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"Like unto the great Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo, or the magnanimous
Boggs after his defeat, in the gubernatorial campaign of Missouri, I shall fold my arms
with tranquillity, and say either 'C'est fini,' or 'Oh shaw, I know'd 'it!'"
The Whig ticket carried the county, but the Democrats carried the state. His
comments upon the result of the election are interesting:
"News of the Week.--We publish this week the gratifying intelligence, sobre la
izquierda (over the left), of the triumphant re-election of John Bigler to the chief magistracy
of this commonwealth. The voice of the Democracy has been heard, pealing in
thunder tones throughout the length and breadth of the State, waking the echoes on
Mokelumne Hill, growling in sub-bass from the San Joaquin (Republican), reverberating
among the busy and crowded streets of Monterey, and re-echoed from the snowcapped
summits of San Bernardino, with extensive shouts of Extension and John Bigler
forever! While we of San Diego, through the culpable negligence of the Goliah (which
put the Voice aboard but left it at San Pedro), have gone on unhearing and unheeding
and voted for William Waldo, just as if nothing extraordinary was taking place. Many
reasons are assigned by the Independent Press of San Francisco, and our Whig exchanges,
for the election of Bigler. I am inclined to attribute it principally to the defeat of
Waldo, and the fact that the San Diego Herald took no active part in the Gubernatorial
election. Had Waldo been successful or our course been of another character, there is
every reason to suppose that the result would have been different. But 'whatever is, is
right,' as the old gentleman sweetly remarked, when he chopped off the end of his nose
with a razor, in an endeavor to kill a fly that had lit thereon while he Was shaving. 'There
is a Providence that shapes our ends rough-hew them as we may.' Governor Bigler is
still Governor Bigler, there'll be no Ex. to his name (unless it be ex-tension) for the next
two years; the people are satisfied, he is gratified, and I am delighted, and the Lord
knows that it makes very little difference to me individually, or the people of this county
at large, whether the water front of San Francisco remains unaltered, or is extended to
Contra Costa. San Diego boasts a far finer harbor at present than her wealthier rival,
and when that of the latter is entirely filled up, it will be more generally known and appreciated
'It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.' If this election should, however
indirectly, cause San Diego to assume its proper position as the first commercial city of
California, I shall reverence
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the name of John Bigler forever, and I will bestow that honored appellation upon my
youngest child, and have it engraved upon a piece of leather or other suitable material,
and suspended about that tender infant's neck, until such time as he shall be old
enough to learn and love the virtues of his honored Godsire."
Derby never wrote anything more delicious than his account of the combat
(which did not occur) between himself and Ames upon the latter's return, when "we held
'the Judge' down over the press by our nose (which we had inserted between his teeth
for that purpose)," until "we discovered that we had been laboring under a 'misunderstanding,'
and through the amicable intervention of the pressman, who thrust a roller between
our faces (which gave the whole affair a very different complexion), the matter
was finally adjusted on the most friendly terms.'" The people of San Diego took the
change of politics of the Herald rather seriously, greatly to Derby's delight. One old gen-