The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-16

he endorsed aud sold In bills To the merchants ia Amer
ca, at credit OF two three months hs per-
soed security without the loss OF cent to the country;
and receiving only quarter per centun while ap.
pel from account la the archives OF the Depart
ent OF State reatng to the twenty million ivres sub
sy 500 900 deducted In France the cost of the
negotiation IL is also by the archives sst Robert
Morris charges 100000 livres to the United States
having been given to one John Chalomer, 30 Septem-
bar 1882, in the form of douccur TO induce him 10
use his efforts to keep up the rates of exchange Paris
also 10000 vres, as paid to Jones; whereas s.
Somoa had ked q Tie prices By the safe Of many millions He
Fed goeennoa, before and after the giving of those
dOuceurs by Morris, for which Mr. Solomon did moi oy-
or rectire eed.
This surely discoses interesting and chapter
in our national history We have all been led TO sup
pose these important negotiations wholly conducted
10y those whose names hguic in places of power and
tnst yet we now have in authentic shape that the
real negotiaor private banker and merchant, born
in Poland, OF Jewish descent. If any Is curious to
wish to the signatures uf the who prudenty and
safely negotiated the whole Of the French and Holland
subsidies, which almost formed the pecuniary price OF
our liberties let him TO the Senate committees
on Clerk office and read the simple OF Ily"s
SaonoH with the person 10 whom hc endorsed aud sold
the amount Of each l and the date of sale and see
too that these sales all voucled aud verified by the
hand Of Mr.. Swanwick, the private clerk of Robert
Morris.
Nor does this fill the whole chapter of the unrewarded
public service OF iaym Siomon, shown by the yaii-
GUS committees from the vouchers before them who
state that
ION the accession of the Count dc la uzerne to the
embassy from France Mr. Solomon was made the banker
OF that government letter from Count Vergcnnes,
Minister OF State to DE Ia Lzcrne ambassador to this
country states the cost of the expeditions during the first
and second years of the alliance at $50 900 900 vcs
all OF that sum- which dsbuIsed in this country,
passing through the hands of Mr. solomon, the mercantile
commissions on which increased to a large amount the
capital invested by him and devoted to tho republic. He
was also appointed by Monsieur Roquebrune the treas
of the forces of France in America to the Office of
their payuluster general. which lac executed OF
charge.
If any would be advisers precisely how these mat
ers conducted let him go to the vouchers be-
fore the Senate and for himself the unanswerable facts
demonstrated by the signatures OF Count de la uzerne,
Roquebinne Rendor, and Others. In speaking of the
latter, the honorable committees say
''Ihe importance of the secret support OF the minister
of Charless III OF Spain well known. 1t appears that
in eiectng that object Mr Solomon performed essential
services He maintained from his private purse,
Don Francisco Rendon, the secret ambassador Of that
monarch or neatly two years up to the death OF Mr.
s., during which Itend,ms supplies were cut of.
'In letter of Don francisco Rendon to the governor
general Of Cuba, Don jose Marie dc Navarro l7S3 he
says Mr. Solomon has advanced the money for the
service Of his most Catholic Majesty, and am indebted
Ito his friendship in this particular, for the support of
my character his most Catholic Mestys agent here
with any degree of credit reputation and without it
would not have been able to render that protection and
assistance to his Maestys subjects which his Majesty
joins and my dnty requires Moneys thus advanced to
the Of about 10 900 Spanish dollars remained
unpliu when Mr. Saompn died shortly after.
But il not essential to borrow the vouchers and
testimony alone Of our faithful allies to enable the
ittees to comprehend the just merits of this claim the
services Of Haym Solomon. In the report they state
that
.'Among the OF the revolution whom he freely
aided while they dschlrging important public
trusts your committee find the of Thomas Jeler-
son, (secretay of State to Washington and twice Pr
dent y James Madison, twice President , Arthur Lee,
ambassador to France , Baron Steuben inspector gem
era OF the whole Continental army j General Mifiip,
(goyerAor of Pennsylvania y General st. Clair zone of
the best commanders Colonel Bland, on. c., agent of
Virginia y j. f. Mercer delegate Of Virginia y Joseph
Jones, delegate of Virginia, and uncle of James Mon
James Wilson, signer of Declaration OF Independ-
cnce OF the principal trainers of the present constitu
ton, and first judge appointed by Washington y Robert
Morris, superintendent of finance, &C.,
The late Henry Wheaton, writing to the alist
relative to his claim, says: It would be no more than
requng the debt of gratitude the country your
honored father, who sustained by his liberal muniiicence
the efforts of the patriots of the revolution who
mpelled to sacrifice their private pursuits to the pub
lie. Among these may be mentioned Judge Wilson, so
distinguished for his labos in the convention that formed
the federal constitution who must have retired from pub
lie service il he had not been sustained by the timely aid
of your father administered with equal generosity and
decacy.
Similar testimonials given by Jared Sparks and
Others, who have searched the secret archives of
government to learn who its real benefactos wee may
be by persal of the report considering On
this point the committees further say
Mr. Madison writing to the menoiiast from Mont
pecr February 6, 1880 relative to the Virginia decga
ton, says
"DE.R SIN The transactions shown by the papers yop
enclosed for the support of the delegates to Con
gess and agency of your father therein solicited
account of the respcctabity and confidence he en-
ioycd among those best acquainted with him.
Mr. Madison, addressing his colleagues, Messrs. Ran
dolph and Jones while he in tie Revolutionary Con
gress 1850 to 1888, says
''1hc expcdicncy OF drawing bills funds in Nir-
gini oven the most unqucstionabe has been tried by
us IN vain.
2 al am fast reapsing into peounary distress. The
c se of my brethren is equally alarming.
vor OF Mr.. Haym Solomon.
al almost ashamed to reiterate my wants 30 in
cess,ntly to V5u The kindness of friend in Front
street. the coffee house, aym SalomoD, is fund
thqt will preserve me from eyremties but never re-
sort to Il without great modification as he obstnately
rejects all reeomeDse, 70 peecssous Delegates he al
ways spares them suppIies
In 1881 Mr.. Norris superintendent of finance wrote
the President of Congress that the treasury was 80
much in auears the in the public offices that
many of them could not, without payment, perform
tler aaiiqa but must have gone to Jail for debts they
have contracted 10 enable them to live
IL was crisis like is .iqt NJ. Solomon aided the
government and members of Congress, ~QAt any secu
rity trusting in the honor of the American peopla whe
Independence should have been secured.
i Iqfed Sparks president of Harvard University and
celebrated tor his laSrches into the historical records OF
more than thousand yolgles Of the archives OF the
United States and France, wbeB wHs to the memorial
ist from Cambridge, May 7, isi5, says
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