The enacting clause of the laws is as follows: “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio.”

UNITED STATES SENATORS.
John Smith,from1803to1808.
Thos. Worthington,”{1803”1807.
1810”1814.
Edward Tiffin,”1807”1809.
Return J. Meigs,”1808”1810.
Stanley Griswold,”1809”1809.
Alexander Campbell,”1809”1813.
Jeremiah Morrow,”1813”1819.
Joseph Kerr,”1814”1815.
Benjamin Ruggles,”1815”1833.
William A. Trimble,”1819”1821.
Ethan A. Brown,”1822”1825.
Wm. Henry Harrison,”1825”1828.
Jacob Burnett,”1828”1831.
Thomas Ewing,”{1831”1837.
1850”1851.
Thomas Morris,”1833”1839.
William Allen,”1837”1849.
Benjamin Tappan,”1839”1845.
Thomas Corwin,”1845”1851.
Salmon P. Chase,”1849”1855.
Benjamin F. Wade,”1851”1869.
George Ellis Pugh,”1851”1861.
John Sherman,”1861”1879.
Allen G. Thurman,”1869”1881.
LOUISIANA.

The Spaniards, who found so much gold in other parts of the American continent, made repeated explorations of the region lying near the mouths of the Mississippi in the hope of discovering it there. Failing in this, they made no settlements. The French planned the establishment of a vast empire covering the best territory now in the bounds of the United States, and explored the Mississippi and its tributaries with untiring courage and zeal, both from the Great Lakes and from the mouth of the river. A few years after La Salle had perished in his bold wandering, a French naval officer, Lemoine D’Iberville, formed the first settlement in Louisiana (so named after the French King, Louis XIV., by La Salle.) This was in 1699; but no great progress was made until the Mississippi Company was formed in France, under the idea that Louisiana was rich in gold and diamonds; when, in 1718, eight hundred persons emigrated from France and settled at New Orleans. In 1732 the colony contained, in all, seven thousand five hundred persons, and continued to prosper until 1763, when, by the peace of Paris, all the French possessions in America except the territory west of the Great River, were given up to England. This remnant soon passed to the Spaniards, and again to the French, from whom it was bought by President Jefferson for $15,000,000, in 1803.

This purchase was regarded, even by Jefferson, as probably exceeding the powers of the government, under the Constitution; but it was essential to the development, unity, and greatness of the country. The Mississippi Valley is the heart of North America, and the use of the river as necessary to the value of the prairie States lying east of it, as to the defense and strength of the country. The possession of it could, alone, make the United States a great power among nations. Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of the French Republic, designed, in ceding it to the United States, to give England, his relentless enemy, a powerful rival; but even his keen foresight could not have anticipated the wonderful growth in which the Louisiana Purchase was so necessary an element.

The surface of Louisiana is low, and the southern part often overflowed by the high water of the rivers. Many islands of great fertility and beauty lie along the coast; one of them consisting of an immense bed or mine of rock salt. Fruits grow to great perfection and orange trees are specially fruitful, a single tree often bearing 5,000 oranges. Cotton and cane sugar are the principal staples. New Orleans has an extensive commerce, and manufactures will sometime find in it a profitable field. The palmy days of this, as of all the other Southern States, is in the future; her most valuable resources having been scarcely touched. New Orleans will naturally become the third great commercial city of the Union, New York and San Francisco, only, being likely to take precedence of her.

Louisiana was admitted into the Union April 8th, 1812, making the eighteenth State.