536 State Board of Agiucucture, &c. 



Natives of Yermont in other States and Ter- 

 ritories 178,000 



Residents of the State not natives of it. . . . . 87,000 



Born in the United States 233,000 



Born in other States 40,000 



Foreign 47,000 



It will be seen by this table that while our State has 

 received accessions from other States to the amount of 

 40,000, and a foreign poprlation of 47,000, making 87,000 

 residents of the State not natives of it, we have 178,000 

 natives of Vermont living in other States. Not having the 

 means at hand to ascertain the number of Vermontcrs in 

 (Canada and other foreign countries, they may be estimated 

 at 23,000, making 200,000 natives of Vermont not living 

 in the State. This estimate I believe to be rather below 

 than above the actual number. Some omissions in taking 

 the census would be almost inevitable. There are then 

 200,000 Vcrmonters living outside of the State, a number 

 more than equal to four-fifths of all the natives of the State 

 within it. But we fail to comprehend the loss to the State 

 when we look at it in the liijrht of mere numbers. Who 

 were these 200,000 'i With but few exceptions, they were 

 those in the prime and vigor of youth or manhood.' It is 

 because they are not with us that we see the decline in the 

 prosperity of so many towns. It is hardly possible that our 

 population should remain entirely stationary ; the spirit of 

 enterprise will call for some changes, perhaps for some emi- 

 gration, but there seenis to be no good reason why the 

 immigration to Vermont should not exceed the emigration 

 from it. Had it been only equal, the population of the State 



