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.
also, OBVIOUSLY, as an "outsider", you have NO real knowledge of what the members of the SCV think/feel.
in other words, you post is IGNORANT, in the extreme.
free dixie,sw
Not without the approval of a majority of the other states through a vote by their representatives in Congress they can't. The Supreme Court ruled that almost 140 years ago.
btw, "back off". weren't you RAISED BETTER than to talk so disrespectfully to a LADY??? Mrs. Schwerin IS a lady, rather than "one of the guys down at the pool hall".
free dixie,sw
Bigoted bunch, ain't ya?
free dixie,sw
Then maybe she shouldn't be trying to shoot pool with the men.
to my knowledge, no other fraternal organization would accept someone who disagrees with & CONDEMNS the goals of their organization, either.
free dixie,sw
Rebellion? Or slavery?
Show me where the Constitution says that unilateral secession IS allowed?
admit it, Mr Minister, your previous posts on this subject were KNOWINGLY FALSE on your part, were they not??? YOU are NOT either stupid or ignorant, unlike the rest of the "unionist coven of dunces, bigots, lunatics & HATERS". (you know better, but CHOOSE not to DO better.)
free dixie,sw
No, what the 10th Amendment says is that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The ability to secede unilaterally is a power prohibited the states. Or so the Supreme Court found.
admit it, Mr Minister, your previous posts on this subject were KNOWINGLY FALSE on your part, were they not???
No.
1. Dredd Scott was NOT a person,
2. separate (lawful segregation) WAS equal in public education,
3.abortion was NOT murder,
4. freedom of RELIGION meant freedom FROM religion AND a host of other really BAD & illogical DECISIONS! (given those sorts of decisions, maybe President Davis was CORRECT in not appointing a CSSC!)
as you are aware, i believe the authors & signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation AND the US Constitution would be HORRIFIED at today's judiciary.
it's time to "TRIM THE JUDGES WINGS", once and for all time!
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Well, the Davis regime had a way of trimming their wings. They just refused to appoint a Supreme Court regardless of the fact that the confederate constitution required one. Ignoring the constitution is soooo much easier than abiding by it.
Personally, no. Under the Constitution of the United States, yes. If your state didn't like the rules, they shouldn't have ratified. Of course, your state LOVED the Dred Scott decision.
It's interesting, though, that you call Taney a "black-robed DICTATOR" then bitch about Lincoln possibly considering having him arrested.
free dixie,sw
What's the aim of the organization? Is it to put flags on the graves of reb soldiers? Is it maybe put up a private monument to those fellows? That's not for me, but I don't have anything against those goals.
But if the new goals of the SCV are to whitewash slavery, trash Lincoln and the Union or to serve as an auxiliary for the League of the South, that doesn't seem like the mission of a heritage organization to me.
Don't worry about me trying to join the SCV. There isn't even any chapters in my part of the world. Just curious. Since you are an SCV man, do you think the national organization would approve of me starting the General William Tecumseh Sherman Camp of the SCV?
Come to my arms!
I think that "once and for all time" is too much to hope for. Rather, we should impeach judges every term, say, one from each circuit, "pour encourager les autres".
Same with Senators and Congress Critters. One per Circuit for senators, 4 per circuit for Congress critters.
Self-appointed Jeff Davis was the godfather of the dictatorial slave empire (defeated).
The Nazis based their defeated dictatorship on race too.
I would be surprised. As surprised as if the moon wrote me a check for a million dollars.
You will excuse me if I don't hold my breath.
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