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.
I too recall his blatant & vicious pro-Klan antics, plus the attacks he made on you as well, and then the coward disappeared after attempting to trigger all kinds of discord on that thread.
Oy! Oy! LOL
Your complaint is that the duly elected President of the US did not surrender to an upstart to avoid the horror of defending the country and the constitution.
Not a strong argument.
free dixie,sw
some of the figures are outright GUESSES. furthermore, as i've said, MANY areas in the 1860 census weren't counted at all.
DALLAS & FT WORTH, on the west bank of the Trinity, for 2 cities, didn't get "enumerated, as the bridges were "OUT" during the census & nobody even tried to make a count. instead they made a GUESS on, who lived on the west bank..
i trust NOTHING from ANY 19th century census, absent independent proof, like TAX RECORDS for example.
free dixie,sw
I stated the facts correctly. The US soldiers were performing their duty.
They were fired on by the rebels.
What part of that is wrong? How can anyone rationally shoot at a third party for a supposed lie told by the second to the first?
You are losing me here fella.
the US forces partially desegregated during the waning days of WW2.
the CSMC was completely desegregated by Jan 1862 to separate detachment/company level. the USMC finally accepted the first Black marines in 1944 & finally desegregated AFTER WW2!
SORRY that you don't like the TRUTH, but the TRUTH is the TRUTH!
free dixie,sw
lo AT you & your nonsensical bilge.
fre dixie,sw
lo AT you & your nonsenseical bilge.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
first, can you NAME any Black union regiment that "wrapped itself in glory" as the 54th MASS did???
second, there were NO conscripted Black men among the south's 100,000+ soldiers, sailors & marines. NONE. all the "persons of colour",who served in the CSA forces, were VOLUNTEERS.
finally, there were no "one race" training camps. instead, there were just "training camps" for all soldiers. (sailors & marines did NOT go to training camps. instead they went to their company/ship to be trained "on the job".
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
You said the cadets fired in retaliation. I naturally read that as if they decided to do it.
Now if you had said that they fired in compliance with orders from a legimate authority... that would be different.
So you think they had legal orders from a legitimate authority?
free dixie,sw
I seem to see you use it as much as anyone else.
What part of it don't you like. Neo is merely new. Is that the offensive part?
free dixie,sw
i know it's difficult to have someone break the statue of your idol, lincoln the UNjust, arrogant & CRUEL tyrant. but facts are facts.
free dixie,sw
I agree, but I think the tyrant was Jeff Davis. You think the tyrant was Lincoln.
Lincoln was elected by the duly selected electors of each state of the United States, following their selection by the voters of each state.
Jeff Davis:
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