When it comes to war, there will always be winners, and there will surely always be losers. We see this in the Revolutionary War, won by the colonial revolutionaries, which produced courageous winners who put it all on the line to achieve freedom from the United Kingdom's dominion. This meant that those who pretty much went with the status quo, as loyal therefore to that crown, or took an active interest in supporting that crown, were vanquished, and in consideration that a fair amount of those people had property and assets in this nation, it meant that there needed to be some resolution as to what to do with their property and those people.
Indeed, one possibility was to reintegrate those who were formerly loyalists into being productive citizens of the United States of America, because quite obviously nations should have an abiding interest in keeping those who have plenty of assets, initiative, and the drive to be successful. After all, that is beneficial to any nation, as opposed to imprisoning or banishing them. The other main choice pretty much came down to vengeance and greed, where the objective of the exercise was to remove loyalists from this country, voluntarily or not, and to confiscate their property, which could then be redistributed to those in the know, as the profits of war.
That said, it needs to be acknowledged, that there aren’t many people or governments for that matter, that would not consider the taking of others’ property that had backed the wrong horse in a revolution, and the American revolution was no exception to this rule, and those that did not understand that wars, typically have people defined as being on one side or the other whether they were intimately involved or not, meant that those on the losing side, might well be subject to losing their assets, which dutifully occurred here in America.
The thing about confiscation of what use to be other people’s property, is that this seizure can definitely be beneficial not just to the people, in whole, and its government, but for those that are well placed in such, personally quite beneficial, which is why we see that these things tend to occur, under the color of governance as thereby being appropriate, whereas it could be argued, that this is unjust greed or war profiteering, disguised as justice, because perhaps those that fairly own property and other assets, should be entitled to keep such, as long as they promise to keep their noses clean under their new governance.
In sum, while patriotic Americans may well see the confiscation of loyalists' property as being right, this needs to be tempered with the knowledge that should some other revolution occur within these United States, the tables may well be turned, and those that are rich in this present construct, may be dismayed should they be on the losing side, whether they were contributors to that cause or not, because confiscation, especially of those that have plenty to be confiscated, is something that many a person and nation, finds to be irresistible, and when it can be seemingly justified, it will be done.