. . . Universal sympathy for poor Fowler, except from a very few Buchananizing Democrats. Isaiah Rynders has not yet succeeded in arresting him, and probably won’t succeed if he can help it.
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, p. 26
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Isaiah Rynders was a powerful and controversial Tammany Hall political boss who later served as a U.S. Marshal in New York. In that capacity, he was tasked with arresting Isaac Vanderbeck Fowler, the disgraced New York City postmaster accused of embezzlement. The arrest failed, however, and Fowler escaped as a result of the bungled effort.
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