Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-07-09
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We have on former occasion called public at
tenii1n to The advertisement Of the Life Insurance
Company IN our columns As it rc.appcars to-
day, cannot do The public greater benefit than
by copying the admirable article on that subject,
from the Now York Coulter d ENQUIRER. Here
it is---.p, all re.d II:
Lire INsrEsNcE-We have ever been Of opinion that
LIE Msraaes too liuo regarded IN ~: and
hat Notwithstanding srus objections which existed against
DO every prudent who u engaged "a business AMI a
not certain Of leaving .cr families provided form
tic of dcub. should avail themselves Of the adyan
aGcs offered By Lie Insurance Companies
widows aud children aguiu absolute poverty iu the
OF their death.
Mercantile bu.incss is probably more precar.1l, in
this country than 10 any other the face ii the gybc
ing doubtless, ~ the gregirr ea'cple Of people, ard
the fact tat in Tbs infancy Of our county and absence
capital oi IFS transactions biSCd upon credit
t1In any where else. General Dearborn OF Boston. in
PAPER on this subject, read Lc!Jc the Mercantile Library
Association Of h-t city. demonstrated very conclusiyey
from statistics which admit Il question, that ninety Elk
oi ~, ~ one hundred persons who embarked nefcsne
yurs1is tho UnCd states, ia unsuccessful; ar,
other words, only Jour per teHf Of those tngogcd IA
commercial pursuit. successful II this be 80, aud
udms Of question. what merchant who feels proper
deere to guard bis family against want, AFFORD t. neg
iec tue opportunity which Lille Insurance Companies offer,
10 accomplish - GCs.r.be obJec}
Then she thousands AID 81 thousands Of clerks and
others vino dependent upon icr yearly salary of the
support Of hous,y-s and iumos,-how terrible IL tIc
lecn0n thtm is with their lie terminates tho
Il Subsistence iyr r.tir wcs and children and with
the mcchanicwhcthcr Boss J.urneymanwno IL poor
his fortune, u be- has one b. yofd ie reach
those contingencies o. which all a alike subject To all
such TIC Lite Iulrcrso Companies open and by annual.
IL tsyuung very lGIiU portion Ol their eafnngs tue
tnHug pfcmiuus r!Ifcu, u anxiety boo reglfd o. TIC pc
culi1ry wants u der lmy BOD tc ,nt 81 death, uly
bU re we'd. Death not Iieaslut visitor come
VIXEN Doe may but nothing, nothing b. moIo horrible
hau g. witness bic approach, tie conviction hat the hour
Il his triumph cgu.krs wife 0ud children to want of
Co th.t cold chauy uniecliag world with which OF
become igmlf in her observations upon passing events
Give tIo dying to conviction that by bic industry
az foresight has guarded them h4 loves from e horrors
If want, aud the grim yont IL not only sPled VI BIZ
rcrs bus too frequently hailed ns friend certain 10 give
cicf 90 SEC olbicd spiut nnd freedom from a those ILL
| which lesh BE- heir 10.
This j. no piti1fe o Imagination; but the cJntfary,
enc OF every Gsy Not solitary day p1sses
tns city, but sYne poor brcaes s last cuv.
ing wife aGd ci1idicn Pcunycss, who might by little
DtD.gbi, end the ytany appropriation Oi small portion ~
hs eafuns inurarco upon 7 life, have ,it them in
mp,auyo vcsltl aud thus saved himself the sevcfcs o
U hs paHgs in the hour Of doah. Even the very selfish
be.s whci too freq Ionty prompts 10 abstain from
affecting insurance life because requires year.
y i.crGcc ,f m,ans from which be cannot fcup any fruits
should iatucc him 10 purchase hat cpnsoiayn the hour
ol trit. which 40 must feel who cUuc.ous that by
sDa sacrifices e unrccessaiy luxuros " pleasure during
.c, they have cured those whom they love, against tho
lHiT,fs e hat which u too frequently the parent
crime, Of moni.l aud bodily suffering.
Reflections such these, aud doy witnessing the suf--
cnugs q those whoso husbands and aher had they
os sclhsh might have shielded hom from the cold char.
o. the world have long since rendered tho sdyocaes
Of Lite Insurance. The Improvement Ia Lie Insurance