The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-06-26
COUNTY
It's Organization and History,
DitA "reminiscences, Incidents,
de-, Of TIKI OJden Time.
BY AN OLD CITIZEN.
Province of Louisiana, State of Mis-
souri,, Platte Purchase, and An.
drew County.

Province of Louisiana, State of Mis-
souri,, Platte Purchase, and An.
drew County.
The extensive territory of the con-
tinent of North America. lying OH
either side of the Mississippi river.
once called Louisiana" in honor of
Louis XIV, King of France, has, as
its chronological history shows, had
many owners and undergone many
mutations since the time Ferdinand
De Soto and his Spanish cohort adven-
turers entered it, June IA. 1541, and
penetrated the then vast solitude as
far as the present limits of the State
of Missourl-three hundred and thir-
ty years since.
In that same voyage De Soto found
a burial in the depth of the Father of
Waters, not far from a point known
now as the ''Natchez bluff" The
waters of the Mississippi there still
roll silently owe his bones. The
historian says: ellis soldiers pro-
nounced his eulogy by grieving for
their loss; and priests chanted over
his body the first requiems that were
ever heard OH the waters of the Mis-
sissippl."
Louisiana" received its first name
III l7l2, in a char,er from Louis XIV,
of France, to n Crozat. and by that
name, November s, 1852, was BY
France coded to Spain, including all
the territory west of the Mississippi
river, and the city and island of New
Orleans. and by the same treaty ceded
TO the British Government the ter
ritory east of the river and north.
The town of St. Genevievc was set
tied the year after, and st. Louis. by
LaClede, was the next year settled,
aud on the following year thereafter
laid out into lots, AID named in hon.
or of the same Louis XIV, former
King of France, and soon became thu
principal town in the Province, and
in 1880, sixteen years thereafter, ST.
Charles was settled, being then
called "Villase de Cote" Oc-
tober l, A. d. 1900, by treaty of ST.
Ii Defonso, Louisiana was retroccded
by Spain to tie French Republic, and
afterwards by the treaty Of the 18th
of April, 1903, signed on the part of
the United States by James Monroe
and Robert r. Livingston, and by
Barbe Marbois, on the part of the
French Republic, was formally coded
TO the United States; and, by the act
OF Congress, approved October 81,
1903, President Jefferson was author
lied to take formal possession of the
territory of Louisiana" and on the
goth of December formal possession
was delivered to William c. C. Clai.
borne and James Wilkerson, Com
missioners CT the United States. By
Laussat, the Colonial Project of the
French Republic at New Orleans. In
the month of March following. form
al possession was also taken of the
Upper Province of Louisiana. by
Amos Stoddard, an officer of the Uni
led States Army, afterwards stationed
1T the then village of St. Louis, where
h American flag first floated over
TINS western region. Don Charles
Detault Delassus was at the time the
acting Lieutenant Governor of the
Province. This territory was. by n
subsequent law of Congress, organ
lied into two separate districts. with
a provisional government for each.
b one north known as the District
OF Louisiana. and the one south as
Orleans territory. Louisiana district
was, by the organic act. placed under
the direction of the Governor and
Judges Of the territory of Indiana.
On March 3, 1906, the name of The
district. was changed 10 the territory
OF Louisiana, and withdrawn from
the protectorate Of Indiana, and Civ
q separate government. And OH
Inc 4th OF June, 1872. the name again
was changed to the Territory Of Mis-
souri,. from the south end of which
March 2. 1919. territory was taken
out OF which the territory Of ArkafI-
sas was organized. The LEGISLATURE
OF the Territory of Missouri. Decem.
Der y, 1919, memOrialized Congress
Tor admission as a State. Congress,
by law. approved March 6, 1920. en-
Titled act to authorize the people
OF Missouri Territory to form a con-
stltution and State Government. and
Tor Tie admission Of such State into
the Union on an equal footing with
the original States, and TO prohibit
slavery III certain territories" author-
lzed a State Government. To carry
OUT the provisions Of this law of Con-
4 convention was called and
assembled on the 18th day of June,
IczV, at st. Louis, that being the time
and place designated by the act above
recited, and did, in convention, by
ordinance, signed July 10, 1920, accept
the several propositions offered by
me sixth section of said act. They
also formed q constitution and State
Government, and transmitted an at