Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-22
friday, SEPTEMBER 90, 1854.

the central and southern parts Of New
England, the middle and north
western states, Maryland and Della
ware, and the central und northern
part Of Virginia, Kentucky, and Mis-
sour. The climate and production
of this country are similar to those OF
Europe the general ratio Of health
and average of life is higher, not
wlhsianding the great floating Eu
ropean population, and the name Of
laborer is not degraded by compar-
ison with slaves
3. Less than one-third of the
total immigration has entered the
Lake Country and the Valley of the
Mississippi The proportion OF for
eign population in New York aud in
Massachusetts is greater than in any
western agricultural state except
Wisconsin. II is also nearly as
large as in California, a gold-seeking
community from the world at large.
4. Ii principally consists Of IRISH,
Germans and English*
Of the English nearly five-eighths
are to be found in the Atlantic free
States, about onc-thlrd IN The States
of the north west, and nearly all the
residue in The northern slave States.
Three -fourths OF the irish stay in
NV England aud the middle states
/ principally in Massachusetts, New
York, and Pennsylvania where the
commercial and manufacturing inter-
ests are seated and they are found
in the south and west only where
there are great public works in con-
siructIon. They change their soil
and their allegiance, but keep
their nature intact. Unwilling in
the New, as 10 the Old World, To
guide their own dcstinies they stay
where another race furnishes food
for their mouths, and labor for their
hands, and takes TO itself the subs an
tal fruits of their industry. One
love, however, is entirely weeded
from their hearts. Their experience
with the impoverlshing potato patch
seems to have given them a distaje
for agriculture and in country
where there Is plenty of land and a
sure harvest, they avoid almost en-
tirely the pursuits to which they
cling so tenaciously. Their num-
bers did not in / $50 reach million,
not two thirds OF the decrease in the
Irish population during the last ten
years.
The Germans are more energetic,
or, rather, bring their energy TO a
better account. More than half
their number are spread over the
north western States. Missouri and
Kentucky, and more than one-ihrd
in New York and nnsylvania.-
They stay, indeed, IN the towns IN
great numbers, devoting themselves
to mechanical arts and To trades :
but large proportion, also, if the
census speaks truly, are 10 be found
in the agricultural districts, where
they fell the forest aud turn up the
prairie for themselves. Some years
ago we remember 10 have seen a
colony Of German emigrants landed
on The unfinished pier Of an unbulll
city in Wisconsin. The pier has
doubtless since been completed. and
the city has It's thousands but then,
few driven piles and a quantity OF
scattered lumber marked the place
of the former, and rectangular streets
slrewn with fresh felled timber,
stretching into a prlmeyal forest,
showed where the latter was to be.
The emlgranis were bundled out
upon the pier, and their organs,
chests, wlllow-ians for winnowing
wheat by hand, spinning wheels and
primitive spades, scythes, and
plouehs we're tumbled after them -
The poor women eat upon the boxes
in the hot sun (t was in August, } -
and cried a, the desolate appearance
of this, the gate to their Paradise,
and the men tried in their rough
way 10 comfort them. We leaned
upon the guard, looking at them
as the boat steamed mp Lake MichI.
gan, and admired the simplicity
which could bring their miserable
utensils 10 such a country. Long
before this the men have chased
away the young grouse with Amer
can ploughs, and have fallened then
cattle on the long grass of the
prairie, aud the women, putting
away the spinning-wheels as relics
, Of a bygone existence, sit in The
summer evenings under the honev
suckle and bignonia, which twis
themselves over the porch, and sing
, to their children of the Vateriand
without a sigh of regret.
The valley of the Mississippi anc
f the Upper Lake Country has no
only gained in an unexampled man
, ner, but has been almost created
within the last hall-century. Where
in 1900, there were less thai
F.; 400. 600 persons clustered arounC
, the rude forts that protected then
from the Indians, with only 7 pc
: cent. of the representation in Con
} gress, there are now nearly ten mil
5 lions cultivating SO, 000,000 acres o
improved land, and represented b,
: AZ per cent. OF the House. IL tn,
|, European emigration has remained
: in the Atlantic States, the inquirl
naturally arises Whence cnmes I'M