The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13
SOUTHERN STOCK
MUTUAL
LIFE iNSl RAX.. Z COMPANY.
lard rom Gen. ]. B. Gordon.
TO THE SOUTHERN PRESS

headed as above, which appears m ah-
other column, wilfattract the attention.
of onr readers and Of the "SOuthern
Pres to which il is directed. It ad-
vocates a principle which no one can
dispute, and which is acted uppn nt the
North. that it rs wise p'licy 20 erscour-
age hnnc institutions, such as Insurance
Companies. &c, wien they are, known
to b. sound, able aid fanhfulin meet
ing their engagements. The peuple Of
no section Of the Union has been more
regardless Of this patriotic obligatiou'to
their own interests, it must be admitted,
than the people Of the South General
Gordon's card will serve to admonisk
them Of this, and at fhe same time, it
will serve to show those who desire TO
insure thelr lives, :whcrea sound aud
reliable "Snuthrrn Life Insurance Coul-
pany' Gin be foand in which TO insure.
The Company which, Gen. Gordon
represents, embraces among its stocke
holders the following gentlemen in
Georgia, and slte Carolinas J. s. HAM
ilt"n, D. T. Blu Ter, Robert Toombs. "A.
Fl. Colquitt, A.. Austell, Z. u. yHol-
land, B. II. Hill, Stevens Thomas, Fer
dinaud Phinsy, J. B.. Gordon, all OF
Georgia; Wade Hampton, ofSouth Car
DINA; Wiliiam Johas"o, Of North Car
ulinu, Presiden, of the G. &S.&C.Rail,
rvai, a host Of the leading men and;
ablest Gnanciers of the South. .a:
The Memphis Directory consists OF.
such men as R. c., Brinkly. Presidens
of the Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road Col. Sam Tate President Mem
rhis and Charleston Railroad; Frank
NJ. White, President Memphis AID Ten
nessee Railroad; Amos Woodruff, Presi-
dept Memphis and Ohio Railroad; F.,
s. Davis Preiden, National Bank; Gen
N. B. Forr,st, and others .fe1ual stand
ing. integrity, and financial ability.
We have secn and exuminrd n baf-r
ance sheet of the 'Sou,hrrl Life, 1psu7
rance Company" aud noticed among
other of it's available assets an item OF
$50 900 in United States Bonds.
This investment in foreign securities
| $3.50 900 in United States Bonds,) is
-,.l....l4,aly required BY the laws Of the
States, and is the only investment Of
that character. All "ther funds Of the
company uro strictly held To foster aud
encourage the intereFts N uu- os-ssaa---:
The principal Offices Of the company
arc II, Memphis. Tennessee; Louisville,
Kentucky; and Allauta. We are graft
fen IN hcing able to state that this Sou
,hern enterprise is in a highly properous
conditiuu.-Attuntd Miehiye"eer. 10
A CARD FROM GEN. GOREON-
Will the Southern Press give me
small space to do justice to a Southern
institution which has been grossly slam
drred, and the true condition of which
large number Of people in this section
are in crested in understanding?
1t would seen, that no enterprise, how
ever meritorious, organized atthe South
and managed for the purpose Of retaining
money in the South, can escate the IN
scrupulnus assaults uf certain black
mailing sheets published at the North
In reeen, issue Of the Insurance Times,
published in New York city, there ap-
pears an article OF sixteen lines, in which
short space, there are one d"zen aoilyfuk
mnI;ynnnt, snmifigt.a .ji'lsehoods.-
That a sheet which attacks and retracts
us suits its pecuniary interest, should
assail the Southern Life was to be cx-
pectcd, and the article would pass un-
noticed. but for the fact that agents Of
other companies. doing business in the
South, are cndeavoring by its use, to
prejudice the public against this Instr
tuition. The almost unparalleled sue
cess Of the Southern Lite, taking from,
these agents much Of the business which
they have hitherto mnnopolized, has in.
ducrd them to resort to all means tort
ns we'll as fair, to defent this Company
in its patrio'ic aud praiscworthy efforts
At brst they ch'rged ant it was
Northern organization battling under
fnlse culors. and when tho honorable
names which make mp its list Of stuck
holders are published. they assert that
somr oftheSe are used without authori-
ty. This j. tnisr. Eeery nane publish.
ID rs such is Jonn file Stakeholder Of
the Company. They circulate the charge
If that un>crupukuS sheet, the Times
that this Company is "stagg"rng under
the weight Of its incnusiderable busi-
ness lis this true? BY authority OF the
facts furnished by the Massachusetts
InsuranceIReports for lS5S-lS65 I as
sert that The Southern Life did more
than ten times the business the first
wear of lis existence than was done by
The Mutual Life of New York, or the
..Connecticut Mutual" of Hartford, in