In the Boston Commonwealth we read of the rejection by the editor of the Congregationalist, of Mr. Oliver Johnson's very comprehensive and able reply to Austin Phelps' attack on the early abolitionists, as published in the Congregationalist issue of May 1st, 1884.
Mr. Samuel May says, " He [Ed. Cong. refuses to publish Mr. Johnson's reply and correction of statements, on the ground that he " does not edit a debating society;" and this after having published an article which would do credit to Jefferson Davis himself for falsifying anti-slavery history.
This is not the first time the eminently religious Boston Recorder has debated upon one side of a question and refused to permit its readers to hear the other side, even when the rankest injustice has been done conscientious Christian people by statements contained in the first.
