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.
It's language like yours that perpetuates hate and discontent. You're saying that my great-great grandfather, who was killed in battle, was a criminal and deserved to die. Is it any wonder that Southerners despise damnyankees?
It's adults like you that perpetuates revisionist history on the youth of America cultivating a new generation of ignorance.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Unconstitutional?
Question: Why does each state in the Union have their own, separate constitution?
DECLARATION OF THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES WHICH INDUCE AND JUSTIFY THE SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE FEDERAL UNION.
The 19th century yankee army made war then the same way the islamo jihadists make war today; on women and children.
If they were committed during the peace, how can you call them 'war crimes'?
during which the Southern Gentlemen raped, murdered, tortured as they pleased.
So, your family was raped, murdered, tortured? Are you black and a descendant of former slaves?
Actually, that is my wife's family.
You don't think that the white slavers didn't travel among the poor whites expecting and demanding the same deference that they got to slaves?
My, you are naive.
My second wife is black, and her family is from Mississippi. Does that help your imagination?
I think I understand the implication you're trying to make, even though your grammar is horrible.
Many of the 'white slavers' were yankees.
And the wholesale lawlessness that you are suggesting was the order of the day in the South didn't occur until Reconstruction.
My, you are naive
Sounds like you've swallowed the Alex Haley Roots story hook, line and sinker.
My, you are gullible.
BTW, it ain't rape when they consent. Are you so naive that you believe that slave women had to be raped to have sex with white men?
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
since YOU are NOT a "person of color", you post was a KNOWING, intentional LIE, wasn't it????
free dixie,sw
Hmm. On one hand we've got you insisting that it's so. On the other hand, we've got transcriptions of the 1860 census telling us that Stand Watie owned 6 slaves. And if we make the not-so-great leap of thinking that "Kand Watie" in the transcription is our buddy Stand, that adds another 11 slaves to his total.
Who to believe?
Watie always comes up with these mysterious PMs from people who all seem to say the same thing.
Spoken like a true kkklansman.
Well that's a silly question. If the confederate army had segregated blacks out of their units then who would do the cooking and the washing and take care of the livestock?
It's interesting to note that when the confederate congress finally got around to allowing blacks to be enlisted and conscripted into combat roles in March of 1865 the few units they managed to raise were segregated into all black outfits. What changed?
but then, "mac: we KNOW you would defend the DYs "to the death", even if it was proven that they murdered YOUR family, instead of 92 members of my family.
it's called "eyes closed tightly shut" against the TRUTH & being a "useful idiot"!
free dixie,sw
at the BEGINNING of the WBTS, there were THREE "all black" CSA units (these were STATE MILITIA UNITS. two of the units had GRANDSONS of men, who fought in the War of 1812 with Andrew Jackson.), with BLACK, elected, officers. (at least five sets of OFFICER's SERVICE RECORDS still exist. the others have "conveniently disappeared" from the Archives.
by 1862, MOST large CSA units were DESEGREGATED in the CSA forces, with essentially EVERY job open to ALL, regardless of skin color.
otoh, in the union military, Blacks served in MOSTLY "unskilled labor" jobs ( the BRAVE 54th MASS IN BDE being the ONLY exception i can think of, offhand.), FAR from direct combat, under white officers & at HALF pay, because the union high command DEVALUED their service and did NOT trust the Black soldiers to "stand & fight".
free dixie,sw
I know it would be the only way that you could get any.
Black soldiers fought in the battle of the crater, In Kansas, and in several important fights in South Carolina.
Rather a lot for one brigade. Boy, those guys must have been all over the map.
Your comments are so far off, they are ridiculous. By the end of the war 1/3rd of the Union army was black units. Or if you prefer, by the end of the war, the Union black units outnumbered the entire so called "Confederate Army".
Fought better, too!
I am scrupulous in pursuit of the truth. If I make a mistake, I admit it, and accept correction gladly.
I have made mistakes, for example above when I momentarily confused the 620,000 deaths statistic with the 634,000 Union Casualty statistic. Note my quick acceptance of my error, and my thanks to the poster who notified the board and me of the error.
Do you consider your wife part of your family? If not, it is a exceedingly strange concept of family you have. That may explain some of your issues with persistant anger.
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