would have submitted to the new order of things. Castillo Negrete was very violent against the revolutionists. He vented in verse his spite against the men whom he regarded as leaders, Peña, Ramirez, and Hinckley, before leaving Monterey, and having sailed on the Leonidas, stopped at San Diego to incite the southerners to resistance. Don Luis never returned, but was subsequently gefe político of Baja California.[1] Portilla, Castillero, Valle, and Zamorano were permitted to remain in California, but the latter chose at first to depart, though he soon returned to the San Diego frontier, as we shall see, to promote southern resistance to Alvarado. The Clementine after landing her passengers at Cape San Lúcas returned to Monterey in December. The Californian leaders have been
- ↑ His verses were as follows:
A California ha perdido
La turbulenta anarquía
De su gobierno escogido
Por eso lo ha conducido
A accion tan atroz y fea;
Y para que al mundo vea
El tal gobierno como anda
Del triumvirato que manda
Te voy á dar una idea.
El proto-libertador
Primer hombre del Estado
Es un fraile renegado
Gran perjuro y gran traidor
De oficio administrador.
Es de muy ancha conciencia
Derrochador sin clemencia
Sagaz revolucionario
Jugador y perdulario
Sin Dios, ni patria, ni ciencia.
Ocupa el lugar segundo
En el Californio Estado
Un filósofo relajado
Cibarrita é inmundo;
Que quiere rejir el mundo
Bebiendo mezcal sin taza
Y con alma bien escasa;
Pues do sabio es presumido
Cuando el pobre no ha podido
Saber gobernar su casa.
Del Estado es Almirante
Y privado consejero
Un navegante extrangero
Contrabandista intrigante
Estafador y bien pillo
Con el cual cumplo el trecillo
Que gobierna torpemente
Y que abusa impunemente
Del Californio sencillo!Vallejo, Hist. Cal., MS., iii. 186-7; Alvarado, Hist. Cal., MS., iii. 159-68. The charges embodied in this rhyming tirade were for the most part well founded, so far as the three victims were concerned; and the space devoted by Alvarado and Vallejo to their refutation shows that Don Luis chose well his weapon of annoyance.
