Deut.28.10 Esay.61.9.

There is no people but will strive to excell in something: what can we excell in if not in holinesse?
If we look to number, we are the fewest; If to strength, we are the weakest; If to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God throughout the whole world, we cannot excell (nor so much as equall) other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven; our worldy dignitie is gone, if we lose the glory of grace too, then is the glory wholly departed from our Israel, and we are become vile; strive we therefore herein to excell, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us: Be we a holy people, so shall we be honorable before God and precious in the eyes of his Saints." 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.