_ That was a Whig paper which circulated in the
country towns where Robinson's paper was chiefly taken. He
made poor Piper's life unhappy. One of the issues of his
paper contained a life of Piper. It begun by saying that
Piper began life as the driver of a fish-cart in Marblehead,
and that he was discharged by his employer on account of the
diffuseness of his style. He quoted with great effect on
Otis P. Lord the toast given by the Court Jester of Archbishop
Laud's time: "Great Laud be to God, and Little Lord to the
Devil."
When he was clerk of the House of Representatives their was
a story in the newspapers that he was preparing a treatise
on Parliamentary law. He published a letter denying the statement.
But he added, that if he did write such a treatise, he should
sum it up in one sentence: "Never have an ass in the chair."
I was associated with him one day on the Committee on Resolutions
of the Republican State Convention, held in Worcester. The
Committee went over to my office to consult. While we were
talking together Robinson broke out with his accustomed objurgations
levelled at several very worthy and excellent men.
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