While the French retain their influence over the Indians, they can easily keep our long extended frontier in continual alarm, by a very few of those people; and with a small number of regulars and militia, in such a country, we find they can keep an army of ours in full employ for several years.
Franklin warns that French influence over Native Americans can keep the American frontier in a state of constant threat.
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