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for two years up to the time of his death out of his own private purse maintained don francisco rendon ambassador from spain writing to the spanish governor of cuba rendon says mr salomon has obtained money for his most catholic majesty and i am indebted to his friendship in this particular for the support of my character as his most catholic majesty s agent here with any degree of credit and reputation and without it i would not have been able to give that protection and assistance to his majesty s subjects which his majesty enjoins and my duty requires more than 10 000 was thus advanced which was never repaid the secret support of charles iii of spain is said to have been due to salomon s efforts although salomon endorsed a great portion of the bills of exchange for the amount of loans and subsidies our government obtained in europe of which he negotiated the entire sums and the execution of which duty required a great deal of his valuable time from 1781 to 1783 still there was only charged a fractional percentage to the united states he never caused the loss to the government one cent of the many millions of his negotiations either by his own management or from the credit he gave to others on the sale he made of those immense sums of foreign drafts on account of the united states haym salomon advertisement in the pennsylvania evening post public advertiser philadelphia dated april 9 1782 after the peace of 1783 when foreign commerce could again float unmolested salomon engaged as a trading merchant to european ports he had several ships upon the sea but through the failure of merchants in whom he had confidence he suffered great losses always eager to help his fellowmen he gave every assistance possible to those who commenced trading after the war to the president of the national bank whose partner was the superintendent of finance he gave two loans of 40 000 and 24 000 and without interest the firm was known as willing morris swanick it is doubtful if he ever got any of his money back so successful had salomon become that he opened up an establishment in new york in the pennsylvania and weekly advertiser january 1 1785 appeared the following announcement haym salomon broker to the office of finance having provided a license of exercising the employment of an auctioneer in the city of new york has now opened for the reception of every species of merchandise his house no 22 wall street and every branch of business which in the smallest degree appertains to the profession factor auctioneer and broker will be transacted in it with that fidelity dispatch and punctuality which has hitherto characterized his dealings the house in point of convenience and situation is exceedingly well calculated for the different kinds of business above mentioned and he thinks it is almost unnecessary to assure those who favor him with their orders that the strictest attention shall be paid to them and the utmost care and solicitation employed to promote their interests the nature of his business enables him to make remittances to any part of the world with peculiar facility and this he hopes will operate considerably in his favor with those who live at a distance a desire of being more extensively useful and of giving universal satisfaction to the public are among his principal motives for opening the house and shall be the great leading principles of his transactions by being broker to the office of finance and honored with its confidence all those sums have passed through his hands which the generosity of the french monarch and the affection of the merchants of the united provinces prompted them to furnish us with to enable us to support the expenses of the war and which have so much contributed to its success and happy termination this is a circumstance which has established his credit and reputation and procured him the confidence of the public a confidence which it shall be his study and ambition to merit and increase by sacredly performing all his engagements the business will be conducted upon the most liberal and extensive plan under the firm name of haym salomon and jacob morde salomon died suddenly in philadelphia january 6 1785 at 45 years of age he left a widow and four small children to use the language of the congressional report to hazard and neglect here is his obituary notice taken from the pennsylvania journal and weekly advertiser of january 8 1785 on thursday died haym salomon a broker that is all not a word about his princely fortune to the new republic nothing about his self denying gifts whereby the great geniuses of revolutionary days could give the service that constructed the greatest nation on the globe nothing about his leadership in the first charitable organization among the jews of philadelphia a society for the relief of destitute strangers nothing about his loyalty to the ancient faith his eminent character as a business man and high standing as a citizen but he was a jew that tells the story the following is a copy of an authentic certificate from the register s office in philadelphia showing the amount of public securities and revolutionary papers left by haym salomon and from which personal estate not a cent has been received by any of his heirs 58 loan office certificates 110 233 65 19 treasury certificates 18 259 50 2 virginia state certificates 8 166 48 70 commissioners certificates 17 870 37 continental liquidate 199 214 45 353 744 45 besides he left evidences of advances to robert morris in the sum of 211 000 a claim of 92 000 on the united states for additional loans an unpaid balance of 10 000 to the spanish ambassador and innumerable loans to madison st clair steuben wilson and many others the condition of the government s finances as well as those of individuals during and immediately after the revolutionary war was almost as chaotic and his affairs were necessarily much involved and his family were almost without resources the widow s unfamiliarity with business together with the monetary situation prevailing at the time prevented her ever securing a dollar of the 658 007 13 advanced as shown from documentary evidence afterwards submitted to congress an enormous sum at that period for a private individual when all commerce and business were prostrated madison in 1827 urged that the memorialists might be indemnified and reports in their favor have been frequently made but not a dollar has been repaid not a medal granted in lieu of the claim a fact which affords support to the oft repeated observation of the ingratitude of republics the descendants of salomon have been deprived of their valued inheritance by the reason of their vouchers being lost while in the custody of the government and in consequence of the destruction by the british of many of the public archives of that period during the invasion of washington in 1814 during the first session of the twenty ninth congress the senate committee of claims unanimously agreed upon a report similar to that adopted by the house committee of the thirtieth congress but too late for presentation at the second session of the fifty second congress february 24 1893 a bill presented to the house ordered that a gold medal be struck off in recognition of services rendered by haym ezekiel the elder son of haym salomon was for some time purser in the united states navy and died in 1822 while cashier of new orleans branch of the united states bank haym m the younger son established