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.
"We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe -- nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself."
--From the September 17th, 1859 Speech in Cincinnati, Ohio
neither, btw, was the "john wilkes booth camp", despite what the SHYSTERS at the "southern poverty law center" told CBS news. fwiw, morris dees, the SHYSTER-in-chief said that the "news release" was both INVENTED & FICTIONAL, to raise $$$$$$ & to be insulting to southerners, as he hates us all.
and NO, as is usual for you, you are also 100% wrong about the SCV. it is "interesting" to me that FOOLS & south-HATERS like you think they KNOW what the SCV is, when they have NO CLUE. (you of course have no clue about most things, imVho.)
slavery is NOT whitewashed by ANYBODY that i know of, either in/out of SCV. that is what is called, truthfully, a KNOWING LIE on the part of the south-haters OR perhaps just just blow-hards, AROGANTLY IGNORANT of the truth, spewing out LIES, as if it was sewage.
"mr. linkum" is NOT well liked by any SCV person i know of, as we southerners were the primary receivers of his EGOMANIA, power hungry IMPERIALIST, crusade against the new CSA & intentional WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
finally, while we do have members, who are also LOS, nobody who has a functioning brain would describe the SCV as an "auxiliary" of the LOS. that TOO, is a LIE of massive proportions.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
everyone here knows all you are capable of is making DUMB-bunny comments & posting SILLY, off-point cartoons.
lol AT you!
free dixie,sw
I am growing additionally concerned about your publicly displayed case of chronic neoconfederititis. It's a relief this debilitating manifestation is not contagious. Even though your particular peculiar case has greatly advanced over the last few years, there is a remote, slim chance for a symptomatic reversal.
If you do not seek proper corrective assistance the debilitating condition will only worsen to the degree you will begin running around in public dressed as Jeffy Davis the 2nd. (When gallant United States troops finally bagged the treasonous old goat!)
don't you get tired of being laughed AT & RIDICULED ???
perhaps, you enjoy being known as the "class clown" & "FOOL-in-chief", though i cannot imagine why you would.
fr4ee dixie,sw
A perfect description of yourself.
I notice the "former SVC brigade commander" never answered that question did he?
instead they make smart FReepers wince , that we have a HATE-filled NITWIT, who calls himself a FReeper.
even the other members of the "DAMNyankee coven" are embarrassed by you.
free dixie,sw
he/she wouldn't understand, as he/she doesn't seem to understand much of anything else.
free dixie,sw
Because it should be easy to do especially for a former brigade commander such as yourself [lol], and because there are plenty of lurkers who might benefit from the information, as you yourself have acknowledged many times.
Not to worry, there are plenty of legitimate SCVers will to share the information.
-btw The only he/she posting on this thread seems to be your buddy Brokeback . His last comment to me was "anytime sweetheart", a term of endearment he was taught to say by his cell mate in prison no doubt.
Our reb friends often seem mighty rude. I see none of the culture and refinement of the ole South. Ashley Wilkes would be dismayed. The sons of Dixie are getting so sore you'd think they lost the war.
PLEASE continue to post SILLY, off-point cartoons AND your IDIOTIC nonsense that you spew out, like so much sewage.
free dixie,sw
You mean 99.9% of Americans which would never agree with neo-confed insanity you bark about.
ONLY "N-S" has a functioning brain AND an education. the rest of the coven are just PITIFUL.
free dixie,sw
The lost cause is only for losers.
lol AT you. (don't you get tired of being RIDICULED as an EMPTY-headed FOOL???)
every post you spew out, like so much sewage on the forum, DAMAGES the LEFTIST/DAMNyankee/REVISIONIST cause.
so PLEASE, rant on, FOOL!
free dixie,sw
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