GEORGE DEXTER ROBINSON.

BY FRED. W. WEBBER, A.M.

[Assistant Editor of the Boston Journal.]

His Excellency George D. Robinson,at present the foremost citizen of Massachusetts,by reason of his incumbencyof the highest office in the Commonwealth,is the thirtieth in the line ofsuccession of the men who have heldthe office of Governor under the Constitution.In character, in ability, ineducation, and in those things generallywhich mark the representative citizenof New England, he is a worthysuccessor of the best men who havebeen called to the Chief Magistracy.His public career has been marked bydignity and an untiring fidelity to duty;his life as a private citizen has been suchas to win for him the respect and goodwill of all who know him. He is a manin whom the people who confer honorupon him find themselves also honored.He is a native of the Commonwealth,of whose laws he is the chief administrator,and comes of that sturdy stockwhich wresting a new country fromsavagery, fostered with patient industrythe germs of civilization it had planted,and aided in developing into a nationthe colonies that, throwing off theyoke of foreign tyranny, presented tothe world an example of governmentfounded on the equal rights of the governedand existing by and with the consentof the people. His ancestorswere probably of that Saxon race whichfor centuries stood up against the encroachmentsof Norman kings and nobles,which was led with willingness intothe battle, the siege or the crusade thatmeant the maintenance or advancementof old England’s honor, or in the causeof mother Church, and which was possessedof that brave, independent spiritthat, when the old home was felt to beto

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