id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31315 Grimké, Archibald Henry Charles Sumner Centenary: Historical Address The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 .txt text/plain 6295 407 73 The American Negro Academy celebrated the centenary of Charles Sumner at Every time a great man comes on the stage of human affairs, the fable of man be equal to his time and task? of Charles Sumner to the Senate of the United States. great office came to him by the laws of gravitation and character--to him As Sumner entered the Senate the last of its early giants was leaving it Whether accident or prophecy, Sumner's entrance into the Senate was into national: slavery sectional" was his theme. From that time Sumner's position became one of constantly increasing slave leaders did not forgive Sumner, nor forget their scars. At this juncture Sumner delivered in the senate a philipic, the like of Such a terrible arraignment of the slave power in general, and of Senator senate chamber of the Republic with blood on his head and face and ./cache/31315.txt ./txt/31315.txt