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To these eminent Concord authors should be added the name
of William S. Robinson. He was one of the brightest and wittiest
men of his time. He very seldom had praise for anybody, although
for a few of his old Anti-Slavery friends he had a huge liking.
When I was a little boy he was in a newspaper office in Concord,
where he got most of his education. Afterward he was associated
with William Schouler in editing the Lowell _Courier,_ a Whig
paper. When Schouler became editor of the _Atlas,_ Robinson
succeeded to the paper. But when the Free Soil movement
came in, he would not flinch or abate a jot in his radical
Anti-Slavery principles, which were not very agreeable to
the proprietors of the cotton mills in Lowell, who depended
both for their material and their market largely upon the
South. Sumner described their alliance with their Southern
customers as an alliance between the Lords of the Loom and
the Lords of the Lash. So Robinson was compelled to give
up his paper, in doing which he voluntarily embraced poverty
instead of a certain and lucrative employment.
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