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, do you claim to own Stand Watie's name?
Another silly and unsupported claim by the ever pugnatious and ignorant.
The lost cause is lost forever.
Thank Goodness!
free dixie,sw
Guess that leaves me out. Now, all you have to worry about is your family members.
i predict that you & the DB will be very happy over there, together. there's lots of hate-FILLED, terminally ignorant, DAMNyankee EX-FReepers there to converse with.
free dixie,sw
PITY that that has (evidently) changed for good.
free dixie,sw
Me thinks you doth protest too much. Are you trying to hide your Yankee blood?
Be proud of it. Its good stuff, at least in my family?
i'd sooner have an ancestor who was employed in a bawdyhouse, than one that wore "the blue."
free dixie,sw
I figure that covers both sides of your family.
in addition to being a self-acknowledged scalawag & turncoat to your home state/the southland, you are crude, seemingly ignorant of the most minimal standards of behavior & VULGAR, besides.
as i've said, "your talents" will "fit in nicely" with the DU creeps. head over there & stay.
free dixie,sw
My home: Born in Oklahoma, never part of the treasonous so called Confederacy. Raised in NY. I have lived in Texas, and California, both of which proudly provided many units to the National Government to put down the rebellion.
Sam Houston was tried to prevent the monumental foolishness, murder, and treason that you seem to be so proud of.
SELF-hatred (which is what SCALAWAGS & TURNCOATS do!) is the WORST of hatreds.
nonetheless, i think you should be ASHAMED of being what you seem to be = a ANTI-Indian BIGOT, a scalawag & turncoat.
it is also possible that you're just a little TROLL, who is sitting behind his PC, chortling about causing all this discord among CONSERVATIVES. (i've wondered if you are about 17YO & a LIB/smart-mouthed kid.)
free dixie,sw
GEN Houston was OLD, sick, forgetful & WRONG about secession & the south's struggle for ZFREEDOM, by the time the WBTS started. i do not hold what he said against him, given all that.
free dixie,sw
even the KKK-idiots can give you "some sort of excuse" for their PREJUDICES.
so, i'm NOT at all surprised that SCALAWAGS like you excuse your own PREJUDICES, fail to see the OBVIOUS truth & fail to understand that members of "the less favored group" may see those persons as "GARBAGE in human dress".
free dixie,sw
No, it is you I see as garbage. Sorry, but I have seen your spew too many times.
Have I ever called you anything like what you have called me in countless posts of your's?
The worst word I have used to describe you is a cretin, and I'm pretty sure that many here would agree with me that that is an apt description of the way you post.
Please do continue to meltdown because of me, By The way is it true that there is some Yankee blood flowing through those veins of your's?
Someone told me there was.
It's just a shame those self inflicted numb numbs suffering with chronic Confederatitis Syndrome still don't have a clue - they lost :)
STAND just so you know.....
NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! You will ever do in your lifetime will ever bring back the Confederacy.
Let that sink in for a second.
Times up.
And because of Nuevo confederales wannabees like you eventually all traces of the confederacy will be eliminated to purge the memory of what the democrats did to this nation from the history books.
As I have told you time and time again the history of the south is being rewritten for the purposes of hiding the many crimes of the democrats and their minions.
I'm not the one rewriting history here, I want the true history told, unvarnished and pure about how the Democrats used their power base in the South to rise up in rebellion against the rest of the country for the purposes of maintaining the status quo in the south (meaning of course the institution of slavery).
Some how you see that as "PC",
as if exposing how the democrats nearly tore this nation in two over such a brutal and inhumane practise as slavery is tantemount surrendering all conservative rights to speak our minds on their misdeeds.
I'm sure you'll explain how that works with a post that doesn't even address what I just said, with at least three words in all caps. a scalawag of two and maybe even a DU troll for good measure.
Or you'll tell us all about some event in southron history that no one can find in any history book or on the web that only you know about because you read about it on the wall in some bathroom stall in a libary of a yet to be name university in the sixties.
And then you'll suggest a book to read as if you have been reading anything posted to you.
Before you call me a anti-indian bigot for refusing to abide by your rules of punctuation and capitalization, why don't you prove either of two items:
1)That you are the living re-encarnation of General Stand Watie.
or
2)That the way you expect others to post to you is considered a universal tribal custom amoung Native Americans on the internet.
If you really wanted such respect bestowed upon a name that isn't even your real name to begin with, surely you could provide some sort of proof that such respect is expected according to the customs you throw around as if they are written in stone for all to see.
Asking to see your basis for such beliefs is not uncalled for, rather I am calling for you to prove to us all that what you say is true, is true.
Of course if we get the standard "STAND WATIE" runaround and babbling about other things I can only assume you can't or won't give us the truth because you are embarassed by it.
What is this ZFREEDOM? If it is a mere typo, then I apologize in advance.
Just with you, one can never quite be sure.
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