The trade is profitable, they say. Gwinnett is in favor of Congress having such power. Braxton is for excepting such Indians as are tributary to any State.
Several nations are tributary to Virginia.
Jefferson explains it to mean the Indians who live in the Colony. These are subject to the laws in some degree. We have no right over the Indians, whether within or without the real or pretended limits of any Colony. They will not allow themselves to be classed according to the bounds of Colonies. Grants made three thousand miles to the eastward, have no validity with the Indians.