---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1844 to 1845.
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: 5
number: 11
published: 1844-06-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“By Miss Eliza R. Snow,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 11 (June 1, 1844): 559."
printed_title: BY MISS ELIZA R. SNOW
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-06-01_5_11
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n11.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_1844-06-01_5_11
start_page: 559
end_page: 559
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 1844 (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_1844-06-01_5_11
  publication_year: 1844
---

# By Miss Eliza R. Snow

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Hush, hush, lest the monarchs of Europe hear Ah! "riots in Congress!" is it not

The heart-sick'ning sound that salutes the ear! On our nation's escutcheon, a foul blot?

For wherefore should haughty tyrants know Yes, the standard of Freedom has been disgrac'd

That republican dignity's sinking low? With a stain that can never be eras'd!

O where have the noble spirits gone- Is there, who will attend to the people's cause?

O where is the glory our fathers won? Is there, who administer rights and laws?

And where are the sages that us'd to feel Men are fooling in Congress while freemen roam

For the nation's honor-the nation's weal? In their own native country, thrust from home!

What! "riots in Congress!" can it be Now, we've "riots in Congress:"-not only there,

In a country renown'd for its liberty, But riots are spreading ev'ry where;

That the highest departments of state are rife And the Union soon will be made to know

With low-minded jargon and boyish strife? That her sanction of mobbing, has brought her low.

When the head is sick, the whole heart is faint, O, where have the shades of our fathers gone?

And a spreading disease must produce complaint, O, where is the spirit of Washington?

There's no wonder then at the public tone- Is the proud climax of Liberty,

The head is disordered-the people groan! And are these the best blessings of being free?

The Times and Seasons,

Is printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by

JOHN TAYLOR,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Terms.-Two Dollars per annum, payable in all cases in advance. Any person procuring five new subscribers, and forwarding us ten dollars current money, shall receive one volume gratis. All letters must be addressed to John Taylor, editor, POST PAID, or they will not receive attention.