The true Democrat., 1856-01-08

and honorable career" While under indict- ment, and fugitive from justice, he did not cease from his criminal labors, but crime was his life and soul. We give Governor CLARK's letter:
 STATE OF N. Y., ExEc'T DEPARTMENTAL Albany, December z, 1855. {
 SIR: You were convicted of an ingenious and complicated crime. Not only was the evil dence against you surprising in its strength, but your own confession at the time of sentence established its truth beyond doubt. Before entering the abode of your punishment you de. livered speech to the court, not more remark able for indications of your mental capacity than for test of your conscience and manly feeling The history of your life, which has been given me, is vivid instance of, how, un- happily, noble impulses and a strong intellect may be perverted. You have engaged in crime and you have tasted its bitter fruits. Upon men of your ability and reflection such lessons ought not to be disregarded, but accepted as the incentives to new and honorable career.
 !" It has been represented to me by persons high in administrative in executive and in judi cal authority that certain ends of public justice demand your pardon--that these ends will be better subserved through your liberation than by your continued confinement Editors of gazettes possessing high character and standing have also interposed in your behalf The ap- plications come to me under such authority and with such weight that they elicit in your behalf my executive mandate for your re. storative to your family and to society," In granting your pardon it is my earnest hope that the confidence of those who have applied for it will not be abused or mis- placed, and that henceforward society may claim vOu as A yaluahle citizen
 MYRON H. CLARK.
 "MR. WILLIAM KIssANE."
 Upon this the New York Tribune briefly comments but does not use its ordinary sagaci- ty in looking under the surface of things. It says:
 "Gevernor Clark was assured by the Cover nors of Ohio and Indiana that the ends of pub | lie justice would be subserved by the pardon of Kissane, and that without such pardon they would, in all probability, be defeated. Several district attorneys in the former State, in their official capacity, certified to the Governor that they required Kissane's testimony as witness in several important cases which have excited a great deal of interest throughout the west, among which were those growing out of the burning of the Martha Washington, in January, 1852, by which much valuable property was destroyed, a gross fraud attempted on several insurance companies, and number of lives lost. Their application was also warmly seconded by many influential journalists, and others in this State and also in Ohio'
 We should like to know, in tke name of law how can the ids of public justice be subserv- ed by his liberation? Is he to be used as a witness? What would lis testimony be worth? Is he to be brought face to face with his old confederates and employed against them?- Who would believe his oath? What weight could it possibly have? One who could thro" away every incentive to honesty 10 engage ir the deepest and deadliest hostility to the right: of society, even at the expense of human life, could not be expected to grow penitential in the gloom of prison but rather to brood over new schemes and design further enterprises.-Cin l Enquirer.