The Portland Daily Press

COPPERHEAD VIRUS.—The deep, inexpressible malignity of a rebel heart is faintly shadowed forth in the following paragraph, cut from a treasonable sheet in this vicinity:

President Lincoln is said to have manifested strong emotion on receiving an invitation to attend a meeting in Baltimore, calling to remembrance the fact that less than three years ago he saw fit to pass through that city clandestinely.

President Lincoln was invited to attend the great Baltimore Emancipation meeting, but though obliged to decline, he expressed the great satisfaction it would afford him to comply, since he remembered how recently he was compelled to pass that city disguised and incognito to escape assassination. Intelligent readers know the facts; and no one now doubts that a deep-laid, hellish plan had been concocted, under the auspices of the "K. G. C." to have the President elect barbarously murdered as he passed through Baltimore, in order that conspirators might seize upon and subvert the Government; and now one of the same gallant knights, no doubt ready at that time to take upon his soul a full share of the responsibility for such a work of blood and treason, chuckles with fiendish glee over the humiliation to which he and those banded with him forced the President of the people's choice, in order to evade their diabolical trap and to cheat them of their intended victim. The fate of such balked assassins is easily imagined; their damnation will not slumber; they will live despised, die unwept, and posterity will deeply chisel the word "Traitor" upon their tombstones.