Our city was last night, about eleven o'clock, the scene of one of those disgraceful occurrences, a mob, seeking revenge for real or fancied wrongs, by an attack upon, and the destruction of the offender's property. About half a dozen men approached the Herald office, knocked at the door, and failing to gain admittance, battered it down with stones, smashed in the windows, and gaining an entrance, seized upon, and carried away a considerable quantity of stock and printed work. The principal loss was in the laws of the Territory, which were printed and piled up in the business office. Whole armfulls of the printed sheets were carried into the streets, and scattered along for several squares. A portion of them were afterward gathered up, but many must have been lost and destroyed, and will have to be re-printed, which will incur a long delay and inflict not only a considerable loss to the publisher, but occasion a serious inconvenience to the public at large. We suppose until the edition of the laws is fully examined, to learn what is missing, it will be difficult to estimate the exact loss. At present it is variously guessed at, from one thousand dollars, downward. That figure is probably very far above the actual damage. The injury to the building is slight, though its front presents a somewhat ragged appearance this morning. The composing and press rooms were neither of them entered.
    Some of the soldiers belonging to Camp Weld are charged with the outrage, and probably correctly. Their provocation has been great, and it is not to be wondered at, that feeling themselves so outrageously persecuted, they should seek some redress. It is not an idle taunt to charge men with serving under disloyal officers; more especially when it is so well known that the character and loyalty of those same officers is above reproach, and free from the stains that tarnish those of their accusers. We say it is not a thing to be lightly passed by, and the Editor of the Herald is but reaping the fruits of the seed he has sown. "He who soweth the wind shall reap the whirl-wind."
    That paper has counseled violence--aye, precisely such as it now feels. It has made and reiterated baseless charges, knowing them to be false. It has rejoiced in "an attack upon the NEWS office," and chuckled over "the NEWS office again attacked." By covert insinuations, it has, no longer ago that the 25th ult., encouraged an assault upon the writer of this article, and more than half intimated that "hanging" was a punishment we deserved, and that a mob would be justified in administering it.
    Yet, though the editor of the Herald has falsely charged us with "treason"; has sought by every means in his power to injure us pecuniarily, in person, and in character; though he has falsely maligned, and maliciously assailed the character of Capt. Downing and Lieutenant Dickinson, esteemed friends of ours, men whose characters are as high above his, as the heavens are above the earth; though he and his myrmidons have within the last three months planned a dastardly and brutal assault upon ourself--made his office a place of rendezvous from which to make the attack--and permitted it to be made whilst his employees stood by with revolvers, knives and bludgeons in their hands; we say, that in the face of all this provocation, we sincerely regret the occurrences of last night, and sympathyze with him in his loss.
    Claiming to be a good and law abiding citizen, we most earnestly deprecate any and all such violations of law, and shall unite with all good citizens in trying to prevent their recurrence. The Herald will doubtless learn a lesson, and be disabused of the idea that it holds this people and their destinies in the hollow of its hand.

Source:

Unknown, "The Herald Office Mobbed," Daily Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Thursday, 13 February, 1862, page 2.