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We [[?]] of Oberlin, Ohio, has been appointed by Major General Howard, an Inspector of schools, and is to report to the Freedmen's Bureau. 

If Mr. Langston can lay aside his well-known one-sidedness and serve the school-interest in the South instead of serving himself, he will be most useful in his new position. 

We admire Mr. Langston's persistency in urging his appointment to position of some sort, and we now learn that "push," "push" is the key to open places in the Bureau. 

Ye who wish places there, "push on, keep moving" as the old play says, and you'll get what you wish. 

We said a while ago that Oberlin ought to be satisfied with the appointment of Captain Wall, Mr. Langston's brother-in-law, and that it was an appointment "fit to be made." Now, we insist that with the number of good men to be had, the appointments shall not all be made at Oberlin. Maj. Gen. Howard is acting, we supposed, for all the colored people - and not merely for one section of it. For ourselves, we have never asked anything, and desire nothing at the hands of the Bureau. And therefore, Mr. Langston might have saved himself the trouble of doing the mean thing, going to Major General Howard, and "black-balling" or under-rating Frederick Douglass, and others, to whom Genl. Howard was favorably inclined. 

An appointment obtained by such "pushing" and "goring" may pay in money, (and that is all that some men care for,) but meaness like that we refer to, in the long run never pays. We commend that idea to Mr. Langston and his "friends."

And we have this to add, that if General Howard appointed Mr. Langston on the ground of his base detraction of Mr. Frederick Douglass and others, it is no more creditable to General Howard than to Mr. Langston. 


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ter; and O.H. Bliss, Surveyor.

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Large and [[?]] of colored and white [[persons?]] assembled at Leesburg and Hamilton, Va., Friday last, to listen to addresses from General Farnsworth, J. Mercer Langston, Mr. Pearce, and others. Great enthusiasm prevailed. 

The report does not state whether Mr. Langston appeared as Inspector of Schools or as the Agent of the Washington Republican Committee. Probably as both, for he well understands the art of riding two horses at once. His speech was well received. 

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