The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-03-05

fered great loss.
He was always eager to help his
fellow-man. He gave every assistance
to those who commenced trading af-
ter the war.
To the president Of the national
bank, whose partner was the SUPER
intendent Of finance, he gave two
loans Of $4,000 and $4,000, and
never received a penny Of interest
This firm was known as Willing
Morris & Swaneck. It is doubtful If
he ever got any Of his money back.
In Madison's letter to Virginia in
1871, he writes: my wants are so
urgent that it is impossible to sup
press them. The case Of my breth-
rem Is equally alarming" and later
he declares that "the kindness of our
friend in Front street (Mr. Salomon)
is fund that will preserve me from
extremities, but I never resort to it
without great modification, as he OBJ
stinately rejects all recompense. The
necessitous delegates he gratuitously
spares from his private stock" Called
on to advance the entire pay for en-
suing years to Jones, Randolph. and
Madison as members of the Revolu-
tionary congress, it was in writing
allotted that Madison should get SO lbs
less than the other two, but Solomon,
seeing in Madison, then only twenty
nine years of age, great talents, for
which he became afterwardA distin-
guished, presented him from his own
private purse the so lbs. and this
equalized pay of the whole delegation
Jared Sparks, the historian, de-
clared "the person who did loan the
cash to member to relieve his dis
tress in that day, was in no expec-
tation Of ever getting repaid"
Funds were also given to Jefferson,
Ross, Duane, Reed, Mercer, Arthur,
Lee, Harrison, Miffin, Rittenhouse,
Randolph and others.
Henry Wheaton says that Judge
Wilson, so distinguished for his Ia
bors in the convention that framed
the Federal constitution, would have
retired from public service had he
not been sustained by the timely aid
Of Haym Solomon, aid administered
as delicately as it was generously.
1t is true that other men sub
scribed to make up army supplies in
1850, but Madlson's journal shows
that they had a contingent security
of the best sterling exchange to the
amount of 10000 lbs. in excess of
their subscription.
\ document presented to a COM
mittee OF congress from the Bank of
North America. the first and only one
chartered by the Revolutionary con-
gress, shows that the account OF
forty other principal merchants were
not so large in the aggregate as that
alone of Salomon's. His balance
reached as high as $4,000, and the
amount charged by the bank to his
account, as paid by Robert Morris.
was $4,000, while Morris own ac-
count during the same period showed
deposit Of less than $4,000. which
was received on the very day from
Haym Salomon that it was charged
to him
rs appeared from documentary
evidence afterward admitted to con-
gress, ne advanced to the government
altogether $G5S.OO7.13, an enormous
sum at that period for a private in
diNiduh when all business and COM
'r1"rcc was proStratcd- This
docs not include his support of the
delegates to congress ana officers OF
the army and government with the
mans of defraying their ordinary ex-
?cns"s Of the men, among others, al
rc; dy named.
y committee of the United states
congress in 1850, to which was re-
forrel a resolution to reimburse the
hcirs Of ITaym solomon for the money
50 generously advanced, admitted the
Justice of the claim and reported that
he had "advanccd lihcraly of his
means at a time whom the sincws of
war were essential to success"
Down To- date not Il penny has bcon