Excerpt from Oration: Delivered by Hon. R. B. Elliott, April 16, 1872, at the Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia

All history teaches, from the beginning of recorded time, that there is a constant re¿ux, or ¿owing back of the current of human events. There is in the moral, as in the physical world, centripetal and centrifugal forces. The one tending to repel the good and the other to attract it. The trite aphorism that revolutions neverward.

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