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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885 A Massachusetts Magazine Author: Various Release Date: November 23, 2004 [EBook #14131] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BAY STATE MONTHLY *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci, Cornell University and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team [Illustration: Geo. D. Robinson Governor of Mass. 1884. B.H. RUSSELL BOSTON] THE BAY STATE MONTHLY. _A Massachusetts Magazine_. VOL. II. JANUARY, 1885. No. 4. * * * * * 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 incumbency of the highest office in the Commonwealth, is the thirtieth in the line of succession of the men who have held the office of Governor under the Constitution. In character, in ability, in education, and in those things generally which mark the representative citizen of New England, he is a worthy successor of the best men who have been called to the Chief Magistracy. His public career has been marked by dignity and an untiring fidelity to duty; his life as a private citizen has been such as to win for him the respect and good will of all who know him. He is a man in whom the people who confer honor upon 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 stock which wresting a new country from savagery, fostered with patient industry the germs of civilization it had planted, and aided in developing into a nation the colonies that, throwing off the yoke of foreign tyranny, presented to the world an example of government founded on the equal rights of the governed and existing by and with the consent of the people. His ancestors were probably of that Saxon race which for centuries stood up against the encroachments of Norman kings and nobles, which was led
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