222 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



health of the body, and temperance alias morality. If the 

 truth be disguised, the preacher or the philosopher* anno t 

 howl vice from behind the cloak of falsehood, and show 

 to man its debasing, exterminating effects. Therefore, 

 without prejudice, for truth s s^tke, let us consider this 

 matter. 



The English Commissioners Report represent only 

 2,371,600 emigrants as having left Great Britain and 

 Ireland during twenty -five years for America, and 

 251,017&quot; for all other parts of the world, making together, 

 emigrants to all parts from Great Britain and Ireland, 

 2,622,617. 



Now, as stated, we know England grumbled like a 

 bear with a sore head, to use a common phrase, at the 

 vast increase of the Irish. 



The population of Ireland was, in 1811, computed at 

 5,637,856.* During ten years, from 1811 to 1821, the 

 increase was 20? per cent. England increased in that 

 time 191 per cent. Therefore the Irish must increase 

 more than 20 1 per cent. Religious intolerance, poverty 

 and enterprise drove many from Ireland to all parts of 

 the world. Say her increase was 25 per cent. ; England 

 that ten years increased largely beyond her usual rate 

 prior to that date as well as subsequently, viz : to 

 19j per cent, which could only be owing to immigration 

 from Ireland and during that time the emigrants from 

 Ireland must be as follows : Calculating the increase of 

 Irish at only 25 per cent., (instead of 35 per cent.,)f 



* In 1812 it was by census 5,937,856. 



f London journals make it 35 per cent. See Merchants Maga 

 zine of New York, 



