--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. 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: 3 number: 10 published: 1842-03-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“For the Times and Seasons,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 10 (March 15, 1842): 729." printed_title: For the Times and Seasons. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-03-15_3_10 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n10.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_1842-03-15_3_10 start_page: 729 end_page: 729 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 1842 (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_1842-03-15_3_10 publication_year: 1842 --- # For the Times and Seasons Nauvoo, March 14, 1842. PRESIDENT JOSEPH SMITH:- Dear Sir: I see, in the last 'Warsaw Signal,' a very wanton and ungentlemanly attack upon yourself, made by the editor of that paper. The editor's article, however, is in perfect keeping with his feel and natural spirit for calumniating the innocent and oppressed. I have, for some time past, been a constant reader of that paper, and feel myself perfectly safe in saying, that scarcely a single number of it has ever been issued, that was not surcharged with epithets of the foulest and basest character, perpetrated against a high-minded and intelligent portion of community, and fabricated by himself--or some individual equally as corrupt--to answer his own wicked and nefarious purposes. What I allude to, more particularly, is his remarks relative to a marriage notice which appeared in a former number of the Times and Seasons, charging you with being its author. I should have remained silent upon this subject, had he made the attack upon any individual but yourself. But justice to your character renders it an imperious duty for me to speak and exonerate you from the false imputations of the editor. Therefore, be it known to that gentleman--if his heart is not wholly impervious to declarations of TRUTH--that the little notice that has so much ruffled his very chaste and moral feelings emenated [emanated] from the pen of no individual other than--myself(!) "Urekah [Eureka]! Urekah!!" Then I would say to the sagacious editor of the Signal- "Hush, babe, lay still and slumber! I speak knowingly when I say, that notice went in the Times and Seasons entirely without your sanction, and you knew nothing of its existence until that edition had been 'worked off' and circulated the proof sheet not being examined by you. After this declaration, I hope the editor of the Signal will do you the justice to exculpate you from the wholesale charges which I have been, in some degree, the means of calling upon your head; and, if he must blame any person for the notice, let his anathemas, like an avalanche, flow upon me-I will bear the burthen [burden] of my own foibles. With sentiments of respect, I remain, Sir, your ob't serv't, L. O. LITTLEFIELD.