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The Daily Dispatch: May 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], "Uniform" and "Plain Clothes" (search)
"Uniform" and "Plain Clothes"
The Germans of St. Louis, who are a great power in the State, held a meeting on the 10th inst., as the call specified, to consider the propriety of recommending the removal of Gen. Halleck from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and a reconstruction of the Federal Cabinet, and the appointment to active duty in the field "of those Generals who are qualified to command."
The Federal Brigadier-General, Davidson, in command of the district, addressed a note to the leaders before the meeting was held informing them that they must discard from their proceedings so much as related to the removal of Gen. Halleck and that while it was not the intention of the military authorities to interfere with the peaceful assemblages of citizens for deliberation on national affairs, "those of a partisan character will not be permitted."--"You must reflect, gentlemen," says the Brigadier, "that it is in these times the duty of those who wear plain clothes, a