The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-05-26
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spoiisn-if they can be regarded as exeep-
sions-who entertain feeling esen OF re-
,pecs for that {. old public fanesionary,"
whose course has TINS far been solely char
acterized by duplicitF, fraud and sreaehsry.
Fraud marked the very inception OF this
1 Administrations i. has already been as
certained beyond the shadow OF doubt,
that thousands upon thousands Of dollars
/ Of Government funds were used 10 securin z
/ the electoral vote of Psnnsyisania for the
author of the Piitsburg ausi-bribery letter.
Millions Of dollars were useiessly squan-
dered on the Utah eIpsdition-an expedition
set On foot solely to divert the attention Of
the public mind from the outrageous wrongs
the Administration was then indass-iousiy
engaged in INJECTING upon the people Of
| Kansas people whose only crime was an
innate love of Freedom. and determination
| to stand BIZ and defend to the bitter end,
their God-giyen rights. Failing to coeres
the people Of Kansas into voting away their
rights, By the presence of Federal troops al
( the baIot-box, the Administration under
took the expensive job Of getting the Lee
compton swindle through the House. This
cost money, and big pile of it at that.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were
doled out on printing, navy, army and tim
( Der contracts, with the express understand
( ing that large per eentage of the same,
was TO be used in bribiug members of Con-
gress TO support certain odious admlnls.ra-
ton measures. For such purposes, and to
support partisan newspapers, the Admins
,ration also freely bled all its miuiOns
holding anything like lucrative posts.
Postmasters, army and navy contractors,
| heads Of departments, and even the clerks
/ in the various departments, were required
( to and did furnish their quota to this cor
rup,ion fund. The result is, that corrup-
ton and proaigacy stalk abroad throughout
| the length and breadth Of the Republic.
Almost every day the mails bring us reports
of rumored defalcations or unauthorized
stealings. The latest and most startling
/ announcement that has reached US of the
! demoraIized and corrupt order Of things
which has obtained at Washington under
I Democratic sway, is tile defalcasion Of the
/ Postmaster at New York City. The country
has been informed from time to time, of
late, that it was surraised that everything
was not right in the New York Post Office.
| that the Government had discovered a
''mare's nest in New York, but by the New
/ York papers of the 18th, We have evidence
( to show that there is no longer doubt but
what great robbery has been committed
/ in the Post Office of that city. The case is
too complicated to be entirely plain in al
/ its features at this time, but it cannot and
should not be otherwise than damaging. if
anything can be, to an Administration, the
evidence of whose steaiings aud plunderings
( is so rapidly accommodating. Criminal as Mr..
Fowler is, his offense is no worse than the
taking of money from the Treasury by the
/ indirect means Of fraudulent and exorbitant
allowances fer political purposes. If any
thing, the directness of his theft is more
manly than the swindling of Coal, Live Oak,
Printing and other jobs, which his official
superiors interposed to cover their stealings.
The Tribune says:
The city was startled yesterday by the
report that Mr.. Isaac V. Fowler, Postmaster
of New York, Grand Sachem of the Tamma-
ny Society and Chairman of the Tammany
General Committee, had fled from public
justice as defaulter to large amount.
The defaulcation, which is estimated to
be 1855, 900, is of long standing, some OF
it dating back as far as 1856. On Friday.
the first definite step was taken by the issue
of warrant for Mr.. Fowler's arrest, and
Assistant Postmaster General King cane on
and took possession Of the Office. Mr.. Fow.
Ter disappeared on Saturday night. aud yes
terday the facts became public. Thus far
he Has not been found, although It is thought
be is III or near the city. His bondmen are
George Law md Gustavus A. Conover, who
guaranteed 5000; but it is probable that
they may esdape, as the government knew
of the deficit long ago. No one else in the
Post Office is implicated, and Fowler is un-
derstood to have assumed the entire respon-
sibility.
The Tribuac's Washington correspondent
says: In 1856, when it became necessary
to carry Pennsylvania for Mr.. Buchanan, he
laborei assiduousiy, as member Of the \.
Y. Hotel COMMITTEES, and drew heavy drafts
upon the funds of his department to aid in
hts nfaasinp Ifnu ,,reh E. 49,,
self in this way is known only to himself
and the "gray- haired old public function
airy" at Washington; from wha, we learn it
was very large sum.
t His expenditures at Charleston were
heavy. lie cast everything upon the hazard
Of the die aud his fayorite, Douglas, failed.
of course, he fell into disgrace with tue Ad
ministration, who have long known his des-
peratc situation, and he found that in falling
from grace, he lost the last means of
making good his deficiencies.
Another story we have heard In the
election Of 1856, Mr.. Fowler drew very
largely upon the Pos, Office fund to favor
the success Of Mr.. Buchanan. When the
latter assumed bis Office, means were found
to cloak over the New York Post Ofice de-
hcieney, in view Of the use to which the
money had been put. But when in the course
Of time Mr.. Buchanan found that Mr.. Fow-
Ter and his friends, instead of laboriug
through all time for the interests Of J. b.,
Les their preferences for Douglas crop oat
last summer, vague hints were thrown out
at Washington that there was trouble in the
New York Post 0i;ee; tba. Mr. Fowler was
I dsfaulter 70 heavy amount. and tkas
something awful was going 10 happen.
! These rumors We heard quite frequsutlr
agar ago, from Numerous sources. Later.
just before the Charleston Convection. these
stories were again noised abroad. Rut b.
/ prudent management the ghost was laid.
Mr. Fowler and his friends, howeyer,
I needless Of the danger aud tae waru.nrs.
! went to Charleston and voted for Douglas.
! ThensefoFth j. ID. became the sworn fea az
/ al The Douglas host, and We have tAe frst
/ instal1aeni Of bis Vengeance in the Disgrace
/ Of the Postmaster. Friends want to wash
q a.. ss- IN S-S-t .ba H. L..