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.
So, are you the admin moderators child? Is that why you can be so foolish, and not get corrected?
The south was all for a powerful central government when it came to using the US Marshall to track down their "property", and even getting the Marshall to whip their runaway property property, as has been documented that Robert E. Lee did.
That the slaves in question had been granted freedom by their owner (his wife's fathter) in his will, well that didn't seem to matter to Master Robert, that paragon of Morality.
We still don't know if his slave, Nancy, had his children, or had her children by someone else. Was he her pimp, or did he do the job himself, or was it some combination of the two? We may never know.
Oh, but what a wonderful society they had. One we should all emulate, to be sure (sarcasm light is on).
RIDICULE is all you have to look forward to from most FReepers.
free dixie,sw
it's like trying to teach a hog to sing. the hog doesn't understand & it will frustrate you.
both "mr. spin" & the hog are UNteachable.
free dixie,sw
frankly, you appear to be yet another "victtum uv duh gubmint pubic screwls sisstim", who has UNthinkingly swallowed the REVISIONIST, leftist party line.
you really ought to go do some reading from other material than the SELF-righteous BILGE you spout as if it was raw sewage.
free dixie,sw
NO?? i thought NOT!
free dixie,sw
imVho, you should be "sent on a permanent vacation" from FR, as you appear to be a DUNCE & a HATER.
free dixie,sw
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.
Your vitriolic rhetoric is boring and predictable. You care nothing about engaging in meaningful dialog but instead, prefer shrill retorts and hateful name calling.
Yet, you find it puzzling that Southerners continue, to this day, to prefer not to associate with yankees and desire to see them leave the Southland and take their hatefulness and lies with them.
You are entirely and pathetically too dumb to waste time on.
How do you convince an ox that he's not and ox and that he's not yoked to a wagon of revisionism, political correctness and lies?
Prove that the South had definate plans to abolish slavery and the entire argument of why The war was fought is muted.
You cannot, because no such plans existed.
You cannot, because no such plans existed.
Do you not agree that statements such as "slavery would exist today if the insurrectionist rebels had destroyed the union", are absurd and smack of propagandist and pandering conjecture?
you are UNteachable.
free dixie,sw
if he was a POLITE fool, i wouldn't dislike him so much, but alas, he is an OFFENSIVE one.
free dixie,sw
the FACTS are that slavery was DYING due to improvements in agricultural mechanization & absent the WBTS, would have died out in 10-15 years at worst. (my GUESS is between 5-10 years.)
when the PROFIT was gone, slavery would have died because the slavers in the NORTH & SOUTH cared for NOTHING but $$$$$$$.
what you nor any other DAMNyankee/Scalawag cannot HONESTLY deny is that the NORTHERN slave-owners were INTENTIONALLY exempted from the so-called Emancipation Proclamation by lincoln, the TYRANT, as the north planned to free southern slaves & KEEP theirs, as long as there was MONEY "to be made in the flesh trade"! Yankee ELITISTS have ALWAYS been HYPOCRITES! (it is their NATURE, just as it is the nature of a snake to slither.)
btw, assuming that the war of aggression against the new southern republic was about "freeing the slaves", don't you think KILLING a MILLION Americans (especially since MANY THOUSANDS of the DEAD were actually SLAVES & "free persons of colour"!) to end slavery a decade early is a REALLY HIGH price to pay???
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
I don't need YOUR respect STAND.
one notes that you're still capitalizing part of the GEN's WARname, after you have been asked politely, several times, NOT to do so. (i must therefore conclude that you are either a BIGOT or so clueLESS to the "generally expected demeanor of gentlemen" as to be "outside the pale" of decent folk. weren't you "raised better than that"??)
free dixie,sw
Sure. I am a victim of the public school system.
My father taught me algebra, geometry, calculus. (Dad, MS Math Cornell) My mother taught me English and research skills (Mom, MS Library Science, Syracuse University) My grandmother taught me French (BA Cornell, back when it meant something)
Me, I just have 3 honest degrees and one honorary. Sure. Keep pounding away at your keyboard. I will keep laughing.
to ALL: if you want to see what he wrote to me last night, PM me & i'll send you a copy. it was VULGAR!
free dixie,sw
Must have struck close to the mark, to get such a reaction.
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