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.
more & more people on FR are joining the general laughter AT you. you & "mr. spin" are becoming the "class clowns" of the forum.
fwiw, i received yet another PM from a lady (out west), who said that "i cannot believe you even try to "talk some sense" into "Don Meaker". he appears to me to be a deaf/blind fool."
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY &
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE.
BOTH are punishable by HANGING, by the neck until dead OR by shooting by FIRING SQUAD.
sherman richly deserved the same fate as general yamashita, for his crimes.
free dixie,sw
I just hear your silly posts, saying nothing of substance, over and over.
Fact free posting never bothers me.
I guess in your world it is possible to be knowingly ignorant.
For the rest of us, you have to chose, or admit you don't know what the simple words mean.
My base premise is that the United States is a nation, legally established among the nations.
That you disagree with that says much about you, and nothing about me.
Lincoln was responsible for saving the Union, the Union by which our liberties are assured.
The people who wanted to break the Union by treason and war were the ones who bear the responsiblity for treason and war. The people who wanted the Union to fail were the aristocrats of Europe and the Slavers of the US. What wonderful allies you seem to choose.
There is one exception to Treason. That is Victory. The South didn't obtain Victory. They appealed to the sword to gain what was not theirs by law, by reason, or by right. If it was theirs by law, they could have appealed to the US supreme court. If it was theirs by reason and right, they could have held off on firing the first shot, and tried their case in the court of public opinion. They did not appeal to the court, and they were unsuccessful in the court of public opinion (even unable to get a peace candidate elected in place of Lincoln. Therefore, it was treason.
Is that to much for you? I admit I do not have the ability to explain treason in words of one syllable. Is that what you need? Really? Is that how low the neo-confeds must scrape the bottom of the barrel, that simple concepts as the above escape you?
LOL!
I suppose he impressed his fellows in the Confederate legislature by his ability to reason, or write a telling essay.
Pity others don't emulate him better.
If the Union soldiers (from both north and south) preyed upon the soldiers, why did newly freed blacks follow the Union soldiers from Atlanta to the coast?
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
Of course in any grouping of several million people, you will find some bad apples. The fact is, many free former slaves followed the Union forces on their march to the Sea.
On the other hand, was their any such similar movement when the rebel forces made their few abortive and murderous marches north?
crickets chirping.
See, in many situations there is objective evidence that cuts through the BS.
The continuing uncontrolled rage of FR's most radical neo-confederate is easily explained due to the fact he is unable to cope with the real world of 2006. If he was asked what is transpiring in the Mid-East most likely he would somehow interlink events only within narrow confines of his self-inflicted, pre-1860, totally warped mindset.
PITY!
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
NEITHER had the morals of an alley-cat.
free dixie,sw
in point of fact, the newly freed slaves would have followed ATTILA the HUN. they just wanted to leave the place of their servitude (who could have blamed them???).
in MANY THOUSANDS of cases they were raped, assaulted, tortured & all too frequently MURDERED by their "rescuers". as i said TOO MANY were "freed from LIFE" by the "filth in blue that came down from the north".
and FRANKLY, NOBODY in the DY high command made ANY serious attempt to punish the criminals. instead, they "turned their faces away" and/or covered up the war crimes.( in the case of the slaughter of my family, NOBODY in the union army cared a DAMN, as the raped/tortured/robbed/MURDERED were just "poor injuns" and to quote lincoln, "red savages without souls,who must be driven from our dominions or EXTERMINATED to the last one".)
sadly, i must tell you that the WAR CRIMES committed on the members of my family were FAR from unique! such CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY were COMMONPLACE!
free dixie,sw free dixie,sw
USING that "term of abuse" marks YOU as a NITWIT, a FOOL & a BIGOT of the first rank.
free dixie,sw
So were the war crimes committed on the members of my family, but they were committed not during the war, but during the so called peace, during which the Southern Gentlemen raped, murdered, tortured as they pleased.
Who is the filth?
NONE at ALL , right?? you just made that LIE up "out of whole cloth", didn't you???
$ 15,000,000 was the EXACT MOUNT of the LOUISIANA PURCHASE! (the LA PURCHASE was HUNDREDS of times LARGER than the land deal you accuse our ancestors of.) WHERE did the buyers get that kind of money in the 19th century??? (NOT that i expect an HONEST answer from you, scalawag!!!)
LOL AT YOU & your OBVIOUS, STUPID LIE!
free dixie,sw
from the viewpoint of all too any DAMNyankees, the war was for "fun & profit" & "to make the world safe, for WHITE people".
free dixie,sw
didn't happen at all, did it??? it's just ANOTHER in a LONG line of outrageous lies, isn't it???
free dixie,sw
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