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.
not today. have too much to do.
free dixie,sw
it's your PERCEPTION of "reality" in your own "twisted little world", that is at issue.
frankly, too, i despise turncoat southerners,i,e. scalawags, & discount most, if not all they say, as LIES, absent PROOF to the contrary.
free dixie,sw
slaves could NOT serve in the forces, as they were NOT FREE to take The Oath of Enlistment. some few hundred slaves (perhaps as many as 500) were MANUMITTED so that they COULD take the oath & serve as FREEMEN!
additionally, SOME slaves were "contracted out", by their owners, to the military. they were NOT considered members of the forces.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
I ask simple questions of simple minds.
Here's another: How is it that you didn't know where the Confederate Museum was?
Eli Whitney was a Yankee. His improvement was the cotton gin, and this was the basis for cotton as a profitable crop.
The Southrons stole his invention, not really a terribly polite thing to do.
Lol at your tagline..
Could you do something about this fellow. He is not as polite as we normally expect people to be here.
The pro-slavery Lost Cause is only for lost losers.
just for IDLE curiousity, WHY would you ask such a DUMB question???? i see NO point whatever in asking a question such as that.
IF you wanted to know whether i knew where the museum is, that's REALLY STUPID, as anyone with a PC can find that out in about 10 seconds, with ANY search engine.
free dixie,sw
i'm VERY polite to DECENT people. otoh, i can be "mean" to those who are bigots, insufferable pedants,KNOWING liars,assorted haters & LEFTISTS.
sorry, but i don't suffer fools well.
free dixie,sw
your post is yet another DUMB & silly statement from FR's very own laughingstock!
free dixie,sw
otoh, maybe you SHOULD stick with that silliness. at least we can laugh AT your silliness, though NOT at the cartoons.
instead, why not trot over to DU & sup with the other NITWITS, REVISIONISTS, bigots & fools.
you will NOT be missed on FR.
free dixie,sw
History of African Americans in the Civil War
"These words spoken by Frederick Douglass moved many African Americans to enlist in the Union Army and fight for their freedom. With President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the Civil War became a war to save the union and to abolish slavery.
 Approximately 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African-Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight." |
If the confederate insurrectionists had been able to fully destroy the United States of America, slavery would not only have continued in the South, but would have expanded in all geographical directions.
I'm sorry, what on earth does that have to do with my contention in Post 23 (to which you are replying) that most conservative Yankees share important values with conservative Southerners? Are you actively attempting to create hard feeling between Americans of different regions or did you have some other point?
Your post complained about how Yankees wanted to improve things.
I merely pointed out that the antebellum south was to some extent a creation of those Yankee improvements.
We were then, and are now, and G-d willing, always shall be, one nation.
Spoken like a true pigheaded yankee. By the way I served for 20 years on active duty to protect your right to free speech, yet you want to label me and silence my free speech. So tell me, where and when did you serve? Fair warning, if you haven't served you best be apologizing for ignorant statements like the one you just made. We of southern descent can be justifiably proud of our forebearers, they fought for what they knew to be constitutionally right. You on the other hand should hang your head in shame as your side fought to enslave free men, and overturn everything the Founders gave us. Besides, it wasn't about slavery, cretin, IT WAS ABOUT PARITY IN THE HALLS OF POWER (i.e. Congress)! Go back and do some in-depth research before you come back and talk to me.
I fear that you've entirely misinterpreted my post. I put skeptical quotation marks around "improve" because the things that Yankee liberals consider improvements, like a powerful centralized government, extensive social services, higher taxes, gun control, and modernization--are not actually improvements at all, in the view of conservatives. I stated that Yankee conservatives (particularly rural Yankee conservatives) and Southern conservatives have much in common in their values, which do not generally include these so-called improvements.
Calhoun was all for improvements too, but couldn't get the Fed to fund it.
So the states in the North funded the improvements. The South slipped ever further behind.
That is what happens if you create a society where anyone who actually works degrades themself.
No one wants to silence you. But we can laugh at you, can't we?
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