Excerpt from Rights and Duties of the United States Relative to Slavery Under the Laws of War: No Military Power to Return Any Slave

This right, though available at discretion, is not to be abused. It cannot be used, except by privateers, to sate private avarice, and mere lust of plunder. The just and impregnable grounds of all seizures of enemies' property, are the crippling of their resources of every sort, replenishing and sustaining our own, promoting the success, securing the objects, and expediting the conclusion of the war. Thus all captured property is to be faithfully applied, or carefully preserved, for the service of the conquering nation.

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