ABSTRACT
This chapter rejects rhetoric that styles red republicanism as terrorism and argues that capitalism was the real terrorist in society as it was currently constituted. Red Republicanism is a very terrible thing. According to its opponents, it is the very incarnation of social and political evil, and its getting the upper hand would be synonymous with the conversion of the nation into a sort of Pandemonium, and the commission of all kinds of fiendish atrocities. The disclosures as to the mortality in the Kilrush and Ennistymon unions, rightly looked at, are far more horrible and revolting than any of the massacres by the Terrorists in the first French Revolution, over which Royalist writers love to gloat, and to exhaust their powers in depicting most repulsively. The maladies sown by hunger grow a-pace in noxious atmosphere in which they are confined to be poisoned, with as much certainty as if a dose of prussic acid were administered to each of them.
