---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1839 to 1840.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 1
number: 10
published: 1840-08
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“To the Public,” *Times and Seasons* 1, no. 10 (August 1840): 159–160."
printed_title: TO THE PUBLIC.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-08_1_10
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n10.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-08_1_10
start_page: 159
end_page: 160
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-08_1_10
  publication_year: 1840
---

# To the Public

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An Appeal to the American people has recently been published at Cincinnati, giving an account of the persecutions inflicted on the saints in the State of Missouri, etc. et c. They are printed in

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pamphlet form, of between 80 and 90 pages, and elegantly bound. They will be sold at 25 cents per copy, or 10 copies for two dollars. Any person sending $5, current money, shall receive 30 copies of the Appeal.

All letters to be addressed to the Post Master of Nauvoo, Hancock Co. Ill.

7tf. GEO. W. ROBINSON.

For deligate [delegate] to Congress from Iowa, AUGUSTUS C. DODGE.

For Council from Lee county, EDWARD JOHNSON.

For the Times and Seasons.