I doubt whether much attention should be paid to this experimental creation of a census a hundred years after the time indicated. Even according to the figures givenit is stated that there were upward of 60.000 Irish in the colonies. and upon the theory that nearly every Irishman took part in the struggle and that no Irishmen were found among the loyalists or the torieseven the introduction of these tables will not be found inconsistent with some observations that I had the honor of making this morning. To illustrate the utter unreliability of the classification employed. it should be remembered that many Irlll immigrants bore English names imposed upon them by British statutes which required the inhabitants of certain sections of Ireland to take " an English surname of one town. as Sutton. Chester. Cooke.
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Generalization that nearly every Irishman took part in the struggle and that no Irishmen were found among the loyalists or the tories