text:  Some months ago in considering what offence was committed by the public avowal of the Repeal doctrine we contended that it amounted constructively to treason; and on the following argument--Why had any body supposed it lawful to entertain or to propagate such a doctrine? Simply on the reflexion that up to the summer of 1800 there _was_ no union with Ireland: since August of that 1800 this great change had been made