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.
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therefore, i probably won't bother to.
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i suggest that you desist from giving advice on what should have been done, as you seem to know almost nothing about the tribal politics of that time.
our GENERAL remains, with Sequoia, our TWO principal heroes.
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In the 1830s the US bypassed elected Cherokee officials and negotiated a treaty with a small group of others who were not authorized by Cherokee law to sign away Cherokee land. Seems like the treaty was simply a land grab by the government violating the earlier treaty.
in other words, they wanted FREEDOM!
as for treaties with the US, which treaty had the US government NOT been FAITHLESS in dealing with Indians???? (the correct answer is NONE! EVERY treaty was violated by the government, whenever it became profitable to abrogate each treaty.)
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still spouting laughable NONSENSE, which makes "good 'ole rebs" LOL at you & "the unionists" CRINGE that you claim to be "one of them", i see.
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laughing AT you & your DUMB-bunny, bigoted posts.
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absent a WBTS or with a CSA winning her FREEDOM from the north, i think the following is likely,
1. there would have eventually been a similar situation between the USA & CSA as there is between Canada/USA now, i.e, peace & a long but peaceful border. for that reason, there would be little difference for many citizens of the CSA than there is now BUT the citizens of the CSA would have FAR LESS a distant & "controlling central government" than we have now.
SOME of the differences you MIGHT notice in touring a FREE dixie would be:
1. prayers in public schools & perhaps nuns/priests in LA schools (there would be MANY differences between the various states, which would be allowed) teaching. some states would ABSOLUTELY forbid abortion;some would allow it.
2.much lower taxes & few "Richmond bureaucrats" making rules for the CSA
3. a very large & well-armed National Guard, with a SMALL "professional" military. there might well be a large navy. the CSA would have learned that lesson during the "War for Freedom".
as for WW1/WW2, i think the south would have fought with GB as an ally, while the Union would have fought with Germany in WW1/WW2 or stayed neutral.
i think, had our forefathers WON their freedom from the union, the CSA would see herself as a VERY GOOD FRIEND of the British Empire & that GB & Europe would be the CSA's main marketplace.
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absent the WBTS, OR with a dixie victory, slavery was DOOMED & wouldn't have lasted another 10-15 years. (my guess is, given the speed of the Industrial revolution coming to agriculture, that the "peculiar institution" would have died an UNlamented death in 5-10 years. take the PROFIT out of anything & in a free market, it DIES. the slavers were interested in NOTHING but $$$$$$$.)
as for expansion westward,what makes you think that an independent CSA wouldn't have spread to AR,CA,CO,NM, OK & perhaps other "unsettled areas" which are now states???
your "backward feudal society" comment is in a word: BUNK. the CSA, after winning her freedom, would have been a powerhouse of commerce, within a generation. GB & other countries would have RUSHED to trade with & invest IN the new country.
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Surely you understand the difference between antebellum slavery in the US and your 'proof'.
I mean, if you want to get stupid about it, I sell myself into slavery every morning at 06:30 and emancipate myself at 17:00, six days a week.
Since I am one of millions that do this every day, then I have 'proof' that, not only does slavery still exist in the US today, but it is widespread, condoned by everyone and enabled by the (yankee) government!
If the Confederacy had succeeded in sucession, it surely would have kept the institution of slavery legalized.
First of all, the Confederacy DID succeed in secession (BTW, check your spelling above).
The Confederacy DID NOT succeed in repelling the invasion of a foreign country and was, subsequently, occupied.
Secondly, it was in the Confederate Constitution! So what's your damn point?
Section 9 - Limits on Congress, Bill of Rights
4. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
Section 2 - State citizens, Extradition
1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.
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Emphasis bump.
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