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.
If you are serious, you have no idea what you are talking about.
I offer you the excuse that just perhaps, you are using hyperbole. If you do not accept that, I hold you in contempt, well, even more contempt than I hold little stand watie. He at least has his lack of medicine as his excuse.
I am quite aware of the fictional nature of the "Roots" narratives.
On the other hand, you claim that there were Yankees traveling all over the south buying and selling slaves, while the poor honest southern gentlemen only asked their slaves nicely if they wanted to be honored, and only bought and sold slaves to protect them from the evil conditions brought on by the white slavers.
Further, the southern gentlemen somehow couldn't get a majority in the state legislature to ban slavery, probably because so many Yankees were always coming south to vote.
I guess you and stand watie have been sharing the same bottle.
So, when do you plan your war crime trials? (hint: the principals are all dead!)
Oh, they never happened? Why not? (hint: who lost?)
But, there was exactly one war crime trial for that period? Who was tried?(hint: commanded Confederate POW camp!)
Darn, what a merciful victor! How grateful you should be!
Go away creepy. In terms of being a "bigot", you know you take the cake with your repeatedly admitting on various FR threads about your "good friend", KKK-neo-Nazi lawyer Kirk Lyons, must always be defended, along with your continuous verbal rampaging about "damnyankees" plus your non-stop absolute lunacy about somehow re-fighting the Civil War for the side pro-slavery losers in 2006. Madness! Call in numb numb, they can not understand how you escaped this time.
In the case of Screaming Watie the victors were/are far too merciful :)
Are you speaking from experience?
It's obvious, bonehead. Training schedule.
Your wife doesn't think so.
You got all that from my statement that "yankees were in the slave business, also"? No wonder you're so confused. And delusional. And contemptible.
Let's try another one: "It's my opinion that you are a numbnuts."
What do you read into that.
I guess you and stand watie have been sharing the same bottle.
And you and the other Reb bashers drink from the same vat of cool-aid.
I've confronted my share of sheetheads boy, and they're all basically loudmouth chickensh** posers.
You fit the mold perfectly...
IF you can do that, you should use it for your PhD dissertation topic, as NOBODY else has anything NEAR that figure!
YEP, Blacks were at the "Crater" on BOTH sides. they fought WELL, too and with HONOR.
the union used the Black troops at the Battle of the Crater, as CANNON-FODDER, to spare "white lives".
btw, i NEVER said that there was ONE Black unit in the union forces (in fact there was a NUMBER of "Black or mostly Black" units in the union army.) it is UNfortunate that the VAST majority were NOT used as combat troops, but rather as common laborers, in racially SEGREGATED units,under WHITE officers & at HALF pay, as they were simply NOT TRUSTED by the DY high-command. (btw, did you misread my post OR did you hope nobody else did read it????)
the VAST MAJORITY of "other than white" soldiers, sailors & marines on BOTH SIDES served with BOTH honor AND distinction!
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1. MURDERING unarmed, helpless CSA prisoners of war by the TENS of THOUSANDS in the DYs concentration camps (simply because, to quote one union colonel, "bullets were cheaper than beans"),
2. committing HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, in violation of the LAW of WAR &
3. raping/assaulting/robbing/torturing & all too frequently MURDERING unarmed/civilian/innocent women, elderly men & children. (one of the MURDERED children in my family was 8 days old, when she had "her brains bashed in" by a DY cavalryman.)
we southerners KNOW how ANGRY & CRAZED it makes you south-HATERS, for us to remind you of the TRUTH, which the "DY spin machine" has tried for nearly 150 years to cover up! nonetheless, TRUTH will out!
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Yours does.
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Projection, dear sir.
Sorry to burst your bubble, boy, but you're the first 'sheethead' that I've ever had dialog with.
they're all basically loudmouth chickensh** posers.
You're describing yourself?
Look, if you want to debate history then post some facts, stats, even opinions are welcome if they are derived at honestly.
But if all you want to do is name call and make ignorant accusations, then leave me out of your sophomoric postings and find someone else to trade your nonsensical, vituperation's with.
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