 | George Brinton McClellan - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 198 pages
...confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial organizations of States, or orcible abolition of slavery, should be contemplated for a...and unarmed persons should be strictly protected, eubject only to the necessity of military operations. All private property taken for military use should... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...policy when he wrote to President Lincoln from Harrison's Landing, on July 7th : " Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment ;" and others, entertaining similar views, went so far as to assert that unless the war could be conducted... | |
 | 1892 - 638 pages
...himself wrote to the President from his headquarters at Harrison's Landing, that "neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial...abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment." This became the Democratic party platform from 1864 to 1868, and, step by step, every act which the... | |
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It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any State, in any event. It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of... 
