1841 08 02 Times and Seasons War! War!! And Rumors of War!!!

From the Times and Seasons

2 August 1841, pg 495

War! War!! And Rumors of War!!!

Never since the rise of this church, have such interest and intense anxiety been manifested in the public mind, particularly on the seaboard. The falsehoods that have been circulated respecting us, being arrayed in the garb of truth, and having been published from the sacred desk by the reverend clergy with all the weight of sanctity which their long faces are calculated to inspire, and having found their way into the popular newspapers of the day, and circiulated to the four winds, render it impossible for us to correct the public mind on this subject.

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�We don't know but that ere this, our friend Bennett of the New York Herald has established an express line from this city to New York to give the latest news of the proceedings of the Mormons to his immense number of subscribers, and herald forth to the world the monstrous proceedings of Jo Smith and the Mormons.

A portion of this article has been omitted because it doesn't involve New York City.