The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-15

Spouse. We have no time to listen to
such old Wing fudge. Appoint our
men or we go for you, take our names
from your bond, and leave you as you
were before we took you up. The Presi
dent will either have to withdraw your
name or the Senate will reject you. We
will give you little time to reflect on
our proposition. And 80 the sponsors
returned to st. Landry. It is useless to
deny that the Collector was thrown into
meditative end anxious mood, and
that q stir and hustle were created
around the Custom House, and new
combinations and plans were projected
and ambassadors dispatched to Wash
ington to meet the emergency of the
withdrawal or defeat of the Collector.
Meanwhile the Collector was aroused
from his lethargy and set to work to
resist the conspiracy OF his old friends.
now his bitter foes. He wrote eloquent
and elaborate letters to the Secretary OF
the Treasury. eulogistic OF the Presi-
dents policy and demonstrative OF the
entire success Of his administration ;
backed himself up with the commits
sioners' report, and referring to the
complaints of his too exacting and par
tisan friends, requested that he be
allowed to change his bonds, 50 as to
substitute other names, and submitting
his case to the Secretary and President,
was content to abide their judgment.
The President and Secretary replied
in the most cordial and satisfactory
manner, expressing their full approval
of his administration, and begging that
he would remain and continue to dis
charge his duty, and assuring him that
he would not be rejected by the Senate
for any such cause or by any such infu-
ence as was referred to. This CORES
pondence relieved the anxiety of the
Collector, and accordingly when his st.
Landry sponsors visited him yesterday
he received them with great a1fability
and manifested warm interest in
themselves and families. After a pro-
longed interchange Of their courtesies
and friendly manifestations, the grave
old st. Landry chief at last came down
to business, with the inquiry If the Col
lector had not, after the reflection Of
two weeks, seen the propriety and ne
cessity of following their directions and
submitting to their suggestions as to
the distribution OF his patronage.
The Collector, with his left hand
closely pressing the letters Of the Secre-
tary and President, calmly replied that
his reflections had confirmed him In
the course he had before indicated to
them, and In his resignation In meeting
all the consequences thereof.
What followed cannot now be fitly
described. No enraged Taurine chief
tains leading large hocks Of st. Landry
cattle ever beloved forth their wrath
more loudly, tossed their horns in the
air more menacingly, paved the
ground more vigorously, and were
m ore thoroughly Disguised than were
the Collectors st. Landry Warwicks at
this extraordinary response.
There is only one parallel to the in
tensity of their astonishment and be-
wilderment at this incomprehensibl
display of spirit on the part Of their
hitherto mild-mannered and submissive
protege, and that was the overwhelming
Of our own Boss Packard
when Hayes cut shot his supply Of bay.
onets and left him all alone and naked
to the tender mercies of the victorious
Democrats.