--- 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: 8 published: 1840-06 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. 8 (June 1840): 128." printed_title: TO THE PUBLIC. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-06_1_8 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n08.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_1840-06_1_8 start_page: 128 end_page: 128 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_1840-06_1_8 publication_year: 1840 --- # To the Public An appeal to the American people has recently been published at Cincinnatti [Cincinnati] giving an account of the persecutions inflicted on the saints in the State of Missouri, etc. etc. They are printed in 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.