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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 1 1 Browse Search
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421. John Quincy Adams, in a letter to the Secretary of State dated August 22, 1815, says: Our object is the restoration of all property, including slaves, which, by the usages of war among civilized nations, ought not to have been taken. All private property on shore was of that description. It was entitled by the laws of war to exemption from capture. American State Papers, 116, etc. Again, William L. Marcy, Secretary of State, in a letter to the Count de Sartiges dated July 28, 1856, says: The prevalence of Christianity and the progress of civilization have greatly mitigated the severity of the ancient mode of prosecuting hostilities. . . . It is a generally received rule of modern warfare, so far at least as operations upon land are concerned, that the persons and effects of non-combatants are to be respected. The wanton pillage or uncompensated appropriation of individual property by an army even in possession of an enemy's country is against the usage of mod