Excerpt from Ohio in Congress From 1803 to 1901: With Notes and Sketches of Senators and Representatives, and Other Historical Data and Incidents The first marked the history of a colony of almost boundless resources and possibilities; the second, the genesis of a commonwealth which added lustre to civilization and progress from the hour of its nativity. The threatened deterioration of our political system of representative self-government was checked when the founders of Ohio launched the new commonwealth on the sea of political activity and progressive republican thought an( achievement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.