...ve, who first proclaimed that he had rather, at any time, knock a man down, than argue with him; but the preference seems to have found now admirers off of the Green Isle. [Cheers.] I am not sure, Mr. Chairman , that we are correct, after all, in ascribing all this indignation in the city to the fear of national rebuke at the hands of Mr. Thompson. I am afraid it was no such honorable sentiment as the dre...