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.
Bye-Bye, TOOTS! I'm NOT sorry to see ya go, either. Guess you just can't handle the realm of intelligence for very long...
Howdy...
Sure I can. The 1860 census data is available on-line here. The data on free blacks by state is even broken down by age ranges. I've looked at it and allowing for the widest possible definition of military age I still come up with far fewer than 25,000 free black males of military age in the entire confederacy. So where does "Professor" Blackerby say the other 75,000 to 125,000 came from? The North?
But that's not right, is it? If you claim that Lincoln said something, you have to back it up by showing where he said it, to whom, in what context (and I know context is a big problem for you Lost Causers when quoting Lincoln). Otherwise, it's no more valid than John Edwards claiming to channel Lincoln.
Now here's a REAL Lincoln quote, with citation:
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Your definition of intelligence being that I simply accept whatever you say, huh? Your indignant act only goes so far in a factual debate. You got evidence for what you say? Show it. Otherwise, it's just hot air at best and willful lies at worst.
Nothing I said is out of context. You're a loudmouth KKK troll.
do you remember an invitation from me to you sometime back on another thread to engage in 'personal debate'?
No I don't. However...
I do remember your whining to the mods about me on one of your KKK threads a while back, after which you disappeared.
...and the last time I ran across you, you were unilaterally insulting a couple of female posters who had the temerity to comment on the relative merits of living in NC. here .
Now, am I making myself clear, or do you require further remedial attention?
So how long did it take you to make up that pile of nonsense anyway?
In all honesty I cannot recall a single instance where Ms. Schwerin provided anything to support her claims. At least stand waite makes up sources, Ms. Schwerin refuses to do even that. I do, I'll accept your claim that you do, but she does not. For example, I can point to the Stephen Sear biography of McClellan, meticulously researched and foot noted, and not a single shred of evidence to support Ms. Schwerin's outlandish claims. So you can understand our skepticism and our interest in her sources. Her reputation preceeds her.
The 54th Massachusetts went on to compile an enviable combat record, as did many other black regiments in the Union army. While the confederacy, apparently, spent 4 years coming up with their all-black training camps for when they eventually got around to allowing black combat troops to be conscripted.
Fact's might interfere withe her fantasy. Lawd a mercy!
I believe "Professor" Blackerby puts the figure at 8 to 10 million. And when last heard of I believe he was an estimator at the 4 Million Man March back in 1995.
And are you suggesting Ms. Schwerin was? How else would she know Lincoln said something that was never written down or heard of by any of his contemporaries?
So, it is your contention that the Cadets fired without, or against orders?
First time I ever heard that story.
So, why are you using the term "neo-confederate"?
By your standards, what does that say about you?
Given that the US had some 12,000 in their prisoner cages, that makes Mr. Lee's estimate of only 5000 captured or MIA....rather bogus.
To be fair to Mr. Lee, he had a rather bad case of diaria at the time, which accounts to some extent for how badly he led his men.
So: your opinion is that Lincoln sacked McClellan for being too aggressive?
If so, when did McClellan show this aggressiveness?
Don't accept what he says. Accept what Lincoln said, in the most important speech of his life. Lincoln's first speech as president gave the south a chance to avoid war.
Course, that was back before them southern boys got themselves whupped! They was too smart to listen to all them smart words then.
Do you have even a smidgeon of evidence for these bold assertions?
These are wonderful assertions. They must be backed by equally wonderful evidence, so they will be all the more convincing.
I also wish to point out how impressed I am with your scholarly tone.
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