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Show A SHAMEFUL ACT. Soruo Salt Lke letter writer to ho Detroit Post, who evidently has access to the lato Jotiu D. Leo's private pri-vate correspondence, publishes a letter purporting to have beeu written writ-ten in February last hy Joseph II. Lee, ono of tho sjus of the deceased, which relates entirely to family matters, mat-ters, and can have no legitimate public pub-lic interest. Thi3 letter is reproduced in theTribuuo of this city, and is ujed as the basis by tho writer of the correspondence of a series of assertions asser-tions and insinuations a.iiuat the "Mormons" similar to thoie iu vrhich the Tribuno daily indulges. It would be a profitless task to pay any attention to theso wholesale libels; and we simply notice the article in question to protest against the un authorized use which probably some official is making, or is permitting to be made, of tho private correspond-once correspond-once of a man who has auflered the last penalty of the law. There should be something sacred even in the family relations of' an executed exe-cuted criminal, and while the courts and officers of justice in tho pursuit o( their public duties must seok facts wherever they are to be found, the otliccrs ot tho law have no right to submit to the curious eyes of tho general public through the press the private correspondence of the criminals that Ihey may he called upon to prosecute, without consulting consult-ing those who are t bo rightful custodians custo-dians of such documents. Tiie families of executed criminals even, have some rights which should be re j spected, ono of which is that they should not be unnecessarily drugged before the public as the writer of tins a;urri!o:n letter has done in the case of tho family of the late John I. Lee, for the mere purpose of pandering to a misorable sensational appetite. All decent people will join us in crying ahamo upon the man who con 1.1 ba guilty of such an out rape, whoever he may bo, |