[rockrr]

If the government said that it was going to ‘offer’ you a dime on the dollar for every gun you bought or it was going to confiscate them from you with force, would you accept it?

Logical fallacy. The government never did say anything of the sort.

[JCBreckenridge]

Are you contending that they offered market-value compensation? No - they did not.

What the North did was force many folks to choose - between losing everything and losing everything. And then folks seem surprised that some would resist it.