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.
And how many of those places were constitutional democracies?
No, when they ratified the constitution they agreed to abide by the same restrictions all other states face. Or are you suggesting new states can still become states merely by ratifying the Constitution?
i just decided that you're not worth my taking time to read your drivel OR you are TERMINALLY stupid.
did you bother to read the 1st sentence of #391???? OR did you not understand what i wrote???
if the 1st is true, you have a problem of inattention. if the second possibility is true, you're an IDIOT!
in either case, i have no time for you. adios.
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face it, N-S, the Constitution NO PLACE indicates that the states that ratified it EVER intended to give up any more power to the central government than were SPECIFICALLY ceded. period. end of story. (and that is the MAIN reason that the 10th Amendment is so VERY important. the 10th is the MAIN bulwark of the STATES' power & to assure that the central government does NOT become dictatorial, short of having to have another American Revolution!)
free dixie,sw
A landowner in Delano, California would not sell his land for the purpose of building a new high school unless there could be a clause that the school could not be named "Cesar Chavez H.S." The deal was accepted when it included a statement that the state would have to pay him an additional $250,000.00 IF they, in fact, did name it Cesar Chavez H.S.
The state paid the $1/4 M.
What were you stating concerning Southern Blacks fighting to maintain themselves in slavery?
Your next neo-confederate myth will be Northern Blacks rushed by the hundreds of thousands to defend pro-slavery insurrectionist politicians, the Dems.
The Lost Cause is lost forever.
lol AT you! (as most here do.)
btw, you never bothered to tell me whether you know that you are the BUTT of everyone's jokes. don't you care that everyone thinks you're a FOOL, a BIGOT & an IDIOT???
free dixie,sw
perhaps, had you mentioned STREETS i would have paid more attention.
otoh, i probably would NOT have, scalawag, as i consider EVERYTHING you post as ignorant, silly,DUMB & pointLESS.
free dixie,sw
None of which you have ever tried to answer.
Grant....
Sherman....
Butler....
Honestly, I'll believe you actually worked there when you tell me that you didn't even know it was a statue of General Robert E. Lee or who Lee Circle was named after.
I worked as kitchen help at the Red Caboose in Metarie off Causeway Blvd in the Fall of 1972.
Two bucks an hour and all the lettuce and shrimp I could steal from the back freezer area!
Am I a "twit"?
No,nor am I a "twat"a Twut"or a "tweet"but thats neither here nor there.
OK,I get it now,stand.Your wrecking of the King's English is an intentional"goof"to poke the pointy headed intellectuals in the eye.
OK,then we can dig it.
And STAND one of the other things I have never done in all of our discussions is to attack the courage and honor of the southern soldier.
The leadership of the confederacy, the Klu Klux Klan and the southern democrats of the last 140 years are my only real targets, of course you have spent as much of the same amount of time defending those I attack instead of recognizing that all that has been evil in the south can be blamed on them because they were the originators of such evil.
Why do you defend evil men?
Your trying to read between lines that don't exist. You're probably making somebody a good wife.
It was a simple link to provide data on blacks that fought for the Confederacy.
Do you have any data that proves that blacks did not fight for the Confederacy?
If so, lets see it.
Actually there was at least one Confederate General who proposed Freedom for any slaves that fought for the Confederacy.
His suggestion was ignored until the very end of the war.
" In January, 1864, General Patrick Cleburne and several other Confederate officers in the Army of the Tennessee proposed using slaves as soldiers since the Union was using black troops. Cleburne recommended offering slaves their freedom if they fought and survived. Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused to consider Cleburne's proposal and forbade further discussion of the idea. The concept, however, did not die. By the fall of 1864, the South was losing more and more ground, and some believed that only by arming the slaves could defeat be averted. On March 13, the Confederate Congress passed General Order 14, and President Davis signed the order into law. The order was issued March 23, 1865, but only a few African American companies were raised, and the war ended before they could be used in battle."
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