The Secret Wealthy Family Who Started The Civil War: The Belmonts

Old Money Luxury ^ | 9/2/25

[Eleutheria5]

This secret wealthy family played a masterful political game when the American Civil War erupted, rebranding themselves as a Union crew while maintaining Southern business interests through their Democratic Vigilant Association.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:08 Chapter 1: The Big Belmonts
5:26 Chapter 2: The Gregarious German
9:00 Chapter 3: Dining In Democracy
12:24 Chapter 4: Entering High Society
16:06 Chapter 5: The Next Generation

When 24-year-old German Jewish immigrant August Belmont Sr. arrived in New York in 1837 with the Rothschild family's backing, he began one of history's most spectacular rises to power.

Within months, his August Belmont and Company had Wall Street dancing to its tune, as this ambitious newcomer transformed himself from outsider to puppet master of the Democratic Party.

By 1860, Belmont had achieved the unthinkable - becoming Chairman of the Democratic National Committee when the party aligned more with pro-slavery Confederates than anti-slavery Republicans.

His European connections proved crucial in discouraging foreign powers from backing the Confederacy, though Confederate bonds still found their way to London and Paris.

By his death in 1890, Belmont had amassed $10 million (about $280 million today) and established America's most prestigious horse race, the Belmont Stakes.

His son, August Belmont Jr., transformed his father's strategic genius into an empire of iron and horses, financing New York City's first subway line and the Cape Cod Canal.

The family legacy extended through Alva Belmont who, after trading her Vanderbilt marriage for a Belmont one, transformed her Newport mansion into a fortress of feminist revolution.

[Eleutheria5]

Holy crap. This is uncomfortable. Bad enough we have dirt bags like Soros, Epstein and Madoff in this day and age, but this is starting to look like a pattern.

Da Joooos! OK, Belmont was a meshumad married to a shiksa in a church. But maybe that's just what he wanted us to believe. Nyahahaha.

Where's my cut?

[Red Badger]

Dion and the Belmonts??????.....

[normbal]

Well, silly, everyone, (EVERYONE!) knows, Da JOOS are behind every war ever, going back to the Peloponnesian and possibly Troy, doncha know.

Just follow the Drachmas, dude!

[Eleutheria5]

Augustus! Were you a bad boy?

[escapefromboston]

Must have made a lot of money after they defeated Dracula in castlevania

[Eleutheria5]

And I never got a cut. Honest;^)

[Eleutheria5]

Was he defeated? Who do you think The Count is on Sesame Street?

[escapefromboston]

Dracula always ends up coming back some how

[Jan_Sobieski]

The Secret Six financed John Brown’s murderous raid on the South sparking the separatist movement. Otherwise Slavery would have ended like it did in Great Britain (without any shots being fired)…

The Secret Six were Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, and George Luther Stearns. All six had been involved in the abolitionist cause prior to their meeting John Brown, and had gradually become convinced that violence was necessary in order to end American slavery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Six

[Eleutheria5]

Great movie franchise.

[Eleutheria5]

Aha! Hollywood! Jooos!

[jjotto]

There is a Jewish teaching that the final redemption will be like the Exodus from Egypt. Based on a Hebrew reading of Exodus 13:18, only one-fifth of the Israelites in Egypt were willing to leave and were lost forever.

There’s a reason why only one-fifth of today’s Jews might not merit to experience the Messianic redemption.

[Jan_Sobieski]

I find this video laughable. August Belmont played no major role. Of course those with southern investments and allies wanted to protect those investments. This Jew conspiracy thing is for low IQ people

[Pikachu_Dad]

Simply unwatchable !

1. Too many ads !
2. Closed caption disappears when it plays. Have to try to revert back to the main screen. Repress play…

Bah !

[Pikachu_Dad]

Any story that does not feature the Al Gore of its day - John Calhoun Breckenridge - VP and key instigator - is not worth watching !

[indthkr]

CW1 - bump for later...

[Fiji Hill]

I wonder why August Belmont was able to amass so much power so as to become the Confederacy's financial angel? One would think that their power and influence couldn't go on, but maybe someone can tell me why it endured into the next century.

[Red Badger]

He served as Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 1860 to 1872.........................

[pepsi_junkie]

Well, silly, everyone, (EVERYONE!) knows, Da JOOS are behind every war ever, going back to the Peloponnesian and possibly Troy, doncha know.

That Helen of Troy was mega hot, I didn't know she was jewish but believable.

[Eleutheria5]

She was the daughter of Zeus, who raped Leda in the form of a swan while her husband was away at war. Happens a lot to the ancient Greeks.