Republic Volume 1; A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Dissemination of Political Information (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...of the South and our whole country, because much was expected from this convention--and because it might have been, ought to have been, and would have been effective, a power for good, of direct benefit to the South and West, in and out of Congress and with the Administration--yes, an influence itself as wide as the continent, if it had not been controlled and managed as it was. But the whole thing collapsed, flattened out, and has become, if mentioned at all, only a despicable byword--a subject of ridicule. When, oh when, will the element that rules the intense, extreme men of the South, learn practical wisdom and exercise common sense as to the rights of their fellow-men, the status of States, the justice of generous reciprocity, the best, the truest, interest of the masses, and the true honor and intercourse that ought to regulate and govern the nation in all its parts and homogeneous whole? We can only answer--we still hope that the day will come, sooner or later, when republicanism will prevail even in Georgia. WoNDEits Of Photography.--Occident is the famous trotter of the Pacific slope. Governor Stanford, the owner of the horse, wanted to secure a photograph of the animal while in full motion, and applied to one Maybridge. an artist of some skill. The great difficulty was to transfix an impression while the horse was moving at the rate of thirty-eight feet to the second. The first experiment of opening and closing the camera on the first day left no result; the second day. with increased velocity in opening and closing, a shadow was caught. On the third day, the artist, having studied the matter thoroughly, contrived to have two boards slip past each other by touching a spring, and in so doing to leave an eighth of an inch opening for the five-hundr...