Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-22

filed, and his log cabin takes to it,
self some look of comfort, he sells
his improvement" at profit,
shoulders his axe, harnesses his horse
to covered cart, into which he
packs his wife and a staircase OF
children, and marches 10 some spot
still further West, where he may be-
gin anew. Thus the whole country
is IN motion Massachusetts removes
to Maine, and Maine to Massachu-
seils New York visits Pennsylvania,
and Pennsylvania returns the COM
plimcnt. Virginia crosses to Ken
lucky, and Kentucky pushes over
into Illinois. Yet the whole migra-
ton appears to be governed 10y fixed
laws, producing ascertainable results.
]. In the free States the general
movement is due wesi,-from New
York, for instance, TO Michigan and
Wisconsin, and from Pennsylvania
to Ohio. From Maine and New
Hampshire it goes principally to
Massachusetts, from the other New
England States more to New York
than elsewhere but natives of all
are found In the free northwest
States in large numbers. The
middle States are also represented
there by an aggregate OF 75S, 020. in
addition TO which they interchange
very extensively with each other !;
the people of the small States, par
ticularly, going TO the great cities OF
their neighbors. The emigration
from the northern Atlantic States
into the six north western States
amounts TO nearly 100000. And
so strong is this passion for motion,
That the West itself supplies a popu-
lation to the still further West. Ohio
sends 2l5,000 to the three States
beyond her; Indiana retains 100. =
30 from OHIO, but sends on
10000 Of her own, Illinois takes
$4,000 from Ohio aud Indiana, aud
gives 1000 to young Iowa; and
that State, though not twenty years
redeemed from the Indians, gains
nearly 60 600 by the restlessness OF
the three, and, in its turn, breaks
over the too feeble barriers of the
Rocky Mountains to supply Utah
and Oregon with 1900 natives of
Iowa.
,. The native emigration from
their central slave States follows the
sane general law of due westerly
movement but whether governed
10y the wish TO escape from slavery, or
10y what other motive, it takes also a
partial northwest direction into the
free States. Maryland, Virginia,
North Carollna, Tennessee, and
Kentucky, furnish 100000 of the
naive population Of the northwest.
3. The movement in the plant
ing States has been mostly within
Themselves, taking a south-weslerly
and westerly direction from the
oler lands of South Carolina and
Georgia, to the uplands of 4 labuma
and Mississippi. The emigration
tom South Carolina alone is nearly
II per cent, of the white population
rmnlnlng within her borders.
4. The American born popula-
ION OF Texas comes principally from
lle slaves States, that of California
from the free States, and that of the
territories more from the free than
fron the slave.
! II appears from study Of the
course of both emIgratIons, that they
manly benefit the belt of country
abpe described New England loses
neuly 100000 of native population !;
bulthe foreign elements reduce the
acHa loss TO 90 900. The middle
Staes lose 100000 of native popu-
la,Dn ; but have so large a foreign
additional, that the balance sheet
shows a gain of nearly Ala, 0O0.-
The planting States and Texas gain
100000, of which nearly 100000
are native. The northwest gaias
900, 900, of which 1880, 900 are
nati'e.~
Itisupparent that the political in
IflueGce Of the emisrant is greatly ex-
aggemted. II three or four hundred
thousand uneducated peasants, IN
used 10 govern their own affairs. aud
much less acquainted with affairs of
State, we're annually transferred to
the United States, placed in com
munities by themselves, apart from
the influence of more intelligent
niids, left without schools, cultiya-
ion, or capital, TO raise themselves
as best they could, and admitted
nevertheless to the dignity ofclllzen-
ship, and to share in adminisira-
ion, it would be irrational not to
ear the result. But we see a process
luite the reverse going on. These
snorant beings-ignorant, indeed,
ONE of them are, and thickheaded
nd obslinate--are taken by the
and on arrival, and sent, not into
he forest, but into a more thickly
populated country than the one they
fh, with towns as large as any in
Europe except the two capitals, with
rhools better than any of the same
rade here, maintained at the public
Expense, with work enough for
Everybody, skilful and unskilful, and
nth better educated persons than
themselves TO tell them what to do.
They labor constantly with Ameri-
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