THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Jewish Tories, for some of them re-
Jewish Tories in
mained in America after the Revolu-
!tionary 1Var and became good and
law-abiding citizens of the new Re-
the _
Revolut ion public,
while others who returned to

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however, are not to be regarded as
Government. These they wished to
continue, and believed that, despite
temporary checks and reversals, the
mother country would ultimately
!their homes in Europe fought with- triumph in the struggle with her re-
HILE the great majority o f out the incentive of patriotism just as volting colonies. This fact of early
t h e le„, who lived i n the pre ,. much as those who afterwards threw
associations includes others, like in-
c.„, failed states during the in their lot with the Americans. The timate family and trading relations
, period
j,i,I
'('Dries
„thoeiilirteiv,o,liu,otiitmototkvetripe with Great Britain, which could not
of ,t,Ifiethl( !e i % , ' ; o ol r u it,i . : t m,„7, z ;i fens
-it !tie". in'ilt'llira and
t'i ri the f
rent,
hr lightly sundered.
of them favored the other, the Tory, the ..°'" cause"' from conviction, train
In reality, however, we must seek
side. Iflie Tories, oil course, were , motives of high idealism, and when the motive underlying the actions of
ihn„, who supported the claims o f the war had run its course they left the Jewish Tories in the Revolution
Great Britain to the loyal allegianceltk,e, country timer to return to it, in the sentiment of pure but mis-
of h er A mer i can en i nn i e , , and,
cur- with their immovable possessions ir- taken patriotism. The Jewish Tories
iously enough, we find members of ' retrievIlbl Y 1° ' t becan'e wholly "li- acted as they did because they be-
the sane family on apposite sides ' ti '" I ' d.
lieved they were acting right, and
Hills, in the case of the prominent
patriotically
loyal.
They
The estates of these Tories were were
thought
it their duty to uphold the
Franks fmily, the members of which, thus sold by the new nation,
it
lim e so wide and so various a part in, is interesting to find that and
patriot king of Great Britain, their king.
American Jewish life of that day.' Jews were, in a number of instances. divinely set over them, their ruler by
some like Isaac Franks and David the
the purchasers of„ thes-r- attainted the grace of God, who may have
Salisbury Franks, both active in a i properties. The sal4-”ccuried main- made mistakes, but who could not
military capacity throughout the l y between 1784 and 1787, and among have wished to wrong them. Their
1, evolutonary \\ ar , were patriots. On
these Jewish purchasers of forfeited dependence on kingly grace, on the
other hand, David Franks, their Tory lands were Isaac Moses, Jacob royal power and inclination finally to
uncle, who had been the royal pur- :Mordecai and Philip Jacobs, all of see things in their true light and then
veyor of
the
B n.
British
armies
fi a long
America,
was w whom were notable merchants of to correct mistakes, is engagingly in-
term of years in North A
New York and active ill patriotic cir- genuous. NVe can respect them in
commissary of the British prisoners
their honest belief and regret that
during the Revolution. That is, he
their sision was so circumscribed
was in charge of the custody and ex- ti 7t. must not he thought that the that the new ideas of the relations of
change of British prisoners-of-war JCWISII Tories of the Revolution acre government to the governed, then
captured by the Americans and car- confined to the cities of New York just dawning, did not penetrate their
ried on this important task on behalf and Philadelphia. In Easton, in old-world minds. They were hon-
of the British Government.
Pennsylvania, dwelt another commis• estly consistent in their short-sight-
sary of British prisoners-of-war. In edness and suffered for it.
His at lion undoubtedly influenced
Rebecca. far off Savannah. Ga., where there
The Jewish Tories of the Revolu-
that of other immediate members of
his family. Ills daughter, Johnson, was a large and induential group of tion were wealthy men and filled es-
was a stray Jewish tablished positions of influence in
wa s
married General Sir H
Dry tiir Is joto
vu.
