[356] New York Tribune, January 8, 1861.
[357] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 700.
[358] "The whole people in this part of the country are waiting with impatience for your assumption of the great office to which the suffrage of a free people has called you, and will hail you as a deliverer from treason and anarchy. In New York City all classes and parties are rapidly uniting in this sentiment, and here in Albany, where I am spending a few days in attendance upon Court, the general tone of feeling and thinking about public affairs shows little difference between Republicans and Democrats."—W.M. Evarts to Abraham Lincoln, January 15, 1861. Unpublished letter on file in Department of State at Washington.
[359] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 520.
[360] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 317.
[361] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 318.
[362] Appleton's Cyclopædia, 1861, p. 520.
[363] 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.
[364] John Jay Knox, United States Notes, p. 76.
[365] New York Evening Post, December 26, 1860.