He had a controversy in his paper of long standing with a man named Piper, a pompous and self-important little personage, who edited the Fitchburg _Reveille._ That was a Whig paper which circulated in the country towns where Robinson's paper was chiefly taken.

He made poor Piper's life unhappy.

One of the issues of his paper contained a life of Piper.

It begun by saying that Piper began life as the driver of a fish-cart in Marblehead, and that he was discharged by his employer on account of the diffuseness of his style.

He quoted with great effect on Otis P.Lord the toast given by the Court Jester of Archbishop Laud's time: "Great Laud be to God, and Little Lord to the Devil." When he was clerk of the House of Representatives there was a story in the newspapers that he was preparing a treatise on Parliamentary law.