'‘. " And in Newport,
1., their respective communities. They
3 commanding officer of the British
w hr
tre Aaron Lopez and the other were merchants of considerable im-
forces in this country. while Poem, 'shoe
his sister, became the spouse of Gen- great Jewish merchants of the town portance, men of important interest s
for those times. Naturally, then,
oral Sir Oliver 1)elancey, another
trading interests
to the much
cause of
of they objected to the thought and the
prominent British commander. Both their
deliberately
surrendered
.
d
actual step of dismembering the
WoIllgil were ltouts
toutslost no: only to
kinerica, but to the Jewish commu- the Americans, because they helieve world-flung British empire. Any
to
Lngland,
the conclusion
of other
Tories and
saw their
oily
as well, after
for both
of them went
in it Jews
and were
voluntarily
supported
it, action which looked to such an ulti-
hunk torn from tier grasp and con- mate object, as undoubtedly the dec-
the Revolutionary hostilities and fiscated by authority. They them- laration of the independence of
their descendants have had no con- selves were rompcllcd to flee from America from Great Britain did, in-
the United States aunt were pro- curre; their unrelenting oppostion.
nection with Jewry.
scribed as Tories They were unable
The foregoing argument serves as
Even all the Jews of New York to maintain the commercial suprem-
the direct answer to the interesting
were not adherents of the patriot acy of Newport, irretrievably shat-
question hereinbefore propounded.
cause at this time. In October. 1776, tered through the highly patriotic
With this we may leave the Jewish
when the city fell before the advanc•
ories presented General Sir Wil- action of Lopez and of his associates. Tories of the Revolution, remarking
mg British armies, a manlier of
local I Having thus set forth the . main however, that they formed only an
facts of this interesting topic, it now insignificant minority of the Jewish in-
habitants of the United States at
! a
l ichi
m
- lt!fl v,itIti hea
ac°thull-Tensasmieoril Iroesno'api1117 fmoirlic'17 tti ondCr°11ilessijetrhisthedel:'. 1enl:
that date. This point we reiterate
welcome. Included aiming them were
of American history. h oe novy, III we have repeatedly mention-
fifteen Jews of New fork, drawn
the Jews among the I o nes , even ed it throughout this discussion, for
from among the prominent Jewish opment
families of the place. So while most more, perhaps, than the non-Jews the Jews of that day were in large
among them, display the philosophic part upholders of Washington and the
of the members of the Gomez, Hays
hearing of this party among the in- men associated with hint, a circum-
and Hendricks families, all i mpor-
tant factors in the life of New York habitants of the United States at this stance which rests on the indisput-
periml.
I able authority of contemporary ob-
at that date. were stern upholders of
the patriot cause, others of them re •I Wh y , th em were certain J ews o f servers.
maimed unbending Tories and were the t tilted States at this tone moved
included among the signatories to to support the fortunes of the hoes HOMELESS SALONIKA JEWS
this address.
in the Revolution? What made them !
TO OBTAIN RELIEF
One notes here that the Jewish champion the unpopular cause of
Tories in America during ♦ he Revo- Great Britain in a hostile environ-
LONDON.—The new plant for the
lutionary 'War did not, as a rule, ment, where. inoreover, the vast ma- rebuilding of Salonika are now ready,
bear arms. There was no need for jority of their own co-religionsts and will shortly be put into opera-
them to take the field in person, believed otherwise and bad espoused tion. According to the official re-
since Great Britain had her standing the popular cause?
ports the size of the area which has
army in this country and her Ilessian
Early associations 1110), have been been destroyed by ftre amounts to
mercenaries besides to rely on. mainly responsible for this result. over a million square yards. The fire
Among these Hessians, , drawn al- The Franks, for example, had lived has destroyed 9,500 houses, and has
most exclusively front Southern Ger- in England and had sustained rela- made 75,000 people homeless and
many, were a number of Jews. They. tions of importance to the British among them 56,000 Jews.

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