The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Swindling Insurance Societies

The most infamous and inhuman swindle yet perpetrated in Yankeedom, is that of their Life Insurance Societies, which, having scoured the whole Southern country, and induced tens of thousands of men in moderate circumstances to make annual deposits for the purpose of providing a support for their families after their death, now refuse to pay one cent unless the annual payment is made at their own offices in the North, which is of course impossible. Prominent among these gangs of legalized robbers is a New Jersey Life Insurance Society, which has many upon its books in Richmond and throughout the South, and whose Board of Directors has lastly passed an iniquitous resolution closing up all their agencies with the South, and requiring their annual debts to be paid at the Newark (N. J.) office. A more barefaced and unblushing piece of highway robbery was never perpetrated. The men composing that Board as richly deserve the penitentiary as any thief or villain within its limits. We venture to say that, in the whole civilized world, the parallel of this scandalous breach of trust, in its audacious contempt of every principle of honor, integrity, and justice, is not to be found.