New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-08
HEALTHY PROGRESS.


~ 900 votes in l-56, and Lincoln l,0c3 out OF
30, li6 in 1850. At tho lat Maryland Election
for Congress, 1861, HENRY WINTER DAVIS, who
had Represented the City District with dsun-
gui.bed ability for the siI preceding years. was
beaten 10 that District by Iienry May. who
pretended Ia be also n Unlobist, but who has
ever siuce acted ~ II in thorough sympathy
with tho Slaysholder.' Rebellion. Mr.. Davis
owed hi. defeat TO the general knowledge that
be was hostile to the root ns well rs the trunk
Of the Rebellion. and believed that Slavery
must suffer the fate IT had decreed for the
Union. The vote Of the District stood-May
e,i2i. Davis 62t and this was the only Dis
tric, wherein the regular Union candidate was
not successful.
Now, q spirited contest for the Union nomi.
naion has just resulted in favor Of Mr.. Davis
though his highly respectable competitor, the Hon.
Thomas Swami date Mayor proclaimed him
self also in favor Of Emancipation. But Mr..
Davis wa. the elder If not the better champion
Of the Emancipation policy, and was certain TO
give the Administration the fullest support III
pressing the extinction Of Slavery in the Dor.
der States az measure vitality important TO
their own peace aud security as well as to the
rec Establishment Of the Union. Mr.. Davis is
among those who have led, Mayor Swami Que
of those who have followed and obeyed, the TO-.
eyitable advance Of opinion in Maryland on the
Slavery question under tho sad but salutary
lessons OF the War for the Union aud tho
People prefer in this crisis the leader to tho fol.
lower. They therein eviucc decided saqacity
Mayor Swami has still II chance of success by
boiling the ordeal be has invoked. and running
as May did. so as to win the vote Of every
CopPerbead and OF his personal adherents
among the Unlonists, who doubtless include
all those VINO submit to Emancipation as q de-
pored necessity; yet we doubt that even this
combination could prevent Mr. Dayi.s return.
The Unionists will probably lose just one
District in Msryland--the With, last represented
by Mr. Calvert. They will lose it because IT
is a Pro-Slavery District, u minority Of whose
electors are just as nearly Rebels a. they dare
be. Many Of them are to-day in tho Rebel
armies; more are engaged in smuggling
arms, equipments, medicines clothing, &c,
into Dixie; and Mr.. Calvert WAS elected in June,
81, by 4,467 votes to 1906 for his Rebel.
competitor, HARMS while at the
State Election, four months later, Howard,
" Peace" had 5,3S5 votes for Governor to
978 for bradford, "Union." That Dis
trlct would prefer 10 be represented at Rich.
mond rather than Washington, and we shall
be glad to hear that the Copperboad it will
doubtless choose turns his face toward the
seat Of Government TO which his heart is at
tracted.
Gov. GAMBLE, Of Missouri, is the well known
of tho Union rear guard in that
State. lie 10 a Bell Everett Wing OF the most
stripe, and was paced in the
chair Of State expressly to stop the rising tide
IF 'Radicalism.' lilo has been more nfuen.
:al we believe, than any other man in pro.
curing the appointment of Gen. Schofeld to
he command of the Western Department.
Yet this tame GOV. Gamble. in his response to
no New.YOrk delegates " tho Ship Canal