Note 363 — Chapter XXVI · SEYMOUR AND THE PEACE DEMOCRATS 1860-1861

Fowler, who was appointed postmaster of New York by President Pierce, began a system of embezzlements in 1855, which amounted, at the time of his removal, to $155,000.—Report of Postmaster-General Holt, Senate Document, 36th Congress, 1st Session, XI., 48. "In one year Fowler's bill at the New York Hotel, which he made the Democratic headquarters, amounted to $25,000. His brother, John Walker Fowler, clerk to Surrogate Tucker, subsequently absconded with $31,079, belonging to orphans and others."—Gustavus Myers, History of Tammany Hall, pp. 232, 233.