himself in the mercantile business in new york city where he married ella the daughter of jacob hart a german jew who came to america in 1775 became a prominent merchant of baltimore and is mentioned in the secret journals of continental congress as having headed a subscription of the baltimore merchants for the relief of a detachment of the american army under command of lafayette then passing through that city in 1844 haym m salomon abandoned business gathered the evidence proving his father s claim against the government and devoted all his energies to recovering the fortune of which his family had so long been deprived salomon in consideration of which the salomon heirs waived their claims upon the united states for indemnity the measure was reported favorably by the house committee on the library but too late for consideration he enjoyed the confidence of webster clay calhoun and other great americans of his time and though his claims were frequently reported favorably by committees of both houses of congress a united action taking the form of legislation was never secured by him colonel david salomon grandson of haym was a man of mark and after having made a great name as a merchant in philadelphia the pennsylvania railroad created for him the office of financial agent in new york his son william great grandson of haym salomon one of the famous bankers of new york as the direct descendant makes no monetary claim upon the government for the justice of the haym salomon claim we have the highest possible authority in the report filed in the senate during the twenty ninth congress it was said from the evidence in the possession of the committee the patriotic devotion of haym salomon to the cause of the american independence cannot in their judgment be questioned the proof of his eminent character and standing as a citizen and merchant is very clear and abundant further in the report the committee found mr salomon to have been the negotiator of all the war subsidies obtained from france and holland which he indorsed and sold in bills to the merchants in america at the credit of two or three months on his own personal security in the same report it was also stated the committee from the evidence before them are induced to consider haym salomon as one of the truest and most efficient friends of the country in a very critical period of its history and when its pecuniary resources were few and its difficulties many and pressing he seems to have trusted implicitly to the national honor and the committee are of the opinion that as in the case of lafayette and others the nation ought to be liberal in their indemnity to a son of any early benefactor in the day of its prosperity france in the most pressing times during the revolutionary struggle redeemed her paper obligations by means of the public domain and generation after generation of revolutionary claimants in this country have been rewarded by a grateful people nor ought the memorialist to bear exception his claim in the opinion of the committee to the amount which the united states owed to his father when he suddenly died and which has been clearly established by documents referred to in this report is a just one and the recompense he seeks ought not to be longer delayed abundant proof is presented that haym salomon rendered very essential aid to the cause of the revolution and that he did so judging by so many of his acts disinterestedly and from a sincere and ardent love for human freedom in the report submitted by the committee on revolutionary claims in the senate under date july 2 1865 the justice of the claim was again affirmed and a further attestation of the remarkable public spirit of haym salomon was made in these words viz it is also proven by the vouchers before your committee that haym salomon provided the means to support the ambassador of the king of spain don francisco rendon who was in secret alliance with the revolutionary government and whose supplies were cut off by the british cruisers this fact was acknowledged in an official letter from that minister to the governor general of cuba and the original orders uncancelled to the amount of ten thousand spanish dollars are before your committee showing that the amount was never paid but the memorialist does not nor never has asked this government to pay that sum all the former reports from the committees of both houses show that haym salomon supported from his private means many of the principal men of the revolution who otherwise as stated by themselves could not have attended to their public duties among whom are mentioned jefferson madison lee steuben mifflin st clair blond jones monroe wilson and others the unsecured loans of haym salomon in the nation s supreme crisis like washington s advance of 64 000 at an earlier period out of his own purse with no other security but his own faith in the cause to pay his daily expenses while he was leading their armies inspired the confidence that made men rally round the flag even so jeremiah purchased a field in anathoth in the days when judah was captive under babylon paying down seventeen shekels of silver as a token of his faith that the land would someday be delivered from the enemy and restored to peaceful habitation washington s pledge of property to liberty was repaid by a grateful people but for his services not a dollar the men who stood with washington were recklessly rash in the pursuit of their ideals john dickinson said it is not our duty to leave wealth to our children but it is our duty to leave liberty to them we have counted the cost of this contest and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery samuel adams hungry and poorly clad rejected with scorn the offer of a profitable office wealth a title even to turn him from his allegiance to america john adams wrote to his wife i have accepted a seat in the house of representatives and thereby have consented to my own ruin to your ruin and to the ruin of our children she replied i am willing in this cause to run all the risks with you and be ruined with you if you are ruined benjamin franklin past seventy then the most celebrated man in all america accepted the dangerous mission to france saying i am old and good for nothing but as the storekeepers say of the remnants of cloth i am but a fag end and you may have me for what you please america has honored these patriotic men and justly so by high places in her history and as we sing their praises we are inspired with the invincible determination to give our country to our children as we got it from our fathers a free and independent nation but this man haym salomon who renouncing the maxim of worldly wisdom which says get all you can and keep all you get gave all he had to the cause of america gave it in a crucial moment when money alone saved the day and when had he kept it he could have made millions and it is only just to ask that future writers of american history acknowledge the little jew the real financier of the american revolution shall not the people of this peerless unrivalled unapproached and unapproachable republic now in the days of their prosperity erect to this early benefactor a monument at washington a memorial to this ardent lover of human freedom who did in his little office in front street philadelphia for the nation s credit what washington did on the field of battle for the people s freedom bibliography a u s government reports on haym salomon claim rep f a talmadge april 26 18...