The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-05-13

and more than the amount effected BY
the "Connecticut Mutual in the seO"nh
year of its existence. Will any agent
whe is circulating these lying articles oil
the Times, dare deny this? Yetits bus
iness is inconsiderable! The truth Is
that its great success is tile harasslne
obi"ction with these agencies OF other
companies, and cur rapidly enhancing
prosperity mast continually give them
still moro abundant and all sufficient
cause for assailing our institution
But the Southern Life is charged
with ,eing about to fail and refusing to
pay its losses. These are falsehoods.-
The sworn statement ofits officers evi
dences a larger ratio Of assets to liabili'
ties than any OF the lcading companies
ofthe North doing business in the South
1t has capital of over S2S9, ,00e assets
TO over 100000. 1t has paid every le
ultimate less lover Sl40.OQ0) that ii
has ever sustained, and its assets ha'
more than doubled since its organlza.
tion. If such men as hold its stock aud
are identified with its prosperity will
not settle fairly with the widows and or,
phans of the South, will the people OF
this secriou expect fair dealing, and
some of whom boast that they made by
the war many millions by cancelling pol
icics held by Rebels, or "R"Jetious
m,asters," as they jecringly call them
1t (the Southern Life) ".has had its
notes protested, has Withdrawn from
Mississippi aud i general agent ahan
.doned it in disgust" Wholesale false
hoods these in every part and particular.
No note of this Company was ever pro-
tested; it has not withdrawn from, but
ir doing large and increasing business
in that State, and the general agent re
ferred to, is now in correspondence with
the Company, desiring recennectson
with it.
In this department, where the names
of its stockholders are known, they nd
nit is sound, but the Memphis D~part-
n,ent, who is responsible, for het? In
the Memphis Department, where the
stockholders are recognized among the
best citizens and ablest fnanciers Of the
country, they admit 1t is safe, but the
atlanta Department, who is RESPONSE
'ble for that?
They circulate report made by a
committee of the Kentucky Senate,
doing great injustice to this Company /;
but will they circulate the supplement
tary report ofthe same commlttee cx-
plaiuing the cause of the first, '(aud trl-
ly making amende), or win they give
currency to the following extract from
a letter of COL P. II. Leslie, one Of said
committee, in which he says: 81 feel
to know that the Southern Life is sound
.Jryond u dpuLt, and will gladly cooper
ate in doing it justice-rhat ample JUS
tice which would have been done in
first report, if all the facts had been be-
fore the Committee
The Southern Life has no war to
makc upon other companies, but will
continue TO urge the people fthe South
to retain their money at home, and
cease to send so many millions 10 other
sections for Life Insurance. 1t will
still offer as safe an Institution, as SOL
idly founded, and as honestly managed
as any in the United States. 1t will,
at least, never boast of millions of ac-
,cumu'ations made by cancelEug policies
held by Rebels, or Rebel masters"
j. B. GORDON,
I'resft Ailanta Dep. Sou. Life Ms.
In.