When Schouler became editor of the _Atlas,_ Robinson succeeded to the paper.

But when the Free Soil movement came in, he would not flinch or abate a jot in his radical Anti-Slavery principles, which were not very agreeable to the proprietors of the cotton mills in Lowell, who depended both for their material and their market largely upon the South.

Sumner described their alliance with their Southern customers as an alliance between the Lords of the Loom and the Lords of the Lash.

So Robinson was compelled to give up his paper, in doing which he voluntarily embraced poverty instead of a certain and lucrative employment.

He started an Anti-Slavery weekly paper in Lowell known as the Lowell _American._ That afforded him a bare and difficult living for a few years.