Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-01
amount of f15O,OOO in excess of their

subscription.
A document presented to a COM
mttee Of congress from the Bank of
North America, the first and only one
chartered, by the Revolutionary con-
gress, shows that the accounts OF
forty other principal merchants were
not so large in the aggregate as that
alone of Salomon's. His balance
reached as high as $50,000, and the
amount charged by the band to his
account, as paid by Robert Morris
was 100000, while Morris own ac-
count during the same period showed
a deposit Of less than $4,000, which
was received on the very day from
Haym Solomon that it was charged
to him.
AS appeared from documentary
evidence afterward admitted to con-
gress, he advanced to the government
altogether $65S.0O7.13, an enormous
sum at that period for a private in
dividual when all business and COM
merce was prostrated. This sum
does not include his support Of the
delegates to congress and officers of
the army and government with the
means of defraying their ordinary ex-
ready named.
A committee of the United States
congress in 1850, to which was re-
ferred a resolution to reimburse the
heirs of Hymn Salomon for the money
so generously advanced, admitted the
justice of the claim and reported that
he had advanced literally of his
means at a time when the sinews OF
war were essential to success"
Down to date not penny has been
repaid to the heirs, and to their honor
it must be said that they do not ask
for money, but that some medal be
struck in recognition of the services
of their illustrious ancestor, and more
recently a movement has been in
augurated to have his picture adorr
a bank note. Madison, in 1927, urg-
ed that the memorials might be in
Identified.
Jared Sparks wrote many years ag.
that Salomon's associations with
Robert Morris were very close an6
intimate, and that a great part Of the
success that Morris attained in hi:
financial schemes was due to the skill
and ability of Haym Solomon.
Solomon died suddenly in 1885, a.
the age Of forty-five, left his affair:
in a tangle, and his wife and -four
lchildren, to use the language Of the
congressional report, Ito hazard ano
neglect" He had great claims due
him, quantities Of public securities
bonds, notes and mortgages, govern.
ment securities and other valuable
papers.
For any account Of Haym Salo'
mons dealings with the government
we have to depend chiefly upon con-
lgressional reports. Almost all book!
and papers dealing with him and hi!
affairs were destroyed when the
British pillaged and burned the pub
lie archives.
The oft-repeated observation Of the
ingratitude Of republics applies will
striking force to the little Jew
broker" Here is his obituary no
tice, taken from the Pennsylvania
Journal and Weekly Observer o.
January s, 1885:
ION Thursday, died Haym Salo'
mon, a broker"
That's all! The real financier Of
the American Revolution, one Of tht
greatest benefactors of his country
and the foremost philanthropist oi
his day! Surely this American re-
public should now, in this twentieth
century, give credit to the Jew broker
whose princely munificence mad&
possible our peerless republic.
DR.. Madison C. Peters.