boy Stalin you would be trying to explain how he was really misunderstood.
They should if the law violates the Constitution. That's what they were appointed to do.
No visits from Oliver North!
Change to stand watie's curriculm vitae. It appears he spent 3 years at Tulane in grad school and not 2.
Have you thought about having the same done to your computer monitor?
Actually, as the Constitution states, it was the people of the United States that ratified it. It says so right there in the Preamble, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..."
I'm willing to argue reasonable hypothesis but this scenario is so completely ridiculous that it isn't worthy of discussion. That would be like me asking if in 1863 Jefferson Davis announced that he had signed a treaty with men from Mars, would Virginia be justified in returning to the Union. Come back when you're serious.
"just out of curiosity, what percentage of NJ residents lives outside of the "urban areas".
less than 20% is my guess.
free dixie,sw"
You guessed wrong.
New Jersey has a population of approximately 8,717,925. 20% of that would be 1,743,585.
The breakdown by county is as follows. The major urban area with population is included in parenthesis after the applicable county.
**Atlantic County 271,015 (Atlantic City - 40,580)
**Bergen County 902,561 (Hackensack - 43,681)
*Burlington County 450,743
***Camden County 518,249 (Camden City - 79,948)
*Cape May County 99,286
*Cumberland County 153,252
***Essex County 791,057 (City of Newark - 280,451)
**Gloucester County 276,910 (Gloucester City - 11,608)
***Hudson County 603,521 (Jersey City - 240,055)
*Hunterdon County 130,404
***Mercer County 366,256 (Trenton - 85,403)
**Middlesex County 789,516 (New Brunswick - 48,573)
*Monmouth County 635,952
*Morris County 490,593
*Ocean County 558,341
***Passaic County 499,060 (Paterson - 150,869)
*Salem County 66,346
*Somerset County 319,900
*Sussex County 153,130
**Union County 531,457 (Elizabeth - 124,724)
*Warren County 110,376
The number of people living in primarily rural or rural/ suburban counties with no major urban areas * is 3,168,323 (approx 36%)
The number of people living in primarily rural or rural/ suburban counties but also including a moderate urban area ** is 2,771,459 (approx 32%)
The number of people living in counties with significant urban areas *** is 2,778,143 (approx 32%)
He's attempting to do it again on this thread, for obvious reasons...
The Whitworth Rifle (musket) was imported and used in such insignificant quantities so as to have negligible effect on the war.
"Papa" John Sedgwick was the only Union officer of any great importance, killed by a Whitworth during the entire war.
Whitworths were great weapons but they were very slow to load, they had to be kept scrupulously clean and lubricated (which is very difficult for a campaigning soldier to do), the ammunition had to be manufactured to almost perfect tolerances which made casting the bullets from imported molds very expensive and time consuming, and the telescopic sights were easily damaged.
Despite legend, they were not very popular weapons with the Confederate Army.
The bulk of sharpshooters, North and South, used "picket" type country rifles. In the Federal Army, these were supplanted after 1863 by Sharps rifled muskets.
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