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.
For normal people, we recognize that proving someone didn't say something is very difficult.
Because of that, we normally put the burden of proof on the person who claims that a person did say or do something.
And great claims require great evidence.
The father of centralized government could be Hamilton. Or FDR.
You blame the guy who was pushed into war by southern fire eaters, for marshalling the government power to defeat them. Mostly because you don't like the results.
If you don't like the draft, Jeff Davis did it first. If you don't like invading the territory of another state, the south did it first. Raising an army to fight against other states; south did that too.
Ordering farmers what crops to grow? South did that.
But rather than complain about centralization, you complain about Lincoln. Because he was right, and because he won.
By the end of the war the black soldiers were 1/3rd of the Union Army.
And don't forget the Stand Watie Legion of 100,000 Invisible Black Confederate Soldiers and Water Carriers. By his lights, any soldier who had been darkened enough by standing guard during an afternoon qualified as "Black", and any officer who brought along a slave to attend to his personal needs had registered them as a full fledged combatant.
Wouldn't Jubal Early be suprised that his female servant and bedmate had enlisted in SW's LO100,000IBCSWC.
your post is not an answer.
mere denial. Not just a River in Africa.
at their own motion, they can change or dissolve it too.
free dixie,sw
NONE!
otoh, i'm not surprised that a nitwit like you "worships daily at his feet of clay".
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Fair enough. Now, do you hold Ms. Schwerin to a similar level of documentation? In other words, are you as willing to call bull on her Lincoln quote as mine?
Lincoln is by far the most studied American president. There are loads of sources for his utterances. There are also a lot of people combing through that material for "smoking guns," ranging from evidence that he was gay to evidence that he was a marxist. Most of all, though, there are the Lost Causers, trying to impugn his motives in the war. Those guys have done a lot of research and they have their "smoking guns" (which usually turn out to be taken dreadfully out of context). There's DiLorenzo, for one, and the Kennedys for another. And never once has one of these people come up with a gun so smoking as the one Ms. Schwerin has presented, with absolutely no support.
In other words, if there was such a Lincoln quote out there, it would be all over the place given the number of people looking for such material.
Now, I suppose its possible that Lincoln could have said such a thing, but I feel almost as comfortable in saying that Lincoln never said he wanted to "bring the south to her knees" as I am in saying that he never said, "I like to dress up like a woman and pick up sailors."
i'll try to get them off of you before "you assume room temperature".
SORRY, N-S that "dog won't hunt". it's just a "flim-flam" comment, designed to EVADE the UNCcomfortable TRUTH.
free dixie,sw
Let's put it another way: How devastating would it be to the strategic interests of the United States to lose access to the Pacific? Would you be doing your job as president if you allowed that to happen?
the BRAVE & HONORABLE Black men, who fought so well, at the Crater were used as CANNON FODDER, to save the lives of WHITE men. even the REVISIONISTS admit that.
MOST of the units composed of "persons of colour" were used as COMMON LABORERS at the MOST menial of tasks, under the close supervision of WHITE senior NCOs & officers, as the DAMNyankee high command did NOT trust them "to stand & fight". period. end of story.
free dixie,sw
and you'll look REALLY SILLY, too.
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And if "Professor" Blackerby is actually claiming 100,000 free black men in the confederate ranks then that is precisely what his "20+ year study" is worth, zilch. The evidence against such a ridiculous claim is overwhelming.
In the confederate army they weren't real soldiers, at least not the black ones.
you are a "coven" member, so should i assume that NO SOURCE that proves the DAMNyankees were "less than perfect" is PHONY in your opinion????
i'll never forget the day that one of the "unionist coven" said that NONE of the sources that showed the DAMNyankees to be cruel, stupid, cowardly or "less than perfect" could be believed. (when i realized that he meant the OFFICIAL service records at the US Archives, i literally LOL!)
don, that is the sort of NITWITS & "intentionally eyes tightly closed" BIGOTS that we rebs have to deal with.
free dixie,sw
Far more than a few did see combat. Hundreds, thousands more than ever saw combat in a rebel uniform.
free dixie,sw
everybody here knows (even the NITWITS of the DY coven) that you discount EVERYTHING that proves that Blacks served as REAL SOLDIRES, SAILORS & MARINES, as it makes your position look RIDICULOUS!
free dixie,sw
I don't discount everything supporting the idea of black confederate soldiers, stand. Just everything you provide, and that judgement is based on several years of observing your offerings.
I have seen enough evidence to convince me that if he is, in fact, claiming 100,000 free black confederate soldiers then he is, in fact, an idiot.
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