We have already told how the campaign was opened, in the spring of 1856, in Atchison county, in a letter which we at that time addressed to the editor of the _Herald of Freedom_.

This paper was printed at Lawrence, on the printing press destroyed by the "Law and Order" mob.
The weekly issue in which this letter was published was passing through the press on the day the town was sacked, one side having been printed, the other side being yet blank.

Then the Border Ruffians came into the town, broke up the press and threw it into the river, and tumbled the half printed weekly issue into the street.

The above-named article was on the printed side, and was read by the whole crowd, and they were terribly angry.

If the writer had been in town he certainly would not have escaped alive, if this mob could have found him.