[DuncanWaring]

... despite being told by authorities to return a person’s property to them.

I take it you have no problem with the Fugitive Slave Act requiring that "property" escaped from a plantation owner be returned to the plantation owner.

Under principles laid-out in the Declaration of Independence, government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Are you equating slaves and arms? That’s one hell of a leap.