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Title: Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 4, January, 1885
A Massachusetts Magazine

Author: Various

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[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.

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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